Chapotraphouse

Every retail worker is going to have a bodycam before the pigs do. And of course it will just be used to micromanage and surpress workers even more than they already are. Take 5 seconds to chat with a co-worker? That's a write up. "Forget" to charge a nice customer for a small item? That's a write up. Exceed your generous 90 second bathroom break? That's a write up!

It's already bad enough that almost every square inch of my workplace is covered by cameras (always used to police workers, I've never seen them used to ban shitty customers or otherwise benefit the employees) but at least there are a couple of blindspots if you want to take a minute. I'd like to think I wouldn't put up with bodycams but I also need money soooo....

Also I hate that I'm constantly being recorded every second of the day. It seems every move anyone makes is being recorded and monitored for the benefit of Mammon. Privacy is a dead concept, sacrificed for all by the few that benefit.

When I worked at whole foods they told us to be "aggressively nice" to anybody we suspected of stealing. Like follow them around and ask if they need assistance and shit.

I never understood the co-workers that made it their top priority to stop folks from stealing. I'd notice folks steal all the time and didn't give a shit. Hell, I used to steal all the time too.

Extensive workplace surveillance is also a good way to spy on your employees under the pretense of decreasing shoplifting.

That's when you start keeping a roll of electrical tape in the car and covering your lens when you're on the job. "Want me to do this shit? Pay me more; you don't pay me to be a rent-a-cop."

...Then keep taping the shit over anyway

What was that subreddit with pics and videos documenting the consequences of demanding employees to do work way above their pay grade? Something like r/MinimumWageDontCare, but that only has 3k subs and I'm pretty sure that's not it

An $8 tube of toothpaste? What do you need a $12 tube of toothpaste for?

I thought they don't want line employees to stop shoplifters because it costs them enormously in insurance and lawsuits if the employees get hurt? did the courts rule that it's all on the workers if they want the job now? not that they won't eventually, just asking if it already happened.

Toothpaste is more than 2 dollars

Put a wool sock puppet over it and act like it's a split personality like Mr. Hat. Or a nametag over it that says SMILE YOU'RE ON CAMERA while the customer also sees themselves on the 48" monitor the store camera (not the one you're wearing) already shows. Make it obviously redunant AF.

I own major shares in CVS which is like 0.069% of my hedge fund, but I also own major shares in a security company which is around 0.000420%of my hedge fund. How do I get a synergy going between them and my REIT 0.05% and my private prison fund 0.000002%? What to do...what to do....oh I can hype bullshit up with my media holding 0.2% to make news stories and then use those headlines to justify to the board of CVS for thier employees to exclusively use camera from the security company for an extra 0.00005% synergetic increase!

I have a feeling if they turn their body cams off they'd actually lose their job.

deputizes me, an hourly retail worker

gets with the other deputy retail workers

proceeds to lay down some deputizing on the manager that randomly shuffles our work schedules

I thought that the main way Americans coped with their declining standard of living was by taking all their frustrations out on retail employees / customer service workers. In that case, deputizing retail workers seems like a bad idea, since a lot of people will presumably get caught in the crossfire when a customer finally pushes them too far, particularly since retail is such a low paid / high stress job and the people who hold these jobs don't necessarily have it in them to not fight back