Sitting on the Back Porch – Employee Theft

In fact, we just had a case of employee theft where the employee was ringing up only one chair, but a stack of four chairs were going out the door. They had figured that we would not notice what was going on because he was ringing something up on the register.

He also figured that if we did notice a shortage of chairs, he could say that he didn’t know and it was a mistake. To a certain extent, that was true. When we did notice the shortage, we first thought it was an operational error and not internal theft. Perhaps if we had trained the employee to recognize how to properly sell those chairs, we would have prevented that shortage.

As we continued researching the chair shortages (because there was more than one) we realized that this employee was actually letting more merchandise go out he door unpaid. We knew then that we needed to resolve this by conducting a full on employee theft investigation.

The same “customer” came back for four more chairs, and some dishes, and some napkins, and some candles, all going out the door for the price of one chair. As it turns out, this “customer” was the brother of the employee. They had a new house and were making an outdoor dining area. The employee decided to take advantage of a known operational issue and thought he would slide right under the radar with his employee theft.

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