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Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting or switching the barcodes at your big-box self-checkout: No you didn't.
Preach!
I'm lucky enough to not need to take the risks involved in order to get by, but I'll be damned if I'm going to fuck over someone that may be unluckier than me. Idgaf what it is, I'm fucking sergeant Schultz.
The way I see it, you're doing a public service...
You're creating jobs in loss prevention.
You're helping make the case for retaining more checkout workers.
You're keeping those minimum-wage checkout supervisors safe by not putting them in a position to intervene with desperate people trying to feed themselves.
You're helping the store avoid wage theft by having you play unpaid, untrained, unqualified security guard.
You're helping the needy feed themselves.
Give yourself a pat on the back, you local hero! 🫡
My grandmother snitch on some poor bastard stealing crystal light at walmart. If someones stealing fucking crystal light from walmart theyre clearly in way worse than I am.
I worked at a supermarket in a wealthy area for years - no one stole more than the wealthy old crones from the retirement village next around the corner.
The funny thing is she ain't wealthy, ffs we live in the same house. She's just got a really stupid and weirdly conservative and at the same time progressive sense of morality.
But the self-checkout cameras sure did.
Genuine mistake, I can't be expected to do a job I wasn't trained for. All those apples look the same to me
Everything is an apple for the untrained eye
Thats why you follow safe Covid Precautions. 😁👍
If I cared enough, I'd tell someone because I hate thieves, but I generally prefer to mind my own business. Same philosophy if I saw someone stealing from a small business.
Walmart and their ilk steal far more in wage theft than they lose to shoplifters.
"These companies don't pay their employees enough, in my opinion, so I'm ok with people stealing from them."
Just say what you mean.
I'm not OK with people stealing from them because they don't pay people enough.
I'm OK with people stealing from them and they don't pay their employees enough, and they still steal more in wage theft than is shoplifted from them.
Why do you feel compelled to play unpaid security guard for a bunch of billionaires? They neither need nor appreciate your help.
I care about billionaires as much as I care about you and poor people: the sum of zero. My opinion is simply that, my opinion.
You care enough to intervene, to correct me, and to keep posting to tell me you don't care.
OK, my guy.
This is a public forum. Where debate and conversation takes place. Having a conversation with someone doesn't mean you care about them. That's an odd conclusion to reach. Chill out guy. It's ok when people disagree with you. It's a good thing. It's a way of being exposed to new ways of thinking. If you're looking for an echo chamber, I'm sure reddit is taking new users.
Do you give everything you don't care about this much attention? How do you get anything done?
If you hate thieves, you should love shoplifters. The real thieves are at the top scheming more ways to fuck the poor.
Yes yes of course. Poor good. Rich bad. I get it.
If you're concerned about theft, this is objectively correct - Walmart steal more through wage theft than shoplifters steal from them.
Similarly, in terms of harm done, stealing even a flatscreen TV has an imperceptible impact on the Walton family, while stealing wages from an employee that's so underpaid, their wages need to be supplemented with publicly funded food stamps is crippling.
Especially when these people aren't shoplifting big-ticket items like TVs. They're shoplifting things they're desperate for like food.
~~Oh - that I just don't care about. Do you care about the wage theft they're committing? It's at a far larger scale than any shoplifting.~~
~~Why are you so concerned with protecting a massive multi-billionaire-owned company plagued with ethical issues? Are those billionaire boots super-tasty or something?~~
I am not a smart man.
Huh? How am I protecting them when I'm saying don't stop people if they shoplift food from them?
My reading comprehension is atrocious, apparently.
Sorry.