Viral clip: Grocer manager entraps special needs deli worker into stealing $100 worth of chicken tenders & fruit cups

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Anonymous wrote:This is beyond cruel and evil. The planning and setting up a hungry kid is disgusting. I hope that managers gets everything he deserves in life.

It honestly makes me assume the managers get bonuses for this? A six-figure salary manager stalking cameras all day, for weeks (?), waiting for a poor special needs deli kid to take another chicken tender and 99¢ fruit cup. This comes from the top. This is how evil these austere Republicans are. These companies also get massive tax incentives to hire SN and disabled persons and donate millions in food for more tax write offs.

I bet this became like entertainment for the manager and maybe other coworkers to catch this kid. I would also bet that the manager and others wanted him gone and this honeybees it. A lot of people don’t like or want to work with disabled people.

The Meijer spokesperson confessed the store management stalked this kid for “months” to hit the $110 worth of chicken and fruit cups. Diabolical.

Evil.

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Anonymous wrote:I worked at Dairy Queen. Free ice cream item of our choice every shift, whatever size we wanted, as many toppings as we wanted.

Man that was great.

I worked at Ben & Jerry’s. We got free fountain soda.

Baskin & Robbins workers used to get a free cone after every shift.

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Anonymous wrote:Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book?

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal. An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch. Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for a hungry kid to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup.

Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day? Should he do that for EVERY employee? That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?" You think this kid is chronically hungry? Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;(

Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?

The police absolutely have discretion whether to arrest or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Might be one of the most heartbreaking and cruel things I've ever seen. Poor, allegedly special needs teen boy walks to work at a grocery store deli. Apparently eats a chicken tender and fruit cup on his lunch break for a few weeks. Instead of firing him after the first theft, the manager keeps a tab on each food item he eats for lunch until it reaches $100, so he can call police and have him arrested on criminal charges. Happened in Ohio, the police body cam footage was just released. This Midwest grocery chain is owned by the $20bn net worth Meijer family, who are Republican Party royalty.

The Meijer family have long been GOP mega donors. This personifies what the evil Republican Party stands for, just like the Republican influencers and talking heads this week mocking the tens of millions of Americans in student loan debt who are at risk of getting their wages garnished. They think it's humorous to treat anyone a rung below them like a dog. It's not just blacks and minorities they hate, they hate "white trash" just the same.

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Viral again.

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Last time we visited Chick-fil-A we asked the associates if they get free food. The kids said to get a free meal of their choice every shift. So a free $10 meal at a Christian owned fast food place, while this faux Christian owned grocery store is plotting to hang a felony on a kid after 3 months of taking chicken tenders.

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If you're in a position of authority, like a manager, and you see this happening and say nothing, you've endorsed it.

You get the culture you allow.

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Is this the guy who was fired for eating out of the daily discard pile?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the guy who was fired for eating out of the daily discard pile?

Yes. A kid who walked to work.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid tried to pay for the food but the line to pay was so long he would get in trouble for taking too long. He probably also saw how much food was thrown away every day.

I don't get where it alludes to him being special needs. He just doesn't seem like the sharpest tool.

As a teen I worked for both Hardees and Burger King and we never got free food. We got a pitiful discount with all kinds of conditions. We always had to wait until there were no customers to get our own food and had to step outside of the back area and go to the counter. I never ate the food because there was never enough time.

These people suck.

I worked at Hardee's and we got free food up to a certain $ amount per shift. It was enough for a main dish, side, and drink. Might differ by the franchise.

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Doesn’t half of this grocery store food get tossed anyway? The kind thing to do would have been to let him save a leftover at the end of his shift, no harm to the company at all. This is sad

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Anonymous wrote:Last time we visited Chick-fil-A we asked the associates if they get free food. The kids said to get a free meal of their choice every shift. So a free $10 meal at a Christian owned fast food place, while this faux Christian owned grocery store is plotting to hang a felony on a kid after 3 months of taking chicken tenders.

I don’t agree with their politics but they clearly know how to treat their employees well.

This story is so sad, poor guy. It seemed like it wasn’t a surprise to him - was he given a heads up?

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I hope the locals backed this kid and boycotted the store chain.

I worked at McDonalds as a teenager. We got nothing for free. Not even a soda. This was decades ago. My brother worked at a nice restaurant as a busboy or something similar. The teens were poorly treated and no food. My daughter worked in a restaurant owned by an idiot who left the kids to run the restaurant on their own. No meals there either, and that was fairly recent.

I learned from DCUM that a lot of restaurants give meals to their employees. That was news to me, lol.

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It’s super franchise dependent. I worked at Arby’s, McDonalds, Wendy’s, and a large movie theater chain. McDonalds and Wendy’s gave a free meal (sandwich + fries + drink, all the “regular” size which was medium at McD’s and small at Wendy’s) on a 6+ hour shift. On shorter shifts you had to pick if you wanted a sandwich or fries but you still got a drink. The movie theater gave us free sodas as long as you brought your own cup from home and a free small bag of popcorn on break. Arby’s gave us nothing but a small discount.

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Listen, I agree that this was really mean-spirited.

But I don’t agree with the defense of “I got away with doing it and you never stopped me, so I figured it was okay.” You are not permitted to simply do what you want until someone stops you.