More context, please! How does one accidentally make 100 sandwiches too many?
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Sandwich shops are a super popular option for corporate catering, bosses will order a few platters to dull the pain of an all-hands meeting.
Hell, I think the big wigs where I work call meetings just so they can comp the lunch.
I'm literally so stupid that I pictured a regular family accidentally making too many sandwiches in their kitchen one afternoon and then calling the fire department. Didn't even remotely cross my mind that it was a sandwich shop.
Y'all are getting sandwiches? We don't get shit
Not to bitch about free food -- free food is good food -- but I've noticed the workforce uses food as a bandaid to cover more glaring absences like pay and benefits.
I've worked in a small handful of different industries prior to settling in healthcare, and it was (and still is) a recurring pattern: the jobs that had the best fringe benefits had the worst actual benefits. I'm positive there are exceptions to this on both ends of the spectrum, but it does prompt the question: are you not getting shit because your corp compensates you well enough that they don't need to bother with fringe shit? Or are you not getting shit because they fall on that worst-of-both-worlds end of the spectrum?
If it's the latter, start updating that resume.
For what it's worth, I've found totally the opposite. Way better respect given to me when I'm paid better. Much better flexibility, acceptance of arriving late/early/needing to step out for an hour or two for something. Nicer food at lunch, free food even, well stocked break rooms, the lot.
Hang on to that shit - you caught a unicorn!
...that said, my own employment history isn't exactly a noteworthy sample size, so take my comments here with a hefty grain of salt.
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Make a 100 sandwich order on the wrong day.
Work at a sandwich shop and some dickhead cancels a big order?
That's not an accident. That's a crappy former customer.
Maybe they accidentally made the order a day early
What I believe the real answer is, is that the restaurant is likely trying to beat the JIT (Just In Time) production system. For example: If you are a restaurant themed around southern comfort, some of that food can take quite a while to prepare. To get ahead of the curve, you avoid making food in response to each order, and instead opt to make food in bulk at several points along the day, knowing you get X orders on average every few hours. For a sandwich joint, it probably has some additional nuance to it since its not quite as time intensive to make one, but I believe this to be the general answer.
Edit: this works better for some restaurants than others. It brings a higher production cost to cover the waste that went unused, but cuts out costs for labor. And for some joints like a Taco Bell, it can be optimized well enough that it'll hardly make a difference whether they make it on the fly, or in advance.
Or they got a catering order and just made it on the wrong day
Similarly to how one might accidentally build a jeep.
Been a full time ff for around 18 years. Greatest hook up was like a decade ago when a freezer truck broke down in our small city and I got a call from the company wanting to give us all these boxes of boneless skinless chicken breasts, if we could get out to the truck and pick them up. I told them yes, then called the chief to get him to go out there. We had soooo much chicken!
YES it is an emergency, we are moving out NOW
Lol. That's why I sent the chief. It's practically his job to run around doing bullshit while we do the emergency work. Plus, I totally knew he'd want some chicken.
I have called the fire department near my house a few times and just asked what they wanted for dinner and ordered delivery for them.
Damn, you're "buy dinner for an entire fire department just for the hell of it" rich. Wanna order me a pizza?
that depends, have you saved anyone from a fire recently?
Yea, but I did set the fire, so...
Also does it count if I'm the person I saved from my own set fire?
Asking for a friend...
Yes that makes you uniquely qualified to buy me a pizza!
Is the friend also you?
Light a man a fire and you warm him for a night. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life!
Most fire fighters haven't either 😀
Fun story: A car was on fire and both surrounding stations rocketed over since it was the first real fire in forever. A passing water truck had already put it out. The firefighters were furious, as most of them only get to do anything in training.
It's about the mindset and intent of wanting to save, not just the act itself.
I restrained myself from burning down neighbor's house, so technically yes?
I'd go fat from eating so much pizza
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Tipping fire and emergency medicine in the form of food should totally be a regular thing.
It is.
My Dad was a firefighter for 35 years and people would sometimes bring them amazing food as a thank you for their help in one incident or another. Thing is, their schedules were such that they almost never gave the food to the correct crew, but that didn't stop them from accepting it graciously.
Dad said he loved B-shift hero cake.
Wholesome but my donations to the fire department are contingent on them removing their opposition to street safety improvements in my city.
Their "improvements" are often the need to widen them out to fit their super massive fire trucks. Countries all over the world make do with smaller trucks just fine, even with tall buildings.
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Now I just see you EVERYWHERE after that one time. I swear I don't even look at usernames lmao.
lol well I do make a lot of comments
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