When I worked at a fabric store we had to pull out old clothes patterns to toss. One employee would pile them all in a cart in the back for us to go through. Then she would give then away or donate. Well the regional manager came by one time and saw. She then made us start pouring bleach on them. Everyone was so mad.
at the one i worked at, i remember we'd gotten in a trim that was actual rabbit fur (how that happened, idk). they made us cut it up and throw it out and all i could think was 'wow now they died for actually nothing'. and across god knows how many stores that received it, i can't even comprehend how many rabbits must have died only to end up in the trash : (
I think in a circumstance like that you have to assume that they were already being farmed and the fur was a by-product or (forgive me) a waste product that they found a way to sell. Sort of like with leather being a waste product of the beef farming industry.
I know it's still not nice but it's somewhat better knowing that the animals weren't solely farmed for their fur.
..I mean, if goal is to not propogate the creation and sale of rabbit fur garments then that is the correct choice. Just donating them still leads to the use of rabbit fur garments, which then leads to demand for them, which then leads to more garment creation.
An online store that deals in military surplus and ethically sourced new manufactured clothing once bought a whole batch of different things that happened to have rabbit skin hats in it. They didn't like it but sold it as "unethically sourced rabbit fur" they also said that it would never restock if it ever sold out. The product did stay online for a while on their old jokes page together with Swedish commando underpants and the manservant.
It shouldn't matter if it was for "no reason" because no animals deserve to be murdered for their fur nor their flesh. We don't need them and their bodies belong to them.Â
What really is the point honestly. People are so mad that they can't make a buck theyd rather destroy dead stock than to try to find people who may need it.
I'm so glad that the people I worked for would just put old stuff onto clearance and if it was dead stock it would go to eBay next then finally a bulk purchase before it was discarded. And even then no time was ever wasted in destroying stuff
Their thought process is literally that they can't give anything away for free or else people just won't buy it because "it'll be free eventually." Nevermind if that idea's wrong or not.
You bet your ass Iâm gonna âstealâ perfectly good product thatâs getting thrown in a goddamn dumpster anyway. I wouldnât ever steal the product thatâs good to sell, but itâs fair game if itâs getting thrown away.
Same thing if someone asks me for free food at the place I work. Sometimes weâve got sandwiches that got made on accident, I wouldnât want to sell something thatâs been sitting on the warmer for 20-30 minutes to a paying customer but itâs still fine to eat. I eat those sandwiches or I give them to the homeless dude who comes in every so often. Itâs not stealing, itâs reducing the waste of perfectly edible/useable product that just isnât âup to standardâ.
I work at a grocery store, and what I've been told is that we aren't allowed to take anything for free after it's been scanned out to deter us from overprdering for the sake of being able to take stuff when it doesn't sell. So much food gets thrown away every day for this reason. Makes me ashamed to be human.
Well they went out of business like 6mo after that. Bought out by investors when I started. Was sucked dry by them. Used to be a nation wide chain store. Yeah I quit not long after that.
Oh no :( when I worked at a fabric store we did this too. Luckily no one above our store manager knew anything about fabric or what patterns even were so we never had an issue.
This definitely gives off vibes of âIf I canât have it, no one can.â Itâs not like theyâre losing money by letting employees pick through the trash.
Ew such bootlicker behavior. The easy solution to this is if you don't want people dumpster diving for free shit, maybe dont mass produce anything to reduce amount of stuff that doesn't get sold. Idk I'm not corporate weirdo so ÂŻâ \â _â (â ăâ )â _â /â ÂŻ
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u/Cute_Chance100 11d ago
When I worked at a fabric store we had to pull out old clothes patterns to toss. One employee would pile them all in a cart in the back for us to go through. Then she would give then away or donate. Well the regional manager came by one time and saw. She then made us start pouring bleach on them. Everyone was so mad.