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Employee Theft

Why on earth would anyone want to steal from their employer?  Welfare is the next step down because your are going to lose your job. Everyone else is doing it you say. It’s not really stealing. Oh yes it is.

Sadly it does not stop there. Running personal errands on company time is in the same category. What about employees who are late. Then there are those who leave early to beat the freeway traffic. Theft of company time is not good.

Then there is the giving out of unauthorised company discounts. Your close friends and family members get a cut in price. Don’t do it. It’s theft.

So what can the employer do about this problem. Security camera’s are the answer. They are mounted up on the wall in plain sight. With digital technology pictures can be in the owners p.c. in minutes. But there is one little flaw.

Staff have worked in your business for years. They have worked out the angles and guess what. They’ve found a blind spot. You see it is like this. When you have uncovered a crime of theft and plugged the gap thieves don’t stop. What we call a career criminal will look for another way to steal from you.

Here’s how we remedy this. We bring in the secret camera. I once worked in a restaurant. Each Monday it was my job to rotate the fries in readiness for an incoming order. Three Mondays in a row there were hollows in the row that were only noticeable when I rotated stock.

I went to the store owner and told him of my concerns. In the wee hours of the morning when the restaurant was closed he had a security expert install a hidden camera. This was focused on the freezer door. Within a week four supposedly trusted staff members were before the court on theft charges. Lost their jobs. Two of the culprits were managers.

Now the restaurateur owned a total of seven eating establishments. He placed a hidden camera in them also and 12 people found themselves with no job and a criminal conviction. Theft is not worth it. Don’t do it.