Had to fire someone

It's never really fun to fire someone at work. Other people get excited about it when they find out it's happening, but having to be the person doing it, is almost always difficult. Yesterday, I had to fire an employee who had been there for about a year, year and a half. It was on the suspicion of theft. Basically, a report was given to me last week that identifies people who are suspected of stealing from the store. In this case, the person would take the order over the phone, place the order, then after a few minutes go back in and change the amount in the POS system to half of what it was. Then when he would take the delivery he would charge the unknowing customer full price and simply pocket the rest of the money. Since according to the system we were getting the amount it said we should, we didn't know what was going on. BUT, this is not an original scam by any means and the higher ups have a built in system to detect stuff like this. Over a three week span the guy appears to have stolen @$170. Not a lot of money if you ask me, when you are risking a job that pays you 4-500$ a week. Pretty stupid in fact. So, this week I had to ask him what exactly those edits were in the computer. If his answer didn't make sense then he was fired. Oddly enough he's been acting strange for most of the week. It could be due to the fact that I had to take away his privileges in the computer, without him knowing and perhaps he tried to do it again and couldn't. But, even if he knew something was up, he managed to come in late almost everyday to work and even left early one day. He certainly wasn't trying very hard to keep his job, if in fact, he knew something was up.

Usually when I fire someone it's because of poor work habits. This was the first time I've fired someone with proof of theft. He wasn't very happy about it, but honestly, he never got that upset either. I just know if it were me and I was being accused of theft and hadn't done it, I would be irate. He never got there. He just kept denying what had happened and said it must've been something else. There were other factors involved that pointed to theft as well. He was constantly having money issues. In fact, a few times I had loaned him money myself. Every single order was a cash order, so he could easily pocket it. Every single order he was the order taker as well as the delivery person. Plus, all but one order, I was not the manager on duty that day. So, that's that, I had to fire another one. Only once has it been "easy." I'm already 2 drivers short and now I'll be a third, so I'm not looking forward to that.

Other than that a pretty busy couple of weeks. Lots of improv and shows and parties and school work. This semester is basically over for me and it looks like I'll ace both of my classes. I just paid for 2 classes in the Spring, so I'm still going! That's going to be a huge key for me; just keep moving forward with school.