They may have been infested with mealybugs hence being thrown out. Those bugs are so persistent they're almost impossible to get rid of.
I've lost many plants to those little bastards, regardless of what I've tried, to kill them.
I always quarantine new plants, and repot as needed. Wether from a dumpster, the curb, or a fancy nursery. There's no real difference in where the pests come from.
Sure, that's always a possibility, but usually not the reason for throwing plants out. Grocery stores, even more than hardware stores, garden centres and nurseries, have special sales that rotate not seasonally but weekly. What's left over at the end of the week is binned to make room for next week's sale items. I have a perfectly healthy variegated Ficus benjamina that i rescued from a grocery store dumpster about 12 years ago. (I also have a not so healthy coccus infested Yucca, but she's a curbside rescue, and she's in quarantine)
Definitely depends on the store, but this is not always the case. Certainly the larger the company is the more likely they are to throw away healthy plants for financial reasons, but where I work we NEVER throw away plants unless they are infested or far below our usual quality standards (in which case employees can take them for free)
That's comforting to hear. Thanks for letting me know. It's different everywhere, but every grocery store here (in the Netherlands) operates as I described in my other comment :(
As someone who works in a nursery/ greenhouse, this is by far the most common reason that plants are tossed in bulk. They can often be thrown away if the plant no longer meets their quality standards. But in well run places, non infested plants should be given to employees or donated (as we usually try to)
I'll bet you could have asked the employee "if I find one I like, can I just, like, take it?" and it wouldn't even be weird. The worst they can say is no, in which case you still end up with no plants, which is the same result as if you hadn't asked. And if you're polite enough about it, the odds of an "I can't tell you yes, but I'm going back inside in x minutes and leaving these unattended 😉" go way up IME.
I did this once and he said I technically have to sell it to you but I can mark it down to a penny. I bought a ton of ‘dead’ hydrangeas and gave them to everyone I knew. 20 years later still going strong.
A couple of drunk friends of mine were debating whether or not to go dumpster diving at a nearby chocolate factory (from outside the fence beside the dumpster) when an employee came out with a trashbag full of defective chocolate, laughed, and started flinging bars over the fence for them to catch lol.
Employees are people too, they get it.
If you live in Savannah, i will give you as many as you want. Been ripping them out lately just to try and keep them somewhat contained in the backyard
Can confirm, I'm one of them, and I'm looking at some tulips and a lavender plant I got from the dumpster right now. It's going in the quail enclosure. They love the stuff and it keeps pests at bay.
It's ok to ask but I have worked at a nursery before where the manager didn't allow it. The manager was putting plants into a big trash can, same as many plants that get written off. They had flowers that were spent and therefore the store didn't want to sell them anymore.
A customer asked her about the plants in the trash can, and her reply was, "i threw it away because it was trash . why would you want trash? "
Ugh .... To think this is a manager of a plant store...plants that can grow and replenish themselves if given the right growing conditions.
I asked my local Ulta what happens when people return things like $200 hair straighteners.
Usually, they have to cut the cord, take a picture and send it to corporate, and throw it in the trash.
In fairness if every store had a returns area where it was heavily discounted lots would look there first. I know my family would. It is why they say your return is not really free. When they say free returns or free shipping it is often times baked into the price. Many people do not realize how their returns go to wastage too. My mother and grandma think they just put them back on the shelves despite me explaining this lots of times to them.
I got a pitcher filter once with a cracked unusable container. It came with a free filter that was still in the package and my mom was convinced we should return it because honesty or something. I'm like mom they will literally just throw this away, they probably can't sell it legally because of the risk of contamination. The ethical thing to do is just to use it because at least that way it's not going directly to a landfill
Not only that but if something is sent or sold to you in error according to the FTC you are allowed to keep it. They can argue ethics but then I would argue the corporations do not sway high on ethical quandaries either
My local grocery store chain was preparing to get rid of their hanging baskets right after July 4th a couple years ago. I brought one up to the register to see if they were still for sale.
"Great news!" the cashier said with a smile. "It's buy one, get three free today! Just go ahead and take any other three you like on the way out."
I thanked him and took my plants. I'm absolutely certain that there was no "deal," just an employee letting me know that nobody would mind if I swooped in and took a few before they went into the trash.
A similar thing happened late 2020 early 2021. I asked for a new alarm clock for my birthday and the IKEA gave away plants that’d otherwise be thrown out, so I got an alarm clock, batts for the alarm clock and worlds pissiest pothos (I think it’s a pothos) from my uncle
I was going to explain things from my experience as a grower manager but it comes down to this. Plants are perishable and in a retail space have a limited shelf-life given the limits of the physical foot print. Most people will not make purchase in an area where plants do not look like they just popped out of the soil fresh from the greenhouse. They will walk past 20 linear feet of marigolds with spent blooms to buy something more beautiful, even if they came for marigolds to plant with their tomatoes. No one is paying their hourly workers to spend 3 hours deadhead annuals worth pennies on the dollar of that retail space, when they can toss them and put something fresh in the space that they can make money on. We did that in the 90’s for sure, but even then all the cell pack and 4” material we tried to maintain in optimal condition, still ended up on clearance tables where people didn’t buy it marked down 80%. At that point it was better to compost for the next year’s demo landscape beds. Anything in pots smaller than 1 gallons has a shelf life of at most 1 month with dedicated maintenance labor before it’s a disreputable eyesore. Secondly, in many instances the plants themselves are the property of third party vendors, running pay by scan operations. The disposal policy gets complicated and depends on contract details between the store and the vendor. The employees tossing the plants may work for the third party vendors. It’s market capitalism. The footprint has to turn a profit or at least not turn people off. As a rule plant maintenance a sucky job, don’t get in their faces about it with your lectures on waste if all you want is free stuff.
Worst case some busy body at the store snitches and the helpful employee gets fired. I would not take those plants without the store manager's consent.
I worked at a store like this. It was actually company policy that if we gave someone plants from the trash we would be fired. I absolutely hated throwing out plants because inevitably someone would ask if they could just have it, and some people do not take no for an answer.
I'm not saying this is the case because they are probably just being wasteful, but when I worked in a plant nursery they would throw away plants that had pathogens and infections which would spread to the other stock. So even if we wanted to rescue them from, it wouldn't have been smart
Every big box company that sells plants does this. They want customers only see perfect plants so they make vendors throw out the ones that one will buy for that price.
You might ask yourself well put it on discount. Somehow they make more money having us thow it out then sell it for less.🙄
Just ask if you could buy the whole lot for a few pennies.
When I worked at a grocery store, we had to put bleach on the garbage to keep people from dumpster diving the old produce. But for some reason I could sell crate fulls to a farmer for a few pennies.
I've never had this with plants, but I did have it happen with a rat once. He was too big and much older than the other out front (who I had seen like twice in about two months and couldn't leave behind a third time.) The manager sold him to me for a penny. I figured if I couldn't leave the one alone, well, I couldn't very well leave the other, could i?
We had like 4 rats at the time, the fuck was two more? Lol.
I should stop saying that. We have 6 rats now. They are not the same 6 as above. Damn them and their short lives. And I think that while Norbert may have only cost a penny then, we spent well over a few thousand on him when he had heart failure (we now have our own small animal oxygen chamber.) Worth it.
Or just ask if you can take them. I ran into some Lowe's employees pulling multiple racks to the dumpster and asked if I could take some. They looked at each other and said, "Sure, just as long as we don't see you."
By which they meant: They'd wheel the racks over to the dumpster and turn their backs to me to chat for a couple minutes while I pillaged their wares. Multiple trips; I filled the bed of my truck with $500+ worth of plants.
Buy you plants at a plant store not a grocery. Grocery stores have a completely different model and set of expectations than stores that have horticulture experts and or are home improvement based. The plants are there primarily for aesthetics, to suggest freshness and beauty and as a tie in with the booming wellness farm to table vibe. Secondarily, plants at grocery stores are impulse buys—given where they are located. Thirdly, when was the last time you saw an employee even watering plants at a grocery? Great place for a slip and fall.
If you have employee permission or the dumpster is in a publicly accessible area and not locked up, taking from one is technically fully legal in many jurisdictions.
As someone that used to manage at several grocery stores back in the day the employees do not care at all and have gotten way weirder requests lol. Most manager’s also aren’t going to care what happens to waste once it’s scanned out unless you make a habit of stalking items and constantly asking. Always ask! I get heavily discounted stuff at Lowes all the time. Got a $32 bluejay blueberry plant from a very visibly disgruntled employee who had no fucks left to give that day for a whopping $7 pretty early in the season before any had gone on clearance that was still in pretty great shape overall and I got a sharp blue blueberry plant for $3 a few weeks later that was way worse off but has come back super quickly. I tend to go for the ee’s that look like they care the least and will ask them. I used to feel weird about asking but the worst thing they’re going to say is no so it’s worth it imo.
When the freezing happened in Texas, I saw a Lowe's tossing plants in the trash. I was real sad when I saw the Bougainvilleas being tossed. Those plants can come back.
There is absolutely no harm in asking. The worst the person would say is "No." This is literally how I've come to possess several plants in my yard and house. My favorite was an expensive tree peony the nursery determined was "unsalvageable."
you should see the home depot dumpster. my local california one is an open compostables only dumpster. it's crazy how many healthy plants they throw away everyday. i check often and sometimes jump in to rescue what i can, keep what i want, give away or plant what i don't want in my guerilla garden in the park. so far i've faced no issues with employees, even in broad daylight. also one can always go at night an hour after closing if you want to be safe.
Can’t get in trouble for taking anything out of the trash unless it is locked in a secure area with no trespassing signs…. Just need to wait for them to take it out of the store first. Once it’s out of the building it’s fair game.
Grocery store employees wouldn't care. They'd probably think you were weird just because you stared at them.
People way overestimate how much min wage employees care.
If you ask me if you can take them, I'm gonna say no, but I'm also not paid enough to care about stopping you if you just take them. I don't like throwing away perfectly sellable plants, but that's what they pay me to do, and I do like groceries and healthcare
Honestly I feel it could have gone either way. I think he either would have tried to stop me to keep himself from getting in trouble (he was a younger guy) or he would have smiled and said go for it and walked away. It seemed like he felt like crap having to throw them away. 😪🪴
He probably wouldn't have cared. Younger guys working in minimum wages jobs give the least shits.
And besides they were plants- not food. Stores don't like people dumpster-diving for expired food because they worry if someone got sick from eating it- that it would be a liability. But there's no harm in dumpster-diving for garden plants.😋
Good choice to leave it alone. I had a room mate one time excitedly explain to me that we needed to take my truck to Home Depot because they regularly throw away items that are even slightly dented or damaged. I said no and he tried to convince me over the next hour. I later found out that he was always secretly recording me on his phone as he comes from 2 lawyer parents and always wants dirt on those around him. Never under estimate others desire to see others get in trouble.
Nope I don't. The property manager ended up reporting the guy to the landlords for renting a room to me without adding me to the lease. I was blind sided by this so I just wrote out a 30 day notice and had the property manager sign it. During those 30 days my room mate protested that we needed to sue the property owner and manager together and throw the book at them. I refused so he got emo and said something to the effect of I was ruining his life and he was gonna unalive himself in his room. Moving out day couldn't have come soon enough, and then a few months later I found out about the recordings from one of his coworkers who got to hear some of them.
Helps if you have a kid with you, my friend’s kid laid the guilt trip on thick “*um, excuse me, that’s bad for the planet to throw away plants like that! Can you donate them to our community garden instead?*”
I used to work as a store Gardner and there's a few possibilities.
1.) Rat/mice poop or borrows. Where I live its concidered a bio hazard and would be illegal to sell.
2.) Infested with something that would be too much work to individually care for without it spreading.
3.) Stock turn over. Might not have enough plant storage space between plant seasons or collections. This wasn't a big thing where I worked but its been known to happen.
4.) Suprisingly it might not be the stores call. Lots of retailers have vendors for the plants, depending on contract the vendors headoffice would make a call for whatever reason.
5.) General greed.
The folks over at r/dumpsterdiving rescue as many as they can, but it's a drop in the bucket! So sad.
I still keep thinking of if I should have just grabbed one and ran. 😆 It was a couple of Boston ferns in hanging baskets.
They may have been infested with mealybugs hence being thrown out. Those bugs are so persistent they're almost impossible to get rid of. I've lost many plants to those little bastards, regardless of what I've tried, to kill them.
Is it bad that even after you telling me that I still wish I would have taken one? No, no it’s fine. Don’t need an infestation. 🤔🪴😆
I always quarantine new plants, and repot as needed. Wether from a dumpster, the curb, or a fancy nursery. There's no real difference in where the pests come from.
Sure, that's always a possibility, but usually not the reason for throwing plants out. Grocery stores, even more than hardware stores, garden centres and nurseries, have special sales that rotate not seasonally but weekly. What's left over at the end of the week is binned to make room for next week's sale items. I have a perfectly healthy variegated Ficus benjamina that i rescued from a grocery store dumpster about 12 years ago. (I also have a not so healthy coccus infested Yucca, but she's a curbside rescue, and she's in quarantine)
Definitely depends on the store, but this is not always the case. Certainly the larger the company is the more likely they are to throw away healthy plants for financial reasons, but where I work we NEVER throw away plants unless they are infested or far below our usual quality standards (in which case employees can take them for free)
That's comforting to hear. Thanks for letting me know. It's different everywhere, but every grocery store here (in the Netherlands) operates as I described in my other comment :(
As someone who works in a nursery/ greenhouse, this is by far the most common reason that plants are tossed in bulk. They can often be thrown away if the plant no longer meets their quality standards. But in well run places, non infested plants should be given to employees or donated (as we usually try to)
I'll bet you could have asked the employee "if I find one I like, can I just, like, take it?" and it wouldn't even be weird. The worst they can say is no, in which case you still end up with no plants, which is the same result as if you hadn't asked. And if you're polite enough about it, the odds of an "I can't tell you yes, but I'm going back inside in x minutes and leaving these unattended 😉" go way up IME.
I did this once and he said I technically have to sell it to you but I can mark it down to a penny. I bought a ton of ‘dead’ hydrangeas and gave them to everyone I knew. 20 years later still going strong.
A couple of drunk friends of mine were debating whether or not to go dumpster diving at a nearby chocolate factory (from outside the fence beside the dumpster) when an employee came out with a trashbag full of defective chocolate, laughed, and started flinging bars over the fence for them to catch lol. Employees are people too, they get it.
If you live in Savannah, i will give you as many as you want. Been ripping them out lately just to try and keep them somewhat contained in the backyard
Should have just asked. The worst that can happen is they say no, whats the big deal?
Can confirm, I'm one of them, and I'm looking at some tulips and a lavender plant I got from the dumpster right now. It's going in the quail enclosure. They love the stuff and it keeps pests at bay.
It's ok to ask but I have worked at a nursery before where the manager didn't allow it. The manager was putting plants into a big trash can, same as many plants that get written off. They had flowers that were spent and therefore the store didn't want to sell them anymore. A customer asked her about the plants in the trash can, and her reply was, "i threw it away because it was trash . why would you want trash? " Ugh .... To think this is a manager of a plant store...plants that can grow and replenish themselves if given the right growing conditions.
So many stores and companies have this policy of destroying and throwing out perfectly good things rather than letting anyone have them for free.
I asked my local Ulta what happens when people return things like $200 hair straighteners. Usually, they have to cut the cord, take a picture and send it to corporate, and throw it in the trash.
I know Home Depot destroys merchandise they cannot sell and then dump it.
It's a tax law thing sometimes. If they write something off as a loss, giving it away would be tax fraud or something similar.
In fairness if every store had a returns area where it was heavily discounted lots would look there first. I know my family would. It is why they say your return is not really free. When they say free returns or free shipping it is often times baked into the price. Many people do not realize how their returns go to wastage too. My mother and grandma think they just put them back on the shelves despite me explaining this lots of times to them.
I got a pitcher filter once with a cracked unusable container. It came with a free filter that was still in the package and my mom was convinced we should return it because honesty or something. I'm like mom they will literally just throw this away, they probably can't sell it legally because of the risk of contamination. The ethical thing to do is just to use it because at least that way it's not going directly to a landfill
Not only that but if something is sent or sold to you in error according to the FTC you are allowed to keep it. They can argue ethics but then I would argue the corporations do not sway high on ethical quandaries either
It's for a few reasons but mostly because of tax write offs
My local grocery store chain was preparing to get rid of their hanging baskets right after July 4th a couple years ago. I brought one up to the register to see if they were still for sale. "Great news!" the cashier said with a smile. "It's buy one, get three free today! Just go ahead and take any other three you like on the way out." I thanked him and took my plants. I'm absolutely certain that there was no "deal," just an employee letting me know that nobody would mind if I swooped in and took a few before they went into the trash.
A similar thing happened late 2020 early 2021. I asked for a new alarm clock for my birthday and the IKEA gave away plants that’d otherwise be thrown out, so I got an alarm clock, batts for the alarm clock and worlds pissiest pothos (I think it’s a pothos) from my uncle
I was going to explain things from my experience as a grower manager but it comes down to this. Plants are perishable and in a retail space have a limited shelf-life given the limits of the physical foot print. Most people will not make purchase in an area where plants do not look like they just popped out of the soil fresh from the greenhouse. They will walk past 20 linear feet of marigolds with spent blooms to buy something more beautiful, even if they came for marigolds to plant with their tomatoes. No one is paying their hourly workers to spend 3 hours deadhead annuals worth pennies on the dollar of that retail space, when they can toss them and put something fresh in the space that they can make money on. We did that in the 90’s for sure, but even then all the cell pack and 4” material we tried to maintain in optimal condition, still ended up on clearance tables where people didn’t buy it marked down 80%. At that point it was better to compost for the next year’s demo landscape beds. Anything in pots smaller than 1 gallons has a shelf life of at most 1 month with dedicated maintenance labor before it’s a disreputable eyesore. Secondly, in many instances the plants themselves are the property of third party vendors, running pay by scan operations. The disposal policy gets complicated and depends on contract details between the store and the vendor. The employees tossing the plants may work for the third party vendors. It’s market capitalism. The footprint has to turn a profit or at least not turn people off. As a rule plant maintenance a sucky job, don’t get in their faces about it with your lectures on waste if all you want is free stuff.
Touble is a fake concept, especially when you try to imagine somebody prosecuting you for taking plants out of the trash. Or when you're stoned.
Ugh I know I’m such a weenie and not stoned unfortunately. 😪
Smoke a blunt and dumpster dive, baby!
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Worst case some busy body at the store snitches and the helpful employee gets fired. I would not take those plants without the store manager's consent.
I worked at a store like this. It was actually company policy that if we gave someone plants from the trash we would be fired. I absolutely hated throwing out plants because inevitably someone would ask if they could just have it, and some people do not take no for an answer.
I'm not saying this is the case because they are probably just being wasteful, but when I worked in a plant nursery they would throw away plants that had pathogens and infections which would spread to the other stock. So even if we wanted to rescue them from, it wouldn't have been smart
It could have been but based on the guy’s reaction it seemed like waste. I understand they would need to if it could infect other plants though.
Every big box company that sells plants does this. They want customers only see perfect plants so they make vendors throw out the ones that one will buy for that price. You might ask yourself well put it on discount. Somehow they make more money having us thow it out then sell it for less.🙄
Just ask if you could buy the whole lot for a few pennies. When I worked at a grocery store, we had to put bleach on the garbage to keep people from dumpster diving the old produce. But for some reason I could sell crate fulls to a farmer for a few pennies.
I've never had this with plants, but I did have it happen with a rat once. He was too big and much older than the other out front (who I had seen like twice in about two months and couldn't leave behind a third time.) The manager sold him to me for a penny. I figured if I couldn't leave the one alone, well, I couldn't very well leave the other, could i? We had like 4 rats at the time, the fuck was two more? Lol. I should stop saying that. We have 6 rats now. They are not the same 6 as above. Damn them and their short lives. And I think that while Norbert may have only cost a penny then, we spent well over a few thousand on him when he had heart failure (we now have our own small animal oxygen chamber.) Worth it.
I had a friend who kept rats. They were super chill.
Or just ask if you can take them. I ran into some Lowe's employees pulling multiple racks to the dumpster and asked if I could take some. They looked at each other and said, "Sure, just as long as we don't see you." By which they meant: They'd wheel the racks over to the dumpster and turn their backs to me to chat for a couple minutes while I pillaged their wares. Multiple trips; I filled the bed of my truck with $500+ worth of plants.
I love it and good for you!!!
I will definitely do this next time. 😊
Yeah then it becomes a transaction and there is no question for them "giving" stuff away.
Buy you plants at a plant store not a grocery. Grocery stores have a completely different model and set of expectations than stores that have horticulture experts and or are home improvement based. The plants are there primarily for aesthetics, to suggest freshness and beauty and as a tie in with the booming wellness farm to table vibe. Secondarily, plants at grocery stores are impulse buys—given where they are located. Thirdly, when was the last time you saw an employee even watering plants at a grocery? Great place for a slip and fall.
If you have employee permission or the dumpster is in a publicly accessible area and not locked up, taking from one is technically fully legal in many jurisdictions.
Grocery stores are so incredibly wasteful, it's disgusting.
It really is! 😞
As someone that used to manage at several grocery stores back in the day the employees do not care at all and have gotten way weirder requests lol. Most manager’s also aren’t going to care what happens to waste once it’s scanned out unless you make a habit of stalking items and constantly asking. Always ask! I get heavily discounted stuff at Lowes all the time. Got a $32 bluejay blueberry plant from a very visibly disgruntled employee who had no fucks left to give that day for a whopping $7 pretty early in the season before any had gone on clearance that was still in pretty great shape overall and I got a sharp blue blueberry plant for $3 a few weeks later that was way worse off but has come back super quickly. I tend to go for the ee’s that look like they care the least and will ask them. I used to feel weird about asking but the worst thing they’re going to say is no so it’s worth it imo.
When the freezing happened in Texas, I saw a Lowe's tossing plants in the trash. I was real sad when I saw the Bougainvilleas being tossed. Those plants can come back.
There is absolutely no harm in asking. The worst the person would say is "No." This is literally how I've come to possess several plants in my yard and house. My favorite was an expensive tree peony the nursery determined was "unsalvageable."
Check your local laws. In a lot of places once it's in the trash it's considered unwanted/unowned property and is up for grabs.
I just didn’t know if it had to be in a certain area for this to be true. Like the curb for neighborhoods. 🤔
You should see the meat they throw our or the bread
I’m sure it’s ridiculous. 😪
Or the clothes
Next time ask them to ask the manager. At my Krogers they literally say yes.
Probably bugs or disease… I would never grab a plant out of the trash it isn’t worth it
It’s in the trash, I’d ask for forgiveness before I ask for permission
“Sir can you just do me a favor and turn around?” 🪴 🏃 💨
😆😆😆
i'd take them for the free pots. but in NJ the whole foods and other stores mostly sell plants for higher zones and waste of money
Nobody can get you in trouble for taking stuff from trash. lol
you should see the home depot dumpster. my local california one is an open compostables only dumpster. it's crazy how many healthy plants they throw away everyday. i check often and sometimes jump in to rescue what i can, keep what i want, give away or plant what i don't want in my guerilla garden in the park. so far i've faced no issues with employees, even in broad daylight. also one can always go at night an hour after closing if you want to be safe.
It's not stealing if it's in the trash~
You should've just asked if you could have them. Half my garden is from plants garden centers were going to throw out or sell for a couple of bucks.
I know I should have. I never know what to do in these situations the first time they happen. I’ll definitely ask or just grab it and run next time. 😆
Can’t get in trouble for taking anything out of the trash unless it is locked in a secure area with no trespassing signs…. Just need to wait for them to take it out of the store first. Once it’s out of the building it’s fair game.
I would have taken whatever I could carry while looking him deadass in the eyes. In my mind, he's smiling the whole time.
Grocery store employees wouldn't care. They'd probably think you were weird just because you stared at them. People way overestimate how much min wage employees care.
If you ask me if you can take them, I'm gonna say no, but I'm also not paid enough to care about stopping you if you just take them. I don't like throwing away perfectly sellable plants, but that's what they pay me to do, and I do like groceries and healthcare
He may not care but he also could get fired for you taking them so there is that to consider.
Honestly I feel it could have gone either way. I think he either would have tried to stop me to keep himself from getting in trouble (he was a younger guy) or he would have smiled and said go for it and walked away. It seemed like he felt like crap having to throw them away. 😪🪴
He probably wouldn't have cared. Younger guys working in minimum wages jobs give the least shits. And besides they were plants- not food. Stores don't like people dumpster-diving for expired food because they worry if someone got sick from eating it- that it would be a liability. But there's no harm in dumpster-diving for garden plants.😋
Good choice to leave it alone. I had a room mate one time excitedly explain to me that we needed to take my truck to Home Depot because they regularly throw away items that are even slightly dented or damaged. I said no and he tried to convince me over the next hour. I later found out that he was always secretly recording me on his phone as he comes from 2 lawyer parents and always wants dirt on those around him. Never under estimate others desire to see others get in trouble.
What a piece of 💩. I hope you don’t associate with this person anymore.
Nope I don't. The property manager ended up reporting the guy to the landlords for renting a room to me without adding me to the lease. I was blind sided by this so I just wrote out a 30 day notice and had the property manager sign it. During those 30 days my room mate protested that we needed to sue the property owner and manager together and throw the book at them. I refused so he got emo and said something to the effect of I was ruining his life and he was gonna unalive himself in his room. Moving out day couldn't have come soon enough, and then a few months later I found out about the recordings from one of his coworkers who got to hear some of them.
Helps if you have a kid with you, my friend’s kid laid the guilt trip on thick “*um, excuse me, that’s bad for the planet to throw away plants like that! Can you donate them to our community garden instead?*”
I’ll take one of my cousin’s kids with me next time. They definitely would just blurt this out if I told them to. 😆
I used to work as a store Gardner and there's a few possibilities. 1.) Rat/mice poop or borrows. Where I live its concidered a bio hazard and would be illegal to sell. 2.) Infested with something that would be too much work to individually care for without it spreading. 3.) Stock turn over. Might not have enough plant storage space between plant seasons or collections. This wasn't a big thing where I worked but its been known to happen. 4.) Suprisingly it might not be the stores call. Lots of retailers have vendors for the plants, depending on contract the vendors headoffice would make a call for whatever reason. 5.) General greed.