My father was an accountant for many years and he always said if you found evidence of fraud you shouldn't be congratulatory because what you found is maybe 10% of what is actually there if you found it by chance.
It was a good gig because I could get all my homework done while working, and state law said my pay needed to be equal to full time employees.
My boss took his job very serious. He got the state to send us to security seminars.
This was the late 80's and what suprised me the most is whom steals, or commits financial fraud.
At least back then most loss in retail was committed by management. The higher up the tree, the more they stole be it cash, or merchandise. The employees, and customers stole, but the big thefts were usually committed by long term trusted management types.
The instructor said, employees/owners usually don't question management, and they have more opportunities alone, with no one watching. He also said owners were notorious for stealing their stuff, and writing it off, or claiming it as a loss through their insurance company.
He said, this is a dirty secret, that most organizations don't want leaked. It's much easier to blame the homeless, or gangs on theft.
I imagine that has changed with the proliferation of cameras everywhere, but when I gear about large scale theft in a corporation, I automatically look at those in command of the employeees.
My local Goodwill had gone through three store managers in a row for embezzlement. This was years ago though. Goodwill never prosecutes employees because they don't want to tarnish their image.
The higher you are in management, the more you have of all of those traits. Theft and fraud are so pervasive and most managers get away with it for years. Even if they are caught, at worst, they are merely fired.
The more Machiavellian-types rope in low-level employees. So while it might seem like a "gang" of 20-somethings at an electronics store made off with a shipment. The reality is, an upper-level manager provided the cover for them to do so, and knew how to leave just enough evidence that it was an inside job, but not enough for the police to bother. For example, the badge used to access the storage area might belong to a little old lady who is honest to a fault and would be readily identified by security cameras. And if anyone questions why the store greeter has such privileged access, then it was just an honest mistake.
Well there's a fun fact for any management type who's interested in a new job and some on-the-side income.
In the occasion, they didn't upload it anywhere, but she discovered because in the moment she was picking up her device back somehow (don't know the details) she saw one of her half-naked pictures in the technician computer.
I feel like everyone thinks they are entitled to being able to google something as evidence of its occurrence and don’t realize that the absence of evidence isn't the evidence of absence.
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