How is it that someone can steal from another person sitting two cubicles away, and still keep their job???
The girl who took my iPhone 4 last week, who paid me for it without officially admitting to the theft (if you're fuzzy on the circumstances, check out my previous post), the same person I did not press charges against because I am a softy at heart and felt sorry for her three kids, continues to have her job. She comes into the office every day, sits in the same cubicle where I can see the top of her head when she stands and where I can hear her talk.
One question repeats itself inside my head and on the lips of others on our floor:
Why is she not fired???
Was my evidence not convincing enough? The lawyers on our floor that I have spoken to have said that my evidence was solid! The police officer I spoke to last week said that there was grounds for immediate dismissal. A labor law attorney that one of the attorneys on this floor consulted with said the same thing. He had asked the same question: Why is she not fired??
It is baffling!!
My boss spoke with her boss yesterday, asking him what he was intending to do.
"We can't keep looking over our shoulder." my boss said to hers, "You'll need to do something about this."
To this her boss replied: "I'm very swamped right now. I don't have the time to train someone new."
So, now I ask you: Is "not having time to train a new person" reason enough to not punish a thief? Is not firing her not a way of encouraging her behavior?
Mind you that her boss has had $1500 worth of stuff taken from his desk which is located inside his office which, in his absence, is entered only by HER. His iPhone 4 was stolen only days after he purchased it. (anyone see a pattern here??) During the holidays, the gift cards he had purchased for his employees went missing. $300 cash was taken out of another attorney's wallet, another office to which the thief has full access!
Part of me is disappointed. Another part of me knows that no good ever comes from stealing and that she will sooner or later be faced with the consequences of her actions. There are no victories in thieving. And that's just it. She may not be fired today, but tomorrow, she might get just what she deserves. Karma works in mysterious ways.
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