r/prorevenge - The THIEF Who Stole Granola Bars! (A Pro Revenge Story)

hey everyone and welcome to story time my name is Jake and today we are gonna be looking at the subreddit Asajj Pro revenge where people tell us that best stories and when they got revenge on someone or something they didn't like if you know around here please do hit subscribe down below so that you never miss out on another video but for now let's sit back relax and enjoy some pro revenge stories my shift supervisor at work was a petty tyrant who treated me like garbage so I got him fired and arrested I work as a computer technician now but when I was in college I worked part-time at a well-known chain cafe let's call it Seattle's finest other than babysitting or odd one off under the table work helping at friends booths and Renaissance Fairs it was my first job the manager Eliza had aspirations for rising in the company at a corporate level so she was obsessed about making our store the finest Seattle's finest at the same time though she wasn't an especially effective manager at the store level she didn't really know how to make all the drinks and had to constantly refer to the recipe cards even though she was supposed to be an expert on everything she also didn't really care to learn which meant that during a particularly busy rush she could never step in and help us out in making drink orders she would just hole up in her little office in Bannack near the kitchen however she had a college degree and our company's policy at least at the time was that only college degree holders could be the full manager of a store she left the day-to-day running of the store to Steven the lead shift supervisor who had been working at that location for 25 years since he was 16 and the only reason I'm not a manager is because I don't have a college degree he never tired of reminding all the workers that the store would go in to the ground if he wasn't around Stephen didn't really have to do much other than delegate others to do things and make sure orders were sent out to suppliers and to sign those orders in when they arrived our store followed standard company practice and so a fixed amount of supplies was usually ordered in every day with only slight variations to account for particular stores needs for example we might order 60 chocolate muffins a day while company average is a hundred because our store was next to a yoga studio and the ladies who came in ordered less of the fattening items Steve also wrote the schedule every week when I was hired on Eliza was the only one who interviewed me and she assured me I'd get at least 20 hours a week for our shifts to coincide with my school schedule and I only worked Saturdays on the weekend not Sundays during my two-week training period she kept her word I'd hover right around 18 to 22 hours a week for four and a half hours at a time after that however since I was fully trained she passed me over to Steven Steven followed Eliza's pattern for a week or so but soon he began to schedule me in the mornings which I couldn't do because of school he'd pretend to get really angry and disappointed and talk about how in my 25 years with the company one of the first things you do is learn to be a team player well I thought that was great but I still couldn't work in the mornings so he'd grumble and say well I'll have to talk to Eliza and see what we have to do about you Eliza would only occasionally show up to the store usually she was there mid-morning and left well before closing Steven would always open the stall I've been open in this store for more than 20 years blah-blah-blah-blah-blah Steven would try suck up to customers and at the same time condescend to us in front of them forgive her she's new you see what I have to work with raw recruits sometimes he'd outright call us dumb if we wouldn't clean things up fast enough or make drinks quickly enough like he'd be hanging out in back counting boxes meanwhile it's 12 p.m. on a Saturday and I'm running the register and making all the drinks and our line is 10 deep and he sent his other worker off to lunch and he himself refuses to help you've got to have your baptism of fire he took himself way too seriously he thought he was special because he spoke fluent Spanish since he worked in the morning a lot of people who had early morning jobs would come in and many of them spoke Spanish only he thought it was his speciality that he could communicate with them well my father is from Spain and I happen to speak fluent Spanish myself so one Saturday when I opened the store with him I started speaking Spanish to one of the customers and the customer complimented me on how well I spoke the language Steve looked at me like he was ready to hurt me whenever customers would come in who spoke Spanish rather than let me communicate with them Steve would get up off his bar and say I'll handle this as time went on Steve would only schedule me for eight hours a week like closing Friday night and opening Saturday morning I thought whatever I'll just start applying to other jobs I didn't tell him that though I knew he was giving all the hours to his favorites usually young women who he tried to flirt with I know because he tried the same thing with me at first he said that he could give more hours but I had to play ball nothing that I could actually prove in car but he was hinting that if I go out with him he would give me more hours no thanks man you're gross and married well Eliza was up for promotion to district manager which men she would oversee five or six Seattle's finest coffee shops instead of just one however in a whole team meeting one special Sunday she said that our store consistently was losing product she wanders to stop giving discounts to friends stop giving away free cookies or snacks to friends etc she also said that if we plan to have some of the pastries ourselves we were allowed a certain amount of free product depending on the hours we worked we had to make sure to write it down on the store use board at least during the hours I worked I never witnessed anyone giving away free product and I certainly wasn't using any of it myself no one gave stuff away other than Steve Steve got a bonus every time the store use board was below a certain threshold and he would always accuse us of stealing or giving away things in fact he said so at the meeting that shrinkage is caused by these rookies who think a company runs on fee fees it's a business based on cold money and we're bleeding it when we steal product or give it away meanwhile I always notice Steve giving free discounts to certain customers giving things away one of those rules for thee not for me type of things another worker actually asked him about it and he said managers had certain privileges dude you're not a manager you make $3 more an hour than me and you've spent your whole life here he also resented the fact that most of us who worked in the store were college students who would eventually move on someday to something hopefully more financially profitable Steve would do this working class hero bear where he would talk about college people were snobs didn't know how to do real work were lazy privileged he also mocked me for majoring in computing as a female and accused me of just trying to get my Mrs degree he acted like he was kidding but he was still really slimy then he went back to his homily about business people's whole day would collapse without people like him to get them started the right way with coffee I was indispensable to a large corporation as the CEO meanwhile we're all thinking calm down Steve you're a shift supervisor at a suburban coffee shop and you wear an apron with your name embroidered on it you're not you're in cancer good anyway Eliza's promotion depended on our store reducing its shrinkage on a day a few days from our Sunday meeting company bigwigs would come to the store and check out how well a licen things we were told to look sharp the bigwigs would be in the dining room chatting with Eliza while the rest of us who were scheduled that day tried to look our best Steve didn't really have any incentive to make Eliza look good because as long as he kept overall shrinkage beneath a certain number he would still get his bonus but that threshold was too high for Eliza to get her promotion also it wasn't as if Steve would become manager if Eliza got promoted the company would simply get a new manager as an outside hire informally we'd call Steve assistant manager but the company did not officially recognize him in this capacity since he was a longtime worker and worked full-time he did get health benefits and a two-week vacation the rest of us lowly part-timers just got a store discount and some free food or drinking while working we got paid every two weeks but we got tips every single week if you've never worked at a coffee shop like Seattle's finest customers with throw money into a jar at the register if they felt like being generous the tips would be emptied out every night and eventually at the end of the week all the money would be parceled out to all the workers depending on the hours they worked since I only worked a few hours my tips were small but at least it paid for laundry my school starts a couple of hours after the start opens and since I wasn't burning too much energy working I'd get up nice and early every day the store was close to my apartment and I always walked there it was the time of year where the moon was still out early in the morning I decided that I'd walk to the store and get my tips for that week I approached the store from the alley entrance but I intended to enter through the front store policy was that you could only enter the back way if you were scheduled to work as usual at that hour our daily supply truck was pulling out of the alley and there was a huge stack of daily supplies increate outside the back door Steve propped open the back door with a trash can and was carrying one crate at a time into the stores back room my first instinct was to help him but then I remembered that I wasn't being paid and besides that Steve was a total douchebag I was fascinated watching him as he worked because usually he was such a lazy guy I was hidden by cars and trees so he couldn't see me he stopped working but there was still a crate left at the back door it was filled with what looked to be croissants and random boxes of granola bars in addition to coffee and pastries our store also solved third party nutrition bars the kind where you can buy a box of six for four dollars at the grocery store but we charge you $2.99 for one he was talking on his cell phone and only a minute or two later a beat-up car pulls into the alley the driver pops the trunk and Steve puts the crate into the car and the car speeds off Steve then goes back into the store at first I tried to rationalize what I had seen maybe it was just a work-related thing that I didn't understand because I wasn't a shift supervisor maybe the person in the car was from another store and our store was supposed to send those items to them I decided to forget my tips for the time being and walked back home by the time I got there I realized it was most likely that Steve was just a thief I went to school and forgot about it for a few hours but every now and then that day I think about it again the next morning I woke up and made sure I had my cell phone ready I waited outside really early even before the supply truck came when it did come sure enough Steve did the same song and dance as the day before he left one crate outside coordinated with his accomplice on his phone the same car arrived and it pulled away after Steve packed its trunk with stolen goodies I thought I was being real slick in recording the scene but later when I reviewed what I had it was way too dark and unclear what was going on and if I tried to get closer to get a better picture or where there was more light Steve would see me and my cover would be blown I actually worked that day because it was a Saturday Steve was his usual douche wall itself but hearing him banter with customers it reminded me of other pieces of other conversations I overheard from him over the past many weeks Steve had a side business or at least his wife did selling snacks outside of clubs and sporting events I put two and two together and realized that if Steve stole even one crate and sold off its items a massive discount he'd still make a pretty penny and all of it profit and he had stolen a crate two days in a row who knew how many more crates he had stolen in the past I realized that if I told Eliza she wouldn't believe me and Steve would deny it I had to catch him red-handed the approach I'd been making to the alley wasn't too far to record him without being observed but I saw that there was an apartment complex on the other side of the alley if I could somehow get into that apartment complex all I'd have to do is quietly hold my phone over the brick wall and it would be close enough to record him that was precisely what I did staking out Steve stealing to keep my morning ritual for a week out of four days he stole a crate three times and each time I had recorded him I wasn't scheduled to come in until an afternoon the next week now all I needed to do was show Eliza my phone and I'd nail this guy unfortunately she wouldn't be in the store for a while either but then I remembered that the big company meeting regarding Eliza's promotion was coming up that Monday afternoon just a couple days later I wasn't scheduled to work but I knew I could talk my way into the back room with an excuse that I needed my check our back room has a computer where we clock in an hour it's just one window on the screen if click out of it you have access to the rest of the computers functions one thing the computer always has running in the background is what we called store TV it was basically just a series of short infomercials about how wonderful Seattle's finest coffee was how our beans are from plantations where workers are treated humanely how we donate to underprivileged communities offer funding to women in stem and things like that the file was stored as a docx WMV file and the store just played it on a continuous loop every so often Eliza would obtain a new set of infomercials and we loop those out our store had one big screen mounted from the ceiling which faced out into the store away from the registers my plan obviously we still upload my video of Steve stealing onto the store computer I have the files which I combined at home into one big file of three occasions where you could clearly see his face and the face of the woman driving the car who I assume is his wife and how they clearly are stealing product from the store Eliza and the big bosses were already there at the restaurant so the sensible thing would be for me to say excuse me Eliza and just brazenly interrupt her meeting with my cell phone video held up to her face but I love a bit of drama and Steve had this coming so I see Eliza with her colleagues sitting at a table near the registers where Steve is standing with his smug grin on his face the store isn't really crowded Eliza sees me when I come in and in fall I love my staff mode says oh everyone is Opie one of our newest and best she's going to college for computing followed by a bunch of nods and ooh pretending to care I smile and mouth the words I'm just here to get my tips of course Opie and Steve looks like he wants to slap me but too bad I'm going into the backroom jerkwad our tips are placed in little baggies labeled with the amount in our cubbies in the back room with an honor system not to go grabbing anyone else's tips i grub my tips $11 5900 feet are I have my phone's data cable and plug it into the USB port of the store's computer I upload the file as planned I unclick the propaganda channel for Seattle's finest and switch it to Steve the thief and set the video but continuous loop I come out into the restaurant and as usual no one really cares about the TV I go to Steve and order a hot latte Steve looks like he wants to grab me but he still has the smug grin on his face because the bosses are all there he doesn't know that just a few feet above his head there's a continuous loop of him and his wife stealing product in the alley every morning I had made sure to include a time and date stamp on the videos when editing he already had some hot milk ready and all he had to do was pull two espresso shots I had my drink in 30 seconds I pulled out my wallet but uncharacteristically he smiled at me and waved me off eliza saw me and nodded in approval then i sat at a table not too far from where the bosses were sitting above Steve's head his video was playing silently finally the pay off one of the bosses said say Eliza that is an hour company video of our donations to minority scholarships what is that iliza looks at the video everyone else looks in the video mouths a gabe only steve is still standing there like a grinning innie finally eliza says steve can you explain what's going on here steve looks at a video and looked for a second like he was going to run out of the room like you st. paul he didn't do or say anything other than run into the back room seconds later the video stopped and a few moments later it began playing again haha steve i deleted the correct video made a duplicate of your video and renamed there as if it was the propaganda channel everyone in the dining room was once again treated to a loop of steve and his wife stealing an entire crate of designer granola bars and pasteries repeatedly one of the big bosses said Eliza let's close the store right now young lady I'm sorry but he pointed me to the door who am I to argue sir I walked home with eleven dollars fifty but felt like a million bucks a couple days later I get a call from corporate thanking me for all the information about Steve no sorry they tell me they can't give me details about what happened as it's a police matter anyway as thanks a week later I received $200 in store credit a few days later I came in to find neither eliza nor steve at the restaurant one of my co-workers told me that she heard that steve was arrested for theft both he and his wife Eliza got her promotion because it was proven that the only reason her store had moderately high shrinkage was because Steve was stealing however because she was supposed to be keeping a close eye on Steve she's being watched carefully to ensure she's actually a good employee well that's fair she wasn't a thief but she could have kept a closer watch on her store the whole getting a full-time salary but only showing up for a few hours a week thing wasn't acceptable as for me the new manager got me my final check because I quit I went and applied for a job on campus and my school's off-brand coffee shop some basic job a few jerks here and there I'm no prize winner myself just saying but I did make a book an hour more as time went on I graduated high school I did eventually learn that Steve was not only stealing product but also embezzling tips and tampering with the timeclock to reduce people's hours and give himself more he went to jail for six years but his wife got a suspended sentence because they had two children under age 13 I learned this because the company I worked for actually did tech service for Seattle's finest corporate office where Eliza now works she remembered me and over the finest coffee in all of Seattle she told me the whole story that was a lot longer than I expected but yeah for the start of it I was thinking oh Eliza's gonna be this awful manager and this Steve guy is gonna be save the day or something but then yeah it kind of went to Eliza being decent well not really decent she kind of didn't show up but yeah that Steve guy was a total douche hey everyone I hope you all had a really good day and that you enjoyed that video if you want to check out some of 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Length: 26min 4sec (1564 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2019