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there are two ladies who are employed at kroger. one was head of department and the other was her assistant. what happened was they printed up some tickets to attend a concert but what happened was th
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unfair demotion
posted at 10/29/2007 10:47 AM EDT
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there are two ladies who are employed at kroger. one was head of department and the other was her assistant. what happened was they printed up some tickets to attend a concert but what happened was the department head had a conflict with her bank where she was unable to pay for the tickets at that time. she says that the bank told her it would be approx 4-5 days for her account to fixed. so instead of refunding the tickets, she put them in the safe and counted them as cash intil she could get the money back into her account. keep in mind she did not steal the tickets and she has not been notified previous that this practice was wrong. but she and the assistant has been demoted. the department head has been employed for approx 21yrs and the assistant for 22yrs. they have not had any shortages or any kind of discrepencies since they have been at the company. they are charged with being dishonest. it seems to me that they only made a mistake but on their write up, it says that they were dishonest. Is this really being dishonest or is this really just a mistake that they are being punished for unfairly. they are very loyal employees and have not stolen any money. |
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unfair demotion
posted at 10/29/2007 11:31 AM EDT
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I think it is theft. The only way it wouldn't be is if the company agreed to pay for the tickets or if the practice of using company services for personal use was approved. It would have been better to account for the shortage in a more honest way. Suppose the company needed the cash? |
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unfair demotion
posted at 10/29/2007 4:56 PM EDT
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okay maybe i am misquoting the store never lost any money because the tickets were counted as cash. the tickets never left the safe so that they wouldn't be short. it took the bank longer than anticipated getting the money back into her account. i really think that it was a honest mistake because she says that she only did the procedure that way because she had seen other persons do the same action. |
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unfair demotion
posted at 10/30/2007 4:50 AM EDT
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First: 11/1/2006 Last: 1/20/2010 |
dmoney,
I know you aren't getting the response you had hoped for. In your last post you said, "she says that she only did the procedure that way because she had seen other persons do the same action." This reminds me of what my mom (and most moms) used to say - "if you saw someone jump off a bridge......" well, you know that rest of that quote. |
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