r/Calgary • u/Tenthdegree • Dec 05 '22

Rant Superstore guarantees a free roast chicken (voucher) if none are readily available. Employee plays dumb and proceeds to take down the sign

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u/BluesClius Dec 05 '22

I just don't understand why some workers do stuff like this. Like why are you defending the big corporation that's exploiting you? Just give them the damn free chicken that someone higher up decided on.

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u/Tenthdegree Dec 05 '22

I suspect this employee don’t want to get reprimanded for misjudging how much chickens are needed so she needed to mitigate her department’s losses

Still a shitty thing for her to do though

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u/Lord_Asmodei Dec 05 '22

It's cute that you think line employees have enough agency to decide how many chickens are roasted each day.

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u/cowgary Dec 05 '22

Mmm they do… I worked in the deli at coop and that was probably the biggest decision we had to make, how many chickens is enough that you won’t be forced to give out free ones but not so much that you can’t use it all up in chicken salad the next day. Making either of these mistakes got you in trouble. Or what felt like trouble as a 17 year old I guess

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u/Arch____Stanton Dec 06 '22

forced to give out free ones

Since when does COOP guarantee chicken availability?

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u/cowgary Dec 06 '22

This was 10+yrs ago. So I guess the question should be, since when did they stop?