It’s totally a management responsibility to plan for expected demand and communicate that to their employees. They have the sales data and that is the basis for demand planning. If you’re selling 100 cookies on a normal thursday, they have to check if this thursday looks normal or if there is something unusual going on (holiday periods, special occasions etc.) and then tell their employees to bake x cookies.
I don’t disagree but none of that actually refutes the line of thinking of the manager.
Manager: Make 100 cookies for today.
Employees: well we know we get to take the extra, so we’ll make 102. No one will notice a little extra made, and we never sell exactly 100, so it won’t be unusual for a few leftover. And we’ll get to take them.
Like I said originally, I get it but I don’t agree with it.
I think we’re far too comfortable with group punishment instead of actually punishing just the bad actors. I get that it’s not always possible or worth the effort, but I think the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of just taking away anything good that someone might abuse.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all.
Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit - and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation.
There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.
There is a failure here that topples all our success.
The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Chick fil A has a bad rep, and they have rightfully earned it. I am fortunate to live in a town where the local Chick fil A is actually run by a compassionate man, who puts his employees and community first and I am proud to support him and his restaurant, even as I boycott the chain because he hires gay and transgender employees, he pays his employees very well, and when his store was shutdown a few years ago for a major remodel he kept his entire workforce on payroll and paid them their regular hourly pay for every hour they volunteered within the community. They are also huge donors to our local schools and kids sports programs.
All of that to say that I have seen them handing out extra food to customers, employees leaving after their shifts with bags of food, and it is not uncommon to find these cookies in our town’s ‘Little Free Pantries’.
when his store was shutdown a few years ago for a major remodel he kept his entire workforce on payroll and paid them their regular hourly pay for every hour they volunteered within the community.
Wow, I’ve never heard of such a generous owner before. That is really incredible.
That reasoning has big projection energy all over it. “I would fuck up the trust shown to me in a heartbeat so I can’t trust anyone I hire because of people like me.”
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I actually can understand that manager’s line is thinking, but it highlights a fundamental mistrust of the employees and is still dumb.
It’s totally a management responsibility to plan for expected demand and communicate that to their employees. They have the sales data and that is the basis for demand planning. If you’re selling 100 cookies on a normal thursday, they have to check if this thursday looks normal or if there is something unusual going on (holiday periods, special occasions etc.) and then tell their employees to bake x cookies.
there would still be the Insentive to have left over cookies if the leftover cookies are ever used for a cause the employees consider desirable
I don’t disagree but none of that actually refutes the line of thinking of the manager.
Manager: Make 100 cookies for today.
Employees: well we know we get to take the extra, so we’ll make 102. No one will notice a little extra made, and we never sell exactly 100, so it won’t be unusual for a few leftover. And we’ll get to take them.
Like I said originally, I get it but I don’t agree with it.
I think we’re far too comfortable with group punishment instead of actually punishing just the bad actors. I get that it’s not always possible or worth the effort, but I think the pendulum has swung way too far in favor of just taking away anything good that someone might abuse.
I’d be curious to see if any fast-food workers here could chip in and describe the process; do they even track that level of detail?
This is a Christian business. Jesus threw away all the fish and wine to make sure people didn’t become socialists.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all.
Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit - and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation.
There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize.
There is a failure here that topples all our success.
The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Very well written.
Chick fil A has a bad rep, and they have rightfully earned it. I am fortunate to live in a town where the local Chick fil A is actually run by a compassionate man, who puts his employees and community first and I am proud to support him and his restaurant, even as I boycott the chain because he hires gay and transgender employees, he pays his employees very well, and when his store was shutdown a few years ago for a major remodel he kept his entire workforce on payroll and paid them their regular hourly pay for every hour they volunteered within the community. They are also huge donors to our local schools and kids sports programs.
All of that to say that I have seen them handing out extra food to customers, employees leaving after their shifts with bags of food, and it is not uncommon to find these cookies in our town’s ‘Little Free Pantries’.
Wow, I’ve never heard of such a generous owner before. That is really incredible.
That reasoning has big projection energy all over it. “I would fuck up the trust shown to me in a heartbeat so I can’t trust anyone I hire because of people like me.”
Big brain managers. Should stomp on them before putting them in the bin, in case homeless people or racoons raid the bins.
The cookies or the managers? The latter sounds like a good plan.