'Anti-anti-theft': Retail employee wins the award for 'Most Brainless Employee of the Month' after attaching anti-theft devices to the price tags

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Apr 10, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

As employees, we're all just tools in the toolbox of our company. For utility purposes, we perform our function at work and then we clock out–it's simple. But as every worker knows, we all have one coworker on the roster who's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Even after months of training and hand-holding, that one coworker seems to always fumble the simplest tasks, making work harder for everyone on shift.

And whether it's by design or by accident, the retail world always seems to harbor some of the dullest dolts in the workforce.

For the guy in our next story, this became painfully apparent after teaching his coworker to use the anti-theft tagging tool. You know, the ones that clamp the dye pack to your chino pants, making an irreversibly damaged hole in the fabric, while also deterring thievery? Well, nobody likes this device either way, but when the anti-theft tag is rendered useless due to an idiotic attachment, its futility is compounded tenfold.

Scroll for the entire hoopla where a coworker wins the award for the 'Most Brainless Employee of the Month' after attaching an anti-theft device to the price tags of all of the new merchandise.