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Color me genuinely surprised. I would have guessed that wage theft was much larger. Experience suggests to me that ~everyone has been pressured at least once to
by woopwoop 6y ago
Color me genuinely surprised. I would have guessed that wage theft was much larger. Experience suggests to me that ~everyone has been pressured at least once to roll hours forward to avoid overtime, but most people don't shoplift.
- loeg 6y agoThere may be fewer embezzlers with disproportionately high average theft, probably with a much more skewed distribution (a few very large embezzlements covers a lot of minimum wage hours).
- thatguy0900 6y agoI think you would be surprised about the most people don't shoplift bit. I've worked at krogers and target, and I would wager most employees did. Nothing huge and not cash but some food here and a drink there and you're talking real money in a years time. Edit: just remembered a funny anecdote, a employee was caught stealing food at krogers, but it was normal enough that they told him if he paid for it they would forget it happened. He pretended to check out and was caught stealing the same food twice so they had to fire him. It was like a 2$ sandwich.
- ojnabieoot 6y agoKeep in mind that’s employee losses, not shoplifting, so it includes corrupt expense reports, embezzling retirement funds, etc.
- Spooky23 6y agoThe number conveniently adds up. There’s a line between appropriate controls and theft, for example being forced to get searched without pay, having forced unpaid breaks, or enforcing late clock in.