They Found Out Their Manager Was Scamming The Company, So They Got Malicious Revenge And Ruined Their Career

Scammers, beware!

This is the kind of story that should make you quake in your boots if you’re the type of person who thinks they can pull a bunch of fast ones on honest, hard-working folks.

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“In early 2020 I was hired under the title “assistant manager” at a local Automotive shop.

We mainly sold tyres (“tires”, if you’re American) and alloy wheels for passenger vehicles. The company owned several stores.

They noticed their manager wasn’t exactly a great guy…

I reported directly to my manager, who then reported to the owner of the company.Shortly after I was hired I noticed the behaviour of the manager was far from professional. He would constantly mock and berate me for being the new guy. I believe part of this was jealousy and insecurity on his part, as I ended up recording more sales under my name within the first few months.

He would also “knock off” work early and start drinking beer whilst the rest of us continued to work.I remember when he found out that I participated in MMA training sessions after work, he tried to goad me into a fight for his own amusement.

Clearly this guy didn’t like me and I was starting to get the feeling that he was trying to get me to snap or lose my cool, and as a result; my employment. I became even more certain of that with what happened next.

They noticed something was up…

During the few months that I had worked there I had noticed that our takings for the day and sales records did not match. I would often spend half an hour to an hour after work trying to figure out where the errors were coming from, whilst the manager would simply throw his hands in the air and exclaim that he had no idea how this was happening.

The recurring issue seemed to be that our cash takings had been recorded incorrectly. There would sometimes be an excess amount of cash that didn’t match up to what was recorded on our sales/invoicing software. Other times, there would be less. I was, at the time, an accounting student studying towards my bachelors degree.

I was already suspicious of the cash being out each day. However, given how the manager had been treating me up until this point, I was concerned that any complaint would somehow be twisted and used against me. And boy was I right!

They found something VERY interesting.

Several weeks later my manager took some time off. During this time I managed a personal record in store sales, and also noticed something interesting:*The cash was never out at the end of each shift.*

I reported this directly to the owner of the company (given I was acting manager during the time my manager was away, I was expected to report to the owner everyday) and explained what had been occuring whilst the manager was there.

In all honesty, I was hopeful that the owner would be having a word with the manager about the discrepencies. However, I was also weary, as I believed once the owner spoke to my manager, that the manager will immediately know it was me who reported this.

When the manager returned to work, he immediately approached me with a disgruntled look on his face. “I’ve spoken with the owner. You tried to blame me for the discrepancies?! You should focus on doing your job properly, then this wouldn’t happen!”

I was quite taken aback by how angry he was, though, I wasn’t surprised that he twisted it and tried to place blame on me. Given his reaction, I’m even more suspicious at this point. He want’s me to do my job properly, eh?

It was malicious compliance time.

Malicious Compliance ensues

That same week, I got to WORK! I started paying attention to what customers were paying when they were dealing with my manager. Behind his back, I began examining all of his sale transactions and invoices with a fine comb.As the days rolled by I started to find evidence of his dishonesty. When it came to a few cash sales, my manager was doing the following:

Would tell the customer the price is $200 if he pays cash.

Would discount the price by $50 in the sale/invoicing software.

Would put the extra cash into the till and record a $150 cash sale.

Before we did the cash up at the end of the day, he would sneakily pocket this extra cash whilst no one was around. Though,he was very foolish, as he clearly couldn’t remember the exact amount he had swindled. Hence why the cash would be up some days (didn’t swindle enough), or the cash would be down (swindled too much).

They documented everything.

I took sceenshots of the discounts he had been giving on sales and sent them to the business owner, along with a report. A report with a detailed description of my findings. The report also showed that on all days he wasn’t there for the cash count, there was no variance. When he was there…..well…

The owner was infuriated. This man had been his trusted employee for years. The owner was so infuriated in fact, that he ordered my manager do a mandatory drug test (pee in a cup style) on the same day he found out. And no surprises… he failed.

And they found out even more about this guy.

Turns out the manager had quite the drug habit.

This was most likely his sole motive for stealing cash, and the owner was beside himself. We operate machinery everyday in this store, and so the thought of a manager walking around high as a kite wouldn’t sit well with any health & safety professional.In fact, it could have landed the owner in serious legal trouble if any accident or injury occurred under this manager’s watch.

The manager was terminated immediately for violation of his contract, and was later taken to court by the owner in an attempt to recover the stolen funds.

Safe to say, I was promoted to store manager position shortly after his termination.”

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You’re fired!

That was quite a story!

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