On 8/6/2013 4:03 AM, Ashton Crusher wrote:

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People have always stolen if they thought they could get away with it.
A friend of my Dad's ran a stable, not exactly a big dollar operation.
He had a couple employees. He rigged the phones so he could eavesdrop
on the employees and found them bragging about how they stole money
from the place when he wasn't around. Then they'd wonder why he fired
them. Another friend of Dad's died and the guys wife had to go to
work in a restaurant to keep some money coming in. She regularly
stole lots of money straight from the cash register. Another friend
of his was President of one of those Animal Fraternal Organizations
and that guy and another guy did the bartending at the "club" and they
would pocket hundreds of dollars at the end of each evening. My Dad
would never steal a dime.

When I cooked chicken for the Cornell we found one of the area
supervisors was sending the regular managers home and closing up their
stores for the night and in the process he'd throw out a few hundred
dollars worth of receipts and pocket the money. He got fired. That
was one of those things where I thought it was so stupid to lose a
good job like that for a few hundred extra dollars a month.

I'd admit to stealing office supplies and a few nuts and bolts (but
I also donated many many unpaid hours) as well as paid for awards and
cakes and stuff for my people that the company would not pay for. Even
so, it still makes me feel a little bad for taking anything...


I've told the guys working for me that if they needed something, just
ask. I need to keep up with supplies and if someone walks off with a
whole box it can cause a problem. If they need an item that cost's a
lot of money, I let them pay for it over time. I drilled into them that
missing supplies caused job delays and more money than some screws, nuts
and bolts are worth. So just ask. ^_^

TDD