When I was a kid you could just leave some cash and take the drink in this situation lmao. Progress!
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Draegur@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
i was forced to wait (under pain of “loss of customer trust rating”) for ten minutes because they wanted to inspect and approve my purchase of a can of redbull because there was no one available with all staff busy.
that amount of time, had i been clocked in at my job, would have entitled me to a quantity of pay greater than the price of the drink.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Draegur@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
One of the many ways in which the world used to be better, indeed…
Nowadays if a store tried to be that lenient, they’d be robbed blind and bankrupted in short order. But that says more about people struggling and not having the resources they need to survive no matter how hard they work or how willing they are to work than it does about people being moral. It didn’t take as many work-hours to afford rent or bills or food back then so people used to have the ability to not care if a little went missing every once in a while. Now there’s no margin left and the squeeze only gets tighter and tighter.
LemmySuxNow@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Who forced you to wait? Was this one of those people who stand at the door? You know you can just walk past them right?
Draegur@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
You must not have very good reading comprehension. I literally said what would happen if I left after they flagged my transaction for inspection.
But I’ll tell you more.
A couple years ago when they first released the self-check-out app, I took a picture of the QR code I’m supposed to scan to complete the transaction at a designated check out area because I didn’t think walking to the other end of the store was necessary when the cups of hot coffee they sold were over here in the in-store cafe area. If I want to buy a cup of coffee and enjoy it sitting near the area where I get the item in the first place, it’s kinda’ dumb to expect someone to leave that area to actually complete the transaction and then walk back.
With that picture of the QR code, I made the self-check-out app scan it right there where I got it and wanted to drink it. I paid, fair and square.
They flagged one of those transactions for inspection, and back then I shrugged it off.
THEY SENT A FUCKING COP TO EJECT ME FROM THE PREMISIS AND CHARGE ME FOR THEFT AND TRESPASSING.
When I showed them how I completed the transaction and PAID THEM WHAT THEY WANTED TO BE PAID AND THEREFORE DID NOT STEAL they told the officer that they were not going to press charges and that I can come back if I “learned my lesson”
I would prefer not to be accosted by PIGS for a crime that didn’t even HAPPEN, all over again.
So, in short, fuck you for being stupid.