Guy Can’t Stand Throwing Away So Many Donuts At His Job, Ends Up Giving Them To The Homeless, Gets Fired

He might argue he was trying to raise awareness of the issue but I do agree, charity shouldn't require recognition or fame. In any case, the punishment here certainly didn't fit the crime.

I agree that not every little thing needs to go on social media. BUT in this case, I think this wonderful boy was just trying to bring attention to this needless waste of perfectly edible food. F* these corporates, seriously! Made me so angry seeing all this food being wasted when there are people who are literally starving.

Do something...and not broadcast it to the world...is that possible?

Keep in mind that 1) he is a 16 year old kid, 2) he probably didn't realize he would get fired, and 3) he was recording the second part as a response. The way it's formatted makes me think the first one was to raise awareness, then a whole bunch of people commented on that one to give it to homeless people, and he responded to those comments by making a video. I don't think he did it to get attention.

Nope. I’ve worked in the food service industry too. I’m the daughter of immigrants from a third world country, throwing out edible food made me feel like the worse sinner...don’t worry, I found other sins along the way 😝 At least at my job, I could portion things out from the walk in fridge. Overtime, I got better at guessing how much ingredients we need to minimize food waste, at least for my part. He could be fired if it got to the manager by word of mouth. A firemen could say that his local DD was supplying much appreciated donuts, and we’d have the same result. At least Bryan spread awareness that 1. That his manager could have made his DD one of the ones who donated food. 2. He got credit for his kindness. ***i didn’t think it was the best idea to buy more donuts with the money given to keep him afloat. If he is not the kind man he presents himself to be, time will reveal the truth. Kindness that is shared and visibly seen can inspire more people to act accordingly.

But the noise is that completely,just day long edible and good food goes to waste as of the company's policy if its not on the high standards of selling it to customers and make profit.Nothing to do with charity and thats why he was fired.Not cause he gave it to homeless but simply exposing the fact that companies dont care for society other than increasing their profits.The amounts of good food going to waste worldwide while so many people starve or dont eat well is sad.And he gets the punishment for exposing this.All business should donate their good food left through channels to the most unfortunate ones.Its the choice to do this charity and not an employee's anyway.Even from from marketing and profits point's of view is good.To buy something from a company you know really cares about its social responsibility and does something about it,I would be a loyal customer in that case.The management could be inspired from this action,instead they got panicked and went the other way

Unfortunately, if he didn't document what he was doing with store product they could have simply accused him of stealing. I worked in McDonalds in high school, and if we grabbed as much as a single fry from the bin, it was grounds for instant firing.

But he could not publish it anywhere and still continue helping people......or maybe he could just remain anonymous and post it in text form, not even revealing the franchise, and no one would know!

I think the charity thing here is just minor in comparison with the food-wasting practice that the bakery is doing. The boy was doing right, he should be loud about this. He should raise community awareness about this. I totally support him.

I came here to say exactly the same. He wasn't fired because of donating, but because of bragging on social media.

That's called circular logic. You are ignoring the problem of the situation completely. Why you're getting thumbed up for that is beyond me. Well actually I do know why, but I'll choose to be nice and not say it.

He *wanted* to be fired because of this... he would get more views and social media attention that way. I have no problem with what he did, and I think it is horrible that food is wasted like that... but I question his motivation. Either way he isn't a "bad guy", just not as much as a "hero" as he wants to be, that's all.

Disagree. Dunking do sucks as well as other for other throw away restarants

Yeah, like what did he expect? If he thought he would be fine, he would have talked to the manager first anyway. That he didn't tells me he knew they would not agree with that ...

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Kind of brought it on himself

Yes, i know that in some countries markets will put the vegetables and fruits that were not sold during the day in a special place for other to take. People who could not afford it mainly. So it would not be wasted.

Thank you for including this. I understand and have been told the same lines. I appreciate the shift from defending food waste to something a bit more practical.

Yeah but if you did that in the US you'd be making corporations actually do something beneficial to society, so it's a no go there.

I worked at a Dunkin' Donuts as my first job back in the day. One of the first things I asked was "why don't we give all this food away instead of tossing it?" At the time, there were two reasons given to me: (1) there is liability associated with food. If someone gets sick, it's your fault. What if an employee swore they were going to run it straight to a shelter but instead they stopped somewhere along the way and it's a super hot day? Or if they just forgot for a couple of days and didn't realize mold had started to grow? which leads to... (2) cost. To do it properly and safely, they would have to pay someone to deliver the leftover food in an approved food transportation vehicle to a homeless shelter, which likely wouldn't be next door. They also would have to pay for all of the containers to transport the food as well as the labor to pack it all up. I absolutely hated throwing it all out, but I saw their point, too.

You know it is US shitty gov to be blame for this? In EU it is REQUIORED BY THE LAW to donate such food and company would be fined if food was thrown away.

And that's why there are Good Samaritan laws.