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At my store, our AP executive was terminated for stealing lost and found items like cell phones.
I had a team member who:
1) During his CA shifts, would take Starbuck drinks and Pepsi out of the cooler, consume them, then pay for them at the end of his shift. When I caught him doing it, he denied he was doing anything wrong because our TPS 'saw' him do it and never said anything to him. When I reminded him that it is still considered 'stealing' under policy and that if we had a visit from our floating APS and they saw him take a beverage, drink it, and not pay for it they would fire him. He didn't get it. When I brought the problem to my ETL-HR, she thought there was nothing wrong with it and just 'coach' him for it.
2) When asked to cover FA breaks/lunches, he would make up his own food and use the FA's speed ID to ring up the item. Again, I caught him doing it and took it to my ETL-HR... Again, she thought it just deserved a coaching.
3) Once he was trained on service desk, he was caught using the GSA's speed ID to ring up his own items and would discount him under "price match" override codes.... He was going to be put on CA for that stunt... but...
4) While cashiering during a rush, he had a guest purchase a large order with several gift cards. One of the gift cards had a remaining balance of $73. He gave the guest one of the empty ones and threw the one with the balance in the trash. Later, he went back to the lane and dug the GC out of the trash. He clocked out for lunch and took the GC back to electronics and put the money towards a new XBox One.
Couple hours later, the same guest went to another Target to pick up something we didn't have. When she went to buy the item, and discovered the card was empty, the gift card hotline was called... And eventually AP... And before he left our investigator came in and FINALLY termed him.
After he was termed, it was discovered that he was fired from Big Lots for a similar situation....
could you imagine the guy whos gone that was? I mean theres not to many things that could be going through that guys head 1 of which is this guy is crazy as hell he just shot himself just because! Or option to would just be dying of laughter trying to get out an oh my god are you ok in between gasps lolI think I'm gonna love this thread!
I posted about this in another thread, but here it is again, in all of its glory:
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/...-for-lighter-shoots-himself-in-the-hand.html/
Basically, some genius with a concealed carry permit dropped their gun, the target TM picked it up, and thinking it was a lighter, instead of burning his hand, he shot himself.
I had a team member who:
1) During his CA shifts, would take Starbuck drinks and Pepsi out of the cooler, consume them, then pay for them at the end of his shift. When I caught him doing it, he denied he was doing anything wrong because our TPS 'saw' him do it and never said anything to him. When I reminded him that it is still considered 'stealing' under policy and that if we had a visit from our floating APS and they saw him take a beverage, drink it, and not pay for it they would fire him. He didn't get it. When I brought the problem to my ETL-HR, she thought there was nothing wrong with it and just 'coach' him for it.
2) When asked to cover FA breaks/lunches, he would make up his own food and use the FA's speed ID to ring up the item. Again, I caught him doing it and took it to my ETL-HR... Again, she thought it just deserved a coaching.
3) Once he was trained on service desk, he was caught using the GSA's speed ID to ring up his own items and would discount him under "price match" override codes.... He was going to be put on CA for that stunt... but...
4) While cashiering during a rush, he had a guest purchase a large order with several gift cards. One of the gift cards had a remaining balance of $73. He gave the guest one of the empty ones and threw the one with the balance in the trash. Later, he went back to the lane and dug the GC out of the trash. He clocked out for lunch and took the GC back to electronics and put the money towards a new XBox One.
Couple hours later, the same guest went to another Target to pick up something we didn't have. When she went to buy the item, and discovered the card was empty, the gift card hotline was called... And eventually AP... And before he left our investigator came in and FINALLY termed him.
After he was termed, it was discovered that he was fired from Big Lots for a similar situation....
On #1, I don't think its a huge deal really. I mean yes he SHOULD pay for it first, but if hes being honest and still paying, I would say there is bigger fish to fry... Coaching is probably adequate for that kinda case.
As for my store, only seen/heard of one.. One of the Cart Attendants I trained at my old store would go on break and steal food, eventually it added up and law enforcement was called and he was walked out. I remember they scheduled both of us to close that night (so they planned it out for that night I'm sure), and when I asked why 2 of us were closing they were like "we had extra hours" lol. Hour later he was in handcuffs.
Yep, that's how quite a few of ours got termed.We had a few cashiers who would take the free 5 dollar gift cards from guests when they were not looking and give them a blank one if they asked about a free gift card.
I think we should blame the thief. Opened locker doesn't mean "help yourself".I notice a lot of team members do not lock their lockers and just leave purses or phones, or something... it is their own fault if it gets stolen... if the locker lets you pick a PIN just pick "1111" gosh.
The majority of our lockers either have dead batteries &, as a result, ripped up doors & latches. Our SFT got new doors to replace the jimmied ones but they didn't have locks on them. For every locker he replaced the batteries on, 4 more would die.
Yeah they arrested the entire overnight backroom team in a night. Like 8-12 people. Good catch by AP.
Good lord I would have loved to have been involved in that one. Nothing better than a good internal investigation.Going back some 7 years or so...
When I started and my store had overnight, I remember we had a truck unload, and all of logistics was scheduled, and the ETLs said there'd be food. Sure enough, Pizza, Drinks, Wings. But you could only eat on breaks.
My group was second to go on break, backroom team (Overnight) was first. I go in there on break and saw the food was not touched, as I was eating my ETL came in and asked me if I knew backroom.
Told him "nope." He told me that it was time to learn.
Yeah they arrested the entire overnight backroom team in a night. Like 8-12 people. Good catch by AP.
Recently our backroom TL was caught buying crap with coupons and returning it at another store (doing this would bug the system and the amount off on the coupon would be returned as cash). She did this for years and made some 6k over it.
I wouldn't steal...but if I was going to...and risk going to jail and losing my job...I sure as hell would want to get more out of it than a 5.00 gift card lolWe had a few cashiers who would take the free 5 dollar gift cards from guests when they were not looking and give them a blank one if they asked about a free gift card.