Crazy can be defined in two ways; 1. situation (i.e. you witness an event and instantly declare “wow, that was crazy”) & 2. people (i.e. that customer that becomes hopping mad over you not printing that gift receipt). When you work in retail you grow accustom to both kinds of crazy. The crazy that you don’t get accustomed to is employee theft.
We started to see this pattern of high dollar merchandise cards, the kind you would give to a customer if they had no receipt, all issued by the same employee. The matter was ultra sensitive because the employee issuing the cards was an assistant manager. The investigation started with a handful of cards totaling about $250.00 and by the end we had a total of 50 cards spanning back 2 years totaling well over $10,000. During the interview the manager admitted to the theft and then hit us with a needed dose of reality; she was fired from her last job for doing the same exact thing.
Our company at the time did no pre-employment screening, ran no background checks, and did no criminal background checks. This was the dose the company needed to get involved with a background check expert. It could have saved them thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars had all employees, pre-employment or not been subjected to a background check. Seems like a smart thing to do seeing these are the people who handle the whole of your profit and goods.
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