A long story so thank you to anyone who reads to the end and has a helpful suggestion.
I work part-time in a small fashion retail shop where the maximum number of people working on any day is 3 and the total number of staff employed in the shop is 6.
Two weeks ago my manager asked me where a particular item of stock had been put as she couldn't find it - in addition, the item had been 'moved' on the till from a 'holding' location (unable to sell but in stock) into an 'in stock' location. (hope this makes sense). To add to the confusion, the item in question had supposedly been 'moved' by me (on the till) as it was registered as having been moved whilst my name was logged into the till.
Now, as far as I was aware, the item in question had sold out some weeks previously and I was unaware that any of these items had come back into stock. I would like to make it very clear at this point that I did not process this transaction!
The issue is, that MY log in was used to move the stock item which has gone missing from the shop and stock room.
Although the company have not openly accused me of theft, there is no doubt that I am under suspicion.
I am told that the till is unable to be accessed by anyone (for example, head office) and only persons in the branch may have access to the till.
Now, I fully admit to logging into the till, I had processed a transaction earlier in the day. However, I had not logged out of the system since I have never done so and have never been told to do so. When I received my till training I was informed of my password (a standard universal password) and was told by the person who trained me on the till 'you can change your password if you like but nobody seems to bother'. I therefore retained the standard password. I would like to add at this point that there are sadly no security cameras in the shop - if there were, it would be simple to look back on who was using the till at the time this transaction took place.
I was told of the stock 'loss' on the following Monday by the branch manager, and three days later received a phone call from Head office telling me they were investigating the matter. I was fairly blase about the incident since it had nothing to do with me and as far as I was aware the item did not exist (I thought we had sold out as I mentioned earlier).
The following day I received a letter from Head Office asking me to attend an interview to discuss the stock loss and I had a right to bring a 'union representative or a colleague'. Of course I couldn't bring a colleague since there are only 6 staff anyway, and I don't belong to a Union.
The meeting went ahead and the conversation was recorded.
I am devastated. I have a full time job (for which I had to have CRB check) and this part-time job was taken to help fund a single parent family of 3 teenagers!
I have previously worked in fashion retail and restaurant management for a total of 15 years and this incident has caused me so much distress. I have contacted my union (for my full time job) who are sadly unable to help, CAB (who were quite helpful) and the national shopworker's union (who can't help on this occasion since I am not a member).
Can anyone help me any further? Sorry for such a long post but I am quite distraught.
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A theft in the company and I seem to be the prime suspect - can anyone help? (sorry,long)
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prelim29 · 19/04/2013 22:15
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