Today, I started my first day at work, I've been unemployed for a while and am in college, so naturally I have no money. At the end of my shift, I ask what we do with the extra bread, and they tell me to throw it away. Being poor and hungry, I decide to take the bread home. I got fired for stealing. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my house was broken into. I'm really poor and don't have a television or nice clothing, so they just dumped my trash all over the house and stole my one loaf of bread that was supposed to last me for the week. FML
Today, I went into work. After three years of working 55 hours a week, they fired me by putting the contents of my locker at the front door, with a note that said "If not picked up by 10:00 am stuff will be donated." I work the night shift. I just lost three sweaters, two pairs of shoes, $60, and my job. FML
Today, it was my first day on a £600 a week job. I was fired for being 10 minutes late. FML
Today, while working at McDonald's, I was pulled into the manager's office and informed that I'd been caught stealing money from the safe. When I told them to show me the security footage, they refused and fired me on the spot. FML
Today, I was in a bad mood after being stuck in traffic for 2 hours and late for work. I was walking to my building when I saw a 100 dollar note flying my way. A man called after me for it, but being selfish I took the note in my pocket as a little reward. That man was my boss. Yes, I'm fired. FML
Today, I was so ashamed of being broke that instead of asking my parents for money, I snuck into their house while they were at work to steal some of their food. FML
Today, my financial situation is so dire that I tried to steal toilet paper from work. I got caught. FML
Today, on my first day of work, I got fired after 45 minutes. FML
Today, my boss fired me by locking me out of my workplace after I went out to throw out the trash. FML
Today, I was getting lunch at a fast food restaurant. My boss was in front of me, and in order to get on his good side I offered to pay. Instead, I got fired because I guess my boss assumed I was making fun of his salary, which I knew nothing about. FML
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Giskard 0
You should have just asked if you could have it.
Chibi_fml 9
You should've asked first. Some places have very strict policies about things like that, but they may have said yes if you had asked. Technically, you WERE stealing.
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Giskard 0
You should have just asked if you could have it.
Kristoffer 35
Those 5 little words "can I have it instead?" could have prevented him from getting fired.
TheTruth1428 0
Agreed. YDI OP because you did steal it. Just asking something as simple as, "Hey since it's going to get thrown out could I take it instead?" Would have let you keep your job.
Flamersplamer 0
"I didn't steal it, i just forgot to throw it out." problem solved.
BeeSkwaird 0
YLIF, Jean Valjean.
redbluegreen 41
#48, you just made my morning that much better.
rockyhorrorshow 0
I instantly thought Jean Valjean. Life is mirroring art at this point, isn't it?
FarSide 23
YDI. Good thing you did not get a Bank Teller job.
riku3220 2
I don't understand how it's stealing. It was going to be thrown away and never used by anyone else ever again. I mean if you want something, and the owner says they don't want it anymore, how is it stealing if you take it?
monster_tamer 11
Oh, you watched that too?
lordhelmet 0
The corporation would have said no, and then started surveillancing him more. This is how business works. They will not give their garbage away, and he may have been fired for asking.
bug56 0
#115 - Not all of work in nazi germany...
cxal_fml 0
Its considered stealing because in many cases employees will make extra food if they are allowed to take the leftovers home.
americayay 0
Thank you 129. That and they report thrown out food as loss, similar to missing inventory. They have insurance against loss because of that. So it's cheating insurance to eat it. At my old job, they'd let us take the hot dogs when they weren't eaten by close. Despite what one person said, it's HIGHLY unlikely that they would have fired him for asking, just said no.
DameGreyWulf 1
It's so dumb, 129... No, I mean, that people can't be trustworthy to not cheat like that. It's sad.
arcades_fire 0
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU for this!
Inky_fml 0
# 129 - This sounds like the job I had at a Panera. We threw the bread out at the end of the night, because the company won't sell "day old bread". But when I worked there, employees could take any bread home that they were willing to, as the bakers worked night shift, and always made regulation amounts, and there was always extra. The manager tried to get homeless shelters to come pick up the bread, but it was in a pretty high rent area, with few homeless shelters, so it didn't happen often.
adaliapeace 3
A church I went to a few times used to get giant bags full of bread from Panera. I'm not actually sure if it was bread made especially for them or if it was bread that was supposed to be sold and couldn't be, but considering it usually didn't taste completely fresh, I would guess it was their left-over, unsold bread. It was perfectly edible, though. I guess it's different when it's an employee. @#186: No, it doesn't. The trash cans within a restaurant/store/other place of work, and whatever is inside them, are still property of that place. Plus, most, if not all, dumpsters outside of a business are owned by the county, which makes it still illegal to take things out of them. My boyfriend worked at a Big Lots near a giant indoor/outdoor flea market, and for months they worked to catch a man who would visit their dumpster early in the morning, take things out that had been thrown away, and then go to his booth at the flea market and sell them. Eventually, once they had photographic proof, he was arrested for stealing. So tell me in whose book everything in a trash receptacle is "public domain." That man is proof of the reason WHY that's not the case, because there is a reason Big Lots throws out their things, the most common reason being that they are broken or defective in a way that makes them unsafe to use. Therefore, the man who was selling their "public domain" trash was selling things to people who did not know where it came from and might have been in danger from using the things they bought from him.
HunterDanielle 3
This kinda sounds like Cobs Bread.. maybe it's just in Canada but idk.
Dilwann 27
YDI. I worked at the Belgian version of McDonalds for a while and accidentally made a wrong milkshake. There were no customers, and we usually throw stuff like that away, but I thought about having it secretly. Then I asked the manager anyway. No, I could not have it unless I put it on my lunch card. Since I already ate, I threw it away. And they apparently have camera's to check on us xD So just ask. You had a job and you screwed it up for a bit of bread.
makynen86 9
Doesn't matter if it was going to be thrown out. He was told to throw it out and instead took it without their permission. That is stealing. He didn't pay for it
xamericanfight 1
where do you work?
look_n_laugh 0
say it's for charity
Chibi_fml 9
You should've asked first. Some places have very strict policies about things like that, but they may have said yes if you had asked. Technically, you WERE stealing.
brenbert 0
That's just messed up!
Ranoona 0
shouldve asked first dude.
TheTragicReturn 0
You could have asked about the store's policies, and you shouldn't have tried that on your FIRST day. YDI.
meadorni 0
That's complete B.S. I used to work at Einstein Bagels. At the end of the day, we filled all the extra bagels into paper bags and took them home. We were only allowed to take bagels, soda, and coffee... but we didn't have to ask for any of them.
boone_fml 0
This is not how most places work. He should have asked, especially after they TOLD him to throw it away.
paivarotti 0
true, i think it's a health and safety type thing.
TheTruth1428 0
#8 it's not complete BS. The store you worked at didn't mind if you did that at the end of the day. The place the OP worked did, it's the owners choice, not yours to make. If the bagel place said you couldn't take them would you have? If you say yes, you wouldn't keep that job long because you're stealing, just like the OP.
FarSide 23
Many food service places (especially bakeries) donate the end of day food to charities. As such, it is a charitable contribution the business is rightly entitled to declare to the IRS. An IRS Audit (if ever), could potentially result in a Federal Charge of Fraud. I know it's extreme... and cannot fathom it happening over a bagel... but reputable companies have a zero-tolerance for such things. Such IRS charges are filed every single day. Perhaps you should try one of the charities that may pickup your former employer's left overs.
mosarmini 0
Sell the computer ur using for food =]
elmyra_duff 0
maybe it's a common computer, like in a computer lab at his college?
highwind886 0
Publix is like that too. It pains me whenever I'm in the back and I have to watch them throw away entire garbage cans worth of fried chicken and bread that was just made that day.