countrygirl2
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jun 29, 2019 8:30:00 GMT -5
We are a very small town, you see school employees and others around here embezzle. I think poor controls, I would know if someone is spending beyond their means,and I would have a mechanism to track money. I think people purposely don't want to see what is happening so they don't have to report it.
I knew at a hospital, could tell by what the guy was doing, reported it and they were no way. I left there later, I knew the guy wasn't so incompetent to screw peoples accounts like he was. It took them about a year, I saw it in the paper, yep arrested for embezzling money. I told them so, idiots.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 9:24:12 GMT -5
We had a county employee here embezzle a bunch of money and go to prison for it.
When I was on the PTO for the kids' school, one of the other mom's wanted to do the bank deposits. We had a fundraiser where we estimated we earned about $700-800. She deposited $200. We could prove she stole the money, but the school declined to take any legal action. WTF steals from children?
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Artemis Windsong
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Jun 29, 2019 19:35:14 GMT -5
A manager who was at a headquarters office went to one of the state locations. He saw the new Buick the accountant was driving and directly asked her if she was embezzling. Her kids were also in private school He's quickly done the math. One year later, it was the postage stamp fund that was too high. This was very stressful on the manager who had to research the theft, undetected, by the accountant.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 19:44:53 GMT -5
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 29, 2019 20:01:16 GMT -5
@aj not sure mine beats yours but here goes. Also no link to provide since this took place in the mid 70's.
New neighbors moved in three doors down. He worked for the Post Office. Not long after moving in he came home with humongous Winnebago (not sure of size but really big). No big deal - hey figured he made good money. Then showed up with brand new car - Lincoln. Taking trips, kids signed up for private school and started remodel on house just bought. This is in very short time but still -- what the heck who knows where folks get money.
All this was only noticeable since this was a street ending in cul-de-sac with only 13 lots and at that time only 7 houses! So stuff was noticeable.
Came home one day to find all kinds of law enforcement vehicles at their home.
He was arrested for stealing money orders.
He filed for disability saying that he was suffering from mental stress for being arrested.
And he got the disability. Wife and kids left house one day never to be heard from again. They left everything in the house and poof.
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Post by violagirl on Jun 30, 2019 11:22:15 GMT -5
I thought I had problems with employees. I had two new employees start last week, they already have worked from home 3 days this week. I may have oversold the "flexible working hours" thing. I have another employee that leaps to attention whenever I enter the room like I'm going to beat him or something.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Jun 30, 2019 13:50:41 GMT -5
NNP I have a going postal at work story. One of my neighbors had the post office contract at the mall. Everyday he would take money from the till and buy lunch. He hired an older guy. I don't know if he turned him in or not. The older guy ended up with the contract after the other guy was charged with felony theft/prison. Good bye house and wife.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 30, 2019 14:12:46 GMT -5
One of our newest employees told his best friend he'd have no problem attending his BF's weekend-long wedding over the holiday next week, because we're closed Friday and Monday off would not be an issue. Um, maybe you should have asked before you promised your friend you'd be at his four-day bash. We are open Friday, and you have diddly-squat for PTO; in fact, your PTO is in the negatives right now, since you've been late a few times and out sick one day. I do not understand how people think it's their privilege to just go off and do stuff when they don't have time saved up to do it. If it's a family emergency, illness or something serious like that, fine. But to assume our office is closed without asking first.....I am so over this dude already.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 30, 2019 16:26:04 GMT -5
One of our newest employees told his best friend he'd have no problem attending his BF's weekend-long wedding over the holiday next week, because we're closed Friday and Monday off would not be an issue. Um, maybe you should have asked before you promised your friend you'd be at his four-day bash. We are open Friday, and you have diddly-squat for PTO; in fact, your PTO is in the negatives right now, since you've been late a few times and out sick one day. I do not understand how people think it's their privilege to just go off and do stuff when they don't have time saved up to do it. If it's a family emergency, illness or something serious like that, fine. But to assume our office is closed without asking first.....I am so over this dude already. I think whoever does the hiring where you work is definitely lacking in whatever skill is required to judge people or has no skills in explaining office policy where PTO and all that jazz is concerned. Or do they just hire off the curb on any given day?? Maybe that person needs to be replaced
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 30, 2019 18:59:40 GMT -5
One of our newest employees told his best friend he'd have no problem attending his BF's weekend-long wedding over the holiday next week, because we're closed Friday and Monday off would not be an issue. Um, maybe you should have asked before you promised your friend you'd be at his four-day bash. We are open Friday, and you have diddly-squat for PTO; in fact, your PTO is in the negatives right now, since you've been late a few times and out sick one day. I do not understand how people think it's their privilege to just go off and do stuff when they don't have time saved up to do it. If it's a family emergency, illness or something serious like that, fine. But to assume our office is closed without asking first.....I am so over this dude already. I think whoever does the hiring where you work is definitely lacking in whatever skill is required to judge people or has no skills in explaining office policy where PTO and all that jazz is concerned. Or do they just hire off the curb on any given day?? Maybe that person needs to be replaced Funny you should say this. The person who does our hiring has been in this field for a long time. The company owner, OTOH, is the one lacking the skills and judgement, and this is where it all goes wrong in my book. I think the owner wants to be everyone's BFF (well, not mine - I let him know early on that we aren't going to engage in that kind of relationship) and in trying to be a buddy and a pal, he lets people get away with crap. If you follow the Anonymous Note saga on EE, the one about my coworker who was off for five months (she went out in February when her mother got sick, mom passed in April and coworker didn't come back to work until mid-June), this is what set an unfortunate precedent. Owner let this coworker get away with all that time off (and we are not FMLA compliant because we have fewer than 20 workers) and still come back to a job. He's also not strict enough with people arriving to work on time (I'm one of the minority who does show up on time every day). So the freewheeling attitude gets passed along.
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Post by twystedsystermi1 on Jun 30, 2019 19:27:49 GMT -5
My xdil was her daughters Girl Scout leader in 2015. She stole $1000 in cookie money for her drug habit. I didn't know anything about it. The last time I saw her, I bought 6 boxes of cookies and loaned her $500. That was also the last time I was able to see her daughter and my little granddaughter. I miss those girls so much. I am also REALLY PISSED, because I never did get my cookies!!!!!!
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Post by sheilaincali on Jul 1, 2019 9:05:27 GMT -5
Hubs and I were talking about that this weekend. We had a guy that worked here for years named Denny. He was our salesman on the precast side of things. We typically require a 20% down payment. He was here probably 15 years ago so it was like a $10,000 down payment. The Hubs was the manager here at the time. He kept complaining to Denny that we weren't seeing the down payments. Denny would give him the brush off. Then he'd go to invoice the barns and tell the office lady that he offered them a $10,000 discount for some reason or other. Denny had been here for 20 years at that point and it wasn't on every barn that this happened but we assume it happened on a handful a year.
Hubs went to a farm site once to collect on the invoice as it was getting quite old. Farmer told him "I paid Denny months ago" Turns out Denny was telling farmers to pay him directly and that he was a "subcontractor" for us and that he would in turn pay us. This was the first, whole project that we know of that he stole the entire contract amount. Around $75,000. No telling how many tens of thousands we lost every year. Most of it happened before the Hubs started working here- Dad bought that particular company in 1998 and Denny was gone by 2003- Hubs started here in 2002.
He had run some invoices through a side business his son had doing barn repairs- ran up about $40,000 in debt via that company and promptly declared bankruptcy. We did sue him, the whole "blood from a turnip" analogy is appropriate here.
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