Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: If you ever left work and immediately had to text somebody like, yo, you're not going to believe this. This podcast is for you. Welcome to Work Drama, the podcast where we unpack workplace stories people whisper about trauma, bond over and still think about years later. I'm Lizbeth. I come from the medical world, so I'm here to add context, logic, and the questions that should have been asked before someone hit reply all.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: And I'm Sharon, today's resident instigator, group chat voice and depending on the situation, HR's worst nightmare.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: I left my in person job for remote work and I realized you don't miss the commutes, but you definitely miss the drama.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Meanwhile, I'm still in the trenches.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: So we fixed that.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: We'll be breaking down anonymized stories from offices, hospitals, and everywhere in between. Reacting in real time, calling out the nonsense, and figuring out if something is actually toxic or just wildly mishandled. You got a story for us?
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Send that shit in.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Names, change jobs, protected opinions very much included. And for legality purposes. This is not legal advice, girl. And let's get into it.
Alright, picture this. You're young, you're working hard. You're at the kind of job that trains you to smile and mean it. The kind of place where you don't say, you're welcome. They say, my pleasure.
The values are on the wall. The mission statement is framed at the register. Sunday off, out of respect. Now imagine at that job, the wholesome one, the we are a family one. Someone stole your paycheck, cashed it, signed your name and said thing.
All right, Sharon, we're back.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: We are.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: You're back.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: I am, Yeah.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: I missed you. Didn't have you in the office.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, been around.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Busy, busy woman.
[00:01:48] Speaker B: Yeah, somewhat. How.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: How's your week been? How's your couple weeks been?
[00:01:54] Speaker B: Not too bad, actually.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: You know, work, work, that's what we're here for.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah. A little bit of work drama.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Wait, tell me a little bit of your little work drama.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: My close friend ended up getting fired
[00:02:08] Speaker A: over some, oh my goodness, like your work bestie.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: That sucks.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
To the point where I even thought I was gonna get fired, but I'm
[00:02:19] Speaker A: still in that you're safe.
What would they do without you, though? Like, really, what would they do without you?
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Honestly, I don't even know. But whatever.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: I know you're ready to go though, so.
But you don't want to go in that way. I'm not sure.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: Definitely not. I've never been fired in My life.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: So, girl, I've been fired once.
They took advantage of me all day. They had me do grunt work all day.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: That's awful.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: All day. I was so pissed.
I was like, doing this work. And I'm just like, okay, I'm just here doing this work because I called the meeting and I was like, cool, I'm waiting all day for my meeting.
And they were all day preparing how they were going to fire me, but wanted to make sure I did all this grunt work that they didn't want done.
Yeah. And stupid me, just like. So I was just doing these, like, mail out cards. And at the end of the day, instead of just throwing those cards out, I should have shredded them. I sent them out. I went crying out of the meeting. I went crying to pick up the cards and go put them in the mail like an idiot.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: That's awful.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: And then I left crying. Everybody's like, what happened? What happened? And I just left. But guess what I heard from a girl from town saying she was like, she was working at that place and she's like, oh, you used to work there, right? I'm like, yeah, I used to work there. And she's like, oh, my God. I heard when you left that you, like that you quit on the spot and you let, like, the manager have it. And I'm like, is that the story?
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Okay, I'll go with that. Yes, I like that.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: I was like, that is the alternate universe that I'd rather have been in.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: That's too funny.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: When I heard that, I laughed out loud. That I was like, is that what you heard? Like, who's saying that?
[00:03:49] Speaker B: It's kind of like that game Telephone where you hear one thing and you keep repeating it and it just ends up not being.
[00:03:55] Speaker A: Yeah, a whole completely different story. I preferred that story, though. I was like, yeah, let's say that. Let's say that I went off on the manager.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: That's too funny.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: And I walked the out.
I walked out cry. I sat in the car for like 10 minutes. I called my man at the time and I was like, oh, my God, I got fired. He's like, I told you not to call that meeting. It wasn't even about the meeting, mind you. The meeting was nothing. I used to run this program and it was just that I hadn't gotten the notebooks in time. And I told the person that was supposed to get the Notebooks like, hey, we have a group starting in like three weeks. In two weeks, in one week. And they weren't getting it. So I Just called the meeting, like, hey, how can we do it so that maybe I can order these books? Like, it was just that it. That was it. Like I was running that program and after I left, that program ended. Nobody else wanted to run it. And it was such a good program for like. I don't want to say too much about it, but it was such a good program. So it just sucks. But yeah, that it was horrible.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: Oh, them.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they can go themselves.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: So. Yeah.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: I'm glad you didn't get fired.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: Me too.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Because that is a scary situation. I am so sorry for your friend.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Me too.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Sorry. That's so sad. Because these are hard times.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Yes, it is, girl. Well, yes, it is.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: I have a little work stuff coming up. I'm excited. Like, so, you know, I work remote. I have a in person event that they're hosting in.
In Chicago. I've never been to Chicago, so I get to go to Chicago in like a couple weeks on their dime.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: That's exciting.
On their dimensions.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: Yep. They paid and I get to go. I get to make some money while I'm there as well.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Nice. How long are you gonna stay there for?
[00:05:29] Speaker A: It's a two day event, but they want us there Monday and then I'm staying till Thursday. It's like a Tuesday, Wednesday event. But I'm like, I'm taking Thursday too. The latest flight on Thursday so that I can like go explore. Because I'm like, I gotta take advantage. I've never been to Chicago. I'm a little nervous. I'll be by myself.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Like, good pizza.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: That's what I heard. Yeah. Like the deep dish. That's their pizza. I think I'm gonna try it out.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: I think you should so bring back a slice.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: I should? Yeah. That's gonna be all.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Whatever.
Put it in my. In my air fryer.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Put it in your air fryer. Just bring it back to life.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: That's funny.
[00:06:03] Speaker A: I even got a book bag that you actually deflate. Like you can vacuum air. Like, what is it called? Like those compressible kind of things. So it's a little book bag and I get to fill it with clothes. And then I can do the air compression thing so that it all like compresses.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Interesting.
From Amazon.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I got on Amazon. I had seen like something on maybe Tick Tock or Instagram a long time ago and it just like came to mind because I'm like, I'm gonna need
[00:06:27] Speaker B: that for my trip.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah, you can borrow it because like, honestly, I don't know how many times I'm gonna be using it. You could definitely borrow it because I was like, I'm not going to be walking around Chicago with a freaking suitcase. Yeah, right.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: So no, figure I don't think that's really safe. A backpack is a little bit more low key. Right.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: It looks. It almost looks like a backpack. Like I'm in school or something. So just maybe look like a college kid.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: That's cool.
That's exciting.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm excited. So we'll see. I have to look up some things after the event. Maybe I can go out to dinner or do like, do things. And I'm gonna get to meet the team. That's another thing. Like, I get to meet these people in person.
There's one person in particular that I'm excited to meet. We've been kind of like bonding a little bit over voice notes on slack. So yeah, it should be fun.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: That's exciting.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: We'll get to actually be in person, which I've been missing a little bit. Yeah, we'll see. I'll keep you posted on how all that goes, you know, on the pizza. Yeah, well, no, I can't. They're not going to let me bring pizza on the plane.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: In your backpack.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: We'll see. I'll see how I can sneak.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Sneak it in your underwear or something.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: In my underwear? Yeah, I can. Just right between my butt cheeks.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Keep it nice and warm.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: I'll keep it flavored for you.
Oh, my goodness. Okay, well, let's get into the story because the group chat is here for the work drama and I have a good one. I'm so excited. This is our first mailed in story.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: So exciting.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: We've been sourcing from the Internet, Right. Found some good stories online, but we finally got some. I like this one. This one's different. And it took place a while back. Our work bestie of the day today. Her name is Millie, and Millie, she did not come to play.
So are you ready, Sharon?
[00:08:03] Speaker B: I'm ready. Let's get into it.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: So this story starts the way a lot of great origin stories do. A teenager, her first job ever, a fast food counter.
And way too much energy for a weekday morning. We're talking a place known for being aggressively wholesome. The kind of establishment that puts Bible verses on their cups, that tells employees to say my pleasure instead of no problem.
That closes on Sundays because rest is sacred. You know the place.
Millie started there at 16, worked her way up to shift leader, left for college. And then the way life does, she ended up going back. Same location Same manager, but this time she had to start from the bottom again. No longer a shift leader.
Have you ever had to go back to a job after you leveled up at that job?
Yeah, I've.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: I've returned back to a job after I had left after a few years, but I went back and I stayed in the same position.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Like you were at a certain position and you kind of leveled up and left.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: Yeah, girl. What if you came back and they were like, no, you have to start from the bottom?
[00:09:13] Speaker B: I don't know. And that. I guess it depends on the job, because that job, I wouldn't have had minded having less responsibility.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: I guess that's true.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:22] Speaker A: But as a shift manager, I mean, I don't know, I've never worked at a restaurant or, like a fast food place, but I feel like you probably have a little more freedom, right? You don't have to do the grunt
[00:09:30] Speaker B: work at a restaurant. I'm not really sure, but when I was a manager at a supermarket, I left and came back as a manager still. But I would have rather had the responsibility of just a cashier because as a super, as a manager, you'd have all these responsibilities, so.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: And people to manage, I guess. Yeah, that makes sense. All right, well, it sounds like Millie didn't like it. She didn't like that she had to, like, go back to square one, of course. Or seen. I mean, she had leveled up, right? She had gone off to college. She's a college girl now. Yeah, so. Well, now, since Millie was still finishing up college, finals, papers, the whole thing, she was only picking up one to two weekend shifts. She had another job as well. So this was just kind of like to make ends meet.
So her first paycheck, it was a short one. Made sense, except it never showed up.
She goes to the manager. Manager says, checks are always in the file on my door on payday.
Melee checks, nothing. She figures maybe it was too short to process on time, maybe or roll in on the next one. Next payday comes, still nothing.
All right, Sharon, so at what point does maybe I'm wrong turn into something is wrong? Because, like, I want to know, what's your threshold of how many times does something have to happen before you stop giving people, like, the benefit of the doubt?
[00:10:55] Speaker B: I mean, well, clearly with the first paycheck, her not getting paid, it's already an issue.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: I mean, she has another job, too. So it's just like, she probably. She knew it was going to be a show.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: Money's money.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: She worked hard for it, you know?
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. And then by the second one, for not to have the check. Yeah, that's crazy.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: That's a lot of money.
[00:11:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd be pissed. So Millie gets more direct. She goes back to the manager and says, call the bank and confirm if that first check was actually cashed.
The manager makes the call, comes back and says, yeah, it was cashed.
Millie goes, cool. I want to see the signature on the back of it.
Now, here's where it gets good.
Millie is at her other job when the call happens. She gets permission to use the fax machine there. You know, fax machines back in the day, they were sacred. The manager sends it over. Now, you know, this was some work drama tea. Because the boss at the second job, when she gets the facts, she comes over and she's like, it's here, like, excited. So, you know, they were like, what is going on? Everybody was part of the drama there. Millie looks at it, not her signature.
She turns to the three co workers at the job that she's currently standing in, shows them. They all confirm that's not Millie's signature.
They'd seen it every day on documents they knew. So I want you to send this moment with me, Sharon. If you're standing at that second job, right at the fax machine, paper in hand, you see that somebody forged your name, took your money. What's the first thing physically that's happening to your body when you realize that?
[00:12:24] Speaker B: I mean, I'll be pissed. Are you really?
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
Are you. Are you swearing? Are you going off?
[00:12:31] Speaker B: I don't know. I know I'd be pissed.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: Are you crying?
[00:12:35] Speaker B: I wouldn't cry. I'd be upset. I'd want to investigate as to who forged it.
[00:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I would be pissed. I. I would probably get emotional myself. I mean, I don't know about crying, but I'd be like, I'm about to go to that job and do something. I'm probably gonna get fired. Because, like, I would be so pissed.
Like, somebody needs to figure this out.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: It's like, now how am I supposed to figure out who is forging my signature? It's crazy. So Millie, she calls the manager, says, I've confirmed that is not my signature, and you've seen my signature, too. So I want you to confirm that as well. The manager confirms, and Millie says, I will not be coming in until we find out who did this. No one confesses, of course.
All right, so your opinion, Sharon. Do you think that it's up to Millie to keep Showing up to work and catching this person herself? Or is it the management's job to handle this before she even sets foot back into the building? Because I feel like there's an argument on both ends.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: I guess it really depends on the person. I feel like that should be management role to take care of it.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: I think for sure management, because I mean, she already went to the whole trouble to.
To see, like, confirm that it's not her thing. Get. Get a fax to her and everything. Like that manager should have already thought about this. Right? She brought up to you. She's the one that's saying, like, my check is missing. Like they should have from the. From the jump already been like, okay, right. Let me call the bank. Let me do, like, why does she have to keep on doing things herself?
So that's super annoying, but I love that she's advocated for herself, as she should.
Yeah. Since nobody confessed, Millie did what any responsible, unbothered woman who just had her signature forged would do. She called the police, which I didn't even think about.
I think I would have thought about that. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think people like us usually turn to the police first.
So cops get a copy of the check, they go to the bank, and they pull the camera footage.
And Millie, even with the person's back to the camera, could tell who it was.
Now this is where I have to introduce someone. Because at this chick, I mean, at this very wholesome fast food establishment, there's a girl, Sam.
And Millie knew her not closely. Not like a friend, more of an acquaintance.
You know how you can know someone without really knowing them, but also where you know them from, it might make you think that they're actually a good person.
Well, this girl had been part of one of those classic wholesome girl groups growing up. Girl Scouts.
Yeah, that's right. The cookie sales, the badges, the pledge to be trustworthy. What are your thoughts about that specific detail?
[00:15:18] Speaker B: I don't know. That just reminded me my girl scout didn't bring me my cookies.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: So you ordered some cookies recently?
[00:15:24] Speaker B: I sure did. I spent 12 bucks.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Damn. Well, I hope you get your cookies.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: Me too. It's been two months.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Two months, Girl. Someone at your cookies. Maybe it was Sam.
That's crazy. And you know what? I recently tried to order cookies. And I mean, I love the girl scout cookies. And I was in girl Scouts myself when I was a kid.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Yeah, for like.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, for like one year once we did, like, the camping. I was done. I was like, I can't do this camping thing, but I ended up trying to order from my niece's dance program that had cookies there. But you couldn't order if you want to deliver to your house. I had to be six boxes or more.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Oh, hell yeah.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: And then to have it picked up at the dance place, I had to get permission from someone, but that someone wasn't there. I'm like, this is too much work for some cookies for real. And I don't want.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: Not even that good.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Yeah, right?
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Six bucks for a whole box.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't want six boxes of six dollar cookies. Like, that's crazy.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: I'd rather go to insomnia.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: Oh, I love insomnia cookie. No shade on shade on girl scouts, but those insomnia cookies, girl.
All right, now, while all of this is happening, the investigation, the charges being filed, the owner's wife calls Millie and tells her she needs to come back in and work her schedule shifts.
So I'm assuming the owner's wife.
So there's a manager, right? That's probably a shift manager. And then there's the owner of, like, the establishment. Right. Maybe the franchise owner or whatever. Why is a wife getting involved? That's where I'm curious.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: But, okay, she works here as well.
Maybe.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: I mean, she must, right? Like, why is she being like, you need to come back to the office? I mean, to the. To the job.
Well, Millie, just as confused as why the wife is getting involved, repeats herself. I'm not comfortable working alongside someone who stole from me. We have her on camera. The owner's wife, realizing it's getting serious, says she'll hold Millie's last check until she returns the uniform.
All right, Sharon, this woman just threatened to withhold her paycheck from someone who is actively a victim of theft at their establishment. What do you say back?
[00:17:25] Speaker B: I guess professionally. I would threaten her with getting a lawyer involved professionally.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: And then unprofessionally.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: I have no idea.
I don't know.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: I would be pissed because it sounds like. What do you mean? I mean, she said, I'll hold your last check, which sounds like, is she fine. What do you mean, my last check? I just want my previous check.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Right? Yeah, I don't know.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: That's. I. I'd be pissed. I think I would actually, like, not be very professional. I like the whole legal thing, though. Bringing in, like, legal. You're better than me. Because I wouldn't have thought that I would just.
I don't think I would have been very nice on the phone.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: I think that's just my old self. I think young me would have probably
[00:18:10] Speaker A: told her all that's true. We have grown up a little bit.
And I'm thinking. And you remember she was younger, too. She was, like, still in college, early college days. So she was a little younger, but we'll see. What does Millie say? Millie's response? This sounds like I'm being fired. Fire her and I'll come back. Or reissue the stolen check and I'll hand in my uniform.
I guess that's a woman that knows her worth because those are some good choices there.
So now here's a part of the story that earns Millie the respect she deserves. Since the manager wasn't making any moves, Millie took matters into her own hands and pressed charges.
So while the legal process was moving forward, the manager calls Millie.
Seems maybe she was being messy or maybe she just wanted her to bring in her uniform. But she ended up telling Millie something wild. She says, hey, I just want you to know, Sam's not at the location today. I actually had to drive her to court this morning.
Millie goes, why?
The manager says Sam told her she needed a ride. Said her grandpa caught her stealing money from his car. Decided to press charges to teach her a lesson.
Her grandpa?
Sharon. Millie pressed those charges. Millie was the grandpa.
Do you think. Do you think somebody's grandpa will really be putting them in jail for some money in the car?
[00:19:32] Speaker B: Probably.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: You think so?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
No. I watch a lot of YouTube videos and there's a lot of sketchy that people do. Family do.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: I guess I. I felt like it was a weird story to tell, but. And then to ask your manager to bring you to court, that's crazy. I would not be asking my manager to bring me to court. I would.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: I wouldn't either.
[00:19:51] Speaker A: Right. That sounds crazy.
But anyways, so Sam pleaded guilty in court. She was ordered to pay Millie back.
You think, too, that the manager would be like, get wind of this, that you actually went to court for the. For theft from the establishment? Unless they're talking to the franchise owner, not like the shift manager, I don't know. But anyway, maybe. Maybe Sam thought she was going to get away with it all. Initially, she was ordered to pay Millie back. The owner's wife issued the check just like Millie demanded. I mean, she really wanted her uniform back, I think. But they met up, check for uniform. And Millie, she got her paycheck doubled, which is nice because she got the one from court and then she got the one from. From there. She. She deserved. That's right, because she never Stopped. She never backed down. And she never second guessed herself. Even when management tried to flip it on her, even when no one confessed, even when the owner's wife tried to strong arm her. Millie walked out of that situation with more than she came in with.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: That's right, Millie.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: And the Girl Scout, well, she clearly didn't earn any honest or caring badges for this.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: Yeah, she did. For theft.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: For theft. That was the bad. She got nice on her record.
That was crazy. That was someone that you went to Girl Scouts with that you were like, you know, maybe you weren't friends, but you think somebody that you at least kind of like, know a little bit that they're not going to. She could have still stolen anybody else's check. First off. Right. Like, to be the person that you kind of have a connection with, that's shady.
[00:21:22] Speaker B: But like, it's always a quiet one or it's always someone that you don't, you know, you least expect.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: That's probably what it was. She probably was like, she'll never think that I took it. We weren't Girl Scouts. She knows I'm. I'm a good Girl Scout.
Didn't even think about that.
Now, do you think back to the whole manager thing. Do you think it was negligent for the manager not to like, investigate a sooner to make Millie go through all this stuff?
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: They really. The victim at the end of it.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: I think there is the fact that if an employer, for example, were to take your money, if an employer were to take your money, like hold your. Your check, that's a problem. Right? Right away, we know that's a problem.
But when it's.
[00:22:03] Speaker B: You don't even think they can do that legally.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Right. I think there's a legal thing behind that too. I was thinking that, like, there might be some states where that's like, you can't. Because that's like called garnishing someone's wages. Right. You can't really do that.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: She's a victim.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: And she's the victim. Like, you think they'd be better employees. And she came back. She had worked her way up to shift manager, which should mean that she was a really good employee. Right. And then she even came back to work for you guys and this is how you treat her.
I think the whole thing from the theft from employee to employee also too, like, that just wasn't taken as seriously. Why? Why?
Like, she sounds like she was a good employee. This is. This doesn't. If I were like another employee in the establishment, I'd be second guessing whether I'm even safe there, right? What if this happens again?
And did Sam get fired? We never even got that part of the story.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah, true.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: Because that's crazy. Because it's like, crazy. Why was the victim being told, like, you're gonna get your last check when Sam over here is stealing checks?
[00:23:00] Speaker B: I used to work at a grocery store, and I had brought it to my managers, or I guess the owner's attention, that someone was stealing. They kept her there. I left because they were stealing in front of their eyes and they were well aware of it. And I couldn't. I couldn't abide by that. So I ended up leaving.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: That's good. You got some good morals. Look at you.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Damn right. This was like stealing money.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You don't want that to be blamed on you. That's crazy. Damn. If you just say something and not we just stealing.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: I call her on camera. Wow.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: That's insane to be caught on camera. Just keep your job. What. What's making them not.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: She's still there actually to this day.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: Stop.
Oh, my gosh. She's probably making some good money.
Good money on. I mean, like, from. From what she's pocketing.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: Probably.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Wow.
Imagine getting. How long ago was that? How many years would you say? Oh, because you haven't worked in a store in a long time.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: At least, like, I want to say, maybe 10 years now.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: That's crazy. Where I was gonna say. Do you think that the owner's wife was just trying to protect the business?
But how is that protecting the business? Especially something like that, right? It doesn't.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: At the end of the day, it takes out of everyone's pocket and you lose trust.
[00:24:20] Speaker A: And then for it to be an establishment, like one of these wholesome ones, right. It's supposed to be, oh, everyone's family. Oh, we have Bible verses like, what girl?
[00:24:30] Speaker B: Do you feel like holy?
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Do you feel like establishments like that, that claim to be all high and mighty, that's usually like fake. All of a sud.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Sometimes.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Sometimes I feel like this.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: It really depends. I'm sure there are some very holy, you know, law abiding grocery or establishments.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: But a lot of times, you never know behind the scenes what's happening.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: Wow. And just to go back to the whole girl scout thing, do you think the fact that Millie did know her. Do you think it would have been worse if it was a stranger?
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Most definitely not. Any type of theft, no matter whether it's girl scout or not or a stranger, it's not cool.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. And it wasn't like it was a close friend. I mean, maybe that could have been worse, right? Somebody you trusted. But like, she didn't know this girl. Just the fact that they went to Girl Scout together, maybe just she was probably surprised. Like, I'm sure it was you. Like all the people it was you. Like somebody that I have a bond or no, I don't know, not even a bond. But whatever. Expected least. Yeah, probably least expected. That probably was the case. That was probably who she least expected to have taken it. Well, Millie, our work bestie of the day. Thank you for the reminder that standing your ground is not just an attitude. Sometimes it's a strategy.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: And you did good, girl. You very mature. I think for like, I'm sure I'm assuming early 20s, maybe still probably 19 even they go, girl.
If you've got a story, the kind you've been sitting on, the one you only tell in the group chat, send it in. Names changed, jobs protected, opinions very much included. And for legal purposes, none of this is legal advice.
Hope you enjoyed today's episode. Until next time.
[00:26:11] Speaker B: Bye.
[00:26:14] Speaker A: That's it for today's episode of Work Drama. Today's Work Drama was read by Lizbeth Marquez with opinions, reactions and group chat energy provided by our resident instigator, Sharon Rodriguez.
Music for the show is by Donzel Zambo, "Fairy tales". And a special thank you to Project Imo for letting us record this podcast in their studio Idea Forge Studios.
If you've got your own workplace story you can't believe actually happened, send it our way to workdramapodmail.com linked in the show notes, names changed, jobs protected. This has been Work Drama, where the meetings end, but the stories don't.
