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Your average retail employee is not paid enough to give a shit. Just follow two simple rules: Don't let management catch you, and don't leave trash out. Those things end up making it our problem.

Can also be worth asking if there's an unadvertised sample program. Like at my bakery, we have an option to buy cookies by the pound. I'm not supposed to bring up samples to customers, and they're mainly supposed to be limited to kids, but if anyone asks me? Fuck yeah, which flavor you want? They're mostly going to get tossed out anyway.

I've gone to a Coldstone (ice cream shop) and the guy working there was just giving out free ice cream to everyone because he hated to store so much.

Another time I was at the conveyer belt sushi chain, and you're supposed to get a gacha egg out of the machine after so many plates go into the return, but it was jammed up. Told the girl at the counter and she just plopped up the bucket of eggs on the counter and told me to help myself as she doesn't get paid enough to deal with the machine, so I grabbed a few Spy x Family trinkets.

Even in my job at a pharma campus, most of us are contract workers who don't get the benefits the actual big company employees get, and a lot of my equipment i need is broken. I keep equipment running with my role, but I have to ask for favors or supplies from other contractors at times so I can actually get stuff done. From being old enough to see the last glimmers of old school places that rewarded long term employees to seeing how every place seems to be run today, I don't blame the kids for bringing some anarchy to the workplace. At least I get paid a decent wage to be miserable. They don't, and having worked those retail and foodservice jobs myself, they probably work harder than I have to here.

It took me a lot of years to learn my jobs don't give a damn about me, so while there is a twinge of sadness to seeing them that broken on jobs so early, I'm also glad they're not under some false impression that working extra hard for free or putting the company first will get them somewhere.

Nice. Now I can have two grapes!