yeah, I'm gonna call bogus on that one. he had me until the porn in the electronics department. I don't think there's ANYWAY this could've happened and not made national news and this guy getting arrested.
Actually, that's not true at all. While working at Fry's it happened a few times in my own store, as well as the others(the Campbell store in particular had an issue with it in the AV department, the store I worked mostly had it happen in the computer department). No one gets arrested for playing porn on tv's in a store, and it isn't going to make national headlines.
Not to mention the dozen plus cameras that cover the department. Of all the sections in the store, electronics is the one department that is watched by EVERYONE. You can steal 75 cent candy bars for weeks, but snag a $4 roll of film and they WILL catch you. Doom covered most of it, I CAN believe the the porn on the tv now because about all the LCD TVs have integrated DVD drives, so on black Friday, it is quite possible to pull that prank. But the biggest catch is the stock altering. If they suspected he was stealing, they would have watched the cameras (this includes at least several different managers, including loss prevention), and would have easily caught the person using the Telzon to alter stock numbers.
Funny, but it still doesn't beat the fact that "redneck Wal-Mart employees" screwed him over and got him fired. So talking about the very people who took you out is pretty dumb, especially considering they weren't THAT stupid. His pranks were cool, but somehow I don't believe he was smart enough to pull something off of this magnitude when he was screwed over by these "rednecks".
True or not, redneck adversaries or not, he does make it pretty clear that he basically managed to piss off every co-worker he had. That's usually a big no-no in any workplace no matter who you're working with. While I don't particularly like the mutants that work at my local walmart, in the even I was employed there, I certainly wouldn't want to get them all mad at me. If the story is true, and he conveyed the sort of attitude to the employees that he does in the article, that'd probably be why they didn't like him. Considering the way the end of the article points toward investing in the .com bubble before it burst, that'd date the incident as being a few years ago.
I'm going to use my Druidic thinking on this one and say that it doesn't matter if the story is true or not, what's important is what we learned from it. What did I learn? I'm not the only person who plans out insane and elaborate revenge scenarios when I get screwed over.
