Yes it’s very important for solidarity with workers but, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, workers should have solidarity with poor customers. Like ignore shoplifting, be sensitive when ppl are using EBT cards, that kinda thing.
If you work retail and you worry about shoplifters I beg you to remember how little money you’re being paid to do this
and also no matter what your boss says to you, someone shoplifting will not cause your wages to be docked. if it DOES, then you can get in contact with a labor attourney, who will proceed to light up like a kid at christmas because they (and you) are about to get a big fat payday. that shit is ridiculously illegal.
idk who is saying it wont let wages be docked but uh they make up for the money somewhere. wages are not docked. hours are cut through the store. that’s what happens. I will make the same amount per hour but the store might lose hours. If I work hard and my store values me, I will maintain the amount of hours I am getting but someone who is not as good of a worker may lose MUCH needed hours to pay their bills and afford food. On top of that, the extra work that extra person might have done will get tossed on to me. shoplifting culture hurts people in retail. it is not a fuck you to the big man. it will not cut your wage, but it will cut the amount of overall hours the store gets to compensate for that loss so the stock holders, CEO, and the like continue to make what they make and there are record profits.
stop spreading this pro shoplifting culture bullshit please.
for the idiots: theft = profit loss = less hours the district corporate gives the store = less hours to spread between workers in the store = more work (same pay) for people getting those hours. ALSO most Managers are on a Salary with a fixed income. If their store does good they get bonuses but if the store does bad they might be making even less than minimum wage and forced to carry the work of 3+ people.
