First, please maintain the following question in a hypothetical frame. It is an informational query and is not a statement of actual wrongdoing. After posting the basic situation, I will re-post further details if needed but I would like to keep this as minimal as possible to minimize the risk of breaking anonymity.
Second, please assist me with facts, not judgements.
While throwing away trash into the compactor, an ETL discovers a box with several packages inside from which the products were obviously stollen. The sum total of the stollen items is slightly under $100. The box that the stollen items were found inside of was put in the trash area the night before, about 4-5 hours before close. This is known because the pick label on the box was for a product that was set the evening before. So, the theft can be reasonably assumed to have occurred in the last 4-5 hours of the previous night or in the first few hours of the currant day before the store opened.
The same box with all of the empty packages was sitting on the Pricing TL's desk two days later.
There is no way the security camera's saw the items removed from the location as there is no coverage at that angle. There is a PTZ? camera that would show the thief walking past the location while working throughout a shift, but no verifiable shot of removal.
There are two working cameras, one opposite the compactor across receiving that is pointed directly at the dump site and a second over the compactor door pointed across receiving at the first camera. This store still uses an older system that still records on tapes. The picture quality on the two camera's in receiving are not great but one could still identify a specific TM in the empty back room areas but not the product that was stollen as it was small and concealed when it was dumped.
My questions are:
1) what is the whole process between when the ETL discovered the dumped packages and it landing on the Pricing TL's desk?
2) is this something that the AP team would research to the point of rolling back the tapes?
3) what signs would become apparent if the TM who stole was identified and the information was shared with the STL/ETL's?
4) would anonymously returning the items, like dumping them in an area that they would be discovered easily, be helpful in any way?
5) Is there anything I can do to discover if this issue is escalating or if it was just recorded in the theft log and turned over to Pricing for count adjustment?
Again, I understand the desire to judge and post negative opinions but please assume that the TM has never committed any crime previous to this and this act was driven by a moment of spite and vengeance against our Corporate handlers, not because the TM has a pattern of flawed moral decisions.
Basically, the TM would like advice on how to go forward and what what not to do to exacerbate or call attention to themselves.
Second, please assist me with facts, not judgements.
While throwing away trash into the compactor, an ETL discovers a box with several packages inside from which the products were obviously stollen. The sum total of the stollen items is slightly under $100. The box that the stollen items were found inside of was put in the trash area the night before, about 4-5 hours before close. This is known because the pick label on the box was for a product that was set the evening before. So, the theft can be reasonably assumed to have occurred in the last 4-5 hours of the previous night or in the first few hours of the currant day before the store opened.
The same box with all of the empty packages was sitting on the Pricing TL's desk two days later.
There is no way the security camera's saw the items removed from the location as there is no coverage at that angle. There is a PTZ? camera that would show the thief walking past the location while working throughout a shift, but no verifiable shot of removal.
There are two working cameras, one opposite the compactor across receiving that is pointed directly at the dump site and a second over the compactor door pointed across receiving at the first camera. This store still uses an older system that still records on tapes. The picture quality on the two camera's in receiving are not great but one could still identify a specific TM in the empty back room areas but not the product that was stollen as it was small and concealed when it was dumped.
My questions are:
1) what is the whole process between when the ETL discovered the dumped packages and it landing on the Pricing TL's desk?
2) is this something that the AP team would research to the point of rolling back the tapes?
3) what signs would become apparent if the TM who stole was identified and the information was shared with the STL/ETL's?
4) would anonymously returning the items, like dumping them in an area that they would be discovered easily, be helpful in any way?
5) Is there anything I can do to discover if this issue is escalating or if it was just recorded in the theft log and turned over to Pricing for count adjustment?
Again, I understand the desire to judge and post negative opinions but please assume that the TM has never committed any crime previous to this and this act was driven by a moment of spite and vengeance against our Corporate handlers, not because the TM has a pattern of flawed moral decisions.
Basically, the TM would like advice on how to go forward and what what not to do to exacerbate or call attention to themselves.
