Had to fire my first employee...

[Vegas_Dave]

So in the family business, I have never personally had to deal with any of the hiring/firing personel issues, thats what we have a General Manager of the chain for.

Well, yesterday I popped my firing cherry.

I caught paperwork evidence of an employee who at one time was a full time store manager (now part time because of his school schedule) was stealing (embezzling) from that store.

Best part, I was able to get a full confession out of him and got it recorded on a digital audio recorder WITH his full knowledge that the recorder was present.

Sadly, we can only prove the amount from 4 total invoices. BUT, in the past 12 months, I can prove a total of almost 200 invoices. So the case will likely get pled down to a misdemeanor.

It was satisfying to get the confession though.

[nychief]

please tell me it was Herm.

[blueballs]

He'll claim he needed it for crack
you'll get stuck with rehab costs

[teedubya]

It's hard to pay for fake tits, when you have employees stealing from you.

[sedated]

my first firing I was so nervous I could barely talk.

every one after that was like Arie Gold. "Get. The ****. OUT!"

[Goapics1]

Originally Posted by sedated

my first firing I was so nervous I could barely talk.

every one after that was like Arie Gold. "Get. The ****. OUT!"

How many times you been fired?

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by Simplex3

I've never had any issues firing people for cause. **** them. They did it to themselves and every time they've had ample warning beforehand.

Firing people because the business needs to make cuts to survive is a little different, but I figure it's better to screw up one person's life than it is to keep them around knowing I can't afford them and then closing the business, thereby screwing up everyone's lives.

yeah, I agree with Simplex here, I know they did it to themselves for every fired/terminated employee. Mostly sleeping on duty, warned and caught. See ya.

today I had to inform about 4 people from cut backs mean they will be leaving soon. sucks but there are pros and cons to everything. Good luck vegas_dave

[StcChief]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

You should have kicked his ass! And done it in front off the other employees so they'd get the message!

a nice note to all why he isn't there... may curb the "insider" shrinkage.

BTW supposedly "shrinkage" is way up everywhere and not just insiders.
can't afford to buy it..... steal it.

[Buehler445]

Fraud is a very big deal. Very big. I read an interesting statistic that the average fraud case goes 18 months before detection....and that's the ones they catch.

Congrats on bettering your business.

[JOhn]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Violence isnt the answer...

Yes but sometimes it's the question.

[Otter]

Originally Posted by CrazyCoffey

sucks but there are pros and cons to everything

What if you're crossing the street, get hit by a bus, drug for 30 yards on gravel then trapped under it's tire while gasoline leaks out around you and there's a deaf & blind man playing with matches five feet away?

What's the pros to that situation?

[tomahawk kid]

Originally Posted by Otter

What if you're crossing the street, get hit by a bus, drug for 30 yards on gravel then trapped under it's tire while gasoline leaks out around you and there's a deaf & blind man playing with matches five feet away?

What's the pros to that situation?

If you live, you're going to be a rich man.......

[Goapics1]

Originally Posted by Otter

What if you're crossing the street, get hit by a bus, drug for 30 yards on gravel then trapped under it's tire while gasoline leaks out around you and there's a deaf & blind man playing with matches five feet away?

What's the pros to that situation?

Why the hell would a deaf/blind man be playing with matches in the first place?

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by Otter

What if you're crossing the street, get hit by a bus, drug for 30 yards on gravel then trapped under it's tire while gasoline leaks out around you and there's a deaf & blind man playing with matches five feet away?

What's the pros to that situation?

make one hell of an after school movie?

[ShortRoundChief]

Originally Posted by Goapics1

Why the hell would a deaf/blind man be playing with matches in the first place?

smoker with no lighter?

[crazycoffey]

Originally Posted by Goapics1

Why the hell would a deaf/blind man be playing with matches in the first place?

if one can be a pinball wizard, maybe another can be a famous pyromaniac....