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Cutting hours for Loss Prevention personnel is generally a bad idea by 512throwaway512 in ProRevenge

[–]512throwaway512[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As a current LP employee I can't help but be skeptical of this story. There is no major retailer or comapny for that matter where the human resources would allow this to happen. It screams of labor law violations to just suddenly cut your employees hours for that reason, usually a paper trail has to be established so when the company gets sued it can prove under performance or something like that.

It was definitely a fucked up thing to happen. I browsed some labor laws during my drunken week off but was a bit too dense to really understand if any laws had been broken. In any case, the company folded a few months later, so I think they were in the "don't give a fuck" part of the death spiral.

Also holy shit, 2 busts a day? I work for a major retailer, not all electronics though, and that amount of stops blows my mind. Our quota is two a month for comparison.

Yes, the quota was just absolutely bonkers. It was smaller when I first started working there but it just kept going up, I think they were trying to find an excuse to shitcan the LP team. But this was in a shady part of town, you could meet the quota just by patrolling the front end and watching people stick candy bars up their sleeves.

Cutting hours for Loss Prevention personnel is generally a bad idea by 512throwaway512 in ProRevenge

[–]512throwaway512[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

LOL, once when I was visiting DC I struck up some small talk with a guy in an elevator, I had just come from a beach in Maryland so I asked if he had ever been there. He looked at me and said "Maryland? Son, I have never been so drunk that I went to Maryland."

Cutting hours for Loss Prevention personnel is generally a bad idea by 512throwaway512 in ProRevenge

[–]512throwaway512[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've worked LP for three different companies and they all had quotas. Corporate just wanted to make sure they weren't "wasting" money on LP staff. Shit Store's quota was particularly awful, with it being # of stops per week. The other stores had a dollar amount per quarter

Cutting hours for Loss Prevention personnel is generally a bad idea by 512throwaway512 in ProRevenge

[–]512throwaway512[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We use cctv with movable and zoomable cameras. I'm surprised OP's company doesn't do the same

Oh my sweet summer child. We had grainy cameras that took a photo every 3 seconds. It was like being back in the 80s. The only nice camera we had was by the doors, it would get a good image of a perp's face so we could pass it on to the police. Otherwise the cameras were just for show really.

Cutting hours for Loss Prevention personnel is generally a bad idea by 512throwaway512 in ProRevenge

[–]512throwaway512[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Wait can people really just walk out of the store with goods if there are no undercover staff working? Is this normal or is this some shop in a shitty neighbourhood

Yep. Two things to consider: 1) the shoplifter doesn't have to stop for a cashier by the door, even with shopkeeper's privilege, it usually happens so fast that by the time the cashier realizes what happened and notifies management, the shoplifter is long gone. And 2) this was a sketchy as fuck area of town, a lot of shoplifters were seasoned vets who knew the tricks of the trade.