A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world daikiki @lemmy.world 1y ago

Some dystopian doublespeak from Micky D

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

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What in the ever-loving fuck is “loyalty fraud”?
- It's doublespeak for giving people a discount.
  
  No, it's not, it's referring to e.g. the cashier scanning their personal mobile app rewards account when checking out people that don't have one, accumulating tons of points in the app
  
  Oh that’s….somehow less bad than I thought, at least. I thought it was something about faking loyalty to the company.
  
  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.
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.
  
  Oh no, also they don't get the valuable customer data they were looking for either. That's the whole point of those cards, to track their customers better.
  
  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.
What the fuck is "loyalty fraud?" 🤨
- Presumably putting in your own rewards account so you get the rewards points from customers transactions, which yeah, you're not allowed to do that.
  
  You're not allowed to do it by policy, but it isn't theft, and it isn't even a crime. At worst it's a violation of the employee handbook, which in this particular franchise sounds like it could result in being fired. Still not a crime.
That should read wage theft instead
Dear every employee dealing with the general public, feel free to "steel" all my "loyalty" points. I don't need them.
By reading this I feel that guy working for McDonald used to take a shit on the mcnuggets and then sell it (i didn't remember the news, something like that). Abusing places that make their workers full of insanity. Don't eat my hamburger if in the future you will find me working in a fast food because for sure I shit on them.

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