I remember working at Panera when I was like 20. To ‘discourage’ employee theft of food they would make you call over a manager to watch you throw out food if it was damaged. I was living in Florida at the time and the minimum wage was ~$7/hr, I remember not being able to afford both my rent and food. So I’d have enough money for ~2 and a half weeks of groceries a month. There is something _special_ about making your employees throw out good food because you literally aren’t paying them enough to eat.
I used to work for nordstroms as a barista. I remember my manager explaining to me why we throw away perfectly good food. The way she did it was ask me why I thought that they did this. it was demoralizing because I thought it was a disgusting waste, but I had to explain to her why it was good business...
I worked at Arby's and they wanted us to throw away stuff we couldn't sell. Of course, as an assistant manager I would sternly look at any employee if they tried to eat something that couldn't be sold. Then I'd tell them "just kidding I don't care, it's not hurting my food cost because it's already trash if you don't eat it". I also just let the full time people eat if they were hungry? A sandwich that costs a dollar in ingredients isn't breaking the bank. We did 2 to 4k sales a day. 5 sandwiches a day isn't 6% of the revenue lmao
i do not believe for one second that any company has ever gone bankrupt due to employee theft. Like, how the hell did they even get that percentage? Smells like bullshit.
A bartender serving drinks from bottles of booze they brought from home is literally the opposite of stealing. It's just competition. I thought these people liked capitalism?
I used to steal when I was a cocktail waitress at a restaurant. Sort of an unspoken agreement between myself and the bartender. The restaurant owner was paying me $2.11/hr and had the balls to say, out loud, "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean." He now owns more than 25 restaurants. Apparently paying employees 2 bucks an hour allows for a lot of employee theft while still being successful.
I had to go through similar - though a lawyer friend saved me from having to go through the DOL. Once I actually added up all the OT they'd stolen from me, it was ~$3000! Hope you win this, and hope the employer learns a lesson!
@@KMouseff This is a disaster. They didn't pay the whole company for months. The federal DOL declined to even sue. My state was livid and are going after them both civil and criminal. I'm just glad the ball is rolling.
@@hannerikruger7216 I wish I had better news but one owner filed for bankruptcy (we got nothing as he owed LOTS of people money) and the other fled the country. Last I heard the state AG was looking into criminal charges but as for the 30k they owe me? Lost in the ether.
The way these business owners talk about employees you can tell they resent having to pay them at all. Like they talk as if someone should just come to work for nothing
I fully support employee theft, especially in retail environments where there is such high wastage anyway! I was a broke uni student working in a supermarket cafe and the amount of food that got thrown out at the end of the day was disgusting....so yeah, I happily skimmed chips, made myself coffees, and ate sausage sandwiches for free. They did routine spot checks of people's pockets and lockers, but I just ate the food straight out the oven lol. Our breaks were never long enough to properly eat, if we even go one at all, so my manager just let us eat the food to make sure we were all well fed and able to work.
My horror story - I worked at one of those self-serve yogurt places back in 2019 for less than three weeks. I quit because our creep-ass boss watched us on the cameras for the entire shift, and would frequently call us on the store's phone if he saw something he didn't like. Keep in mind, ALL of his employees are girls anywhere from 16-19. The straw that broke the camel's back? Me and my coworker were closing (mopping, putting away the toppings, closing the yogurt machines etc.) and the store closed at 10:30, so we were supposed to be out by 11. One of the machines broke and made a huge mess of yogurt all over the floor, so we had to stay longer to clean it up. He called us ten minutes past 11 to tell us we BOTH had to clock out, but we couldn't leave without finishing cleaning. Fuck that guy
it's so funny when someone like that micromanages SO much (watching you, making you clean the mess up) but also micromanages the finances like by not letting you get an ounce of overtime. surely it would just be cheaper/more worth it to him to balance that equation out a little bit??
@@allyc1214 I've heard _too many_ stories from people who had worked at Coney Island joints (that being *a single one,* but there were more 😕), and it seems that there's always a creepshow running the place. And these were *teenage girls at the time!* Who were being sexually harassed and assaulted by owners, managers, and cooks. Absolutely deplorable f×××ing scumbags. I would never allow a child of mine to go anywhere near one of those places.
I had a friend who worked at a tanning place that had multiple locations (they are not around anymore tho). Anyway her boss was a woman who would watch the employees on camera ALL day.. she even called my friend while she was working to tell her she was “mopping the floor incorrectly.” Since the lady just watched the cameras constantly she made it a point to say that if the employees ever had a question or problem they could call her anytime at all! So one afternoon my friend has a mother and daughter sign up and I guess something went wrong with the computer system so my friend called her boss to see how it can be fixed and the woman was like “How DARE you call me at this time I am eating dinner with my family!” And hung up, then my friend got fired. wtfffffff
I worked for minimum wage in a warehouse. There was a sharp division between the minimum wage warehouse staff and the office staff. The office, who were 100% White, staff got cushy chairs and desks and proper climate control year round. The warehouse staff, who were almost all Latino, had to work in sweltering heat in the summer and it was quite cold in the winter, especially if you were unlucky enough to work by the loading dock. Also, none of the warehouse staff was ever allowed to sit down outside of breaks and lunch, where they had to shuffle into the time break room with Fox News blaring 24/7. The owner would buy stupid bullshit that he didn't need (e.g., life-sized replicas of Darth Vader and Boba Fett, vintage radios, a private movie theater) and put it around the building just to show off all the money he had made from paying us almost nothing. He and his lackey would fucking abuse the warehouse staff, even berating the supervisors, who would then take it out on the warehouse staff. I knew from day one that this was complete bullshit, so I did everything I could to produce as little as possible. I would finish tasks and then pretend I was still working on them while I was just walking up and down the aisles looking at my phone. They didn't know how long it should have taken me. I would pretend that I saw some bin labels wrong and go "fix" them and they thought I was such a go-getter. This would get me assigned to special tasks by myself and I would just listen to music or audiobooks while working as slow as possible. I would take half hour bathroom breaks and just read whatever book I brought that day. In retrospect, I kinda wish I drank at the time so I could add getting drunk at work to my list. Oh well, lesson learned.
I work in healthcare as a nursing assistant and it is scary common for employees to take supplies like laceration closures, gloves, syringes, ect to perform their own or their family members healthcare/ wound care. Ya know because they can't afford the service they provide . Speaking of cameras I've worked in long term care where staff will have an outgoing employee tilt cameras to see how Long they stay indicated bullshit cameras. Btw the cameras are not allowed in patient care areas anyway so it's literally just to watch the employees .
and lbr it's not even all of the difference. if they took all of the difference, there wouldnt be a profit for the douches who sit comfy & watch other ppl work
I used to work for a company that payed me £4.20 an hour (in the U.K., as a working class person which should be wholly illegal). On that £4.20 an hour we weren’t allowed to take any tips because our employer called tips “stealing” and we were made to give all our tips to the company. The employer would make us stay after hours to give us lectures about why as “a small business owner” we would be taking from the business and be “beggars” if we took those tips for ourselves. Because of those little after hours lectures, employees would even rat eachother out because they became so protective of the business owner who payed them pittance - a single order in the store payed my hourly wage. And as the cherry on top, this man called himself a socialist.
I worked at a local sandwich shop and the owner had cameras installed all over the store. He'd call the store and be like "Bob is sitting down doing nothing. Send him home if that's how he's going to act". It was so annoying. It's like dude, we just got done with the dinner rush. We also weren't given a break unless we worked an 8+ hour shift.
Sounds exactly like a subway owner I worked for back in 04’, he even had video feed in his vehicle and he’d call saying “Sam put too much lettuce in that last sandwich”. Or “you where in the cooler too long” etc… crazy shit !
Worked for a place like this, literally got fired because the managers caught me taking my going downstairs to get a glass of water (we weren’t allowed water on shift) to take my vital medication at the last hour of every 9 hour shift. Each item cost at least £100+ so even the managers themselves were living impoverished compared to the company owners yet they feel some weird commitment to the CEOs who they’ll never even meet and so sit at their CCTV cameras like spies. The company was AllSaints fyi.
I remember when I was a hostess I forgot to ask someone if they wanted me to take their coat. My boss came in and said that she was watching me from the camera and that my behavior determines whether I get a paycheck. Turned in my resignation the next day. Holy fuck.
I feel like a lot of business owners love how flexible the term “small business” can be. There is so much difference between a sole trader or small family business where the owners do the majority of the labour and some of the more medium business owners who love to use the term small business to inflate their importance.
I worked at dollar tree in college and the district manager would check the inside of our bags to make sure we weren't stealing merchandise from the DOLLAR TREE. Our store had one of the highest shrink rates so all cashiers were watched like a hawk. Well, it turns out one of the supervisors was taking from the deposit. Funny how it always works out that way. Anyways, Dollartree also tried to charge me for my W2 form since I never received it in the mail. I had to have the IRS contact them for me to receive it.
Dollar tree is so bullshit. I once spoke to an employee of a dt store who said they get in trouble if they have to void more than a set number of items from transactions. Like fuck it's a store poor ppl shop at this is just a n excuse to go down on the employees.
@@otterotterotter Yep! I would get scolded if I had to void multiple items. Didn't matter if the customer changed their mind. We would also get in trouble if our till was off by a couple bucks even if the till was over because people did not want their change back. In a high-volume store that would add up.
@@Michelle-xb6gi this shit makes me so mad. I know so many poor people will have to void something bc they're so damn wiped out they can't just "do the math" and miscalculated how much they actually could afford. It's such a fucked up policy and I've stopped shopping there bc of it.
@@otterotterotter yes! I was a DT cashier for over 2 years. They’re REALLY picky about how many voids you do. Can’t be more than 6% of items and if you do more than 10 in a shift you get flagged for a manager to unlock your computer. I’ve seen people get fired over it. There’s so many valid reasons to have to do voids that are in no way the cashiers fault I always thought it was bullshit
@@Michelle-xb6gi when people didn’t want their change back I would set it to the side of my register (what the first guy would prob think is coin stacking) to help out the next customer. Usually I’d give anything left over to the next cashier or it would go in a jar in the office but the DM found out about that and made us add it into our tills
I’ve had multiple conversations with friends about how we all know exactly how we would have stolen from former jobs and gotten away with it, and whether any of us did or not, I can guarantee we wouldn’t have even thought about it if we’d been paid well and been made to feel like we were actual valued employees.
I have to wonder if these statistics of 75% or more employees stealing from their employer come from loaded survey questions like "Have you ever stolen from your employer? Even something as small as taking a pen home from the office?" I had an employee handbook once say that I wasn't allowed to print anything personal because it would be theft and grounds to be fired.
I worked at a kitchen supply store once that had a policy of checking employee bags. As in, I'm going home for the night & I have to clock out & then wait for someone to "check my bags" to make sure I'm not stealing spoons. This was in addition to a frightening number of cameras. Having your co-workers forcibly invade your private space at least once a day isn't a great recipe for worker solidarity, & this was definitely one of the most fractious workplaces I'd ever been in. I think even if employees literally never stole a thing from their employers, business owners would still go on about it like it's a massive problem. It's an easy way of driving a wedge between people who should be supporting each other.
Meanwhile, the state of Maine just released a list of employers who weren't paying thier employers last year. The total amount of stolen wages was hundreds of thousands of dollars. 🙄
When I was in college I worked at the cafeteria. The job was a lot of late nights closing around 3-4am and hard manual labor but it allowed the student workers to not have to pay $2000/semester to get a meal pass card because you knew the door guy and he would just let you in. Also I didn't have to go to the grocery store often because we would just steal food. During closing shifts I would take milk jugs, salad, frozen food, meats, pasta, canned goods, etc and stuff then in my backpack because even though the place had CCTV no one was ever at the monitoring station and there were obvious blond spots. There was one time where management wanted to make a special dessert that required Nutella but obviously that was like gold to students because we didn't have Nutella money so they literally had to order a second crate of it because even though the recipe only required 1 crate, they knew we would all steal Nutella jars. And we did. Every single person I was working with took at least 2. At the time I thought I was pretty lucky to be getting all that food free but looking back I was breaking my back mixing vats of sauces, hauling trash, and doing all the dishes myself making $7.50/hr and I was "lucky" because since I was such a good worker my lead got the manager to give me a 25¢ raise. I remember a measure came up in an election cycle that would raise the minimum wage in the city to something like $8.50/hr and people lost it. Tons of my coworkers were against it because of brainwashing bs from management and I guess also just America in general but it passed and management laid off 50 workers which was a little under half the staff. I was one of the ones who got laid off which I was stunned by because I worked really hard there and it was very common for people to brag about pretending to work. My coworker constantly told me about how he never works and just kept the job to (his words) "fuck all the new, hot freshman in yoga pants" who work here. He got promoted btw. I was told I was too lazy and all the leads complained about me because I disappeared at the beginning of my shift every day. What was I doing? I was taking out the trash because no one ever wanted to do it and it would pile up and spill over onto the floors IN THE KITCHEN. I only took the responsibility to take the trash out because my lead got tired of me reporting to him and asking him what I need to do today. He said "You need to learn to take some initiative and figure it out". So stealing didn't get me fired, taking initiative did. Let that be a lesson to all you minimum wage workers. But at least I didn't have to report to my newly promoted sex pest lead.
Also my next job after this was nice enough to pay me 11.25/hr but it was in a much nicer part of town at a high end luxury spa. I worked in the back and it was a manual job but not as bad as the last place. The problem was this spot was very "we are all a family" and all that forced bs. Everyday the staff would go to this group meeting where we did icebreaker games and it was awful. I was loved by all the massage therapist at the spa (I'm still friends with a few of them to this day) because I was very attentive to their needs. I learned all of their usual requests and made sure their rooms were stocked with anything extra they wanted like some wanted a eucalyptus soaked towel, or an extra bottle of aromatherapy or double sheets etc but management hated that I would leave my little back room to help them and bring the stuff to them because they were supposed to come back and order it from me. I also developed a system where I looked up the schedules for all the therapists for my shift and pre-prepared all the necessary equipment for them so when they just finished their current massage they wouldn't have to bolt back and forth to get read for the next one in 10 mins. I had everything they needed right at the door when they were done. My manager got pissed at me because I would line each of the premade bundles of equipment up on the table and she said those tables were supposed to be clear at all times (gave no reason why). She also got pissed that I would watch videos on my phone when I got done with all my work. Gave me the ole "if you have time to lean" line. I told her I always kept the place clean and bet her that if she found a dust spot in my area I would work a shift free but she said if executives come back here and see me watching stuff then it looks bad. I decided to quit and at the meetings they usually did a little goodbye ceremony for staff that was leaving. They conveniently forgot to do it for me. I didn't care and actually preferred it that way but my massage therapists treated it like the manager just stomped on my balls. My last shift was a closing one and I was the last one out and stole so much shit. A giant crate of tissue boxes, towels, blankets, serums and creams they sold for $100+, candles, robes, salts scrubs and more like a heist. I spoke to some massage therapists months after I left and turns out my manager started having staff trained on my schedule pre-preparing method. I'm sure she took credit for thinking of that too. F@*K you Christina and Lauren if you happen to see this and realize who I am. I hope they fired your worthless stuckup asses and you had to get real jobs.
My college cafeteria job lets employees eat free, which is nice bc breakfast is $7 and lunch $10 😐😐 I’d spend most of my paycheck eating if I had to pay for my food there
The last one is so vile. Imagine going to this restaurant where the server knows you and greets you personally and remembers your order and you snitch them to the manager cause they take a little tip so they can earn a living wage... vile creature that one
I had a job where I was paid $5 an hour to deliver food at a shitty restaurant. During my time there my boss began a relationship with a co-worker who was 17 when I started and only pursued them as soon as they turned 18 and they were 30. I would steal food regularly and not report all the tips I would get because I dealt with way too much garbage to give a single shit about the business or my co-workers who were annoying bootlickers. That place ended up getting sold off to an obnoxious coke head from Long Island and I don’t miss it whatsoever lol.
@@tombskater3000 lol yea this guy was a character. Made really shitty comments about my ethnic background too and it def played a part in why I didn’t feel bad for stealing food or quitting
A coworker at my old job got fired and reported to the police for stealing money from the register (she got caught red handed by the Boss's wife). Such a shame, she always used to give me free food. And I in return would "steal" some over at production for her. Symbiosis.
Awhile ago, I got a random check in the mail for $400. Apparently, my ex employer got sued for an issue I recall bringing up myself and getting wishy washy bs from management. My name was on the list of employees at the time, so I got a cut of the court settlement. Kinda neat, but then I added up that the issue actually cost me nearly $3,000 over the time I worked for them.
When I worked as a care assistant I never had to steal food because we worked with kids with eating disorders and staff had to model “healthy eating habits” and eat meals with them. I took that instruction very seriously. Some days I used to work 7am -9pm (it was grim I sometimes missed the sun for days) but I’d get all 3 meals for free plus 2 snack breaks!. I also modelled healthy eating habits on my night shifts because there were always unaccounted for sandwiches left in the fridge while the kids slept soundly (hopefully). I was angelic at this modelling it may have been the most compliant I’ve ever been to an instruction at work. It was a pretty badly paid job but I was in my early 20s living in a shared house and only needed skeleton groceries. It was also a lot of fun, like my job was mostly just to support struggling teenagers but they are the funniest people in the world.
ahhh reminds me of being in college and walking out of my closing shift at subway with 2 subs, 3 bags of chips, gatorades, and a few cookies after my boss stopped watching the cams...... good times
In food service there’s a lot of employers who will call it employee theft when workers eat food that is being thrown away. Something will be “expired” and supposed to be thrown out and people can be fired for eating it instead of throwing it away.
I remember when I worked at Chuck E Cheese as a highschooler. It had just opened so was super busy, and I was running birthday parties so I could never take a proper break or the parents would get mad at me, and I always left late because “my area still needed coverage.” I also had no life so I would take any shift if someone had a volleyball game or something. As a result, I would go into OT and my hoss would be SO MAD that I was making time and a half of minimum wage
I’m a cashier at the Home Depot, and we’ve got this little dish on top of the registers where we put paper clips and the change customers don’t want to keep. We use them to scratch off gift cards and see the three digit numbers on the back. We are literally told to do this by our managers. I’d really like to hear somebody tell me that I’m stealing because I do this.
My parents owned a restaurant for almost twenty years. It's incredibly hard work and the margins are razor thin. And that's what's so fucking insidious about capitalism: it's so brutal to everyone but those at the top, that everyone is incentivized to maximize their margins. And usually the only way to do that is to exploit those under you. I don't recall my parents being concerned about employees stealing from them, and I don't think they ever participated in wage theft (I fucking hope not). But it's still exploitation. Just a flavor of exploitation we've all been raised to think is normal and acceptable. Those very same thin margins (caused by those at the top) are used to justify cutting costs at the expense of the employees and the product. Capitalism keeps us all scrambling for survival so we're too busy being at each other's throats to question *why* we have to do this at all.
My 1st job was as a cashier at a mall food court restaurant when I was in high school that hired me b/c they had to replace someone who stole from the registers. The owner would actually doing a morning shift 5 or 6 days per week to save money (and to make sure we don't steal, I assume) but they tried to cut costs in so many cringey ways... One of the worst was by being v stingy w/napkins, which were already the shitty super thin kind. I was told to give only 1 napkin per person unless they asked for more. Their reasoning? There were paper towels in the food court bathroom that people could use💀
In 2019 I was working for $8/hr at a Tractor Supply, mostly doing cashier work. They hired a new assistant manager and we closed together a lot. Almost every time we worked together he would steal from the register when he counted it at night and then he would blame it on me. If they wouldn't have caught him, I would have been in a lot of trouble for something I didn't do.
There’s so much nastiness in theses attitudes to employees. I worked retail with lots of people. Almost all were as honest as they could be bothered to be. One guy who handled a lot of cash was stealing and ended up getting fired. Nice guy. He was always sweating and (in retrospect) clearly lived in fear of being found out. I don’t know what drove him, but no one should be made to feel like that over what could only have been a few thou at most.
I used to work at a restaurant in a hotel, which were separate entities cohabiting the same space. The hotel staff had a clock-in system that LITERALLY TOOK A PHOTO of the person clocking in with an audible camera "cli-click" noise. We shared a break room, and it made me nauseous every time having to hear them clock in and out, and be documented for it.
Kelgore, can you do a video on the Hooters girls and their uniform change. Also when working at KFC, all of us stole the food at the end of the night. The same food that they wanted us to throw away also the same food that we had to pay for without a discount. So yea, I don’t feel bad for them.
I had a talking to from my store manager at the Starbucks I worked at because I let one of the employees eat a brownie after we closed-one of the ones we were gonna throw away. (I was the shift manager on duty). She told me that not only was that employee stealing, but I was also stealing by proxy for allowing it. 🙄
I never snitched on coworkers who stole when I knew they did. I minded my own business. Imagine being that person to snitch. Like pay us a living wage with decent benefits wtf instead of paying for snitches.
I feel bad for all the servers that work in states that are allowed to be paid 2 bux an hour. That is absolutely horrible. Getting paid 15 an hour plus tips in the bay is barely a living but woof!!!!
My own grocery store employers give us videos reminding us not to give unwarranted discounts but when something doesn't scan I'll literally just shove it on the belt because I can't be bothered to put in the barcode. I'm not saying I would ever steal from work but I refuse to pay for water at my work. Also fun story, I used to get in trouble because my job, closing the grocery store bakery, was a lot for 1 person to do. So I'd get in trouble for staying late. Cut to a few years later when I had learned what corners to cut and would often have an hour or so of free time to sit and chill. I got caught one night by the big regional guy, was really smug about it. And got in trouble and sent to the front end of the store. Why not fire me? Because no one wants to work here
Yeah my employer lately has gotten crazy about pushing us to upsell every menu item ever (I’m a server), basically threatening to fire people if they aren’t selling a certain amount to every customer. Yet I have never in the entirety of being a server gotten a break, despite sometimes working 9-10 hour shifts. In Canada after 5 hours you’re entitled to a 30min break, managers actually laugh when I bring up breaks. These companies do not care about us at all and this will be my villain origin story lol.
I work in a supermarket in Cali and we have the same 5 hour rule. I try to take my paid breaks when I can but. . you know the story. We are given extra food and damaged merchandise which I am very thankful for
I’m curious what is defined as “theft”. I took a fork from my job and forgot to bring it back, so I guess I’m one of the 75% of employees that has stolen from their job
My mum used to work in like some sort of warehouse like twenty years ago and she said everyone (including herself) would just take a bunch of things for themselves anyway. We support it.
I got pulled into the AP office as teen at Walmart because I sold myself a bottle of water at a register. I PAID for the water but the ass hat AP guy put the fear of god in me because I sold it to myself under my numbers.
Loved this video…I worked in the corporate food and beverage industry for years and though I never stole cash I did take things like food home. Everyone slacked a little at certain times of the day or stretched out their breaks when possible. Let’s be honest when you work your ass off and you’re getting paid shit money and your wage increase is literally 20 cents extra if that every year it’s totally fine in my mind to supplement your self by taking from the giant company that doesn’t care about you or your family.
At the place where my dad works they have to have managers watch you when employees buy stuff at the store cus apparently employees at another store had been stealing things like that. Sucks how now everyone is being surveillanced like they really have no trust in anyone and care sm about their profit.
Also about the coinstacking thing, my mum works in retail rn and mostly as a cashier. Now the shop she works in is only small and mostly attracts children for sweets. She has a soft spot so if ever a customer tells her to keep the change (not really tips cus they don't exist here more just leave it in the till) she will still take it out and leave it on the side and then use it if ever a kid ends up falling short for the sweets or whatever. Imagine if she got accused of coinstacking lmao. Anyway whatever is left by the end of the night she puts in the charity box.
Have you talked about the "feel good" show called Undercover Boss? I know Kurtis Conner recently covered it. But I feel like it could go well with an episode like this. And I feel like you could really dig into the issues of the show and how the show itself is filmed in favor of the rich, if that makes sense. (I scanned the list of places they've done and it's ranged from Nestle, Hooters, 1-800-Flowers, city mayors, university chancellor, and a variety of other types of businesses. I believe it's on season 7. They filmed at least at some point during the pandemic, since the new episodes have them wearing masks.) My mom was watching one of the newest episodes and I was half-watching. It was for Rita's Ice restaurant. And one of the franchise owner had to bring her kids into the restaurant and let them sit by themselves because she couldn't get a sitter (or something along those lines). And the CEO's initial reaction was to be mad that it would take away her attention from the customer. Instead of oh, idk, ask why she had to bring her children to work to begin with? And this CEO kept getting angry with the franchise owner over increasing petty things. Only one of them was an actual issue, it seemed. (How the drive-thru was set up, but again that wasn't really the franchise owners fault as that was how it was built, I BELIEVE.) And I didn't realize until a few weeks ago how the CEOs are ALWAYS painted in a good light. Even when they treat the other people like actual garbage. And if the franchise owner does something the CEO doesn't like, it's THEIR fault. (Not because of an issue that is bigger than them - outdated tech that they can't get fixed, how the building was built, etc.) Like I saw one episode where the CEO was mad over something that the worker had absolutely no control over. Hell, in an episode Kurtis watched, the CEO fired someone because they said (while the CEO was undercover) that they were there to make ends meet, not because they wanted to be there. And the CEO fired an already struggling person. And sometimes it gets fixed.... But you only see them say they'll fix it at this one branch. We don't know if they get fixed at other branches. If the safety is being maintained. I think this idea of employee theft meeting Undercover Boss could make for a good vid. That sometimes the CEOs see a few struggling people and temporarily help them. If they are that generous. I don't know where I'm going with this. But the idea that the CEO gets a pat on the back for participating in UB for an episode and then going back as to nothing matters most of the time. It feels.... Icky. And I think you'd be able to do an excellent deep dive on the subject of "charitable/feel good CEO moments."
I've heard of the show (probably through Kurtis and other similar creators) but I've never watched an episode. I am weary of doing reality TV cause it always gets copyright claimed BUT maybe I could watch it on a livestream sometime or something fun! Or perhaps figure out a way to review it without showing the actual footage. Either way thanks for the suggestion, it sounds like a terrible, godless show that deserves to be torn to shreds lol. same goes to that undercover billionaire show lol
@kelgore YES!!!!! i agree! i would totally watch your commentary on the insane juxtaposition between the working class and cushy CEO portrayed in a very silly-haha-look-at-these-CEOs-that-dont-even-know-how-toilsome-the-labor-they-grossly-underpay-their-workers-for light :)
A 30 year plus magistrate in my city got caught embezzling close to 50k from schools and got away with a couple years probation and a 10k fine. Meanwhile a local homeless guy got arrested for stealing a little over 100 dollars worth of food at a local grocery store and is in jail.
I worked a minimum wage fast food job where my boss would sit in his office and watch us on CCTV. He never said a word to me. He just watched us from the back room. It was really weird.
On “coin stacking”: I’ve been a cashier and I always end up with a stack of coins at my register bc I find them on the floor or someone says keep the change so that I can help out someone else who was a few cents short!! Our tills are counted at the end of every shift you can’t get away with being more than a dollar off. that’s ridiculous
When I did my MBA all employee theft was called 'unethical behaviour' as if to frame employers is implicitly more moral then emploees and it shat me to tears.
I used to work in a mom-and-pop escape room business. The dad was a great guy, self-made the entire place, built pretty much everything himself and treated us all pretty well. The mom was a total fucking vulture and would routinely fire people in mandatory meetings with no other purpose to set examples. The employees had to do everything - know how to and reset every room within 10 minutes (literally impossible for some), run each game flawlessly, offer perfect customer service throughout, clean the entire building, etc. The workload was unreal, like 3 jobs in one, and the entire time the most wretched fucking crone on planet Earth would make snipey comments about you over your shoulder as you did it. Keep in mind this place was set up right across from the local high school and they would only hire kids from the school (I was a rare exception and was the oldest employee at 19 - I later learned they needed to take me on as they fired too many people last month). This place paid £4.95 per hour.
I never heard of coinstacking, but when I worked at a fast food restaurant, we would occasionally get tips -- mostly people saying keep the change or leaving a dollar or two after ordering hella food. We weren't allowed to put these tips into our pockets and had to leave them around the register until the end of our shift when the manager would count out the till . There wasn't really a way to steal but I hated that I would be responsible if someone else used my register and there was $1-$5 difference I would get in trouble even though I was forced by my manager to leave my register to do other things 🙄
My boss in high school (she was technically a manager), encouraged us to leave a half hour early most days, and I was paid for leaving an hour early for voice lessons or rehearsals most days.
i love cr^mes >:3 i saw a tiktok recently of a lady talking about how she used to work at a certain fancy charm bracelet store and all the employees were stealing and i was just like. hell yea. go girls !!!
McDonalds would have tonnes of left over hash browns after breakfast ends, we weren’t allowed to sell them or give them out, and we were not allowed to eat any ourselves! We were forced to put in 5-30 freshly made and perfectly good hash browns in the bin each day.
I am a cashier who makes $16.75 an hour in WA state. They have cameras everywhere, and they are on our butts all the time. However, the cameras have protected us from assault by customers in the past, so that's a mixed bag. I actually make the same as I did working much harder in a nursing home too, so I don't mind this job for now. Am I staying forever? Definitely not. Our bosses have zero empathy and we're super underpaid.
I worked for a few years in a small town gas station/convenience store and we had a little foam cup for change, paperclips, rubber bands, etc. I'd keep coins for scratching barcodes on scratcher tickets, or I'd use someone's couple of unwanted pennies to make a later cash customer's change come out to $1 instead of counting out 98 cents or whatever. I'd also have customers that wouldn't carry change at all and would leave almost a dollar in change simply because they didn't want to deal with the coins. I would've thought my manager was insane and laughed in their face if they accused me of stealing because I had random coins and shit on and around my register all the time. Especially because I would line them up in rows all facing the same way when I'd get bored on slow nights lol dang now I'm starting to wonder how many people accused of "coin stacking" were just doing the same thing I did? 🤔
I mean wage theft and tax evasion easily surpasses those numbers about employee theft thrown around in these various videos. That said, a note to myself to pay with cash. I try to always do that with small businesses but never thought of the employee of large corporations angle.
I worked at a warehouse for like 2 months packing makeup into a subscription box and they had all this surplus makeup boxes that was going to get thrown out that workers decided to take home and sell online instead, but then they stopped us from doing it because apparently the makeup was expired and would reflect badly on the company. Idk, it looked fine to me, but it might have been. Anyway, we all had to take the five or six makeup boxes that we took back out of our cars and just throw them away. It was so sad, and we all had to sign forms saying we would never do it again. It was also singlehandedly the most interesting thing that happened at that job.
The video about employees tracking what they're gonna steal by keeping change on the counter is so weird for me because when I worked at Walgreens, if customers left change, we would keep it on the counter to pass on to other customers who might have been short a little or to be able to make change better. I'd be so upset if some asshole from corporate came in and accused me of stealing because of it. 🙄
Dude, that is what made me realize that dude is just capitalizing on employers’ paranoia, bc I’ve worked many different registers and most of them had some change laying around them. Like, that is a normal thing.
These people would rather spend money on GPS and camera equipment to stalk their employees than pay them a fair wage. If your employees are stealing from you that much, then you A) Are not paying them enough to care (especially in regards to time theft) or B) Not spending enough time when hiring actually great candidates. So both of those things means your a crap employer. When I worked at Whole Foods during the start of COVID our store manager would yell at us for not standing 6 ft apart (even though our space was too limited often to do so) because he said we were being watched on cameras. I think Amazon had started doing thermal cameras/and or regular cameras to basically watch all their employees. Plus I think they were doing it in case you did get COVID at work then they could come back and blame you for "breaking the policy".
These videos feel like a lot of projection. It's like they're admitting that they're greedy, sleazy, and conniving biz owners. Why would anyone automatically assume that their employees are stealing from them?
The places I've worked in as a daycare worker have all been government owned. The pay is okay (though I say this as someone who lives alone with a cat, I know people with families have a rougher time with the pay) but we have massive trouble getting enough people in and most places are always understaffed, so replacement gig workers like me are gold to them. Despite this desperation, we're expected to bring our own meals in. The kids hardly ever eat all the food that's prepared for them. There are so much leftovers, yet taking any is considered theft, so it's all supposed to go to waste. I knew some places that would SELL you the leftovers that would otherwise go to trash. Thankfully most workers have the sense of solidarity to cover for each other so we can sneak some food for ourselves.
I worked at a store as a keyholder when I was younger and despite being a place that openly committed wage theft on their overworked employees implemented a "theft prevention plan" about a month before I left. This plan basically viewed all employees as criminals and was used by our assistant manager (we had no manager) to bully me into quitting. Their biggest focus was cash stacking, so they didn't allow anyone to have paper or pencils. I have adhd and require lists in order to make sure I get to everything. As a "punishment" for missing small tasks I would be given evening shifts that I struggled with, with no supervision and too much to complete even if I could have written tasks down. I wasn't able to take my lunch breaks for weeks because I had too much to do, and I knew they would edit my hours later to make it look like I took the full 30 unpaid. I never messed up badly enough to be written up, but now I know that was what they were waiting for. The assistant manager even had the guts to call me and ask what was wrong after I handed in my resignation.
I had an internship that advertised I would be a seismic technician, but when I started the job they told me they filled that role and I assigned to be a house inspector instead. I did not sign up to go into strangers homes and businesses all over the province but I went through with it because my school advised me not to quit. They never compensated me for the gas I used to drive my car, and I was constantly monitored through a GPS tracker on the work phone. I was disciplined for having too many "bathroom breaks" when I was on my period. I was working 10-12 hour shifts on my feet and 6 days a week living in dirty motels eating poorly because I was always on the move. It was taking a toll on my body, I could see I was losing hair and weight. One of the warehouses I was inspecting "accidentally" locked me in the basement which led to a full on panic attack. That was the last straw, and I quit the internship. The school warned me I would have a "failed" internship on my record but I didn't care. What makes me angry is that every semester this slimy company still 15-20 exploits young students each semester, paying them low wages treating them like crap AND the university turns a blind eye because their bottom line is that 100% of students find internships.
My boss the owner at subway had all our employees sign a document that stated their pay would be docked if they gave free food to their friends. I’m the gm and he said he would take out 50 dollars every-time he caught them. I don’t think I’ll be working for him much longer. he also hasn’t paid a couple of people who worked for us a day or two . Super shady stuff
my last retail job they had a live feed of all the stores projected on a huge screen in the head office (which was open concept so literally everyone who worked there could watch the store employees). they would call the store if the employee was caught doing nothing. and it was a - small business - lmao
If I'm treated as a human at my job, I wont want to steal anything. If I'm treated like a worthless piece of garbage and watched constantly like I'm gonna do something bad, then you better believe I'm taking your pens. In all seriousness though, my current job is the only one where I've actually felt like a valued member of a team and treated with respect. It really doesnt take much. Literally just do what your grandma teaches you and treat people as you would want to be treated.
This video motivated me to clock in before changing for work. I'm on the clock now. There are cameras here, but I don't mind them since as someone training as an auto tech I already have a significant portion of my assets in a cart at work. But the screen to see what's going on in the shop is set up where everyone can see it.
I have a strong feeling that 70% of the 75% of employees stealing from work is them taking home a pen.
Or making photo copies.
Like who hasn't accidentally taken a pen from work.
It doesn't specify a time either; it might be like 75% to having stolen ever in their life which may well have no bearing on their lives now.
I remember working at Panera when I was like 20. To ‘discourage’ employee theft of food they would make you call over a manager to watch you throw out food if it was damaged. I was living in Florida at the time and the minimum wage was ~$7/hr, I remember not being able to afford both my rent and food. So I’d have enough money for ~2 and a half weeks of groceries a month. There is something _special_ about making your employees throw out good food because you literally aren’t paying them enough to eat.
I used to work for nordstroms as a barista. I remember my manager explaining to me why we throw away perfectly good food. The way she did it was ask me why I thought that they did this. it was demoralizing because I thought it was a disgusting waste, but I had to explain to her why it was good business...
it’s so disgusting how food places would rather throw away perfectly good food than let their employees eat it for free
It still still infuriates me how people defend a system that encourages throwing out perfectly good food just because it can't be sold.
God I was hoping someone would chime in about Panera. I had the same experience except with the added plus of observation windows and cameras
I worked at Arby's and they wanted us to throw away stuff we couldn't sell.
Of course, as an assistant manager I would sternly look at any employee if they tried to eat something that couldn't be sold. Then I'd tell them "just kidding I don't care, it's not hurting my food cost because it's already trash if you don't eat it". I also just let the full time people eat if they were hungry? A sandwich that costs a dollar in ingredients isn't breaking the bank. We did 2 to 4k sales a day. 5 sandwiches a day isn't 6% of the revenue lmao
i do not believe for one second that any company has ever gone bankrupt due to employee theft. Like, how the hell did they even get that percentage? Smells like bullshit.
Embezzlement. You know the things that a manager is usually doing.
A bartender serving drinks from bottles of booze they brought from home is literally the opposite of stealing. It's just competition. I thought these people liked capitalism?
sorry 4 being an entrepreneur!!
@@Kelgore Look, boss, I'm just working two jobs (simultaneously) because you don't pay me enough.
I thought that was a very clever side hustle.
Exactly. They're literally "stealing" the use of the private property that the owner is monetizing.
I used to steal when I was a cocktail waitress at a restaurant. Sort of an unspoken agreement between myself and the bartender. The restaurant owner was paying me $2.11/hr and had the balls to say, out loud, "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean." He now owns more than 25 restaurants. Apparently paying employees 2 bucks an hour allows for a lot of employee theft while still being successful.
Dude, I worked at Mervyn's a million years ago and a manager said the same thing to me. Jeez, what a cliche...
This comment 💯
If you got time to lean you got time to clean is Timmy Hoes motto lol
"Time to lean is a time to clean" is like an open invitation to steal
I had to go to the DOL today to start the legal proceedings against my former employer for major wage theft. This video is something I needed today.
i hope you win!!!
I had to go through similar - though a lawyer friend saved me from having to go through the DOL. Once I actually added up all the OT they'd stolen from me, it was ~$3000! Hope you win this, and hope the employer learns a lesson!
@@KMouseff This is a disaster. They didn't pay the whole company for months. The federal DOL declined to even sue. My state was livid and are going after them both civil and criminal. I'm just glad the ball is rolling.
@@hadji84 how did it go???
@@hannerikruger7216 I wish I had better news but one owner filed for bankruptcy (we got nothing as he owed LOTS of people money) and the other fled the country. Last I heard the state AG was looking into criminal charges but as for the 30k they owe me? Lost in the ether.
The way these business owners talk about employees you can tell they resent having to pay them at all. Like they talk as if someone should just come to work for nothing
Literally
They're a different breed of person. They're so selfish and literally don't see us as equals. They want segregation between classes
I fully support employee theft, especially in retail environments where there is such high wastage anyway! I was a broke uni student working in a supermarket cafe and the amount of food that got thrown out at the end of the day was disgusting....so yeah, I happily skimmed chips, made myself coffees, and ate sausage sandwiches for free. They did routine spot checks of people's pockets and lockers, but I just ate the food straight out the oven lol. Our breaks were never long enough to properly eat, if we even go one at all, so my manager just let us eat the food to make sure we were all well fed and able to work.
My horror story - I worked at one of those self-serve yogurt places back in 2019 for less than three weeks. I quit because our creep-ass boss watched us on the cameras for the entire shift, and would frequently call us on the store's phone if he saw something he didn't like. Keep in mind, ALL of his employees are girls anywhere from 16-19. The straw that broke the camel's back? Me and my coworker were closing (mopping, putting away the toppings, closing the yogurt machines etc.) and the store closed at 10:30, so we were supposed to be out by 11. One of the machines broke and made a huge mess of yogurt all over the floor, so we had to stay longer to clean it up. He called us ten minutes past 11 to tell us we BOTH had to clock out, but we couldn't leave without finishing cleaning. Fuck that guy
it's so funny when someone like that micromanages SO much (watching you, making you clean the mess up) but also micromanages the finances like by not letting you get an ounce of overtime. surely it would just be cheaper/more worth it to him to balance that equation out a little bit??
@@Kelgore You would think. This guy was all kinds of bad news. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up on the SO list one day
@@allyc1214 I've heard _too many_ stories from people who had worked at Coney Island joints (that being *a single one,* but there were more 😕), and it seems that there's always a creepshow running the place.
And these were *teenage girls at the time!* Who were being sexually harassed and assaulted by owners, managers, and cooks. Absolutely deplorable f×××ing scumbags.
I would never allow a child of mine to go anywhere near one of those places.
I had a friend who worked at a tanning place that had multiple locations (they are not around anymore tho). Anyway her boss was a woman who would watch the employees on camera ALL day.. she even called my friend while she was working to tell her she was “mopping the floor incorrectly.” Since the lady just watched the cameras constantly she made it a point to say that if the employees ever had a question or problem they could call her anytime at all! So one afternoon my friend has a mother and daughter sign up and I guess something went wrong with the computer system so my friend called her boss to see how it can be fixed and the woman was like “How DARE you call me at this time I am eating dinner with my family!” And hung up, then my friend got fired. wtfffffff
omg I worked at yogurtland once and had a boss JUST like that (in Texas, btw). Same shitty behavior, cameras and all.
I worked for minimum wage in a warehouse. There was a sharp division between the minimum wage warehouse staff and the office staff. The office, who were 100% White, staff got cushy chairs and desks and proper climate control year round. The warehouse staff, who were almost all Latino, had to work in sweltering heat in the summer and it was quite cold in the winter, especially if you were unlucky enough to work by the loading dock. Also, none of the warehouse staff was ever allowed to sit down outside of breaks and lunch, where they had to shuffle into the time break room with Fox News blaring 24/7. The owner would buy stupid bullshit that he didn't need (e.g., life-sized replicas of Darth Vader and Boba Fett, vintage radios, a private movie theater) and put it around the building just to show off all the money he had made from paying us almost nothing. He and his lackey would fucking abuse the warehouse staff, even berating the supervisors, who would then take it out on the warehouse staff. I knew from day one that this was complete bullshit, so I did everything I could to produce as little as possible. I would finish tasks and then pretend I was still working on them while I was just walking up and down the aisles looking at my phone. They didn't know how long it should have taken me. I would pretend that I saw some bin labels wrong and go "fix" them and they thought I was such a go-getter. This would get me assigned to special tasks by myself and I would just listen to music or audiobooks while working as slow as possible. I would take half hour bathroom breaks and just read whatever book I brought that day. In retrospect, I kinda wish I drank at the time so I could add getting drunk at work to my list. Oh well, lesson learned.
This is gold 🤣
“Human capital or what’s better known as employees” so dehumanizing…
Ewwww 🤮
I work in healthcare as a nursing assistant and it is scary common for employees to take supplies like laceration closures, gloves, syringes, ect to perform their own or their family members healthcare/ wound care. Ya know because they can't afford the service they provide . Speaking of cameras I've worked in long term care where staff will have an outgoing employee tilt cameras to see how Long they stay indicated bullshit cameras. Btw the cameras are not allowed in patient care areas anyway so it's literally just to watch the employees .
If you aren't paying your employees a living wage, their "theft" is just them taking the difference back.
and lbr it's not even all of the difference. if they took all of the difference, there wouldnt be a profit for the douches who sit comfy & watch other ppl work
I used to work for a company that payed me £4.20 an hour (in the U.K., as a working class person which should be wholly illegal). On that £4.20 an hour we weren’t allowed to take any tips because our employer called tips “stealing” and we were made to give all our tips to the company. The employer would make us stay after hours to give us lectures about why as “a small business owner” we would be taking from the business and be “beggars” if we took those tips for ourselves. Because of those little after hours lectures, employees would even rat eachother out because they became so protective of the business owner who payed them pittance - a single order in the store payed my hourly wage. And as the cherry on top, this man called himself a socialist.
This is downright evil 😳
I worked at a local sandwich shop and the owner had cameras installed all over the store. He'd call the store and be like "Bob is sitting down doing nothing. Send him home if that's how he's going to act". It was so annoying. It's like dude, we just got done with the dinner rush. We also weren't given a break unless we worked an 8+ hour shift.
So the owner is just sitting around watching y'all work all day? And sees no irony in this?
@@standeviance right!? He'd even watch the cameras while on vacation. He was a strange man.
Sounds exactly like a subway owner I worked for back in 04’, he even had video feed in his vehicle and he’d call saying “Sam put too much lettuce in that last sandwich”. Or “you where in the cooler too long” etc… crazy shit !
Worked for a place like this, literally got fired because the managers caught me taking my going downstairs to get a glass of water (we weren’t allowed water on shift) to take my vital medication at the last hour of every 9 hour shift. Each item cost at least £100+ so even the managers themselves were living impoverished compared to the company owners yet they feel some weird commitment to the CEOs who they’ll never even meet and so sit at their CCTV cameras like spies.
The company was AllSaints fyi.
@@casper6231 yikes! Horrible!
happy 10k!!! 💖 this topic was so good, let me ditto another comment and say a big yep to a video on wage theft next!
I remember when I was a hostess I forgot to ask someone if they wanted me to take their coat. My boss came in and said that she was watching me from the camera and that my behavior determines whether I get a paycheck.
Turned in my resignation the next day. Holy fuck.
watching this at my service job during a lunch rush while I vape in the bathroom 😌
technically that's a break!!! get back to work!!!
@@Kelgore aye im screwing off in here!
I feel like a lot of business owners love how flexible the term “small business” can be. There is so much difference between a sole trader or small family business where the owners do the majority of the labour and some of the more medium business owners who love to use the term small business to inflate their importance.
I worked at dollar tree in college and the district manager would check the inside of our bags to make sure we weren't stealing merchandise from the DOLLAR TREE. Our store had one of the highest shrink rates so all cashiers were watched like a hawk. Well, it turns out one of the supervisors was taking from the deposit. Funny how it always works out that way. Anyways, Dollartree also tried to charge me for my W2 form since I never received it in the mail. I had to have the IRS contact them for me to receive it.
Dollar tree is so bullshit. I once spoke to an employee of a dt store who said they get in trouble if they have to void more than a set number of items from transactions. Like fuck it's a store poor ppl shop at this is just a n excuse to go down on the employees.
@@otterotterotter Yep! I would get scolded if I had to void multiple items. Didn't matter if the customer changed their mind. We would also get in trouble if our till was off by a couple bucks even if the till was over because people did not want their change back. In a high-volume store that would add up.
@@Michelle-xb6gi this shit makes me so mad. I know so many poor people will have to void something bc they're so damn wiped out they can't just "do the math" and miscalculated how much they actually could afford. It's such a fucked up policy and I've stopped shopping there bc of it.
@@otterotterotter yes! I was a DT cashier for over 2 years. They’re REALLY picky about how many voids you do. Can’t be more than 6% of items and if you do more than 10 in a shift you get flagged for a manager to unlock your computer. I’ve seen people get fired over it. There’s so many valid reasons to have to do voids that are in no way the cashiers fault I always thought it was bullshit
@@Michelle-xb6gi when people didn’t want their change back I would set it to the side of my register (what the first guy would prob think is coin stacking) to help out the next customer. Usually I’d give anything left over to the next cashier or it would go in a jar in the office but the DM found out about that and made us add it into our tills
"Human capital" is some fucking dystopian-ass terminology lawd
I’ve had multiple conversations with friends about how we all know exactly how we would have stolen from former jobs and gotten away with it, and whether any of us did or not, I can guarantee we wouldn’t have even thought about it if we’d been paid well and been made to feel like we were actual valued employees.
I have to wonder if these statistics of 75% or more employees stealing from their employer come from loaded survey questions like "Have you ever stolen from your employer? Even something as small as taking a pen home from the office?"
I had an employee handbook once say that I wasn't allowed to print anything personal because it would be theft and grounds to be fired.
I worked at a kitchen supply store once that had a policy of checking employee bags. As in, I'm going home for the night & I have to clock out & then wait for someone to "check my bags" to make sure I'm not stealing spoons. This was in addition to a frightening number of cameras.
Having your co-workers forcibly invade your private space at least once a day isn't a great recipe for worker solidarity, & this was definitely one of the most fractious workplaces I'd ever been in. I think even if employees literally never stole a thing from their employers, business owners would still go on about it like it's a massive problem. It's an easy way of driving a wedge between people who should be supporting each other.
Any restaurant that doesn't feed their employees deserves to be stolen from.
So instead of "hey my employees are stealing they must mean I don't pay them enough " it's "I'm gonna punish them" ?
Lovely
Meanwhile, the state of Maine just released a list of employers who weren't paying thier employers last year. The total amount of stolen wages was hundreds of thousands of dollars. 🙄
When I was in college I worked at the cafeteria. The job was a lot of late nights closing around 3-4am and hard manual labor but it allowed the student workers to not have to pay $2000/semester to get a meal pass card because you knew the door guy and he would just let you in. Also I didn't have to go to the grocery store often because we would just steal food. During closing shifts I would take milk jugs, salad, frozen food, meats, pasta, canned goods, etc and stuff then in my backpack because even though the place had CCTV no one was ever at the monitoring station and there were obvious blond spots. There was one time where management wanted to make a special dessert that required Nutella but obviously that was like gold to students because we didn't have Nutella money so they literally had to order a second crate of it because even though the recipe only required 1 crate, they knew we would all steal Nutella jars. And we did. Every single person I was working with took at least 2. At the time I thought I was pretty lucky to be getting all that food free but looking back I was breaking my back mixing vats of sauces, hauling trash, and doing all the dishes myself making $7.50/hr and I was "lucky" because since I was such a good worker my lead got the manager to give me a 25¢ raise. I remember a measure came up in an election cycle that would raise the minimum wage in the city to something like $8.50/hr and people lost it. Tons of my coworkers were against it because of brainwashing bs from management and I guess also just America in general but it passed and management laid off 50 workers which was a little under half the staff.
I was one of the ones who got laid off which I was stunned by because I worked really hard there and it was very common for people to brag about pretending to work. My coworker constantly told me about how he never works and just kept the job to (his words) "fuck all the new, hot freshman in yoga pants" who work here. He got promoted btw. I was told I was too lazy and all the leads complained about me because I disappeared at the beginning of my shift every day. What was I doing? I was taking out the trash because no one ever wanted to do it and it would pile up and spill over onto the floors IN THE KITCHEN. I only took the responsibility to take the trash out because my lead got tired of me reporting to him and asking him what I need to do today. He said "You need to learn to take some initiative and figure it out". So stealing didn't get me fired, taking initiative did. Let that be a lesson to all you minimum wage workers.
But at least I didn't have to report to my newly promoted sex pest lead.
Also my next job after this was nice enough to pay me 11.25/hr but it was in a much nicer part of town at a high end luxury spa. I worked in the back and it was a manual job but not as bad as the last place. The problem was this spot was very "we are all a family" and all that forced bs. Everyday the staff would go to this group meeting where we did icebreaker games and it was awful. I was loved by all the massage therapist at the spa (I'm still friends with a few of them to this day) because I was very attentive to their needs. I learned all of their usual requests and made sure their rooms were stocked with anything extra they wanted like some wanted a eucalyptus soaked towel, or an extra bottle of aromatherapy or double sheets etc but management hated that I would leave my little back room to help them and bring the stuff to them because they were supposed to come back and order it from me. I also developed a system where I looked up the schedules for all the therapists for my shift and pre-prepared all the necessary equipment for them so when they just finished their current massage they wouldn't have to bolt back and forth to get read for the next one in 10 mins. I had everything they needed right at the door when they were done. My manager got pissed at me because I would line each of the premade bundles of equipment up on the table and she said those tables were supposed to be clear at all times (gave no reason why). She also got pissed that I would watch videos on my phone when I got done with all my work. Gave me the ole "if you have time to lean" line. I told her I always kept the place clean and bet her that if she found a dust spot in my area I would work a shift free but she said if executives come back here and see me watching stuff then it looks bad. I decided to quit and at the meetings they usually did a little goodbye ceremony for staff that was leaving. They conveniently forgot to do it for me. I didn't care and actually preferred it that way but my massage therapists treated it like the manager just stomped on my balls. My last shift was a closing one and I was the last one out and stole so much shit. A giant crate of tissue boxes, towels, blankets, serums and creams they sold for $100+, candles, robes, salts scrubs and more like a heist.
I spoke to some massage therapists months after I left and turns out my manager started having staff trained on my schedule pre-preparing method. I'm sure she took credit for thinking of that too. F@*K you Christina and Lauren if you happen to see this and realize who I am. I hope they fired your worthless stuckup asses and you had to get real jobs.
My college cafeteria job lets employees eat free, which is nice bc breakfast is $7 and lunch $10 😐😐 I’d spend most of my paycheck eating if I had to pay for my food there
The last one is so vile. Imagine going to this restaurant where the server knows you and greets you personally and remembers your order and you snitch them to the manager cause they take a little tip so they can earn a living wage... vile creature that one
I had a job where I was paid $5 an hour to deliver food at a shitty restaurant. During my time there my boss began a relationship with a co-worker who was 17 when I started and only pursued them as soon as they turned 18 and they were 30. I would steal food regularly and not report all the tips I would get because I dealt with way too much garbage to give a single shit about the business or my co-workers who were annoying bootlickers. That place ended up getting sold off to an obnoxious coke head from Long Island and I don’t miss it whatsoever lol.
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@@tombskater3000 lol yea this guy was a character. Made really shitty comments about my ethnic background too and it def played a part in why I didn’t feel bad for stealing food or quitting
A coworker at my old job got fired and reported to the police for stealing money from the register (she got caught red handed by the Boss's wife). Such a shame, she always used to give me free food. And I in return would "steal" some over at production for her. Symbiosis.
Awhile ago, I got a random check in the mail for $400. Apparently, my ex employer got sued for an issue I recall bringing up myself and getting wishy washy bs from management. My name was on the list of employees at the time, so I got a cut of the court settlement. Kinda neat, but then I added up that the issue actually cost me nearly $3,000 over the time I worked for them.
When I worked as a care assistant I never had to steal food because we worked with kids with eating disorders and staff had to model “healthy eating habits” and eat meals with them. I took that instruction very seriously. Some days I used to work 7am -9pm (it was grim I sometimes missed the sun for days) but I’d get all 3 meals for free plus 2 snack breaks!. I also modelled healthy eating habits on my night shifts because there were always unaccounted for sandwiches left in the fridge while the kids slept soundly (hopefully). I was angelic at this modelling it may have been the most compliant I’ve ever been to an instruction at work. It was a pretty badly paid job but I was in my early 20s living in a shared house and only needed skeleton groceries. It was also a lot of fun, like my job was mostly just to support struggling teenagers but they are the funniest people in the world.
ahhh reminds me of being in college and walking out of my closing shift at subway with 2 subs, 3 bags of chips, gatorades, and a few cookies after my boss stopped watching the cams...... good times
In food service there’s a lot of employers who will call it employee theft when workers eat food that is being thrown away. Something will be “expired” and supposed to be thrown out and people can be fired for eating it instead of throwing it away.
That's sad. We are always offered the food or damaged goods. I take a bag of groceries and snacks home sometimes and everyone deserves that
I remember when I worked at Chuck E Cheese as a highschooler. It had just opened so was super busy, and I was running birthday parties so I could never take a proper break or the parents would get mad at me, and I always left late because “my area still needed coverage.” I also had no life so I would take any shift if someone had a volleyball game or something. As a result, I would go into OT and my hoss would be SO MAD that I was making time and a half of minimum wage
Also my employee discount on food was 50% the marked up price of pizza until I got promoted to trainer
Oh also the first GM that I had and his cousin, who he made a manager, was fired for stealing
I’m a cashier at the Home Depot, and we’ve got this little dish on top of the registers where we put paper clips and the change customers don’t want to keep.
We use them to scratch off gift cards and see the three digit numbers on the back. We are literally told to do this by our managers.
I’d really like to hear somebody tell me that I’m stealing because I do this.
Looking back at all the shitty jobs of my youth and how crappy I was treated, sometimes sexually assaulted, I only wish I had stolen more...
I am an employee and I would like some financial compensation please
no!!
My parents owned a restaurant for almost twenty years. It's incredibly hard work and the margins are razor thin. And that's what's so fucking insidious about capitalism: it's so brutal to everyone but those at the top, that everyone is incentivized to maximize their margins. And usually the only way to do that is to exploit those under you.
I don't recall my parents being concerned about employees stealing from them, and I don't think they ever participated in wage theft (I fucking hope not). But it's still exploitation. Just a flavor of exploitation we've all been raised to think is normal and acceptable.
Those very same thin margins (caused by those at the top) are used to justify cutting costs at the expense of the employees and the product. Capitalism keeps us all scrambling for survival so we're too busy being at each other's throats to question *why* we have to do this at all.
My 1st job was as a cashier at a mall food court restaurant when I was in high school that hired me b/c they had to replace someone who stole from the registers. The owner would actually doing a morning shift 5 or 6 days per week to save money (and to make sure we don't steal, I assume) but they tried to cut costs in so many cringey ways... One of the worst was by being v stingy w/napkins, which were already the shitty super thin kind. I was told to give only 1 napkin per person unless they asked for more. Their reasoning? There were paper towels in the food court bathroom that people could use💀
The owner actually worked? Damn, you don't see that every day
In 2019 I was working for $8/hr at a Tractor Supply, mostly doing cashier work. They hired a new assistant manager and we closed together a lot. Almost every time we worked together he would steal from the register when he counted it at night and then he would blame it on me. If they wouldn't have caught him, I would have been in a lot of trouble for something I didn't do.
There’s so much nastiness in theses attitudes to employees. I worked retail with lots of people. Almost all were as honest as they could be bothered to be. One guy who handled a lot of cash was stealing and ended up getting fired. Nice guy. He was always sweating and (in retrospect) clearly lived in fear of being found out. I don’t know what drove him, but no one should be made to feel like that over what could only have been a few thou at most.
I used to work at a restaurant in a hotel, which were separate entities cohabiting the same space. The hotel staff had a clock-in system that LITERALLY TOOK A PHOTO of the person clocking in with an audible camera "cli-click" noise. We shared a break room, and it made me nauseous every time having to hear them clock in and out, and be documented for it.
“He posted this in 2013. He’s holding an IPad!”
stealing from work is always ok y'all ! get ur bag ! if u see ur coworker stealing, no u didnt!
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Kelgore, can you do a video on the Hooters girls and their uniform change.
Also when working at KFC, all of us stole the food at the end of the night. The same food that they wanted us to throw away also the same food that we had to pay for without a discount. So yea, I don’t feel bad for them.
I had a talking to from my store manager at the Starbucks I worked at because I let one of the employees eat a brownie after we closed-one of the ones we were gonna throw away. (I was the shift manager on duty). She told me that not only was that employee stealing, but I was also stealing by proxy for allowing it. 🙄
@@vellamour when in reality they have to pay for waste removal so they'd *save money* if they let you eat all the brownies
@@aj7058 yup, statistically and common sense. Putting wasted food to good use to feed others without destroying it.
I never snitched on coworkers who stole when I knew they did. I minded my own business. Imagine being that person to snitch. Like pay us a living wage with decent benefits wtf instead of paying for snitches.
Clearly that plan didn't work since Mongomery Ward went bankrupt.
I feel bad for all the servers that work in states that are allowed to be paid 2 bux an hour. That is absolutely horrible. Getting paid 15 an hour plus tips in the bay is barely a living but woof!!!!
My own grocery store employers give us videos reminding us not to give unwarranted discounts but when something doesn't scan I'll literally just shove it on the belt because I can't be bothered to put in the barcode. I'm not saying I would ever steal from work but I refuse to pay for water at my work.
Also fun story, I used to get in trouble because my job, closing the grocery store bakery, was a lot for 1 person to do. So I'd get in trouble for staying late.
Cut to a few years later when I had learned what corners to cut and would often have an hour or so of free time to sit and chill. I got caught one night by the big regional guy, was really smug about it. And got in trouble and sent to the front end of the store. Why not fire me? Because no one wants to work here
The m&m stacking is legit. You can do it with literally anything it's just to help you track what you've lifted
Yeah my employer lately has gotten crazy about pushing us to upsell every menu item ever (I’m a server), basically threatening to fire people if they aren’t selling a certain amount to every customer. Yet I have never in the entirety of being a server gotten a break, despite sometimes working 9-10 hour shifts. In Canada after 5 hours you’re entitled to a 30min break, managers actually laugh when I bring up breaks. These companies do not care about us at all and this will be my villain origin story lol.
I work in a supermarket in Cali and we have the same 5 hour rule. I try to take my paid breaks when I can but. . you know the story. We are given extra food and damaged merchandise which I am very thankful for
@@iheartjbgccb Wow my restaurant will only give 50% off food while working, no free meals. Probably to encourage not taking breaks lmao.
I’m curious what is defined as “theft”. I took a fork from my job and forgot to bring it back, so I guess I’m one of the 75% of employees that has stolen from their job
My mum used to work in like some sort of warehouse like twenty years ago and she said everyone (including herself) would just take a bunch of things for themselves anyway. We support it.
The irony of me watching your videos while commiting "time theft"
I got pulled into the AP office as teen at Walmart because I sold myself a bottle of water at a register. I PAID for the water but the ass hat AP guy put the fear of god in me because I sold it to myself under my numbers.
my stealing has been 2 $3 lunches and whatever is in the trash that I can fit in my pocket
Loved this video…I worked in the corporate food and beverage industry for years and though I never stole cash I did take things like food home. Everyone slacked a little at certain times of the day or stretched out their breaks when possible. Let’s be honest when you work your ass off and you’re getting paid shit money and your wage increase is literally 20 cents extra if that every year it’s totally fine in my mind to supplement your self by taking from the giant company that doesn’t care about you or your family.
Omg was scrolling on Reddit and saw a landlord post and it made me think of your videos and then I open UA-cam and you’re you’re in my recommended 😍
At the place where my dad works they have to have managers watch you when employees buy stuff at the store cus apparently employees at another store had been stealing things like that. Sucks how now everyone is being surveillanced like they really have no trust in anyone and care sm about their profit.
Also about the coinstacking thing, my mum works in retail rn and mostly as a cashier. Now the shop she works in is only small and mostly attracts children for sweets. She has a soft spot so if ever a customer tells her to keep the change (not really tips cus they don't exist here more just leave it in the till) she will still take it out and leave it on the side and then use it if ever a kid ends up falling short for the sweets or whatever. Imagine if she got accused of coinstacking lmao. Anyway whatever is left by the end of the night she puts in the charity box.
I AM obsessed with you, but still not enough to get on IG. Congrats on 10k, so excited you're blowing up!
Have you talked about the "feel good" show called Undercover Boss? I know Kurtis Conner recently covered it. But I feel like it could go well with an episode like this. And I feel like you could really dig into the issues of the show and how the show itself is filmed in favor of the rich, if that makes sense. (I scanned the list of places they've done and it's ranged from Nestle, Hooters, 1-800-Flowers, city mayors, university chancellor, and a variety of other types of businesses. I believe it's on season 7. They filmed at least at some point during the pandemic, since the new episodes have them wearing masks.)
My mom was watching one of the newest episodes and I was half-watching. It was for Rita's Ice restaurant. And one of the franchise owner had to bring her kids into the restaurant and let them sit by themselves because she couldn't get a sitter (or something along those lines). And the CEO's initial reaction was to be mad that it would take away her attention from the customer. Instead of oh, idk, ask why she had to bring her children to work to begin with? And this CEO kept getting angry with the franchise owner over increasing petty things. Only one of them was an actual issue, it seemed. (How the drive-thru was set up, but again that wasn't really the franchise owners fault as that was how it was built, I BELIEVE.)
And I didn't realize until a few weeks ago how the CEOs are ALWAYS painted in a good light. Even when they treat the other people like actual garbage. And if the franchise owner does something the CEO doesn't like, it's THEIR fault. (Not because of an issue that is bigger than them - outdated tech that they can't get fixed, how the building was built, etc.) Like I saw one episode where the CEO was mad over something that the worker had absolutely no control over.
Hell, in an episode Kurtis watched, the CEO fired someone because they said (while the CEO was undercover) that they were there to make ends meet, not because they wanted to be there. And the CEO fired an already struggling person.
And sometimes it gets fixed.... But you only see them say they'll fix it at this one branch. We don't know if they get fixed at other branches. If the safety is being maintained.
I think this idea of employee theft meeting Undercover Boss could make for a good vid. That sometimes the CEOs see a few struggling people and temporarily help them. If they are that generous.
I don't know where I'm going with this. But the idea that the CEO gets a pat on the back for participating in UB for an episode and then going back as to nothing matters most of the time. It feels.... Icky. And I think you'd be able to do an excellent deep dive on the subject of "charitable/feel good CEO moments."
I've heard of the show (probably through Kurtis and other similar creators) but I've never watched an episode. I am weary of doing reality TV cause it always gets copyright claimed BUT maybe I could watch it on a livestream sometime or something fun! Or perhaps figure out a way to review it without showing the actual footage. Either way thanks for the suggestion, it sounds like a terrible, godless show that deserves to be torn to shreds lol. same goes to that undercover billionaire show lol
@kelgore YES!!!!! i agree! i would totally watch your commentary on the insane juxtaposition between the working class and cushy CEO portrayed in a very silly-haha-look-at-these-CEOs-that-dont-even-know-how-toilsome-the-labor-they-grossly-underpay-their-workers-for light :)
A 30 year plus magistrate in my city got caught embezzling close to 50k from schools and got away with a couple years probation and a 10k fine. Meanwhile a local homeless guy got arrested for stealing a little over 100 dollars worth of food at a local grocery store and is in jail.
I worked a minimum wage fast food job where my boss would sit in his office and watch us on CCTV. He never said a word to me. He just watched us from the back room. It was really weird.
the edit at 5:15 is actually insane!!! also thank you for making a video on this topic
On “coin stacking”: I’ve been a cashier and I always end up with a stack of coins at my register bc I find them on the floor or someone says keep the change so that I can help out someone else who was a few cents short!! Our tills are counted at the end of every shift you can’t get away with being more than a dollar off. that’s ridiculous
When I did my MBA all employee theft was called 'unethical behaviour' as if to frame employers is implicitly more moral then emploees and it shat me to tears.
I used to work in a mom-and-pop escape room business. The dad was a great guy, self-made the entire place, built pretty much everything himself and treated us all pretty well. The mom was a total fucking vulture and would routinely fire people in mandatory meetings with no other purpose to set examples. The employees had to do everything - know how to and reset every room within 10 minutes (literally impossible for some), run each game flawlessly, offer perfect customer service throughout, clean the entire building, etc. The workload was unreal, like 3 jobs in one, and the entire time the most wretched fucking crone on planet Earth would make snipey comments about you over your shoulder as you did it. Keep in mind this place was set up right across from the local high school and they would only hire kids from the school (I was a rare exception and was the oldest employee at 19 - I later learned they needed to take me on as they fired too many people last month). This place paid £4.95 per hour.
I never heard of coinstacking, but when I worked at a fast food restaurant, we would occasionally get tips -- mostly people saying keep the change or leaving a dollar or two after ordering hella food.
We weren't allowed to put these tips into our pockets and had to leave them around the register until the end of our shift when the manager would count out the till . There wasn't really a way to steal but I hated that I would be responsible if someone else used my register and there was $1-$5 difference I would get in trouble even though I was forced by my manager to leave my register to do other things 🙄
Future historians will look back on this Era and question how some humans were willing to subjugate others so that they may prosper.
My old work had cameras everywhere... That was conveniently broken every time someone was accused of serious misconduct...
My boss in high school (she was technically a manager), encouraged us to leave a half hour early most days, and I was paid for leaving an hour early for voice lessons or rehearsals most days.
At 25:00 what the fuck Pinkerton?! Just gonna come right out and say hi I’m a professional snitch with the pink shirt for Pinkerton and everything
I like that explained how to detect cashier stacking, but not quite what it is.
i love cr^mes >:3 i saw a tiktok recently of a lady talking about how she used to work at a certain fancy charm bracelet store and all the employees were stealing and i was just like. hell yea. go girls !!!
it is hilarious and fun having hundreds of people fill my mentions with amazing stories of petty theft, like it literally warms my heart lol
McDonalds would have tonnes of left over hash browns after breakfast ends, we weren’t allowed to sell them or give them out, and we were not allowed to eat any ourselves! We were forced to put in 5-30 freshly made and perfectly good hash browns in the bin each day.
I remember my friends stealing $2 per day from Sonic because they wouldn't make you pay it back if you were only $2 short lol
I was taking a hit from my vape when the video glitched out and you came out on the smaller screen, freaked me out. Good video tho
I am a cashier who makes $16.75 an hour in WA state. They have cameras everywhere, and they are on our butts all the time. However, the cameras have protected us from assault by customers in the past, so that's a mixed bag. I actually make the same as I did working much harder in a nursing home too, so I don't mind this job for now. Am I staying forever? Definitely not. Our bosses have zero empathy and we're super underpaid.
I worked for a few years in a small town gas station/convenience store and we had a little foam cup for change, paperclips, rubber bands, etc. I'd keep coins for scratching barcodes on scratcher tickets, or I'd use someone's couple of unwanted pennies to make a later cash customer's change come out to $1 instead of counting out 98 cents or whatever. I'd also have customers that wouldn't carry change at all and would leave almost a dollar in change simply because they didn't want to deal with the coins.
I would've thought my manager was insane and laughed in their face if they accused me of stealing because I had random coins and shit on and around my register all the time. Especially because I would line them up in rows all facing the same way when I'd get bored on slow nights lol dang now I'm starting to wonder how many people accused of "coin stacking" were just doing the same thing I did? 🤔
Right?? Every job I worked at with a register had a few coins laying around it for all sorts of reasons.
I mean wage theft and tax evasion easily surpasses those numbers about employee theft thrown around in these various videos. That said, a note to myself to pay with cash. I try to always do that with small businesses but never thought of the employee of large corporations angle.
I worked at a warehouse for like 2 months packing makeup into a subscription box and they had all this surplus makeup boxes that was going to get thrown out that workers decided to take home and sell online instead, but then they stopped us from doing it because apparently the makeup was expired and would reflect badly on the company. Idk, it looked fine to me, but it might have been. Anyway, we all had to take the five or six makeup boxes that we took back out of our cars and just throw them away. It was so sad, and we all had to sign forms saying we would never do it again. It was also singlehandedly the most interesting thing that happened at that job.
And we had to throw away 30 dollar flat irons! Those don't expire!
The video about employees tracking what they're gonna steal by keeping change on the counter is so weird for me because when I worked at Walgreens, if customers left change, we would keep it on the counter to pass on to other customers who might have been short a little or to be able to make change better. I'd be so upset if some asshole from corporate came in and accused me of stealing because of it. 🙄
Dude, that is what made me realize that dude is just capitalizing on employers’ paranoia, bc I’ve worked many different registers and most of them had some change laying around them. Like, that is a normal thing.
These people would rather spend money on GPS and camera equipment to stalk their employees than pay them a fair wage. If your employees are stealing from you that much, then you A) Are not paying them enough to care (especially in regards to time theft) or B) Not spending enough time when hiring actually great candidates. So both of those things means your a crap employer. When I worked at Whole Foods during the start of COVID our store manager would yell at us for not standing 6 ft apart (even though our space was too limited often to do so) because he said we were being watched on cameras. I think Amazon had started doing thermal cameras/and or regular cameras to basically watch all their employees. Plus I think they were doing it in case you did get COVID at work then they could come back and blame you for "breaking the policy".
These videos feel like a lot of projection. It's like they're admitting that they're greedy, sleazy, and conniving biz owners. Why would anyone automatically assume that their employees are stealing from them?
The places I've worked in as a daycare worker have all been government owned. The pay is okay (though I say this as someone who lives alone with a cat, I know people with families have a rougher time with the pay) but we have massive trouble getting enough people in and most places are always understaffed, so replacement gig workers like me are gold to them.
Despite this desperation, we're expected to bring our own meals in. The kids hardly ever eat all the food that's prepared for them. There are so much leftovers, yet taking any is considered theft, so it's all supposed to go to waste. I knew some places that would SELL you the leftovers that would otherwise go to trash.
Thankfully most workers have the sense of solidarity to cover for each other so we can sneak some food for ourselves.
I worked at a store as a keyholder when I was younger and despite being a place that openly committed wage theft on their overworked employees implemented a "theft prevention plan" about a month before I left. This plan basically viewed all employees as criminals and was used by our assistant manager (we had no manager) to bully me into quitting. Their biggest focus was cash stacking, so they didn't allow anyone to have paper or pencils. I have adhd and require lists in order to make sure I get to everything. As a "punishment" for missing small tasks I would be given evening shifts that I struggled with, with no supervision and too much to complete even if I could have written tasks down. I wasn't able to take my lunch breaks for weeks because I had too much to do, and I knew they would edit my hours later to make it look like I took the full 30 unpaid. I never messed up badly enough to be written up, but now I know that was what they were waiting for. The assistant manager even had the guts to call me and ask what was wrong after I handed in my resignation.
5:04 I was far too high for that.
I had an internship that advertised I would be a seismic technician, but when I started the job they told me they filled that role and I assigned to be a house inspector instead. I did not sign up to go into strangers homes and businesses all over the province but I went through with it because my school advised me not to quit. They never compensated me for the gas I used to drive my car, and I was constantly monitored through a GPS tracker on the work phone. I was disciplined for having too many "bathroom breaks" when I was on my period. I was working 10-12 hour shifts on my feet and 6 days a week living in dirty motels eating poorly because I was always on the move. It was taking a toll on my body, I could see I was losing hair and weight. One of the warehouses I was inspecting "accidentally" locked me in the basement which led to a full on panic attack. That was the last straw, and I quit the internship. The school warned me I would have a "failed" internship on my record but I didn't care. What makes me angry is that every semester this slimy company still 15-20 exploits young students each semester, paying them low wages treating them like crap AND the university turns a blind eye because their bottom line is that 100% of students find internships.
Time Theft is my favorite to do. It's so easy to just do nothing when things are slow instead of doing the other tasks that need doing.
6:36 I think you underestimate the power of Yugo. People still drive it in ex-Yugoslavia counties cuz it's durable af 😂
lmfao ok fair
My boss the owner at subway had all our employees sign a document that stated their pay would be docked if they gave free food to their friends. I’m the gm and he said he would take out 50 dollars every-time he caught them. I don’t think I’ll be working for him much longer. he also hasn’t paid a couple of people who worked for us a day or two . Super shady stuff
my last retail job they had a live feed of all the stores projected on a huge screen in the head office (which was open concept so literally everyone who worked there could watch the store employees). they would call the store if the employee was caught doing nothing. and it was a - small business - lmao
Because a bartender can't get/borrow a car from a spouse or family member. FFS.
It should also be noted 40-60 billion is stolen as wage theft by employees, a similar stat that never gets examined.
If I'm treated as a human at my job, I wont want to steal anything. If I'm treated like a worthless piece of garbage and watched constantly like I'm gonna do something bad, then you better believe I'm taking your pens.
In all seriousness though, my current job is the only one where I've actually felt like a valued member of a team and treated with respect. It really doesnt take much. Literally just do what your grandma teaches you and treat people as you would want to be treated.
This video motivated me to clock in before changing for work. I'm on the clock now.
There are cameras here, but I don't mind them since as someone training as an auto tech I already have a significant portion of my assets in a cart at work.
But the screen to see what's going on in the shop is set up where everyone can see it.