Indeed. In a sane world, it would be standard practice to donate foods long before expiration dates and nobody would need to dig through garbage hoping for scraps of a meal.

In this world though, The administrative assistant started donating everything and planned things strategically so the new store manager and district managers wouldn't know, and anyone watching cameras would think we're just helping her taking our normal trash out.

She kept it up through 5 or 6 managers before I left. As far as I know, nobody ever caught on that the empty bottles by the sink were just what a few of the employees drank every day, or the wrappers often weren't even products we sell.

It's insane the hoops some have to jump through just to donate food that nobody wants