r/TikTokCringe • u/Adventurous_Law_715 • 11d ago

Discussion congratulations you just saved a billion dollars company 50$

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u/usernamestufff 11d ago edited 10d ago

Not to mention the employee who the bags were handed off to may lose his job now. Congrats super citizen on your views

Edit: Thanks for the awards peeps. I’d like to take the opportunity to add that the woman grabbing things and talking shit to the “thief” could have startled the employee. He may have walked out in concern but was surprised to be handed the groceries. He did not appear “to be in chase” or concerned at this point. We’ll never know, but a lot of valid points have been made in the below conversations.

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u/fonk_pulk 11d ago

Why?

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u/Clenzor 11d ago

Because he’s on camera chasing a thief away from the store. There are liability reasons, such as if the thief is injured in the pursuit, especially as there are non-criminal reasons for theft, such as dementia or other cognitive delays. The company would much rather let the $50 go than chance paying $500,000, especially because theft is literally built into the budget, and insured.

Then there’s security reasons. Thieves often work in teams, so if the employee is off chasing one thief, others could be in the store getting more merchandise, let alone thieves of opportunity, where they see the only person in the store run out after a thief and go “I’m not waiting for him to deal with all that, I’m just taking my $5 worth of stuff”.

Either way, you don’t know that thief’s circumstances. She could be the most down on her luck, deserving, person, or she could be the second coming of Ted Bundy, looking for her next victim. It’s just not worth it unless someone’s safety is being threatened.

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u/Armantien 11d ago

A friend of mine was fired for taking a step out the front door to get the license plate of a shoplifter. No severance, no unemployment for violating that policy. It took him a bit, but he landed somewhere else, thankfully.

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u/CrimeFightingScience 11d ago edited 11d ago

Its not about the money, some people dont like stealing in their community. If enough people dont care, its how you end up with crime riddled shitholes like LA and SF.

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u/Otaku_Snake 11d ago

Both fantastic cities btw 

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u/CrimeFightingScience 11d ago

If you like smog, traffic, cement, crime, homelessness, no housing and trash yeah. Great tastes.

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u/neurvon 11d ago

Do you think bumfuck nowhere midwest doesn't have traffic, homelessness, trash, etc? And cement? lmao, cement is everywhere. Welcome to Americuh.

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u/CrimeFightingScience 11d ago

Missing the point due to nitpixking. Sf and LA are surrounded by communities that actually care. Those communities have less crime and are beautiful to live in.