dieselsmoke1
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Happened to glance in an employee's pickup body and there's a 3/8 Makita drill, just like what we use in the shop. I look a little closer and there's the inventory number etched in the side of the case just like we do.........Hmmm.
After going for years without losing enough tools to be concerned with, we've had a few disappear recently...small hand tools mostly. Sometimes we don't actually miss them at first, may not be evident till a periodic inventory.
Got the Maint. Mgr. and a camera. After photos, we took the drill in and verified it had turned up missing over a year ago. The chuck had oxidation from being left in the weather.
Brought the guy in to a conference room with 2 witnesses, when he saw the drill and the photo of it laying in his truck body, you could read "busted" on his face. Asked him if there was any valid explaination as to why the drill was in his truck......no response. Asked if he had anything else to talk about and we would decide whether or not to call the Law based on his answer, implying we would ask them to search his truck box ( don't know if they could have but it sounded good).
He confessed to the theft of 2 more items (they were probably in his truck). We added up the values and he signed a debit slip for us to deduct the replacement value from his last paycheck, which pretty much wiped it out. When he got up to leave, I handed the drill to him, telling him he had paid for it handsomely, he might as well take it with him...said he didn't want it.
This guy was a Dept. Lead Man...a "good" employee.....9 years with the company.....a family man living less than a mile from the shop....and whizzed it all away for a few hundred dollars worth of used tools.
Go Figure....
After going for years without losing enough tools to be concerned with, we've had a few disappear recently...small hand tools mostly. Sometimes we don't actually miss them at first, may not be evident till a periodic inventory.
Got the Maint. Mgr. and a camera. After photos, we took the drill in and verified it had turned up missing over a year ago. The chuck had oxidation from being left in the weather.
Brought the guy in to a conference room with 2 witnesses, when he saw the drill and the photo of it laying in his truck body, you could read "busted" on his face. Asked him if there was any valid explaination as to why the drill was in his truck......no response. Asked if he had anything else to talk about and we would decide whether or not to call the Law based on his answer, implying we would ask them to search his truck box ( don't know if they could have but it sounded good).
He confessed to the theft of 2 more items (they were probably in his truck). We added up the values and he signed a debit slip for us to deduct the replacement value from his last paycheck, which pretty much wiped it out. When he got up to leave, I handed the drill to him, telling him he had paid for it handsomely, he might as well take it with him...said he didn't want it.
This guy was a Dept. Lead Man...a "good" employee.....9 years with the company.....a family man living less than a mile from the shop....and whizzed it all away for a few hundred dollars worth of used tools.
Go Figure....