Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t get it, if this is government funded, when you guys submitted the funds request, or when you discussed your contract with the company that sends you the food, shouldn’t you have added like, in a contract, what happened not only when you receive the produce, but the expected amounts and what procedure you will follow if those amounts did not match, either exceeding or lacking?
Seems like a HUGE oversight to me. Did it ever occur to you could either not receive anything or receive too much? Unless you did and it exceeded your calculations by far (and even then I’d argue that whoever did your calculations fucked up and you should have either review it or rejected the project altogether) this is all on you
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Last year our bank’s ability to place orders was taken away from us. Now we get what we get.
Before that happened we did not have issues like this every delivery. The previous delivery we received frozen falafel in wraps, but so many that all of our freezers were full of it. Volunteers were taking it home by the case. We turned away multiple pallets of the stuff because we were out of room. My chest freezer is so full of them I have a 50 pound bag of rice sitting on top to make sure it stays closed.
We also went from not having milk for months, to having no room to place it all.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You guys SERIOUSLY need to re think your logistics and storage :/
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I will get right on that! Thank you for letting me know something out of our hands is a problem and’s something we need to fix with no resources, only volunteers.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No worries!
Also investment in some cooling solutions might help
You need to chill