“You might get attacked while on the job, so here, wear this camera.”
“If what I’m doing is so dangerous, don’t I deserve a raise, too?”
“Very funny. Now get back to work.”
“The camera is your raise and you have to claim it on your taxes.”
Bodycams dont make sense if you work in a building. Just place cameras in the building.
The only value i could see is making an offender calm down by making them stare at a camera that is recording them… even though they were already being recorded.
this kills two birds with one stone, they can spy and monitor their employees and it also makes them look like they made an effort to deter shoplifting
The thing is that many of the employees at these kind of places shoplift too. I worked in grocery and department stores for years. Some places were worse than others. It turns out the places that pay fairer wages have less employee theft. What a concept.
The majority of employees just take nearly expired items, and defective boxes, etc. There is so much waste and so much goes into the trash at these places. It’s hard to not be tempted, because it’s mostly just recycling at that point.
So, I agree that these cameras are there to spy on the retail employees, on top of the customers.
I watched a young supermarket employee as he clearly sees a young mother stealing food, he looks at me, shrugs his shoulders, a short thumbs up 👍 from me, and we ignored it together. There you go. Still humans out there.
Shoplifting is actually really based and as an employee your employer shouldn’t expect you to do anything about it. Fuck the capitalist bullshit.
Literally every corporate policy on theft is to let them steal and call the police.
Getting involved physically in any way is a losing battle in court.
Let’s see here, I’m 37 so 20ish years ago I worked for OfficeMax. We were literally trained that if someone was shoplifting to try and note any relevant details then call the cops. Even if that wasn’t told to us none of us were paid enough to do anything about it. Our one older manager tried to stop a shoplifter once and got knocked unconscious for his efforts.
A friend managed an urban outfitters in a busy area of a huge city about a decade ago. He told of organized hits, where like 7 people would come in and just clear out an entire section into trash bags and walk off in under 60 seconds. His hands were tied and also was probably being paid like 30k so he didn’t give much of a fuck either.
It’s just the right of grocery stores to price gouge you for basic biological needs, you see!
Lets just let these problems boil until we’re competing with the birds and beasts again. Fuck society I guess, they got theirs.
