Work

Okay I returned a bunch of stuff that I bought from work to get a gift card. Now the gift cards that I received totalled about 650$. I didn’t return that much stuff. But I received a couple gift cards from  a women (supervisor) at work about a week or two ago. She left end of last week. Now two days ago, I went and bought myself a Nintendo DS and a PS3 for my boyfriend.

This morning at work, the girl next to me left to do some tidying of the store. She was gone for like 20 minutes. I had nobody to talk to, and no customers. I kept walking back and forth. Now I saw a gift card on the floor, picked it up and was closest to her till. I realized she was still signed on, so I looked to see how much was on the gift card. 80$. Now instead of putting it on the cash register, and having someone take it or something. I kept it so I could give it to my supervisor later on. Well they caught all of this on camera, now it didn’t look good.

I saw the girl coming  back, and was like finally..someone to talk to … but she was with the manager, and another supervisor. So I was like err okay.. whatever… then all of a sudden.. this other women comes up to my till and is like my name is … … … I’m with the …. fraud … and showed me her badge, hand me the gift card you just loaded with money. I was like excuse me!? I didn’t load any giftcard. I freaked out, so I hesitated. Then I gave her the giftcard that I found and was going to be giving my supervisor anyhow.

So basically, the gift cards that I spent were fraudulently purchased.  The person would scan the gift card for 400$, and then push the tender as cash so the cash register thinks it’s getting that money but there is no money at the end of the day.  I did about 250$ in returns of baby stuff (it wasn’t on sale anymore) without my receipt, so they are convinced that I also stole those and then returned them for money. I was terminated, and I have a court hearing in March. This is just wonderful!

I called Gordy right away when I got home, and started crying. So he came over like within 10 minutes and I told him all that happened. He has a huge criminal record himself and was trying to calm me down. I’m calling his lawyer in the morning to talk to him and see what I can do.  But my life is pretty much over now, unless I get proven innocent somehow.