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This more cheeses me off than anything, and I guess I'm looking for advice on hwo to handle this.
I work swing shift, after everyone else in the store, literally, has gone home. I trust my crew and the other crew who are working with us while their job site undergoes repairs, who just happen to leave a little before us. End BG.
I get to work this afternoon to get pulled aside by one of the bigger bosses of the company, everyone on my crew and the other does, and we get talked at as a group. General lecturing on how the fridge is a privilege, how theft is a fireable offense, etc. Big Boss dipped into some crazy childhood story, that dealt very loosely with the food theft at hand, at the end of it.
Apparently the new Lesser Boss, who already has a hatred of our crew, left some cookies in the break room fridge with a note saying either their's or the person's name that they intended to give them to on it yesterday morning. They were gone this morning, a full 24 hour period. So being as we're the late shift, guess who gets the biggest blame?
At least the cashier was on our side and trusts us too. That helped alleviate some of it.
Now, I have my sources, and the smart ones could figure out which ones, who told me that one specific employee was going on and on about how we, the swing shift, are known thieves, to the one Lesser Boss who, again, hates us for reasons I can't comprehend. They implicated me, then my other coworker, by name.
This is a person who likes coming in every once in a blue moon and chatting at me and other people on the crew he just tried bus-throwing, and I'm very tempted to be cordial, but cut off any and all direct conversation with them in the future.
Beyond that, is there any further action I can take? It's cheesed me off to no end, I know none of us did it but we're being painted as guilty by people when we aren't even there to defend ourselves, and I seriously got enough money stress right now without someone throwing me under the bus and making me lose my job.
Any helpful ideas would be nice, thanks.
I work swing shift, after everyone else in the store, literally, has gone home. I trust my crew and the other crew who are working with us while their job site undergoes repairs, who just happen to leave a little before us. End BG.
I get to work this afternoon to get pulled aside by one of the bigger bosses of the company, everyone on my crew and the other does, and we get talked at as a group. General lecturing on how the fridge is a privilege, how theft is a fireable offense, etc. Big Boss dipped into some crazy childhood story, that dealt very loosely with the food theft at hand, at the end of it.
Apparently the new Lesser Boss, who already has a hatred of our crew, left some cookies in the break room fridge with a note saying either their's or the person's name that they intended to give them to on it yesterday morning. They were gone this morning, a full 24 hour period. So being as we're the late shift, guess who gets the biggest blame?
At least the cashier was on our side and trusts us too. That helped alleviate some of it.
Now, I have my sources, and the smart ones could figure out which ones, who told me that one specific employee was going on and on about how we, the swing shift, are known thieves, to the one Lesser Boss who, again, hates us for reasons I can't comprehend. They implicated me, then my other coworker, by name.
This is a person who likes coming in every once in a blue moon and chatting at me and other people on the crew he just tried bus-throwing, and I'm very tempted to be cordial, but cut off any and all direct conversation with them in the future.
Beyond that, is there any further action I can take? It's cheesed me off to no end, I know none of us did it but we're being painted as guilty by people when we aren't even there to defend ourselves, and I seriously got enough money stress right now without someone throwing me under the bus and making me lose my job.
Any helpful ideas would be nice, thanks.
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