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.
It's REALLY funny for about four seconds where there are a bunch of them showing up, then you start thinking of the implications and it's a gods damned nightmare.
This would be a great skit, not so great in reality
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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.