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We are forced to live in a system that steals from us daily, Kill snitch culture.
Important things to keep in mind!
– never take from ‘mom and pop’ type store. Its likely you’ll actually harm them, whereas taking from a walmart wont effect much.
– never take items that a worker is assigned to monitor (usually super expensive items), theyll be in trouble for it. and its usually a minimum wage worker and usually they lose hours or pay, or they even get fired.
– similar to the above, never take things that are usually locked up for the above reason
– if its a store you know gives their near-expiration products to workers/charity, try to avoid taking the near expiration products.
– if youre taking clothing, avoid leaving hangers. it sounds weird, but itll make it seem like it was more likely an error in the computer than a theft, since the empty hanger sitting there will seem suspicious.
– also for clothing, try not to take more than one item at once, as it will look suspicious if theres 10 medium shirts missing, and it won’t be written off as just a stocking error. and it will lead to workers being penalized
– basically just always consider ‘will this harm a worker’ and if the answer is yes then dont do it
like i was homeless for a while when i was younger and i tried to follow those guidelines to avoid doing harm to people who were probably not much better off than me while trying to get food for myself.
Holy crap, is there like an unspoken thieves code or something?!
it’s a thing. I won’t even lie. I watched someone slip a nursing exam book in their bag at the store I worked at. She made eye contact with me and the blood drained from her face. I simply gave her a sympathetic nod and walked away.
I live in a small town and I knew she was a waitress at a hotel my sister works at, and people at that hotel don’t tip well during off season. Nursing exam books are 50+ bucks. Being a med student myself, I didn’t even breathe a word, and when inventory came up later and the book was missing, I suggested it was likely a mislabel, and the manager wrote it off.
Sometimes, thievery is a necessity. Don’t send people to jail over petty things.
theft for many is survival in this system and taking away from multi-billion dollar companies that are a part of the oppressive capitalist system
I love this post so much. Like, an unbelievable amount.
And they say there’s no honour among thieves.
WTF even is this.
Are you all saying that if you’re wealthier than me and have something that I need, I should just walk into your house and take it from you? How much wealth does a person or business need to have to make it okay to steal from them?
Thieves come from all walks of life and levels of wealth. As anti-capitalists, you guys should know this better than anyone. How do I know who’s stealing out of desperation, and who’s just a kleptomaniac? As you know, not all poor people look poor, and vice-versa. How do I determine who to snitch on?
You might think that your thievery is a great way to hurt a business you don’t like, but how exactly are you going to prevent said business from passing on the costs of the inventory loss to employees and customers, in the form of lower wages and higher prices? In other words, how are you going to prevent innocent people from being hurt by the collateral damage of your actions?
They won’t prevent shit because the first people to get in trouble if store theft because common, is the low rank employees who should have “done better” or “known better”.
You idiots think a manager or CEO is going to fire themselves over theft? Fucking hell.
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