dprag.. I think part of it is people don't like to see places be successful... A lot of people will say the whole music thing isn't theft, but the people I know who actually admit that it is wrong think it is ok because the recording industry makes so much money and the prices are too high.. it's one thing to think it isn't wrong.. but it's another to say oh it's wrong but they have so much money..
So that makes it ok to steal? Whatever makes it easy for you to sleep at night, I guess. Their employees aren't forced to work there.
Why do you say that? According to their web site they offer health insurance. http://www.walmartstores.com/wmstor...ubCatOID=-8591&subtemplate=CareersContent.jsp
They treat their employees badly.. what am I doing to do? Protest or boycott them until they treat them better? No, I'm going to steal from them.. I guess it's easier to make your actions seem ok if you claim someone else was wronged.. but i fail to see how that is helping the employees any..
"As I stand here before you today, the Wal-Mart cheerleading squad needs to be taken down a peg or two."
Let me see here...the cash register has a couple of hundred dollars...the store might carry a couple of thousand...yeah I can cash your $1 million bill...WTF was the woman smoking?
What about self-checkout at grocery stores? I'm always walking out of the store with something I accidentally forgot to scan. I usually don't notice until I get home that I forgot to scan an item. It happens rarely but it happens. Just think what a thief would do in the self-checkout lanes. The problem with self-checkout is you have a grocery cart full of items and nowhere to pull them out and place them. So, inevitably, an item or two are hidden from view because your removing items to scan and your placing bagged items in your cart which accidentally conceal something in your cart. I know your suppose to scan your cart for any items you forgot to scan but when you have 10 plastic bags of items everywhere...it's not exactly easy to tell if you missed something. I guess that's a cost the grocer is willing to assume in not having to play clerks to ring your groceries up for you. I'm pretty good about scanning all my items now but, in the beginning, I was terrible about it. It's not like they stop you on the way out and say, "Sir...you forgot to scan this item. Come with me." .
I just spoke with my friend who works at Wal-Mart (and used to be a manager there). Her thoughts: The enivronment at Wal-Mart is family oriented. All of the employees look out for each other and have each other's "backs." People with poor attitudes and who don't care about their jobs quickly fall through the cracks, thanks to peer pressure by positive employees. Sure some may seem like they don't care about their jobs, but that's probably b/c their having a bad day or getting poor progress reports and feeling bad about it. Tangent: Unbeknownst to me, Wal-Mart tracks the work progress of all its employees 24 hours a day, and can generate graphs and reports for any given period of time, displaying quality and quantity of work executed. No wonder they look so down sometimes! Imagine Big Brother on your ass all day everyday at work. Surely the traffic at this BBS would fall tremendously Back on track: Anyways, she had never heard of some of the scams mentioned on this thread. She was actually shocked and dismayed to hear that people take advantage of the system so willingly. She said theft comes directly out of the employee pockets, through smaller bonuses. Any discrepancy between cash register totals and products sold (everything is inventorized in a central database, and receipts are tracked against products sold to check for discrepancies) are deducted from the bonuses awarded to each employee. So in essence, when you steal from Wal-Mart, you are stealing from the low-income, hourly wage earner. Remember that next time...
Isn't that why they have the alarms at the exits of stores. I know that the Krogers I go to has self-checkout and I can't count the number of times the alarm has been triggered b/c someone forgot to scan an item. The woman in charge of policing the self-checkout (and having people sign credit card receipts) always has to go to the door and check through the person's groceries and make sure everything is on their receipt.
Yay, somebody caught it! Of course, the punchline of the whole skit is: "I was in Italy, but I took a balloon up my ass to Amsterdam."
"you really don't know what that means, do you." "no..but they do...and they're the ones writing it off!"
