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To want to call head office on him?

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Dearly89 · 06/08/2023 03:32

Hi all
My boyfriend went to the cinema last week for a private premiere and lost his brand new AirPods. He went to lost and found and was told by the manager nothing had been handed in.

Come today, they have pinged up their location at a house. After some serious internet sleuthing (ancestry/bt phone book etc) we have found the Facebook profile of the man who lives at the address.

And guess what? He has listed on Facebook that he is the manager of the exact cinema my boyfriend lost his AirPods at.

Essentially the manager has taken my boyfriend's AirPods out of lost and found and taken them home with him to keep.

My boyfriend is not sure what to do, shall we speak to head office about this? Shall we just contact him directly? My boyfriend doesn't really want to get him fired but to be honest I worry how many people this manager has done this to and it's clearly just an abuse of power.

We have all the proof and screenshots etc of their location at his address.

OP posts:
Jifmicroliquid · 07/08/2023 08:19

Glad you’ve got it sorted. I’m impressed by your internet sleuthing skills!

MariaVT65 · 07/08/2023 11:18

Get the pods back and then make a complaint to head office anyway!

Blueygreencurtains · 17/10/2023 23:25

Agree with this approach, police don't have resource to get stuff back, bloke could get nasty if confronted, this gives him a way out.

BettyPhuckzer · 17/10/2023 23:29

LaurieFairyCake · 06/08/2023 06:27

Do it like this?

"Ah I can see from my pods pinging at your home address you've found my air pods, thanks for keeping them safe for me. I will come to the cinema to get them today"

That gives him a way out so you actually get them back. The police are unlikely to visit to get them unfortunately.

I like this. See what he does. If he denies that he has them, then ring 101 and ask what your options are

BettyPhuckzer · 17/10/2023 23:30

Dearly89 · 07/08/2023 00:59

My boyfriend went in to the cinema today. Spoke to a different manager as the thief wasn't on shift.
Explained that he had lost the AirPods and that they had pinged up at an address. He didn't accuse anyone but asked if the manager could speak to the staff to see if anyone had taken them 'by accident.'
Eventually he brought out an old set of AirPods that definitely weren't my boyfriend's. He pressed and asked him to look again for his AirPods.
At this point the manager said he would send a message into the 'cinema manager group chat' and he was gone for a long time finding out. The thief owned up, said he had accidentally taken them home with him and that he'd bring them in tomorrow. My boyfriend's going to have to trek all the way back there.
Not sure now if he'd have any grounds with the police/head office after they've been returned and the thief's claimed it's an accident which is clearly a lie.
I do wish that he had taken it further to be honest because this definitely isn't the first time this manager will have stolen.

It's great news that he's getting them back!

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