My sister's husband basically stole a TV during Black Friday and everyone's acting like it's fine...
My sister's husband basically stole a TV during Black Friday and everyone's acting like it's fine...
This just happened during Black Friday and I'm still processing it. My sister and her husband Michael went to Walmart for their Black Friday sale. According to them it was absolute chaos - hundreds of people everywhere, barely any workers, total mess.
Michael managed to grab one of the doorbuster deals - a huge 65" TV that was marked down from $899 to $399. Apparently the checkout lines were so insane (staffed by one underpaid employee) that people just started walking out. Like literally just pushing their carts through without paying because there weren't enough workers at registers and the underpaid security guard obviously wasn't getting paid enough to care.
And my sister and Michael joined them. They walked out with a $400 TV because "everyone else was doing it" and "the store's owners should have been better prepared."
The part that really bothers me is they were bragging about it at family dinner yesterday. Right in front of their kids (8 & 10) AND my kids (7 & 12). They were laughing about their "amazing deal" like it was some funny story about outsmarting the system and they are right!
I pulled my sister aside and told her this was basically stealing and sets a horrible example for the kids, who may get fired in the future for not risking their lives to stop the theft of a commodity. She got defensive saying that she recently finally sat down & read some of the theory I'd sent her over the years and that she realized big stores expect this kind of loss during sales and that it's not really stealing because the store "couldn't handle their own sale properly and Joe Biden has done nothing for the working class the past 4 years."
Michael jumped in saying I need to read more Marxist theory on class struggle & how it relates to crimes such as theft and that I'm probably just jealous I didn't get any "deals." I'm honestly disgusted by the whole thing. Later my kids were asking me if it's okay to not pay for stuff when stores are really busy, which just proves my point about what message this sends.
My sister hasn't talked to me since I called her out, and my parents are saying I should apologize for "making drama" and that it's "none of my business" but someone needs to say something, right?
Am I seriously overreacting here? Everyone's acting like this is just normal Black Friday behavior and I feel like I'm going crazy....
I love that only one person pointed out that this completely fake story was posted too early for it to make sense because at the time of this post "yesterday" was the day before this event was supposed to happen
Too early to be true, yet too late to inspire people to imitate it.
Is this a bit post? Stealing from Wal Mart is hilarious and good. The only downside is that they definitely have cameras and face tracking software and you can definitely get in trouble down the line for doing this. But honestly fuck wal mart, especially if you have the privilege to deal with some of the potential legal consequences of stealing from them. It's more ethical to steal from Wal Mart than it is to buy from Wal Mart
Comrade, it's a bit. The details like
Michael jumped in saying I need to read more Marxist theory on class struggle & how it relates to crimes such as theft and that I'm probably just jealous I didn't get any "deals."
Are too
The sister said she finally sat down and read some of theory sent to her. Of course this is fantasy.
For one second i thought this is a legit post here on hexbear
ah dang this is a bit isn't it
Posts like these should go in badposting
Uncritical support to Michael in his struggle against the understaffed Walmart empire
Link the source. This is too good.
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Shoplifting from big box stores makes you fucking cool dude.
Won't anyone think of the $700 billion company?
I do
It's not about the company. Who cares about the company. It's about who you are as a person. If your honesty is conditional, you're not honest. You're a thief who doesn't steal from poor people.
That's not for any of us to judge (unless any of us are cops or judges, otherwise judging would literally be our jobs), certainly not me, but for you to live with and suffer the karma from.
You're a thief who doesn't steal from poor people
You're a thief who doesn't steal from poor people.
And?
stealing from capitalist priests is good for your soul
If your honesty is conditional, you're not honest. You're a thief who doesn't steal from poor people.
If your honesty isn't conditional, you're an overpriveleged rube. The vast majority of us have lived, or at the very least can comprehend, situations where being honest is deeply unsafe. That you can't even comprehend facing consequences for honesty says a lot about you.
I wish this was real
keep your shoplifting below the felony limit
Also keep your masks on
Stealing from Walmart is good. I wish i could get my family to read theory and loot.
Based if true
dudes rock
If they don't care, you have every right to do the same :)
my kids think its cool now and i don't know how to tell them that their father is afraid of getting tackled by some overweight security guard when they notice I've got six boxes of bagel bites in my coat so I DO HAVE A RIGHT TO CARE
How many yards of linen you got there?
Uphold
breadbagel lines
Based as hell, I never understood why so many people whine about "looters", is it hurting you or any other regular person specifically if someone steals from some huge supermarket?
I mean, I know the reason for it
, but still.A 65" TV for $900 at full price? What sort of quality is that going to be?
If you're going to risk committing a crime, might as well steal a decent quality TV.
when was the last time you bought a tv? I got a 4k 65" 2 years ago for 300 new and it's great
Idk what price TVs are but there is no reason to restrict yourself to the discounted items in such a situation.
on the one hand, stealing from wal mart
On the other hand, wanting a 65" TV
so ehhh esh i gess
smh your sister and her husband should raise their kids better, at ages 8 & 10 they should be old enough to point at you and call you a
go steal one for your kids, lib
michael is right. you need to read more theory.
but yeah you’re over reacting. who gives a fuck if someone “stole” from walmart? i dont care if its a loaf of bread, a tv, or a hunting rifle. walmart owes us all. our tax dollars pay their employees for them so they dont have to. every american should be entitled to at least a tv per year from walmart
karl marx himself wrote “walmart is bad. stealing from them is cool. it could get you pussy too. girls love a cool guy who steals from walmart. steal something for them. they’ll feel like they’re dating disney’s aladdin”. maybe if you took michael’s advice and read more theory you’d have known this by now. thats also why he’s shacked up with your sister. she knows he’s alpha.
in fact get michael on this account OP i wanna talk to him
You are overreacting.
its LITERALLY stealing
Counterargument: Stealing from Walmart rules.
The situation does feel strange and uncomfortable, admittedly.
As OP said, lots of people were walking out without playing, I actually think the store might watch the cctv back and actually track down people because that one TV, being taken by say 30 people would be $12,000 and worth investigating
spoiler
(this is the top comment on the r*ddit post)
the redditor doesnt know shit. walmart will discover that tv is missing next june when they do inventory.
Like literally just pushing their carts through without paying because there weren't enough workers at registers and the underpaid security guard obviously wasn't getting paid enough to care.
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... "the store's owners should have been better prepared."
My thought process every time I am waiting in a long line at a store with < 50% the aisles open and every person at them working too hard, can't stop for a drink of water or anything.
An atmosphere of collective rebellion could discipline the managers to adequately staff. If they need to pay higher wages, bump more people to full time, whatever it could take.
This... this is a bit right? This is a contender for another "copy-pasta", right?
It's copied from
/r/AmIOverreacting
hell yeah Michael
I wasn't able to liberate any magic cards today.Walmart steals 100x more from their employees through wage theft and consumers via jacking up their prices constantly.
You're sister and her husband sound like high noon rebels
So the concern here is that he might get a misdemeanor larceny charge and has set a bad example for his kids by not checking for security measure before breaking a law yeah?
I mean it sucks for the workers but absolutely hilarious how the capitalists are selling the rope they've used to hang themselves
The Reddit comments were mostly telling the OP to narc it was so pathetic
