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Rainbow Knight posted:we had a lady who would take hour long breaks to drink at a nearby bar. she was like the female version of the kind of guy who tells 12 year olds at the park that they need to know how to eat pussy. she got fired eventually, but I seriously doubt she gave a poo poo lol She sounds cool
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I do love the people who decide to try and steal money/gently caress with discounts. It’s like the one guaranteed way to get fired
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Funktastic posted:I do love the people who decide to try and steal money/gently caress with discounts. It’s like the one guaranteed way to get fired That reminds me, we move a lot of cigarettes. Every time I get to train a new worker and teach them the cigarette procedures, they inevitably ask how much is in one box. And then when I tell them, they ask if they're stolen often. No, because if even one pack goes missing the cameras get checked, everyone who touched the order gets talked to and looked at on the cameras, and when they find the culprit they press charges. We don't gently caress around with cigarettes. Which makes it way funnier when some store sent back some damaged cartons in a box labelled Kit Kat bars, with absolutely no identifying information on it (not even the cigarette return tape). It was discovered entirely by accident by me and a coworker joking around.
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Funktastic posted:I do love the people who decide to try and steal money/gently caress with discounts. It’s like the one guaranteed way to get fired 2020 COVID crush meant lots of temp workers were getting hired by committee and pushed to locations, so nobody who actually worked there knew who they were or what they looked like. This one dude spent a few weeks clocking in in the morning, leaving to go about his day, then coming back to clock out 10-12 hours later. Every day. By the time someone figured it out and tried to claw back the paychecks the money was long gone from the account. He made off with a pretty good haul for minimal effort.
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Democratic Pirate posted:2020 COVID crush meant lots of temp workers were getting hired by committee and pushed to locations, so nobody who actually worked there knew who they were or what they looked like. This one dude spent a few weeks clocking in in the morning, leaving to go about his day, then coming back to clock out 10-12 hours later. Every day. By the time someone figured it out and tried to claw back the paychecks the money was long gone from the account. He made off with a pretty good haul for minimal effort. This never even crossed my mind. What a smart play.
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We had one of those recently. Except with the time lock app on his phone he didn't even have to enter the building, just park within range of the store wifi to clock in and out. Management had caught on in about two days, but just let him keep doing it for about two (maybe three) months, to bulk up the fraud charges they'll be bringing against him.
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Democratic Pirate posted:2020 COVID crush meant lots of temp workers were getting hired by committee and pushed to locations, so nobody who actually worked there knew who they were or what they looked like. This one dude spent a few weeks clocking in in the morning, leaving to go about his day, then coming back to clock out 10-12 hours later. Every day. By the time someone figured it out and tried to claw back the paychecks the money was long gone from the account. He made off with a pretty good haul for minimal effort. This rules, that guy rules.
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I would need to learn more because I would expect it to play out more the way Filox just described. You're not legally off the hook for money you stole because you spent it and I have to imagine almost any retail company would go hard after anyone who did that.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I would need to learn more because I would expect it to play out more the way Filox just described. You're not legally off the hook for money you stole because you spent it and I have to imagine almost any retail company would go hard after anyone who did that. I’m sure they went after him, but the money being gone made it more of a hassle vs rescinding a paycheck. The initial chaos of Covid let him go unnoticed for so long. Even though we’re still in it, I’d have to think it’d get caught much earlier now.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I would need to learn more because I would expect it to play out more the way Filox just described. You're not legally off the hook for money you stole because you spent it and I have to imagine almost any retail company would go hard after anyone who did that. Oh yeah, I didn't ask but I am very curious if prosecution was the next step for that guy. I would be surprised if it wasn't, but the world is funny sometimes. A lot of people simply don't call the police for a lot of stuff they should.
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We’ve had some fail employees over the years; but more remarkable are the several employees we’ve had who are what I term Mary Poppins Employees - ie they arrive at the store, are the most ridiculously competent hard working people ever, blast through the store like a hurricane of productivity… and then vanish without a trace after several weeks never to be heard of again.
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Enos Shenk posted:Who else has some amazing stories of failure employees that didn't last long? Lurker here, the one who stands out the most was a high school kid at my old job who frequently needed help giving back the correct amount of change and was constantly texting even while checking out customers. I think the crowning moment was when the GM reprimanded her one day for something or other, so she went out on her break to Jersey Mike's, got an application from them, and started working on it while still manning the register. I ended up catching a glimpse of the app and noticed she had misspelled the name of our state on it. ...after she had asked me how to spell it and I told her. She somehow lasted a few more months before getting fired on the spot after trying to steal $100.
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Work at Amazon so new people quit left/right (not that I blame them). So many it's honestly hard to filter out the ones that were funny/memorable. Honestly they just don't show up after break/the next day and we shrug and move on with our lives. If they're looking for a job in 6 months, Amazon will let them apply again. One of my favorite who lasted maybe 2 months was some guy I'm training in AFE pack (multi-item boxes, also 500+ squats per shift) is all "Yeah, I'm ready! I do crossfit! I'm gonna rock this job!" Now for reference everything has been going utterly wrong that night and he's been an absolute champ so far: helping out and doing his best to learn while we basically do our best to teach him during a Category 5 Clusterfuck-icane. However the moment he starts mouthing off about how he does crossfit and how in shape he is I start laughing. "You're gonna lose ten pounds in the next month." I tell him. He looks at my chubby, goony rear end and goes "yeah, right." not noticing that my chubby goony rear end is doing squats and lunges and coming back up with 2-3 cases of drinks like its loving nothing as I train them. About a month later I saw him pushing a tote tank returning empty totes to inventory side and he pauses to turn to me. "Dude, I'm so loving sorry I laughed, you weren't kidding. I've lost fiteen pounds since I started. Holy poo poo dude, you did that job for how long? I bet your calves are made of solid steel..." I don't think he made it more than another 1-2 months (again I do not blame anyone who doesn't want to work here) but that moment made my week. Funktastic posted:I do love the people who decide to try and steal money/gently caress with discounts. It’s like the one guaranteed way to get fired We've had a rash of people thinking they can steal earbuds from Amazon. Like, holy poo poo it's so loving obvious what just happened when a tote comes rolling down the line with the airpod's packaging that's been opened and nothing in it. Officially the Amazon policy is "No earphones/airpods/phones on the floor" in reality its "As long as people are working the managers see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil because otherwise more people quit and our staffing issues get even worse" With the thefts though the warehouse had to make a policy: after the 12th if you're seen with earphones management will take you down to security and force you to prove they're yours. If you can't prove it, then they get confiscated. My immediate reaction was noting how they said nothing about wearing them, and figuring a lot of people are gonna be breaking out hot glue guns to customize their budz.
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I had a department manager that was completely useless and got done for stealing phones and clothing. Idiot would grab other team members' symbols and stock adjust them down when she did it. Like mate, don't loving do that. Just take the whole box and inventory will assume DC hosed up.
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Inner Light posted:Nothing much to do with your story, I am curious from an advertising / revenue generation standpoint -- do you think the presence of the sign and people holding it, legitimately increased the number of paying customers coming into the store? Nah, not at all. But that DM was a giant idiot pain in the rear end, and he would drive around to as many stores as he could hit on sale day and if you didn't have someone out he'd start screaming. Once he left and we got a new one that practice stopped. He even demanded we put out like 50 yard signs around the area, which was a giant logistical pain in the rear end. He wanted them in "strategic" locations, so someone had to go around and put them out and note down where they were. Because when it was time to remove them, unless the placer worked a 13 hour shift or something it was someone else that picked them up. The same DM for the sale brought in some kind of mascot costume once and demanded someone wear it. In the middle of july. The store manager had a volunteer put it on, took a picture of him wearing it as "proof" then told him to take that silly poo poo off. Good boss.
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Inspector 34 posted:We had one dude who just stopped showing up and it turned out he was in jail for stealing a tv at Walmart. I was training a dude on the counter at my current job who was on probation or parole or something. Showed up for a couple weeks, was actually learning stuff and getting better at the job until he just disappeared. Turned out he got a DUI or something and violated his release conditions so he was back in the clink. I was training another person a few weeks later who never came back after one day of working directly with me. I next saw her several months later working the electronics counter at Target 
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I did have one lady quit in a way that stuck out: she was freaking out that this job would be too hard and stressful and complicated for her. I talked to her and asked what her previous job was and she was a receptionist for a doctor's office. After handling schedules and medical paperwork and payments she found putting a single item in a single box too stressful and the moment I turned her back and was no longer trying to get her to breathe she just upped and vanished. Honestly I put that one down to her having an anxiety attack after listening to all of the (well deserved) horror stories about Amazon. So good on her for getting out before she ever really started.
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Alkydere posted:I did have one lady quit in a way that stuck out: she was freaking out that this job would be too hard and stressful and complicated for her. Yeah, but that’s a big change going from an office environment to being on as part of the production line.
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I have nothing but respect for the several people in 2021 who were hired into our deli and quit on day one. had to have been like 30%, and the others just waited an extra day
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2020 is the decade where If It Sucks, Hit Da Bricks! comes into its own, I think
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Had a tech for about three weeks. He constantly bragged about how much of a badass he was and how he could get me an ak-47 and how he drove to Vegas in less than 3 hours (from where we are, that would be an average speed of about 130mph the entire trip). One day he doesn’t show up and his girlfriend comes in and tells us he’s been arrested. When the state pulled his license, the disciplinary action stated that he had been caught selling drugs out of his car at the university parking lot. That’s kind of a no-no in a pharmacy. Surprisingly, he didn’t even steal from us- it was a pharmacist who was stealing Viagra and also lunch meat.
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Preechr posted:Had a tech for about three weeks. He constantly bragged about how much of a badass he was and how he could get me an ak-47 and how he drove to Vegas in less than 3 hours (from where we are, that would be an average speed of about 130mph the entire trip). One day he doesn’t show up and his girlfriend comes in and tells us he’s been arrested. When the state pulled his license, the disciplinary action stated that he had been caught selling drugs out of his car at the university parking lot. The old “wham bam thank you ham”.
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I absolutely love the really poorly thought out theft stories too. Sometimes the actually well thought out ones are fun too. Our current DM was our area asset protection guy before moving up, one day he came in and must have been bored because he just started telling me all sorts of wild poo poo. My favorite was his tale of the Grand Trucker Scam. It went like this: Trucker picks up his assigned trailer from the DC. Trucker drives to a farm property he owned, where he worked as a metalworker on the side. He would pull in to the barn, use his tools to cut the door hinges off the trailer, then lay the doors down so he wouldn't break the seal. Then he could take whatever poo poo he wanted off the trailer, before using his tools and experience to weld the doors back onto the trailer, then deliver it to the store. Apparently this guy got away with this poo poo for YEARS. He must not have gotten too greedy, but knowing how inept AP was at my company the stores probably did notice the shorts but nobody listened or cared. He only got busted when an AP director was visiting a local flea market and saw someone selling a bunch of company branded merchandise and did a little investigating. AP guy also told me about some hilariously halfassed thefts. Like one associate at a store on his second day ever spies the dropbox under the furniture desk, walks off and gets a crowbar, pops the fucker open and pockets the cash. Like dude, do you really think nobody will wonder how that happened? We had a few associates get nailed for theft when I was there, mostly cash refund scamming for amounts not even near worth it. But one gal was just skimming cash and probably got over $500, we had all the evidence lined up and the lazy-gently caress new AP guy never bothered to come look into it. So she got away with it clean.
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Whaaaaam baaaam Miss American Ham Put the chub right on my chubby but I found it too damp
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I saw someone get fired from the store next door the day they started. I worked in a Game next door to an H&M, and we had a connecting door in the staff room to their building for some reason. It was treated as a fire exit and alarmed on both sides so if anyone opened it, both buildings would start ringing. One day they got a load of Christmas temps in for their first day orientation which, I assume from what happened next, included showing them all the fire exits. I was in the staff room and heard footsteps and conversation behind the adjoining door, and I just about make out "-so don't open it unless there's actually a fire" before the door opens and there's a grinning dickhead stood holding it with a bunch of confused people stood behind him and one person I recognise as the H&M deputy manager somewhere between furious and apologetic. The alarm starts going off and the alarm panel is downstairs so (I assume with a pissed off expression) I shut the door and head downstairs to tell everyone else that there's not a fire, just an arsehole and to shut the sirens off. A few seconds after I turn the alarm off, I'm heading back upstairs and the alarm starts going again - I stick my head in the staff room just in time to see the grinning dickhead closing the door again. I go down again to shut the alarm off and as I come out of the room the panel is in, I see grinning dickhead walking off down the street, yelling and gesturing over his shoulder at the H&M manager that's stood in the shop doorway. I get the impulse to press the big red button but come on, dude.
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Silly Burrito posted:The old “wham bam thank you ham”. 
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I got a live one (or at least did when I left last night). Dude started working a couple weeks ago as a Cashier's Assistant. Long story short, they're the bitches of the front end, being called to go grab the carts in the parking lot, bag for cashiers when poo poo's busy, clean and maintain the cafe area, bring the u-boat with amazon boxes upstairs to receiving, checking in and sorting the supply order, etc. Definitely a very physical job, and a position with a decent amount of turnover. This guy is already a loving loon, coming in with gold chains and poo poo with his name on it completely unironically, and seemed surprised when he was told he couldn't have that out on the floor. Now, don't get me wrong, guy's OK at pushing carts and getting poo poo done, but even something like going to take the last couple of broken ice bags in the cooler we have up front (for customers who need to keep frozen poo poo on ice for their drive home) and emptying it outside is a bridge too far. By which I mean he grabbed the waterlogged bags and brought them outside, dripping water the whole way. Even after I told him that he was leaking, it was a safety hazard and he needed to empty the water from the cooler as well. Of course, a customer almost slips in the trail he'd left behind before it could get cleaned up, but if it were only something like that, it wouldn't be too bad.  Last night, though, things hit a whole other level. Our supply order came in, and the supervisor on duty brought him up to show him how to take care of all that. Part of it requires a sharpie to mark poo poo off, so of course this genius decides to throw a tag on one of the doors leading up into receiving. A rather large tag, that literally "{this guy's name} 4 life" or something similar, so there's absolutely no question it was this dude who did it.  Almost literally at the same time, a customer came in from the mall that we're technically a part of (it's weird, as we're connected to the mall, but there's no actual way to get into the mall from the store directly without going outside), and filed a complaint that he had approached her twice in the parking lot within the past week. Both times were at night, both times he asked her if she was seeing anyone, and both times she rebuffed him. She'd said that she was nervous about even coming up to complain, to which I'd told her that I completely understand, took her story, and immediately emailed my supervisor with it to have a paper trail. Between both of these incidents coming to light in the same day, I'm not expecting to see this guy when I come into work on the weekend. Which, admittedly, is kind of unfortunate because we're a little shortstaffed due to covid worries. The other boothie found that they had caught it within the past week and is quarantining to recover, one of my supervisors is unvaccinated due to a conflict with the medication they take for a heart condition and so is quarantining to see if they might have it, and another supervisor might have caught it from one of their friends over New Years, and has been out this whole week. TBH, I'm surprised I haven't been asked to come in either today or tomorrow, but there's always time to change that. 
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Wait wait wait. He wrote "$NAME 4 life" not "$NAME 4 lyfe"? loving poser.
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It’s pizza delivery instead of retail, but my only good theft story is an assistant manager who would pick up extra shifts working at different stores, and while there re-ring every cash order as a 50% employee discount and pocket the difference. He was a really chill but conscientious manager, among my top five managers of all time easily. I was sad to see him go, super respect that scam, and wish him only the best. e: yeah eventually he got caught, not sure how since inventory and cash would all have been right. Most likely someone looked at employee discount orders in the system? LonsomeSon fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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We have 5 drivers out with covid. Theory is that the new hire brought it in, because the only drivers who got sick did training ride-alongs with him. It is a mystery. Oh, we talking about scams? My first ever copy store manager, who has a soft place in my heart for how dumb he was, but he did get me a job and saved me from starvation, had a great scam going. I think he had some insane personal poo poo going on too, in the space of a few months: his wife had a baby, they got divorced, he moved in with a bunch of other copy center drones, he got a DUI, etc. But the scams started before and lasted the rest of his work with the company, until he was finally fired. What he did was promise/trade services to other businesses in our plaza. Like the barber would come in, and get free reams of paper; he'd pay for the copies, but not the special paper, or any of cuts or other work we did on it, and in return my manager got free haircuts. Or the pizza guy, who would bring him free pizza, in exchange for free computer time. That kinda poo poo. He would promise all kinds of deals, and never be there with the customer came in, demanding the special price. I do remember reporting him at one point, after a very bitchy lady screamed at me for not "honoring the manager's special" of which I had no idea; it was for a pizza place, I remember that, and I always made sure to charge them every loving dime when they did come in to place an order. I think corporate didn't have much against him, save my call, but there were a few things someone up high had to notice, like when a $450 order suddenly dropped for $50. What really sank him, I suspect, is all the horrible audits we had: we failed nonstop, because he would never correct us when we did gently caress up. Oh, the new store order form has to be this one? We'd been using the old one. Every month. Every audit. Because he never showed/got/printed us the new one. Secret shoppers would call and mark us down for not using the new phone greeting, because he never told us it. And then our auditor, so close to probably firing him, or getting the ball rolling, got fired himself. For using his employee discount on his personal side business. So it took over a year for higher ups to finally fire my manager. The week after he was fired was the best fun I ever had at work: people would come in, ask for him, and be told he was gone. Not coming back. The reams of paper you want are $10 each, how many do you want? The BEST was a dude who came in with a 2 inch binder full of CDs. Each CD had about a dozen folders, each folder had more folders, and each of those was filled with all kinds of art, clip and hand-drawn, etc. Dude was a tattoo artist, and needed everything organized and resized. Manager had promised him a great deal, of course, in exchange for some tattoos. The look on his face when we quoted a base price was perfect.
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Silly Burrito posted:The old “wham bam thank you ham”. Never underestimate the appeal of retail meat theft.
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On the theft front, there was the day i came in for an opening shift at Dollar Tree and found out the store had been broken into. They went into the roof over the office, came down on the safe pretty much and cut a hole in it to steal maybe $1.5k in cash and coin. Then they cut a hole in our stockroom wall to the Tuesday Morning next door, boosted their entire SAFE out of TMs back door.
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Midjack posted:Never underestimate the appeal of retail meat theft. lol wut Got caught stealing a pack of bacon and that was enough to bar him from the third-highest ranking position in the CIA.
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Avoiding dishonest people is big in the intelligence game. Anyone stupid enough to steal bacon is possibly stupid enough to steal something else and then get blackmailed by the KGB.
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Star Man posted:lol wut He lost his job as a spy in 1981 because he was stealing bacon and couldn't figure out how to do it without getting caught. And apparently he was hoping everyone would forget after 25 years when he was nominated to help run the place. 
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How can we trust you to not steal state secrets when you can't keep yourself from stealing bacon?
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Why bacon of all things? At least steal some ribeyes or saffron or something that makes sense to steal
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So I was posting a bit here earlier in the year around the time I quit Best Buy in April, well I got a better salary and took the job again before Black Friday. New store, some old friends and a much better GM, I've been pretty okay. New store hours company wide are 11-7, partly because people are calling out a LOT (omicron, and other illnesses) and I think also to test how much money we can save by having less hours spent on employees (but everyone is happy, the latest you'll work is like 830pm, and the early shift starts at 8am too) Of course, no matter what, as a retail employee you are the devil to some people. We were helping someone load a car at 7:40 (they were handicapped and took a while to ring, then the TV didn't fit their car...) so of course people kept trying to come into the store. I got cussed out 3 times while holding the door for our employees. I haven't been called names like this since I stopped playing on Xbox Live, and it's all because they couldn't come into a closed store.... people are the worst.
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LonsomeSon posted:It’s pizza delivery instead of retail, but my only good theft story is an assistant manager who would pick up extra shifts working at different stores, and while there re-ring every cash order as a 50% employee discount and pocket the difference. For example I want to hear about this, was this guy prosecuted / charges pushed or just fired?
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