First World Idiocy

[Salty]

Keep yer 1st World Problems to yourself, please.

This thread is for all those things that make you want to punch soccer moms in the kidneys more than you already do. You know what I'm talking about.

At Fred Meyers (grocery store for those who live in space) they have those hot food areas. Jojo potatoes, fried chicken, macaroni salad. At the end of every night there is always a huge surplus of food because they never want to run out of that stuff. So, what do they do with it? I have watched in horror as roughly 8 pounds of delicious deep fried potatoes were thrown into a giant garbage disposal. "Buwh?" said I. The person earning dick to support her huge family said, "We can't throw it in the trash because people will take it out. We get fired if we take it home."

[Freeky]

Wasting of food.  By order of the company. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Can't let people DESPERATE ENOUGH TO EAT OUT OF A DUMPSTER possibly GET FOOD.

FUCK THIS PLACE.

[DukeVonBathrobe]

I am almost certain this stupidity takes place all over the US. Pisses me the fuck off as well.

Maybe we should sabotage the garbage disposals at such places and then give the homeless signs that read "Garbage Disposals" so the employees at these establishments are giving the food to the next best thing as far as corporate is concerned.

Or maybe we should just blow up corrupt corporations.

[Cain]

Pretty much everything I read on Not Always Right reminds me what a whiney, self-indulgent and utterly stupid species we've become.

For example "I fell asleep at work after ordering your..."De Caf" flavour coffee!  I'm going to sue you!"

[Freeky]

What?  That doesn't even make any sense.

For real, I can't even parse what's going on in that situation.

That's not to say I don't believe it happened, though.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Pretty much everything I read on Not Always Right reminds me what a whiney, self-indulgent and utterly stupid species we've become.

This! I look around me and all I see is weakness. I'm patiently waiting for some cataclysm, Supermarkets running out of Ugg boots, a power cut, drought, famine, X-factor cancelled... Anything where the ones who are capable of wiping their own arses can kick back and laugh at them all dying.

I don't even see this as misanthropy any more, I have so little in common with them, it's almost as if they're a whole different species. An unfit one, if Darwin is to be believed.

[Cain]

What?  That doesn't even make any sense.

For real, I can't even parse what's going on in that situation.

That's not to say I don't believe it happened, though.

They ordered decaffienated coffee, then didn't stay awake while at work. So clearly it is the fault of the coffee shop.

[AFK]

Keep yer 1st World Problems to yourself, please.

This thread is for all those things that make you want to punch soccer moms in the kidneys more than you already do. You know what I'm talking about.

At Fred Meyers (grocery store for those who live in space) they have those hot food areas. Jojo potatoes, fried chicken, macaroni salad. At the end of every night there is always a huge surplus of food because they never want to run out of that stuff. So, what do they do with it? I have watched in horror as roughly 8 pounds of delicious deep fried potatoes were thrown into a giant garbage disposal. "Buwh?" said I. The person earning dick to support her huge family said, "We can't throw it in the trash because people will take it out. We get fired if we take it home."

Lawyers.  Someone goes dumpster diving and gets hurt or sick from the food, possible lawsuit.  That's how fucked everything is because more often than not it is some lawyer coming up with extreme examples of what might happen, so they cut it off.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Keep yer 1st World Problems to yourself, please.

This thread is for all those things that make you want to punch soccer moms in the kidneys more than you already do. You know what I'm talking about.

At Fred Meyers (grocery store for those who live in space) they have those hot food areas. Jojo potatoes, fried chicken, macaroni salad. At the end of every night there is always a huge surplus of food because they never want to run out of that stuff. So, what do they do with it? I have watched in horror as roughly 8 pounds of delicious deep fried potatoes were thrown into a giant garbage disposal. "Buwh?" said I. The person earning dick to support her huge family said, "We can't throw it in the trash because people will take it out. We get fired if we take it home."

Lawyers.  Someone goes dumpster diving and gets hurt or sick from the food, possible lawsuit.  That's how fucked everything is because more often than not it is some lawyer coming up with extreme examples of what might happen, so they cut it off.

Troof! These are the same lawyers who will make a case for the stupid cunt who burned his mouth on a pop tart, against the company who refused to take his advice to put a warning on the packaging. The legal system has practically turned gross stupidity into a profitable virtue 

[Triple Zero]

Man I wish we had grocery shops for people that live in space ... if they dump the food through the airlock it would immediately freeze-dry and pretty much keep forever, right?



And they could preserve lawyers in the same way!

[Lenin McCarthy]

As the great Henrik Ibsen once almost said: It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on lawyers.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Keep yer 1st World Problems to yourself, please.

This thread is for all those things that make you want to punch soccer moms in the kidneys more than you already do. You know what I'm talking about.

At Fred Meyers (grocery store for those who live in space) they have those hot food areas. Jojo potatoes, fried chicken, macaroni salad. At the end of every night there is always a huge surplus of food because they never want to run out of that stuff. So, what do they do with it? I have watched in horror as roughly 8 pounds of delicious deep fried potatoes were thrown into a giant garbage disposal. "Buwh?" said I. The person earning dick to support her huge family said, "We can't throw it in the trash because people will take it out. We get fired if we take it home."

Lawyers.  Someone goes dumpster diving and gets hurt or sick from the food, possible lawsuit.  That's how fucked everything is because more often than not it is some lawyer coming up with extreme examples of what might happen, so they cut it off.

That's not true for two reasons: one is the 1988 California vs. Greenwood ruling, and the other is the Good Samaritan Act. If you eat food from a dumpster or garbage can, the people who threw it away are not liable if you get sick. Same with food donated in good faith.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It is very much more likely that the reason stores destroy food rather than throwing it in the dumpster is purely because of a fear that if the poor can get their food needs met for free, they won't be forced to buy groceries. It's the profit motive, not a safety or legal motive.

[East Coast Hustle]

A pizza place I worked at a million years ago had that same policy, and the district manager informed me that the reasoning was that if homeless people knew that they could get free food there the restaurant would soon be overrun with homeless people just waiting for something edible to be thrown away.

Lord knows we don't want our trash dumpsters being sullied by the presence of the indigent.