I worked at a IT retail store. I got fired 30 minutes after the store closed as soon as the “investigation” ended.

Someone stole a laptop. They blamed me. Not for stealing it, but for “aiding” the thief.

This was false. I gave the laptop to the cashier and told her it was for that guy. The guy slipped out of line and said “I forgot 1 other thing”. Came back with a monitor box and placed it beside the laptop to hide it away from the cashier’s PoV. While she was cashing other people out, he swiped the laptop, walked up to the greeter at the door and said “this is my laptop, I was just getting it repaired”. The greeter let him go and off he went on his merry way.

The retail does not have barcode door detectors somehow did not ring. The greeter also got fired at the end of the shift, and he was rehired 5~ months later because he has down-syndrome and was going to sue the store.

F that place.

That was my first “infraction” and was there for 2 years as a Service Technician. Selling laptops wasn’t even my job, I was doing the salesman a favour. The same thing would have happened to anyone. But because I TOUCHED THE LAPTOP, I was automatically labelled as an aid in theft.

I threaten to sue the company and I was compensated me for 9 months of same-wage pay. Win.