If she made a decision this poor and reckless, I think it’s safe to assume that she has made other terrible decisions in the past and would make more in the future. I’d like to know how her coworkers feel about the situation.
Rule number one: If you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t.
FWIW, no one should feel the need to put their safety on the line for the benefit of their corporate overlords, for a number of reasons.
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The obvious point of you potentially getting hurt. The company doesn’t want that because they could get sued. So they tell you not to intervene to cover their ass.
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The chance of the other person getting hurt. The company doesn’t want that because they could get sued. And they’ll blame it on you because you were told not to intervene.
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The possibility that you are simply wrong. You think you saw someone shoplift, but what if they didn’t? You just assaulted a random person.
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Basic fucking human decency. If someone is stealing food of all things, why would you feel the need to intervene? It’s not your loss, it’s the company’s. If the company wants to do something about it, they can figure that part out themselves.
Yup, intervene if the person is attempting to seriously injure or kill another person and you feel motivated to intervene.
Outside of that, the company has a certain amount of loss that is built into their operating budget every year. This person has just taken advantage of that. It’s not your fucking responsibility.
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so she knew the store policy, decided to ignore it, has known this person has taken food in the past but doesn’t call the police and have them trespass, and for some reason thinks she owes the company what? something? to tackle a person taking food?
no sympathy here. who cares if someone takes food? does anyone who work retail honestly get paid enough to care? and if you do care then there’s something painfully wrong with you. I worked retail some 20+ years ago and even then I didn’t give a flying fuck if someone took something from where ever I was working. I wasn’t be paid enough to care I barely made more than minimum wage. the only people who cared were managers and LP cause they were paid enough to care.
If you see someone stealing food… No you didnt. Move on.
Sure but also. If you see someone stealing, no you didn’t.
Depends on what and from whom. If I see someone stealing some poor bastard’s car, I’m saying something.
Yeah or a bicycle, leave peoples bikes the fuck alone assholes.
Found the dutchie
The guy stuffing 10lbs of ribeye steaks in his jacket is not Jean Valjean.
The guy judging someone created within a sick society of abundance is the problem. Not the individual who feels the need to steal food just to get by. (for whatever reason. Even if they are using the money to buy drugs. Very few addicts got hooked because they partied too much. Most get hooked because our society is unwell from the top down.)
Depends on food. If it’s truffle or black caviar, for example…
Who cares. Only worriedos and fascists that’s who.
Are you allowed to steal food from anyone or only from certain categories of people / organisations?
Obviously only from those who have excess. If you’re Christian, this is literally in the Bible. If you aren’t, it’s obviously just the right thing to do, for those with excess to give to the needy, willingly or not.
How to determine if that person or organisation has an excess?
GOOD
Fuck that former employee
You aren’t being stolen from, a company is.
You aren’t losing money, the company is
You don’t gain anything by interfering, the company does
You don’t get rewarded, you have rewarded the company (assuming you stop the theft)
YOU DON’T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO CARE ABOUT SHOPLIFTERS
I don’t care how much you make. You don’t make enough.
If you, as someone with a lower quality of life (relative to the rich) than a medieval peasant and who definitely doesn’t have the money to take care of potential medical bills thy arise from a potential altercation.
I cannot fathom caring so much about a company’s profits that I intervene in any shoplifting.
Note: when I worked for a sporting goods retailer, the ONLY thing I ever did was inform a manager when I believe someone was stealing ammo for a gun. Never gave a shit about clothing, food, or even sports equipment, but in my opinion there’s very few reasons to steal firearm ammunition, almost none of them involve a needy person who will use them for benefit.
If you see someone shoplifting, especially from a company, no you fucking didn’t
It sounds like she gave a poor rashernale.
Good, fuck em for snitching
Never ever do anything to stop shoplifters or robbers.
- Because they could be brandishing a deadly weapon
- You aren’t paid enough to stop them, let alone intervene in any way
- If you were paid enough to stop them, you’re paid more than enough to let them get away and not feel any pain from it.
Yeah, yeah, she shouldn’t have done it. But, it was wrong to fire her over it. I agree with the union rep, a warning would have been enough.
Sacks for everyone! I feel like the title is trying to be witty. The caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet… so I’ll quietly hope someone can bag a better title for us.
Fun aside: as someone already observed - its not worth chasing down someone for retail theft. Theres insurance, shrink is factored into running costs, and you could get hurt or sued… or both. Also, while it sucks to look at it this way… if someone is stealing food… they probably needed it.
An employee who takes their bacon seriously is exactly the type of employee I would want hire.
Another militant Vegan?
