Being a fake employee.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I guess the legal implications would be GQ material, but I want opinions and such, and don’t see much debate potential, so MPSIMP it is.

Anyway, I was reading a blog with an anti-WalMart thrust, and something occurred to me:

WalMart is pretty convincingly documented as retaliating against pro-union employees. The overwhelming majority of WalMart employees are barely making ends meet, and therefore the threat of termination is an extremely effective stick. So I started thinking: What if the “employee” wasn’t really on the payroll?

If I walk into wallyworld, sneak behind a display and whip out my home-brew blue apron and wally world name tag and start acting like a walsmart drone, beyond asking me to leave the premises, and trespassing charges if I fail to comply, how much trouble could I get myself into?

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There’s this: http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57

To summarize, a bunch of people go to Best Buy in blue polo shirts, although they never claim to be employees. Panic, but no penis, ensues. The police are called in, but it is some time before anyone is asked to leave.

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I remember a Daily Radar thing a while back (ie, several years ago) where they went to a Good Guys store and posed as staff there (wearing a uniform shirt- or one indistinguishable from same- they’d acquired from an Op Shop, IIRC), offering crazy discounts to unsuspecting customers (“Sure, you can have this 54” TV for $79!"), and then slipping out just before anyone said “Hang on, does that guy even work here?”…

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Thanks for mentioning that, I’d seen it a while back.

Still wondering if there are any actual laws that were broken, assuming the pranksters left when they were asked to.

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umm, I don’t get it…What are you trying to accomplish? Pulling a prank, or being a pro-union organizer to protect the poor drones?

Obviously, Darlene the cashier behind the display would know you are not an employee, as would the shift manager. The customers wouldn’t care, as long as you can show them where the bathroom plungers are. So what’s the point?