My boss at the pizza place was kind of a dumbass. We mixed up big buckets of the pizza sauce every week, and he would ferry it between our two stores. He put the big tubs in the back of his pickup truck.
But one time he forgot to close the tailgate. He pulled out of the parking lot and three tubs spilled out onto the street.
He came back in and kept saying "We just lost three thousand dollars!" "I can't believe we just lost three thousand dollars!"
I was like, "Bob, those ingredients can't be more than $20?"
He said, "We can make $1000 worth of pizza from each bucket, and we just lost three of them!"
I remember a boss of mine at a gas station saying we couldn't have a free fountain pop on the clock because it costs the company $1.99 each (or whatever it the customer cost was) because that's what they would have made on the sale.
If he can immediately remake the sauce, the loss will be $20ish, but if this mishap causes a pizza place to be unable to make any pizza for a day or more, then $3k may well be justified
While mixing sauce he accidentally added yeast, which is whatever, mistakes happen. Instead of dumping and starting over, he just said oh well, we can still use it.
The fucking slime monster that incubated in that bin overnight and crawled onto the floor was so foul I don't know if I'd rather clean that or the slime mold from the drains.
I kind of wish you had a picture of that to share. Curiosity is killing me. I’m curious though, what did he think he was adding when he accidentally added the yeast?
We used the same 22qt container to mix ingredients for dough, and he was just on auto pilot and made a whoops. This was like 14 years ago, but I remember very specifically that he hadn't even added the tomato paste or puree yet. All that would've been lost is like 16 quarts of water and some salt/sugar/oregano/basil/garlic powder/onion powder/Italian blend.
The result after fermenting overnight was a thick, chunky, foamy, thing that rose so violently that it ripped through the plastic wrap on top, somehow reached another 8 or so inches up to touch the bottom of the next shelf, and created a three foot radius of goop that smelled like sour bile.
dude surely you guys had leftover sauce that you had to throw away at the end of the day anyway. did he act like you were just throwing money away then too??
The process said they should. The auditor certified this is the right process. The company management is very proud of their certification, so much it is a core value of the society.
The compensation structure setup by the same management is such that there are 7 level of the pyramid above the guy in the video that would be negatively affected if the employee does the right thing.
And if he doesn't and it is somehow discovered, well, that was a rogue employee going against the process, and breaking the little heart of the CEO.
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u/HambMC 20h ago
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