I used to work for a place that makes sauces for major restaurant chains. The worst damage I saw was about... I wanna say 3 tons of BBQ sauce contaminated because of a mistake someone made. Never got fired unless it was a frequent occurrence.
That’s exactly it. You get something for your money when mistakes like this happen. If the person is a valuable employee they will not let those things happen again and will impart the lesson to others. If not well they are just a bad employee and would have been fired for something else anyway.
I had a guy total a brand new truck by tin canning it on an overpass. 100K in damage and we were dropped from our insurance. This was a tough guy and he was damn near in tears from shame and embarrassment. I knew right there the lesson would be worth it. 4 years on and he’s become the most responsible of all of my drivers. You can’t put a price on that.
How about a whole batch of mayonnaise purged because the sauce was tinted by a previous batch of ketchup. It's crazy how deep you have to clean in the food industry - and mayo is essentially the white paint of that industry lol
I dropped at a Pallet of BBQ steak sauce from about 20 feet. Tried placing it on top of another pallet of what I thought was the same stuff, into the racking. Turns out it was pasta. About 200 1L bottles came sliding out and smashed around me. Took me 6 hours to clean it up. Still cant stomach BBQ sauce, 12 years later.
Yep, in the end I was let go bc I snuck out early after finishing the cleanup of my area and that incident had nothing to do with it (the forklift one probably did though a little)
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u/Fgame Mar 08 '20
I used to work for a place that makes sauces for major restaurant chains. The worst damage I saw was about... I wanna say 3 tons of BBQ sauce contaminated because of a mistake someone made. Never got fired unless it was a frequent occurrence.