Case of employee theft: what would you do?
So here is the situation. I am an assistant manager at one of those chain stores that pays their employees shit. Recently, we have been seeing an explosion of "missing" inventory (past two months or so) and inventory is MY alley. I did my investigating and discovered that we have been experiencing a phenomenon of shoplifters and I will do something about that myself.
However, after reviewing surveillance tapes, I found out that a female employee (a pee-on crew member) that just had a baby has been stealing small amounts of baby supplies from the stock room. On one hand, she is raising the baby herself and needs the supplies. On the other hand, she has been caught stealing baby supplies (less than $10 worth) before and I have clearly told her that I noticed... The manager has not noticed yet because I wrote it off as shoplifting but sometimes he does randomly check the security cameras himself so I'm risking my neck for her in NOT telling him.
So what do you think I should do about this?
Report Them | 16 | |
Keep Quiet | 6 | |
Help Them Continue Stealing | 3 | |
Talk to Them, if they repeat it, report | 24 | |
Cut their hours | 1 | |
Take it from her pay check | 6 | |
Other (comment) | 1 |