Poll of the Day > One of my store locations has been stealing from the company since Nov *Blogfaqs

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Just found out today that a whole frickin store location (that I account for) was stealing ~$100 a day since Thanksgiving

They were able to hide it until now when they forgot to cover their tracks but holy shit (it's about 75 days so they took ~$7500 which isn't a lot but wow...)

Thought on clever/bad employees???

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How did you guys find out they were stealing?
What gave it away?
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What were they stealing? Just cash?
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SusanGreenEyes posted...

How did you guys find out they were stealing?
What gave it away?

TL;DR: They were caught because they forgot to enter 2 deposit amounts and lo and behold the bank gave us 2 deposits that were in the exact amounts of the shortages. Adding on to that, they told the Area Director "we will have to delay bringing deposits to the bank" this week. I knew something was up with this store since they ignored my emails phone calls but putting all the pieces together I researched the situation and found out about the below while investigating

I'm going to try my best to put this in "Average People" Talk so bear with me

Basically in cash management we have a reporting tool that lists all the cash sales, deposits, safe, etc. The tool looks at all cash sales and says how much cash the store should have. Many places usually do not have a perfect $0.00 meaning perfect reconciliation between cash sales, CC, Gift cards, and money a store brings to the bank when dropping of their deposit will net to $0; it is literally close to impossible although it is more likely to have small variances like $1.00 etc, it's just the nature of how things work. Those variances are due to overages/shortages

The store was essentially abusing the tool, someone knew how this worked which is why I'm a little impressed. Each Cashier would take money from their register and their POS system will say "Hey you are short $X dollars" Well, the reason why it didn't show up as short on our tool is because the store members "adjusted" (True Up is technical term) their deposits so the shortage did not exist. Why? Because the store pocketed the money

JOExHIGASHI posted...

What were they stealing? Just cash?

Cash and maybe falsifying cash sales.
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That's crazy.
Can you make them give the money back?
Are they trying to deny that they stole it?
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SusanGreenEyes posted...

Can you make them give the money back?
Are they trying to deny that they stole it?

Since it's been so long probably time behind bars. It looks like every single CSR (Cashier) was involved. However it's only $7500 but imagine if the location was more popular, it could've easily been more. Also the cafe may/may not have managers but I need AD to confirm that

I will prob update once the Area Director (AD) finds out wtf and who organized this. Not gonna lie though this is my first time seeing something like this and if they deny it they are going to need to answer a long line of questions (How are you at $0.00 with register shortages of $50, why are deposits getting to the bank later, etc)

There is a lot of evidence pointing at them though as the report lists who was behind each register as well as the shortage amount and money being adjusted for deposits to be brought to the bank.
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