Stealing from Subway

[LogicalPimp]

Stealing from Subway is free, healthy, and a great way to have fun. You might have noticed that many people make the sandwiches and leave them in hands reach at the register. Today for lunch, I ordered two foot-long turkey sandwiches loaded with veggies, snagged the food & calmly walked out of the door. The guy screamed at me to "come back", but because he called me an "asshole" I decided I wouldn't come back. Tip: Don't steal from the same Subway too often. If you're in a big city like me, there seems to be one every 5 blocks anyway. Enjoy comrades! Fuck paying high prices for food! Fuck corporations!

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

I know one member here who worked at subway, and was at one point accused of stealing bread. :lol:

[RedAnarchist]

I'd never heard of Subway until a few years ago, then it just became popular and widepsread.

[Organic Revolution]

That is one of the worst formulated plans for stealing I have ever seen.

[Comrade Rage]

Crap-thought you were talking about stealing from the subway.

[LogicalPimp]

Originally posted by COMRADE [email protected] 16, 2007 12:30 am
Crap-thought you were talking about stealing from the subway.
You didn't read.

[Comrade J]

Originally posted by LogicalPimp+October 16, 2007 12:41 am--> (LogicalPimp @ October 16, 2007 12:41 am)
COMRADE [email protected] 16, 2007 12:30 am
Crap-thought you were talking about stealing from the subway.
You didn't read. [/b]
Well if you were from northern England, you probably wouldn't say 'the' even if you meant 'the subway' - you'd just say "stealin from subway" and inflect 'from' :D

[anarchista feminista]

I don't think that's something I'd risk doing. I prefer the idea of the receipts at maccas to get a "replacement" for a dodgy meal. Rather than actually ordering it and taking it in front of their faces.

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15, 2007 09:53 pm
Stealing from Subway is free, healthy, and a great way to have fun. You might have noticed that many people make the sandwiches and leave them in hands reach at the register. Today for lunch, I ordered two foot-long turkey sandwiches loaded with veggies, snagged the food & calmly walked out of the door. The guy screamed at me to "come back", but because he called me an "asshole" I decided I wouldn't come back. Tip: Don't steal from the same Subway too often. If you're in a big city like me, there seems to be one every 5 blocks anyway. Enjoy comrades! Fuck paying high prices for food! Fuck corporations!
ha ha! No loyalty tickets for you! No way im going back to my local subway anyway, some guy contracted food poisoning from there.
:blink:

[AGITprop]

im not gonna lie..steling from subway is fucking easy and hell , WHY NOT?..once i may try but fuck i hate being a thief..lol

[which doctor]

At subway they count the bread, that's how they know if they employees are stealing bread or not. If a manager didn't see it, they will probably scold the worker who witnessed it and let it happen.

[Redboy]

My friend went into Comet once, picked up a few dvd players and calmly walked out.

Not a soul tried to stop him, they must of thought he worked there or bought them :/

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 08:36 pm
My friend went into Comet once, picked up a few dvd players and calmly walked out.

Not a soul tried to stop him, they must of thought he worked there or bought them :/
fuck, i thought they had those barcodes and infra red dectector shit that makes the alarms go crazy if you do that?

You learn something every day. :blink:

Next time I'll walk out with a PS3 under one arm and a Xbox360 under the other! :lol:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Stick to shoplifting. It's easier, you get more choice and if you're caught the penalties are pretty soft, at least in the UK.

It helps if you buy something as well - much less suspicious.

[Palmares]

The easiet scam i know for subway is like any 'free refills' place (if this subway has free refills). Get a cup (from a table, or a bin), and fill it up, and walk out. And repeat, if neccessary. If you are worried about being hassled, try doing it when it is busy, especially if all workers are busy with customers, they probably wont even notice you.

:)

[guerilla E]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2007 02:15 pm
The easiet scam i know for subway is like any 'free refills' place (if this subway has free refills). Get a cup (from a table, or a bin), and fill it up, and walk out. And repeat, if neccessary. If you are worried about being hassled, try doing it when it is busy, especially if all workers are busy with customers, they probably wont even notice you.

:)
This is the same as the hungry jacks free-refill scam, or burger king if your NOT an aussie.

Subway coke is crap anyway, tis watered down, theres not much point trying to steal it.

Theres loaaaads of shit like this - voucher scams (quality printer) and what not.

How plausible is the idea of using thin paper to print out photo-shop made receipts, from a good laser printer, so the idea of bullshit refunds is a possibility?
(also how illegal, from one to ten, is this?)

[Revolucija]

Haha I have found Subway with google, otherwise I wouldn't know what are you talking about :D

There isn't sth like that in Serbia ... Anyway, how do you actually still that food? I have seen some pictures on google image searc but it doesn't seem so easy.

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 09:23 pm
Stick to shoplifting. It's easier, you get more choice and if you're caught the penalties are pretty soft, at least in the UK.

It helps if you buy something as well - much less suspicious.
its not technically shoplifting but i found a way of getting free food at places like asda, tesco etc. Most of these places have a delicatessen counter where you can get pre-cooked meat and ready to eat meals which they then let you pay for at the main checkout when you leave. Simply eat the food while you complete your shopping before you pay for the rest of your stuff and then just hide the evidence!
Voila! A free lunch and no one is any the wiser!

[Comrade Nadezhda]

when I go to subway, mcdonalds or some place where they have serve-yourself soda machines- i always ask for a cup for water (because they dont charge for water if you use the drinking fountain) and have been able to get free soda without anyone noticing. I even did this at culver's without any trouble- it works anywhere when the drinks are self-serve. there is no way of them knowing if you purchased or not - and it's very difficult to get caught.

[RASHskins]

Ulster Socialist
That idea works great i have done it many times at grocery stores here in Alberta.

[AGITprop]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19, 2007 07:45 am

I'd never heard of Subway until a few years ago, then it just became popular and widepsread.

This is because a subway is a capitalist wet dream. Think of their ingredients: bread, veggies, sauces, cold cut cheese meats. Considering how little of these ingredients they put on a sandwich. Each of these are quite cheap when you buy at a supermarket, and cheaper still when bought in bulk. I mean, think of the sprinkling of lettuce they put on your sandwich versus how much a head of lettuce costs!

Now hire some worker at minimum wage to assemble it all and you've got impressive profit margins.
considering it is decent tasting most of the time, yeah...if anything, a little stealing on our part wouldnt hurt. lol

[Killer Enigma]

Enjoy comrades! Fuck paying high prices for food! Fuck corporations!
You have used a two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy. Simply because a corporation exploits workers and would exploit you if you worked there is not justification for stealing from them.

[Dr Mindbender]

Originally posted by Killer [email protected] 30, 2007 08:56 pm

Enjoy comrades! Fuck paying high prices for food! Fuck corporations!
You have used a two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy. Simply because a corporation exploits workers and would exploit you if you worked there is not justification for stealing from them.
it is justified because the corporations steal from the workers by taking their production value therefore the working class should seize it back! It is irrelevant which beourgioise they seize it from because in class terms it is a single entity anyway.

[Freigemachten]

Originally posted by Ulster Socialist+October 16, 2007 08:38 pm--> (Ulster Socialist @ October 16, 2007 08:38 pm)
[email protected] 16, 2007 08:36 pm
My friend went into Comet once, picked up a few dvd players and calmly walked out.

Not a soul tried to stop him, they must of thought he worked there or bought them :/
fuck, i thought they had those barcodes and infra red dectector shit that makes the alarms go crazy if you do that?

You learn something every day. :blink:

Next time I'll walk out with a PS3 under one arm and a Xbox360 under the other! :lol: [/b]
The alarms at my University's book store go off all the time for no reason. As you can imagine, this makes it extremely easy to liberate certain articles. I've watched people throw on a tshirt and a sweatshirt, grab a some grocerys out of the food section, stuff that in a pocket, and walk right out the door, which oddly, you don't have to walk past a cash register to get to. When the alarm goes off, no one pays any attention because it goes off all the time, so people just keep walking. Talked to a guy the other day that walked out with $100+ worth of stuff. Two shirts, a sweatshirt, some food and a couple cans of red bull.

[Comrade Nadezhda]

Originally posted by Ulster [email protected] 16, 2007 02:38 pm
fuck, i thought they had those barcodes and infra red dectector shit that makes the alarms go crazy if you do that?

You learn something every day. :blink:

Next time I'll walk out with a PS3 under one arm and a Xbox360 under the other! :lol:
Several years ago I got a job at an electronics store. I worked there for a few months before quitting. One of the tasks I had to do constantly was put barcodes and other shit on items. The security devices that I was supposed to put on the items I actually deactivated while working. It's really easy, you just scan them all to deactivate them while they are still intact on the sheet. I got away with doing this so many times it surprised me. They are really easy to deactivate and no one would know anyway if you attach a deactivated security device to a package it won't do anything however it will fool others. During that time there was a lot of shoplifting, too, though I was never suspected for it. However, it is quite easy to shoplift, in most cases, if you remove the barcode. You can do this quite easily and often if you conceal your item while removing the security device it won't be taperecorded.

Also, if any of you have Culver's in your area- it's fucking easy to steal their food, especially drinks and cookies. You can ask for a cup of water and fill it with soda, and when you purchase one cookie, take it when they aren't looking (because they are supposed to bring your food to your table with your number) so if you take it they'll bring you a second one as they won't know :lol:

[Comrade Nadezhda]

Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2007 02:29 pm
The alarms at my University's book store go off all the time for no reason. As you can imagine, this makes it extremely easy to liberate certain articles. I've watched people throw on a tshirt and a sweatshirt, grab a some grocerys out of the food section, stuff that in a pocket, and walk right out the door, which oddly, you don't have to walk past a cash register to get to. When the alarm goes off, no one pays any attention because it goes off all the time, so people just keep walking. Talked to a guy the other day that walked out with $100+ worth of stuff. Two shirts, a sweatshirt, some food and a couple cans of red bull.
When I attended the university, the easiest way to steal was in regards to food- i.e. eat it before you have to pay. they don't usually notice, either as there are so many people there at the same time.

[j0m017]

this all seems like petty theft... i dont like to pay for stuff either. but it sure sucks balls at my job when they cut hours because of theft.

[bootleg42]

I would only steal if I know that it's from big rich corporations and if workers don't get hurt from it or from rich people directly.

I remember a lot of us people's in the inner city of NYC were invited to a party in white middle class suburb long island once and we went and the house we went to was LOADED (they had money lets just say) and I walked out of that place with an ipod, X-Box, and a couple of hundred dollars (around 600 i think, i dont remember exactly).

I sold the iPod and I gave the X-Box away to a poor kid who enjoyed it. I gave the couple of hundred bucks to some undocumented workers around my area (my fellow latino peoples) and told them to send it to their families (since 100 U.S. dollars is ALOT of money in latin america). They did.

Stealing is bad folks.................in a socialist or communist society that is, hehehehe.

While in capitalism, don't be afraid to steal if it doesn't hurt workers, poor people and yourself. Also if you steal plenty, don't be greedy, give to the needy.

[Easterbrook]

Originally posted by Killer [email protected] 30, 2007 08:56 pm

Enjoy comrades! Fuck paying high prices for food! Fuck corporations!
You have used a two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy. Simply because a corporation exploits workers and would exploit you if you worked there is not justification for stealing from them.
Couldn't agree more.

You don't induce people to accept your ideas by stealing from them. In the US, most people seem to view us socialists/communists/whateverists as being antisocial, lazy, and misguided. Stealing from restaurants, and then celebrating it on the internet, just serves to perpetuate this image.

We decry capitalists as being dishonest, thievish, and selfish: "Those damn morally selfish Ann Randians" we say. But when we steal, are we any better than they?

[anarchista feminista]

Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 07:57 pm
You don't induce people to accept your ideas by stealing from them. In the US, most people seem to view us socialists/communists/whateverists as being antisocial, lazy, and misguided. Stealing from restaurants, and then celebrating it on the internet, just serves to perpetuate this image.
I agree. Of course I think it makes a point to avoid purchasing products from particular corporations. But stealing to them means that people want their products. Therefore they will produce more. By preventing companies such as nike from being able to sell their products, they have decreased control in society.

[Killer Enigma]

Originally posted by anarchista feminista+December 02, 2007 10:31 am--> (anarchista feminista @ December 02, 2007 10:31 am)
[email protected] 02, 2007 07:57 pm
You don't induce people to accept your ideas by stealing from them. In the US, most people seem to view us socialists/communists/whateverists as being antisocial, lazy, and misguided. Stealing from restaurants, and then celebrating it on the internet, just serves to perpetuate this image.
I agree. Of course I think it makes a point to avoid purchasing products from particular corporations. But stealing to them means that people want their products. Therefore they will produce more. By preventing companies such as nike from being able to sell their products, they have decreased control in society. [/b]
Indeed, no one utilizes symbolic boycotts anymore. I can't tell you how many workers I have been able to tell about Coca Cola's tacit support for the murder of trade unionists in Columbia by not drinking any of their products (e.g. coke, sprite, fanta, nestle). The same goes for Wal-Mart, the garment industry, etc. Boycotts may be ineffective in attacking capitalism as a whole but social learning is a verified phenomenon. People are impressed with dedication to a cause and will more likely respect you if you walk your talk.

[Comrade Nadezhda]

I steal because they charge too much money for the shit they sell. Food for that matter, well it's a necessity.

[E.G. Smith]

I know one member here who worked at subway, and was at one point accused of stealing bread. :lol:

HAhaha they throw out all their bread at the end of the night anyway, what's the big deal???

Tip: most subways don't have trash compactors in the back, they have dumpsters, and yes, they throw away LOTS of that tasty, tasty bread at the end of the night.
Panera does too.

[INDK]

You didn't read.

Lolz, listen to this:

1.) Walk into subway
2.) Ask him to make you a gigantic sandwich
3.) Take sandwich and leave

It floods with logic and artfulness, does it not?

[Cubensis]

I have stolen food from Subway many times. A great place to eat healthy for free. I see nothing wrong with stealing from Corporations who make millions of the slave labor of their workers while the CEO sits fat in his gold chair.

[Dr Mindbender]

I'm not sure that this is a great plan after all. I think large corporations like subway, McD's etc account for all lost stock rather than taking the profit loss 'on the chin' they deduct the money from the salary of the poor guy/girl working at the till.

So bear that in mind next time before you try this!

[Miss Mindfuck.]

That's a pretty horribly formulated plan.
However, I can't begrudge you that, because it's sortof surprising what you can get away with when you literally walk off with shit. An acquaintance of mine wore a mover's jumpsuit into a doctor's office waiting room and, I am not kidding, using a handtruck, stole the couch!

Speaking from personal experience, I am never, ever paying for grooming/personal hygeine products again. But yeah, the laws are pretty lax, particularly if it's your first offense. I'm currently doing a few days of community service to work off my first charge. Also, word to the wise: it is considered theft if you have concealed it on your person, even if you haven't left the store. And unless it's an actual cop with a taser, I'd make a run for it, because I know in my state, once you're out of the parking lot, there's not shit that can be done.

[queerpaganarchist]

That is one of the worst formulated plans for stealing I have ever seen.

Agreed... I clicked expecting something sneaky or at least interesting. Here's it's just "Order a sub and run!"

[Guerrilla22]

step one: walk into Subway with loaded hand gun. step two: demand they make you one of those twelve foot party subs. step 3: after they make your sub, walk out the door (don't forget to grab a a few bags of chips) step 4: enjoy subway every day for the next two weeks! ;)

[RedAnarchist]

step one: walk into Subway with loaded hand gun. step two: demand they make you one of those twelve foot party subs. step 3: after they make your sub, walk out the door (don't forget to grab a a few bags of chips) step 4: enjoy subway every day for the next two weeks! ;)

And then what? Do it again?:p

[Awful Reality]

What's better is go to some fancy restaurant, order and eat your shit, ask them for the bill, pretend to write in it, place it on the table and leave. It looks like you paid, and nobody will know until you're quite far away.

[bcbm]

What's better is go to some fancy restaurant, order and eat your shit, ask them for the bill, pretend to write in it, place it on the table and leave. It looks like you paid, and nobody will know until you're quite far away.

In some restaurants they take ditched bills out of the waiter's pay, so make sure that isn't the case before you do this.

You should also leave a tip for the waiter if you ditch, as its how they make most of their income.

[Colonello Buendia]

My local Subway is understaffed so I always get away with free stuff, mostly scrabble cards and cookies but my favourite things to do is to go into apple sores and complain about my broken Ipod...they just give you a new one!! (I only do this when a new Ipod comes out.

also people, if you pirate MP3s you dowload communism so you may want to consider it:laugh:

[pave_the_planet]

crimethinc are gods(and godesses :P) on stealing. read some of their publications. ver clever

[Black Cross]

Stealing from Subway is free, healthy, and a great way to have fun. You might have noticed that many people make the sandwiches and leave them in hands reach at the register. Today for lunch, I ordered two foot-long turkey sandwiches loaded with veggies, snagged the food & calmly walked out of the door. The guy screamed at me to "come back", but because he called me an "asshole" I decided I wouldn't come back. Tip: Don't steal from the same Subway too often. If you're in a big city like me, there seems to be one every 5 blocks anyway. Enjoy comrades! Fuck paying high prices for food! Fuck corporations!

Remember to grab some chips on the way out. Their usually (around here) right out in the open as well.


In some restaurants they take ditched bills out of the waiter's pay, so make sure that isn't the case before you do this.
You should also leave a tip for the waiter if you ditch, as its how they make most of their income.

That's absolutely the right thing to do. You gotta make sure you're stealing from the right people.

You know, if god didn't want people to steal, he wouldn't have made it so fun.

[BIG BROTHER]

don't they charge the people working at subway if anything gets stolen?

[which doctor]

don't they charge the people working at subway if anything gets stolen?
They can't directly take it out the employees pay unless they consent, at least that's the law in my state. They will most likely be punished however.

[black magick hustla]

crimethinc are gods(and godesses :P) on stealing. read some of their publications. ver clever

crimethinc are a bunch of boring chumps that think they are all exciting and different because of their mutilated, pseudo-situationist politics. In reality they are as boring as every other goddamn hipster in the art/literature university faculties. Worst of all, they try too hard.

God, I hate Crimethinc and american anarchism.

[MAVA]

HA!

[Rage]

I'm a little surprised no one has linked to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jmpHoV9_s

-Fawkes

[bgirlskttlez]

wow that video was genious. if only i ate mcdonalds

[Rage]

It can be used at any fastfood store with two windows.

-Fawkes

[RedAnarchist]

HA!

HA?

[Colonello Buendia]

that would be a fun trick but no fast food like that tastes nice

[Peacekeeper]

You have used a two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy. Simply because a corporation exploits workers and would exploit you if you worked there is not justification for stealing from them.

It is never immoral to take surplus food when you are hungry.

[TheAnarchyKid]

grow your own food

[Jude]

I'm a little surprised no one has linked to this video:

I was going to but you beat me to it :p

As for my own two cents... At Tim Horton's, there are a few items that, when ordered at the counter for the bagel station, do not show up on their monitor. I haven't yet remembered all of them, but as for a list I will continue to update it:

Plain sausage patty (only served during breakfast)
Plain slice of ham
Plain slice of turkey

When it is busy, all you have to do is order your food, go to the bagel station, and start to look like you're getting impatient. Then ask whoever is making bagels and sandwiches if your order is ready. They will ask you what it was, and tell them whatever you want, on the list above. This will occasionally work when it is really busy for bagels and sandwiches, especially if you have already ordered something.

Once again, I realise the "list" only has a few items for the moment, but once I figure out more, I will update it.

[rosa-rl]

Amaze your friends with this disappearing trick.. make objects vanish right in front of them with a sweep...

How to make a 'trick' skirt... its actually 2 skirts.

1) get a saree if you have an east indian store in town.
2)cut the saree in two and hem the raw edges, overlap each peice by six inches and stitch together at the waist. add elastic
3) stitch the two pannels together starting about a foot down the skirt - leaving open slits you can move your hands through.
THIS skirt should be VERY full

4) make the underskirt. Take 3 yards of cloth and cut off one yard. sew that to the center of the two yards makeing a huge pocket. stich the pocket to the top every so often to keep it from gaping. fold over above the pocket and put in a draw string. IT hAS to be a draw string as elastic will droop under the weight of your goodies.

a matching long east Indian scarf will also add to the look and give you more cover to move items.

:thumbup:

[Dicktator]

Getting arrested for stealing a lousy subway sandwich is no way to go down for a GENUINE revolutionary, come on now. Best save your luck and energy for the big bank robbery. Not that I have any moral objections to taking things back from corporations, but if the store workers are going to catch shit over your petty theft I wouldn't do it. And, if you are in a political org (with any sense) you'll want to stay clear of petty crimes lest you invite the cops into you life and activities for a very flimsy reason.

[Foldered]

Minimum wage workers get in shit if stuff gets stolen... it's just not right. Fight the corporation, not the people who are stuck working for them because they can't afford anything in the capitalist society we live in.

[DIzzIE]

Minimum wage workers get in shit if stuff gets stolen... it's just not right. Fight the corporation, not the people who are stuck working for them because they can't afford anything in the capitalist society we live in.

Mayhap the workers should stop participating in legalized theft (i.e. quit their job), and start partaking in extralegal expropriation instead? Then silly aspirations like 'affording' shit would be a non-issue.

[Foldered]

Mayhap the workers should stop participating in legalized theft (i.e. quit their job), and start partaking in extralegal expropriation instead? Then silly aspirations like 'affording' shit* would be a non-issue.
*shit: food and shelter.
Affording food and shelter does not seem like a "silly aspiration" to me, but maybe I am alone in that opinion. I'm not entirely sure I'm following your logic.

[Lost In Translation]

fuck, i thought they had those barcodes and infra red dectector shit that makes the alarms go crazy if you do that?

You learn something every day. :blink:

Next time I'll walk out with a PS3 under one arm and a Xbox360 under the other! :lol:

There are barcode readers, but they go off every so often, so they'll think you're innocent. Don't try stealing video games, DVDs, and that kind of stuff from large electronics stores. They have plastic clamps on the ends, and only special tools that employees have will be able to remove them. Those things have detectors on them, and they will screw you over.

I've given up stealing food. It's not worth it, and I no longer go to Subway or McDonalds anymore. If I do, it's usually with friends or family, so I don't steal then.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

I'm actually working at Subway now. I haven't seen anyone get in too much trouble for this yet but the blame is put squarely on the staff when the till is out by too much which makes it shit for the workers and no one else. So if I catch you doing it I will fight you.

However, take all the drinks you want. Technically we don't do free refills, at least not over here, but no one is going to stop you and no one cares.

[Sir Comradical]

Here's what you do, get a friend and dress up in navy blue overalls. Go to an office building and calmly steal things. :D

[DIzzIE]

*shit: food and shelter.
Affording food and shelter does not seem like a "silly aspiration" to me, but maybe I am alone in that opinion. I'm not entirely sure I'm following your logic.

Aspiring to afford anything indeed seems quite silly to me. My logic was more of a suggestion that instead of a defense of participation in legalized theft, that is to say work, perhaps we should be working on encouraging alternative means of procuring said food and shelter. Modes of resistance against, not participation in, capitalist economy. To apply that logic to the case at hand, my suggestion was that perhaps instead of (absurdly) saying that they will fight anyone who interferes with their participation in the capitalist workforce as ever closer union suggested, the workers should stop being workers and, again, explore alternate means of sustenance.

[Ken]

there seems to be a split here between the leftists who steal from corporations, and the leftists that oppose stealing from corporations.

i am the former and will steal anything and everything i can from a corporation, objectively, and believe it is unethical to buy products.

[RedHal]

there seems to be a split here between the leftists who steal from corporations, and the leftists that oppose stealing from corporations.

i am the former and will steal anything and everything i can from a corporation, objectively, and believe it is unethical to buy products.

no that's not where the split is, the ones opposing stealing from stores such as subway is because it will affect the minimum wage workers there. So your free sandwich, or whatever, won't have any effect whatsoever on the profit margin of subway. On the other hand, the minimum wage workers will catch shit. So you're not harming the corporation , but you're harming the workers.

[RedHal]

Aspiring to afford anything indeed seems quite silly to me. My logic was more of a suggestion that instead of a defense of participation in legalized theft, that is to say work, perhaps we should be working on encouraging alternative means of procuring said food and shelter. Modes of resistance against, not participation in, capitalist economy. To apply that logic to the case at hand, my suggestion was that perhaps instead of (absurdly) saying that they will fight anyone who interferes with their participation in the capitalist workforce as ever closer union suggested, the workers should stop being workers and, again, explore alternate means of sustenance.

grow up and get back to the real world. A lot of minimum wage workers have kids and a family to support, they can't just quit their jobs and persue your anarkiddy lifestyle

[DIzzIE]

grow up and get back to the real world. A lot of minimum wage workers have kids and a family to support, they can't just quit their jobs and persue your anarkiddy lifestyle

I fail to see how this addition of a familial dependency invalidates anything I have suggested. Please expound upon why you seem to feel that because someone has 'a family' they are somehow obligated to participate in the workforce. And a failure of the imagination, as you seem to be exhibiting, is no excuse :).

[RedHal]

I fail to see how this addition of a familial dependency invalidates anything I have suggested. Please expound upon why you seem to feel that because someone has 'a family' they are somehow obligated to participate in the workforce. And a failure of the imagination, as you seem to be exhibiting, is no excuse :).

again, get back to the real world, where people work to survive. Are you a revolutionary or some elitist intelilectual who has no connection with the working class? Continue living your individualist anarkiddy lifestyle

[DIzzIE]

Work, that is participation in the workforce, even in today's humid clime, is by no means necessary for survival. The very fact that you seem to acknowledge (albeit despise) the existence of the grifter (in this case, someone who would 'steal' from subway) would also seem to imply that you already understand this, which then makes your comments all the more perplexing :confused:.

[bellyscratch]

I used to work in a nightclub and once the tills were way out and loads of stock seemed to go missing, so they basically blamed all the staff and took away our privileges like being able to bring in food after we've finished, no staff allowed in the club when they're not working and no staff discounts etc

So although people are doing this to get one over on the corporations, its more likely to be taken out on the workers if things are getting stolen too much.

Instead you should find the CEOs and managers and nick their cars :laugh:

[Dóchas]

I'm actually working at Subway now. I haven't seen anyone get in too much trouble for this yet but the blame is put squarely on the staff when the till is out by too much which makes it shit for the workers and no one else. So if I catch you doing it I will fight you.

However, take all the drinks you want. Technically we don't do free refills, at least not over here, but no one is going to stop you and no one cares.

we have subaway in dublin? shit i better keep an eye out. their rolls taste so good, even better when they are not paid for!! :lol:

[Invincible Summer]

I used to work at Subway (before I quit), and I have to say that workers do not necessarily "get in shit" if someone steals or whatever.

Subways are all franchises, so it really depends on the owner of the place; mine was pretty laid back so even though some guy ran off with $50 once, I didn't get that much flak.

I have to say I stole a lot of food from work: although i was allowed one footlong for every 6 hours of work, I probably made like 4 of them a shift, gave them free to my friends, took a whole case full of cookies once (my girlfriend wanted them for her and her friends... it's great when your gf condones stealing) and let people take soda when they ask for 'water"... all little things to make my job more fun.

Regardless, I feel that Subway is a prime example of bourgeois-proletariat relations: the manager usually does jack shit except scrutinize everyone while the employees work their asses off making sandwiches to make money for the boss, and only get paid minimum wage.

The employees could easily run the store themselves, but the leeching capitalist boss can't have that.

[BPSocialist]

It's so easy to steal cadbury's creme eggs from sainsbury's!!! You just walk past the big tray of the things and calmly slip one or two into your pocket.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

I think we know how to shoplift.

[Invincible Summer]

It's so easy to steal cadbury's creme eggs from sainsbury's!!! You just walk past the big tray of the things and calmly slip one or two into your pocket.


Thanks for the tip, BP. I always thought I had to grab one, throw my hands in the air and sprint with high knees to the exit.

[BPSocialist]

Thanks for the tip, BP. I always thought I had to grab one, throw my hands in the air and sprint with high knees to the exit.

Alright, it's just I thought you might like to know if ever you can't afford easter eggs:)