The dust doesn't taste that good...

[ContraCorriente]

... so why do they keep biting it?

My absolute favorite manager was fired this past Monday for stealing over $10,000 in the past three or so years she's worked there.

Good riddance, I guess.

[Rapscallion]

Sounds like you've had more than just her biting it. How many?

Rapscallion

[Cia]

Looks like somebody didn't get the memo that embezzlement doesn't pay in the long run.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Looks like somebody didn't get the memo that embezzlement doesn't pay in the long run.

That's probably because it didn't have one of the new cover sheets.

[ContraCorriente]

Raps - In the fourteen months I've been here, there have been three managers fired. One for embezzlement, one for sexual harrassment, and one for something else. It was a big deal, but I never found out the actual reason why. Someone told someone else, but told that person not to tell anyone else. So of course everyone knows but no one talks about it.

Oh, I made a mistake in the OP. $10,000 has actually been stolen in five months, *not* three years. I was thinking about how long she'd been working there and got confused by that. Sorry.

[Killer Bees]

One of the many banks I've worked in had a problem with one girl embezzling about $60,000. This was a few years before my time, but they still talked about it.

She managed to get away with it for so long because the took the money from the account she was reconciling, so she managed to make the report balance every time.

Co-workers used to wonder how she could go to the pub for lunch every day play the pokies. But she came under suspicion when she bought an expensive car and bragged about it. And then came the new expensive clothes, shoes, sunglasses, handbags etc etc.

She tried to blame it on the pokie wins but the team leader didn't buy it. He began discreetly going back through the reports and checking her figures. She got a little sloppy towards the end and that's what undid her.

And here is the underlying lesson: if you're going to embezzle money, do it under the radar and don't get complacent. And if you want to buy heaps of stuff, don't brag about it and introduce your new wardrobe a piece at a time.

They proscecuted her and she went to jail plus she had to pay back all the money, with interest and court costs. Idiot.

The story I heard was after the 6 month jail stint, she got another job handling money in another company

[norrina]

The story I heard was after the 6 month jail stint, she got another job handling money in another company

I don't doubt it.

One of the responsibilities of my job is making deposits, disbursing checks, and keeping ledgers of incoming and outgoing funds. The woman in this position before me was dismissed after embezzling 10s of thousands of dollars over a 2-3 year time period. She ended up indicted on civil AND criminal charges.

This isn't a particularly huge city, and the field that I'm in is also not overwhelmingly large, so word gets around pretty quickly. Not too long after all this came down, she was hired by another company, basically in the exact same capacity that she had worked here under. Her new boss told her, "I don't care what you did at [our company], but don't steal from ME!"

Well, guess who's in the state pen for 6 months now on charges brought by that company?

[Jinxy]

I used to work in an Indian casino in CT and there was always someone getting "walked out" for stealing a few hundred here and there, always around Christmas time, or with the excuse that they had bills to pay.
There were stories about the count rooms when we had first opened and people quitting after the first 4/5 months and suddenly able to buy a new car or a house. The only story I know was factual was when the count room people in the begining were able to take their uniforms home with them and an older man had his wife sew pockets on the inside and stole for quite some time. His step-son sexually asulted a woman and got his step-father caught that way.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...510602627.html

Jinxy

[BookstoreEscapee]

My old store had a music manager that had some scam going...he got arrested in the store and escorted out in handcuffs. It happened shortly after I had moved to Philly, and it was a while longer before I got any details, but apparently he was somehow stealing CDs (rarer stuff that he could resell), I think by ordering stuff in somehow and not receiving it, then sneaking it out of the store.