r/ProRevenge - Accidentally exposing crooks

hey all great stories today don't waste time jump right in after uni late 2018 I fell on rough times and was forced to move back to my hometown I tried to transfer my job to a branch in my area but failed thus I needed to get a new job I settled for a 20 hour a week job at a bookies with a second bartending job in the evenings the bookies is the target for my revenge which was entirely accidental involved are the following Janell my managers manager che my manager Jorge and Gordon my coworkers Cara a co-worker at another store who is relevant later I ended up working behind the counter as a customer service manager basically a step up from a cashier it's fancy when seen on a CV but there's nothing really to it I took bets two chatted with customers helped people with machines and for the vast majority of my shift sat around waiting for something to do I got on well with my coworkers or so I thought and had no major issues it was 20 hours a week about 1 pound more than minimum wage with a lot of overtime required of me and irregular shift patterns though I had no issue with the job beyond how difficult it was to juggle the schedules of both of my jobs in February of 2019 after working for the company for six months I was invited to a probation hearing it cannot be emphasized enough that it was a probation hearing in which I would have my performance reviewed and as informed in training was entitled to a pay rise at the end of it I arrived that morning to a disciplinary hearing where without even a shred of evidence I was accused of eleven different cash discrepancies dating back to early November of 2018 shortly after I'd started which all amounted to 271 pounds and 36 pence all but one of which I'd never heard of before these had apparently been reported and logged by my manager che and my co-workers despite no one saying a word to me at all not a whisper in the five months this had apparently been occurring I was told that it was unacceptable a call was made to HR and I was terminated on the spot and forced to hand over my keys and to never set foot in the store again to my protests I was told the decision could not be appealed and I would eventually receive written confirmation of my employments termination in the post I didn't let myself slump around and feel sorry for myself so on the way home I opened up indeed and applied for a bunch of jobs and before I arrived home had an interview set up for the next week at what is my current place of work now I was furious fuming and having gone to what I thought should have been a normal probation meeting and having effectively been called a thief and been banned for life from a place I'd never go to anyway but somehow my parents were angrier and ordered me to let them know when they got into contact with me again almost two weeks later I received an email from the company's HR which reiterated the accusations and stated again that I was terminated my mom sat me down in her kitchen and walked me through a letter response that was two parts professional and three parts scathing ripping into them about their unprofessional conduct their ludicrous claims their lack of evidence the holes in their story because there were quite a few and finally the cherry on the cake the employment laws they'd broken now I didn't want much just a nice reference a promise that not a whisper of these accusations would turn up when my new job asked them for a reference because by then I'd already been offered the job I then attached the letter to an email to fire back at their HR department then I added Janelle's work email then her boss's email and finally the holding company that owned the brand cuz I wanted to make sure this was seen a bit of background the bookies I worked for is a brand that is owned by an international company their name behind the scenes is slapped on everything and they pretty much dictate everything we did I'm not sure if holding company is the correct term but I'll stick to that for now anyway I sent this email with a 48 hour window for a response I received a reply the next day from the same email that my demands were being met i smirked victoriously and moved on with my life happy to wash my hands with the entire ordeal however I'd set off a chain reaction that I wouldn't know about until three months later three months on I'd settled into my new job a call center position with double the hours and will over double the pay I'd gone through training and was settling into my new position when I see a new set of trainees settling in near my team among them was Gordon one of my co-worker Bucky's I was stunned Gordon had been at the bookies for six years when I joined he was well liked good at his job and a favorite of the managers there was no way he'd been fired though I didn't really want to talk to him as I was at the impression that he Jorge and my manager had likely set me up I did want to know what happened luckily on seeing me in the break room one shift he sought me out and told me everything apparently my email had been read by the higher-ups in the holding company and had caused a lot of scrutiny to fall onto the bookies in our town of which there were three in our area that genell was responsible for two in my town and a third in a neighboring one someone in HR passed a message down to the area manager Janelle's boss claiming they wanted things investigated and they wanted results yesterday causing him to drop everything and descend on our little town with the panic and aggression of a man whose superiors were watching his every breath he went to Janelle wanting to know why he hadn't been made aware previously that I was apparently stealing money why I had been given keys to the shop and shifts on my own when allegations of that nature were attributed to me and why I hadn't been put under investigation turns out Janelle had in fact put in my employee file that I was under investigation but had never actually gone through with any of the official procedures for monitoring and investigating me thus she had fired me for the accused crime without looking into it at all falsely claiming otherwise thus the area manager took the dates and amounts of the cash discrepancies confirmed that they had been reported on those days without my knowledge in Shea's own logbook of the shops cash and sent that information on to our security team to investigate another little detail is that the CCTV for every shop in the brand is outsourced to a private security company who monitors each shop remotely and has access to all the cameras and video as was procedure they looked into the dates mentioned to see if I'd been doing anything untoward I know I wasn't and nothing was ever said to me but they di D find something turns out money was going missing from the shop but surprise surprise it wasn't me but Jorge and che they not only set me up for reasons I will never know but we're also falsifying numbers and cash checks on the system to hide it one thing che was caught doing was deliberately shortchange in customers by taking portions of their winnings without them even knowing it bear in mind a lot of our customers were elderly men and women Gordon claims that he once opened the shop after che and I had closed the night before and noticed a cash difference but had been told not to say anything to me as I was under investigation and it could compromise it he did apologize and I let it go needless to say Jorge and che were fired but it doesn't end there our team was small including me there were a total of four people working at the store as they hadn't been able to hire anyone to replace me Jorge and Shay's termination meant Gordon was the only employee at the busiest shop in our area even if they'd been able to get other colleagues from the two other shops to help out it wouldn't have been enough to keep the shop open and manage the amount of customers so they closed the location down until they could get the staff to run it it was at that point that Gordon handed in his resignation and applied for his job at my work meaning they had no one on top of that Gordon's girlfriend worked in the same shop as Janelle and she relayed that she was rarely at their store in the other town for the next few weeks before the area manager reported she was fired as well no reason given to her I was later issued an apology for everything by the area manager and informed she Janelle was no longer with the company in an email some time later but somehow it doesn't end there with the store I worked at closed this one being on the high street and where most people preferred to go the only other location in town was the much smaller location in the suburbs the one where Cara worked alone she suddenly received an influx of customers into her tiny store space and absolutely no support from other staff or upper management thus for her own mental health having already been overworked and underpaid running an entire store by herself she quit that location had to be closed down to all of this at the worst possible time March when the Cheltenham Festival was occurring which is a huge moneymaker for the gambling industry even in a small town like ours an opportunity the three other bookies on the high street reaped the benefits of instead of my old place as the former customers went to them instead as it currently stands just over a year later both shops remain closed and I'm currently entering a job in cybersecurity the training for which I paid for with my current job thanks for firing me dumbasses you did me a favor but wait there's more Gordon and I got in touch with our old area manager and we were able to get a bit more information the security team rifled through about three years worth of footage after they found out about Jorge and Shan have estimated that in that period alone they both stole nearly 4,000 pounds through various means the parent company also got involved and searched through years worth of their cash checks until checks and noted plenty of irregularities the parent company persuade criminal charges and the two were arrested but as far as our area manager knows the case is still ongoing he thinks it's because they are still looking into how much they actually stole as they've both been there a while Jorge about eight years and che ten years I doubt they'll have security footage of all that time but I bet they're trying to get a more accurate figure to really nail them and in comes a new character Tammy she is an employee who was hired and fired shortly before I was at the same store she lasted just past her probation before she was fired wait for it four months worth of cash differences and false Tilt checks she wasn't made aware of prior however her situation is far worse than mine Tammy is in the process of suing the company for wrongful termination alongside financial and emotional damages as she was put under a lot of stress whilst in the job by Shay who apparently left her to fend for herself and would refuse to step in when customers got aggressive then she had a miscarriage shortly after her employment was terminated our area manager doesn't know anything more as it's escalated and gone way above his head and I doubt I'll be able to get any more information on it but I doubt the company's doing too well on that front and wish her the best Gordon and I are considering reaching out to some of the other fired employees of which he can name a few who were terminated for similar reasons to get their side of things but it seems very clear that what Shay and Jorge were doing was going on for a long time and I was only the latest scapegoat Janel unfortunately is perfectly fine as far as I'm aware her husband and her opened a taxi company several years ago and she seems to have just got more involved with that I haven't seen her so I wouldn't know but she was terminated for gross misconduct and for not following procedure which is kind of what I expected and Kara who our area manager actually really dislikes but as lovely and did not deserve what she went through is doing okay I've messaged her and she and her partner recently bought a house she also got a job as an Events Manager at a local historical site she's happier there as she actually has people to talk to it work and isn't alone anymore what did you think what would you have done differently share your opinions in the comments and if you enjoyed the stories slap that like and subscribe button for more of them and don't forget to support the original writers with an upvote links are in the description peace out and catch you tomorrow

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Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Thu May 07 2020