[ SECRET POST #1885 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1885 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Star Academie]


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[No Angels]


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[How I Met Your Mother]


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[Kyo Kara Maou]


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[Big Miracle]


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[Glee]


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[How I Met Your Mother]


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[Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog]


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[RED, James Bond, Sherlock, Cabin Pressure, Iron Man, Hawaii Five-O, Inception, White Collar, Supernatural and Glee]


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[Leverage]


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[Oresama Teacher]


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[Prison Break]


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[Casanova]


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[The Wire]


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[Read or Die]


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[1776]


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[Mawaru Penguindrum]


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[avatar: the last airbender]


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[Sleep No More]


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[Cillian Murphy]


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[Modern Family]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. When you steal, you're not stealing from the 'authorities'. You're stealing from normal people, and the authorities are just trying to protect their rights. (At least that's what they're supposed to be doing.) Every time you steal, somebody gets into trouble. (Seriously, if you shoplift from a store, who do you think is gonna pay for that? Because somebody will be paying for that in one way or another, usually someone non-deserving.)

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

This, exactly. I'm not saying there's never any reason to break rules, but (on serious rule-breaking in general, not just shoplifting and not just lawbreaking):

1) Know who's going to pay for it before you do it (and remember that if you fail, that person paying for it is YOU.)

2) Make sure whoever that is is someone deserving of what you're doing to them, and not some underling of the Big Bad whose eye you're spitting in. Odds are the spit will never reach the god's eye anyway.

3) Remember that the situation in which anyone actually is deserving is rare and serious. Try your best to exhaust other options before you do what you plan to do.

The vast majority of "I'm gonna break the rules" is, sadly, not about challenging systems that need to be challenged and cannot be worked with, circumvented, or changed (or smashed!) from inside, but about wanting to feel cool.

Sigh. :-/

[alizara.livejournal.com]

This is an excellent comment and you should feel good.

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *feels good*

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Odds are the spit will never reach the god's eye anyway.

THIS.
Much of the time, trying to "stick it to the The Man" often ends up hurting everyone BUT The Man (becasue The Man has dealt with this before, and knows how to work around it).

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. I remember hanging with some people a while back who were really into protest marches, bragging about how they'd throw bricks through windows of Corporate Nemesis Of The Day. I was just like "dude, even if I agreed 100% with you that Corporate Nemesis is pure fucking evil, what exactly do you think that did?"

(Yes, I know not everyone who protests pulls this kind of crap, so just forestalling people taking it that way. And yes, I do think sometimes violent protest can be called for. Wanting high-fives from your bros for daring to throw a brick through a window isn't that.)

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Yeah,that seems like a pretty lame "accomplishment"... sheesh.

[lilya7.livejournal.com]

I'll see it as a big accomplishment the day windows spontaneusly grow glass hands, grab the brick and throw it back at them.

[(Anonymous)]

Not gonna lie, this is one of the reasons the 'Occupy' movements in the two cities I commute between had me so annoyed. The protesters were more a nuisance for those of us everyday people trying to go about our lives than they were for the government or the rich or whomever they were protesting against.

[fenm.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I lean pretty far to the left, and I still can't find myself getting behind the Occupy movement 100%...

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm the same way. Them trashing up our parks and disrupting traffic (both street and foot) doesn't warm me up to their cause either.

[runonmoonlight.livejournal.com]

I think that's the thing though, if it's the 99%? That represents essentially everyone. And when does everyone agress politically? I think it's more about getting behind the movement of: we need more of a voice, more respect, and to find ways around eroding our quality of life. It`s a different kind of movement than ones we`ve had in the past, it`s not about a specific issue, or just one specific cause. It`s about society, and the direction that we`re taking. It does trickle down to specific and concrete things, and plans, and issues, but the uniting factor is much higher up.

That be my view of the whole thing anyways.

[(Anonymous)]

I've worked in retail, and they actually figure in a certain % of shoplifting to the budget and orders. So you could argue that the store's expecting it anyway and in some cases nobody will really pay.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes they even have to raise prices in order to cover losses. The supermarket I used to work at had a really bad year of shoplifting and charged an extra 10% on certain items to regain the loss. So in the end, it was the customers who had to pay more. Not "The Man".

[ikabod11.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. Everybody pays for shoplifting. The predicted shrinkage is part of the determination of cost. Businesses charge more to cover the profit lost from things expected to be stolen. It's the same logic behind insurance companies charging higher rates to cover fraudulent claims.

No business EVER just sucks up a loss. That shit always gets passed on to consumers in one way or another.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the kind of argument that justifies capitalism (excl. smaller shops). If you shoplift from a large chain, who are you going to harm? The executives that've been stuffing their pockets? The hideous markups from where the original clothes have been made in China by children? These stores need to go down.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's similar at every store, or even all over the place, but I know that some stores will dock the salary of whoever's on shift if something goes missing on "their" watch. It's not right, I don't think, but it's something to consider.

[(Anonymous)]

This, with the larger chain stores.

I work in a large chain store. I'm working in the cash office now, counting the money for deposit, but I used to be a cashier. I had no idea until I started working in the office but cashiers don't get in trouble from being over or short the amount of money the computer says they are supposed to have unless it is more or less than five dollars. So the whole time I was a cashier, I could have taken one dollar from my register each shift and never gotten in trouble. When working five days a week, I would have made an extra five bucks a week and the store would not have cared!

See why I say it is so tempting to steal?!

- OP

[(Anonymous)]

Your experience =/= everybody's experience.

Not all stores work like that. Even large chain stores have different policies in different areas.

[(Anonymous)]

Did I say everyone should go steal from their work places right now? No, I did not. I'm talking about myself and no one else. I'm just saying that I'm already tempted to steal and figuring out how my place of employment operates (meaning how they don't miss a buck or two) just makes me all the more tempted to do so.

- OP

[tonicat.livejournal.com]

Didn't some lady do this for like 10 years? She stole 1-4 dollars every shift and just saved up. The store didn't realize until she quit and deposited all the cash in a lump sum. Did I just dream this?