I had some scam artists come into my store last night. They get asking for a discount on a piece of

[applegrove]

jewelry. They pointed out some furniture they wanted. They bought the furniture. Turns out the wrong price was on the furniture and a piece of jewelry quit like the one she was looking at is missing. They left a phone number but it was the wrong one. It is a huge store and impossible to watch everywhere. I feel like shit.

Anybody else end up the victim of a team of creeps working together?

[Lil Missy]

1. They can be pretty slick. Sorry that happened to you.

[applegrove]

5. Thank you. My boss made me feel very much better today at work.

[DarkTirade]

2. Sounds like a pretty slick team. I wouldn't take it too personally.

We just had to fire an employee for a pretty slick con she was running... whenever someone paid for something with a gift card or in-store return card thingy, if there was money left on it she'd swap it for a blank one and take the one with money on it home. No clue how much she managed to steal before she got caught. Hell, only reason she got caught was because she got stupid and started taking money from the registers too.

I was a bit surprised actually, I never thought she was smart enough to think that one up. I suspect one of the more clever employees thought it up, but was smart enough not to overdo it and get caught.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. when i worked at wal-mart

we had a cashier who did something similar. When people would buy giftcards she would ring them up, scan the gift card and then switch the card with a blank one. I think I remember hearing managers saying she made off with about $4,000 worth of money on the gift card scam before she was caught.

[DarkTirade]

4. They get away with it because we expect people, especially people who are getting paid to do a job,

to be honest. We don't expect them to steal right under our noses.

[applegrove]

6. Glad she got caught. I wish all the bad people would get caught. Unfortunately

there are many of them walking around out there free.

[DarkTirade]

7. She probably would have gotten away with it...

if she hadn't gotten greedy and started stealing from the drawer too. It didn't take long to put 2 and 2 together and realize that the drawers only ended up a dollar or two short on days when she worked. Then all it took was some quick reviewing of security tapes from that day...