What to do if someone steals from you at work?
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What to do if someone steals from you at work?
What to Do
- Make sure your evidence is strong.
- You will probably want to terminate the employee immediately.
- Notify the police.
- Don’t deduct anything from the employee’s final paycheck.
- Don’t discuss the situation with other employees or outsiders.
What do you do when someone steals your lunch?
If you are unfortunate enough to work in an environment where your colleagues have sticky fingers, you might want to try one of the following.
- Hot peppers are your friend.
- Combine foods that do not go well together.
- Drug your meal.
- Place an alarm on your lunch bag.
- Include an explosive dye pack in your lunch bag.
How does stealing affect employees?
Shoplifting also has indirect influence on employee morale and the work culture. Employees may feel a sense of paranoia if they constantly hear the store has a shoplifting issue. The negative measures taken to deter shoplifting can impede employee instincts toward a positive and welcoming attitude with customers.
How common is it to steal a coworker’s lunch?
According to a 2017 American Express OPEN survey, about 18 percent of Americans admit that they’ve stolen a coworker’s lunch. That’s nearly one in five workers—and we thought that psychopathy was fairly rare. We collected some of the most satisfying stories of lunch thieves getting their comeuppance, then edited them slightly for readability.
Would you steal someone’s lunch at a law firm?
And if you’re going to steal someone’s lunch, don’t do it at a law firm. Quora user Kevin Mark Wray worked as a paralegal at a law firm with a lunch thief. “Everyone suspected various attorneys,” he wrote. “Since we had such a busy floor—we were in the litigation department—it was difficult to [determine] who it might be.
Did someone steal your energy drinks from your cooler?
“There used to be a guy who would steal my energy drinks from the walk-in cooler,” Osborne wrote. “When called on it, he would insist he was drinking his own, and unfortunately, there was no way to prove [the theft], because he did indeed frequently bring energy drinks to work.”