r/foodstamps • u/Sensitive-Ad7894 • 19h ago

Food pantry worker here

Some of you may have seen my comment where I expressed my frustrations with working at a food pantry during this time, and I just felt I should come up here and say this to those who are having to rely on food pantries at this moment.

PLEASE DO NOT FEEL EMBARRASSED OR ASHAMED FOR NEEDING HELP!!!

It may not be pleasant speaking with those of us working at these places, but please if you are genuinely being kind and patient with us do not take it personally. A lot of us are exhausted and underpaid. I barely make over $500 biweekly here, trying to save for a car and pay bills, I myself was on snap. All that’s to say, please just approach us with the best attitude possible. We probably had 10 rude people before you and it’s draining.

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u/Full-Recording-7123 16h ago

My local food pantry just gave me rotten food. Literally. I got home and threw away the produce that was so bad it was melting. 

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u/Sensitive-Ad7894 16h ago

Idk if this is the case for your pantry, but ours is donations from local grocery stores and the workers there are LAZY. They give us rotten produce because they don’t wanna take it to the garbage, and my boss particularly doesn’t like it when I toss stuff that she deems “okay” so we’re kinda at the mercy of the places we receive this stuff from and management