Stealing from your employer?

[Mimi1965]

Have you ever seen a coworker steal from the job?


Yesterday I observed a coworker stealing a roll of toiletpaper!

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Have you ever seen a coworker steal from the job?


Yesterday I observed a coworker stealing a roll of toiletpaper!

Since my first job at 16, I've seen people "steal" at every company I've ever worked for.

Most of it is simple stuff - pens, staples, printer paper. However, when I worked in retail I had to fire someone who had stolen almost $1000 in product. Stealing 3 days before inventory is a sure-fire way to get caught...oh, and leaving the product in the bag you carry back and forth from the store!

 

[Mama-san]

Dang, that is sad! I hate work t.p.! As far as a co-worker stealing, where I used to work, we would have expired product (that wouldn't be sold), and it was not uncommon for people to take some home. I don't necessarily consider this stealing, but there was no offical company policy saying it was okay to do this.

 

[4nana]

Crazy, who'd risk losing their job for one roll of TP ?! One of our business owner good friends recently caught his faithful 20yr. employee stealing money . His wife is battling cancer and needed for dr bills . I think with the sad economic situation we're bound to hear much more of this as many are truly hurting. Sadly, some people do desperate things for survival when push comes to shove.

 

[jen0610]

I know a lady who hasn't bought scotch tape in over 15 years. She has a refillable dispenser and she just takes a roll whenever she needs it. It's getting close to the holidays, so she should be getting ready to take home her present wrapping supply here real soon, which is 4 rolls at once.

Another lady I use to work with, at the holiday time, if she was hosting her family for Thanksgiving or Christmas, she would take home creamer and sweet 'n low packets by the handfull. She isn't a coffee drinker, but the company coming over was. We had those packets of premeasured coffee grids, that she would take 2 or 3 of those home as well, just so she wouldn't have to buy a small can of coffee.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Yes it sucks. I worked for as a manager for 8 yrs. I have seen so much. Not just employees put the patrons as well. I had an employee one time as I was watching the tape from their shift and watched as he pulled out about 10 to 12 lottery tickets and stood there over the counter and scratch them and threw them in the garbage. I went out to the dumpster and retreived them and brought him in before my boss as a witness and had him watch the tape, his response was I meant to pay for them.

I look at it the same way when people the employer say dont surf the internet and people do it any way, its like stealing time and getting paid for it. I finally left my job for so many reason. So much micro managing from people who never even worked that position and had no clue what may go wrong to change your whole day. I find in todays age younger generation want the job and the money and not work for it. Jo

 

[Pakey]

All of the time. I'm in management in a large food manufacturing company. We have cameras installed everywhere but they still manage to find ways to steal. My personal favorites are the barbeque sauce stored in the electrical panel (they stash it there until they can get it out to their cars without being seen) and the 50 pound wheels of parmesan cheese. We still can't figure out how they are hauling those huge wheels of cheese out without it showing on the cameras.

 

[SC Minnie]

In college I was working retail and caught 2 employees stealing. They were fired.

 

[happygirl]

I'm a server I have seen customer steal just about everything that's not nailed down. Ketchup bottles. Salt and pepper shakers. silverware

 

[barkley]

Since my first job at 16, I've seen people "steal" at every company I've ever worked for.

Most of it is simple stuff - pens, staples, printer paper. However, when I worked in retail I had to fire someone who had stolen almost $1000 in product. Stealing 3 days before inventory is a sure-fire way to get caught...oh, and leaving the product in the bag you carry back and forth from the store!

i had an employee i had to "counsel" that not turning in time cards that accuratly reflected when you were at work was "stealing" from the government (civil service job). we did'nt have timeclocks but the security system on the building recorded when you entered and left by virtue of the scan pads on the door which i used when i suspected him of coming in allot later than he was supposed to (my start time was a couple hours after his). he was offered the opportunity to submit any timecards for late arrivals he may have "forgotten" to report (he gave me dozens). he thought it would slide after i retired, but because it was documented the next time he did it he was terminated

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I worked for a bank years ago, and my supervisor was fired for embezzling money.

 

[Arielle22]

I was a retail manager for 5 years in a large store. Frequently LP would call me to the office to tell me that so and so was being picked up for theft. Sometimes it was money from the till and other times it was stealing merchandise.

I had one cashier termed for stealing a $5 ring. She took the tag off, put it on her finger and walked out. At her next shift she was termed.

There was a long time LP guy who went to court when charges were pressed in shoplifting or tag switching cases. If we won the tag switching case( taking off price tag and putting on a price tag from a lower price item) and we kept the item we were required to refund the money paid for the item. The LP guy was doing multiple refunds of the same item for the same case and keeping the extra money. He was about to retire with a pension when he was arrested and pension was gone.

 

[C.Ann]

No - I can't say I can recall anyone stealing anything from the employers I have worked for in the past..

I would think it would have to be a pretty desperate situation for someone to steal toilet paper..

On any of the jobs where I worked, I wouldn't even accept personal telephone calls - unless it was an extreme emergency.. As far as I was concerned, that was "stealing" time from my boss.. I was hired to work - not chit chat on the phone..

I've never worked in an atmosphere where there was open access to the internet, but if there was, I would not have been using it for personal reasons during work hours - unless I was specifically told I could do so.. Again, I would be "stealing" time from my employer..

 

[barkley]

I worked for a bank years ago, and my supervisor was fired for embezzling money.

i had a co-worker in social services that embezzled tens of thousands of dollars. it was caught a few months after she quit (to go to a prestigious law school on a cush scholarship). she was not a plesant person to work with (rude) and had ticked off some of the welfare fraud staff from the d/a's office that we routinely worked with, so when she was arrested they opted instead of doing it at her home, to show up with the cops in the middle of one of her law classes yup, no advance notice to the university-the cops just show up with a couple of the welfare fraud investigators, march up to her in one of the huge classrooms and announce in a loud voice "julie x, you are under arrest for ...." and start realing off charge after charge after charge-then cuff her, read her rights and hauled her away.

she ended up doing 2 or 3 years in one of the nastier federal prisons (along side some of the same clients she used to serve-and whom she had treated even worse than those of us she worked with).

 

[dawson5]

At the family ice cream shop, a kid that had worked for them for years, was a family friend, his cousins worked for us, etc. He was fired for stealing. That broke my aunt & uncle's heart, grandparents too.

He had moved out with his cousin (ex-employee, not fired) and my cousin and her friend visited (the friend was dating the ex-employee cousin). She asked for something to drink and was told to "help herself." She opened the freezer for ice and found a bag of heath chunks. Of course she told her parents, it all came out. Candy, trash bags, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. Anything you could think of, he had taken. I think the only thing he hadn't taken was the 7 gallon bags of ice-milk.

Seriously, who could honestly eat a 5lb bag of heath chunks?

i had a co-worker in social services that embezzled tens of thousands of dollars. it was caught a few months after she quit (to go to a prestigious law school on a cush scholarship). she was not a plesant person to work with (rude) and had ticked off some of the welfare fraud staff from the d/a's office that we routinely worked with, so when she was arrested they opted instead of doing it at her home, to show up with the cops in the middle of one of her law classes yup, no advance notice to the university-the cops just show up with a couple of the welfare fraud investigators, march up to her in one of the huge classrooms and announce in a loud voice "julie x, you are under arrest for ...." and start realing off charge after charge after charge-then cuff her, read her rights and hauled her away.

she ended up doing 2 or 3 years in one of the nastier federal prisons (along side some of the same clients she used to serve-and whom she had treated even worse than those of us she worked with).

My sister in law busted her ex-boss for embezzlement. Tens of thousands of dollars also. Taken from patient accounts at a nursing home. This led to an investigation and they found out she had even stolen from one of her kid's sports club or scouts. Nasty situation.

 

[usnuzuloose]

All of the time. I'm in management in a large food manufacturing company. We have cameras installed everywhere but they still manage to find ways to steal. My personal favorites are the barbeque sauce stored in the electrical panel (they stash it there until they can get it out to their cars without being seen) and the 50 pound wheels of parmesan cheese. We still can't figure out how they are hauling those huge wheels of cheese out without it showing on the cameras.

When you find things like this I would take and put it back. This confuses them and they finallly figure out someone is noticing it. I would also make sure that empty boxes or anything that you can put stuff into is not left in the back room. There are lots of ways you can find out how this stuff is leaving the building. That is another reason why I dont want management work I got tired of babysitting.

 

[wvjules]

I once stole a salt and pepper shaker from Hardee's when I was in college.

 

[barkley]

All of the time. I'm in management in a large food manufacturing company. We have cameras installed everywhere but they still manage to find ways to steal. My personal favorites are the barbeque sauce stored in the electrical panel (they stash it there until they can get it out to their cars without being seen) and the 50 pound wheels of parmesan cheese. We still can't figure out how they are hauling those huge wheels of cheese out without it showing on the cameras.

could multiple people be splitting the wheels and each hauling some (or one person stashing what was left and taking it home a pc. at a time)?-a lunch box or purse could easily conceal 5 pounds of something.

there was a naval shipyard where i grew up-they ended up banning those big thermoses (think the old school style-tall and holds a ton of coffee) b/c they found out guys were filling them with paint to sneak out. they would take a couple of quarts each day, go home and pour it out into a bucket until they had enough for whatever project they were doing.


i used to work with someone who always brought in baked goods-her dh and his co-workers stole them off the trucks they delivered from, but never got caught because they knew what the tolerance level was for "lost during delivery"

 

[clutter]

I actually get the toilet paper, but not the others. If you're out and can't get to the store....

We had our PTA president steal somewhere in the 6 figures from our school's PTA account over 5 years. She also was in a position of authority for our sports league. Sadly, she was only given probation because of "health" issues, and was supposed to be on an ankle bracelet. But she's been sighted around.

 

[scrapquitler]

I work in a group home. We do have theft issues with our staff. Most often, the issue is FOOD. We have a limited budget (we feed 4 adult men 3 meals + 2 snacks per day, 7 days a week on $180), and we have to shop and cook very carefully to make it work...and there are certain employees who will help themselves to some of the food in the fridge or the cabinet, that food comes right out of the client's meals. Recently one staff went shopping and bought a 3lb container of macaroni salad. The next day it was GONE, no container in the trash or recycling, the clients hadn't eaten it. We all know who took it (only one person worked in the time frame when it went missing).
We also have issues of people taking toiletries and cleaning supplies. Luckily, we've never had missing prescription drugs, some houses have had that issue.