If you shoplift don’t reblog posts about respecting retail workers doing holiday seasons.
It’s very clear you don’t respect them if you’re willing to ignore the fact that they say they risk being laid off, having fewer hours, etc. as a result of people shoplifting. You are fucking over someone’s livelihood.
I’ve started taking photos of stolen merchandise I find around our store (empty boxes, torn open packaging, etc).
That money literally comes out of my paycheck. I’m struggling to pay my mortgage and still be able to feed myself, let alone my bills, medication, or even just A Nice Thing every once in a while.
(All of that is from two or three days, by the way. I could go on.)
If you shoplift, or condone shoplifting, go fuck yourself. Don’t fucking pretend you care about respecting me or anyone else working retail this holiday season, or ever. You clearly don’t.
I’m currently doing security for a mall and I have to deal with shoplifters quite often. Lemme tell you, they are some if the most self absorbed and stupid assholes I’ve ever met.
They are typically fairly young, around 12-21, and are not in hard spots in life. The mall I work for stocks some fairly high end products, so these things that these shitheels take are not necessities. They’re things like iPhones, makeup, jewelry, expensive clothes, and the like. They don’t need these things, and we know this because after we arrest their dumb ass we check their record with the police to determine what we will do with them.
One case I had to handle was a group of girls stealing hundreds of dollars in goods from stores that their friends worked at. They exploited the trust of their friends so they could get some fucking yoga pants. Upon my arrival and speaking to the shopkeep, it was decided that I would let them off the hook so long as the merchandise was to be returned. They returned most of it, but STILL stole from their friend’s store. Last I heard, they got busted trying the same stunt elsewhere, one of these idiots is currently in County.
Many of them, once caught, are already running a record as long as my fucking arm, and here in Utah retail theft cam escalate to a felony. Meaning, after enough reported cases of a person stealing goods (either by arrest or if they have video evidence of the person stealing) or after a certain dollar amount stolen the crime is moved from misdemeanor to felony and is punished as such.
To you shoplifting shits out there, quit while you’re ahead. You are ruining people’s lives for trinkets and you will be caught sooner or later. You will ruin your lives for absolutely nothing, and you will always be known as a dishonest individual and barred from numerous employment opportunities as well as losing certain rights.
If your employer is taking stolen goods out of your paycheck, that is wage theft. That is your employer paying you less than you are owed, as punishment for something you did not do. Please explain to me how shoplifters are responsible for your boss violating labour law? Why are we implicitly defending the cruelty of a person in a position of power threatening subordinates for things beyond their control?
Except they don’t literally deduct it from the worker’s paycheck.
They give them fewer hours. Instead of giving them 40 hours in a week they may only get 16 hours that week as a result of people repeatedly shoplifting. Retail workers have repeatedly made posts about how shoplifters cause them to get laid off, get fewer hours, make it harder for them to pay their bills, etc. yet you still try to defend your own shitty behavior. It costs literally z e r o dollars to not shoplift and make shit harder for retail workers. Why is it that you’re so ready to make bad and rude customers take responsibility for making shit difficult for retail workers yet you can’t even do the same thing?
Not to mention y’all are stealing shit YOU DONT NEED when I worked at Target we didn’t have to deal with people stealing food, we dealt with people stealing literally dozens of electronics or, at one point, a woman walking out with at least $200 worth of clothes on her person. Fuck off with this “well it’s not MY fault” shit, you’re making my already hard retail job even harder
Grocery retail worker here. and we’ve had shoplifters ranging from the girls who’d hide candy bars in their bras (requiring our male store director to get our female stock manager and one female clerk to bring them to the customer bathroom to get them to hand over the stolen items) to the guy who tried to bull out the door with a canvas bag full of cans of infant formula (our assistant store director who was a half back in college literally had to tackle the guy - turned out the thief was not Jean Valjean trying to feed his sister’s starving child, but a creep who sold the formula on the black market at inflated prices), to the case at my old store where a guy would come in on Sunday when the store was crazy-busy and icky, fill a shopping cart with steaks and bags of frozen shrimp and bull out the door (management tried chasing him, but lost him in the parking lot the first and second times this happened; the third time, they had more help…). Bonus story: the guy who got fired for stealing stuff from the stock room later came back to my old store and climbed up through the cardboard compacter at night to steal again. The store director locked the cardboard compactor, so the thief crawled up through the trash compactor. They were finally able to catch him then, but for a week afterward, if you had trash and cardboard to toss at the end of the night, you had to get someone in management to unlock them. Trust me. We hate shoplifters. The people who steal to keep from starving to death will be helped and given a warning not to do this again because it hurts our ability to pay our workers. But the people in it just for funzies or for nefarious purposes, we despise to no end.
My favourite shit is the irony of lifters who preach about how employer’s can’t compensate theft cost from your pay check. The lifter is preaching about why employers can’t break the law.
Irony.
This is why my bonus this quarter was $300 less than the one for the last. Because sales were down due to huge amounts of shoplifting. If you think you’re clever, go Fuck yourself. That phone won’t even work because it wasn’t rung up you bloody Neanderthal.
If you think it harms no one, you’re 1000% wrong you unsanctimonious little dumpster fires.
i wonder how many historic trans men we’ve lost to “this WOMAN went by a man’s name, wore men’s clothes, took the job of a man, lived as a man… GIRL POWER!”
this isn’t a “pushing my identity on historic people” thing, it’s the fact that every single time i or another person brings up the possibility of someone like us in history, we’re immediately shut down, told that we didn’t “exist yet”, given a billion different reasons why we aren’t ALLOWED to see these people as reflective of us and our struggles and experiences - i get that we didn’t have the vocabulary back then but for so many of you the IDEA that someone who went to the same stretches that we do today to separate from their dead selves and identify similar to the way trans people do is too “far out there” and “disrespectful” to them somehow. they’re dead. we’re alive. we’re trying to connect the pieces. go get your kicks out of isolating us from history somewhere else, away from me.
yeah, there were women who did crossdress in order to take up jobs they would not have been permitted to access
but when people say it about Albert Cashier, who donned Union uniform, bound his chest, and lived as a man even after the Civil War, when he was reclusive and lived in a tiny village, after there would have been no incentive for him to do so, I question their motives.
I also question their motives when they list Alan L Hart, who legally changed his name and was one of the first trans men to pursue a hysterectomy, referring to himself as “a fellow.”
people DONT want historical figures to be trans. they WANT to interpret these historical figures as women, not trans men, because that makes them uncomfortable.
same with the musician billy tipton, who hid his trans status from his wife and children his whole life, and whose son didn’t know his father was trans until billy was dead. he told his wife that his binding was necessary because he had been in an automobile accident before they met, never disclosing his trans status to her. the number of historians that refer to him by his deadname and call him an “actress” make me feel sick. he was a stealth trans man around everyone but his parents, and it hurts trans men everywhere to call trans men in history “lesbians”.
Just a note to the people saying they want one: these small friends are called axolotls and they’re currently critically endangered because of people taking them out of their natural habitat to be pets so like… don’t buy one please just leave these lil guys be
I have good news and bad news:
Bad news: these guys ARE critically endangered in the wild because they live in like, 2 lakes in Mexico that are eutrophic (fish can’t live because there’s so little oxygen because the plant life uses it all) and food production efforts (Mexico City was trying to feed its poor, and released a lot of hearty invasive species that ate all of them). They are basically extinct in the wild so you can’t actually get them out of their natural habitat. (There’s a lot of conservation effort though)
Good news: Axolotls are WILDLY important to scientists wrt their regenerative abilities, so breeding programs are super common, super popular, super easy bc axolotls don’t have a breeding season and fuck like champions, and if you really want an axolotl, you’re getting one that’s been bred in captivity and it’s really not going to hurt the wild population at all.
“The stake driver allows for high-damage critical attacks, but is
difficult to use and leaves its wielder wide open, but none of this
should bother a mere Powder Keg.”
YEAH, BECAUSE I’M YOUR CHILD. YOU MADE ME. I AM YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. I WOULD NOT EXIST IF NOT FOR YOUR RECKLESS GAME OF GRAB-ASS. I AM YOUR FAULT. YOU HAVE TO– TO AN EXTENT –TAKE CARE OF ME. I DIDN’T ASK TO EXIST. I HAPPENED BECAUSE OF YOU. THIS IS ALL ON YOU.
If you want to live with a rent-paying roommate, get a roommate. Don’t fucking have children. Don’t have children. Because children are SEPARATE HUMAN BEINGS WHO WILL ALWAYS NEED FOOD AND SHELTER UNTIL THE DAY THEY DIE.
I’m just so, sooo pissed off about the West’s attitudes towards adult children. “Time to move out!” Bitch, to where?? With what money that I’m not already spending on groceries and essentials and giving to my parents for bills?
“I feed you and take care of you, and you don’t pay me!” I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PAY MY MOTHER AND FATHER TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY
CHILDREN ARE A LIFETIME DEAL, YOURS AND THEIRS!!!
THEY DIDN’T ASK TO BE BORN!!!
DON’T GUILT YOUR CHILD FOR BEING ALIVE WHEN YOU’RE THE REASON THEY EXIST!!!!!!
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