Real-life MMD: Waitress takes leftovers to give to a retirement home. Should I report

venetianlagoon

Mind your own business OP. It is a good thing to waste less food.

Naforan

Personally, I'd take what food I could, and give it to her outside of work.
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EccentricRavenJewellery

janiebquick wrote: »

While I don't think it is your business to report her, I do think that what she is doing could be highly dangerous. The food could potentially be infected with E Coli - a bacterium that causes gastrointestinal infections (tummy bugs). Old people are particularly susceptible to these infections, which can be fatal.

However, out of the hundreds of strains of E. coli, only about three or four of them are actually pathogenic. Sorry, pedantic Biology Grad...

EccentricRavenJewellery

Daycart1 wrote: »

Surely the Home should be providing cakes etc. for its residents rather than relying on staff to provide leftovers which are very likely to be past their safe eat by date. In any event if residents are welcoming this additional food it sounds like the Home is not giving them enough food in the first place. Cakes, biscuits and nutritious fluids should be available at all times and should be regularly offered, particularly for people with dementia who may forget to eat and may need encouragement to eat. I would be interested in whether there is a problem with weight loss at this Home and any other Homes that readers of this topic may visit as this is one of the most common dangers to health in older people.

Sadly, the bottom line (private) or the budget (public sector) are the major factors here. My Dad used to manage care homes, and went to one where the residents' diets were so woeful that they were allowed two fish fingers apiece with their supper.

Cloudane

When I end up in one of those places, you have every permission to bring me treats that are still edible, that some silly regulation with excessive safety margins says you're supposed to waste. Bring me all the cakes (not to be too morbid or anything, but in the extremely unlikely worst case, I'm on my way to the other side by that point anyway. At least I can go happy!)

.... okay, you probably shouldn't project that reasoning onto others. Still, consider it a vote for when this generation gets there :P

reluctantworkingmum

I find it incredibly sad that you should ask that question.

Whatever happened to kindness and charity?

daveelsy

Taking ANYTHING that doesn't belong to you is theft, pure and simple. Are we saying that the Law is wrong and it's OK to steal SOME things..............who decides which things?

Does not reporting a theft count as either aiding and abetting or conspiracy, both presumably crimes themselves?

Shows how daft the law is!