A little light reading while you wait 20 minutes for your McFood because nobody wants to waste their life being abused for hunger wages by a literal clown.
This was hung up in plain sight next to the registers at the McDonald’s along I-80 in Winnemucca NV. Name and shame
You know how some shops that have loyalty programs? Get points when you spend money in a shop that kind of thing. The fraud is when a customer whom does not have a loyalty card is served by a cashier who does have a loyalty card and the cashier swipes their own card to get the points.
The t&C of the card likely says the person who spends the money is the one entitled to the points.
I put it under the category of victimless crime because the points are made up and the only real loss is the corporation running the program and fuck those programs.
I worked with someone who did this for 2 years before getting caught. They raked up over $3000 worth of store credit. Got caught when they used some of it in front of another employee, and that employee snitched.
But for real I hate loyalty programs. They data mine the hell out of loyal customers and offer pennies in return if you’re lucky.
So theft is theft. I guess I get it but the term loyalty theft makes it sound so much different. When I used to work fastfood I gave free food to people I didn’t even like - usually shitty customers just to get them out of my face. But hey that’s not loyalty theft at least.
The idea that an employee is not only not given the agency to make that kind of decision, but that an employer would consider using discount codes inappropriately a crime, and that they see nothing wrong with posting this in plain view of customers is dystopian as fuck.
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what the hell is loyalty fraud?
Theft, apparently
lol I just bought stock in MCD. Funny how that works.
That should read wage theft instead
TF is “loyalty fraud”?
You know how some shops that have loyalty programs? Get points when you spend money in a shop that kind of thing. The fraud is when a customer whom does not have a loyalty card is served by a cashier who does have a loyalty card and the cashier swipes their own card to get the points. The t&C of the card likely says the person who spends the money is the one entitled to the points.
I put it under the category of victimless crime because the points are made up and the only real loss is the corporation running the program and fuck those programs.
I worked with someone who did this for 2 years before getting caught. They raked up over $3000 worth of store credit. Got caught when they used some of it in front of another employee, and that employee snitched.
But for real I hate loyalty programs. They data mine the hell out of loyal customers and offer pennies in return if you’re lucky.
Yeah, the unspoken rule is to NEVER give any cashier your email address when asked to sign up for something.
Dear every employee dealing with the general public, feel free to “steel” all my “loyalty” points. I don’t need them.
What in the ever-loving fuck is “loyalty fraud”?
It’s doublespeak for giving people a discount.
So theft is theft. I guess I get it but the term loyalty theft makes it sound so much different. When I used to work fastfood I gave free food to people I didn’t even like - usually shitty customers just to get them out of my face. But hey that’s not loyalty theft at least.
The idea that an employee is not only not given the agency to make that kind of decision, but that an employer would consider using discount codes inappropriately a crime, and that they see nothing wrong with posting this in plain view of customers is dystopian as fuck.
Fear tactics indeed. Shitty management 101.
Oh that’s….somehow less bad than I thought, at least. I thought it was something about faking loyalty to the company.