Tesco staff

[blup]

Violent shoplifting chavs wont be deterred by this, look at all the entertainment in the red tops and you tube from videos of criminal assaults and worse. Plod don't enforce the law or even bother to come out to an incident anymore. All it will do is encourage staff to be less willing to discuss genuine customer complaints.

Blup

 

[fillyboy]

Violent shoplifting chavs wont be deterred by this,

Yes but every little helps.

 

[securespark]

What plod like is evidence on cam.

They have been moving for many a year over to crimes that are easily detected and solved. If a fine can be applied, all the better.

North Wales have been asking for dash cam footage of idiotic driving and prosecuting on the strength of it. No doubt if shop staff have similar footage of theft or assault, police will happily prosecute. It's a very easy path for them.

Perhaps if they stopped surrounding innocent people with cameras at every opportunity, there would be enough police to concentrate on proper crime.

 

[omph]

Not narcisstic per se in the general population.
(that is of course a trait that is prevalent in politicians!)

The problem is a result of corporate greed, and the massive gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots'...

Corporate greed persuades the 'have nots' to crave what the 'haves' own, and when it becomes unachievable then the inevitable breakdown in society occurs!

I'm not denying your economic critique - all I am suggesting is it is somewhat reductionist. To limit all problems to some economic woe is too simple. This is a multi-pronged issue that has been gaining slow but assured traction for many decades now.

Take for example, how does sexual assualt some of these staff members are experiencing tie into corporate greed ? Perhaps corp. greed is exploiting human sexuality, but what created that vacuum ? The loss of morality, ethics, self control, discipline, respect and so on.

Someone who is assaulting someone cannot control themselves - is that lack of control because of frustration ? possibly. Could it be due to entitlement ? sure. Anger/MH issues because of family breakdown due to infidelity ? What about idealogical assumptions about human nature that are leading to this ? like people should be able to satisfy every want and need they so desire, however they desire - surely, that'll create an entitiled human that can't handle a no. Sometimes not getting what you want, and learning to accept that is a good thing.

All of the aforementioned pointers have one theme running through them - "me", whether corporate, familial, individual, social, sexual. We have no concept of a collective anymore because we no longer value the other.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

It's not to do with economic causes - it's all the decline in society and retreat of police from the streets to behind a steering wheel or desk. People had absolutely nothing in the 30s, no Nikes, no i Phones, no Sky TV - but they didn't go around assaulting shop workers. Society and the law didn't put up with it.

 

[Roy Bloom]

It's not to do with economic causes - it's all the decline in society and retreat of police from the streets to behind a steering wheel or desk. People had absolutely nothing in the 30s, no Nikes, no i Phones, no Sky TV - but they didn't go around assaulting shop workers. Society and the law didn't put up with it.

I don't think Nikes, iPhones nor Sky TV was available in the 30's.

 

[Vinty]

There is no deterrent these days, people commit crime because they can get away with it.
Bullies don't target people they believe are stronger than they are.
I take my daughters dog to the park, there are signs saying all dogs must be kept on a lead, yet some dog owners let their dogs of the lead as soon as they enter the park.
Anyone who points out to these dog owners that their dogs should be on a lead usually get a mouthful of abuse.
Its the same reason people hunt Foxes, they do it because they can, they know there is feck all the Fox can do about it.
Another example of this trait in human beings was one day i was talking to a mate who runs a kickboxing club, he had just come out of the club and we met in a carpark outside an Iceland supermarket.
We chatted while he waited for his wife to collect him in the car.
His wife arrived in the car, she was driving very slowly while looking around for my mate, one guy driving behind wound down his window and started effing and blinding at her, telling her to get out of the way.
When my mate saw this he walked over to the guy and said "Thats my wife you are shouting at" the bloke's demeanor changed immediately, his face went white and looked quite frightened, he knew instinctively that he could be in trouble, anyway my mate invited the bloke to shout at him in the same manner he had shouted at his wife.
The bloke in car declined the invitation and then reversed his car and left the car park.
That in a nutshell sums up how humans behave.

 

[IT Minion]

So much 'it was better in the old days' nonsense in one place. It has always been this bad, roughly. Mostly worse.

Congratulations old fogies, you've made the world a fractionally kinder place than when you were children.

 

[securespark]

Some people think they can do what they like. But they don't like it if others dare to be critical of them.

I'm always calling out drivers who park in disabled spaces without a badge.

If I see them I tell them that the parking wardens are sheet hot round here (to be fair, they are) and next time don't forget to put your badge on display. I spotted this car with no badge on display while I was outside a shop messaging my lad. I looked up when the driver of the car blipped the exhaust several times while moving off. He's obviously desperate for attention in some way. He turned round and came past, lurching to a halt close to me. There were three cars behind him and one in front of him who could go nowhere because he was blocking the road. No matter, he wanted to have a word with me. "Oi, Wanchor!"
"What you looking at?"
I resisted the urge to tell him I was looking at a selfish git.
I just trotted out my line about traffic wardens. His face turned a weird shade of purple and he opened his glove box and yelled that it was in there and he forgot to put it out.

I pointed out there wasn't a blue badge in his globe box.

There were now two cars honking at him. I think he was feeling the pressure to move. He called me a sad b'stard, told me I should have been a traffic warden and tried to roar off, which was thwarted by the fact that he was still hemmed in front and back.

I had a good laugh as he left.

My Mum's right. One day, I'll probably get my head kicked in....

 

[carmanmemoranda]

We've created a very selfish society, seems to have accelerated over the last few years