Rather just figure out where the board and C-staff lives and take a shit on their porch
Every day
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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m increasingly of the opinion that the only way to stop the excesses of capitalism is with a concerted effort to gum up the works, one business at a time, from most to least evil.
Everyone who has worked retail knows how to waste the company’s time, money, and effort.
Let’s say it’s a chain of megamarts:
Pick a busy day. Load up a cart with rotisserie chickens, raw meat, and ice cream, and abandon it in the garden center. Window shop and ask as many questions as possible of every employee you encounter. Ask dumb questions. Ask what the battery life on a pair of wired headphones is. Ask how many eggs are in a dozen. How do they know the chicken is boneless? Have they looked? Don’t buy anything you ask all the questions about. Buy only loss leaders. Pay with a combination of loose change, a check, and a card you know will decline at the end. “Oh wait I need just one more thing. I’ll just be a second!” then leave through the garden center. Go to the automotive center and talk to them about financing a large tire purchase. Back out at the last second. Get paint mixed and then wander off absentmindedly while they’re mixing it. Pretend to be interested in signing up for their store credit card. There are so many time wasting questions you can ask about a credit card. And so many ways to fill out a form incorrectly so it’s useless. Try to pay with any coupon but one that you know will work. Expired coupons. Coupons for other stores. Coupons from defunct stores. Coupons from Arby’s. Chuck E Cheese tokens. Gift certificates from that one comic book shop across town that’s run by a sweet old man that still uses gift certificates because he’s old fashioned that way. Traveler’s cheques. Ask if your membership card from their direct competitor entitles you to any discounts. If you speak a language other than English, that is now your only language. You understand English only when it is disadvantageous to the company for you to do so.
Time is money. Waste their money. And since this is being done to one business at a time, their competitors don’t have an entire movement of people acting like plausibly deniable problem customers dragging them down. You’re distorting the margin at which they can operate. If they raise prices while it takes forever to buy anything in the stores, well, none of their competitors have that problem.
Yet.
Leave glowing reviews of every low-level employee you encounter. Tip them. Make up a few employees and give them glowing reviews. Leave scathing reviews of anyone in management you encounter.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Please don’t contribute to the abuse, torture, and murder of vulnerable individuals just to make a totally unrelated point.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
it sounds fun but
And since this is being done to one business at a time,
how can people coordinate that?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Pick a chain. One that’s everywhere. Then pick a day to start and a condition for ceasing. Then get the word out.
The thing is to be indistinguishable from a run of the mill garbage customer, so if they crack down on people for acting like that, they’ll piss off the boomers who genuinely act like that as a matter of course.
Leonyx@kbin.melroy.org 15 hours ago
Pray tell I never run into someone like you if you ever come to the store I work at to do any or all of those things. I will make your death slow and painful. I will restrain you to a shopping cart and I will pay a trip to the hardware section so I can test the effects that each tool will have on your body. Then, we'll pay a visit to the chemicals section and I'll happily have you sample each chemical I've always wondered in how it'd taste but you'd be my test subject for that. Then we'll pay a visit to the automotive section for more experimenting, where you'll probably face more painful tortures, before I unceremoniously dump you into a baler and happily turn the key to crush you.
And when people ask me as I am arrested for the obvious murder, I'll point them exactly to this post of yours. While saying "this is the dumbfuck who thought they knew how to start a revolution".
unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
[deleted]Leonyx@kbin.melroy.org 15 hours ago
There is nothing influencing my opinion and thought process about how I feel about you this instant.
Your method, would upset and destroy lifelines whose jobs are tied to the stores that your big-deal idealistic and immature "plan" would invoke on. It is poorly thought out, outright stupid and details how out of touch you are with reality. Go ahead, I lobbed you an easy smart-ass retort where you can tell me "but whuh abut ur violent fantasy and u tuld me im out of touch?". Gave it to you.
You're a fucking idiot, through and through. Spoken like a true dumbass Redditor who pretends they're not a Redditor. Tell me, is Lemmy really Lemmy anymore or just simply another Reddit faucet containing social rejects like you?
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Oh my. This is so well planned. Props to you.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This reads like a George Carlin bit
1984@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Harassing the underpaid workers is your solution?
One thing ive noticed is that the younger generation, which I assume you are, have a lot of desire to change capitalism but absolutely shit poor ideas how to do it.
Im not saying I have any great ideas either. But making the already suffering employees suffer more will not lead to changes. You know that.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They’re already harassed and their conditions are already deteriorating. The only way that will ever improve is if there is no profit in mistreating them, since there is no party interested in improving things for workers in this country.
One thing I’ve noticed is that boomers think that if you disagree with them, it means you must be younger than them and therefore wrong.
As opposed to no desire to change capitalism and infinite excuses to prevent such change.
Or any desire to formulate any.
They will have to suffer more regardless. Capitalism demands more work for the same wages over time. And inflation guarantees that wages’ ability to pay for a living decrease over time.
I know I disagree with you so you immediately assume I’m a child incapable of giving anything any thought. I work in a customer-facing position. I have my own set of ways to gum up the works for my sector of the economy. Yes, some of the things I listed are aggravating to workers. The ones I have for my job are based on personal experience and I know I would hate them too. But every last one of them was selected to maximize time and resources wasted first and foremost, with the goal of causing actual diminution of the fortunes of the company. If it’s just a dick move to the employees, if it causes them suffering without also harming the company’s bottom line in some way, I didn’t include it. Except maybe the dumb questions thing. That’s probably a bridge too far.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
If you’re older than a boomer, your arguments tend to consist of. “Speak up! Why can’t you speak up? No, I don’t need a hearing aid. I need you to speak up!”