Theft or just a bit cheeky?

[LuckyLou7]

My colleague (Healthcare) brags about scamming the self scan machine at supermarkets and how she's taken plants/garden furniture/electrical goods/clothes - all without paying.
etc.

We care for the most vulnerable people. I have reported her. But now?I'm the bad guy.

Definitely theft

I'd report it too, but not sure what they could do just off the back of someone saying someone's stolen from a supermarket. If there is no evidence available, how can they respond?

It's theft but you shouldn't have got her employer involved. You have no proof and I don't know why you would get involved unless someone in your care was at risk. She will say she was joking won't she?

That's theft, sounds like a dodgy person

She does/did have a clean DBS, you grassing her up to your employer doesn’t change that. How was it affecting her job and what proof do you have? MN will say you did the right thing but in reality you’ve probably just made your workplace very awkward.

Iits definitely theft! but unless she has been caught and has a criminal record , surely she will still have a clean DBS? so I'm not sure why you reported her to your employer?
Personally I would have just given her a wide berth.

Just say what you feel. None of this faux bit cheeky wondering.

How is that just cheeky? It's clearly theft.

To work in healthcare, you have to have a clean DBS.

That's not actually true. I work within a hospital environment and I work with all manner of employees with DBS flags including a convicted murderer, and a SW with a conviction for assault and DV. Its the employers call whether they employ that person, having assessed the risk.

You say you 'reported her' but who to ? Is she convicted ? if not it wont show up on a DBS.

O/T I hate these garbled threads with a smattering of information.

It is stealing obviously.
Who have you reported her too, the manager, the police, did you have evidence times and dates so they could access cctv for prosecution.

She is a bank healthcare assistant, working with severely cognitively impaired people. I reported her to her line manager and to the CQC. I
am a registered nurse and accountable

Obviously it’s theft. Why would you think it isn’t?

Not quite the same but I was in Aldi earlier and there was someone in front of me at the checkout.

She picked up three of their expensive shopping bags and first out them on the conveyer belt. Then (while still waiting) she took them off of there and put them in her trolley ready to put her shopping into. To me this seemed a deliberate attempt to steal them as she had them in the checkout belt as she knew she had to pay for them. Anyway I wondered to myself whether I’d say something if she didn’t pay for them. The member of staff at the checkout seemed to have noticed and asked whether she had just picked the bags up or were they hers. She then said they were to pay for in a “shucks, what am I thinking?!” Kind of way.

I consider this theft even though it’s “just” bags.

So she was also quite rude. She was sort of floating near the checkout and not in the queue or even outing her shopping on the belt. She was looking around for her partner. I asked if she was “in the queue”, really to get her to move, but she said yes she is and then proceeded to move towards the checkout and start unpacking her things. I was just being polite but this made me think next time I’d just go past her and start unpacking my things. I wouldn’t mind but I had about three items and she had a trolley full but she still quite happily pushed it. More annoyed at myself as I let her!

Sorry for digressing with unrelated rant...

In that case yanbu for reporting her. She will be investigated.
I am surprised she was able to steel furniture etc, I hope she not pulling ypur leg.
Has she approached you about it, if you are now the bad guy, let her superiors deal with it.
She is wrong taking things she hasn't worked or paid for.

She's totally the wrong person for the job, if she will scam the shops blatantly like this, then her clients don't stand a chance.
As a registered nurse I too would have had to report the theft. Where I work we have to watch out as there have been things go missing and staff have been let go. Our clients are also very vulnerable.

She may be investigated but if she's never been caught, what can they do? Take your work for it? I doubt she will admit it.
I'm surprised she manages to scam the self service machines.

She is the kind of person that buys things online and claims not to have received them to get her money back.

She’s a thief and she deserves to get caught.

Of course it’s theft..... why would you even think it could be classed as “a little bit cheeky”? Wtf!

Good on you for protecting vulnerable people, if she was arrested her job sounds like a notifiable one.

You done the right thing morally and professionally, even if she denied it.
If you kept it to yourself and was stealing from clients it would be a disaster.

I once stole a pillowcase using the self scan in IKEA. I didn’t realise until I tried to return it and it wasn’t on the receipt

Good for you for reporting. Given the line of work I'd say that you probably have a duty to do so, if only a moral one.

Perhaps she could try out the "I was only being just a bit cheeky" defence on a judge in court.

Are you sure she’s not lying to impress people/ attention seeking? This would be very immature, though.

How old is she?

BTW, if she is investigated following your report do you seriously expect her to just say ‘yes, I am a thief, you had better sack me’, she will surely say that she was just joking when she said those things.

Very dishonest of her

Of course she’s a thief. I couldn’t be friends with someone like this. I’d report her to your employer and the shop.