Wage Theft Is A Much Bigger Problem Than Retail Theft - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Hi. In today's episode, we look at the offensive amount of money that employers steal from their workers, and how it's a much bigger problem than the "crisis" of retail theft.
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written and Produced by Jonathan Harris
Edited by John Conway
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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Chapters:
00:00 - CRIME!
01:21 - Retail Theft Is Not A Big Problem
12:02 - How Companies Steal From Workers
23:04 - They Feel Empowered To Steal From You
27:47 - How To Fix This - Комедії
If you steal $100 from work, you will be arrested and charged with a crime... If your boss steals $100 out of your paycheck, it is a civil matter that you need to sue them over.
Make that shit make sense
Its almost like the privileged owning class get to buy the laws they want by buying the lawmakers, whereas average people aren't organized in the same way, don't have lobbyists, and can't pay generous bribes aka "donations" or give promises to sitting or campaigning politicians.
In short, local, state and most certainly federal politicians do not work for us, they don't give a flying fuck about us, the bottom 80%, give or take. How to change this is a challenge.
We could elect better people from the Left at all levels (local, county, state) to then make change, which is possible but hasn't happened yet, or we could push to pass more laws and repeal more bogus statutes through increasing ballot measures, both in frequency and access in all 50 states. That's the approach I support.
Its almost like the privileged owning class get to buy the laws they want by buying the lawmakers, whereas average people aren't organized in the same way, don't have lobbyists, and can't pay generous bribes aka "donations" or give promises to sitting or campaigning politicians.
In short, local, state and most certainly federal politicians do not work for us, they don't give a flying fuck about us, the bottom 80%, give or take. How to change this is a challenge.
We could elect better people from the Left at all levels (local, county, state) to then make change, which is possible but hasn't happened yet, or we could push to pass more laws and repeal more bogus statutes through increasing ballot measures, both in frequency and access in all 50 states. That's the approach I support.
Its almost like the privileged owning class get to buy the laws they want by buying the lawmakers, whereas average people aren't organized in the same way, don't have lobbyists, and can't pay generous bribes aka "donations" or give promises to sitting or campaigning politicians.
In short, local, state and most certainly federal politicians do not work for us, they don't give a flying fck about us, the bottom 80%, give or take. How to change this is a challenge.
We could elect better people from the Left at all levels (local, county, state) to then make change, which is possible but hasn't happened yet, or we could push to pass more laws and repeal more bogus statutes through increasing ballot measures, both in frequency and access in all 50 states. That's the approach I support.
It all stems from the original lie from industrialization or perhaps even going back even before that, that workers are really just glorified slaves and they should be lucky if they get any crumbs at all, and how dare they ask for or take any more, even when this has to do with being denied their own agreed upon wages. This is a pernicious cruel lie that has infected our entire society and once you really start seeing it it's amazing how many other things you start to see as well. It is unfortunately all present imo and affects our entire economic life.
In short, owners deserve everything workers deserve nothing not even the wages that the law guarantees them. Workers, even highly educated and highly skilled workers are still just a human property of the owner or the management team. They should have no human rights.
This is what the power brokers in our society wish to tell us but of course we don't have to accept it. This is what the demonization of the labor movement is based on. How dare those dirty workers- you know, working hard for a living; doing honest work for a living; demand more!?!? Sure, those same people will say go out and work hard in life and you'll prosper. But if you do work hard and honest work trying to earn everything you have in life, the moment you express your dissatisfaction with how that work is being rewarded the same people will demonize you, call you every name in the book and even try to enact the violence against you. Isn't that funny?
In short, the struggle for the human rights of all those who work for a living is far from over. Until ALL labor rights are guaranteed under law, with full enforcement, yep we still have a ways to go.
Walmart has no rights.
Walmart is not a person
If you see someone shoplifting? No you didn't.
That's my philosophy.
If it wasn't considered a person, you couldn't sue it for wrongdoing as an entity.. open your brain and actually learn why things are the way they are.
a person isnt just an entity.
@@HavocHerseim Ok except that's not some immutable law of physics. We can just write the law saying "Companies can be sued for wrongdoing by individuals but do not have individual rights" and I'm not even a lawyer
@@samwill7259we did... learn something
Shorting people breaks and classifying workers as independent contractors is also super prevalent in the medical industry.
When I worked as a nursing assistant many years ago I routinely didn’t take any sort of break until I’d been working for six hours. I would often need to go pee and be literally helping other people to the bathroom. We were sort of guilted into it because we knew what would happen if we didn’t help the people, and we were chronically understaffed.
Honestly Cody could do a whole show on the medical industry or even just nursing homes. There is a bunch of shady stuff like (1) having 2 separate corporate entries, one which owns the land under the nursing home so they can gradually bleed the nursing home dry (2) using lots and lots of different companies and contract agencies (often which is all essentially the same company) so that if they do something terrible like, I don't know, kill someone they can always say "oh that wasn't me" and dissolve that company then come back under another name (3) productivity measures which not only push workers to their breaking point but disincentivize communication and in depth work on a case which is actually pretty important for patient care and (4) EMRs (electronic medial record software) which is why medical staff never look at you anymore and may or may not be shady but is 100% broken
@@jeffreycarman2185 yea it really sucks to hear stuff like this. You guys works so damn hard at such an important job and get treated like such shit.
Wage theft has been made a jailable crime in some states of Australia. It should be even harsher and made the same everywhere. Fines don't cut it, put executives in jail.
Honestly I think we should take an example from the French revolution and the American labor wars if the upper class wants to steal to get richer then god then they should be risking their lives.
No, no, no. Wage theft is a rich people crime.
Jail is for the poors.
Yep just like when companies lie about the pay you will receive as well. Many do that, promising that if you take peasant wages they'll start to "reward" you will higher pay.
@@paulsmart4672only in the USA
Rich people can't commit crimes
Companies: It's cheaper to violate the law, even if you get caught!
Regular People: (Shoplift basic necessities)
Companies: No, not like that.
See when it's a rich person it's "needless regulation". When it's a poor person, it's "private property and the law"
Yeah it's cheaper for a corporation to skirt the laws, but it costs "shoplifters" who steal diapers their livelihoods 🥴
Oh, and the best part. Corporation skate the tax laws, so the people also have to pay for incarceration and all economic costs to society when you ruin people's lives, and create even more abject poverty.
Problem is that if you steal from the corpos they will lose any and all incentive to sell you a product as you will just steal it.
@@Svenne-man-1880, You're kinda dumb!!!
If they don't engage in the market, they make zero money...
A better argument, is that they will increase the price to reflect the losses, and pass the liability onto the consumers. Just as they pass all liabilities and losses onto the consumers. Because they only take responsibility for the profits. To which they take regardless of the health of the economy, and in spite of the economy.
In other terms, we the people make the product, fund its production, and profess the demand for its production. And then they double or triple the price and keep all the rewards... Who's stealing from who? Who's fucking who?
Imagine how fewer thefts there'd be if people earned a good wage.
❗️exactly
I think there would be a lot less crime in general. Most crime comes from lacking -either financially, emotionally, or (lack of) opportunity
And most crime TARGETS are chosen partly by how hated they are.
Society is getting to the point where it has nothing to loose.
@@BaldingClamydia Wait a minute... You're telling me that crime is a product of poverty? 🤔 What a truly incomprehensible and not extremely obvious to anyone who's ever lived in poverty take.
Imagine Walmart of all companies decrying theft from their stores and threatening to close locations while they make it policy to ask people to work overtime and then ask them to take "long lunches" so they don't have to pay overtime. What a world we live in, let me shed a tear for poor old Walmart.
They close the locations attempting to unionize, and blame it on theft.
They also replaced 90% of their cashiers with self check then were shocked shoplifting increased.
@@paperip1996If you keep careful track of everything and remember to scan all your items at shelf checkout that is moral weakness.
I was a victim of wage theft at my first job. Not just being underpaid, but my manager just straight up stealing money from my paycheck. I worked at a restaurant as a cook. When I clocked in, she'd go into the system and edit it to change me from cook ($7.50/hour) to server ($2.50/hour+tips), and at the end of my shift, she'd edit it again to say that I made $50+ in tips because she's legally required to pay if the employee doesn't reach minimum wage with tips. So she was taking $5 from every hour of my paycheck, and lying that I was making more tips every night than the actual servers did in most weeks. As you can imagine, this is very illegal. I found evidence of this when one of the shift leads who had access to the system let me check my system logs, and every single entry had been changed and stamped with "Edited by (manager's name)" He noticed that she'd been doing it to him too on days that he worked as a driver rather than lead, and helped all of us check our logs. She had been doing it to all of her employees, except for people who only worked as leads since she knew she couldn't get away with that. As you can imagine, this is very illegal. I printed this out and tried to contact anyone I could. She had removed the numbers for her higher ups because she knew we'd call about her shady bullshit so I wasn't able to call them. I tried showing her boss when he came in for an inspection not long after I checked my logs, but he refused to even speak to me, saying he was "too busy to listen to some kid rant about this, that, and the other." I tried to contact the closest BBB office, but was never able to get through to anyone. A couple weeks later, I gave up on trying to report it and handed in my 2 weeks notice in writing after getting another job lined up. As soon as the manager saw it, she fired me and sent me home, which is also illegal because you can't fire someone for putting in their notice, but at that point, I didn't care. I just left and that was it. I really wish I had fought harder for her to face legal repercussions, since it wasn't just me that she did it to, but I was only 17 at the time and didn't know what else to do.
Stolen wages should be paid back double, and out of the pockets of the people running the company
I got one better. Not paid by those who run the company, but by their shareholders.
Those running the companies and allowing for wage theft should see prison time.
@@stevenwilliams9413 good idea
@@stevenwilliams9413 Go even further. Stolen wages get paid back double out of the shareholders' pockets, and the shareholders get fined a percentage of the profits the company made over the course of how long the wage theft was happening. That'll make them think twice about trying that shit again.
@@josh-oowould said stolen wages be reimbursed by the ownership of shares? Or are you saying wage theft in a company should be paid for by selling shares of your publicly traded company?
@@kyle9401 No, don't give workers a risky investment, thats more like a punishment. I think the shareholder's personal wealth should be taken away from them. Like, the money in their savings accounts. If it's all in the form of investments, then they can be tasked to figure out how to pay their new enormous debt.
That's the schadenfraude part of me. In reality honestly capitalism should be ended and we shouldn't have shareholdings and a privately owned for-profit economy at all. But until that happens, yeah, every corporate crime, rip it out of the personal wealth and savings of the shareholders and owners of the company, and make them indebted to the people they systematically hurt. After a bit of this im sure they'll be screaming for the end of capitalism themselves.
I work for a nonprofit and I advocate that we should be telling the community about wage theft and teaching how to start unions. It's why people are poor why shouldn't we try to fix it.
It's harder to start a union than you think. For example, my coworkers and I tried joining UFCW 1776 1 year ago at a cannabis dispensary, they told us it would take a year to get the ball rolling and set up the contract.
@@Fahizzo : _"It's harder to start a union than you think."_
Better than giving up and having no union ever.
"Non profit"
yes, an organization run on empathy for others@@DD-zh4by
Lol... unions!? F off! We're sick of you communists
Remember: If you ever catch someone stealing food, no you didn't.
@HisVirusness: Valjean did nothing wrong.
@@sdfkjgh There are, of course, multiple Javerts in the comments already.
Depends on the severity. A few eggs and an onion. Whatever.
A couple pounds of ground chuck. Fine. Get your Helper on.
Stuffing steaks in your pants....probably gonna say something to you personally. Your reaction determines my response.
Robbing a meat truck. Yup. I'm saying somethin.
@@IndependantMind168: See, me? I'd be all like "Please don't stuff steaks into your pants, it's unsanitary. I've got some ziplocks and a cooler right here for you to use."
As for the meat truck, it all depends on the circumstances. If the pilfered meat is going to feed masses of people, then hand me a balaclava, 'cause daddy's feelin' spicy! I've got a getaway van with no plates all gassed up and idling in the next alley over, let's gooooo!
Fn little boys 🙄
That whole "construction company hires another company" reminds me of that story where a guy hired an assassin, who instead of doing the job offered half his payment as reward for another assassin to do his job for him, who did the same. This chain continued until the final hired killer decided the reward wasn't worth it and instead tipped off the future victim.
NGL, I thought about doing online administrative work, hiring a group of college students to do the work part-time and accepting only a fraction of my base salary because it's basically free money.
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview There's an onion news about workers outsourcing their job to another country, and wouldn't it be a much nicer countries if the workers profited from outsourcing instead of the stakeholders?
Hey guys, this is [Your US Employer]. As you may have heard, we experienced some heavy losses in revenue this past year. And by 'losses' we of course mean 'enormous gains,' but not *quite* as enormous as we were hoping for. There are many possible explanations for these losses (by which, again, we mean not-enormous-enough gains), but we think the biggest factor is probably selfish nasty poor people stealing our shit!
In any case, we're going to have to lay off several hundred of you. We hope that doesn't affect your Christmas plans. Check back with us in a few weeks because we'll be hiring some 'freelancers' to fill your permanent full-time positions (sans all those complicated benefits packages). After all, it's not like we're living in some kind of dystopia.
Yaaaa only like the top 15 companies in the country made gains and it was primarily due to the aftermath of COVID. Good try though
In other words: Upward Trend = remove financial obligations from workers by firing them so that investors only see profits.
We love it. It's a great world we've constructed to abuse each other in and play little games in such as "investing" and obtaining cotton paper with assigned value because...?
@RoboBoddicker: _Magic: the Gathering_ recently had its own tale of woe. hasbro (Wizards of the Coast's parent co.; WotC is the co. that makes _Magic_ and _D&D,_ if you didn't know) hired chris cocks (yes, that is his name; yes, it is spelled that way) a few years ago from microsoft, where he was mostly known as a bad idea factory. hasbro put him in as ceo of WotC. Almost immediately, cocks pushed for hasbro to buy eOne Entertainment for $4 billion. The deal went through, and hasbro owned both Death Row Records and Peppa Pig, if you can believe it.
That lasted about a month. For some reason (prolly also at cocks' urging), hasbro sold off eOne for, get this, $500 million. cocks cost hasbro $3.5 billion, but it gets so, so much worse. Last month, hasbro laid off 1100 people, and announced that they'd be informing these former employees (who had nothing to do with causeing the co. a $3.5 billion loss) of their firing over Christmas and New Years. And here's the cherry on this shit sundae: cocks took home $10 million in bonuses and salary! What a fucking dick!
Damn that is just all to real
T-mobile did this in 2023. They had more net profit from the year before but laid off thousands.
When I was training to be a GM at a large pizza company (Domino’s) one of “the best cost cutters in the company” came in to teach us how to keep to budget, and I had to sit and watch her cut $200 worth of hours from my own time logs that she deemed “unnecessary”, and then found out that she’d been tweaking the inventory numbers at her own store for years to make it look like her food cost was so low. Two weeks later I left when she tried to make me to sign a statement saying my AM “abandoned his shift” when I had literally watched her scream at him to leave and not come back, so that he wouldn’t be able to claim unemployment.
Your integrity is a liability, sir!
Companies pay unemployment (insurance) taxes. If they didn't, imagine how often they would terminate employees and leave only taxpayers (1/5 of the Fortune 500 pay no Federal Tax) to cover the cost
Im starting to believe every head manager is an incurable sociopath
@@bravocharlie639 it's almost like all the goons that get elected are shameless goons. The 1% and big business don't have to feel any obligation to pay federal taxes but any average household could potentially face a few years in prison if they get charged and convicted of federal tax evasion. (Opposed to just being directed to pay it back; no, people have literally gone to prison over this; it's another excuse to throw people into a cage; something that are courts and DA's love nothing better than)
Now, I hate the federal government, well about 95% of it, and I disagree that they have the right to assess federal taxes, however if they're going to insist on doing so then EVERYONE should have to pay their fair mothrfugging share.
@@bravocharlie639 it's almost like all the goons that get elected are shameless goons. The 1% and big business don't have to feel any obligation to pay federal taxes but any average household could potentially face a few years in prison if they get charged and convicted of federal tax evasion. (Opposed to just being directed to pay it; no, people have literally gone to prison over this; it's another excuse to throw people into a cage; something that are courts and DA's love nothing better than, because we live under rage-filled hate-filled psychotics at every level- psychopathy reigns here)
Now, I hate about 95% of the federal apparatus and I disagree that they have the right to assess federal tax, however if they're going to insist on doing so then EVERYONE should have to pay their fair mothrfugging share, not just the poors and averages.
The people that actually do zero work call us lazy
Like content creators?
@achinthmurali5207 just watch the damn video…
@@achinthmurali5207like a large majority of milllionares/billionares who are where they are either through sheer luck or because their daddy owned an emerald mine or something like that (not all, just most fall into those two categories)
I used to work in retail. Shoplifting didn't happen very often, and when it did it was almost always a small item torn out of its packaging with the packaging left on the shelf.
Wage theft, on the other hand? They tried that shit on me CONSTANTLY.
“You can’t steal, that’s our job” -every company ever allegedly
I love how cucked we've all become with this "allegedly" shit. No. Walmart steals from it's employees. It is plain as day. There. I said it. I will be alive tomorrow and free.
Stop justifying unemployed behaviour, it's so pathetic.
@@kylemccormack1785what is “unemployed behavior”?
@@AdmiralDro If you have to ask, there might be something wrong with your brain. But I'll humour you. Unemployed behaviour includes, you know, being voluntarily unemployed, being broke and therefore conducting petty theft to feed yourself as I JUST witnessed yesterday as a crackhead animal barged behind the counter and stole food at a fast food restaurant. Thankfully I was able to ensure that this parasite was arrested. It also includes general trash behaviour common among the unemployed; arrogance, lashing out at random people around you, more theft and of more valuable property, and so on. I leave habitual drug use out as a separate, parallel issue.
I've been homeless. The solution is to get a job. Period.
Well, @@AdmiralDro, either UA-cam or this channel is deleting my comments, typical leftist cowardice, can't allow free speech because it's super duper scary.
So I will make a long story short. You already know what unemployed behaviour is, and I have ZERO interest in tolerating it for a single second. Get a job. That's the answer. Get. A. Job.
It would be nice if corporations were interested in an honest day's pay for an honest day's work instead of finding loopholes and workarounds to slave labor.
warmbooooooooooooooooo
The same reason Budweiser does not really want you to "Drink Responsibly". They'd go out of business. 🤷🏻♂️
They'd have to operate under a system that wasn't capitalism in order to do that...
@@Enormymous The translate option just removed some of the O’s.
@@terpsidance. No... it would just be regulated capitalism. Like we had from the late 1930s up until the 1980s.
We had a lot of civil issues, but at least we were taxing those who could more than afford it in order to subsidize the livelihoods of those who couldn't through things like cheap education and housing.
But had to remove the red tape that ensures employees can thrive in order to put up considerably more red tape that prevents needed materials, equipment, and supplies being sent in a timely manner to your business branches.
I’ve absolutely had my wages stolen and, when I became a manager, often got into it with my boss over that. There was a lot of emotional manipulation that went on to keep people working for free, cutting breaks short, and misreporting their hours so they wouldn’t get overtime pay they had absolutely earned. If you can’t run a business ethically, then you don’t deserve to have a business.
Sounds like Dollar General/ Family Dollar.
It does, right? In my case, most of this happened at an indie bookstore. It has new owners now and I hope they treat their people much better
It does, right? In my case, most of this happened at an indie bookstore. It has new owners now and I hope they treat their people much better
You go to jail if you take $100 from your boss's cash register, *but your boss doesn't go to jail if he takes $100 from your paycheck...*
The US wage gap between the average worker to CEO should be A felony.
Ive long advocated that executives and administrators should not be allowed to be paid more than a certain amount over the salary of their worst-paid employee.
France used to have a cap of 200%, though it's dubious to assert it was well enforced.
I bet the average number of CEOs that embezzle from their own companies and hide wages from the IRS is far higher than the average person stealing.
@@BiosTheo Heck, I'd take dubiously enforced over no rules to enforce in the first place
Go start your own business instead of complaining while you take advantage of someone else taking risk.
Also remembering that awful tweet from the NYPD of shoplifting confiscations, and it was all like,,,, baby formula, diapers, wet wipes, OTC medication....
Imagine how much less shoplifting there would be if we actually paid people a living wage (and didnt steal their already meager wages 💀💀💀)
And the worst part is that like. Recovered shoplifted products aren't just going to be handed directly over to the store immediately after recovery, y'know? These things get catalogued and handled by multiple people, and the store or police may decide they're ''''not suitable for sale'''' which, of course, doesn't mean anything about whether or not the products are usable.
or made all of that shit free
Had an employer steal our tips for year, fired a shift-lead for calling them out. Took me a year of emailing back and forth with the labor/employment office to prove something that was visible by casually looking at the numbers. It's hard to resolve wage theft on purpose. They don't want you to do anything about it at all
The gig thing sucks because it starts of feeling like you're your own boss but quickly turns into what is essentially a gambling addiction that doesn't pay out
Katie's contempt for that first ad read was a lot even for this show 😂
I appreciate it. Those fucking keeps commercials are the only thing that ever even concerned me cuz now im being irresponsible if i do let myself age. My doc says my hair is fine. Ads really just wanna make you insecure. So i adblock and pirate
God I love SMN's open contempt for their advertisers, and yet those marketing simps keep coming back for sweet, delicious air time
Truly impressive how good Cody has gotten at chugging the stuff and (barely) hiding his disgust
To this day I cannot tell if it's a bit that he does/doesn't like drinking the stuff, despite drinking it Every Single Time
paraphrasing, “According to AG1, it’s great!” I’m so curious as to what was in the copy, like do they just let Cody say whatever he wants?
“And speaking of worthless stuff, let’s do another ad!” 😂
The irony is I got AG1 from their ads on this show 😂
My main take away from this being I shouldn't feel bad if I accidentally walk out without paying for something. Good to know!
"Accidentally"
Wage theft is reinforced outside the workplace. If you go home and tell your parents that you're being pressured to work off the clock, not take breaks, ect, you'd usually get in trouble for complaining. "It's called being a team player/good worker, goddamnit! You just want to be paid for being lazy! How else are you supposed to make it in the REAL WORLD!?!?"
Not to mention your other co-workers and friends can also drink the kool-aid.
Then you have extended family, someone of them can literally be business owners that do that but you're a commie if you think it makes them a shitty businessman/woman.
Not in my house, maybe in the old days, but not anymore. I tell my son to work hard, but not harder than anyone else, and do not work so hard to hurt yourself. As soon as you do the employer is done with you and will find a "different reason" to get rid of you. Take care of yourself first.
Yeah, a lot of people have been brainwashed with that "team player" bullshit when it's really just being taken advantage of.
To which point, we say "FUCK OFF, BOOMER! You haven't had a fucking job since the 70s, so how the hell would you know?!"
I've noticed that with a lot of friends as they've got into the corporate workforce. Weird watching them turn into their parents.
I'm from Massachusetts and am in university here. Im currently fighting my school to not be required to pay $3,000 to do an unpaid internship that they call a "class".
Working for no pay is normalized to the point that it is a graduation requirement. Its so gross.
Bruh. 😅 Sorry tho.
You were the one dumb enough to agree to college... pay.
@@HavocHerseim listen buddy when you make it past the third grade you'll understand
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 Report his glazing ass for spam.
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the gig worker thing really pissed me off. companies really said "yeeaaah they're our employees but they're not like *employee* employees, ya know?"
Go start your own business
@@HavocHerseimget the boot out of your mouth and read the room
Love how those saying "get a job" won't disclose what THEY do for a living. I bet you an aint shit ass
@@HavocHerseim ah, the coward's reply. you don't know shit about me or my business. but it's easier to hide behind rhetoric than be educated enough to have a real argument so i get it.
But we don't want to be employees. We want to be able to work whenever we want to work. Me being a doordash driver has allowed me to take care of my dad while he has been going through cancer because I do not have to answer to anybody and I'm still making my money. We do not want to be considered employees. I can work from my parents house even though there are 100 mi away from where I normally work.
A part of wage theft that wasn't really touched on was having to do work off the clock. I bet every single hourly employee in the nation have experienced doing something while not getting paid literally every single day they work. Every time your boss asks you a question while you're on lunch, those text messages you get from your employer, the questions retail customers ask you while off the clock but you help them anyway out of fear of losing your job. So many instances every day that take money out of workers pockets and it's not even measurable.
Two of the companies I previously worked for had to give me a payout in unpaid wages and I didn't even need to do anything because of the class action lawsuit. They stole far more from me than any petty criminal.
Most of shrink isn't theft. Its damages, mishandling, expiration. Theft is less than 20% of shrink calculations.
used to work in retail, and the amount of stuff we threw out because it was scuffed or very lightly damaged (little dents in candles and thelike) truly radicalized me.
That’s on top of the fact that clothing companies will rip up their clothes that they don’t manage to sell because they don’t want homeless people or whoever coming to get them out of the garbag…
I worked in a grocery store years ago, and we trashed buggy fulls of produce, meat and deli/bakery items daily. I mean we had to put locks on the dumpsters to prevent people from going through them.
Things like hasbros dumbass doing windowless packaging. Wallmart had to tape em up and sell em as two packs at exreme discount. Like naw, someone on yall bidness end done fucked that up. Dont blame retail
Did retail management for 8 years. I was beyond sick to see the amount of perfectly fine things we had to pour bleach on before throwing in the dumpster because *checks notes* profit? In grocery stores it's even worse to see the amount of food that gets the same treatment.
The sticker price of every item on the shelf already has the price of theft worked in. Every stolen item is already paid for. Wage theft more than pays for shoplifting. Way more.
So because people steal, I have to pay extra, therefore it's ok if people steal?
Wow, some really sound logic you got there.
@@phantorang where does the comment say it's ok for people to steal?
@@phantorang No. items are already marked up significantly because greedy companies have to make ridiculous profit. so they will use any excuse including petty, meaningless, they didnt even feel the effects, theft to raise prices. Even in a world with 0% crime they would have higher prices than base cost because they would be paranoid and greedy about people who MIGHT steal. Hence with the cost of stealing is already baked into the cost of the product and stealing some things actually just gives you the proper value of your money.
@@phantorangare you impaired?
@@phantorang You ignore the fact that shoplifting is still a minuscule percentage of what accounts for the markup. More goods are lost through expiration and employee errors.
I used to work at a pizza place as a driver and quit that job after about 6 months. But about 6 months later I get a letter in the mail that says that they didn't pay me and a load of other drivers in the area what they earned. Turns out they weren't paying enough for mileage that was measured at the end of each shift and I ended up getting a little check in the mail. It's crazy how often this kind of stuff happens, thanks to whoever decided to go after them for that, that kind of consequence (or harsher probably) should be the norm and not an exception.
I had the same thing happen to me when I worked at an outsourced call center doing Verizon tech support. They weren't paying people overtime and I didn't even realize I'd had slight bits here and there of working over 40 hours. Was a nice little bit of free cash
The home depot guy also owns a bar in my town, and i work for a company that services their slot machines. Dude is so delusional and detatched from the real world that one time he screamed at my boss bc we didnt reserve a parking spot for his rolls royce in our parking lot. Hes also the type of guy who buys into an already successful company and demands that people refer to him as a founder. The only thing bigger than the guys bank account is his ego
Finally somebody said it. I've been saying this for years. Jobs have no problem stealing from you and will do it any chance they get.
It's Austerity in a vacuum that sucks us all in. We can't stop being the butt end of a joke just by acknowledging it's a joke. .. It's a good start though.
@@promethiac2641 Most of the American working class won't even acknowledge it. They would rather repeat pundit talking points and blame the poor and minorities. It's hopeless for yall.
@@dangerousdays2052 That is Austerity, rhetoric popularized by Reagan to my knowledge. Like the bootstrap fallacy.
@@dangerousdays2052No it isn't, you literally just decrived austerity. Unionizing is the only way forward, throwing your hands up and declaring it is pointless to try is what the Capitalist owners want!
and some how make you feel like your not working hard enough for your dwindling piece...
My best friend who is a school teacher recently took up a second job at a restaurant we've been supporting since they've opened. We've collectively probably put some of his employees through college with how much we go there. The owner who we thought was a friend, you know, since we've sent him qualified applicants during his time of need during covid, helped with overnight 2am deep cleans, had Christmas, Thanksgiving, and birthday dinners with, had no problem stealing my best friends tips since day one.
How'd we find out? Well, you probably shouldn't hire a math teacher with a masters in PURE MATH as the person to count drawers and tips every night if you're going to steal from them. You give them pay stubs! How dumb can you be!?
I thought that you were going somewhere else with that so I'm going to hold my reply for a moment so that people can let your comment sink in.
...okay, walked in to a chain video rental, the employee was ALSO a full-time teacher. When I was a kid (before Reagan was President) Teachers would often say that the job didn't pay well but I knew a few with houses and no second job. (One was single, one had her mother living with her, (who perhaps helped), another 2 were teachers married to each other). I know for a fact that the first 2 I mentioned had no second job and also were not trust fund babies
Inflation is persistent in capitalism (necessary in fact because capitalism is a Ponzi Scheme). $100 for a used car and $30,000 for a house is so 1970.
When Reagan cut taxes, that came from somewhere. The federal government used to collect Tarrifs that protected American Jobs, used to Tax major corporations (many are now; NOT taxed by the Federal Government) and that Tax revenue was distributed to the 50 States. Like I said, inflation is a fact of life so while costs have gone up, revenue from corporations has dropped (as a percentage).
Not only do workers make lower wages when adjusted for inflation but they pay more in taxes to cover what used to be paid by those who can afford it, now more than ever.
@@bravocharlie639 @bravocharlie639 30k for a house. Jfc... If there weren't anyone alive to remember such a time I'd doubt anyone would believe you. Anyway, you're so right on all accounts that there should be a new word in the English language that encapsulates the anguish of knowing you'll never obtain such a basic need.
Capitalism is a ponzie scheme and the three prongs of inflation, wage stagnation, and over taxation of the working class is economic immolation. We're going zero to tombstone people. Might as well invest in some high quality bricks and strings. Maybe take a stroll around wallstreet every once and a while. You know, to get your steps in.
@@bravocharlie639 I'm old enough to remember when a job didn't have to pay spectacularly well (compared to other jobs) to be able to afford to (eventually) buy a house without having multiple jobs. Not during my adult life, though (at least not in a city).
19:20 I love how the lead in of 'speaking of useless things, heres more ads' is then followed by one of the most genuine ad readings ive heard on this channel
Genuine? She was very openly contemptuous about it lol
@@starcrysis23yeah, she’s being honest about her hatred in a way the sponsors allow
Anti-retail theft measures got SO many people killed in the past due to how they made it impossible to get out in fires. Some theaters used to lock certain sections to keep out people sneaking in: a bunch of people died because they were stuck. There was a Woolworth fire in the 70s where a ton of barriers were welded in place to stop people breaking in, and emergency exits were locked. And people died.
I worked for Sam's Club once (yes, people asked if it was MY club on a daily basis), and this happened all the time. I was a naive teenager at the time, so I had no idea what was going on. The thought that a major corporation would steal from a worker's paycheck didn't compute, and management certainly never came out and said it. They just gave us mutually exclusive expectations, like needing to take breaks and lunches to avoid overtime, but never being able to actually close your station because there was never enough staff on hand for people to cover each other's breaks. I was let go after just a few months, because it turns out that you can only ask your manager for clarification of an illegal policy so many times before it becomes easier to replace you with a nearly indistinguishable naive teenager. Only years later did it hit me that he was trying to gently nudge me toward willingly donating one free hour of labor every day for the glory of the Walton family.
Why isn't part of the punishment that they have to actually then PAY the wages that were STOLEN? Normally when you prove something is stolen, it's given back to the person it was stolen from. The fine+paying the owed wages would of course then be higher than not paying the wages. Of course that relies on them getting found out but still.
I wonder what the actual shoplifting and organized crime "losses" are after insurance claims are paid and tax write-offs are taken. Hmmm?
Also, I would bet the numbers reported are on the marked-up prices rather than the costs to the business. The business pays $5.00 a shirt and sells it for $20.00, but on sale, it's $15.00! The store likely reports it as a $20.00 loss.
That's actually 100% how it works because any successful chain can pay for accountants of whom know tax law and how to circumvent it.
@@theannoyedfiremage8721 *who. Only use "whom" when "him" fits.
I wouldn't be surprised spell check is used to filter resumes, so it's double on-topic.
I was a bike messenger for about 20 years. An "independent contractor". The abuses in that industry were incredible. No paid holidays, no paid sick days, unpaid statutory holidays, and all sorts of ways to take money out of our pockets for various "work offenses" and other specious reasons. And that's just scratching the surface.
So you had a shitty job for twenty years and sucked at it? Okay.
I worked at Lowes overnight for a year. 2-15 minutes breaks. 1-1 hour break. Was never allowed to even walk outside to get fresh air. When I finally had enough and quit in the middle of a shift. They were refusing to even unlock the door to let me out then. I gave them two choices. 1- Call the police and tell them I was being held against my will (what's that called again?...kidnapping?). 2- Grab a sledgehammer and make my own exit.
Retail companies next to F&B are very much the scummiest employers you can work with. There plethora of retail companies that don't even allow their employees to go outside for lunch but rather provide it for them and expect them to consume their lunch in the staff break room. It's a incredibly common tactic to get their employee to have shorter breaks and get back to work to "maximize productivity" not to mention it's an easy way for employer to easily monitor you.
Were smokers allowed outside to assuage their legal addiction?
@@vipermad358 mostly you smoke on the back loading dock
Well... what did you pick?!
Please give us the end of the story. We need to know
Rob a liquor store for 400$ you're going to prison for life, steal 400 billion dollars as a corporation and theyll probably let you name a football stadium after yourself.
Fun fact: I worked as a collections agent for 1yr before moving to logistics.
Not a single stadium pays utilities. None. No water. No electricity. They get charged for it, they just don't pay them. And it's illegal for you to contact them about it.
Same thing with "concast" and "rhymes with horizon"
@@rudeboyjohn3483how is it illegal to contact them? You mean like for the utility companies?
Where in the world do you get a life sentence for stealing $400? You'd probably get 4 years, maybe more if you were armed. Why do people make shit up to make points?
@@Darm0k probably because we do see cases of people getting ridiculous sentences for minor shit, and people commiting far greater financial crimes get slapped 9n the wrist because they were already fucking rich.
I guess I'm going to have to be the one to say it. Congrats to Cody and the team on making it an entire episode without a c*m joke! 🏅 I can finally share an episode with the more straight laced in my family. I'd tell you how excited I got over this, but it would ruin everything.
I love the way you cover adverts - the outstanding argument against needing the very product you then schill, almost as if you resent having to take money from these soulless planet killers but are pragmatic enough to understand you need money to keep espousing your viewpoint. I would personally love to see all online content creators taking this stance as I think it is fair enough to accept sponsorships if you then give an honest view of the value of said product before giving it the old "hard" sell. You know, fair and balanced ;-) and the very least that should happen to reign in the current corpo nightmare we exist in. And as a friendly aside, as a family we have ceased all non-necessity purchases and then research who to give the excess money to each month and all of us have never been happier, closer or more fulfilled. Stuff you don't need folks is called "rubbish".
Crime is a social construct. Compare what happens to an employee that swipes $100 from the till vs. an employer stealing $100 from a worker's paycheck.
There was a man in Louisiana who received a sentence of LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE for stealing a tool from an engineer which was worth, at most, $10. Meanwhile, mega-corporations get away with wage theft and not paying a dime in taxes. There is something so deeply broken and violent about the way we handle crime in America. Too bad it's working exactly as intended.
conflating crime with immorality and allowing employers and cops to legally steal from people (civil forfeiture), and even colonization and its ‘might makes right’ mindset is a perfect example of why conservatives don’t actually care about stealing as a concept, if they can steal lawfully they will do it.
Stealing from the paycheck is actually worse, as you're removing value that would otherwise have gone back in to feeding the market. It does from the business as well, but less directly as the business will invest it in a variety of ways whereas the worker will spend all of it directly with other businesses.
two crimes :)
That's why the rich are onboard with jail reform!
They're so transparent! 😂
I used to work at a Claire’s and whenever people say they steal from there I say, “Go for it, you’ll never steal as much from them as they stole from me.”
As someone who worked in retail for over a decade, "shrink" also includes broken and expired products. A very small portion of shrink is from theft in most cases 😑
This video is timely for me. I'm literally discussing my case to get my pay from an ex employer this afternoon. There are many business owners who just can't comprehend that the moment you take on an employee, you take on a responsibility to pay them.
My son just had the same issue. They laid him off and then found out the intentionally mis classified him and he was ineligible for unemployment.
He's still eligible. He just has to fight and THEY haveto prove the classification was correct.
Rent rates in my local area went up by 46% in one month across the board. Every complex, every company, the entire city. Every single one of them back in October of 2023 raised rent by 46% this doubling rent costs. That in turn caused 300,000 people to lose their home and become homeless; that number of homeless has been rising since. The excuse why they didn't stop the companies that own the rental properties from doing this? Well that's free market capitalism baby.
Mom n pop landlords too cuz they are all using the same kelly blue book calculator or whatever the fuck
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404Bullshit.
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404From the rumors I've heard, now that many of these "Investment firms", hedge funds, and the like are getting heavy in real estate, a mom and pop or someone looking to own just doesn't have the savings to walk in and pay 20% over asking in cash for multiple properties...but those firms and funds can, so they end up jacking up the prices or converting entire areas into rental complexes, and when they get scared and flee the market, it will crash and screw even more regular people and mom & pops...how quickly we forget what happened in 2008...they jammed everyone up on interest rates, everyone defaulted, and they got bailed out while we lost everything...now they are skipping the mortgage/ownership part, and will just make us eternal renters...(Wouldn't it be nice if you could just shift all your liabilities to your friends Fannie & Freddie)
@banquetoftheleviathan1404 I swear, I don't think this is the plan. I literally am led to believe they are just this stupid to keep believing in trickle down economics. Or that if they deregulate enough it will just somehow magically fix everything. Sadly, they're not going to stop into we're all homeless because no one can afford to live anymore. Even still, they'll blame it on the left, democrats included, and think they just need to keep deregulating. Meanwhile making everything they don't like that individuals do criminal whether they're actual crimes or not. At what point do we need to get for them to realize socialism, even if just applied to basic needs, it's just a rational and logical thing to do?! Ulgh aaaaahhhhh!
Viper must be one of those pos landlords
1:49 "Some richer, more terrible version of me." showing Matt Walsh had me snorting audibly, thank you for your lighthearted presentation of horrible problems as always.
Everyone, please do your part by stealing from your local retail chain. This has been a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood Bug Man.
Imagine working hard and for so many hours and the very people telling you to do so cheat you out of the work and time so they can save money. Its almost like its not the workers fault.
I've worked in food service since the 1990s I've never once been honestly compensated.
I live in Arkansas, a state that just recently made it legal for children to work in slaughterhouses during overnight shifts using dangerous machinery, and it's just common knowledge that workers have no rights here. I've worked places that had tons of open OSHA and labor board violations, and nothing ever happened with any of them. My husband routinely is scheduled 14 hour shifts at a restaurant and is regularly denied a break, usually having to go that entire time without eating unless he sneaks a bite of a mess up. I'm a salaried GM of a restaurant and am currently working 55+ hours a week. My hourly pay comes out to less than $9/hr. And our jobs are two of the better paying options in our town. And I spent 10 years driving an hour into the capitol city everyday for a "respectable" job and was making $10/hr. I couldn't afford childcare for my kids, and we constantly struggled to stay afloat. The owner of the restaurant I currently work for expects me to spend 24/7 doing stuff for the store. I only get one day off a week, if I'm lucky. And I'm supposed to spend that walking around in my uniform, marketing to people. If you include all the invasions of privacy and lack of boundaries he has, my pay is probably close to $5/hr. I can't wait to get out of this state. Hell I was fired from one job for filing a workers comp claim that I was forced to file, for 3rd degree burns to my hand (I still have scars), and when I talked to lawyers here about it, I was told no one would take the case bc it's pointless in this state.
Move to Kansas city
Get the hell out of Arkansas
Excellent piece on the American Wage Theft Crisis. As a class action wage theft lawyer, I spend a lot of time trying to educate people on this issue and employer's dirty tricks when it comes to wage theft. This forum can really spread the word about this consistent problem.
I used to drive for Lyft. Over the years they’ve drastically changed the pay and fare rates. It used to be a percentage of what the passenger paid, then they kept cutting away at it, increasing “fees” for using the app, nowadays it’s a flat rate that varies state to state, and a majority of the time they’ll have surge pricing for the passengers but pay drivers the same low flat rate. They’re quite literally price gouging their contractors and stiffing their pay while also still somehow hemorrhaging money like Uber
"Ride-sharing" apps are one of those weird (but depressingly common) tech-driven markets where _everyone_ loses money by participating.
@@M_M_ODonnell. Like every Ponzi scheme, those who dream up the original scam make out like gangbusters. The next few punters who get in on the ground floor, make a decent amount. After that, as people start to smell a quick profit, the real grifters get involved, hire parasitic managers who recruit the rank and file. Either through, ignorance, innocence or greed, they believe the lies of getting rich quick while having others do the hard work.
By the time the bubble bursts, and the legal problems start, the money has 'disappeared', the original scammers are gone, and many people have lost their jobs, livelihoods and money.
It's no coincidence that Trump appointed Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. The whole plan was to turn public education into a cash-cow...and as a side benefit, turn out millions of low-income slave workers, just bright enough to function, but unable to realize they were being conned out of their rightful wages.
Amway, DeVos's family business, used the MLM, or pyramid selling as way of having thousands of unpaid sales staff, with no obligation as they weren't employees. Just an old-fashioned form of gig economy.
Which is crazy. All the company is providing is the tech. Now, while the backend stuff can get expensive (upkeep) youd think with ride/gig aps being prevalent in all US states would show a little bopping above sea level, but nope.
Just greedy shareholders and the house slaves that need to feed them leading to all the resources drying up
I remember when I was younger and working for a hand carwash. There was a tip box and the manager had the key. Every day he would give us enough money to buy a soft-drink from the garage vending machine and pocket the rest. I still hate that guy and the owner of the garage.
I got involved in a wage theft lawsuit with a company I used to work for 2 years after I had stopped working for them. And it was ridiculous how blatant they were stealing money. Which was basically paying us .50 to a 1.00 less than what our actual hourly pay was.
I cannot tell you how it makes my heart sing to see Cody post a video titled this on the same day I FINALLY commented on Nextdoor just to shut down an insane woman who was quoting (AND I DO IN FACT QUOTE) “some lady at cvs said it’s all the thieves” as to why the shelves were empty in a rite aid.
That post had 200 comments, 90 % negative and about four in all caps.
Something had to be said.
When I was a maid my employer paid minimum wage but travel time between houses/businesses was "off the clock" so we didnt get lunches or breaks and even though on the busiest days I was working from 8 to 6 I'd only be paid for 6 hours.
Finally, real news based in reality. The poor could literally never fathom how much wealth has been siphoned from them directly into the rich’s pockets.
I mean if you notice most of the stories he got about workers fighting wage theft came from more local stations. That's why local news is so important. If everything comes from the same place, the national place isn't going to care about your local pizza place ripping off its workers. We need a better model for supporting local papers and stations in being independent
As somebody who has worked for many years in retail environments and spent the worst working years my life working like an animal for peanuts and stolen over time at Home Depot, I'd like to thank you for making this video.
Katie throwing Nutrifol under the bus where it belongs was some badass ad-work.
I really don't understand how some people in the US don't feel angry about the dystopian nature of employment there. The stories I hear from my family in the US just makes me despair for workers. It's mind-boggling just how insane everything is there. Solidarity with every worker who's getting screwed by their employer in the US.
They've been indoctrinated to be terrified of losing businesses and to perceive themselves as benefitting when our rich get even richer
It’s all we know, man. It’s like if you come from a dysfunctional family and your first relationship is abusive, you’d probably stay because you’d be like, “I guess this how relationships are.”
It’s probably why white collar workers that job hop continue to job hop their whole careers. If they happen to job hop into a job that’s worse, they’ll be out the door faster.
It's not just employment, our education and healthcare systems are beyond fucked-up too.
Fantastic.
We need an entire episode on the literal conspiracy about how companies lied about shoplifting to push policing rules.
Windowless packaging
Policing has become such an issue since 9-11 remember the good ole days days when say security was only in banks, I don’t know, some shit that actually needed protecting NOW security guards are in malls, daycares, government and even at the damn police department. Since 9-11 everyone has SECURITY in their budget
I'm pretty sure they already made a video about that a few months ago
I work for a state agency and we look into wage theft. I've seen some wild cases cross my desk.
Wage theft is standard practice for almost every company. Some industries it’s so common that people have to give the employees extra money after they get their bill.
More Worker Unions and Worker Co-ops!!! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
A violent punitive criminal justice system in which restorative justice is focussed on for crimes predominantly commited by poor people while collective punishment is employed for crimes commited by wealthy people. Do you think if Elon Musk would face the threat having his hand cut off in public and being forced to wear his on his neck, he would be as inclined to not pay his employees?
"speaking of worthless stuff, let's do another ad.."
I love your showdy so much brody Cody.
Walmart's entire business model is built on closing stores. Undercut competition until you run them out of business, close store, make locals travel farther.
And that's how Sam Walton built an empire
also, invest in Amazon so you absolutely cannot lose even if WalMart fails
So it is entirely predicated on the freedom of consumers to choose the momentraily cheaper Walmart. That's where the greed is, W says to you "hey real quick let that small store die" adn you immediately pull the trigger the moment you get the opportunity to NOT support the small store anymore.
Guess what, same happens when medium stores WERE the "walmart", you WOULD have called the small stores "corporate". NOW you get the smokescreen of calling Walmart giant, that YOU grew ike a tamagochi to get so big.
BEG for communism to save you from your own stupidity, adn you'll get a modest proposal to never go hungry again.
The "wage theft" nobody wants to address is the lack of wage increases to battle arbitrary inflation. In the coming years, we'll see a few big brands exposed to insurance fraud. Nobody can convince me that the store owners didn't orchestrate those " thefts " to recoup their lost money on products nobody wants to buy.
"A richer, more terrible me" and Matt Walsh shows up on the screen. absolutely beautiful
The balls of first bursting out laughing when you catch yourself calling your sponsor _worthless stuff,_ then keeping and using the take anyway
10/10
They could have reshot. Would have only taken a minute with a title monkey card up in there somewhere.
But that's not what goddamned heroes do.
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's comedy
You could really feel the moment where Cody in his was like “ooh, I really thought we decided to cut that 😂”
Prop 22 is so heinous, and because of the absurdly high bar it would take meeting to get rid of it, it's likely to stick around forever. I remember getting into a weeks-long fight with a friend in California over it and they were adamant that it was better for contractors this way. They've sure been quiet about it ever since.
True story: I have lost two potential roommates in three weeks because their bosses didn't pay them and they had to delay their moves.
They could just fix the issue by paying fair wages, and not stealing from those already garbage wages. It is really sad.
Such a simple solution. Yet I'm sure it laughable to those that run these businesses
It's downright EVIL as far as I'm concerned. They have no issue starving little kids.
There are no fair wages in a capitalist business. Profits are stolen labour value.
why would they want to? the only goal of the market is to make more money than last quarter. no incentive to be fair
@Chloe-dv9ns yep, fully agree. It makes sense why the companies and those in power don't want to actually fix it. It's just sad how many people don't see that, and think the shoplifting is a problem with no solution and the companies are justified in their bull shit. So many believe the narrative pushed.
"But when I do it, it's cute!" - Capitalists
"Notice me, Sempai!" -brainwashed working class 'capitalists'
Hell yeah!!! Dudes, you're back!!
around 24:30 when we're talking about the contractor string which ultimately ended up in workers not getting paid:
We live in too civil of a society. We need to be grossly savage and punitive towards bosses who do that shit.
To quote Dead Prez (the only prez I’d vote for), “We ain't getting paid commission, minimum wage, modern day slave conditions
Got me flippin' burgers with no power
Can't even buy one off what I make in an hour”
Hell yeah, RGB
I tried to get wage theft fixed at my job, turns out new union guy was not qualified for his job and really went "but we signed the contract, so they are allowed to do it"
Company basically was paying a "bonus" on every hour we were doing our job so they could claim we actually make minimum wage only.
Why does this matter, for overtime, holiday pay, vaccination pay etc. They only had to pay based on minimum wage, not our actual hourly pay.
Thats how they thought they could get away with it. However at least where I live all that stuff is supposed to be payed based on "wage" "wage is all money expected to be received well performing regular job duties" (legal case for a mining company that tried nearly the same thing clarified this)
Union idiot went well that's true but we agreed when we signed the contract. (first off you can't sign away labour rights, second it wasn't actually in the contract it's how they are doing there calculation based improperly 🤦)
Worst part I had this clarified and understood by the person in his job prior, was just finishing gathering the rest of the evidence to show mangers were not incompetent but complicit, the he retired and unqualified moron took over.
No longer work there but if your job is doing anything like this check and hopefully you have better luck fighting it
He 'retired' ...hmm, yes. I feel forced out, or maybe bought out, is more likely. Might be worth giving your old rep a call, see how he's doin'.
Do Cody and Katie write each other's ad copy and then they each do a cold read? Consistently hilarious.
Thank you for this. WAGE theft is the #1 crime in the world.
Wow, the hair loss ad was even more uninterested in advertising than AG1! Apathetic participation in capitalism is fucking awesome to witness!
Surprised the hair loss one even got approved lol
Buy it! Or don’t! If you waAaaAnt?!
@@echo.1209i'm fully convinced that their sponsor agreements include the clause that the company isn't allowed to watch the ad they make.
I really appreciated how Katy did that one, yeah. Hair loss is a totally normal part of aging and she wasn't about to shame people for it ❤️ Refreshing as hell to see.
The importance of all the topics you present is all we seem to write here about, but i'm constantly in awe of your comedic timing, flexibility with funny voices and acting shifts. You go 0% to a 100% and back with ease and with just a few cuts. You're not only the one of most important newsguy for the people, you're also great at it. Glad we have you, Cody.
I am a 24/7 live in caretaker for a schizophrenic chain smoking incontinent wheelchair bound boomer whose son owns the house where we live. I haven't had a day off since he (a friend from middle school) hired me to take care of her, the only job offer I got when I threatened to (censored) myself on facebook if I couldn't find work and a place to live in November 2020. Her son takes more than half her income, and with what's left, she pays me $240US dollars every week to keep her clean and fed. This primarily involves dealing with an alarming amount of human waste. The water has now been turned off for almost two weeks, so I can't take a shower or do laundry. We're out of clean sheets for her.
I don't expect back wages any time soon, but I will get the satisfaction of filing an Adult Protective Services claim before I'm out on the streets again.
One person cannot take care of one person who needs 24 hrs care. You're working 3 shifts a day but paid barely for one shift.
Maybe the state will pay for someone to take a shift for you daily.
If you're good and honest, you're actually in high demand. Lots of families need this kind of help. Start looking for a better position because you'll burn out soon.
Take good care of yourself.
All these rich companies and free market sycophants are like the dog with the bone meme: "buy things!" *hand reaches for a stack of bills* "no money! Only buy things!"
When I worked at Rona, the time clock would automatically round to the 15 minute mark that meant it stole from you. Says your shift is for 8, clock in at 7:50 it rounds to 8. Clock in 8:05, rounds to 8:15. If you were meant to leave at 4 and clock out 4:10, it rounds back to 4. The higher ups treat every single clerk, cashier, and manager like they're disposable cogs, and pay like crap too.
That might've been highly illegal
Message received, shoplift more. They can't stop us all.
Unless they use guns and armed guards
@@achinthmurali5207 then don't get caught, 5head
They have insurance to pay for the price of theft.
Don’t forget public schools. Teachers stay overtime for nothing. The day custodian works an extra hour unpaid every day… when I was a teacher I left on the dot. They did not like me doing that.
I love how in almost every clip of people talking about theft being a huge issue the stock market is ironically on the up
The stock market is going down in every sector rn except energy afaik
@@therabbithatthe Dow is up 10% over the last 12 months, and 8% over the last six. To any extent that it is going down, it’s short term
@@therabbithatIts freezing cold outside. I guess climate change isnt a thing
My bf had his wages stolen for YEARS. He never felt in a position secure enough to speak up. Now that he has, he's gotten a "well ok we'll pay you for your work i guess" sort of result, plus more headaches, minus ANY backpay.
I doubt there's anything he can realistically due about the many thousands of $$$ he's owed, but ... 🤬🤬🤬
If he looks for jobs in the same industry he could see a signing bonus attached to some of the listings.
yeah, no. you document that shit, inform them once, when you first notice, and then let it build and sue them, as you can then tack on additional costs. as long as you have the receipts they will pay in court
@@DellikkilleD Please don't get me wrong - I AGREE. He is not one to pursue anything though, sadly. He obsesses, then over stresses, then crashed and goes off the DEEP end. So I'm the end he just avoids. I was relieved he FINALLY said something with some force, and at least it's stopping.
I've learned he isn't a fighter, not like me. Since I've got my own battles, and he can't really handle being involved with THOSE either, I've got to leave him to his own choices.
😖😔
Tge only way would be if I took over and did everything, and even then I couldn't shield him from a lot of the stress and in the end it would go very poorly. I've tried with other challenges, you see.
I agree with you though. I really do.
Edit: I just wanted to add that part of why I believe he SHOULD pursue it, is to help STOP it!! But... yeah.
@@pimpbisquick7036 I hope he does this! He really only deals with stress by avoiding it though, and I've learned the hard way I can't support him enough to counterbalance that.
He's been "almost done" working there for three years - since we met. Those goal posts keep moving. I'm kinda giving up.
I really hope he does though.
@@KOKO-uu7yd im familiar with the type, and you have my sympathy. some people seem to prefer being the victim, rather then the solution =/
THANK YOU! I have been screaming this from the rooftop
I had an "attendance incentive" at one of my worst dead-end jobs. The incentive was your raises on top of minimum wage. If you were late at all one pay period, this rooster-lollipop plating company would knock you back down to minimum wage, even on overtime. Lucky I was broke and desperate as sh@t back then or I would've threw a massive legal stink bomb on my way out whilst flying two birds...
The way you cuss is an art.