Archived The Breakroom's Wall of Stupid TMs

[MIRSlave]

Six years ago I had the pleasure of training a new team member on how to push electronics off the truck. There were a couple of days where we had some discrepancies between the high-value stuff we were getting in the white repacks and the stuff that the Zone 9 report had said what we were supposed to get. Of course, I'd bring it up with AP or the ETL-LOG each time something came missing.

So one morning we had a tiny truck (400 pieces or so) and our team was done with unload and push by 6:45am. They had a few of us stick around to do some miscellaneous tasks, others were sent on their way. I offered to leave because I had to show up at my second job at noon, and wanted to use the time to catch a little bit of sleep. As I was walking out of TSC, the AP door opens and a police officer walked out of it with my trainee in cuffs.

The couple of times I let my trainee deal with the white repacks, she decided to take a five-finger discount on some iPod nanos. In plain view of the camera that was obviously pointed at the electronics counter. Smooth.

 

[masterofalltrades]

We had a cashier last year that we had thought was a RedCard getting machine. Turns out she was an identity stealing machine because she was somehow collecting guest information and then just discounting the sale. I believe that's federal, right?

We had a cashier who's. Mom worked at a doctors office. She would get ssns , and give them to friends and fmily. They would apply at his lane and get approved. Then use all of the credit. Within the year it was around 35-50 k. And he was due to be a tl in a few months.

 

[paidtosmile]

If only they arrested people for time theft.. I think I could make a case with security footage of some team members and leaders I've seen over the years "STEALING 18,000/year"

Right! We have one electronics/sales floor team member who likes to give himself extra break time. He'll go on his lunch (Which, I might add, somebody else is neglecting their job in order to cover electronics) and he'll go out on the floor and buy his food, prepare it, go on eHR, and then when his food is finally ready (about 15 minutes of him not working) he'll JUST THEN punch out.

For a while, our TL's had to swarm the break room and snap at him the minute he walked in. He always responded with "oh yeah i suppose i better" and would magically remember that he needs to punch out for his meal break.

 

[Geekprincess]

We had woman at gs who would tell the guest the return was going back to their credit card but would actually put it on a gift card and pocket the card. I guess she stole more than $2000 that way, by stealing like $5 dollars here and there. Then one day a guest came up to me with her return slip and said that it had been 4 days and the money still wasn't on her card. I look at it and it says gift card return, so I ask her if she was handed a gift card, she said no. I told her to wait right there and got my gstl (I was a cashier at the time, not even gs trained). The woman was arrested the next day.

 

[eleuthreophile]

I know a guy who got fired for pocketing free gift cards if guests didn't ask about them.

 

[Wave Ballerino]

A really great cashier that everyone liked at my store got fired after he found a gift card that a guest had left behind, and was on his way to guest service to put in the lost and found but when he gave it to the GS counter person, he took it from his pocket. He had no intention of stealing it (and was not that sort of character) but merely the action of having pocketed it for whatever reason lost him his job, regardless of intent =/

 

[The Dude Abides]

A really great cashier that everyone liked at my store got fired after he found a gift card that a guest had left behind, and was on his way to guest service to put in the lost and found but when he gave it to the GS counter person, he took it from his pocket. He had no intention of stealing it (and was not that sort of character) but merely the action of having pocketed it for whatever reason lost him his job, regardless of intent =/

I certainly hope he fought that because unless you live in a Right to Be Fired (aka Right to Work) state there is no way he wouldn't win a wrongful termination suit.

 

[JustJoe]

I know a guy who got fired for pocketing free gift cards if guests didn't ask about them.

When I'm on a register I look like a casino dealer any time I'm in the till arranging bills (brush hands when done) and any time a GC prompt pops up I hand the card to the guest and say "And this is for NEXT TIME."

 

[The Dude Abides]

I always put the gift card face up next to the card reader and tap it telling the guest how much it's for. In the rare case the guest doesn't pick it up I immediately lock it up in the cash drawer with a note listing the amount of the GC along with the date/time left and the register number so the guest can easily claim it.