After my shift was over at about 9:50, I walk out to the parking lot and I see a guy pointing at me and yells, "Get over here!" That scared the crap out of me so I kinda walked in the other direction because I didn't want to get molested. He yells again and finally pulls out his badge(when I saw him reach in his pocket I thought he was going to rob me). He explains that he has been working for 16 years for the company and is in charge of stolen stuff. He checks my receipt and asks if I only paid 26 cents. I told him I did so I had to sit in the back of his car.

He calls the owner dude, and he shows up and I was being honest with him and told him who was still in there and what they might be taking. I was just trying not to get "arrested" or whatever they do to juveniles.

When the girl leaves, they check her bags and put her in the car with me. The manager finally leaves at about 10:45 and my dad pulls into the parking lot because he is worried why i'm not home yet. The owner explains, and my dad is kindof mad. The manager gets arrested and so does the girl because they took more than a box of cereal and they are over 18.

Since i'm 16, the owner fires me and tells my dad to call his office today(which they havn't answered yet) and that he wants to meet me on Monday after school. I have a feeling I will be writing a check for about 70 bucks to pay him back(even thought I probably havn't taken that much).

In the end, I learned from my mistake and I will never let peer pressure control me into stealing cereal again.

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"Hats off to the nun with the man hands."

[ August 17, 2002: Message edited by: Christy ]

My friend's boyfriend's younger sister was caught shoplifting a telephone. Not a cell phone, but a telephone.. the kind that plugs into the wall. Not even a cordless one! But one of those cheap ass ones that are soooo 1990s. Heh. Anyway. That was off topic.

I don't think they'll do much to you. Good thing you're only 16 or else you would have gotten a harder punishment. But that's kinda crazy... $15,000 short. You kids must steal a lot of food or something.

[ August 17, 2002: Message edited by: Daniel ]

That is kind of funny actually. Stealing cereal.

Two of the assistant managers who worked with me got fired for buying soda's after they drank them. They bought a bunch right before inventory because they knew they probably drank some without paying for them. So the auditor see's this "suspicious" behavior and they got canned. kinda dumb.

But corporate life is that kinda b-shat. They just care about the bottom dollar and I guess people stealing a soda here and soda there, over what, 4500 stores, i guess it adds up.

Real g'z don't get caught, foo!

But that sucks, for cereal? Thats retarded. Though I am still confused on the whole "sell it for cheap" does that mean you just open the register and pull in cents? Or is there some barcode you can scan that discounts it? Cause at my work we can do coupon abuse I guess, but i dunno. Where did you work?

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the Bored lives FOREVER.

I had a meeting with the owner today in his office. I paid him 40 dollars and got banned from all of the stores.

About the ringing stuff up cheap, if something doesnt scan you can get a price check and you have to enter the price manually (like .88 Produce, or 1.25 Deli, or 1.29 grocery). We would take our stuff and then have them ring it up as .50 Grocery (what you do for newspapers). I dont know what the girl was thinking when she rang it up for 26 cents, because nothing costs 26 cents.

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"Hats off to the nun with the man hands."

they ended up charging him something insane, like $3000.

we never lost anything that huge in our sam goody/suncoast (we were one of these "combo" stores they tried making, which basically was two stores, but with the paperwork of one store. and we had these two big doors that went from one store to the other, which made shoplifters happy).