4.2.12 HMV - Shame On You!

Apparently there's a policy at HMV that should delight all the shoplifters in the UK.  It states that security guards should avoid all confrontations with suspects that have the potential to escalate into something more serious.  This includes trying to catch thieves once they have carried their stolen goods through the exit doors.  So, just to clarify, then, shoplifters should be left to escape if they can get past the door.  I suggest tactics of pretending to shop for a while and getting hold of a number of CDs and DVDs; then, after loitering near the front door, making a dash for it.  The HMV policy is that you'll not be chased.

What is pathetic about this cunt of a policy is that until someone leaves a store without having paid for the goods, he/she cannot be accused of theft.  This is barmy; inside the store you're a legitimate shopper and valued customer, but over the threshold, you're a thief who's allowed to fuck off with the goods!  I think HMV twats took some sort of direction from the Middle Ages system of justice.  You know - if you drown, you're innocent, but if you come out of the water, you're guilty.

So, here we have a company that's on its knees, struggling not to go bust, but deciding that it ought to reward non-paying visitors.  I know the people running the company are serious about this policy because they have just sacked a security guard for breaching the policy.  That's right - a security guard chased a shoplifter and caught the bloke (and the 20 stolen DVDs) just 30ft away from the shop.  Mr Oloro should have been commended for doing a good job, but no - apparently he would have been better mumbling "Oh, bother" whilst standing by the door after the bloke walked outside the shop.  There is no cuntin' point in having a security guard if the policy is not to allow any guard to apprehend a shoplifter!  Duhhhh !!!!!

Mr Oloro has worked for HMV for 14 years, and clearly loyalty is not taken into account for anything.  Shame on you, HMV - this behaviour is corporate cuntism!  I suggest that Mr Oloro offers his services to shops in the vicinity; I am sure that one of them would be pleased to employ an on-the-ball person to guard their wares.

This story remind me of another recent incident, where a traffic warden was sacked for refusing to issue large numbers of tickets to "extract as much cash as possible" from motorists.  Mr Hakim Berkani was in a tribunal, explaining the severe pressure he was under, tasked with issuing at least ten tickets per shift.  NSL was the parking firm used by Kensington and Chelsea Council, and both parties would seem to be morally fucked if they are enforcing and condoning (respectively) such tactics to raise money.

So, employers are dodgy as fuck, or stupid as fuck.  Either way, everyone ends up being fucked - the employees, the companies that lose money, motorists who are victimised and the shoppers who pay higher prices to cover losses through theft.

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