I have legit thrown down with shoplifters I might be a wagie but I at least have my pride and honour
Damn, bro, I'm sure :porky-happy: will notice you for saving him some paltry change. What's that? You're not doing it for him? You're potentially risking your life for some arbitrary sense of honor (likely instilled into you at a young age), despite most companies enforcing a "no heroes" policy? Shit.
I've seen this meme in particular ruffle feathers, especially in the kinds of spaces that repost fucking Stonetoss comics and transphobic fearmongering, occasionally spilling into outright fascist accounts. Similarly, they also decry the trend of "landlord hate". It makes the role of reactionary politics in bourgeois society so transparent.
As a former grocery worker I can confirm that the ethical thing to do is to leave it on the shelf for another week so it can reach the expiry date and then throw it in the dumpster outside and pour bleach on top
God it's so gross how much just gets thrown away.
We'd just throw out the entire salad bar weekly. End of the week, every week, didn't matter how fresh stuff may or may not be...all into a 55 gallon can (sometimes multiple), and then into a dumpster. You could take some with you if you wanted before pitching it but...
Just...eughghgh.
Evergreen post, I tell you hwhat.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
This but me throwing $1300 worth of lobster into a trash compactor at the hoity-toity grocery store I worked at because the dipshit middle management sent 3 weeks' worth of lobsters all in one shipment, instead of letting us order them in batches so that we wouldn't waste money and make animals slowly die in near-frozen hibernation for no good reason because people couldn't buy them fast enough to keep up with our supply and we could only put so many in the tank at once
I used to work in a deli and my manager threatened to fire us if we took anything before throwing out our leftovers. We either had to buy it as is or toss it. This obviously didn't stop me from taking some when no one was looking but it's just so shitty. The amount of perfectly good food being trashed everyday was sickening and really opened my eyes.
i tell all my people the scan out box is basically a free goodie bag just don't get caught or get anyone else in trouble. luckily a food bank gets some of our food but it's still an insane amount getting thrown out. that and some of the food banks have volunteers taking all the expensive items to resell which really does show some american capitalist :brainworms:
some of the food banks have volunteers taking all the expensive items to resell
ugh ugh ugh of course they do, I guess I'm not surprised but holy shit :yea:
I have legit thrown down with shoplifters I might be a wagie but I at least have my pride and honour
gets fired the next day so the company can avoid liabilities
:swole-doge: I have legit thrown down with shoplifters
:cheems: yes boss please commit wage theft against me so alpha uwu
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This is the one instance wherecalling someone an NPC is warranted
Literal Elder Scrolls NPC brain: "I see someone stealing so I should fight them"
As I joke, chan types love to see themselves as chaotic neutral but in reality they are lawful evil.
Love the implicit mystification. Promoting crime. As if someone stealing bread is crime in the sense of making people feel unsafe. Like my day is ruined, I thought this was a nice neighborhood and then I saw someone not pay retail for bread. I'm going to have to move now because I fear my children might be exposed to someone I don't know not paying for a product at the store. Somehow stealing is a magical act in which it curses the area, causing property values to drop and people to leave. It's totally just not you and the rest of the suburbanites overreacting.
I would ask if a system in which people don't pay for bread, where it's legal to just take it, would be evil. But they would say yes because they're holding onto some 18th century brainworms about how commerce is a righteous act of god or something.
stealing is having the richest person gift the bread, so it's basically philanthropy which the libs love
I'm convinced that the large retail stores that are still not reopening their storefronts since the George Floyd protests are doing it to buy political favors using this crime narrative. Any rational business would want to make their store look as inviting as possible to attract customers as quickly as possible because they are still supposedly in a competitive market.
The crime is the worker doing labor for minimum wage while the shop makes record profits.
I miss the good old days when everyone had typhoid but at least they hated the cops.
Knew someone who got stabbed for attempting to stop a shoplifter
Not that I want these house-broken libs stabbed but some people don’t fuck around, it’s not worth it :shrug-outta-hecks:
___i think people who are so enthusiastic to be cops they don't even gotta be paid and on the union should get stabbed actually
Imagine risking confrontation, let alone harm, out of fear the Walton family might be deprived of 50c of profits? Not me I would never.
lib critiques of conservative hypocrisy are embarrassing, but i gotta say i kind of like conservative critiques of left hypocrisy. makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
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:frothingfash:: How dare you care about others getting food and shelter!? GRAAAGHHHH GARRGGLLEE!!
:soviet-chad: : Ot yebis' ot reaktsionera.
Conservatives are ignorant and misanthropic on top of them being too cowardly to express their real views that their takes often just ends up being funny, while libs will just give you one of the most casually fascistic take you will ever hear with a tee-hee 🤭
Doing the work of rent-a-cops for free is dignified and alpha as fuck bro :frothingfash:
Hell I've been a rent-a-cop and even they get told not to do that kind of dime store Punisher shit. They're not paid enough to care anyway
That's just the capitalist stealing money from me then lol.
Capitalists won't keep the store open if it didn't earn them profits, they do take shoplifting and fraud into account.
