Anyone had a co worker steal from the company you work for?

worked at Sears briefly. Assistant Store Manager had a scheme where the guys in Electronics would load TVs into their vehicles and store them at someone's house while the ASM was distracting the Security guys. They were selling the TVs on ebay or whatever was popular back then.

Guy got caught during the annual inventory check and fired. He was working for Best Buy on Millerville the next day.

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Guy has to be on something.

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I got me ten forward gears,
and a Georgia overdrive.
I'm takin' little white pills,
and my eyes are open wide.

Had a co-worker never come back from deliveries on a Friday. Back before everyone had cell phones just pagers. We assumed he would lock the truck up in the building after we closed at 5. We showed up Monday morning short one employee and our company truck.
Luckily his ex-wife worked right down the street from us and she told us that we would likely find it over by Bon Marche Mall.
Sure enough it was left abandoned in the parking lot in front of Dillards with a broken window. Damn drug heads.

Twas a long time ago, pal.

I was driving back from North Carolina a few years ago and somewhere between Atlanta and Birmingham I pulled off to get diesel and looked across the parking lot and saw one of my own fleet trucks pulling out and headed East. Guy I had working for me decided to go visit family in Greenville and figured since I was out of town maybe he wouldn't be missed.

Had he been honest when I called him on his mobile phone he might still have a job however when he said he was home sick and I texted a picture of him in my truck about 500 miles away from his home I decided to fire him. I just sent the picture and never responded to the repeated calls and texts. I let him think hard about what he had done until he actually had to face me the next morning.

I don't like thieves or liars. And yep he used my gas card to go to and from that adventure. I ate that - I didn't want to doc his pay.

I clerked for a law firm one summer in law school, and the office manager had been caught embezzling. She actually might have gotten away with it for several more years (possibly forever) if it weren't for general cattiness of women in the office. She went down because the other women in the office started noticing how nice her clothes and shoes were getting; they realized she made about what they made and had a deadbeat husband but her wardrobe was getting increasingly nice over the years and brought it up to the managing partner.

When I worked for an automobile manufacturer I took home one part every day for years until I had all of the parts to build my own Cadillac.

I built it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime.

worked for about 8 years in food service. there was definitely food eaten above and beyond what was allowed, but i never had a manager complain about that.


after working for year in several tech departments, i have one guy that stole or was doing something illegal, but i could never figure out what he was doing for sure.

i have him on tape, entering a school and room where we stored new computers before we gave them out. i see him on video entering at midnight on a Friday, but just a blip. no footage after that tiny blip (he deleted it and i had timestamps and his credentials for this,) then the door going to the computers open, then closed and no footage of him whatsoever leaving. no computers missing at all.

then he took a sick day. he was never on time anyways, but he walked in about 8:30 when we were supposed to have a meeting then, but pushed it back. he gave us a freaked out look. so in our meeting we pulled up the cameras and saw him come in in a hoodie, go in a guys office, and leave with his hoodie stuffed to the brim. right afterwards we went in there and couldn't find anything stolen whatsoever.

another time i was in a data closet on a campus after hours fixing a network issue and he walked in, looked surprised, and turned around and walked out. he never stayed late to save his life. I got back to that campus the next morning about 6 AM and his car was there and he was clocked in. i asked what he was doing and he said looking at the network issue. there never was a ticket and i'm the only one that knew it happened (because i caused it.) i had him on video going into that closet, but when i went in there, nothing was amiss that i could tell.

my only guess is he was running drugs or something and using different places to store. whenever confronted he always had some "issue" he was there to fix. he did decent enough work, i could never find anything stolen, and it's hard AF to fire somebody in schools.

we finally got him when we found him bypassing the filter and using a school computer to download movies after hours. on top of him calling a coworker a bitch.

When I was in my second year of college I also worked at a gas station pumping gas for elderly customers, topping fluids and changing oil. The owner figured out that someone was stealing oil and they arranged polygraphs for everybody who worked there. We all took the exam except the old dude who ran the garage. He was fired. I don’t know if they filed a police report or not.