The Daily Mail is reporting that a flight attendant for British Airways has been suspended for eating a leftover muffin that was headed to the trash.
BA are treating the incident as theft after he was reported at Heathrow airport on Monday.
The man’s collegues are furious with the decision, branding the airline ‘heavy handed’ and accused them of acting like a ‘police state’.
One BA worker told The Sun: “The cabin crew member on a long-haul flight took a muffin destined for the bin.
“Now his career hangs in the balance. Everyone is up in arms – it is a disgusting way to treat a member of staff.”
Guess who’s “taking this seriously?” (emphasis ours)
A spokesman for the company said yesterday: “One member of the cabin crew has been suspended on suspicion of theft.
“While such incidents are extremely rare we take all allegations of theft extremely seriously.“
However, British Airways appeared to make a U-turn today denying that the steward was suspended because he eat a left over muffin.
A BA spokesman said: “It is half-baked to suggest we are suspending someone over a muffin. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”
Someone is lying! Did he get busted over the muffin or not? In any case, now we know what George Costanza is up to these days.
BA steward suspended ‘for eating leftover muffin’ on passenger’s meal tray [Daily Mail]
(Photo:Daily Mail)
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@TheSeeker:
Well, the steaks were extras/leftovers made for the residents. Already cooked & noone to feed them to (except employees, but they couldnt take them home). So…. in the trash they went!
As for the walmart thing, yeah, i guess an employee COULD do that. But explain why I (and another stockman) were made to open each package of unsellable leftover valentine chocolates & dump each one into the dumpster? There was enough of the stuff to load a full pallet 5 feet high! It wasnt expired or anything. I reiterate… asinine!
I don’t understand how a story like this descends into a British, Swedish bash fest. If we wee responsible for all the goofy things our fellow country-people did who could hold their head up? I know it really doesn’t matter but each little injection of poison adds up, eh?
OH dear we wee, there goes any credibility. Thanks Google spell checker
Now it will probably appear twice….
Oh Dear, we wee, there goes any credibility. Thanks Google Spell checker.
Studies have shown that when employees are allowed to eat the uneaten food, then the amount of uneaten food increases dramatically. Most restaurants forbid practice to reduce costs.
Freegan, baby, freegan.
@swalve:
Uh, no. At a restaurant, there has to be enough of a certain ingredient, or in this case bread, to handle daily fluctuations in customer numbers. Bread cannot be made to order, and it is difficult to modify recipe size from day to day.
Also, if you have ever worked in a restaurant you would know that front of house and back of house staff are not friends or in cahoots. Cooks are unlikely to do anything that benefits servers.
I worked at a muffin shop when i was a teenager, and we would throw out dozens of muffins per day. You cannot have near empty racks for the last couple hours of the day, it looks unattractive. I used to pack up as many muffins as i could and i delivered them to friends and family.
I had the misfortune of working for Pizza Slu^H^H^H Hut for about four months. Maybe their policy has changed since then (mid-1980s), but they let employees make a small or personal pizza from excess shells at the end of the night. They allowed employees to take saleable food (toppings) for free.
The idea that Brutish Airways (not an error) would these days get into a tizzy over someone saving a muffin from the trash bin is ludicrous. If that employee receives anything but an apology and a commendation for saving waste, then their management is a joke.
@cashmerewhore:
If you find “britshit” impressive, then you must not have much experience meeting the English.
My parents were from England, and even my family calls the British by the common nickname, “Shit Eaters”. Anyone who has seen British queasy-ne knows what I’m talking about (eg. tripe and onions, head cheese, blood pudding, steak and kidney pie, bully beef, etc.).
Seems like they really want to get him fired. Rather unfair I’d say.