Man fired for taking candy from trash for his kids

[Secret Squirrel]

A single father of three fired for taking chocolate bars from a garbage bin at a Zellers store will get some Christmas cheer from a charitable organization.

Guy Masse, 47, had planned to give the discarded chocolate to his children, ages six, nine and 15, for Christmas.

Masse, who was on welfare and had been working at the store only for a couple of months, was first suspended and then fired.

"I think it's inhuman," Masse told CJAD radio station in Montreal of his dismissal.

Zellers has said Masse should have notified his superviser that he was taking the chocolate out of the garbage at the St-Hyacinthe store, about 50 kilometres east of Montreal.

Montreal's Sun Youth Organization said Tuesday that Masse's family will be provided for this Christmas.

"It's important to Sun Youth now that this family will have a Christmas that they deserve, food on the table and gifts for the kids," Sun Youth's Tommy Kulcyzk told CJAD.

link (http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1220fired-chocolate20-ON.html)

[Aerosoul]

the guy probably didn't like the storeowner anyway if he got fired for that.
poor guy. single father of three. :-(
least they'll have a good christmas.

[Wilco]

Atleast will still have some decent people on the earth still. Good charitable group to provide for him everything he needs to have a great Christmas.

[Resurrection]

Damn that's sad. :(

[Herrmannek]

Wtf is happanig with society if food is thrown to the trash...Damn rich countries... Even in Poland its easier to throw away still god to eat food than give them to people who don't care a lot about "best before dates" passed by a few days...

[Bryson C]

WTF? thats just plain wrong. The store owner should be fired for being a complete Prick.

[Kingswat]

Wtf is happanig with society if food is thrown to the trash...Damn rich countries... Even in Poland its easier to throw away still god to eat food than give them to people who don't care a lot about "best before dates" passed by a few days...

most of the grocery stores here don't throw away too much, they donate alot of food every week to the local food banks so that people can get a little bit.

[Herrmannek]

If our guys want to donate legaly they have to pay vat so its easier to dispose food or give illegaly but this is risky because tax guys are most cruel mob in the hood...

[Kingswat]

up here if a grocery store donates stuff to a place like the foodbank they get to claim it on their taxes and get a huge ass return at tax time.

[Chuckie]

Did he get to keep the Chocolate?

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

Pretty much every shop/restaurant in the world has the same policy on food that has/will be thrown away. He should have asked.

[zonk]

it's mean to do that to somebody when they are just trying to provide for his family a little holiday cheer. i know i am dirt poor but i try to get my daughtr a few toys or something on christmas even if it means my wife and i going without like we have the past couple years

[merk]

If anyone here is from the NY area and has been in a Stew Leonards right before closing, you will see entire untouched food trays from their kitchen all dumped into a garbage can.

I would have hoped they donate it as it would be enough food to easily fill atleast 100 people. But then again they probably dont want to go through the hassle of it and the legal impact it could have. Imagine giving it away for free and someone gets ill from food poisoning that can be a major lawsuit; but then again it would have been the same food they would have served a paying customer.

[p$ycho+log!cal]

cmon that guy is trynna get ****ing chocolate from a garbage and they fire him ??
i worked at a book shop once. they used to put 300/500 book for kids to trash just because they had a scratch or 2.. thats rediculous!
i bet alot of kids would of takn one