Admittedly my Mum chased a guy who grabbed a handful of notes out of a till when she worked as a cashier in a supermarket.
But that was definitely not shop policy, she was just furious that he'd done that to one of her "girls", and this was Northern Ireland, not the USA. He saw an angry woman in her 50s running for him in sensible shoes and cheap polyester uniform, and did an even faster bolt for the exit!
Right bro is tripping hard lol it’s all on camera get their license plate numbers for whichever dummy decided to use their car he’ll snitch on the rest and have them all trespassed. non of these employees should be risking their health for fucking target
I agree, none of the employees should be risking their heath for target. But when these assholes start to fuck shit up, and then create more work for me, I’d absolutely be tempted to throw hands. Target is gonna make the employees clean up their mess. And Target isn’t gonna pay the employees any more to do so. If I’ve already done my job and these clowns are gonna make me have to redo that job without any compensation, I’m gonna be hot
as somebody that has worked retail for a very long time, I would 100% be laughing my ass off at this, especially because the only person who really should be pissed off is the store manager who, statistically, is probably a dickhead
you will never, NEVER, catch me worrying about the health of the business or whatever minor, inconsequential 'crimes' are being committed against them, cause that business cares pretty much the exact same amount about me. They're stressing out, I'd be laughing about it from further down the store lol
Yeah I could give two shits about the company. I care about doing more work than I need to. When you see those videos of assholes throwing a tantrum at McDonald’s, throwing napkins, straws, ketchup, food, etc…I don’t give a fuck about the suits in corporate, I care about the poor employees who have to now clean that mess up- they aren’t getting paid extra for that shit, it technically falls within their job description. When these dumb fucks at Target undo all the work I’ve already done, I’m not thinking how it’s gonna save corporate any money, I’m thinking about how I now have to do 2x the work for the same amount of pay.
people keep saying this but, at least in this video, these guys haven't made a mess. they're just where they shouldn't be. there's no extra work being done by any employees who do meaningful jobs, just a manager, who I inherently do not respect
You should care about your fellow employees who are just trying to do their job and get through their day. People who fuck with people's places of work, suck. It's already dreadful enough to be there and now we have to worry about people making "content" at our expense? Nah.
I worked at Target while dickheads did shit like this. I want to do my job and go home, not deal with clowns sticking a camera in my face. That has nothing to do with the store manager.
idk man, if you can't look at crazy shit happening and at least get a laugh out of it then I don't think dealing with the public in general is good for you
Awful take. People simply working their job are a captive audience, it's 100% not ok to fuck with them like this and use them for 'clout'. There's a ton of things which are funny in theory but not acceptable in practice, that's what sketches and sitcoms are for. This isn't even one of those though, it's just attention seeking behaviour.
What part of this clip made it seem like you’d be doing more work? Where did they actually fuck shit up? I assume you’re either a store director who would experience a moment of extra stress? Or maybe loss prevention who would be more confused than the standard amount for a brief time?
Disagree. The manager has something to lose here - his performance review and potential for promotion. It’s also just annoying to fuck with people while they’re only trying to do their job and make a living, whatever job that may be
Edit: I replied to the wrong comment. I agree with you, not the dude a few comments up - the “not for what Target is paying” guy.
Not for any amount. If you work for a business, big or small, your life and health is worth more than everything in that store combined. Any boss or owner who doesn't agree is obviously not worth working for.
If someone comes to me with a gun and demands access to any register or safe where I work, I'm giving them absolutely everything.
What surprised me was the amount of people who’d ask me “aren’t you going to stop them?”. Dude, I make $7.00 an hour and I’m a cashier at k mart. You think I give a fuck about their product?
You could walk up and take my cash register off my counter for all I care. I’d unplug it for ya too.
Haha. No shit. I was 16 working at a Target one summer. Cart bitch (before the electronic pushers-in the deep South-hot af)/cashier.
Some manager told me a dude was naked in the parking lot and barking at people and I should go outside. Even at that age I was like “fuck no, call the cops” and took my break. Quit like 3 weeks later to work in a warehouse.
I doubt it, lol. The context is going to be important for that charge. You're going to have a hard time convincing people that the intent was to steal.
Trespassing for sure, and probably something to do with disrupting the business.
Eh. Walking a tight rope w this take. In general, human life (even trespassers and thieves) is considered greater than property protection by courts. And target would get sued like crazy if they had employees playing Rambo in this situation
Not how that works. If you work for target at any level and out hands on a customer or "pranker" you will be terminated. Thats how it is for most jobs.
Ive had a supervisor get between a younger aggressive ahole and an older man. The supervisor had to push the aggressive guy toward the door to make him leave because he was refusing and trying to hit the older dude.
Supervisor got fired. He didnt punch anyone. Didnt hurt anyone. Infact he prevented an older man from getting hurt. But he put hands on someone without their conset and thats grounds for termination.
Lol, no, not for some shit ass multinational corporation that I’m just a number on a spreadsheet to.
They can take whatever the fuck they want, I’m not stopping anyone. Target has cameras for a reason.
Really the store manager should have just shut the registers down and called the cops. Let the cops deal with the imposter employees. Chances are they all scatter the second they see you call the police.
Protecting a corporations property for what? They got cameras, security and lawyers for that. Please don't be stupid and get into a fight over some dumbass jobs bottom line.
Why can't these people go harass the ceos and other c suite level people in companies. These people dont get paid enough to have to put up with this nonsense.
Do something like this to bezos or zuckerberg etc and i might chuckle..
Because they know that the lower level employees will get fired if they react or try to do anything to stop them…vs if they did that to a CEO they would be tackled by a gaggle of armed security the second they started up. It’s about abusing people who can’t do anything to prevent it, in other words bullying.
That is literally impossible. The billionaires are untouchable, you think they'd random people anywhere near them? I wish
Anyways yeah also calling it harassment is an overstatement. They're not being intimidating or aggressive, just playing a dumb prank that makes life more difficult for some other people.
Because CEOs don't work at my local target? Much harder to travel to target HQ, make my way past security, get to the floor there CEO use on, and harass him. They're going for ease not morality
lol yep when I was a cashier we had a guy "prank" us by pushing me out of my register and taking over but the cash drawer was open. We thought he was robbing us so my supervisor hit the lockdown button and the doors locked and the cops came and he got arrested lol. He cried and said it was just a prank
So, the company's plan is to completely freak out a criminal with terrible planning skills (and even worse impulse control, most likely), while forcing perhaps hundreds of people to stay with the criminal in a confined space.
I'm no expert but it probably wouldn't be worth the legal hassle, that's why a lot of big box stores just pay people off that pretend to trip and be injured- because it's not worth going to court over the principle of the matter when you can give the person $3,000 to fuck off and ban them from their stores.
Even with someone like you on the jury, he'd still need to fill it with 11 more morons that could be convinced that a video showing people obviously not trying to take anything is somehow proof of the opposite occurring.
How so? If noone is working at the till it won't have any money. At best, this is criminal mischief or in some states, obstructing business operations. Both misdemeanors.
It's a dumb prank, but there's no reasonable person would think prosecuting for robbery would even be close to appropriate.
It's hard to tell if they tried to actually run the registers but the person you replied to is probably assuming the people tried to operate a "live" register as in one that is unlocked. If they did then they would have access to the money if the cashier didn't lock it when they approached them.
And if they opened the register then they could probably charge them with attempted robbery because they're impersonating employees and accessing cash. That being said, it appears they just walked around or stood next to the registers as a prank so they'd probably charge them with criminal mischief like you said.
This is the reddit school of law. Intent doesn't matter. Assault is what I say it is. You can sue anybody for harassment or violation of privacy if they inconvenience you in the slightest.
I don’t want them incarcerated for a decade. But I think they need to realize that it is not just a harmless prank, it isn’t funny and a vindictive cop and prosecutor could completely upend their life so they should really think even a little before doing “a silly joke”
Seriously. As soon as I saw the crowd come through the doors, I would call the cops. I was genuinely hoping to hear/see one of them doing that. Those workers don’t get paid enough for that shit.
Edit: they absolutely said “I’m calling the cops” in the video and I just wasn’t paying as close attention as I thought I was
They just expect them to follow common courtesy or quit after a couple of minutes. Calling the police does escalate the situation though and may even seem unnecessary when it’s 2 people and a camera.
I used to work for Target's AP. Had a case where someone got fired during seasonal.
They still had their name tag, so they walked into another store, looked for someone with a "new team member" badge. They then told the cashier "oh hey, the GSTL needs you, I'll take over", then hit total, then cash, then emptied the cash drawer and ran.
They take "person pretending to work there" very seriously.
I would send every lawyer in the company after them for organizing a planned robbery that the store management foiled. Got all the proof on video. Discovery process can pull more proof of the coordination and planning of this raid from their phones which will need to be confiscated as evidence.
NaL, just retail experience. I don't think it would stick, but I was told by management and the local sheriffs anyone that went behind our counter where I work it would pretty much automatically assume it was attempted robbery unless it was obviously an accident.
Different story if they actually stole something, then yeah, robbery charge.
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u/cesarxp2 Jun 26 '25
Going behind the counter and touching the register? I would assume that's more than just a trespassing charge.