Freebies
It would probably take a Starbucks employee an entire month of wages to afford a single pastry from their own store, which is just ridiculous. But there’s one very easy way to beat the system without technically costing the company anything. Report to your supervisor that the pastries are expired and take them to the back.
While you’re in the back with dozens of delicious pastries, feel free to go HAM on them. Nobody’s going to search the garbage bins for the missing “expired” pastries, right? As long as you report how many pastries went bad, you should be good. We’re not telling you to do this—the OP is.