was it through the window? I remember long ago that it can be considered a health code violation to take in peoples trash from outside.

I flat tell people i’m not comfortable touching their trash.

When I was still a partner, I handed teens broom and dustpan and told them to clean up after themselves. You're not her personal cleaning person. Tell your manager with Covid that you do not feel comfortable handling someone else trash.

Nope nope nope touching someone else’s trash in a pandemic is asking for sick. Tell them you’re not comfortable touching someone’s garbage, and if they are still upset, contact partner relations

There is absolutely nothing at all wrong with being a janitor, but unless that’s my actual job I’m not cleaning up customer trash. There’s 3 trash cans for a reason. On top of that I feel like it’s just plain rude to hand someone your trash and expect them to throw it away

It’s a health code violation at that

LITERALLY had someone drop trash on the ground, turn to us, then ask us to pick it up TODAY. What is in the air rn??

I would say unfortunately we are unable to throw away trash for you but you can throw it away in the trash bin behind you

I’m not sure what the official policy is, but when I have repeat offenders, I’ll ask them politely at the register to please clean up after themselves when they leave.

Why the fuck did your manager scold you for asking someone to please throw your trash away? Is your manager high?

the amount of people that would hand me their trash through the drive thru window, some people even asked me to throw out trash from ANOTHER RESTAURANT!

one man, when i told him i couldn’t throw out his garbage *from sonic*, LEFT IT ON THE SHELF OF THE DRUVE THRU FOR ME TO FIND. i can’t begin to describe the desire i had to strangle this person.

Same thing at our store. We have to pick their trash up. There is a lady who knows this and laughs when she leaves it :) so much for all this “stand up for yourselves” that they had a couple months ago for anti union stuff. Screw this company

Fuck all them, throw away your own trash, it’s a health code violation.

We are still not taking stuff back through the window.

We’re not supposed to take customer trash behind the bar, which includes through the window, because I’m pretty sure it’s a health code violation. That’s why there’s a café trash can.

Pretty sure it’s against health code to take trash thru the window or over the counter, we always say no when customers ask us

We do NOT take trash from people. Your manager is wrong.

if ur manager was more of brown-noser i'd mistake them for a deer with how spineless and timid they are.

We are not allowed to cuz it’s a food safety issue. Like throw your own trash away nasty ass

Wtf is wrong with your manager?! Literally encouraging customers to treat partners like trash cans. They’ve just earned the store another loyal shitty person. It just amazes me how many partners are literally carefully curating the worst possible customer base for themselves. They actively give reasons for the worst people to keep coming back for more while also ignoring the actual nice customers. We’re not trash cans! When is it ever normal human behavior to just hand your trash to a stranger instead of putting it in the trash can that’s right there? Honestly, that’s even worse than throwing your trash on the ground because now instead of being lazy or thoughtless, you’re actually actively seeking out someone to deal with and touch your dirty garbage.

WAIT ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?
The amount of things we already put up with customers and we also have to throw their trash for them when there’s a bin somewhere in the lobby? Bro

When they leave the trash on the hand off etc. I’ll tell them to throw away the trash. If they left it on the tables that they eat I’ll clean it.

Your manager is emotionally immature

I’m in the airport and people regularly leave their trash in our counters and if I see them doing it, I point out there’s a trash can about 5 steps away from them. I don’t think it’s wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️ we’re not maids and while keeping the store clean is part of our job, we also primarily sell to adults who are more than capable of throwing away their straw wrapper or the receipt they said they needed

There’s one woman who comes in every day and gets an iced coffee and a cup of water. She always only drinks a little bit of the water and then puts it on the side of the trash can rather than in it. On multiple occasions, people accidentally knocked it over because they didn’t realize there was a cup of liquid balanced on a trash bin. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re like “when you’re done with the water, you can throw it in the trash rather than leaving it out!” She’s the sweetest, but she just never throws away the water!

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