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**Info-phone** · 01-09-2007, 08:29 PM

Originally posted by Janaki
I found it funny.
Unethical but I say

coz Walmart makes way too much money. I say we need to spread the wealth. Ah, I was wondering when we'd encounter this argument. It usually takes the more subtle form of "Wal-Mart refuses to allow its employees to unionize and pays them terribly, in addition to hurting small businesses and using sweatshop labor. Therefore, I am not stealing by sneaking this CD out of their store; I'm sticking it to those greedy corporate fat cats." Did DF auction off this iPod and give the proceeds to Hurricane Katrina victims or something? No, he gave it to his girl, and probably got a night of good sex out of it. Don't bother putting an altruistic patina on this, he's not Robin Hood.

DF: Polite, badgering, mox nix. You exchanged broken merchandise for an unbroken upgrade, taking advantage of a dumb manager to do it. You said the people in customer service essentially rolled their eyes when they heard who authorized it, and argued beforehand, which leads me to believe that what happened was not quite routine. Do you know for certain that they made an official record of the $50 you paid? I'm wondering if they extracted that extra bit to cover their butts when management hears what happened ("Chris said to do it, so we did it, but we had him pay for the upgrade all the same"), or if that fifty bucks went into someone's pocket at the end of the day, to buy the Customer Service people a couple of rounds at the local bar while they laughed and told their favorite "Hey, do you remember that time Chris...?" stories.

01-09-2007, 08:29 PM	#26
Info-phone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	Originally posted by Janaki I found it funny. Unethical but I say coz Walmart makes way too much money. I say we need to spread the wealth. Ah, I was wondering when we'd encounter this argument. It usually takes the more subtle form of "Wal-Mart refuses to allow its employees to unionize and pays them terribly, in addition to hurting small businesses and using sweatshop labor. Therefore, I am not stealing by sneaking this CD out of their store; I'm sticking it to those greedy corporate fat cats." Did DF auction off this iPod and give the proceeds to Hurricane Katrina victims or something? No, he gave it to his girl, and probably got a night of good sex out of it. Don't bother putting an altruistic patina on this, he's not Robin Hood. DF: Polite, badgering, mox nix. You exchanged broken merchandise for an unbroken upgrade, taking advantage of a dumb manager to do it. You said the people in customer service essentially rolled their eyes when they heard who authorized it, and argued beforehand, which leads me to believe that what happened was not quite routine. Do you know for certain that they made an official record of the $50 you paid? I'm wondering if they extracted that extra bit to cover their butts when management hears what happened ("Chris said to do it, so we did it, but we had him pay for the upgrade all the same"), or if that fifty bucks went into someone's pocket at the end of the day, to buy the Customer Service people a couple of rounds at the local bar while they laughed and told their favorite "Hey, do you remember that time Chris...?" stories.
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