Former Employee Suspected of Theft

Is there a substantial amount of money involved here? If so, it might be worthwhile to hire an investigator to contact her. There are people who know how to get admissions of things people would not readily admit to.

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Quoting Bubba Jimmy

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Is there a substantial amount of money involved here? If so, it might be worthwhile to hire an investigator to contact her. There are people who know how to get admissions of things people would not readily admit to.

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but I think the OP wants the person to be around to be able to pay for the merchandise.

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Quoting Bubba Jimmy

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Is there a substantial amount of money involved here? If so, it might be worthwhile to hire an investigator to contact her. There are people who know how to get admissions of things people would not readily admit to.

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That'd be chasing good money after bad. OP's already realized a loss. Prudence suggests that further expense without at least a fighting chance of recovery(s), is rather ill-advised.

OP would be better off upgrading his video system.

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Quoting Bubba Jimmy

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Is there a substantial amount of money involved here? If so, it might be worthwhile to hire an investigator to contact her. There are people who know how to get admissions of things people would not readily admit to.

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I would guess it can be up to $8,000 or so, it would depend how much stuff was in her house minus the amount she actually paid for.

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Just call her up and imply you know what happened and then she if she's willing to talk about it.

"Hey we have had some inventory losses and we investigated it. We know the people involved and we want to give everyone a chance to speak about their involvement before we involve the outside authorities. If people come clean and get ahead of this, we will be able to resolve it with their assistance."

9 out of 10 people fall for this and come in. You have nothing to lose and you aren't accusing them. You are simply informing them of an investigation.

This is a company with no formal loss prevention or security department? Only one location? Put pressure on others to help her turn herself in.

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I'm very angry at her because she works for a competitor now and I have made myself clear with her about my anger with texting so I doubt that would work. I haven't received any replies from her regarding that.

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That'd be chasing good money after bad. OP's already realized a loss. Prudence suggests that further expense without at least a fighting chance of recovery(s), is rather ill-advised.

OP would be better off upgrading his video system.

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If I had tapes of her leaving with bags of product, how would I go about proving that it was unpaid for and not just the items she did pay for when you can't make out the specific items?

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Is there a way of finding out if someone has a storage unit?

So the real issue is that you are angry because she's working for a competitor now?

If she didn't sign a non-compete with you, it's none of your business where she chooses to work. And you should not be harassing her about it via text or any other means.

You have already admitted that you can't prove what she took because of your non-existent inventory system. I would recommend you get better security cameras and a real inventory system in place going forward and forget about your ex employee.

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Quoting geek

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So the real issue is that you are angry because she's working for a competitor now?

If she didn't sign a non-compete with you, it's none of your business where she chooses to work. And you should not be harassing her about it via text or any other means.

You have already admitted that you can't prove what she took because of your non-existent inventory system. I would recommend you get better security cameras and a real inventory system in place going forward and forget about your ex employee.

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I understand she can work for whoever as I didn't have a con compete or anything like that in place. Since she is going against us now thats why I want to focus on things she might have done while working here and thats why I'm starting to suspect she took items when I noticed items are missing.

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thxforthehelp;849189]I would guess it can be up to $8,000 or so, it would depend how much stuff was in her house minus the amount she actually paid for.

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so since you are guessing, that would mean you really don't know what was there before so arguing she stole something is simply guessing.

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I'm very angry at her because she works for a competitor now and I have made myself clear with her about my anger with texting so I doubt that would work. I haven't received any replies from her regarding that.

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seriously? You are angry because she has a job and it happens to be with a competitor; too bad. Get over it.

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If I had tapes of her leaving with bags of product, how would I go about proving that it was unpaid for and not just the items she did pay for when you can't make out the specific items?

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you would stop her before leaving the building and checking them. Once that opportunity has passed, you can't prove it.

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Is there a way of finding out if someone has a storage unit?

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You can ask the operator of every operator of storage units within a 50 mile radius. That might get you an answer but unlikely. As far as if you are asking if there is a legal way to force the information; nope.

seriously, unless this person admits to stealing from you, you have nothing here.