Fool Me Once- Internal Theft

There is a saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I am not sure where to go with fool me a third time. In this unusual case of internal theft reported on by the Huffington Post that is exactly what happened.

A 17-year-old boy was fired from his job at a chain retailer for stealing money. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough for this now terminated employee. The teen went to a second store in a nearby town on Black Friday.

He told them he was there from a different store to help with Black Friday. They put him at a register. He worked for about six hours and took all the cash that he made. That haul totaled about $3,000.

When the manager realized (after the fact) what happened, he notified police and the company’s corporate headquarters. Local authorities launched what would be another employee theft investigation.

Managers at a third store were unaware of what was going on when the teen when he showed up there in December. He presented himself as a general manager and said he needed to run some audits on some of the registers and on the store.

He was even able to convince one of the store’s managers to take him into the cash room. While in the cash room, the manager was called to assist another employee.

It was during that time that the teen stuffed his pants with around $36,000.

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