Mom and pop shop ignores employees concerns, exact issue ensues: 'That was my first taste of, “maybe being a manager doesn't mean you have all the answers”.'

Here, you see a classic case of a manager not listening to their employee. The manager learned the hard way that sometimes the employee knows best. This place was canning sauce and wanted their employees to use a plastic spatula to scoop the ends of it out, as not to waste any. One employee quickly pointed out that the plastic is likely to be chipped off the more it scrapes against the sharp edges of the metal can. The manager completely shut them down! Well, until it started to happen…
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"Stop wasting ingredients!"

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$chefje... The math was done on how much cost was being thrown away by just open and dump........ I'm interested to see if none thought to do the math for how much wage was paid for taking the time to scrape them.$

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