When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have ‘2 for $x’ specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item.
People would often not want to buy 2, but I would ring up 2 in the till for the special price and charge them for the single. Then when the next person did the same, I would charge them for the other single.
So over the day, I would sell 10 energy drinks at say $4, but ring them up as 5 ‘2 for $6’ specials. This would put the till up by $10, and then I would use that $10 to have a free meal.
Anyone else do anything like that?
Uhhhhh honey what you’re describing is called “theft”. Also known as “fraud” if you want a different name.
But to answer your question, I usually shit during working hours, so I get paid to shit. It’s a great feeling.
Lol not much to lose when you’re on min wage.
You have nothing to lose, but your chains
Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime. That’s why I always shit on company time
The shop is getting the correct amount of money, nobody loses, nobody cares.
I guarantee some busybody middle manager would care, especially if they wanted to fire someone and were trying to find a reason.
@PeachMan wasn’t saying this because they have some ethical problem with what OP is doing, they are saying this because this is technically what OP is doing, and could be held liable for if it was ever brought to the wrong persons attention.
Haha thanks buddy
Is it?? I get it might be bending the rules slightly, but I can hardly believe it counts as theft
It’s actually theft by conversion.
Close, its conspiracy
Don’t know whether you’re kidding or not, but the defining trait of a conspiracy is that more than one person must be in on it. Lemmy being told about it doesn’t count.
I don’t think that’s entirely true. Sure, conspiracies usually involve more than one person, but aren’t there crimes along the lines of “conspiracy to commit x” whereby a person acting alone can be charged for planning to commit a specific crime? I’m thinking if a person is found with tonnes of fertiliser, the blueprints to a building, a makeshift detonator and a manifesto they could be charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder, even though no one else was involved in the planning.
aren’t there crimes along the lines of “conspiracy to commit x” whereby a person acting alone can be charged for planning to commit a specific crime?
Nope. By definition wouldn’t be a conspiracy.
TIL! Thanks for that!
Personally I don’t care and I don’t really think it’s THAT unethical, but it is definitely theft. So be aware if you pull little tricks like that in the future. If you get caught, you’ll DEFINITELY get fired and your employer MIGHT press charges (and they would win).
It might be more obvious if you increase the volume.
Immagine that your employer has instructed you to sell 1 bottle for $3, but you can sell a whole pallet containing 500 bottles for $1000 (coming out at $2 per bottle). So you ring up the whole pallet and pay it off over the next few days by adding $2 to the cash register and keep $1 for each sale. Over those days, you have made one single sale of a pallet, while pocketing $500.
The work hours which was meant for you to generate sales of $3 bottles has been reduced to effectively selling $2 bottles, while the remaining expected value ended in your pocket.
As others have said, I don’t really care about big corporations losing out on some money, but you are 100% stealing when you reduce the expected sales value and pocket the difference during your work hours.
Per https://solink.com/resources/top-types-employee-theft/ it’s basically “Skimming”:
This popular POS employee theft scam occurs when an employee charges a customer full price but takes a little cash out of the total for themselves. This may result in telltale cash register imbalances, or, it can be more complex, like using coupon codes on a customer’s purchase while still charging them full price and then pocketing the difference.
Your implementation sounds pretty close to the coupon version.
Are your bosses ever going to notice? Unlikely. And if they did they’d probably fire you at worst, rather than press charges.
Now, that said, if your manager or employee handbook or any other source of authority at your job says it’s okay, then it is (excepting, of course, if they explicitly tell you it isn’t) - but that’s because it’s a benefit your employer has given you rather than one you’ve taken.
Hmm similar yes. I wouldn’t get fired, I would get a warning at most. We have employee protection laws here.
Have you ever created your own job perks?
No, but I had a small company and asked the worker bees to define their own perks.
There were four employees. Three of them played paintball together and wanted paintballs. So I brought a case of their favorite balls into the office before their outings. The fourth guy wanted to have baby carrots to snack on. He ate ~3 lbs a week. Dude would code for hours as long as he was crunching carrots.
I couldn’t have guessed what any of them wanted but they were absolutely cranked by getting it. This was a huge lesson for me: ask people what they want.
That’s an excellent idea!
I want to go back to bed, boss.
I own my own company, I am the sole employee. I win all the company raffles, it’s great.
My wife owns a small business and I work for her. I get all kinds of perks including being able to sleep with the boss.
I’m reporting you to HR. Is that you or your wife?
Madison in the Linus tech tips office desperately trying to answer this question, lol
The owner of the company also being the head of HR would be a conflict of interest, so you’re going to have to report him to himself.
Nice.
I hope you’re also employee of the month every month too.
Nah, his cat won it a couple times. To be fair, she’s a very effective mouser!
So we simplified the whole thing. We rounded them all down, dropped the remainder into an account only we have access to. It’s like Superman III.
Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.
PC Load Letter?! WTF does that mean?!
I used to work at a place on an hourly wage. There were two PCs you would clock in on. Most of the time, people would just use the one. But one time, I had to use the other. And I noticed the clock was behind on the other. By about ten minutes.
So after that, I would clock in on the computer showing the prior time stamp, and clock out on the computer with accurate time. Ten minutes a day, five days a week, for a whole summer? About a free $100
Nice!! That’s the kind of perk I like.
sorry to burst your bubble but if there were two PCs capable of clocking you in, then 99% it wasn’t either of them keeping track of the time, but rather a separate server they were connected to
I’ve worked in IT. You are most likely correct, and anyone with any sense would do it that way, but I would absolutely believe that someone could be incompetent enough to use the computer’s time stamp. I also wouldn’t be surprised if users had access to change the clock.
You underestimate how shitty most software is written.
I’ve absolutely used timecard software that used the local device time instead of using a centralized time source.
I wasn’t really sure that it would work, but I checked my paycheck and it seemed to be working. This was in 2006 at a country club. So it’s not shocking that a) they had a paid some nobodies to give them a bad time keeping software and b) it was designed to not need the internet.
That is playing with fire my dude. and i’m someone who slits the throats of businesses to make jobs tennable for myself and customers.
Uhaul for example…I dont give two fucks if you committed a heist with one of their trucks and there was blood and bullet holes upon check it. ill just mark it in the system as prior damage and uhaul sends a mechanic to fix it. done…some uhual dealers are fucking douches tho, you’ll know because of the ‘prior damage’ stickers all over. fuck those gougers. Its free money for no effort, no reason to jam the customer up or take more time out of my day ‘inspecting’. that’s the job of uhauls mechanics.
I worked at a gas station selling hot dogs, baguettes and baked goods. I was told to not eat or take the leftover food at the end of the day, but knowing where the cameras was, I consistently grabbed a few items at the end of the shift. They would be spoiled by the next day anyway, so who would care.
Looking back, I understand the policy. The policy is there to ensure that employees dont overproduce towards the end of the shift. Without even realizing, I totally consistently ensured that there was a few extra items at the ready.
It was totaly theft. Even though I didn’t realize what I was doing at the time.
Naaaah I wouldn’t call that theft. That’s your employer subsidizing your meals.
Also a great hack to lower your personal rate of inflation.
absolutely. I work at a phone/computer repair shop.
I have a policy called the “front desk fix policy”. pretty much, if I can fix it at the front desk in under a few minutes, I’m not charging you for it. common culprits are simple software fixes and charging port cleanings.
I give free screen protectors with every repair instead of charging customers for it. the screen is the expensive part not the screen protector.
I also tend to give a 10$ discount if people are just cool to talk with. if we genuinely enjoy talking to each other, they’ve made my day better, so I might as well do the same for them.
I think this is kind of the opposite of what OP was asking about.
What “perks” did people create for themselves?
Good karma generator?
hm. yeah I def read that wrong. more on point I can get any part I need for my own repairs very cheap through our wholesalers so that’s a good perk I guess
When I worked at the window of a national pizza chain, if you paid in cash and told me to “keep the change,” I’d mark your order as cancelled and pocket the whole bill.
I still feel shitty about it but I was making $7/hr as a college student and it sure beat my AM selling pressed pills from the backdoor after close
Don’t feel bad. You stole $10. The CEO probably stole $100 million.
ay dont diss ceo they probably worked hard to steal that money
Afternoon naps at my old job (working from home). My boss knew, but he didn’t care as long as I got my 40 hours in at some point in the week.
Not quite like this. But I started my own business so I (and anyone who works for me) can work to outcomes as opposed to butt in chair hours. I hate sitting around after completing my work just because I have to get an 8 hour day - who cares how long I work if the work gets done.
This is similar to what I thought in response when I read the question, “I created my own job. Perks!” I don’t have to come in early and found I really enjoy working in the middle of the night. All kinds of freedoms, but also all the responsibility. I also found I’m not that great at wearing all of the hats, but that’s just part of personal growth.
Ah yes. The crushing responsibility. Still worth it for me though.
I (with permission, but without oversight) take home all the broken computers, obsolete cables, and other junk from work and either:
- build working PCs from parts of many and sell them
- strip them and sell the parts individually
- sell the cables (if you need a VGA cable for some old monitor at 730pm on sunday right away because your new monitor broke, Im youre guy)
- scrap out computers and cables for ewaste, copper, and aluminium and sell these at the recycling center.
Nothing goes to waste/landfil on my watch. Everything I sell is exceptionally cheap. If someone needs a computer but has no money, I give it.
Dude you’re a fucking hero for preventing those things from going into landfill.
Someone I worked with did something similar. This was close to 25 years ago, at a popular drive thru corporate coffee chain. I took no part in these shenanigans myself, but I got a cut each night we worked together just for looking away as it happened.
Basically, her whole hustle revolved around the fact that the cash register at the drive thru window had been broken and not working for ages. She had memorized the prices for every single item sold there. So when someone ordered at the drive thru, she would tally up their whole order in her head, but then go around to the main counter’s register and ring the entire order up as just a small coffee. She’d then take their money, give them the change that was due, but put the difference into the tip cup.
This went on for about a month until I just couldn’t stand the overall work environment. It’s still to this day the only service industry “job” I’ve ever had. I hated it so much that even all that extra free money couldn’t keep me there.
Hating that one month so much is also the reason I tip service workers as best I can, still to this day.
Can’t believe she got away with that for more than one night
If you need to rely on tips to survive, I’m fully in support of this tactic.
It was in one of them state’s that believe if you’re getting tipped, then your hourly wage should only be a fraction of the state’s minimum.
When I worked the closing shifts at a grocery store years ago, we would go take donuts that were gonna get tossed.
My dad’s friend took me out around midnight one night when I was a freshman in college. We went by a gas station that closes at midnight and the workers just gave him like 30 donuts that didn’t sell. Apparently he does this at least once a week lol. They had the donuts already in a bag waiting for him when we walked in, and all knew him by name. It’s a great life hack. I think the secret to making it work is actually making the workers like you. Gotta spend a few minutes for fun conversation before they give you free stuff.
That’s awesome. Just gotta build a little rapport and you’re golden. So many places throw so much food away. It’s sad. When I did Food Not Bombs years ago, we would get entire bags of leftover baked goods from a local place. They’d give us literal trash bags worth of bagels, donuts, pastries, all wrapped up. Some grocery stores have gotten strict and won’t give that stuff away anymore, but you can still find the right people that don’t give a shit about the rules.
Not me but when self checkouts were first a thing my friend would offer their countdown rewards card to anyone who forget there’s and racked up heaps of points for free. I can’t remember what the points go you except cheaper fuel.
Not really related, but I did ring up some flowers at a self checkout but instead of flowers, it rang up as a rewards card. I did tell the cashier who didn’t give a shit, then went outside and used that “rewards card” to get money off my gas. I think it came out to about $1 a gallon
That’s another great idea
