Back when Circut City was still in business and I was in college, I worked in the back stockroom. I was the guy that would bring the TVs and such out to peoples cars or brought out high-theft items that were kept in the back. This was back in a time when TVs were massive and cubed, rather than just massive and slim. Due to this shape, there were large cavities in the boxes where the top, back of the TVs were.
My buddies and I used to steal smaller shit all the time (like PS2 games and CDs), which we’d just pry open and hide somewhere in our clothing. But we eventually devised a plan to have friends come in, purchase TVs, and then return the TVs a day or two later. We would stuff those cavities with all kinds of neat stuff. A couple of my favorite things I got at the time was a really top of the line digital camera and this cool portable DVD player with like a 10 inch LCD screen built in.
There were four of us in other this whole thing and none of us ever got caught. I do remember during physical inventory that our management took a lot of shit because our store had the highest amount of shrinkage. They must have known, but they only had one camera in the back and it was only pointed to the door leading to the main showroom.
Oh and a bonus theft I almost forgot about: There was a semi-trailer always attached to the warehouse and we’d put our compacted cardboard on it. One time, there was a large gap between the bay and the wall… just large enough for a laptop box. I slid a laptop through once and picked it up when I got off.
The above was just “fun” broke college kid stuff. I don’t think I had stolen anything ever after I left that place. I do not live a life of crime now.
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honestly impressive. i would’ve done it if i could too!!
If you had to put a number dollar amount, how much between all the buddies ?
Job I use to have back in 2008. Metal recycling place. They crushed vehicles and we had to sort the metals. we We would get gold, silver. Coins, everything u can think of. Me and a co worker would fill latex gloves every night with silver, gold and coins. Found multiple $20 gold coins, worth thousands lol. Within 2 years of working there we got about 50,000 or more if I had to guesstimate. The co worker that was also taking it apparently went and told another worker and that worker told on us but they couldn’t find the evidence of the places we sold it to so they had no proof so they just fired us based on word of mouth. But they installed cameras and detectors immediately they fired us lol. Only place I ever stole from. The gold and silver wasn’t going towards anything or to make parts or anything it was just going into the owners pockets and the owners were billionaires. And there was mountains of the stuff.
And where is circuit city today?
My first job was McDonald’s 25 yrs ago. This was way back before they had screens giving you your total at the drive thru. Every time someone came through with a big order, I would add a dollar or two to the total, and pocket it. So if the total was $22.74 I said $24.74. I could walk out with $40+ a shift which paid for my weed.
“Come to Circuit City, where felony theft is state of the art”
I worked for Toys R US when PS2s were all the rage. The dock had a pretty sizeable gap from the truck. We even told management about it, but they didn’t do shit. We ended up just dropping stuff through the gap, including 6 PS2s and games.
Once a thief, always a thief.
I bet you’d cheat on your partner too if you were sure you wouldn’t get caught.
You’re the type that will be looting and worse when the power goes out.
You single-handedly put that company out of business
I worked at a new circuit city in 2008 and the tv manager was stealing tons of tv’s
Would roll them out and sell them for cash in the parking lot
That store closed down in 2009
No wonder they went bankrupt .
When I worked at Circuit City we all smoked because of how many smoke breaks you were allowed to take. I worked as a Firedog, so we were always opening software to install on customer’s PCs. The software always had security strips in them. We’d pull them out and stick them inside our coworker’s cigarettes.
When they’d try to go outside the security alarm would go off and they’d have to wait for a manager to come and pat them down.
It was good fun.
Not a confession but a story of working at a gas station. One of my co-workers was stealing $100 a day out of the till and filling up his car whenever he felt like it. The owner caught on and brought in a lie detector. Only one guy refused to take the test. The owner couldn’t legally fire him but put him on the worst shift 6 to midnight when we only took credit cards no cash. He eventually quit and got a job at Kinney Shoes Store. Within a few weeks he shows up at the gas station one night opens his trunk and says “anyone want to buy some shoes?”
This must be common. We had guys working at Sears in the stockroom that did something similar. They would find someone that bought, for example, a $300 TV and for like $50, they would give them the $800 one. They got away with it for about six months until someone started really noticing the on hands being way off.
It’s ok robin hood, the hood forgives you
When i worked at Safeway, the store had a rack of record albums. Weird, but okay. There was a huge assortment of albums. I noticed that some of the guys were taking home a lot of diaper, paper towel, and toilet paper empty boxes, usually stuffed inside each other, claiming they were moving out helping someone else move. The top box would be empty so that management could see there was no way to hide stuff. Turns out the guys (usually night crew) were laying the albums flat in the lower boxes and just walking out with them.
Companies lose more from employees then shoplifters.
Let me know if you find a job at a place that sells eggs and bacon. 👍
Used to do something like this for fun when boxes busted open at UPS. If it came down the belt not in a box it’d find a new box to be it’s home.
Loved Circut City until I put a deposit down on a car stereo – went back a couple of days later to pick it up and doors were locked with a huge sign saying, “OUT OF BUSINESS”… 😂🤣
My old company allowed us to clock in on our phones, but the clock in area was geo-locked to just around the area of the building of the company.
I found an app that allowed me to spoof my location and was able to routinely clock in 30 minutes before and after my shift time, netting me an extra “free” hour a day of work. I did this daily for probably 2 years or so… Sometimes I did closer to 45 minutes before/after. I only stopped when they hired a new guy and somehow his account never had the “geo-lock” placed on it, and he was clocking in 2-3 hours before work… After that they made it to where you had to be on the wifi to clock in on your phone.
At the Circuit City I worked at the stockroom guys got caught stealing. After that we couldn’t have our cellphone on the floor anymore.
I bought my PS2 for cheap from my homeboy back in 2000. He stole literally thousands of dollars of merchandise when he worked at sears at the time.
I knew a bunch of people that ran up $100k on Walmart. They all go in trouble though.
My ex wife worked for the courts as the clerk. She started skimming cash from court fees and child support. Covering it by making deposits later and later in the week. Finally got caught, $58K was the total. Did no jail time.
A friend’s brother worked at Halfords car parts shop in the UK.
Having just spotted my mate paying a fiver for half a ton of tools I questioned him.
Seemingly they’d been selling the car stereos, but without the box.
Cos they left the box in the stores so it could still pass a stock check.
Obvs, someone bought a non existent one at some point so shit n fan did finally meet but I don’t think anyone was prosecuted.
This is exactly what closed down the Circuit City in my childhood home town… bad business model anyway. Showroom and commissioned sales people dressed up, and product sent out on a conveyor belt to the waiting customers by guys in the back that did all the heavy lifting with minimal oversight and insanely low wages. What could go wrong?
At the competition store attached to the nearby mall, stuff was “falling off the delivery truck” into worker’s (and their girlfriend’s) cars like mad. Shut that store down, too.
I got on a klepto kick in the Navy. I only stole little stuff, trinkets and souvenirs, but was doing it in places that would cut off your damn hand for stealing.
Congratulations on being a douche bag thief
We used to buy video game cartridges and take them apart…remove the chip. We would then swap the new chip into the game cartridge we didn’t want put the old chip into the new cartridge and take the game back. Kohl’s took back anything back in the 80’s opened or not.
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When I worked at UPS there was a very similar thing happening. I don’t know a lot of the details, but basically the same idea – very little security and a lot of security holes. It was well organized and I’m pretty confident out boss was in on it too.
I worked at Best Buy in the early 2000’s. Our entire inventory team was fired for running a similar scheme. They all got caught because one of the employees in on it was talking about it at a party, and one of the supervisors overheard. The following day, the LP manager placed a camera in the back room where they would carry out the deed and caught them. Shortly after that, a supervisor was fired for shipping tv’s directly to his in-laws from the store.
My first year there the shrink issue was so bad that corporate would come visit the store every month to talk to us about shrink and check our progress. The icing on the cake came when our GM was fired for stealing a shit ton of laptops after hours. It was a really fucked up culture there. So many people had their own schemes running concurrently.
I had just started at CC and I got trained in the music and games department. The person that trained me was super nice and showed me everything I needed to know. Three weeks later police rolled in deep one morning and went straight to the girl that trained me. Turns out she had been stealing new CDs every Tuesday when the stock refreshed and selling them for cash.
Nice
I didn’t steal, but i worked at a doller general and as i was training my tills at the end of the night were 20 to 50 sometimes 100 off but always whole numbers.
I told this to the key holder at the time someone was stealing from my drawer and no one believed me.
So i started stealing food because they paid so little id steal my lunch. Got called into a meeting with district about the money issue and i told her look its there word against mine and all your cameras are fake so either keep me on or fire me.
I waited till we had a busy day and i found out the manager was wanting to fire me so i walk in like im going to work drop my badge on her desk and quit.
Fuck you Tammy.
I once stole $5 from the till drawer of a pizza place i worked so I could buy a nickel bag of schwag that night. I was a poor college kid, but I still feel guilty about it. Schwag was mid but it got the job done in a pinch.
My roommate worked at Price Club (now Costco) in the 1990’s. There was once a small group of nuns buying a microwave oven, but the box showed signs of being opened. When they opened it, they found the oven stuffed with movies (VHS tapes). From then on, the seals on every appliance box were double-checked and often the boxes were opened at checkout.
One of the assistant managers at the Walmart I used to work at got fired for stealing. No idea how long he was doing it for, but he was doing it in the most obvious way possible. So obvious, he got away with it for far too long. He’d literally just walk his ass right out the lawn and garden door with merchandise in plain view.
The fact he did it so often, and so confidently, everyone thought whatever he was doing was legit and he had a reason for doing it and nobody questioned him. Nope, literally just grabbed things and walked right the fuck out to his car on a regular basis.
Either that, or AP probably caught on way back and was just tallying up the total and letting him dig his grave deeper.
Probably the latter now that I think of it. Still wild