Dear Anita

Thanks for your advice.

I have discussed with my partner and he said unless there is undeniable evidence, which means if I take it to the police it will be incriminating, the fact that I “know” what is happening and “someone told me about that” is not going to help. I agree with him. And I agree with you as well. If I report to someone higher up, at least I need to “show” them something. I have got the roster with who is doing what on which days, and who has access to the safe (also we have CCTV, however, it is not going to cover every corner of the shop. If you are there long enough and you have permissions to check the footage then it is kind of easy to work out how to get away with it if you’re going to steal something). However most of the other evidence that I have is verbal.

What I’m doing now is that I try to avoid getting into more trouble i.e. when doing the cash ups, if I am going to sign off the forms for that till, I will do the whole thing from start to finish including doing all of the records on the software so that there is no opportunity for someone to mess that up for me. Also at the end of the day I try to use some sort of excuse e.g. the manager asked me to go to the back (there is always something that needs to be done, and she always asks me to do something and then forgets about it or puts it off for later). So I can avoid working with the ones that I find suspicious. If the second or third in charge is there and they are happy to sign off everything to declare the amount is correct, then I let them do it.

I would say, from my experience, most of the thieves, unless they’re in the movies so they’re extremely smart (which is why they’re in the movies only), most thieves are actually not that smart and can be recognized easily. Unless it is an organized crime that is committed by a group of people.

So if I let them do the records there is a greater chance that they will mess up somewhere, and their heads will be chopped off first, as it has already happened that what they said do not match what they put on paper.

I heard that there is a chance that some of the staff will be leaving so the change might be good in this case.

I will be sure that if my signature appears anywhere on the forms then I will have my eyes on the cash from start to finish and I won’t even get 10 cents missing until it goes into the bag and is completely sealed for the security to pick up.

The only thing is with the computers the system has a thing that automatically allows you to do a few transactions even if you switch users and come back into the same account (no password is required). So there is a chance that my account can be misused.

I’m going to have a good relaxing week so I’ll worry about it later.