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Topic: Catching An Embezzling Manager
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-05-2004 11:19 PM
One day I was in the office (safe room) with the regional manager of my company. They had just completed closing the day's books and counting the receipts.
He said to me, "That's an awful lot of money sitting right there! Wouldn't you be tempted to take it?" I repleied, "How much is there? $10,000?" He told me the actual count which was much higher." When I told him that wasn't enough money to get me interested he was puzzled why I said that.
I said that no matter how "smart" I think I am in figuring out ways to steal money, eventually the company will figure it out and come looking for me. If I was to even THINK about stealing it would have to be MUCH higher than that! A mere $50,000 isn't enough!
When asked how much it would take to make me think about stealing I told him, "Oh, a couple-three million..." His reply was, "Then I could trust you with money as long as it was less than $3,000,000? Why is that?" I told him that was enough money for me to live on while I laid low in some other country waiting for the "heat" to blow over. He still had a quizzical look.
I explained: No matter how ingenious I think I am when I try to steal, somebody will eventually figure it out and I'll be caught. The only REAL way to steal from the company would be for me (or the hypothetical person) to pick up as much money as he could possibly carry, head out the back door and hop on a plane to Mexico... Never to be seen again. The amount of money it takes to uproot one's entire life and live in another country for several years... decades... or even the rest of your life... until the statute of limitaions runs out is the MINIMUM amount it would take to get me to even THINK about taking money. Besides, there's FAR more advantage in being a trustworthy person in the company's eyes. People who can handle large amounts of money without fear of "giving in to weakness" will likely earn much more money because of inreased pay (over their lifetime) than they could ever hope to get by stealing.
So, Boss, you see, it's more than just a simple question of honesty. Honesty is important! But, if you think about it, any reasonably intelligent person should be able to see that it's just not worth it to steal!
I never had any more questions about being around lots of money from THAT boss!
Long story short: People who steal from the company aren't very smart. If they thought about it for a minute they would realize how stupid they are!
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