Sometimes the employees aren’t too bright either

Internal theft is an all too common problem.  It happens within every business and takes on so many forms that it rarely occurs in the same manner twice in a row.  That’s because one expects that when an associate is caught committing some sort of internal theft the rest of the staff would take note of what NOT to do in order to avoid the same fate as their former coworker.

Sometimes they aren’t paying attention to what’s happening around them though.

At one of my store’s auto centers there was an auto center technician who was terminated at the end of an employee theft investigation that found he was stealing garage equipment and supplies for use in his own ‘side jobs’.  It was such a big deal that cashiers in the main store, people who generally don’t even know anyone working in the auto center, were talking about it for weeks.  Then, just last Tuesday, I was driving past the auto center garage while going into work and noticed something immensely suspicious and all too familiar.

There was an auto center technician standing behind his car loading several items into his trunk including a few large boxes.  By the time I reached the camera room the technician had already finished loading his vehicle so I went about my shift with one monitor focused on the car in the event he returned to it.  A few hours later, as the auto center closed for the night, the technician pulled his car into the garage and parked it in front of his work station, which was located right beneath a PTZ camera.  Over the next few minutes he loaded even more items into his vehicle, including a large quantity of garage supplies.  It was a blatant, slam-dunk case of employee theft.

His only reasoning was that he didn’t think we would keep watching after we caught the last guy.

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