Employees stealing off employers are biting off the hand that feeds them..so to speak, somebody has to pay unfortunately it is us law abiding citizens.

A shop security person once followed me around a shop at a distance of about 4/5 yards for about 15 minutes.
No uniform. Shew dressed to look as ordinary as possible and to merge in with all the shoppers.
But she was extremely bad at it and stood out a mile.
While her attention was on me, I am fairly sure shoplifters were helping themselves to goods at the other side of the store.


I resent having to pay more because others have been stealing.

* makes note to nick 180 quids worth of stuff in next year *

As I'm 'working' at home, I may have to steal kids' toys.

I think retail employees who steal from their employers should be made to hold their hands out while a large shop is slowly lowered on to them which they then have to "lift" in order to save themselves. We could all watch and shout "Lift that you bloody flippin thief you!" They'd soon learn their lesson imo 

I don't think retail workers have exclusive rights on taking their employers for a freebie of two


Not condoning it

I used to shoplift in my younger days (a little ), but have paid so much friggin tax in the last 20 years I think I've more than paid my debt to society.

As for chorin from your employer, nah I don't think it's right - unless you're caining the expenses in which case the employer benefits from some kind of tax relief thingy anyway.

In light of new info from slim I propose to subject cads and bounders from all walks of commercial business to Prom's Literal Shop Lifting Deterrent.

How sweet!

....bloody hurts your arms....they're heavy them there shops

I would never ever shoplift  but on a sidenote, when I was made redundant in '07' after 30 years service wih the same company I walked away with post it notes, pens, and allsorts. Was this wrong of me?

Only if it was wrong of me to walk out of work today with an A4 pad ... because my daughter needed one for school

LOL

Yes - very wrong. Hand yourself in tomorrow Pam.

I'd have a hard job Velvet  Company is no longer there, they transferred all their business down to Bradford and basically told everyone to get stuffed...............and this was a major supermarket chain

Steal from the rich and give to the poor.

I made a nice little earner when I was 14, I had lists and everyfink

Sod the post it notes, I'd have had the till. Cheeky bastards.

Haha! lets just say it was the only Safeway to shop, but now there's More reasons to shop there

clever

Ahhhh me seee   *taps nose*  I fell out with Safeways big time cos I wrote to Jim'll Fix It when I was 6 and really wanted to work on the till for the day. I wrote to the dickhead THREE times and did he fix it? Did he feck. I asked Safeways themselves if I could have a go on the till and the stroppy bird on the checkout said no. I STILL don't like them for that. Treated me like a bloody hostage they did

Yes they were, in screwng their workers

And yes I signed something to say i wouldn't 'bad mouth' them, but IMO -  he/they are money grabbing gits

Just seen this Karma  It was in the office I used to work, dealing with invoices

Now the business has closed isn't that null and void? I thought those sort of clauses were only for a period of time anyway? I don't give a toss, I slag off old colleagues and companies all the time - if they weren't so shit I wouldn't need to!

When I was 15 I had a part time job cleaning, I got paid into a bank account and had a bank card to draw the money out of the hole in the wall.

One Saturday I was down town and wanted to draw a tenner out.
This was in the days when you keyed in how much money you wanted specifically.

To my horror £50 came out  Clearly I had pressed a 5 instead of a 1 I didn't have anything like £50 in the account so how was this possible?

I was so worried that I went haring off to the police station and told them that I had just accidently robbed a cash point.
When I explained what had happened and the policeman finally stopped laughing he advised me to go to the bank on Monday and give the money back. 

So I am rubbish at stealing and I have never shoplifted either,

Isadora I am doubled up here laughing

I saw this piece of news on the BBC a few days ago:

An Iranian judge has sentenced a man convicted of robbing a confectionery shop to have one of his hands cut off, Iranian media report.

The judge also sentenced the man to one year in prison.

Police arrested the man in May after finding $900 (£560), three pairs of gloves and a large amount of chocolate in his car, Fars news agency said.