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soshinysochrome replied to your post “If you shoplift don’t reblog posts about respecting retail workers…”

IIRC, it’s super illegal for a company to cover losses by garnishing an employee’s wages. At least, in the US.

@soshinysochrome except they don’t garnish the employees wages…

The store covers the cost by reducing the number of hours they can allocate to employees. 

Shoplifting = money the story has to cover = store covers money by reducing the number of hours they can allocate to employees = less money for employees because they could only work 30 hours as opposed to 40 = less money in employee paycheck.

So at the end of the day shoplifters basically stole from employee paychecks because the store covers the loss by reducing the number of hours the employee can work. Retail workers have to survive too. 

How on earth is that in the shop’s interest? Aren’t they running on the minimum hours needed anyway? Pretty sure their losses will be bigger from closing a store for a few hours than any money they might gain by not paying staff.

they’re not employing the workers as a favour to the workers – they’re employing them because they need people to do a job.

this shit is why workers rights laws exist.

Shoplifting is a constant. Average loss from shoplifiting will be pretty constant year to year. It should be factored into the budget. 

Taking employees pay or cutting hours is a terrible business practice, and it’s really not ethical.

I worked at Walmart. Our yearly bonus was reliant on how much was stolen from us. If there is a lot of theft/shrink you get little to no bonus. If there is barely any theft/shrink you get a decent bonus.

I have NO sympathy for shoplifters.

They aren’t fucking over the company they are fucking over the employees who only get minimum wage.

I don’t have much sympathy for them either, but I’m way, way angrier at the unfairness of the business taking money from workers for something they can’t actually control.

I don’t think holding shoplifters responsible for the bullshit actions of employers is useful or sensible. 

The way I look at it is that I massively don’t like how large chain restaurants redistribute tips, or the whole “let’s not pay our staff enough and get the customer to pick up the slack” thing inherent to the tip system. But I also can’t stand people who don’t tip. Sure, the system is the main thing at fault but the guy who’s too cheap to tip or the guy who doesn’t tip “on principle” isn’t passively screwing people over. They aren’t as guilty as the system as a whole but they aren’t screwing over people by accident either. It’s the same kind of thing with jackasses who shoplift luxury goods, sure they’re less guilty than the store that screws their staff over but a good percentage of them have gotta figure that Walmart workers get fucked over by this and take shit anyway.