{"id":47636,"date":"2021-01-21T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47636"},"modified":"2021-01-21T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:46:39","slug":"patience-is-a-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47636","title":{"rendered":"Patience is a virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-47637 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tooeasy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tooeasy.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/tooeasy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs46.com\/news\/19-year-old-employee-accused-of-stealing-nearly-1m-from-gwinnett-kroger\/article_f9659834-5c08-11eb-a795-8758dd6c8f16.html?block_id=994626\">In short<\/a>: teenage Kroger employee in Gwinnett County arrested for stealing nearly $1 million dollars from his employer over the span of several weeks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The thing is, if this kid only paced himself and didn\u2019t make it flagrantly obvious that something was amiss by refunding an <em>$87,000+<\/em> transaction among the other <em>$900,000<\/em> worth of refunds he issued to himself over <em>two weeks<\/em>, he probably would\u2019ve had a system that could\u2019ve stole about as much money with almost no risk.\u00a0 But when you steal nearly a million dollars from your employer by issuing false refunds, from the same store you work at, within the span of two weeks, it\u2019s this dumbass\u2019s turd for thinking he\u2019d actually get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Companies as large as Kroger typically have a built-in margin of loss on a daily basis, because of stuff like employee accidents, customers that accidentally ruin merchandise, prepared food that goes bad, and of course, petty theft, and if this kid were to keep his falsified refunds to smaller amounts, if he wanted them frequently, or numbers that weren\u2019t $87,000 if he wanted to swing for the fences, but on much less frequency, then the losses probably would have slipped through the cracks and not rose any red flags unless there was some skepticism in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But as my brother pointed out, the simple reason was the fact that we were referring to the perp in question as a kid, because kids have no fucking sense, even less intelligence, and clearly don\u2019t grasp the strength of the long game.\u00a0 Because it sounded like he had a pretty rock solid system for pilfering extra cash, and if he could just keep his vices in check and not have to have Camaros and guns and shoes, he could\u2019ve built up a sweet little side gig to keep things fluid and probably gotten away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Whatever though.\u00a0 It\u2019s clearly a slow news day when people aren\u2019t talking about politics now, because this story showed up in no less than all of the major Atlanta-area news outlets, and was picked up by a number of national news outlets too.\u00a0 I guess when people want someone to point and laugh and judge from afar, dumbasses like this become low-hanging fruit and easy targets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: teenage Kroger employee in Gwinnett County arrested for stealing nearly $1 million dollars from his employer over the span of several weeks The thing is, if this kid only paced himself and didn\u2019t make it flagrantly obvious that something was amiss by refunding an $87,000+ transaction among the other $900,000 worth of refunds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patience is a virtue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,112,45,143,52,49],"class_list":["post-47636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47638,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636\/revisions\/47638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}