Worked at a video store in the 2000s and had a tiny criminal empire

Prefacing with that looking back I was very dumb and extremely lucky that I never suffered any consequences

Back in the early 2000s I worked at a video store during college. They didn’t keep track of snack inventory, so we pretty much made it our own personal grocery store.

Not only would we not pay for snacks during our shifts, but we would drop by if we needed a snack. It wouldn’t be uncommon for someone to come in on their day off, grab a bag and just load up on snacks and just head out.

We also started a barter system with the stores nearby, trading free rentals for free food and even oil changes. A co workers car wouldn’t pass inspection so they just gave him the sticker.

We would not only delete late charges from the customers we liked, but often charge the late fees from people and then pocket the money.

We would also look up GameStop trade in prices for games and then buy them at our store for 5 dollars and trade them in there for store credit.

All the employees were in on it ( everyone was young, like 17 to mid 20s) and even though it’s not an excuse at all, the owners were horrible which made it easy to justify in our eyes.