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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xmagster 0
you have to wait untill it's put into the dumpster before you can take it... But yeah, that definitely sucks. FYL, but you should have asked or gotten it out of the dumpster.
mary_CH 0
You shouldn't have gotten fired. If they told you to throw it out then it wouldn't have mattered if you took it home (its pretty much like throwing it out but someone gets to actually use it). I work a Panera and we have the same policy about bread but everyone takes food home.
beethoven_fml 0
dude, sucks capitalism's so weird
FarSide 23
Now THAT's an honest observation.
sp1fey 0
I automatically thought Jean Valjean too. Somebody I knew once stole a loaf of bread and I called her Valjean but she didn't get the allusion.
lo1337a 1
On your first day, you were probably on a trial shift to see if you were suitable. You stole on your first day, so no, you're not suitable.
Avenging_Angel 0
Obviously they don't want you to have it without paying for it. That's just getting free bread, even if it was going to the trash anyway. Gotta think like corporations.
mina_8 0
You know, keeping your job probably would have solved that "poor and hungry" problem ;P
FarSide 23
It is comforting to know that 98% of posters on this FML understand what was wrong with OP's actions. Interestingly, that correlates well with the other 2% of the US population who are in jail, who cannot figure it out.
buckfasthero 0
Can't wait to see all you far-right capitalist poodles who love putting business profit before the common man when the EU, China and India all overtake you as the main economies in the world. Maybe then you might realise that all of America's wealth is just paper and speculation and your gold reserve counts for nothing anymore. Maybe then you will waken up to just how brainwashed of a society you have become and are in a similar position to the OP. Oh, how I will laugh. The clock is ticking...
FarSide 23
I am not going to hold my breath, seeing as China and India cannot feed their own population, and have not overtaken anyone in 5,000 years. If the US goes bankrupt, China is screwed, not us. But they do have nuclear weapons.
doof_fisch 2
I worked as a baker at a Perkins Restaurant. The rule was that if a pie was more than two days old - it got tossed. Almost every night I had at least 3 or 4 pies to throw away, as well as cookies, brownies, etc. Since I worked from 2am to 8am, I would smuggle them out back to my car trunk about 4 in the morning - since the manager was not there at that time. I would then rendezvous with a pastor friend who would take the baked goods and give them to the poor. Perkins also has a rule that if the meat portioned out in the cooler is more than two days old - it must get tossed out. I smuggled out some of that food, too. I knew that if i had asked, the answer would have been no, so I just felt it was worth the risk of losing my job - to help others. Which is the worse sin: taking food destined for the dumpster and giving it away - - OR --- throwing perfectly good food away?
Tarantino_fml 11
@ #144 Which is the worse Sin? Taking food destinded for the dumpster, as its 1 of the 10 Commandments, ya know, Thou shalt not steal? Would have thought someone who is as clearly religous as you are could have figured that one out. Not that i condone what you do, just a stupid question to end on.
doof_fisch 2
I don't disagree that it was breaking the Thou Shalt Not Steal Commandment; but I also think it was in line with keeping one of the two greatest commandments: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. As I said, I was willing to take the risk in getting fired for doing something I thought was humanitarian and not wasteful. I also occasionally put quarters in other people's expired parking meters - which is against the law, too. I guess one could consider that "stealing" from the city government.