Betting your job and a criminal record against a prize

Attention degenerate gamblers: There is a new gambling opportunity in Switzerland!

- Pick your prize among all the products offered in your local supermarket / department store (must fit in personal bag).

- Roll a die:

1-5 win the prize
6 get indicted for shoplifting (and get fired)

Get the story here (in German):

http://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/coop-kontrolliert-mitarbeiter-wuerfel-497287

So - would you take that bet?
(Swiss shop assistants make 60k a year btw...)

I might explain later for the non-German speaking minority...

Quote: Canyonero

Attention degenerate gamblers: There is a new gambling opportunity in Switzerland!

- Pick your prize among all the products offered in your local supermarket / department store (must fit in personal bag).

- Roll a die:

1-5 win the prize
6 get indicted for shoplifting (and get fired)

Get the story here (in German):

http://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/coop-kontrolliert-mitarbeiter-wuerfel-497287

So - would you take that bet?
(Swiss shop assistants make 60k a year btw...)

I might explain later for the non-German speaking minority...

Depends on the expected value of the prize. It would have to be one hell of a prize to risk losing my job and being indicted.

This is not a gamble - this is a theft control measure. Whoever rolls a 6 will have their bags searched before leaving. The employees do not have a choice - they roll or do not work. If you are feeling lucky enough to steal that day and you don't roll a 6, you just got away with it. This is not some random game people are playing - it is for the store employees and just a way to make it (somewhat) random for searches.

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in the Coop Group, each employee must be rolling over the counter dice at the end of the day. The person who rolls a six, then must open their bags for a theft control. Which is performed by the branch manager.

Quote: aceofspades

This is not a gamble - this is a theft control measure. Whoever rolls a 6 will have their bags searched before leaving. The employees do not have a choice - they roll or do not work. If you are feeling lucky enough to steal that day and you don't roll a 6, you just got away with it. This is not some random game people are playing - it is for the store employees and just a way to make it (somewhat) random for searches.

Reminds me of the Cancun airport. Press a button, if you get green, off you go. Get red, you're the unlucky bastard who has to open your bags up. From what I can tell, the odds are roughly 1 in 4 they'll check there. And of course it's not worth it here, because you'll get caught fairly quickly, lose your job, and get a record, which will screw you for other 60k jobs...60k euro? Seriously? Jesus.

Quote: tringlomane

60k euro? Seriously? Jesus.

60k Swiss francs, more realistically.

That's still more than US$60k, and a hell of a lot more than a store clerk is likely to make in most of the US.