So I just came back from a 1 week vacation. I work at a café and all the staff is pretty close. Before I left, I made a load of meringue cookies because I had a bunch of eggs that would rot in my fridge if I left them. After giving tons away, I still had a bunch left and thought I'd do something nice for my coworkers and drop off a bunch in the breakroom. There was a note on top that said they were from me and to be eaten by the employees.
I come back from vacation and ask one of my coworkers if anyone liked the meringues and she was like “the ones in the display?” I went to the front of the store, looked at the display cabinet and saw (with few left) the basket of my cookies with a price tag sticker of $2 for 3 (probably stale as hell by now)
Apparently my boss found them in the morning, and decided to sell my gift to my coworkers for a profit. Not to mention that it's totally against food safety regulations to sell them. I told him that I was hurt by this and that the revenue from the sales should go towards our tips, and that I didn't want him to sell them. He comes heavy on the defense saying how “they were a gift so it shouldn't matter”.
I did stand up for myself and let him know that that was a very rude and shitty thing to do to someone regardless of if I'm his employee or not.
I just feel soooo frustrated. Worked here for two years, never called in or been late. This might be the final straw for me though.
Edit:
So I wrote this on my lunch break and have since gone home early after a larger argument with my boss. I quit, and have told him that if he does not return the money that he earned from those sales to me that I won't be back for my other shifts this week which would fuck up his vacation plans (I am the assistant manager and he is both the store owner and manager). He has reluctantly agreed to this but is obviously furious at me because he's a dick.
I have also texted the work groupchat and let everyone know exactly what happened and my reasons for leaving. It will be sad to go, I like a lot of my coworkers but it's just not worth the insanity anymore. I also feel like some other people will quit because of this too. Everyone is angry with him and letting him know it, which is great to see.
Noone should feel bad that I quit, I've thought about it for some time now, this was just the breaking point lol, and I have some other options for work coming up. There are a lot of comments about reporting him for health code violations and I will. For those reasons I am not going to sue or anything (and also because he is giving me the money). I have a lot on my plate already and would rather just rid myself of this job.
Thanks for all the support from everyone!