Employee files complaint after boss is caught on video stealing her bag, HR sides with boss: 'She faced no consequences'

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

May 18, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

This workplace debacle pretty much epitomizes the idea that HR protects the employer, not the employees.

When the evidence of wrongdoing is so definitive, it's hard to imagine the human resources department coming up with a justified reason to side with the boss. However, this team managed to side with her anyway. Here, we have an employee who caught her boss stealing her bag after work hours. Furthermore, the security cameras even captured the boss leaving the office with the employee's bag and dumping it into the trash. It doesn't get much more obvious than that.

The employee usually leaves her bag with her personal office supplies (pens, paper, etc.) under her desk at the end of each work day. She first notices that something was fishy when she arrived at work one day, only to discover that her pens and papers were neatly stacked under her desk while her bag just so happened to be missing. After searching through the security camera footage and discovering that it was, in fact, her boss who was behind the whole thing, the employee filed a formal complaint against her boss. Still, HR managed to side with the boss, so the employee took the opportunity to stand up for herself and leave this job altogether.

Keep scrolling below for the fallout. When you're done, check out this post about a manager who demanded coffee at the end of every shift.