I stole enough food from my workplace to eat for 3 months after getting fired

I used to work in a kitchen where food was constantly getting tossed because of a number of reasons. <br>The walk in fridge was often left open and when that would happen and the health department would come to inspect, we'd have to toss a massive amount of food. <br><br>We were small enough that we didn't have a real HR department, but big enough that the corporate office didn't want to deal with the day-to-day bull shit that goes on with the employees, so it was pretty relaxed. <br><br>If something came in from a vendor and was bad, we'd toss it. If we made a batch of some side and didn't sell enough of it during the day, it was tossed. <br><br>I saw a lot of food go to waste and when I finally got fed up, I decided I was going to start taking some of it home with me. The first time I did it, I hid some sausage in my jacket when my co-workers weren't paying attention, and got it in my car before the manager saw me out the door. <br><br>Eventually I had a five gallon bucket with a lid that was my "trash bucket," and I would stash stuff in there all day and then take it out to the dumpster at the end of the night. <br><br>Except I wasn't putting it in the dumpster. I'd load it into my car and take it home and put it in the freezer. <br><br>I don't think I've ever felt more nervous. Every day I was sure I was going to get caught. I'd sweat and shake and second guess myself as I walked out the door with my bucket of sausage or chicken or vegetables. <br><br>I managed to collect enough that by the time I left the job I had enough food to last me three months. <br><br>I'm not sure how I didn't get caught, but they never did figure it out. I kept a steady supply of Tums to keep the heartburn at bay from eating so much processed sausage and I brought over a couple hundred pounds of chicken when I moved and started over again.<br><br>I'm still ashamed of it 15 years later.