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One of my friends who cuts hair for a living (she works at a walk-in chain salon now that only does cuts, but she is able to do color and other stuff, and used to work for a bigger salon with more options, just for the record and to help explain) once told me that she had a coworker who stole money from the salon, as in physically stole right out of the register at closing time. It took a while (weird how that always works out that way) for the records to not match and for her to be caught, but she finally was. She had stolen thousands of dollars from the salon because that job itself wasn't getting the bills paid or helping her take care of her kids enough, that was her excuse.
Because of a hiring freeze (surprise surprise) and because their GM was a total sap, she was allowed to continue working there as long as she paid what she stole back to the salon in a discussed amount of time.
Then there is my bf's father, who is the main pharmacist at a local Mart, a Mart that has been going under in general for quite some time.
There was another full timer pharmacy tech who was openly stealing narcotics and other types of drugs, not to mention cash right out of the till (like in the first story I told above). The best part of that was my bf's dad would come home from work and say that the store had video EVIDENCE of her stealing the cash and the medications, and the GM and DM of that store actually had known about it for months! Months! And they wouldn't fire her, once again because the company was tanking and they didn't want to put the money into hiring and training another tech. This chick had been there for quite a while and was good at her job. BUT she was a dirty thief!
It got to a point where she was stealing right in front of my bf's dad while they worked together, once she realized she wasn't going to be fired. Then her attendance got really shitty. She knew she could keep the job no matter what.
What did it take to get her fired? My bf's dad came home one night and practically had a mental breakdown, and then wrote an e-mail that he didn't think twice about sending to the district manager, saying that if they didn't fire her, or at the least do something about her stealing, that he would finally take up Wal-Mart or Walgreens on their offer of employment (supposedly those pharmacies had been after him for years, my bf's dad has been in this business since before my bf was born and he is well known), if it meant that he no longer had to work with a thief. As it was, my bf's dad works 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, open to close, some days all alone. Losing him would have actually been worse than losing the thief tech.
So they finally fired her.
My question/debate here is what do you think of employees who steal who are still allowed to work at their jobs, or in general, how far can employee theft go before it gets ridiculous and why can't they just be fired for it in the first place?
One of my friends who cuts hair for a living (she works at a walk-in chain salon now that only does cuts, but she is able to do color and other stuff, and used to work for a bigger salon with more options, just for the record and to help explain) once told me that she had a coworker who stole money from the salon, as in physically stole right out of the register at closing time. It took a while (weird how that always works out that way) for the records to not match and for her to be caught, but she finally was. She had stolen thousands of dollars from the salon because that job itself wasn't getting the bills paid or helping her take care of her kids enough, that was her excuse.
Because of a hiring freeze (surprise surprise) and because their GM was a total sap, she was allowed to continue working there as long as she paid what she stole back to the salon in a discussed amount of time.
Then there is my bf's father, who is the main pharmacist at a local Mart, a Mart that has been going under in general for quite some time.
There was another full timer pharmacy tech who was openly stealing narcotics and other types of drugs, not to mention cash right out of the till (like in the first story I told above). The best part of that was my bf's dad would come home from work and say that the store had video EVIDENCE of her stealing the cash and the medications, and the GM and DM of that store actually had known about it for months! Months! And they wouldn't fire her, once again because the company was tanking and they didn't want to put the money into hiring and training another tech. This chick had been there for quite a while and was good at her job. BUT she was a dirty thief!
It got to a point where she was stealing right in front of my bf's dad while they worked together, once she realized she wasn't going to be fired. Then her attendance got really shitty. She knew she could keep the job no matter what.
What did it take to get her fired? My bf's dad came home one night and practically had a mental breakdown, and then wrote an e-mail that he didn't think twice about sending to the district manager, saying that if they didn't fire her, or at the least do something about her stealing, that he would finally take up Wal-Mart or Walgreens on their offer of employment (supposedly those pharmacies had been after him for years, my bf's dad has been in this business since before my bf was born and he is well known), if it meant that he no longer had to work with a thief. As it was, my bf's dad works 6 days a week, 10 hours a day, open to close, some days all alone. Losing him would have actually been worse than losing the thief tech.
So they finally fired her.
My question/debate here is what do you think of employees who steal who are still allowed to work at their jobs, or in general, how far can employee theft go before it gets ridiculous and why can't they just be fired for it in the first place?
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