One of our cleaners came to me this evening to say she'd seen another cleaner stealing food and cleaning materials.
She is very insistant that she's seen her colleague putting biscuits and stock into her bag.
TBH we don't keep much food in, just biscuits for meetings and if they were going missing, I think we'd have noticed. The cleaning materials might not be so easily missed, but no one has noticed stocks running down quickly, we don't seem to be getting through more than usual.
The cleaners are employed through a contractor so I don't manage them as such, but I do manage the premises and the cleaning contract.
If it makes a difference the complainant is white and the "thief" is black. I almost feel like a spurious complaint would be worse than actual stealing.
I shall speak to the company in the morning, but what would you expect their response to be? I feel I need to do "something", but I'm not convinced there has been stealing. If this is nastiness I'm horrified.
Fwiw until today the cleaners all seemed lovely and are doing a great job.