And who said kids aren’t enterprising anymore? According to this article in CBS Houston, a seventeen-year-old convinced Walmart Staff Members that he was an employee. He then helped himself to bundles of cash. In all, he stole $30 thousand from three different stores.
According to the article…”At a Walmart in Moore, the teen “acted as if he was a general manager from another store,” says the police report. He told the managers he was doing an inventory before corporate higher ups came to inspect them after the holidays.
Surveillance cameras recorded the teen all alone in the cash room where he took “multiple bundles of cash, stuffing them inside his pockets and clothes,” says the report.
He allegedly showed up in uniform and nametag at a store in Edmond, where he worked a register and pocketed $3,000.”
Now there is any amounts of comments on this. One being, what kind of staff sees a kid come through with a nametag and uniform and doesn’t ask questions. Maybe background checks and reference verification would prevent a business for hiring people dumb enough to fall for a ploy. If the kid asked to borrow the truck, would they have handed over the keys? Employment screening would certainly be cheaper than the $30 thousand they lost in the heist. To say nothing of the embarrassment.
