Top performing sales employee caught scamming the internal employee rewards system, pocketing an extra $20 that costs them their job: 'Internal theft is internal theft'

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  • Woman looking worried at her desk
  • My top performer is stealing and will be terminated tomorrow
  • Just need to scream into the void. She produces like a machine. She just got promoted and got a raise. She is on track for a second promotion. She has reported
  • no issues and even recruited for her department from her own personal contacts and told the recruit we were an amazing workplace.
  • What she's been stealing is literally peanuts. She's essentially been scamming our internal rewards system to put points onto her own account and then cashed them out. It was like $20.
  • LP doesn't fuck around with shit like this and it's out of my hands. Internal theft is internal theft, and where there is smoke there is fire.
  • The manager in me is devastated i'll lose someone that drives so much volume. The human side of me is just hurt. It's so stupid. Such a
  • small thing to steal. I bet she didn't even think it mattered. I genuinely like her and she's made me look stupid.
  • Pure-Mark-2075 · Given the small amount, I think she stole because she can, not because she needed to. The incident with the brand rep also shows some entitlement. So it does say something about her character and potentially
  • your/ the company's hiring process. Sales jobs are heavily geared towards over- confident, smooth talking types, so they attract their share of crooks.
  • BahnMe It's the small thrill in getting away with something. Makes people feel like they have some control in their lives, autonomy, and something interesting about themselves. This will be devastating for her.
  • Brave-Pizza-33. Im a top top performer. But just because I'm great at my job doesnt mean I don't hate this place. I commit as much wage theft as possible. The ceo makes 10m a year salary, and I'm getting pennies. Fuck the corporate cog. I dont blame her lol.
  • nodesign89 So she was stealing from customers, and there's only $20 that you know of, she's likely taken more. That negates all the good, this is not a good employee, she's a liability.
  • Sounds to me like she's a manipulator, and she's got you under her spell.
  • republika1973. I may sound harsh here but she's got to go. Her previous performance shouldn't let her get off lightly. She's done something clearly against the rules (and reading your other comments)
  • repeatedly. She knew it was wrong by how she went about it. Okay, it's only $20 so far but how much further is she willing to go?
  • Also, I'd very much wonder how your other staff would take it if they found out she'd been stealing. How would they react around her? Are they also allowed to steal
  • too? Private customer data was part of this too - how would they feel knowing that this was allowed to happen. Sorry, no, she has to go.

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