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Marriott-tier hotels with free breakfasts in busy areas are where it's at. Wear a nice shirt, look like a person doing a business, eat the foods.
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Guest2553 posted:Marriott-tier hotels with free breakfasts in busy areas are where it's at. Wear a nice shirt, look like a person doing a business, eat the foods. Not shedding tears for business travel hotels and the breakfast buffet employees probably care even less, but that is just stealing. It turns out that you can walk into any number of places and take things without paying for them until someone stops you.
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Apr 13, 2024 03:31
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Not shedding tears for business travel hotels and the breakfast buffet employees probably care even less, but that is just stealing. It turns out that you can walk into any number of places and take things without paying for them until someone stops you. Remember: if you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.
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Apr 13, 2024 03:33
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It turns out that you can walk into any number of places and take things without paying for them until someone stops you. Oh man this changes everything
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Apr 13, 2024 03:55
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I've never thought to take food, but I have more than a few times ducked into a hotel on my way to work or whenever I'm downtown exploring to grab a "free" coffee.
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Apr 13, 2024 04:04
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Cyrano4747 posted:Remember: if you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t. Every single business this is a threat to factors it into their budgeting. They literally set aside millions a year. It really put into perspective the theater part of security theater when I learned what the grocery store I worked at set aside for the shrink budget, and how fast it made the yearly shrink budget back (roughly two weeks worth of sales).
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Apr 13, 2024 04:12
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Warmachine posted:Every single business this is a threat to factors it into their budgeting. They literally set aside millions a year. It really put into perspective the theater part of security theater when I learned what the grocery store I worked at set aside for the shrink budget, and how fast it made the yearly shrink budget back (roughly two weeks worth of sales). Two weeks worth of sales is almost 4% of yearly revenue. That's not a trivial amount lol
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Apr 13, 2024 07:20
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normal non grocery retail shrink is 1.5% ish. groceries actually have sky high shrink mainly from stuff rotting
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Apr 13, 2024 14:27
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Boris Galerkin posted:"We're drowning and we don't know what to do" I know this is a few pages back but just look at that delusion also, bullshit that the super manly masculine turbo dude with a new 4Runner and a new Silverado only spends $150 on groceries a month. He's probably buying that much meat every 4 days.
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Apr 13, 2024 14:51
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conforms to benfords law, anyways
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Warmachine posted:Every single business this is a threat to factors it into their budgeting. They literally set aside millions a year. It really put into perspective the theater part of security theater when I learned what the grocery store I worked at set aside for the shrink budget, and how fast it made the yearly shrink budget back (roughly two weeks worth of sales). They just write it off, Jerry!
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Apr 13, 2024 17:09
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big shtick energy posted:They just write it off, Jerry! ... I'm starting to think you don't actually know what that means, Kramer.
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Apr 13, 2024 17:12
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"Have you never heard of something called insurance?  "—someone who apparently fundamentally misunderstands insurance and who increased rates get passed on to
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Apr 13, 2024 17:32
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I worked at a department store and theft (mostly from employees) was an annoyance. Made doing inventory more tedious, made it take longer to leave every day when they sent a separate person to double-check the drawer counts, and made me lose sales I would have earned commission on because some trashy clerk stole the last one in stock.
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Apr 13, 2024 17:43
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Warmachine posted:Every time vacation chat comes up and prices are tossed around, I'm thankful I bought a bunch of second hand camping gear in college and learned that not only is hiking beautiful, peaceful, and good for your health, but it's also cheap as gently caress.
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Apr 13, 2024 18:29
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Note that "shrinkage" isn't just theft, it's everything that goes missing that is unexplained, like say because the business in question is using an inventory system from the 70s that frequently just lets things get stuck in a corner of a warehouse for months because someone transposed a couple of numbers in one of the twelve manual steps that has to be done by three different people for any given item at any given location.
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Ham Equity posted:Note that "shrinkage" isn't just theft, it's everything that goes missing that is unexplained, like say because the business in question is using an inventory system from the 70s that frequently just lets things get stuck in a corner of a warehouse for months because someone transposed a couple of numbers in one of the twelve manual steps that has to be done by three different people for any given item at any given location. A few jobs ago my employer was shutting down a warehouse that had a small adjoining office building. While clearing it out they found a huge assed pile of really expensive materials (specialized inks) for the poo poo they made in the back corner that were totally worthless now due to age, and the packing slip attached to one of the pallets indicated they'd been there since the mid 80s. We're talking low 7 figures worth of poo poo, in Second Term Reagan dollars.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Not shedding tears for business travel hotels and the breakfast buffet employees probably care even less, but that is just stealing. It turns out that you can walk into any number of places and take things without paying for them until someone stops you. Steve Wynn will never financially recover from me eating some lovely scrambled eggs
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Apr 13, 2024 19:38
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Cyrano4747 posted:We're talking low 7 figures worth of poo poo, in Second Term Reagan dollars. I’d believe it. Just in time inventory management isn’t perfect and sure led to some problems during the pandemic, but a lot of the systems from the pre-late 90s or so were absolutely abysmal.
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Apr 13, 2024 19:59
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Cyrano4747 posted:Remember: if you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t. The number of people who will go out of their way / put in the effort to steal a mini-muffin they don’t need is inconsequential to a business, so I’m broadly going to assume that someone stealing food needs it. Yeah I know there are exceptions, but gently caress it. I didn’t see you slip those strawberries into your coat. Sundae fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Potato Salad posted:also, bullshit that the super manly masculine turbo dude with a new 4Runner and a new Silverado only spends $150 on groceries a month. He's probably buying that much meat every 4 days. there is almost certainly a shitload of eating out expenses hidden in all the generic debt, since there is no line item for it. nearly everyone eats more than $0 of food away from home, especially people financing multiple trucks
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Apr 13, 2024 20:39
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Warmachine posted:Every time vacation chat comes up and prices are tossed around, I'm thankful I bought a bunch of second hand camping gear in college and learned that not only is hiking beautiful, peaceful, and good for your health, but it's also cheap as gently caress. unless you get bit by a tick and end up spending a week+ in the hospital and are on antibiotics for the next month, like i was growing up. never again going hiking that's for sure
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Apr 13, 2024 20:44
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The bigger your truck the more the fast food workers respect you. Especially if it's too big to fit in the drive through and they have to walk your food out to you.
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Sundae posted:The number of people who will go out of their way / put in the effort to steal a mini-muffin they don’t need is inconsequential to a business, so I’m broadly going to assume that someone stealing food needs it. There are self-checkout shenanigans in high income areas that are pretty brazen (huh inventory is short on $300+ bottles and cooking wine sales are way up with little inventory movement), but at that point it’s the business cost of not paying people to work checkout.
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It’s not only right to steal from Whole Foods, I t’s a moral imperative
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rational reminder guys did an interview with a behavioral economist focused on why people are bwm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWjiQlHDe1s&t=1s one thing that struck me off the bat is the research showing that if someone is presented a certain purchase like a car or a house at a certain value and debt load and told to imagine they bought it, people tend to focus more on the debt load. but if given the exact same value and debt load and told to imagine their neighbor bought it, people tend to focus more on the value our jealous chimp brains are programmed actively make us feel lovely about what we have relative to what others have no matter what
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I have a strong feeling there's the barest amount of inventory control on hotel breakfast buffets, and they probably throw out far more than ever gets pocketed. There was a movie with Christopher Walken called Five Dollars a Day where he played an incredibly cheap and unscrupulous man. One of his money saving tricks was ordering room service under a different room number, and then intercepting the tray saying his wife's still asleep and didn't want to wake her. A really impressive amount of cheapskate scams in that movie.
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drk posted:there is almost certainly a shitload of eating out expenses hidden in all the generic debt, since there is no line item for it. nearly everyone eats more than $0 of food away from home, especially people financing multiple trucks yeah they seem to be using the really bad method of accounting that my parents passed down to me (until i finally started using double-entry and tracking things properly). credit card bills (minimum monthly payment) are just bills you pay as part of your monthly expenses, like the electric bill or whatever. purchases charged to credit cards mean nothing and are free so you don't need to track them in your spending. this does a very good job of laundering the $500 you spend specifically on mcdonalds every month into "oh that's just the credit card bill, nothin' ya can do 'bout that!"
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"My wife and I make $400,000 per year in Kentucky, travel internationally, and make monthly charity donations on par with our mortgage, but we are just getting by and it feels unfair that I might have to pay 2% more in taxes. That could really break our fragile finances."   
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Definitely don't want to know Mr. Littles' views on how hard the poorly paid staff at his staffing agency work.
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this isn’t a politics thread. post BWM or move on
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This article's from last year: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/12/dixon-illinois-city-fraud-betrayal-00075869 But Patrick McKenzie just posted an excellent thread touching on it and related issues: https://x.com/patio11/status/1777833277895626823
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Phanatic posted:This article's from last year: It's kind of insane how easy it is to get away with for nearly 20 years. But also quote:The U.S. Marshals auctioned off Crundwell’s assets — including five properties, dozens of cowboy hats, $250,000 worth of jewelry, 400 horses and a large quantity of horse semen — clawing back about $10 million for the city.
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I own 2 cowboy hats and the second one was kind of a dumb purchase (maybe not so dumb if it fit a little better). But dozens? Do you think he would different ones just so people would notice? Gotta cycle the hat at Sunday church services? Struggling to comprehend that part.
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Apparently she just didn't steal enough. I've been following this case because I know the guy: https://behindmlm.com/companies/bitclub-network/doj-going-after-matt-goettsches-bitclub-network-millions/ https://behindmlm.com/companies/bitclub-network/goettsche-struggling-with-pre-trial-conditions-after-722m-ponzi/ While he's had a *shitton* of assets seized, after they decided he wasn't a flight risk and let him out of jail they've been living it up in his huge loving house. And wandering around town with his house arrest bracelet on, lol. Almost 5 years now. I think they are gonna settle at some point here and his family will still have a ton of money, from just the most obvious scam. We get upset about people stealing food from a hotel breakfast, but this guy.... He may never be able to work again, but why would he want to? And his family is set up.
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Son, if you're going to steal, make sure you steal enough to pay a team of high powered lawyers. Then you'll at least get to keep some of it and stay out of prison.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Son, if you're going to steal, make sure you steal enough to pay a team of high powered lawyers. Then you'll at least get to keep some of it and stay out of prison. Yeah but make sure you steal from the government or poor people. If you steal from rich people with connections and lawyers of their own they’ll Madoff you and you’ll die in prison.
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Can I just choose to not do my taxes every year and just get audited? I hate doing taxes. I work multiple gigs and have multiple retirement plans and it’s a bit of a headache filing and the amount I owe Uncle Sam every year seems so random. What’s the worst that can happen if I choose to just not file my taxes and instead wait for the IRS to audit me for what I owe? (Aside from needing to pay interest?) e: to be 100% clear this is from r/pf lol Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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One weird trick, tax preparers hate it!
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:rational reminder guys did an interview with a behavioral economist focused on why people are bwm I listened to this today, thanks. The podcast seems interesting too in general. To your comment, the professor rationalized it as basically "I don't care if you're in debt I care if I'm in debt." On Budgeting: - I think I also heard her say that in one study, they asked the random pool of participants (with participants being people that use a partner credit union, so there's most likely a selection bias with that) approx 2/3 of people said they "budgeted." Budgeted is in quotes because the researchers didn't define what budgeting meant so as to allow the responders to decide for themselves. - People who earn less and have irregular income tended to budget less than people who earned more and/or had regular income. When asked why, people said that budgeting made them feel poor so they didn't do it. On Self-Worth vs Other's Worth: - People were told to imagine either themselves or someone else getting a windfall and asked them how they'd imagine themselves/others spending the money. Most people said that they'd do a combination of saving and paying off debt. The interesting thing is that people were confident that they'd use the money to pay off more debt compared to the other guy. Maybe they just don't think other people are in as much debt, or maybe they just care more about their own debt situation. It kinda ties with what the OP I quoted said. On Investing: - In general, if people were given a choice between a safe 2% ROI vs a risky 10% ROI, taking the 2% ROI in their minds was equivalent to losing 8% ROI. They didn't see it as a 2% ROI, they just focused on the part that they could have gotten 8% more. I might have gotten some details wrong. I listened to it before lunch on/off doing work. I might relisten to the investing portion as I thought that was pretty interesting. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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