As soon as I came into work today. My manager came into my office asking about a missing gift card. This is what happened: Friday she picked up the mail at the post office and gave it all to me. She said that she opened one of the envelopes and there were 2 gift cards there. Well I usually sort the mail in our office and that envelope didnt have my name on it so I just taped it closed (as i stated SHE had opened it). And put it in the box it belonged in. Now she thinks since I was the only one at the office that day, and I was the only 1 at work that day that I MUST have taken it. Ive been working here for 3 years!!! What would you do if you were in my situation?
2007-12-26 07:00:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I worked at a place for 1 1/2 years. The bosses wife said that they were looking at all their accounts to see if there was anything "funny" going on. I left my keys on the desk that night and never went back. Once they "accuse" you of stealing, you will never be looked at as honest or trustworthy again. She is really a nut case anyway. Quit, and never look back.
2007-12-26 07:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by prettylade 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well if you didn't do it then you have nothing to worry about. As long as your story doesn't change there really isn't anything they can do about it. I would talk to my manager and make sure that they understand that your job is more important to you than any gift card, and if you need to get a lawyer you will. If you need to go above your manager than do so, but make sure they understand that you are not gonna take any of their crap, and ask them if they searched around the office to see if maybe she dropped one of them, and ask her is SHE sure she didn't take it. OOOOHHH I would be sooooo pissed off, I would totally turn it around on her and make her question her own actions for that day. Good luck.
Remember don't act guilty, just act mad.
2007-12-26 08:31:14 · answer #2 · answered by Miss 6 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is really the principle of the situation. I would let her know the mail was opened prior to it reaching your desk and you have no responsibility for the mail that day since it reached you in a compromised condition. I would go higher in management to remedy the situation. It sounds like you may be being used as a scapegoat.
2007-12-26 07:11:14 · answer #3 · answered by kim 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ask them to prove it...If they can't and they discipline you...fight it...9 times out of 10...YOU will win.
Something similiar happened to me once when I was a teenager. I worked in a store...at christmas time that got large amounts of money...When I closed down my register and turned in my bag all was well. Two days later they came to me and said my bag was short 800 dollars....They threatened to fire me. I told them go ahead if they can prove it...Now this was a department store with several camera's, security, and other employee...and no one could prove anything because this was a false accusation. They knew if they would have fired me they would have had a lawsuit on their hands...So I remained working there and no one ever accused me of anything ever again. I worked there for 10 years seasonal while going to school and when I got my career job.
2007-12-26 07:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Be careful--I found out that you can't trust anyone in these situations; I used to run a cash office for a department store, and the safe kept coming up short. Turns out the assistant store manager was stealing fifty or sixty bucks every Friday to go drinking and blaming it on me. The SOB told me this after he had quit, laughing about it, so it was still on MY employment record.
2007-12-26 07:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by CrankyYankee 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
your manager sounds like she's insecure & unstable.. I would politely tell her that I didn't steal anything.
What I would do here is update my resume and get out of there. This ugly head will resurface again sometime. She's got a problem if she accuses someone of stealing without any facts....
2007-12-26 09:39:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would deny it, but point out that you haven't stolen or done anything of the like in the past years, then just ask why they think that you are the guilty party. Tell them to prove it, and not by the process of elimanaiton.
2007-12-26 07:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by Mandie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tell her that you didn't take it. Ask her if it may have fallen out in her car (or wherever she was) after she opened the envelope.
2007-12-26 07:07:57 · answer #8 · answered by startwinkle05 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋