Jean and shoplifting.
Okay here’s a story for you guys:
So I used to work at this toy store, and I had a coworker, let’s call her Jean. Jean was around 67 and she was working there because it was something to do, and she was a great person, gave her money to charity, bought lunch for people for people who didn’t have any, offered to buy stuff for families who couldn’t afford it, the works. The thing is, she worked in the front-ish where all the little $3-5 toys were and I was a cashier, and a lot of people would lift from her section. A LOT. The toys were small and easy to hide, and the kids (I’m pretty sure it was always kids, after all, an adult has the decency not to steal, right?) would just take them while she wasn’t looking and run to their parents.
Well, one day I’m off and Jean is working but I’m there anyway because I’m looking at Pokemon cards and I get an employee discount, and I see a group of four kids (three girls, one boy) around 14-15 come on and head straight to Jean’s section. Two of them have purses, but given their age and the fact that I also have one I don’t think anything of it. Not five minutes later they run out the door, and our manager runs out of her office, yelling for someone to stop them.
Apparently those kids had stuffed $50 worth of toys in their purses and Jean had let them go. That wouldn’t have warranted much, except apparently the kids had done it before and Jean hadn’t caught them any other time either. So our manager called Jean into her office, and fired her on the spot. Maybe she thought Jean was in on it. I don’t know.
That’s what happens when you steal stuff. It’s not the CEO, or the Manager who gets in trouble, it’s the employee making minimum wage trying to feed her grandkids who gets in trouble. Next time you go lift, I want you to find an employee, and talk to them. Because that’s who you’re stealing from.
