It is true; some of a retailer’s best employees are committing employee theft. Often high performing associates are not looked at in terms of employee theft; however, I have seen several high performing employees get caught stealing from the company. Incidences of internal theft are not exclusive to poor performing employees. These employees may never think about taking from the place they work.
Employee theft or internal theft as it is referred to, can be appealing to any employee that is interested in gaining the system for their own personal enrichment. I have often found that associates who believe that they are beyond reproach will take in much more brazen ways. The thought that, no one would ever suspect me, creates a false sense of security for the associate. Associates that are bent on stealing from the company may also have leadership roles.
I remember an internal theft case that involved a manager with over twenty years of service. During an employee theft investigation the manager was shown to be disarming the security system at night. The manager should have been gone for the day, but said they had to get some work done. The employee theft investigation revealed that the manager was actually taking merchandise out of the store and putting it in their car.
When the employee theft investigation was ended and the manager was interviewed the manager admitted to over $20,000.00 in merchandise theft. The manager had supposedly started taking the merchandise to finance a personal problem they were dealing with. The store manager could not believe the person they counted on for years would be implicated in an employee theft investigation. It was obvious that the store manager would have never watched the assistant manager or even thought that they would have ever stolen from the company.
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