LogFAQs > #970524766

I don't actually care about the profits of a multi million/billion dollar company, but I just think stealing in general is scummy, be it a mom and pop store or a wal-mart. I can understand if people are stealing necessities because they are broke/homeless/whatever, but that actually requires a deep look in to why people are so depressed they resort to comitting crimes just to survive. That shouldn't even be an idea in somebodies head in a first world country, because social services took adequate care of them. Social services generally does not take adequate care of people, though. So that is kind of a topic for another day.

People justify it in all sorts of ways, like "guhh I am not getting paid to do this so i am entitled to stuff for free" or even the machine giving an error message as justification for stealing. I'm sorry, I just can't get behind the idea of it being okay.

This probably goes back to my time occasionally overseeing checkouts at wal-mart...people would steal right in front of you knowing it's very tough to actually get management on your side to do anything, and as a cashier you have zero power to stop them, just about(Though me personally, I wouldn't try to stop them outside of keeping and eye out and giving them good customer service so they feel it's too risky to steal).

I dunno, kinda rambling here, but I am not on the side of mega corporations but I am also not on the side of people stealing either because "fuck the corporations". At the core of it, I won't shed tears because somebody stole something from a wal-mart, but also at the same time I think the justifications for it are pathetic, outside of "person has no money and it's a necessity needed to survive".