Hypocrisy - Corporate Video Complains About Theft

Today I had an induction at a new company and amongst all the usual corporate bullshit that their indoctrination inductions always involve, all that guff about their ethos and how we are now a family, was a video which, at great length (considerably greater than the bit concerning customers anyway), complained about the theft of money and items from their company.

They even had the audacity to state that this theft is a "theft from each and every one of you". 

No it is not and will never be. All this theft is accomplishing is removing some of the profits that the company and its shareholders have extracted from the labour of the poor sod having to work his or her arse of every single day, on minimum wage, so that they can have an existence whilst the rich shirkers who own the company do nothing at all and feel entitled to other peoples labour. 

If there is a theft that requires mentioning in a video to your new employees, or commodities if you prefer, it is the one you knowingly commit every single day on your "family". Like a sociopath you're happily exploiting the labour of millions of people around the world, with supply chain included perhaps millions more, and then claiming that this work is beneficial to the communities in which you subject people to poverty by stealing what is rightfully theirs. 

I know some people will stumble across this little rant and think "what the fuck is this person on about? They own the company it's their right to make a profit. That's how capitalism works"

Yeah it is. And it's a problem that I have with it... the clue is in the blogs name. But what has annoyed me so much more about this induction today than usual, and countless many more that would have occurred around the planet today, was the fact that they said it was our money.

Acknowledging that we have generated this wealth whilst simultaneously providing us with an induction for a job paying £7.20 per hour.

Spread amongst a workforce of 300 people, almost all of whom will be on this pathetic wage, in a company taking £1,200,000 per week (as a member of staff was happy to inform us earlier in the week) from this one site alone.

Where is this money going? A lot of it, I will acknowledge, goes to buying the stock. Some more will go in to the running of the store, logistics, back end staff, etc... But you can bet most of the surplus value goes straight in to the pockets of the privileged leeches that run the business. The surplus value of our labour they stole from us, the employees.

Then they go and tell us to remain vigilant for theft. I think I've located the biggest thieves in the building.