err - onetrack, the manager got fired too! Largesse isn't a common sight at Easyjet, one of the meanest companies in existence. You are clearly a stranger to Easyjet and it's ways if you think otherwise.
It has been well understood, I mean utterly and completely 100% understood for years that the EJ policy on pax food is you either buy it or are sacked for taking it, even if large quantities of it do go in the bin at the end of the day. Crew food on EJ is not only pretty poor but completely insufficient in quantity so at the end of a long day crew are famished. It is very hard to see boxfulls of bacon sarnies and croque monsieurs going into the bin at that point, but take one at your peril as there are sneaks everywhere, as this poor girl found out. One might hope that the sneak gets the treatment he/she deserves from colleagues - they certainly won't get the kudos they thought they were earning from management who seem to encourage this sort of behaviour. It doesn't make for a happy crew community. There seems to be an underculture of shopping colleagues apparently to curry favour with management and it isn't entirely limited to the cabin. To be fair there is also a much, much larger culture of outright systematic theft of inflight goods/cash which has prompted this policy. The annual figures for theft/embezzlement in the cabin are simply eye-watering (partly because EJ is such a huge company) so you can't really blame the company for trying to protect their interests.
So draconian is this policy that most Captains fear to instruct an issue of pax food even when crew catering does not materialise and prefer to operate in an unsafely unfed condition! That's how seriously people take it.
One feels sorry that a good crewmember loses their job for a five buck sandwich but everyone knows the rules. Everyone.
Last edited by noflynomore; 16th Jan 2017 at 12:38.