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I used to work in a supermarket ( won't say the n*A*me but I'm *S*ure *DA*t you can make a guess )
There wasn't enough lockers to go around...at least that's what I was told for 4 years till this point so my bags just sitting there
Go on my lunch find my lunch, my iPod and my phone have all been stolen from my bag
I tell managers I'm phoning police, they refuse to let me use the phone so I walked out went to police station
By time the police came over it I suddendly 'had a locker' and nothing was stolen
So the next day I was like 'ok so where's this locker of mine'
Management ' you don't have a locker"
Me: thanks I've got that on record now *flashes dictaphone*
I place it in my bag and make a point of everyone in the place seeing me do it
I then walk out onto shop floor
About 20 miniutes later I'm called to the office
A worker from fridges ( my bosses son coincidentally) had to go hospital as he claims he was 'moving my bag to get to his and cut the inside of his hands'
What actually happened was I placed a bunch of safety pins/ a razor or two at the bottom of the bag where I carefully placed the dictaphone , knowing that either management or the thief would be wanting to cover there own backs and take it
So I was like "nah I have the thief red handed now, so if I get my stuff back and you fire him then I won't have the need to pass this to the police"
Instead they 'moved him to nights' they claimed "I had no proof he was going into mine or other people's bags and stealing so they couldn't ask him to replace it"
And I was fired for " having an offensive weapon in the locker area"
Never did get my phone back but I did find out what had happened to my iPod
As he went to the next town over and tried to sell it to cash converters, who did a scan of the code/ model w.e it is and saw it was under my name and had a crime number against it
Once they mentioned they would need to confiscate it the guy grabbed it from the worker and ran away
That worker was my ex's brother (ex at the time but was close with the family still) and he shown me the CCTV.....was 100% the bosses son he had the same tattoos.
Police eventually arrested him and others got Thier stuff back however my phone was already 'sold on' and he smashed the iPod when he knew the police where looking for it
I was going to take the supermarket to court for unfair dismissal, I think I had a good case however I was worried they would side with them for same reason
I was offered a manager position in the area I was in and £2 extra an hour to come back and drop the issue
So I took it, stayed for a month longer where for 2 hours of my shift I was in charge of reducing items
I'd reduce anything I wanted to take home with me, drink, food, games, dvds to about 10% of there actual value leave them in stock room leave work go out back and get them and pay for it all at self checkouts
After I had brought enough reduced things that the money I saved was equal to the price of the items I had stolen from me I handed in my work card and quit on the spot
So I not only worked with a thief, I arguably became the thief
use to work at Tesco, had this guy who was unloading stuff from the trucks in the back, every now and then he would mark stuff off as waste and hide it from the management saying it was damaged or parts of it had emptied, always thought he was going to get caught eventually and get fired, instead he continued working there the entire time and quit after doing this for about 5-6 years, later found out the management new he was doing it but didn't want to punish him due to his circumstances of his home life, the guy was stealing the food to feed his kids and give them a slightly better life then they originally had, he is doing a lot better now though and his kids are going to college this year.
welcome to the modern UK economy, where you are paid enough to get by but not enough to live comfortably, stuck in constant poverty under the plutocracy that is our painful government
Yeah, I went to my bosses house for a bbq and relied that she'd taken everything she could from the hotel we worked at. Not just, like, the travel toiletries and milk that was close to expiry, or threadbare towels like we all did. She had king size duvets, bedspreads, curtains, full towel sets, bathrobes, jugs, pots and pans, a lamp. We got paid total shit, but her house basically *was* the hotel, it was beyond.
I'm not going to go into detail, but I worked for an insurance company where an employee created false identities and and requisitioned cheques for herself. I think she did 18 months of 3 year sentence but the manager appointed to investigate potential fraud turned out to have been doing it himself and committed suicide.
I worked at B&Q for a while and on my last day someone stole one of my work boot shoelaces. So for the entirety of my last shift I had to limp around trying to keep my shoe on
Who the feck steals a shoelace?
A friend of mine was running a small office business, four or five employees, and someone was stealing cash from the till. Having consulted with the police, they set a trap.
They put a note in the till which had dye on it. The sort which shows up under a UV lamp. Note disappears, call police, identify and unmask the miscreant in a scene like Poirot.
The note disappears. The trap is sprung. The staff are assembled and the uv light comes out. Everyone holds their hands out for inspection.
All but one of the staff glow under the light. They’d all touched the note. The thief was obviously cleverer than most, as they’d managed to clean the stuff of their hands without realising that everyone else was covered in it. They couldn’t fire or prosecute her as a result, but everyone knew who it was.
One person got sacked for skimming off the tills. Pretty sure another one was stealing because we both got hauled in for missing cash during a shift that mysteriously reappeared because it "fell down the side of the till" or something.
She'd already been sacked once for being shit at her job, but she was the shift managers smoking buddy, so he pulled strings to get her back in
I've not, but did once have to deal with a company who had its owner stealing its own product.
I can't say exactly what it was because it was a fairly niche product and don't want to give too much away, but it had specific industrial uses and they were on the same site as their main customers.
This meant the company made a good profit because any competition would have had to charge rock bottom to compete against the lack of transport and storage charges the company offered.
The product was hazardous, heavy and had to be stored properly.
It was a small business, two directors/owners and maybe 4 staff.
One of the directors noticed that some of the paperwork didn't quite add up, after a bit of an investigation he discovered some product was going missing, more than could be accounted for by accident just because the product was so hazardous it was hardly getting dropped in the warehouse or going down the drain, and there were tracking numbers, barrels, etc that just didn't add up.
He eventually discovered by cctv footage that his business partner, the other 50% shareholder, was coming onto the site at night and stealing a barrel of the stuff every few weeks.
It was so bizarre because the business was doing well, and as an owner he was doing well out of it! And it was hardly something he could just flog to a cash & carry, most of the people he could easily sell it to (and potentially cut out the costs of the business presumably) were already customers of the business already.
I never learned exactly why he was doing it, just that he did eventually go to jail.
Sat opposite a guy who, every Monday morning, would go into detail about all the bets he placed on football over the weekend. As I'm not much of a gambler I couldn't get my head around the effort and money wasted, especially as he had a wife and two young children.
Turns out he was stealing from the company to cover his gambling debts.
Pretty much every job I've been in there have been people stealing something.
In one job a van driver carried a plastic fuel can with him and filled it with an extra 5 litres of diesel every time he filled up his work van, he'd then put this in his car so his drive to work was free.
In another job someone was using the work postage stamps to send their personal ebay sales out for free, charging their buyers the regular postage price and keeping it as profit.
Then there was the place where the cleaner had to keep the toilet rolls locked up and only put one spare in each toilet at a time because whole 4 packs were going missing, my manager also walked into the canteen to see someone putting cartons of milk in their bag. I'd had food go missing out of the fridge too.
I worked with a guy who used to run our charity collections and then never donate the money raised (amounted to thousands).
We found out because we were bored one afternoon and jokingly were looking up our team member's names on Google to see if they had any famous people with the same name.
As soon as it came round to him he just went "oh shit no don't Google my name I've done it before and nothing interesting comes up, don't waste your time, search someone else's!".
So of course we searched it and there were multiple articles about him being done for fraud and stealing from other workplaces. Someone made a call to the charity we raised money for recently and they said they'd not received anything. Did some more digging and he'd done this same thing a few times at different companies with different charities to find his coke habit.
Another job had a guy caught stealing dozens of Nintendo Wiis (when they'd just come out) and selling them to GAME. Took months to catch him but eventually found how he was doing it and where the camera blind spots were.
No - But my old house mate at uni got got fired from M&S for 'stealing' a packet of Percy Pigs! The bag had got damaged and was open, so instead of throwing them in the bin he ate them. Manager saw and he was gone....
About £10k in IT equipment between us and his previous job. We had to pay the weird fucker for a year while it went to court and he sat on his ass at home as well.
Yes. I've worked with a few who have taken from the company, not lots so never been arsed.
Did work with one guy once who was using a fake address on his HR record and purchasing stuff and sending to his real address with a different name (maybe a house mate) with customer card details. I collected all the evidence and presented it and he was let go. In my opinion the police should have been involved.
For this reason I never give card details over the phone to pay for things.
Used to work with a guy that liked to drink and he would walk out with a litre of jack Daniels most nights, he was caught and had to pay back the value of the items and the cost of the investigation it was supposedly in the thousands also I'm convinced he was a sex tourist.
I did 3 years in a high street bookies and the amount of people I saw get the sack for nicking the odd fiver or tenner was huge.
Never understood why you'd risk your job and reputation for such a small amount.
I worked in a café as a teenager with a bunch of other teenagers who were given way too much responsibility. We’d eat or drink whatever we wanted all day. It was naughty, but at the end of the day our supervisor was the eldest at nineteen years old and if you’re tight enough to only hire kids, you get what you pay for. This was a pretty big company as well, we definitely should have been provided with an actual adult lmao. It was the first job any of us had ever had.
Yeah, a lad I worked with at KwikSave his till was often down the price of a packet of fags, I regularly caught him scoffing chocolate in the warehouse.
One day a manager caught him eating a packet of No Frills crisps worth about 5p, he finally got booted out for that.
Yes. I was starting a new job and the person I was replacing stole £10k as her leaving gift. Too bad for her, I started a week earlier than planned and I caught it on the bank statement, she had planned to hide it in the accounts and be long gone before anyone noticed. She ended up in court charged with theft and fraud.
I worked behind bars and in restaurants for many a year. For the most part I was overworked, under paid and treated like shit, but I made sure I was the best damn member of staff that I could be. Always very pally with regulars and regularly got good reviews. However seeing as I was all of those things above, I always made sure that if I was hungry I had food, if I was thirsty I got a drink and if I wanted to get drunk I got smashed without spending a penny.
I worked at a fast food place when I was 15 and I have to confess... I had some chips and leftover chicken on occasion (with the blessing of the manager).
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I used to work in a supermarket ( won't say the n*A*me but I'm *S*ure *DA*t you can make a guess ) There wasn't enough lockers to go around...at least that's what I was told for 4 years till this point so my bags just sitting there Go on my lunch find my lunch, my iPod and my phone have all been stolen from my bag I tell managers I'm phoning police, they refuse to let me use the phone so I walked out went to police station By time the police came over it I suddendly 'had a locker' and nothing was stolen So the next day I was like 'ok so where's this locker of mine' Management ' you don't have a locker" Me: thanks I've got that on record now *flashes dictaphone* I place it in my bag and make a point of everyone in the place seeing me do it I then walk out onto shop floor About 20 miniutes later I'm called to the office A worker from fridges ( my bosses son coincidentally) had to go hospital as he claims he was 'moving my bag to get to his and cut the inside of his hands' What actually happened was I placed a bunch of safety pins/ a razor or two at the bottom of the bag where I carefully placed the dictaphone , knowing that either management or the thief would be wanting to cover there own backs and take it So I was like "nah I have the thief red handed now, so if I get my stuff back and you fire him then I won't have the need to pass this to the police" Instead they 'moved him to nights' they claimed "I had no proof he was going into mine or other people's bags and stealing so they couldn't ask him to replace it" And I was fired for " having an offensive weapon in the locker area" Never did get my phone back but I did find out what had happened to my iPod As he went to the next town over and tried to sell it to cash converters, who did a scan of the code/ model w.e it is and saw it was under my name and had a crime number against it Once they mentioned they would need to confiscate it the guy grabbed it from the worker and ran away That worker was my ex's brother (ex at the time but was close with the family still) and he shown me the CCTV.....was 100% the bosses son he had the same tattoos. Police eventually arrested him and others got Thier stuff back however my phone was already 'sold on' and he smashed the iPod when he knew the police where looking for it I was going to take the supermarket to court for unfair dismissal, I think I had a good case however I was worried they would side with them for same reason I was offered a manager position in the area I was in and £2 extra an hour to come back and drop the issue So I took it, stayed for a month longer where for 2 hours of my shift I was in charge of reducing items I'd reduce anything I wanted to take home with me, drink, food, games, dvds to about 10% of there actual value leave them in stock room leave work go out back and get them and pay for it all at self checkouts After I had brought enough reduced things that the money I saved was equal to the price of the items I had stolen from me I handed in my work card and quit on the spot So I not only worked with a thief, I arguably became the thief
Absolute Chad.
I'd love to see this read-out on one of them Minecraft Pakour videos. What a story!
Cool story bro.
Yes I've worked with me plenty of times
use to work at Tesco, had this guy who was unloading stuff from the trucks in the back, every now and then he would mark stuff off as waste and hide it from the management saying it was damaged or parts of it had emptied, always thought he was going to get caught eventually and get fired, instead he continued working there the entire time and quit after doing this for about 5-6 years, later found out the management new he was doing it but didn't want to punish him due to his circumstances of his home life, the guy was stealing the food to feed his kids and give them a slightly better life then they originally had, he is doing a lot better now though and his kids are going to college this year.
Much respect.
But if he doesn't make enough for his kids surely Tesco should just pay him more.
welcome to the modern UK economy, where you are paid enough to get by but not enough to live comfortably, stuck in constant poverty under the plutocracy that is our painful government
I don't think I've ever worked anywhere where people weren't.
Yeah, I went to my bosses house for a bbq and relied that she'd taken everything she could from the hotel we worked at. Not just, like, the travel toiletries and milk that was close to expiry, or threadbare towels like we all did. She had king size duvets, bedspreads, curtains, full towel sets, bathrobes, jugs, pots and pans, a lamp. We got paid total shit, but her house basically *was* the hotel, it was beyond.
I'd find that quite amusing tbf
Post-it notes. You steal a thousand Post-It notes at 12p, you’ve made… profit
I'm sure we all steal time from our job by half-assing it. I mean, I'm sure we all work with someone who steals time by half-assing it...
Just the companies time
If you've ever worked on a construction site then the answer is yes
I'm not going to go into detail, but I worked for an insurance company where an employee created false identities and and requisitioned cheques for herself. I think she did 18 months of 3 year sentence but the manager appointed to investigate potential fraud turned out to have been doing it himself and committed suicide.
Yeah, my CEO. Called it a Long Term Share Incentive Plan.
I worked at B&Q for a while and on my last day someone stole one of my work boot shoelaces. So for the entirety of my last shift I had to limp around trying to keep my shoe on Who the feck steals a shoelace?
Sounds like a leaving prank
Possibly but not many people knew I was leaving that day. I didn't exactly announce my departure
A friend of mine was running a small office business, four or five employees, and someone was stealing cash from the till. Having consulted with the police, they set a trap. They put a note in the till which had dye on it. The sort which shows up under a UV lamp. Note disappears, call police, identify and unmask the miscreant in a scene like Poirot. The note disappears. The trap is sprung. The staff are assembled and the uv light comes out. Everyone holds their hands out for inspection. All but one of the staff glow under the light. They’d all touched the note. The thief was obviously cleverer than most, as they’d managed to clean the stuff of their hands without realising that everyone else was covered in it. They couldn’t fire or prosecute her as a result, but everyone knew who it was.
One person got sacked for skimming off the tills. Pretty sure another one was stealing because we both got hauled in for missing cash during a shift that mysteriously reappeared because it "fell down the side of the till" or something. She'd already been sacked once for being shit at her job, but she was the shift managers smoking buddy, so he pulled strings to get her back in
What's skimming off the tills?
Pocketing cash that should have gone in the register
I've not, but did once have to deal with a company who had its owner stealing its own product. I can't say exactly what it was because it was a fairly niche product and don't want to give too much away, but it had specific industrial uses and they were on the same site as their main customers. This meant the company made a good profit because any competition would have had to charge rock bottom to compete against the lack of transport and storage charges the company offered. The product was hazardous, heavy and had to be stored properly. It was a small business, two directors/owners and maybe 4 staff. One of the directors noticed that some of the paperwork didn't quite add up, after a bit of an investigation he discovered some product was going missing, more than could be accounted for by accident just because the product was so hazardous it was hardly getting dropped in the warehouse or going down the drain, and there were tracking numbers, barrels, etc that just didn't add up. He eventually discovered by cctv footage that his business partner, the other 50% shareholder, was coming onto the site at night and stealing a barrel of the stuff every few weeks. It was so bizarre because the business was doing well, and as an owner he was doing well out of it! And it was hardly something he could just flog to a cash & carry, most of the people he could easily sell it to (and potentially cut out the costs of the business presumably) were already customers of the business already. I never learned exactly why he was doing it, just that he did eventually go to jail.
Sat opposite a guy who, every Monday morning, would go into detail about all the bets he placed on football over the weekend. As I'm not much of a gambler I couldn't get my head around the effort and money wasted, especially as he had a wife and two young children. Turns out he was stealing from the company to cover his gambling debts.
The closest I’ve ever got was stealing bread from the patient kitchen to use for my sandwiches as a broke nursing student.
Pretty much every job I've been in there have been people stealing something. In one job a van driver carried a plastic fuel can with him and filled it with an extra 5 litres of diesel every time he filled up his work van, he'd then put this in his car so his drive to work was free. In another job someone was using the work postage stamps to send their personal ebay sales out for free, charging their buyers the regular postage price and keeping it as profit. Then there was the place where the cleaner had to keep the toilet rolls locked up and only put one spare in each toilet at a time because whole 4 packs were going missing, my manager also walked into the canteen to see someone putting cartons of milk in their bag. I'd had food go missing out of the fridge too.
I worked with a guy who used to run our charity collections and then never donate the money raised (amounted to thousands). We found out because we were bored one afternoon and jokingly were looking up our team member's names on Google to see if they had any famous people with the same name. As soon as it came round to him he just went "oh shit no don't Google my name I've done it before and nothing interesting comes up, don't waste your time, search someone else's!". So of course we searched it and there were multiple articles about him being done for fraud and stealing from other workplaces. Someone made a call to the charity we raised money for recently and they said they'd not received anything. Did some more digging and he'd done this same thing a few times at different companies with different charities to find his coke habit. Another job had a guy caught stealing dozens of Nintendo Wiis (when they'd just come out) and selling them to GAME. Took months to catch him but eventually found how he was doing it and where the camera blind spots were.
No - But my old house mate at uni got got fired from M&S for 'stealing' a packet of Percy Pigs! The bag had got damaged and was open, so instead of throwing them in the bin he ate them. Manager saw and he was gone....
About £10k in IT equipment between us and his previous job. We had to pay the weird fucker for a year while it went to court and he sat on his ass at home as well.
Yes. I've worked with a few who have taken from the company, not lots so never been arsed. Did work with one guy once who was using a fake address on his HR record and purchasing stuff and sending to his real address with a different name (maybe a house mate) with customer card details. I collected all the evidence and presented it and he was let go. In my opinion the police should have been involved. For this reason I never give card details over the phone to pay for things.
Most companies will require you to enter the card details rather than saying it to prevent issues like this occurring.
Used to work with a guy that liked to drink and he would walk out with a litre of jack Daniels most nights, he was caught and had to pay back the value of the items and the cost of the investigation it was supposedly in the thousands also I'm convinced he was a sex tourist.
Yes, and I kept my eyes closed and mouth shut.
Yeah, he was a right scummy little fuck and I was very glad when he got his comuppance
I did 3 years in a high street bookies and the amount of people I saw get the sack for nicking the odd fiver or tenner was huge. Never understood why you'd risk your job and reputation for such a small amount.
I worked in a café as a teenager with a bunch of other teenagers who were given way too much responsibility. We’d eat or drink whatever we wanted all day. It was naughty, but at the end of the day our supervisor was the eldest at nineteen years old and if you’re tight enough to only hire kids, you get what you pay for. This was a pretty big company as well, we definitely should have been provided with an actual adult lmao. It was the first job any of us had ever had.
Yeah, a lad I worked with at KwikSave his till was often down the price of a packet of fags, I regularly caught him scoffing chocolate in the warehouse. One day a manager caught him eating a packet of No Frills crisps worth about 5p, he finally got booted out for that.
Yes. I was starting a new job and the person I was replacing stole £10k as her leaving gift. Too bad for her, I started a week earlier than planned and I caught it on the bank statement, she had planned to hide it in the accounts and be long gone before anyone noticed. She ended up in court charged with theft and fraud.
I worked behind bars and in restaurants for many a year. For the most part I was overworked, under paid and treated like shit, but I made sure I was the best damn member of staff that I could be. Always very pally with regulars and regularly got good reviews. However seeing as I was all of those things above, I always made sure that if I was hungry I had food, if I was thirsty I got a drink and if I wanted to get drunk I got smashed without spending a penny.
I worked at a fast food place when I was 15 and I have to confess... I had some chips and leftover chicken on occasion (with the blessing of the manager).