Shopworker sacked for tackling suspected bacon thief
Submitted 3 hours ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75ywgnlq4no
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Zombie@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 15 minutes ago
I say this a lot but in general theyre not stealing it to eat, theyre stealing large amounts of high value meat to sell it on down the pub.
Theyre actually preventing people from buying good food by nicking it all. We are not talking about someone taking one loaf of bread because theyre hungry.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
And now because of it I need to get cheese taken out of a plastic cage.
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
No. People trying to maximise profit from basic human requirements is why you need to get cheese taken out of a plastic cage.
Not the poor trying to feed themselves.
Get a grip of your priorities. The management and executives of Tesco, Sainsburys, M&S, Asda, Lidl, Aldi, etc are doing just fine, unlike the people having to risk a criminal record, arrest, public shame, and in some cases physical assault for £4 worth of bacon.
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Look at that poor boy, for instance, on the street corner there. He is ragged, pale, and half-starved. He sees another boy, the son of wealthy parents, and that boy wears nice clothes, he is well fed, and he does not even deign to play with the poor kid. The ragged boy is angry at him he resents and hates the rich boy. And everywhere the poor boy goes he experiences the same thing: he is ignored and scorned, often kicked about — he feels people don’t think him as good as the rich boy, to whom every one is respectful and attentive. The poor boy gets embittered. And when he grows up, he again sees the same thing: the rich are admired and respected, the poor are kicked about and looked down upon. So the poor boy gets to hate his poverty, and he thinks of how he might become rich, get money, and he tries to get it in any way he can, by taking advantage of others, as others have always taken advantage of him, by cheating and lying, and sometimes even by committing crime.
Then you say that he is ‘bad’. But don’t you see what made him bad? Don’t you see that the conditions of his whole life have made him what he is? And don’t you see that the system which keeps up such conditions is a greater criminal than the petty thief? The law will step in and punish him, but is it not the same law that permits those bad conditions to exist and upholds the system that makes criminals?
Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.
Consider: does it make any difference whether you do wrong protected by the law, or whether you do it unlawfully? The thing is the same and the effects are the same. Worse even: legal wrongdoing is the greater evil because it causes more misery and injustice than illegal wrong. Lawful crime goes on all the time; it is not punishable and it is made easy, while unlawful crime is not so frequent and is more limited in its scope and effect.
Who causes more misery: the rich manufacturer reducing the wages of thousands of workers to swell his profits, or the jobless man stealing something to keep from starving?
from Now and After by Alexander Berkman, Chapter 4: How the System Works. Available to read for free here.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
One stop workers always seem to love having power over customers in my experience. Never been to a shop with staff more strict on following every stupid rule they make up.
Refused to sell me a pack of crisps because it’s past it’s best before date. I don’t care I just want the discounted crisps. Nope she took it off me insisting it’s illegal to sell it to me - it’s not. They are also the only shop that has asked everyone I am with for ID because I wanted to buy a single bottle of cider. I am 32 and was refused the sale because someone didn’t have ID.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 minutes ago
Cashier’s and crossing guards… poster children of a tiny bit of power going to ones head.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 1 hour ago
One Stop couldn’t have been clearer: don’t confront shoplifters. She admits she knew the policy and received training, yet she deliberately ignored it because “instinct took over.” That’s exactly why they sacked her.