Fuck Shoplifters

seralphia:

scaliefox:

fuck-customers:

Today at work I spent two hours doing inventory adjustments for my department. The process is essentially, count the number of a product on the shelf and see if it matches the number the computer says we have, then change the computer number to the correct amount. One or two items missing is normal. Stuff gets miscounted or the wrong barcode gets scanned or maybe the tags fell off and we ring it up as something else. That’s just par for the course. 200+ items is not.

Today alone in just ONE department there was over $1200 of merchandise missing.

I’m going to get my butt chewed out because $1200 is missing from my department and I don’t know where it went. That’s $1200 that my store will have to cover. That’s $1200 that comes out of payroll budget, which is already way too thin. $1200 is almost exactly one months pay for one employee, meaning we will probably have to let someone go, because we are losing this amount on an almost daily basis.

Fuck you and your lame excuses. When you shoplift, it isn’t hurting the corporation. It’s hurting the employees.

When you shoplift it means that one of my coworkers won’t be able to pay her bills this month. It means she won’t be able to afford to eat every day. It means that my coworkers and I will have to find a way to sneak gas money into her purse so that she can get home.

It means that corporate is going to make us tighten security. We will have to purchase more cameras and more alarms and more tags, with money we don’t have, which means hours will get cut even more. It means we will have to participate in shrink prevention programs, like consenting to having our belongings searched before we leave because corporate still insists that most of our shrink is internal.

I can understand if you are stealing food because you’re hungry, or medicine because you’re sick. it’s still wrong, but I understand that and if I saw you stealing food or medicine, I would probably look the other way and pay for it myself.

But you can’t eat cosmetics, ok? You won’t die without lipstick. You won’t suffer because you don’t have Levi jeans. You won’t get sick because you don’t have a wallet & penknife gift set, you’re just being a shitty person.

Enjoy your $12.00 compacts you crudnuggets. I hope it’s worth our jobs.

This why you don’t frickin’ shoplift.

The owners of the company blame the workers for your asshole behavior and take it out on them. You’re literally hurting every day people working blue collar jobs, stocking shelves, and running tills just like you.

Omg, I went through some of the replies and all those shoplifters basically going “but but but the corporations aren’t allowed to do that!” or “you’re siding with corporations against your fellow humans!” (what. the. fuck?) or literally telling store employees to take it to the courts and fight shitty corporate policies.

Which …

1) the fact that something is illegal doesn’t mean that something doesn’t happen. So when a retail employee tells you that, hey, shoplifting can have awful consequences for the people working in a store? Maybe start listening to them and stop shoplifting.

2) If you know that corporations do this shit (if for no other reason than OP, who is a retail worker, telling you just that) and you go ahead and berate them for daring to speak up about how shitty shoplifting is for them? You are a terrible person that apparently considers shoplifters as fellow humans but not retail workers. Also: stop shoplifting.

3) Most people can’t just “up and fight The Man” even if they know that they are legally and morally in the right. Because they don’t have a support system (say, unions), or don’t have the resources for lengthy legal battles, or need that job because they have to support more people than just themselves. And you ain’t shit if you demand that retail workers either shut up or go to court, not because you care but so that you can continue shoplifting “guilt-free”. You’re awful and should stop shoplifting.