I usually work 2 days a week (Tuesdays and Saturdays) and I go to college 5 days a week. My shifts are 4pm-11pm. I'm making $10 an hour and I've been working there since July.
I'll be honest, I slack off a lot. I'm always on my phone (except when I'm working with certain employees). And here's the worst of it: I steal. Almost every shift. I've gotten away with it so far but I'm thinking of quitting while I'm ahead. I usually steal food and either leave them on the counter and wait a while until I start to eat them. Nobody suspects anything. Sometimes I'll scan through a pack of cigarettes and then run it through the till as a debit purchase.
Our system works like this: you scan something through the till and enter the purchase amount on a seperate debit machine. We don't print off the till receipt but we keep the receipt that is printed off from the debit machine. When the till is cashed out, it only shows the totals, making it impossible to find out what was scanned through without a matching debit receipt.
The only thing they can find out is that the debit totals don't match up to the till totals. It's common though. Sometimes receipts will be lost throughout the day.
They have cameras too. They fired an employee months before I was hired because they pocketed money. I saw a subpoena from the court for it pinned up in the manager's office (we're allowed to go in there to get more stock). I also seen a subpoena for some guy who stole sunglasses from the store. One day when I was working with the assistant manager, she had said somebody stole sunglasses and she checked the cameras but couldn't see the girl steal them because she pocketed them while standing at a certain angle; out of range from each camera in the store.
I've been wondering why one guy got charged for stealing sunglasses yet I got away with over 2 months of stealing food and making fake transactions. Maybe they just don't suspect that it's an employee doing the stealing? I think they only check the security cameras if there's been a robbery or money's suspiciously gone missing from the till. Maybe they do. But I can't be too sure.
I don't really know the motive (if you want to call it that) of the manager and assistant manager, and why a random guy would be charged for stealing sunglasses. Maybe they only check the cameras when stuff like that go missing suspiciously.
Like I said though, I'm quitting this stealing thing while I'm ahead. I only do it because I'm always broke. My money goes to chipping in for rent and groceries and the rest (usually $50 every 2 weeks) goes to smokes and other things.
I just think I'd rather spend my money on smokes (there's a store in town where I can get smokes for less than half the price of what you'd have to pay anywhere else). I don't really want to spend it on junk food or snacks because I feel it's a waste of money. Which is why I decide to steal it. Don't get me wrong though. Most of the time I buy stuff from the store, legitimately. I'll usually buy a pack of smokes from there if I'm running low and I need some smokes to tide me over until I get off work and am able to go to the other store to get them for cheap.
Anyway, about my hours. I went into work on Tuesday and they were asking what I was doing there. I checked the schedule and noticed I'm only working on Saturdays now. The assistant manager said it will give me more time to do homework, and it will. Tuesdays are usually "bad" days for me because I go to school and I'll stay at the campus until my shift starts, instead of walking all the way back home. My work and the campus are a block away from each other. My house is on the other side of town.
Whenever I get home from work on Tuesdays, it's damn near impossible to wake up on time for school. Sometimes I'll wake up late and have to take my online class from home. And usually I'm too lazy to walk to the campus for the rest of the day so I'll stay home.
But anyway, do you think the manager or assistant manager caught me stealing on camera? I don't pocket money because it's way too obvious. And the funny thing is, we recently got a new manager and I haven't even seen her in person yet. I've talked to her on the phone a few times when we needed to notify her that an employee called in sick.
So do you think she cut my hours down because she seen me stealing stuff but didn't want to fire me over it? She's very nice, from what I hear. Or maybe she just cut my hours down for another reason, maybe so I can have the whole week to focus on schoolwork or maybe because Christmas is coming up. I'm too shy to ask her why my hours were cut down. And I'm also too scared to ask, in case she did, in fact catch me stealing stuff. It's not really that bad when I think about i
I also don't know if this is going to be a temporary or permanent hour cut. It did say "may change slightly" on the bottom of the schedule. Maybe it's only a temporary change?
I'll be honest, I slack off a lot. I'm always on my phone (except when I'm working with certain employees). And here's the worst of it: I steal. Almost every shift. I've gotten away with it so far but I'm thinking of quitting while I'm ahead. I usually steal food and either leave them on the counter and wait a while until I start to eat them. Nobody suspects anything. Sometimes I'll scan through a pack of cigarettes and then run it through the till as a debit purchase.
Our system works like this: you scan something through the till and enter the purchase amount on a seperate debit machine. We don't print off the till receipt but we keep the receipt that is printed off from the debit machine. When the till is cashed out, it only shows the totals, making it impossible to find out what was scanned through without a matching debit receipt.
The only thing they can find out is that the debit totals don't match up to the till totals. It's common though. Sometimes receipts will be lost throughout the day.
They have cameras too. They fired an employee months before I was hired because they pocketed money. I saw a subpoena from the court for it pinned up in the manager's office (we're allowed to go in there to get more stock). I also seen a subpoena for some guy who stole sunglasses from the store. One day when I was working with the assistant manager, she had said somebody stole sunglasses and she checked the cameras but couldn't see the girl steal them because she pocketed them while standing at a certain angle; out of range from each camera in the store.
I've been wondering why one guy got charged for stealing sunglasses yet I got away with over 2 months of stealing food and making fake transactions. Maybe they just don't suspect that it's an employee doing the stealing? I think they only check the security cameras if there's been a robbery or money's suspiciously gone missing from the till. Maybe they do. But I can't be too sure.
I don't really know the motive (if you want to call it that) of the manager and assistant manager, and why a random guy would be charged for stealing sunglasses. Maybe they only check the cameras when stuff like that go missing suspiciously.
Like I said though, I'm quitting this stealing thing while I'm ahead. I only do it because I'm always broke. My money goes to chipping in for rent and groceries and the rest (usually $50 every 2 weeks) goes to smokes and other things.
I just think I'd rather spend my money on smokes (there's a store in town where I can get smokes for less than half the price of what you'd have to pay anywhere else). I don't really want to spend it on junk food or snacks because I feel it's a waste of money. Which is why I decide to steal it. Don't get me wrong though. Most of the time I buy stuff from the store, legitimately. I'll usually buy a pack of smokes from there if I'm running low and I need some smokes to tide me over until I get off work and am able to go to the other store to get them for cheap.
Anyway, about my hours. I went into work on Tuesday and they were asking what I was doing there. I checked the schedule and noticed I'm only working on Saturdays now. The assistant manager said it will give me more time to do homework, and it will. Tuesdays are usually "bad" days for me because I go to school and I'll stay at the campus until my shift starts, instead of walking all the way back home. My work and the campus are a block away from each other. My house is on the other side of town.
Whenever I get home from work on Tuesdays, it's damn near impossible to wake up on time for school. Sometimes I'll wake up late and have to take my online class from home. And usually I'm too lazy to walk to the campus for the rest of the day so I'll stay home.
But anyway, do you think the manager or assistant manager caught me stealing on camera? I don't pocket money because it's way too obvious. And the funny thing is, we recently got a new manager and I haven't even seen her in person yet. I've talked to her on the phone a few times when we needed to notify her that an employee called in sick.
So do you think she cut my hours down because she seen me stealing stuff but didn't want to fire me over it? She's very nice, from what I hear. Or maybe she just cut my hours down for another reason, maybe so I can have the whole week to focus on schoolwork or maybe because Christmas is coming up. I'm too shy to ask her why my hours were cut down. And I'm also too scared to ask, in case she did, in fact catch me stealing stuff. It's not really that bad when I think about i
I also don't know if this is going to be a temporary or permanent hour cut. It did say "may change slightly" on the bottom of the schedule. Maybe it's only a temporary change?