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

Do people forget there are cameras pretty much everywhere these days?

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Guy has to be on something.

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I'd say so... Or he has some serious personal issues.

Yep. Had two higher ups funneling projects to their own freelance company while working for our company. They are never caught and I do not work there any more.

One of the rigs had both crews stealing from the company. They had an assembly line going building gates, trailers, BBQ pits and all sorts of stuff. They were caught by an engineer trainee that was sent out to the rig to train. He saw all this going on and called the main office and told them. The next crew that went home was called to the office to meet with the president. They still had no idea what was going on. When they walked in the office there was a stainless steel winch bumper with the OIMs' initials on it sitting on the presidents desk. all the supervisors were fired on the spot.

So the company then sets up it's purchasing to go through the main office, no more buying from the rig. A married couple that worked for the company, one in purchasing, the other in billing, builds a house through the company. He'd order the materials and she'd pay for them. I'm not sure how they got caught.

I could tell story after story of stuff being stolen from drilling companies.

My sis was working for a large hotel in New Orleans as a controller and her boss was in charge of accounts payable and was taking money out of the account and writing bogus checks. My sis found some discrepancies and notified her boss’ boss. Next thing you know the FBI sits down with my sis and she takes a week off work. The company did an internal audit and found out the dumb bitch redirected over a million dollars and was going down the street to harrahs to gamble it away. She went to prison for at least 5 years.

I worked for a food delivery company out of Houma. We had a driver that lived in Lafayette and ran the Lafayette street sales route. Everyday he would drive to Houma to drop off his trailer from the day before and pick up his trailer for the day. So he kept his truck at him overnight and on the weekends.

One weekend our Salesman is in Lafayette and sees our truck pulling a dump trailer. At first he thought it was a used truck that we sold, but low and behold it was the truck assigned to our Lafayette driver.

After our office investigated it was found out that he was using our company truck to haul rocks and dirt on the weekend. He was fired really quick.

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I worked at a chemical plant for 44 years...…..so no. No one ever stole anything.

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My Pops worked (and eventually retired from) for a Cryogenic Fortune 500 Company that has several local facilities, he had a local office at one of them and travelled nationally weekly.

We always had a helium cylinder at the house and I always brought liquid nitrogen to Show & Tell.

Was that stealing?

I’ve caught employees “helping” other employees by clocking in for them* or fixing another’s punch-in time so tardy wasn’t tardy. All Fired.

Caught another in a Company vehicle way far from where he should have been. Reprimanded and still with us, he has a GPS on his Company vehicle that he doesn’t know about.

*moved to time clocks that require a ring finger to be placed in it to punch in.

ETA:

Had a girl steal $10k over a 6 month period. She was the manager and took bank bags after work to deposit but was skimming each time. There was another girl who around the same time had been caught shoplifting somewhere and so everyone thought it was her. Finally they installed cameras and found that money was missing only on days where the bank deposits were being dropped off. Called the cops and she cried like a baby saying she was on drugs please don’t take her baby.

you do know I was joking??

the biggest thieves living work in plants. I've probably in my time there seen a dozen or so fired for stealing, and for every one they catch, there are a couple of dozen they don't. One bitch was even stealing food that we'd cook on night shift, that we planned to eat leftovers the next night, but the leftovers were always at her house by the next night. she was recently fired. not for stealing food, but for lying about an incident, and being a lazy worthless count.

Back in the early 90's I worked at a hotel. This was back before the internet when a lot of reservations still came from travel agents. Travel agents generally received 10% of the room rate as commission. A guy that had been working there for a few years set up his own travel agency and added it to every reservation he came across that wasn't already linked to a travel agency.So he was getting monthly checks for his 10% of all these rooms booked....that he had no part in booking.

This scheme went on for a few years, and they only caught him because a sales manager was doing some promotion or something and tried to send a gift basket to him. The only address he had on there was a PO box, and the number he had on the agency was a disconnected number. He made around $50k on this scheme if I remember right. I forget how they actually determined it was him doing it.