The truck stops here

For most of us it can be difficult to separate our work lives from our personal lives. We are spending more time at work, involved in work, checking our emails and voicemails for work, sometimes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our families are often pushed to the side because our work can be so consuming.

It is no surprise that so many people develop relationships at work. They can be friends, or even love interests. Even in the loss prevention profession, it is not uncommon for people to meet their future spouses while on the clock.

Most companies have clear-cut policies in their handbooks regarding personal relationships and fraternizations for a couple of reasons. One is to protect everyone form harassment or favoritism in the workplace. The other is to protect against employee theft.

It is not uncommon for employee theft to take place when there are friends or relatives (significant others) working together and having access to merchandise and a register or unsupervised back door.

Not many people know that there are policies in place regarding delivery truck drivers. Most of my stocking crews know that there is a strict time limit that must be followed for how quickly a truck must be unloaded.

While they think it is about their own productivity levels, an even bigger part is to prevent employee theft.

In large cases involving store associates and drivers, there is usually documentation of the drivers lingering at those stores and developing relationships. These relationships lead to the potential and opportunity for major theft to occur.

When the trucks are pushed on as soon as possible, those relationships do not have time to form, thus cutting back on the potential for employee theft of that nature to occur.

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