This obviously isn’t everywhere but I know several people who either currently or previously work at grocery stores or convenience stores, and they’ve told me straight up they knew people shoplifted and either helped them or didn’t stop them because “they didn’t pay me enough to care”. So that’s a sentiment going around. Never know who follows what though sadly. It likely won’t be reliable until it’s near unison
true, I was thinking more along the lines of a worker spotting you and it being caught by a surveillance camera, so the worker would have to report you or risk losing their job (or worse) for deliberately ignoring it
What’s really messed up is that some retailers – like WalMart – have a corporate policy of ignoring shoplifting by employees, the reasoning being that workers are less likely to report labor law violations if they think the boss has dirt on them.
Yeah I’m not so sure about that for the simple reason they do not need leverage to fire or mistreat an employee. This is only useful for higher-ups as they have more intimate knowledge of the company as well they are more invested in the company and so they are not only needing to be controlled but useful to be controlled instead of simply brushed aside.
very good idea, just don’t get spotted by the workers
This obviously isn’t everywhere but I know several people who either currently or previously work at grocery stores or convenience stores, and they’ve told me straight up they knew people shoplifted and either helped them or didn’t stop them because “they didn’t pay me enough to care”. So that’s a sentiment going around. Never know who follows what though sadly. It likely won’t be reliable until it’s near unison
true, I was thinking more along the lines of a worker spotting you and it being caught by a surveillance camera, so the worker would have to report you or risk losing their job (or worse) for deliberately ignoring it
Yes, some are taking that risk to spite for the bosses. It’s awesome but still too rare.
What’s really messed up is that some retailers – like WalMart – have a corporate policy of ignoring shoplifting by employees, the reasoning being that workers are less likely to report labor law violations if they think the boss has dirt on them.
Yeah I’m not so sure about that for the simple reason they do not need leverage to fire or mistreat an employee. This is only useful for higher-ups as they have more intimate knowledge of the company as well they are more invested in the company and so they are not only needing to be controlled but useful to be controlled instead of simply brushed aside.