when at my job, cutomers tend to dive-off without paying for their gas.. Can the store owners make me pay?

Question

I work at a conveince store/truck stop. Many people come there to fuel up and many take off without paying for their gas their for callin it a drive-off..Now, what I wanna know is can the store owners make me pay for the customers doing this

Answer 1

The person driving off with out paying is commiting a crime !!

Punishable under state law, you paying the employer for another’s CRIMINAL actions is not only morally wrong it's illegal
And I would make the employer fully aware of this.

Also, if your employer wants to be a dick, I would make everyone pre-pay, and if a customer complains I would give them your district manager’s cell phone and tell them here call
This # and complain to him.

if that doesn't help i would post a 10x16 sign at the pumps that say dear customer don't even think about driving off with out paying for your fuel , we have you on camera , besides if you drive off my **** for brains employer makes me pay for your gas out of my check , and since i only get paid $ XXX a hour i can't afford it . and my kid(s) need to eat

Answer 2

Having worked at such a place myself and had drive-offs too, I can reassure you, NO, you can't be held legally liable by the owners because you're working for a company providing the service (e.g. gas at the pump).

Without sufficient technology to observe license plates, the best you can do is keep an eye on the vehicles out at the pump; there are times when it's so busy it's impossible. Where stores cannot prosecute drive-offs due to insufficient information, the loss resonates on the consumer in higher prices throughout the store, not on you.

Answer 3

I have heard of store owners that do that. I'm not sure about the legality of it, and it may vary from state to state. But I do know convenience stores where the cashier either has to pay or get fired. It's becoming a lot less common now, though, because most places are prepay with cash and will not turn on the pump for you until you go in and pay first.

Answer 4

i would be truthful once I answer this question. i'm between the human beings who've stolen gasoline until eventually now and that i know it become incorrect yet I even have valid reasons. i'm a single mom elevating 2 young little ones on my very very own and each so often after paying my expenditures and toddler care and foodstuff, i don't have sufficient left over for gasoline to get to artwork time-honored. So I stole it. no longer as quickly as yet two times. And to be truthful with you, I even have long gone back and given what I stole once I have been given the greater funds because of the fact the guilt become killing me. it is the truthful to God reality. I is merely no longer doing it back as I even have worked out a greater advantageous funds yet that's what the case become final twelve months. I ask for forgiveness to you for the inconvenience it reasons you.

Answer 5

in most states that I know of they can. it is your responsibilty to make sure that the customers are paying. my mom has been the manager of multiple convenient stores, and at most of her stores that I know of they could make the employee pay for the gas. What she did even though she wasn't suppose to was made the customers prepay. She got in trouble a couple of times for it, but she got tired of her good employees getting in trouble. I have worked in a couple of truck stops, and especially if you are there by yourself i would not turn on the pumps until they come in to pay. I would make my customers bring a credit card, cash and set the pump for what they gave me, or make them give me their drivers licenses or something like that so that they could be identified if they drove off I would not be held liable for the cost of their purchase.

Answer 6

no, they can't make you pay. It is the store owner's responsibility to have a system in place that prevents drive offs. It is the employee's responsibility to follow that system.

If you aren't doing what you are supposed to to prevent drive offs, the worst he can do is fire you. If you are doing your job and the old skeeze is trying to jive you for a few dollars, I'd say you need to get a new job.

Answer 7

They should be prosecuting those who drive off for theft. Otherwise, they have to take it as a loss of doing business - and maybe install cameras to record the license plates of the customers and use it to track down drive-offs.

Answer 8

no, your employers cannot make you pay for others gas. They need to issue a "pay first and then pump" policy like most stations on the west coast do......

Answer 9

Hell no they can not. If they try report them to the department of labor and the attorney general in your state.

Answer 10

not unless you agree to it when you are hired? If you signed anything when they hired you, read the fine print.