#but the standout is that complete unvetted randos can just have your info without oversight.

[eclipsecrowned]

WHAT STORE REQUIRES YOU TO GIVE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER TO AN ASSOCIATE WTF WTF WTF

I don't know how much I am allowed to say but at my last position, signing up for our credit card plan required you to give your social. That isn't weird. It's actually standard practice w credit cards.

The weird part to me is in that if you didn't have your physical card on you, a cashier can look you up in the system. As a cashier I just needed your full name, date of birth, address, and social. Which to me is entirely too much information for me, a minimum wage monkey, to just have rotating around my skull. There was no oversight on it at all, no 'I need to call my manager,' no taking it to management at all. I hit a button and you just need to give me all your personal information.

They treated it as 'Oh we make sure there's no fraud all our cashiers have to check the ID of the person purchasing,' but like. To me the bigger problem is that random worker can just. Have your personal data. And damn near all of it at that point. I'm pretty sure I could also use the backend of the system -- again as a random minimum wage monkey with no higher ranking whatsoever -- to look up people's info in the system.

Happy shopping :)