What comes around goes around...

[Galadriel]

A few weeks ago I had some days off work. I left my mp3 player in my apron, cause I trust my co workers there.
When I was sick for three weeks, it also stayed in my apron and no one touched it.
Now, it just soo happens that there was this temp girl who had about the same sizes as me, and they didn't had an apron that small, so they gave her mine to wear. She simply took out my mp3 and took it home.
My boss cought her with the music on, and later she went to her purse to see if it was in there.
She asked one of the other collegues to be her witness and they both found the player in her purse. She was holding and called me to describe it, and i told her how to turn it on. There was music on from Loreena McKennit that almost no one knows.
they confronted her with it and she kept saying it was hers. When my boss treatened to call the cops, she finally admit she took it.
She got fired at once and i got my mp3 player back. I will have it tomorrow.
Wow, long story to tell, but i'm glad it had a happy end for me.

[LaFille]

It's a sad one, but glad that at least you had your mp3 back and that your regular co-workers are that trustworthy.

[Elliot Kane]

Sounds like your normal co-workers are pretty cool. The temp was lucky she was only sacked.

[Gray Lensman]

Shame for the trouble, Gal, but I'm glad the situation worked itself out in the end.

[cleglaw]

I am glad you got your player back.

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

it's good to hear that she got caught, and I'm glad that you got it back

[Galadriel]

I heard that this girl was in serious financial troubles, and that she didn't eat for 3 days when she came at work. Her boyfriend is a Cosovar (sp?) and he appearently made her steal stuff to sell. There is also 80€ missing from someone, but she claims she doesn't steal money.
She could've had it good at my job, my boss was willing to help her out with food, and to get her in touch with our social workers so she could leave her bf and start a new better life.
But, the question is, if she had to steal the player to sell it, why was she using it for two weeks? And if she doesn't have food, but she can buy sigarettes, would she be in such big troubles then?

At first she didn't want to admit that she took the mp3, but I summed up the music that was on it, Loreena McKennit for example, and my boss looked at it and indeed saw songs from her, (almost no one in belgium knows her songs) and asked the girl what kind of music was on the player. She replied with R&B, the closest thing to R&B that is on it are a few songs from the Black Eyed Peas
Anyway, after treatening to call the police (such a hassle for that player, but as a cleaning lady we are trusted) she finally admit she took it.

I'm happy I got my player back, though I feel a bit bad too. Everyone tells me not to feel bad at all, no matter how poor you are, stealing is not allowed. The person that lost his 80€ said he will get it back twice, eventhough she claims she didn't took it.

I hope her bf doesn't look me up at the job, cause i'm alone there a lot in the evenings and she still didn't gave back the badge to enter the building I hope they blocked that badge, don't wanna meet an angry Cosovar, I know what those guys are capable off

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

Realistically, her boyfriend can't make her do stuff, he can just make life so unplesent that she doesn't see any other option. What I'd like to know though is why isn't he working hard enough for both of them? esp. if she was just a temp.

[rockergrl]

Glad you got your player back Gal! Even if she doesn't have much doesn't give her a reason to steal!

[peterh]

Good thing you had it back

[LaFille]

It's a good thing that she was caught, if she was stealing... I guess that cleaning ladies must be in a particularly favorable position when they want to do that kind of stuff and that it could give problems to the whole company. Hopefully will the girl change her ways after this and get some means to get out of the situation she's in.