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[Imogene]

Management shouldn't even go through your stuff

Really? I can see a plethora of reasons for management to go through your bag, however, seeing as this isn't Fratching, I'll avoid the topic. The big requirement for most of them, though, is suspicion of malicious intent.

[bainsidhe]

I would NEVER let someone go through my personal bag....the reason....

I've heard of customers being so rude and accusing of theft that people did let them go through their bag. Then guess what.....the asshole ran off with it. It always happens outside during a break or after a shift. It shouldn't matter how much you have to prove that you didn't steal anything. Management shouldn't even go through your stuff let alone some random person.

I used to work in a DVD/CD store and it was store policy that employees were to be checked by management. They had to turn out their pockets, have their coats patted down (not while wearing them, of course), bags and purses opened, etc...anytime an employee wanted to leave the store, whether to go home or go for a smoke. Being that DVDs and CDs are small, portable and easilty deactivated, employee theft is rampant company wide. Management had to be checked out by another manager, too. Even the district manager when he came to visit. Gotta love job ethics.

[Jester]

The guy in question certainly had suspicion of malicious intent: specifically, theft. It's just that management thought his suspicions were completely unwarranted. I know *I* didn't take his camera. I am 99% certain ZIM didn't take his camera...I've known him a while, I worked with him previously at the Landmark Luxury Hotel under Shit Weasel, and he's a roommate of my best friend on the island. He may have many problems, but to the best of my knowledge, theft sure as hell isn't one of them.

[ShadedWings]

(Not trying to threadjack, so attempting to post it in brief...)

Understandably worried, but seriously. The nerve of some people...

Working as a cashier in a grocery store, I had one older lady (I was on the express lane) over the course of her transaction, hand me her savings card, then I handed it back. Now, I don't know what she did with it but I gave it directly back to her.

She left. Ten minutes later, comes back in, asking if I know what happened to it. I tell her I handed it to her. She wants me to check around to be sure, so I do, no card. I tell her again I handed it directly to her. She leaves.

Her daughter comes in five minutes later, rinse, repeat. She leaves.

Lady comes back in, visibly pissed.

SC: Empty your pockets!
Me: ... what??
SC: Empty your pockets, I want to see if you have my card!
Me: (shocked at the inanity of the demand, nothing to hide, empties both apron pockets and pants pockets of spare change, old receipts, clock-in card, keys) I told you ma'am. I handed it directly back to you. I didn't see what you did with it.

She then leaves without a word of apology, or any words at all. A bagger friend of mine comes over and asks me if she really did what he thought she did. I was pissed at that point, but ended up laughing it off.

[Jester]

A few weeks ago I had something very similar happen.

Couple came in. Couple ate. Couple were happy. Man wandered off to the bathroom. Wife paid with a credit card. Jester ran credit card. Jester dropped credit card and credit card receipts in check presenter on Couple's table. Couple left. Jester picked up check presenter, got signed credit card slip out of it, and filed it away. Jester put empty check presenter in its spot.

Couple comes back ten minutes later. Man says, "I need my credit card back." Jester replies, "Sir, I put the credit card in with the slip in the check presenter. When I picked up the check presenter, all that was in it was my pen and the slip. There was no credit card. I assumed your wife [who signed the credit card slip] picked it up." Man said, "Well, we don't have it."

Well, dude, what the fuck am I supposed to do? Pull it out of my freakin' ass? I don't have it. I gave it to you. Once it is in your or your wife's possession, it is no longer my problem. I am a server (a damn good one), not a fucking babysitter. My job is not to sit there and make sure you fill out the slip and take your own fucking card while my other tables wait for service. I did my job, you do yours, as in pay fucking attention to your credit card after you drop it off. If you trust me as your server that little that you think I am going to steal your fucking credit card AT MY FUCKING JOB, then wait to tinkle until after I have run your card and dropped it off. Your wife lost it? Your wife misplaced it? Too fucking bad, not my fucking problem, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY BAR, YOU FUCKING IDIOTIC ASSHOLE.

No, I didn't say all that. God, I wish I could have.

[slick]

Happens at the hotel often, sometimes the items are found, other times, they are not.

One time, many years ago, a women, who checked out of the hotel 30 minutes prior, came back to the hotel to reclaim a diamond ring. She claimed that it was left on the nightstand in the room. Of course, it was no where to be found. She wasted no time accusing the housekeepers of stealing it. My Mother is the head housekeeper, she was the first and only person to have gone in the room, she did not see it. Didn't stop the lady from insisting that it was on the nightstand (She kept saying "I am 100% positive I left it on the nightstand"), and that our "illegal" staff stole it. I hate it when people assume that hard working Mexican people are thieves, and illegals. She is throwing a huge fit, husband is trying to get her to calm down, and her two kids are actually searching for the ring in the parking lot area.

Eventually, lady calls the cops. Cops get there, make a report, ask all employees if they saw it, blah blah blah. He tells the lady that she is SOL, and the lady goes insane. Now, not only are the "illegal" housekeepers thieves, but me, my Father, and my Mother (we are East Indian), should be sent back to our country and not allowed in the US

I was gonna give her some choice words of my own, and in runs her two kids. They found the ring!!! It was in the floorboard on the passenger side of their car!!! The cop said something like "So, what do you have to say now?" and the nerve of this bitch, she said, and I will never forget it, "Nothing!", and walked off!!!!! I was really wanting to tell her ass off, but luckily for her, and I have no idea how he tolerates her, but her husband apologized for her, and he seemed sincere, so I accepted.

[Jack7957]

Just last week I had checked out of a hotel, there on business, and was starting to think about where to get gas. Since I have a company credit card, that's what I planned on using. It wasn't in my pocket where I normally keep it (I use two wallets when away on business, one is personal stuff, the other all work related). I started going through all my bags and couldn't find it. Went back to the hotel, got another key and searched the room again, no sign of the 2nd wallet. Called our account, asked her to cancel the cards I had, and I'd look again through my bags once I got home. This was wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, so my worry was someone did have it, and they'd be having a great Black Friday if I didn't get them cancelled right away. Get home that night, and I found it. What happened was I had bought a new digital camera and had it with me. When packing my bags, I scooped up all the manuals for the camera, and the wallet, threw them in the camera box, and put that in one bag. When searching, I never thought to open the camera box.

[Slow-Jo]

people like them need someone to blame for their own stupidity.
"im really stupid, and have just realized this and feel this great pit of emptyness inside me. i shall go find 2 random people who i can berate and hopefully fill this pathetic hole in my pathetic life."

you could always fill that gaping hole in your personality with playdough or pocket lint.

Happens at the hotel often, sometimes the items are found, other times, they are not.
our "illegal" staff stole it. I hate it when people assume that hard working Mexican people are thieves, and illegals. /Now, not only are the "illegal" housekeepers thieves, but me, my Father, and my Mother (we are East Indian), should be sent back to our country and not allowed in the US/

It was in the floorboard on the passenger side of their car!!! The cop said something like "So, what do you have to say now?" and the nerve of this bitch, she said, and I will never forget it, "Nothing!", and walked off!!!!!

sorry it was a bit long so i kind a cut out the stuff im replying to.

oh, my, god! how insulting! to both you AND your cleaning crew!
im not much of a traveler, but once i went down to Arizona, phoenix, and they had the sweetest cleaning crew on that side of America! they too were Mexican, and i found them a dream! they always made sure my bedding was clean and the room in order. i left some of my valuables out (one of my 1st time traveling, and i come from a small town where every one know and trust everyone.) and they didn't even go near them. i always said hi and smiled at them when we passed one another. it makes my blood boil when people treat good people that are different wrongly!