Hello Neighbor Spill Gratis
Helaine Thall
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Germans are extremely environmentally conscious and separate their garbage to facilitate recycling. If your neighbors spot you throwing recyclable glass or paper into the regular garbage, your relationship could be strained for good.
Crossing the knife and fork on your plate is an indication that you are not yet finished with your meal. Placing knife and fork on the right side of the plate in parallel is a signal to the waiter that you have finished and that the plate can be cleared away.
In Germany, you might be confronted with a much more tolerant, open attitude to public nudity than might be the case in your home country. Saunas, a minority of swimming pools and even some public parks on sunny days are considered to be "textile free," at least at particular times. Getting together completely naked in a sauna, however, has no sexual dimension to it whatsoever. But if you feel you would be uncomfortable, it may be a good idea to ask first before you join a trip to the pool. This attitude spills over to television, where the programs and even the commercials can feature more nudity than is the case in most countries.
Free food can make some people lose all sense of decorum and manners (and interestingly, the employees who get the most vulture-like are often the highest-paid). Some reports of free food havoc that have been shared here over the years:
Yes, the same thing is true at my office. Nobody ever hogs free food. But then, I work for the government (not in the US), and even interns are paid a salary most people should be able to live on unless they have extremely extravagant tastes.
There were some events that I had no interest in, but were on weekends, and I would actually go back and work several times in a row, even when I had a full time gig, because they were great to work for.
Mind you, she had absolutely NO issues with contractors/vendors who were performing work directly for our company in business or tech functions eating that food (with us!) so it was clear just how classist her BS opinion was.
When I worked at a university and was still on campus, we had a weekly breakfast, usually just bagels. Once a month it was real food. We knew that any leftovers would be handled if there were students on campus.
I still remember one of my first jobs, where the director of marketing, one of the highest paid employees, got caught stealing toilet paper from the company restrooms. She had like 8 rolls in her designer bag.
We mere peons thought it was very funny that the person who acted like she was soooo sophisticated and above it all, all that and a bag of chips, and who had been very snooty to us got caught doing something so unsophisticated. If she was really short on cash, she could have traded in her very expensive sports car for something less expensive before resorting to pilfering bathroom supplies.
Have you thought about the implications of offering only leftovers to the night shift? That happened to my wifes overnight shift that they would never get fresh pizzas, only cold ones from the dayshift. It hurt morale.
Same.
I posted above about the President or CEO who fired an executive who tried to steal pans of pasta.
It can be done. It just takes a leader who understands that the greater good is served by not letting one horrid person make others miserable.
I recall a while ago somebody on Jezebel saying that their editor at their first job had informed them that any reporter that turned down gratis food and booze was summarily drummed out of the profession.
We had an intern one summer at a very small 25 person engineering firm. Frequently, we hosted international guests and ordered sandwich and cookie/brownie platters for lunch. This intern was told to wait until the meeting hosts and guests had a chance to eat and then anything left was fair game. Minutes later he was witnessed hiding a large cookie behind his back on the way to his desk.
When I was in grad school, living on a budget that made shoestrings look fat, the people where I interned made a point of being incredibly generous with leftovers every time we had food. I was SO grateful!!
If I go out, I buy something that gives me leftovers for the next day since eating out around here is not cheap. So far, no one has poached my leftovers. When lunching outside on the deck, I keep a sharp eye out for seagulls. The pigeons handle ground-level mooching.
One place I worked, people would do the thing where someone cut a donut in half, then someone else cut the half in half, and on and on into tiny sliver territory, so at the end of the day it was just a random box of 1/4 and smaller donut bits.
That sounds sumptuous compared to the free hotel breakfast I had once. It was just a loaf of the cheapest possible grocery store sliced bread and squeeze butter plus watery orange juice-from-concentrate.
This is why I have cut way down on lunches for my staff and only order pizza. I got so fed up with the complaining and arguing I just ended the free food. It works for my 9 year old and so it must be good for grown adults.
We do vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, lactose free, pescatarian, allergies and religious accommodations. The manger refuses to any diet that costs more than double the per diem for a meal. The argument is that out of all those choices, there must be something they can eat.
2) Coworker provided: this gets a lot more leeway because it is a treat out of their own pocket and they do not have institutional power over the recipients. If Wakeen brings doughnuts but Fergus is gluten free, that can be something small enough to let go. The biggest factor here is the perception of frequency. If folks are regularly/often bringing stuff in it and it is *never* suitable for xyz diets then it can start to feel thoughtless/othering to not be included. The ones without food options miss out on bonding/social stuff as a result. But this situation is highly highly dependent on the individual and their specific contexts/feelings about stuff.
Extra good, as when the building went on lockdown due to happenings outside one particular day, she had people checking in and even voluntarily pre-emptively bringing her stuff from their own snack stores.
I used to work at a food co-op that had a hot deli bar all day long, with breakfast food available until a certain time. People would fill a plate or a to-go container and pay by weight. We could put literally any other protein on the hot bar at breakfast time and people would take reasonable portions, but the manager had to put a moratorium on bacon after a while. If there was bacon on the hot bar, people would stuff containers full of it and then whine to the deli staff about how shameful it was that we were out of bacon.
One thing I did learn while in an admin support role while still in college, if ordering lunch for the group, it really can be easier to order from somewhere that will do individual boxed lunches. Far less mess to clean up, less set up required, and everyone will get an adequate amount of food.
Me neither, and I had to dish out a lot of leftover food from trainings in my previous job. If anything, I had to encourage people to take it by sending around emails and leaving signs on the fridge. Maybe I was just lucky with my colleagues.
A cursory perusal of recent news will reveal that people experiencing homelessness are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. Random hate crimes are common, and certainly underreported, such that it is far more rational for those living on the street to fear people with homes than the reverse.
It has to have something to do with physicians getting free food all the time even though they make so much more money. Unpaid interns who actually need the meal are calmer about free food than nurses
My office is right across the street (actually the main drag through town) from a Dairy Queen (an old one that only sells ice cream and other frozen stuff, not other food) that is open seasonally. Every year, shortly after they open for the season, they do Free Cone Day.
I used to work at a large nonprofit and the food issues were between departments. The fundraisers got to have many of their internal team meetings catered, while no other departments did. It definitely created tension and resentment between teams, along with exacerbating the toxic nonprofit mindset that fundraisers are the most important staff.
My family attended timeshare presentations a few times for the free stff- we got a guided tour to Chitchen Itza from one of them- and the lunches were always amazing. They were part of the buffet for the guests.
In the third-floor breakroom at Exjob, one table was for sitting and eating and the other was designated for free leftovers. Anything on that table was understood to be fair game. It was a great place to dispose of leftover Halloween candy and extra produce from the garden.
My boss had a glut of damsons. Nobody wanted more than a handful, so I turned the rest into jam. Boss had a jar, I had a jar, and the rest of the batch came back to work with freshly baked scones. Highly successful summer.
1. Do not scavenge the breakfast trays set up in the conference room BEFORE THE CLIENT MEETING.
2. Do not scavenge DURING the client meeting.
3. Actually, do not go in the conference room at all if you are not part of the meeting.
4. No scavenging at all until the meeting is over and the food is dropped off in the kitchen.
She snuck them out of the house and threw them out in a lane or skip? Somewhere where the local animals could easily snag them. Then a week or so later, she walked by the spot and they were sitting there, untouched and unchanged in appearance. Not even the local cats and foxes would touch them!
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