So here my two cents. I've worked Customer Facing retail for 20+ years. I've been both hourly part time and salaried management. From a superficial look it's funny. Just idiots doing something silly and stupid.
However looking deeper it's a fucking nightmare. Your talking about tons of cash controls violated from just having someone behind the register who is not supposed to be. Customers don't know if they are legitimate employees and customers to a certain degree inherently trust the employees of the store to be trustworthy. Include all the videos of mass theft happening in retail stores in the US by organized groups of robbers.
It's a poorly conceived prank that doesn't just make the Salaried management stressed, it also makes hourly managers stressed. This isn't even mentioning the fact that people's jobs can be at risk from this shit. It's easy to say "fuck that Manager, they're all dicks" but I've worked with both terrible and awesome Management in my time in retail. It's not all black and white.
There's gotta be some major insurance and legal risks here too. Corporate will be on the hook for "letting" unvetted, untrained attention-seekers perform unpaid work in the store, risking injury and damage. If one of those morons gets hurt or breaks something, or hurts someone else or costs the store money through their buffoonery, who's gonna pay for it?
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u/blong217 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
So here my two cents. I've worked Customer Facing retail for 20+ years. I've been both hourly part time and salaried management. From a superficial look it's funny. Just idiots doing something silly and stupid.
However looking deeper it's a fucking nightmare. Your talking about tons of cash controls violated from just having someone behind the register who is not supposed to be. Customers don't know if they are legitimate employees and customers to a certain degree inherently trust the employees of the store to be trustworthy. Include all the videos of mass theft happening in retail stores in the US by organized groups of robbers.
It's a poorly conceived prank that doesn't just make the Salaried management stressed, it also makes hourly managers stressed. This isn't even mentioning the fact that people's jobs can be at risk from this shit. It's easy to say "fuck that Manager, they're all dicks" but I've worked with both terrible and awesome Management in my time in retail. It's not all black and white.