When I was working for a Flying J I had a driver try to pass a bogus
comcheck. Well my shift-manager got chicken shit cause the driver threaten to call the law cause we refused to return the check and when I did I had stamped it (as I was told to do by comcheck) with the big red VOID stamp we had under the counter and that was destruction of personal property. Driver threatens to kick my ass, I start laughing, the shift-manager runs off to get security, the driver cusses me out and walks off.
I go on lunch about a hour later and come back and the bookkeeper, AM trainee and the GM (who was supposed to be off that day) are at my till running of journal tapes and counting my money. The bookkeeper comes up and tells me to go back to bookkeeping. Get back there, she orders me to empty my pockets, and starts asking questions about where I went for lunch, did I have my car with me, did I leave the property...I refuse to answer; tell her if they were accusing me of something then get the law down there if they wanted answers or otherwise let me go back to work or fire me.
Apparently the internal system had flagged my drawer cause someone had forced a $1000 VOID comcheck through on manual, and the AM trainee said I did it. She shoves the check under my nose, and sure enough it's the one I had voided before and it had my cashier numbers and the comcheck codes and notes I had written on it when I called it in to check it. Even had my initials....in someone's else's handwriting, in the wrong type of ink pen, in the wrong type of color.
I start protesting she says the AM-Trainee saw me. So I demand they pull the security cam tape; she waffles, I tell her pull it or I file charges against her and the managers up to and including kidnapping if they try to stop me from walking out the door. The GM comes in with a grin that says he thinks he's got me dead to right, pops in the tape and....there was the driver from earlier-- looking shifty, and there was m....OOOPS it was the AM-Trainee that forced the check, signed my name, and gave out the money. They get him back there and they ask him why he accused me (I demanded to stay and be there-- really I wanted to punch the fucker, but I didn't) he says he didn't think it was that big of a deal and that the worse that would happen is that I'd get fired (gee thanks). When they asked why he took the check when it was stamped void and the system had flagged the numbers, he said because the driver was cussing him and he can't take being cussed :eyerolls:
I get sent home, they call me in the morning and tell me that I was still almost fired fore refusing to answer questions, but all they were going to do was dock me for the time I wasted (their words) on the clock being a smartass in bookkeeping. I quit about 3 weeks later-- had to line up another job first. As for the AM-Trainee, last I heard of him from some friends that still working for Flying J, he's a manager of one somewhere out west now.
