OT / Dishonest employee

BUSHDOG · Post by **BUSHDOG** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:56 pm

and it gives us something to yak about while we wait,wait,wait

ranger · Post by **ranger** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:20 pm

bushdog.....Sept isnt that far away.....well aleast thats when our deer season opens.

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ranger · Post by **ranger** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:27 pm

Ray..Its never any fun when you have to let someone go,but theft is theft and it cuts into profits....

BUSHDOG · Post by **BUSHDOG** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:39 pm

oct for me ranger

DrDan · Post by **DrDan** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:32 am

Ray
Just curious what type of business do you operate?

raydaughety · Post by **raydaughety** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:14 am

It's a smoke, fire, and water damage restoration company. I can't work in the field anymore so I do all of my work from home.

Partikle · Post by **Partikle** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:11 am

We had a woman at work that was doing the exact same thing, stealing about 1 or 2 hours of over time ever day. She forged the bosses signature and then sent her OT request to the payroll department. She was in a position where she was responsible for creating the financial reports so she deleted her overtime for the quarterly reports before it was signed off by the boss. In a big organization like ours it took over 2 years for her to be caught but there is always a paper trail. She was fired and charged by the police for stealing.

The boss is a super nice guy and liked her a lot but he fired her as soon as he found out about this and saw the stack of overtime request forms with his forged signatures.

ranger · Post by **ranger** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:20 am

My wife just fired a employee monday,weve have had to fire alot of people for inhouse theft,she has been in the Bar biz for 25 yrs(I got out a few yrs ago)so we know how hard and how easy it is to let someone go.

ecoaster · Post by **ecoaster** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:26 am

If you have to let someone go for lack of work (layoff) that's tough, but if someone is stealing from you, they are firing themselves, not you. I have no sympathy for someone getting fired for theft. Trust me, he may be shocked, but only because he thought he was smarter than you. He already knows he deserves it.

ratherbefishin · Post by **ratherbefishin** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:10 am

what you do is you just tell the guy ''you don't know how you are going to get along without him, but you are willing to try''

Its not bright too bright of him to act this way -because most potential employers ask for references

Partikle · Post by **Partikle** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:18 am

ecoaster wrote:He already knows he deserves it.

Yup. We'll said.

raydaughety · Post by **raydaughety** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:25 pm

I won't go into great detail but my time thief is now unemployed. I want to thank you all for your support.

God Bless,

Mountain Man · Post by **Mountain Man** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:02 am

Glad to hear you took care of the problem.

I used to work in Loss Prevention for a large department store. On occasion we would apprehend an employee. The employee was charged and escorted from the store immediately afterwards.

I think more trouble would have followed if you had kept him around longer.

Mountain Man

Horizontal Hunter · Post by **Horizontal Hunter** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:18 pm

ecoaster wrote:If you have to let someone go for lack of work (layoff) that's tough, but if someone is stealing from you, they are firing themselves, not you. I have no sympathy for someone getting fired for theft.

Absolutley agree with ecoaster. I was in a managment position for the last 18 years that I worked. The layoffs are the hardest.

Now all you have to do is plan ahead and decide how to handle the reference call.

Bob