Con-Fessions: Job Robs

Summary

Scam Goddess: Con-Fessions – Job Robs (March 4, 2021)
Host: Laci Mosley | Guest: Priscilla Davies

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Episode Overview

This episode of Scam Goddess is a raucous celebration of the shady, hilarious, and sometimes noble art of “job robbing”—scamming your employer. Host Laci Mosley and guest Priscilla Davies read listener-submitted stories of workplace scams, ranging from movie theater cash grabs to elaborate phone flipping at a telecom giant. Throughout, they critique wage theft by corporations, discuss the flaws of American capitalism, and share their own service industry war stories, using sharp wit and relentless candor.

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Key Discussion Points & Listener Scam Stories

1. Why “Robbing Your Job” Is the Best Scam

• Laci and Priscilla immediately set the tone: work is a scam, so they have no guilt celebrating workplace hustles.
  • “Work is a scam…When you’re a kid and they’re like, 'What’s your dream job?'...I don’t wanna work for a living.” —Laci [00:51]
  • “That’s propaganda, baby. That’s how they get you.” —Priscilla [01:00]

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2. Listener Scam #1: Movie Theater Cash Scam ("Bellevue")

[01:36 – 10:17]

• The Story: A group of movie theater workers orchestrated a scheme: when cash transactions reached whole numbers (e.g., $20), they deleted the items from the register and pocketed the cash.
  • “Personally, I kept it at about $100 a shift so we wouldn't raise suspicion. But I know some fellow Co workers who would pocket something like $300 a night.” —Bellevue [02:06]
  • The scam fell apart when a manager was caught stealing from the safe and clocking in hours he hadn’t worked: “Somebody else fucked up the bag, you know, on a whole different scam.” —Priscilla [02:30]
• Insights:
  • On snitching: “Snitching was above my barely over minimum wage pay grade. That’s why you need to pay people more so they want their job.” —Bellevue, read by Laci [02:42]
  • On movie theaters being inherently scams due to overpriced concession costs [03:04].
  • On white privilege in corporate discipline: Laci and Priscilla do a satirical roleplay of a white manager getting off easy for embezzlement. “Leave it to white people to get away with embezzlement and wage theft with barely a scratch. Hashtag white privilege.” —Laci [07:10]
  • Clarifying the scam: The even numbers made the register math easier for cash skimming: “If you steal $20 and it's just $20 less and nobody really knows how much was sold…” —Laci [09:58]

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3. Listener Scam #2: Pizza Place Tip Skimming ("Brielle")

[10:17 – 14:19]

• The Story: Brielle, a salaried pizza place manager, moonlit as her own delivery driver, signed off her own tips, and deleted some cash orders, pocketing the extra.
  • Reality check: “This is why you have to get a manager or two to sign off on any voids. Cause if not, we would just be voiding checks and keeping the money.” —Priscilla [11:21]
• Related Tangents:
  • Laci shares learning all the manager codes at a restaurant in the Hamptons—closing out tabs herself, but never stealing. “I never stole any money. And I regret it…when I got caught…it was just because I was cute and trying to make a coin…” —Laci [12:01]
  • Both talk about restaurant jobs with minimal management, and how autonomy can lead to trust (or theft!).

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4. Firing Stories & Service Industry Scams

[14:19 – 16:21]

• Priscilla and Laci describe being unfairly fired due to client complaints or systemic issues—then getting back at the job via unemployment claims (“That’s the sweet spot, scammer…So I filed for unemployment. They had paid me $12,000.” —Laci [15:54])
• Message: Always document employee misbehavior before firing!

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5. Listener Scam #3: Telecom Capers ("Jason" at “ATN Robbery”)

[16:33 – 26:23] Multiple “scams within a scam”:

• A. Commission Manipulation:
  • ATN Robbery (obviously AT&T) would alter commissions to push unpopular products. “If we did not sell 10 streaming services a month, we would only make 75% of our earned commission.” —Jason [18:24]
• B. Free Phone Shuffling:
  • Sales reps would hoard free promo phones meant for international students. “This allowed us to accumulate plenty of phones…the mavens, about 130 of them. And we used those to sell DirecTV now.” —Jason [20:36]
  • They’d then sell these for cash to other customers or use them to “close” commission-earning sales.
• C. Phone Flipping:
  • Employees would covertly pay off a customer’s phone, pretend it was a trade-in, flip the phone on eBay, and pocket $300–$700 per phone, sometimes enough to pay rent. “iPhone 8s paid my rent.” —Jason [26:07]
  • “Anytime you buy anything on eBay, there's a good chance that it's stolen.” —Laci [25:31]
• Overall Theme: When corporations are greedy or exploitative, workers will find a way to scam back.

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6. Capitalism and Wage Theft: The Real Scam

[26:24 – End]

• Strong critique of the $15/hour minimum wage fight, arguments about “crabs in a barrel” mentality, and who actually does vital work.
  • “If you think that job’s so fucking easy, why don’t you pick up a goddamn fryer and start heating them fries up?” —Laci [26:54]
  • “We have been indoctrinated by this society to believe that some jobs are better than others...and all jobs that you fucking need.” —Laci [29:22]
• Essential workers were lauded as heroes during the pandemic, then instantly denigrated: “Now you don't want them to get $15 an hour. It's weird.” —Laci [30:35]
• Solution: Stop aspiring to billionaire status and start advocating for fair pay across labor sectors. “Stop letting daddy capitalism scam you.” —Laci [31:56]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Work is a scam…That’s propaganda, baby. That’s how they get you.” (Laci & Priscilla, [01:00])
• “Snitching was above my barely over minimum wage pay grade.” (Bellevue, [02:42])
• “Leave it to white people to get away with embezzlement and wage theft with barely a scratch. Hashtag white privilege.” (Laci, [07:10])
• “If you don't pay your employees correctly, they’re gonna figure out how to make their money, which is why we’re so tired of capitalism.” (Laci, [26:24])
• “Stop letting daddy capitalism scam you.” (Laci, [31:56])
• “If you’ve never cried in a walk-in fridge…don’t talk about minimum wage.” (Laci, [32:20])

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Important Timestamps

• [01:36] Movie theater "even number" cash skimming scam
• [07:10] Satirical white privilege segment on corporate theft
• [10:17] Pizza place tip skimming scam (“Brielle”)
• [12:01] Laci’s Hamptons restaurant manager codes anecdote
• [16:33] Telecom (“ATN Robbery”) scam breakdown
  • [18:24] Commission structure manipulation
  • [20:36] Free phone flipping/scamming
  • [24:49] eBay resale/phone flipping strategy
• [26:24] Discussion: Capitalism, wage theft, value of labor
• [29:22] Societal value judgments of “essential work”
• [31:56] Rallying cry against “Daddy Capitalism” as the real scam

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Tone and Language

• The episode maintains a razor-sharp, unfiltered comedic edge. With lots of industry slang, casual profanity, and acerbic observations, Laci and Priscilla create a space that is both laugh-out-loud funny and unapologetically radical in its critique of labor, corporations, and cultural attitudes toward work.

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Final Takeaway

Scam Goddess “Job Robs” is a hilarious, cathartic ride through the wily world of workplace scams. The hosts and listeners expose not just petty employee hustles, but the deeper structural scams of capitalism itself. The episode ultimately champions worker solidarity and creative resistance, making a compelling, entertaining argument: if work is fundamentally a scam, maybe it’s time to scam back. And as always—“Stay scheming, stay snitching. It’s fun.” [33:14]

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Transcript

[A]

And we are back for another episode of Confessions. What's poppin, y'? All? It's your secrets. We love secrets. And tea. Mm. Mm. Tastes so good. Sip on it. It's me, Lacey Mosley.

[B]

And it is me as well, Priscilla Davies.

[A]

And we're back for another episode of Confessions where we read your listener letters and have a good time. Lots of tangents on these shows. You know how it go. Okay.

[B]

Can't stay focused.

[A]

It's not our strength. That's what you signed up for. You knew that. You knew we were gonna be trash when you signed up for this, guys. All right. Another episode of Confessions. This episode is about robbing your job.

[B]

Ugh. One of my favorite kind of scams. Fuck that job unless you like it,

[A]

but also fuck it too. Like, work is a scam. You know when you're a kid and they're like, what's your dream job, nigga? I ain't got a dream job. I don't wanna work for living.

[B]

That's propaganda, baby. That's how they get you.

[A]

That's how they get you.

[B]

In the beginning, a kid, you used to, like, play games like, oh, I'm gonna get, like a briefcase and go to work. I had. I had a whole fucking basement set up office set up with my, like, homies, and for what? You know what I'm saying? Guess what? Filing is trash. And that's mainly what we did down there.

[A]

Why were you filing as a child?

[B]

Nothing. Just papers. Anything. Anything we could find. Tennis balls, whatever.

[A]

That's what. It's fun because there's no obligations, no boss. You're your own boss as a child. I love that for you. So let's get into our first one. A name.

[B]

Bellevue.

[A]

Bellevue. Oh, I like that. Bellevue. Bellevue said, here's a retired scam from a place that I no longer work at. We love a retired scam. I worked in a movie theater for a couple years and about four or five of us were in on this scam. Basically, when a transaction reached a whole number, like 20 or 10, we would just pocket the money. It was a fairly easy. It was fairly easy for a scale to reach a whole number because the prices were in the 0.25 increments. Like 25 cent increments.

[B]

Yeah, that's. Yes.

[A]

We'd ring up the sale, collect the cash, delete the items from the pos and pocket the money. Personally, I kept it at about $100 a shift so we wouldn't raise suspicion since literally everything was inventoried. But I know some fellow Co workers who would pocket something like $300 a night. Everything came to a halt when a manager got caught stealing money and clocking in for hours he wasn't there for. So damn, somebo else fucked up the

[B]

bag, you know, on a whole different scam.

[A]

They said we all robbing amc.

[B]

I'm so mad. I would have been so mad if my scam got fucked because somebody else couldn't keep their scam together.

[A]

Amc. American Money Cons. That's what we worked for. I know I would be mad as too. So Bellevue says. I personally witnessed him doing it myself, but couldn't care less. Obviously he was stealing too. Said snitching was above my barely over minimum wage pay grade. That's why you need to pay people more so they want their job. If you give a minimum wage, I can. Minimum wage anywhere.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

Anywhere. And people don't check references or backgrounds when you're working a minimum wage job. They say they do, but they don't. You know how many times I listed myself as the reference? And then they call and I'd be like, lacey was a great employee. She was so kind and so smart and so brutiful. No, no, no, no. This is not Lacey number. Give them my cell phone. Okay. And honestly, movie theaters themselves are inherently scams with their overpriced concession costs. It's actually because they made zero profit off the ticket sales. So concessions, they made money, which I know that as well.

[B]

I didn't know that. You know what? Now I don't feel so bad paying all that for them goddamn buckets of popcorn.

[A]

Right? And then I love how they always do, like, a small increment. They're like, well, you could get a large for $1.25 more. And then you're like, well, let's make it a large then. $37 for a large popcorn Sounds good to me. Better than 36.75 or a small. Oh, that's not right. 35, 75. I can't do that. No. I thought she said 37, but I said $1.25 increments.

[B]

Oh, you were doing.

[A]

I be doing math, y'.

[B]

All.

[A]

I had a good score on my math acts. I don't know how that was a scam.

[B]

I know you're from Texas Acts.

[A]

The math. Don't be mathing. But I be mathing it.

[B]

Did you take the SATs or no?

[A]

I took the SATs and the ACTs. I took the practice act just to see if I was like, is this cute for me? Cause they always Said, like, ACTS is better for if you're, like, math and science oriented. Which I was not. But I was like, let me just see. Let me dip a toe and see if the girls are gonna know. And they knew. So then I took the sats. And the sats are changing now because of the Ponderosa. And now they're like, you know, it's

[B]

so funny you say that, because one of my students is starting their SAT prep, and so I literally just read this article. Literally. Exactly. They're taking away. Which they didn't have, that, you know, I'm aging myself. But they didn't have the essay when I was in high school.

[A]

They ain't right for taking that away, because there's something. Here's the thing about education. It's too linear, and it's too focused on specific things that, like, there are a lot of people who are great writers who are not good at math, okay? They were being able to skirt, skirt around the math because they had the writin'.

[B]

Could they skirt. Skirt around the math?

[A]

They were skirt. Skirting.

[B]

Well, wouldn't that the verbal. But writing is different than the. Yeah, it is now. But here's my thing about that, right? Like, it's just extra fucking work. The test is already three hours. It becomes four hours with that shit. And then it's like, nobody wants to read that.

[A]

Those. But the writing portion was for the scammers, okay?

[B]

But here's the other thing. Isn't it redundant? Because aren't you gonna write a freaking essay to get into the school anyway?

[A]

No, because your test scores are what's gonna open the door for you to even be able to write the essay for the school. If your test scores are shit, they're not even gonna read your shit. You could be talking about how your daddy used to kick you and make you eat dog food, and your mama worked four, five jobs. And, like, they not. You know, they're not gonna care if your SAT scores are trash.

[B]

I mean, I don't know. I wasn't in college admissions. I have no idea.

[A]

I was like. Actually, I used to work in college admissions in college while I was college.

[B]

You weren't looking at me.

[A]

I used to know the requirements. I used to read essays. I worked for the admissions of Financial Aid one summer because I just wanted some free money. And then I was like, this is trash. I can't do this.

[B]

Cause it's a lot of work.

[A]

It is.

[B]

And that's what I'm saying. It's just added work. I would be so mad If I had to read an essay on top of grading all that other shit.

[A]

So he says. Anyway, the manager got a little money and then got sloppy, started stealing money out of the safe, which had cameras directly on it. That's too sl.

[B]

Like, just wanted to get caught. You just. You know, that's.

[A]

If you got a good scam going. Why are you, like, I'm gonna upgrade it to, I'm robbing the safe, bruh. This ain't Ocean's 15. What are you doing?

[B]

Robbing safes is really deep.

[A]

Right? You gotta. That takes more care.

[B]

That's okay.

[A]

Your manager was stupid. So it says he confessed to everything and luckily didn't have any criminal charges pressed against him, but he was fired and had to return all the money he stole. Leave it to white people to get away with embezzlement and wage theft with barely a scratch. Hashtag white privilege, that is. So I came in there like, hey, Tom.

[B]

Yes. Yes, Brady.

[A]

Hey, Tom. We love you. We love how white you are.

[B]

Oh, my God, me too. I love working here, too, and being white.

[A]

Yeah. The combination of you working here and being white has been great for the company.

[B]

Okay, good. Great talk. I'll talk to you later.

[A]

No, no, no, Tom, don't.

[B]

Don't go. There's more. Okay.

[A]

Yeah, there's more. So, Tom, we recently saw the safe, and I don't know how to put this. It was. You were. You were touching money and then. And then borrowing it into your pockets. It seemed as if you were, you know, making a small business loan from the safe. Brady, I don't.

[B]

I don't think. Are you sure that was me?

[A]

Because I. Yeah, look, we have it in 4K. We have you on camera. Oh, yeah. That's you putting the money into your AMC apron.

[B]

Oh, well, we know you're a good

[A]

guy, Tom, because you're white, so.

[B]

I would never do anything like this. Like, not my.

[A]

This is a video of you doing it.

[B]

No, I know it is a video of me doing it. I'm just saying it's out of character for me.

[A]

I believe that. Yeah, I believe that wholeheartedly, Tom. Okay, well, you know, we don't wanna involve the police. They are our friends. They are our friends.

[B]

I love the Thin blue line.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And the thick blue line.

[B]

And I like the thick line as well. I do.

[A]

But, like, Tom, you know, if he could just. I don't know, the money just goes back into the safe. You know, we don't wanna cause any problems. You know, me and Bitterman don't wanna have to. You know, there's a lot of paperwork, Tom.

[B]

I'm just gonna go ahead and say this. Cause my white privilege and entitlement is, like, barking right now. That money is mine.

[A]

Okay. So I do believe that, Tom. I do.

[B]

That's fine. I'm keeping it.

[A]

But in order for us to not have to call the, you know, the authorities.

[B]

Right.

[A]

You know, if you could just, like, return some of your money back to the safe. Like some of the money that you took.

[B]

Just like some.

[A]

Yeah, you know, like what we saw you take.

[B]

Okay, like here. Fine. Whatever. Leave me alone.

[A]

I wish. Can you imagine? What a life?

[B]

And I still get to pick up my last paycheck, right?

[A]

Yeah, absolutely. It'll be there on the 15th.

[B]

Fantastic. I'll just get my shit and go now.

[A]

I love this. I also love that the person that we're talking about, what was the name? Bellevue. Bellevue was being ethical about this. Like, Bellevue was like, I'm gonna take $100 a night. I'm gonna keep it cute. I'm not gonna do too much. Everybody else was like, we gonna take $500 a night?

[B]

My question here is, what? How did this scam work?

[A]

So.

[B]

Cause I'm a little confused as to why. If it rounded out to an even number, they could just take it. You skipped a critical point here. Bellevue. How do you understand?

[A]

I think because when you're doing register math, it's probably easier to make something out to cash when it's a solid like $20, $10. Because then you don't have to worry about the math. Not math.

[B]

I see.

[A]

Cause if it's like 1975, then you gotta start writing down a log of what you're stealing. But if you steal $20 and it's just $20 less and nobody really knows how much was sold, then it's easy to keep.

[B]

Okay, that makes sense. A little bit.

[A]

Okay. A little bit.

[B]

No, I get it, though.

[A]

Okay, let's move on to our next scam. Pizzagate is what I call it. So let's get to it. What's a name for this person?

[B]

Brielle.

[A]

Brielle. You like the B names?

[B]

Am I on a B tip?

[A]

You're on a Brielle. You're on a B tip.

[B]

Oh, I was. Yeah.

[A]

So Brielle says, let's get to it. I used to manage a pizza place. I was a salaried manager, but was required to work 48 hours a week. That's a hefty amount of hours. Like, full time is like 45, right? 40. 40 is full time. So you're over full time.

[B]

I mean, that's pretty general.

[A]

That's not that bad. Listen, I used to work as a part time employee in quotes. And we work 45 hours a week.

[B]

Oh my God.

[A]

And they were playing my ass hard. So it says I started trying to make more money by also delivering pizzas br on my downtime. But I was a manager. I was able to cash myself out at the end of the night and sign for my own tips at the end of the night. I would delete some of the cash orders and keep the money from the complete cash order. It worked until I quit. Nobody ever questioned me. Wow.

[B]

Wow. Let me say, Brielle, this is every server, bartender, service industries. This is why you have to get a manager or two to sign off on any voids. Cause if not, we would just be voiding checks and keeping the money.

[A]

I had a job in the Hamptons where I learned all the manager's codes because our manager was constantly coked out and just would disappear.

[B]

Typical manager. Very typical.

[A]

And the service would be selling cocaine. I can't. Can you imagine going to a restaurant and they're like, oh, okay, you like the branzino? Would you also like some cocaine with that as an appetizer?

[B]

Okay. Or as a dessert?

[A]

And everybody was doing this. And so it got to the point where like, we couldn't close because the manager would be gone. And it was so frustrating. And I knew the manager's codes because I'd seen them entered a bunch of times. So I would close people out and I'd run their tabs and I'd check everything off. And I never stole any money. And I regret it because when I got caught in quotes because this girl was hating on me because I was cute, she told them because she was like, they're like bottom bitch. And I wasn't their bottom bitch. I was just a cute girl who's trying to make a coin and le to Hampton and move to la.

[B]

Bottom bitch at the restaurant.

[A]

The bottom base.

[B]

It's always one.

[A]

What's her name? Alisa? Elena? Yelena? Something like that. I wish I could dox you. I don't remember your name. But she told that I knew the manager's codes and that I had been cashing people out every night and doing their money. And they sat down with me. There were these Australian guys and they're. Lacy Laza disk. That's all I know how to say in an Australian accent. Laserdisc and the Barbie. Nur. Nur. They're like, lacy. Ner. You can't do this. Ner. Where'd I get that R from? Australia? Where y' all get that R from? Cause ain't no R. And else is like, no. Spanish is like, no. English is like, no. French is like, no. Portuguese, like, no. You know, where did y' all get nar? Where'd you get the R? We want to know that's a scam. That ours is a scam. So, like, no, Lacey, you can't do these. And I was like, oh, well, I was just cashing people out because the manager was coked out. And they're like, okay, but you could have been cashing things out to cash and then just stealing the money. And I was like, I could have.

[B]

Wow. You didn't even realize it.

[A]

No, I didn't steal a dime, and I sorely regret it.

[B]

That is bullshit.

[A]

And I think they knew. That's why they weren't mad. Cause I was like. Cause they saw my eyes light up when they said it, and I was like, I could have been making things

[B]

out to cash, right? Oh, no. Mm. That's why it's important to take care of your fucking employees. Cause I used to work at a bar in Culver City where we didn't have. We all had the codes. We were. Because we had no manager, and the owner was never there, so we voided our own shit.

[A]

We had no manage manager.

[B]

There was no. It was.

[A]

He was keeping costs low.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, there's that.

[A]

All y' all govern yourselves, literally.

[B]

And I. You know, I never stole nobody. Maybe other people did, but. But that was partly because he trusted us enough to, like, you know, do our own thing. And no one, like, you were just. You're literally your own boss there. I sort of missed that job.

[A]

That sounds like a great job.

[B]

It was actually fucking great. And then I got fired.

[A]

Wait, how'd you get fired?

[B]

Girl, it was on some bullshit, too. Like, I was working this party, which happened to be, like, one of his. Cause the owner was, like, this Hollywood producer, like, you know, and then so, like, he would have, like, his Hollywood friends come in and shit. And, like, for some reason, I just. They, like, gave a bad report back to him about me, and I was just like. And I. And to this day, like, bitch, I was a fucking great server. To this day, I'm like, I still don't even know, like, what the fuck they were. I was like, this is fucking random as fuck. You. You know, naturally, now I think about it, it's probably racism probably because I'm like. I mean, like, there's no. I knew you. I knew who you were, so why would I be fucking up? You know what I'm saying? Like, it didn't make any sense. And I was like, this is fucking weird. And, you know, I got fired. And it was actually great because then I started tutoring it. And look. Look at your bitch. Now,

[A]

that happened to me, too. I got fired because a rich lady came into my restaurant when I was making creme brulees, which I was a server. Why was I making creme brulee?

[B]

You were doing too much, okay? You always work at a place where you gotta pick up the slack.

[A]

I gotta be the chef. I'm over here putting the fire, trying to get the sugar hard. Like, what's happening? And somebody sat down, and they sat there for. They said 11 minutes. I think it was eight. But the server, it was the hostess fault. She ain't tell nobody. They were sitting there, and we were understaffed. They wrote a letter to the manager. They fired me, unfortunately. They never wrote down anything that I ever did because I would always be constantly seven minutes late. That's the sweet spot, scammer.

[B]

Yes. Seven minutes.

[A]

Seven minutes. Because five, nobody notices. Seven.

[B]

Hmm.

[A]

They may notice. But 10, they gonna be mad. But seven minutes, you good? So they never wrote down. And then my manager would be like, lacey, you're seven minutes late again. And I'd be like, oh, I'm so sorry. She would never write it down. So I filed for unemployment. They had paid me $12,000, okay. Oh. So, you know, watch out when you're firing your employees. Make sure you got something on paper. Cause they ain't had nothing on paper for me.

[B]

You shouldn't be giving that information out. We're helping the scammers, not the.

[A]

That's a scam.

[B]

Well, the bosses scamming out there. Fuck them.

[A]

Oh, right, right, right, right.

[B]

I don't want to get no tips to no damn bosses. Fuck y'.

[A]

All. So our next one is a very enthralling story. This is ATN Robbery, okay? We don't know the real company name, okay? We just calling it ATN Robbery. Okay? So it says. Hi. Love your podcast. As a Day One listener, I feel so inclined and to. Okay, okay, Nice things. We're gonna move past. It says, I work in sales for ATN Robbery for way too long. These are just a few of my successful scams. She got a, a B, and a C. So it says, I. If I'm worthy enough to have My stories mentioned on your podcast. You can refer to me as Jason, because, let's be real, most Jason suck. Yeah, I agree with that. Have I met a good Jason? I don't even think I know no Jason's.

[B]

I know a few Jasons. They all right.

[A]

I just think of Jason from that show the game, where he was, like, a real penny pincher.

[B]

I never watched the game.

[A]

Okay, so she's got some stuff that she doesn't want us to read on air. You can read that. Scam A. We'll move to scam a.18 robbery constantly changed our commission structure based on the products as services that we were trying to promote at the time. Shady. It should always be the same commission. What's happening?

[B]

Messy.

[A]

When they launched DirecTV. Now, y' all can figure this out for yourself, but it's pretty clear. The streaming version of traditional dtv, we all got to try it out. It was. And still, because it exists, utter garbage. However, AT&Robbery adjusted our payment plan so that if we did not sell 10 streaming services a month, we would only make 75% of our earned commission.

[B]

How much?

[A]

I. That's so shady. Like, how are you gonna adjust the commission every single time? Like, we got a new product. If you don't sell it, then we taking some of your money back. What?

[B]

Not to mention the fact that a 18 robbery. I mean, y' all are the og est of the. You've been around since, what, the 1800s. You're a multinational corporate. Come on. I can't stand when multinational corporations can't fucking pay their minimum wage ass. Employees rights.

[A]

Right? And they do this for bonuses. Like, if you can scam employees for a year, you can get a bonus. That happened at Cigna. Sorry, Cigna. I'm out in y'. All. Where they did a restructuring of their payment plan for their health care for their workers. Because if you worked at Cigna, you got Cigna Healthcare, right? Yeah. They upped the premiums for a year, knew everybody would get mad about it, and then downed them. But because they upped them for a solid year and was like, we gonna change it, y', all, after this calendar year, they all got bonuses. Like what?

[B]

It's just so fucking shady. Like, you just.

[A]

I don't know if they got bonuses, allegedly. But that's why they do shit like that is because it's like, let's rob everybod for a little bit of time, and then they won't be so mad. Companies do it all the time. So AT&T was doing another promo I mean, y' all know they were doing another promotion at the time. New customers who came in seeking prepaid phone plans were eligible for a free ZTE Maven phone if they set up their autopay with a credit card or a debit card. Autopay also gave them a $5 discount off their prepaid service each month. So it was an easy. The grand majority of our prepaid customers were international students who bought their own phones and needed a SIM card. So we signed the customers up for autopay. We would scan the barcode for the free ZTE maven in order to get it out of our inventory, and we put the SIM card under the maven into the customer's previously owned phone. This allowed us to accumulate plenty of phones. The mavens about 130 of them. And we used those to sell DirecTV now. So when someone would come in looking for a cheap and or replacement phone, we would tell them that they could get a smartphone valued at $300. Such a lie. Lol. It's like $30 and it came with a free streaming service for 3 months. We also got paid on our DTV now sells if the customer kept their subscription for 3 months. So we would sign them up for streaming services and then give them the phone. So they kept the free phones from the people who were supposed to get them and just gave those people SIM cards because these are international students who already have phones. So they're like, hey, yeah, here's your SIM card. For however much money they were supposed to get a phone with the SIM card. But they didn't know that shit. And how would they.

[B]

Wow. So this isn't even like an employee scam. This is like the business scam, Right?

[A]

They were helping the business, but they were also making sure that they got a full 100% of their commission because at and robbery was trying to take it.

[B]

Just capitalism.

[A]

Capitalism a scam. So some customers who came in looking for temporary phones didn't have a card that they could use for the DTV now subscription. For those customers, we sold them the phones with cash under the table. Our best customers were college kids being drunk and irresponsible and shit, or parents who were dumb enough to buy their dumb child a phone. Mostly because these two demographics are the type to pay $50 in cash for a free phone.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

So parents were like, look, my nine year old going to school, we letting her ride the bus, we need a phone. And AT&T was like, okay, give me $50 in unmarked bills.

[B]

I mean when, when I'm on the phone with the customer Service rep at AT&T and they're like, yes, we only accept cash. That's usually when I be like, hmm, I don't think I've heard that. I've never.

[A]

Let me ponder that for a moment. Just cash. Just cash. I'm on the phone though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you gotta come to the nearest store on 11th and bring us cash.

[B]

Oh, got it. And you say what now? Unmarked bills.

[A]

Yeah, it was actually a 711 across the street. They got a great ATM, one of the finest ATMs I've ever seen.

[B]

Main fuck at&T.

[A]

So they also had a phone flipping business. When you want to upgrade your phone and you're still leasing. Leasing a phone, y'. All. Which is a thing.

[B]

Oh yeah. Cause I'm doing it right now. No, actually, no, I'm not leasing, I'm buying. I paying, I bought.

[A]

But here's the thing with phone companies, they won't let you outright purchase the phone because then they don't get money on the service. And since the Apple Phone still or whatever phone still belongs to the company, most of the money when you buy the phone goes to the actual company who sells the phone. So AT&T gets their bag off of leasing the phone and making sure that you stay within their service plan. So you can never really outright buy a phone at most phone companies now. So I'll pay the bulk of it and then that's all I can do. Yeah, that's most phones. So when you want to upgrade your phone, you're still leasing, you have two options. You either have to pay the remaining balance or trade it in. The latter negates your balance and ATN robbery takes your phone and you get a brand new one. Your phone is paid off, so it's eligible for a trade in credit option one. We could see how much you owed on the phone on our end while we're looking at the account. We were also really good at quick googling whilst listening to customers trying to do small talk at us. I have a lost count of how many times I've secretly paid off a customer's phone, acting like I was taking it in for a trade in and flipped it on ebay. I'd usually make about 300 to $500 per phone. Wow, fuck. Here goes small talk for you. And they're like, how's the weather? They on Google? Like, how do I rob you? How do I Google? How do phone robbery?

[B]

I will never make fucking small talk again on those goddamn phones. And they always. And they're always the ones that initiate it. I hate that shit. I'm like, I just need a refund, ma'. Am. I don't want to tell you my name. I don't want to tell you how I'm feeling. I don't want to tell you what the day is like.

[A]

They're like, what's the weather like out there? You got on a sweater. Is it breezy?

[B]

Like, first of all, how do you know that I have a sweater on?

[A]

Option two, the phone is already paid off. The prior option required us to pay off the rest of the installments for the phone discreetly on an account with a credit card. But we can use a different POS system to process the trade, even if it's paid off. So we would tell customers if they trade in their paid off garbage phone for store credit, it would cover their accessories, case screen protector, charger, et cetera. I need to go to this ATN robbery.

[B]

And there it is. I was about to say, you guys are kind of hooking the customers up too, right? It's like everybody's kinda scam winning.

[A]

It said our break room didn't have any cameras at the time, so we could ring up transactions as usual, and then slip our own cash into the drawer on the way to the room where the safe and the cameras were. I love it. I love that. Y' all check for cameras. You gotta check for cameras.

[B]

Okay, take note. Last scam, right?

[A]

Did not check for cameras when he was robbing that safe. What? So when I work there, iPhone 5s would be valued at like 20 to $30 by AT and robbery standards. But I could flip them for 100 to 150 on probably eBay. Anytime you buy anything on ebay, there's a good chance that it's stolen.

[B]

Ebay is a tricky place, man. I don't fuck with it like that unless I have to.

[A]

I haven't ever bought anything off ebay.

[B]

I bought like four things and it. Cause it's just. It's like they're all stolen. Maybe. But also it's like the whole bidding thing. I'm just like, am I bidding?

[A]

Well, they have the buy it now option.

[B]

Yeah. Which is what I always do. Which I'm like, so then what's the point of, like, some people like a

[A]

little thrill up they leg thinking they saving a coin. But honestly, bidding usually drives up the price, right? So iPhone 7s were around $250, and I could flip them for around 600 to $700. They said iPhone 8s paid my rent.

[B]

Mm.

[A]

Amen. I love to see Steve Jobs paying somebody's rent.

[B]

You heard?

[A]

Okay. What a tur neck on little black turtleneck. Yes. So as far as I'm concerned, I worked there so long ago that these scams are definitely retired. More importantly, 18 robbery has enough money so they can collectively go themselves.

[B]

And there it is.

[A]

Amen. Because remember, they made a coin off of us when they used to be like, we ain't got enough minutes for everybody. We ain't got enough text for everybody. And like, even now, if you get unlimited on 18 robbery, they slow your down. If they're like, okay, you're using too much of the unlimited.

[B]

How rude.

[A]

Them they like, the unlimited is still limited and you using too much of the unlimited. Like you. You out here calling everybody all the time. You out here texting everybody. You're on the interwebs. Too much and then they slow your down.

[B]

That's it is.

[A]

Oh, Jason, what a wonderful scam. I. There's so many here. But that's the thing is, like, if you don't pay your employees correctly, they're gonna figure out how to make their money, which is why we're so tired of capitalism. There' such a huge debate about $15 an hour for fast food workers. That is so disgusting to me. And like, guys, if you make $15 an hour at a job you hate, don't fucking hate on the people at Taco Bell or, you know, McDonald's who get 15 an hour. Just go work there. If you think that job's so fucking easy, why don't you pick up a goddamn fryer and start heating them fries up? That shit is hard work.

[B]

Okay? I mean, we. It's just standing over that hot. Can you imagine that hot ass kitchen on your feet, sliding? You know how. You know how slippery a goddamn kitchen is in a. In a restaurant? You know how many times I almost died in the kitchen reaching for a fucking plate that I was serving? That floor is so damn slippery.

[A]

Truly. So, like, come on now.

[B]

It's just, yeah, this whole like. And then that, that whole $15 an hour thing also throws me because first of all, this whole debate started what, 10 fucking years ago, right?

[A]

It's not even enough money anymore.

[B]

And it's not even enough money. The minimum wage should honestly be 20 to $30, give or take. Like, that would really, with the living costs in this fucking shithole country, you know what I mean? Like, it's just I really look forward to the next decade and I really hope that this is a decade where we culturally come together to raise the quality of life for everyone.

[A]

And guys, you have to stop trying to be an aspiring billionaire. That's the whole issue with people hating on fast food workers getting paid adequately is they're like, well, I work my miserable job and I need to be better than someone. I'm in college debt and I'm working for $30. An you can't have 15 with no education. Why not?

[B]

And it's a lot of, you know, crabs in a barrel mentality, even though we all know that that's a flawed, you know, metaphor. Cause crabs don't belong in a barrel. But. But, you know, free the crabs. For real. For real. But it is, it's very much, I hate it is that mentality. I mean, we have been indoctrinated by this society to believe that like, some jobs are better than others. And some, you know, oh, like the idea that it's like, oh, a fast food worker. Oh, you want to pay a janitor that much there? So basically you're just gonna name all the jobs you have no respect for, you know?

[A]

Right? And also all the jobs that you fucking need.

[B]

That you need.

[A]

Are you trying to mop up your motherfucking office? Imagine if you worked in the office and you finished your day in the cubicle and they was like, all right, Shally, Shelly, it's your day to mop up the bathroom.

[B]

No, her name is Shally. It's pronounced Shally.

[A]

All right, Shally, it's your day to mop up the bathroom, Shally. So after you finish with them bills and payables, go ahead and get down to that bathroom and start sweeping up. You don't wanna do that. So why are you saying that that job is less than your job? Do you wan in the bathroom and there's boo boos on the floor? No, you don't. And so let that person take care of their job and respect their fucking job in the economy and ecosystem that we have.

[B]

And let's be real, cleaning is hard fucking work. That's why we all avoid it, right?

[A]

That's why we have companies that were like, we will do this shit that you hate for you. Like, get the fuck outta here. Also during the fucking pond de replay, everybody was like, oh my God, the service workers.

[B]

Essential workers.

[A]

Essential workers. Oh my God, thank you so much for making my Doritos Locos taco Essential worker salute you. Let's put you in the goddamn the army military memoriam. Like, what? And now you're like, burger Flippers suck my ass. Like, what is it? Which is it?

[B]

It's whatever's convenient. That's really what it boils down to. And it's bullshit.

[A]

Cause these niggas were your heroes two days ago when you couldn't leave your fucking house. And now you don't want them to get $15 an hour. It's weird.

[B]

It's super weird. And it's fucked up. And it's like, think about a dog. If they get 15, then we all getting money. We all getting money.

[A]

You could probably get more money from your job. And here it is.

[B]

It's like, instead of fight, it's like, you know the whole debacle where the landlords were like, well, how are we gonna pay our, you know, our mortgages if you don't pay rent? Instead of coming for us, the renters, why don't you fucking go to the government and demand that you don't have to pay your fucking mortgages, Daddy.

[A]

Government guys, Hello. That's the thing. It's like, have you ever gone to Taco Bell? And they were like, hey, guys, oh, so you want Doritos Locos tacos, a Crunchwrap supreme, and also I'm gonna need to take some tax money outta your check. Taco Bell ain't never asked you for

[B]

none of your money.

[A]

Meanwhile, the government is a fucking stick up. Uncle Sam be like, hey, girls, took it from your check before you even got it, bitch.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

And now you gotta guess how much you gonna get back.

[B]

What? It's a whole setup. And it's like, we can all win.

[A]

We can all win.

[B]

We can all win together. Like, there's enough.

[A]

This is the unity I'm calling for. I don't wanna hug a Nazi, but unity amongst all of the middle class and lower class and let's unitize.

[B]

And it's not even guilty. And it's a unity that benefits us all. It's not even just you being altruistic and helping someone. We all fucking win.

[A]

Stop letting daddy capitalism scam you.

[B]

Come on, come back.

[A]

If I showed up to a Taco Bell and the person who took my order was in gold fronts, an AP watch and a fresh wig, I'd be like, good for you, sis. Okay, good for you.

[B]

There's nothing wrong with it. All work deserves compensation.

[A]

Absolutely. Because work is hard work. And I saw a tweet the other

[B]

day that was like, is hard work.

[A]

Work is hard work. I saw a tweet the other day, it was like, if you've never cried in a walk in fridge or in the kitchen. Don't talk about minimum wage. And that's an absolute fact because I have cried in somebody's walk in fridge, okay? While I was getting fresh strawberries and probably eating one of the restaurant cheesecakes to calm my nerves. So, okay, so, guys, this is the conclusion. You guys love how at the end it's always like, socialism.

[B]

We're like. So we're gonna be handing out pamphlets. Don't mind the sickle and the red.

[A]

That's our scam, guys. The sickle and the red. As always, if you want to snitch on your friends, family, be featured on this show. It's scamgottispod gmail.com scam got his pod. On all platforms if you want to find me D I v A L a C I d valacy on all platforms if you want to find Priscilla,

[B]

Priscilla Davies, actor on IG and q o t Desert, as in queen of the desert on Twitter.

[A]

Kot desert on Twitter. All right, Charles, stay scheming, Stay snitching. It's fun.

[B]

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