• @WaxedWookie
    link
    English
    836 months ago

    Remember kids, if you see someone shoplifting or switching the barcodes at your big-box self-checkout: No you didn’t.

    • southsamurai
      link
      fedilink
      English
      316 months ago

      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.

      • @WaxedWookie
        link
        English
        146 months ago

        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! 🫡

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      206 months ago

      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.

      • @WaxedWookie
        link
        English
        286 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          46 months ago

          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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        206 months ago

        Genuine mistake, I can’t be expected to do a job I wasn’t trained for. All those apples look the same to me

        • @pirat
          link
          English
          46 months ago

          Everything is an apple for the untrained eye

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      46 months ago

      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.

      • @WaxedWookie
        link
        English
        76 months ago

        Walmart and their ilk steal far more in wage theft than they lose to shoplifters.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          36 months ago

          “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.

          • @WaxedWookie
            link
            English
            76 months ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              -66 months ago

              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.

              • @WaxedWookie
                link
                English
                46 months ago

                You care enough to intervene, to correct me, and to keep posting to tell me you don’t care.

                OK, my guy.

                • @[email protected]
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  -46 months ago

                  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.

                  • @WaxedWookie
                    link
                    English
                    36 months ago

                    Do you give everything you don’t care about this much attention? How do you get anything done?

      • @some_designer_dude
        link
        English
        56 months ago

        If you hate thieves, you should love shoplifters. The real thieves are at the top scheming more ways to fuck the poor.

          • @WaxedWookie
            link
            English
            46 months ago

            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.

    • Flying Squid
      link
      English
      36 months ago

      Especially when these people aren’t shoplifting big-ticket items like TVs. They’re shoplifting things they’re desperate for like food.

      • @WaxedWookie
        link
        English
        1
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid
          link
          English
          26 months ago

          Huh? How am I protecting them when I’m saying don’t stop people if they shoplift food from them?

          • @WaxedWookie
            link
            English
            36 months ago

            My reading comprehension is atrocious, apparently.

            Sorry.