California
For one month I had worked as a cashier at a truck stop. I decided that I didn't like the work or the hours and that I would return to temping as an office clerk. I called my manager on March 6 and told her that I wanted to leave the cashiering in a week to begin a new job. She said that one week notice was better than nothing. I asked if I needed to sign any sort of document, and she said no.
I work the night shift, so that night I worked until 6am. At the end of my shift on March 7, I did my paper work recounting all of the transactions i had done during my shift. When I printed my computer generated report, it said that I was short $537.38. I thought I had made a mistake and recalculated my figures, but there was still a large difference between the money I should have had in my drawer and the money I actually had. After searching all of my documents for discrepencies, I was told by the bookkeeper to wait until my manager arrived, and that they might have to call the sherrif's dept. since the missing amount was over 200 dollars.
A couple hours later, my manager arrived and she had me go through all of my receipts again. Nothing turned up, and she called the sherrif's deptartment. The officer arrived and took my name, address and telephone number. He asked me what the problem was, and being as tired and hungry as I was, I wasn't able to give as thorough description as I had hoped. He said that I wasn't under arrest and that we were merely having a conversation. He searched my pockets, my purse and my car along with another officer who arrived later. My manager was present for all of this. After the searches, we returned to my manager's office and she gave her side of the story, which was that the report generated by the computer was showing that $537.38 was missing from my register. I really had no idea what could have happened to the money, and there wasn't much that I could say in my defense. The officer had told me several times that if I were to return the money then he was sure my manager would be lenient. I kept insisting that I hadn't taken the money. The officer said that he would continue his investigation, and after I left he would review something else with my manager that employees don't know about. I'm assuming he meant the surviellance tapes. He suggested that I would be arrested if it was found that I had stolen the money, and that if I came back on the premises I would be searched to see if I had hidden something in the store and was trying to take it away. My manager added that I was suspended from work without pay. After that, I left and went home. It has been two days and no one has contacted me concerning this matter.
I want to know if I was wrongfully terminated, and also I would like some sort of compensation for the money I lost for not working this week.
I also do not know how I am to recieve my check for the current pay period. I would have gotten it today but I'm not allowed on the truckstop property.
I'm also concerned of the effect this ordeal will have on my future ability to find a job, and if I will have a criminal record.
I considered calling the police department and asking but I am not sure which actions to take. Thank you.
For one month I had worked as a cashier at a truck stop. I decided that I didn't like the work or the hours and that I would return to temping as an office clerk. I called my manager on March 6 and told her that I wanted to leave the cashiering in a week to begin a new job. She said that one week notice was better than nothing. I asked if I needed to sign any sort of document, and she said no.
I work the night shift, so that night I worked until 6am. At the end of my shift on March 7, I did my paper work recounting all of the transactions i had done during my shift. When I printed my computer generated report, it said that I was short $537.38. I thought I had made a mistake and recalculated my figures, but there was still a large difference between the money I should have had in my drawer and the money I actually had. After searching all of my documents for discrepencies, I was told by the bookkeeper to wait until my manager arrived, and that they might have to call the sherrif's dept. since the missing amount was over 200 dollars.
A couple hours later, my manager arrived and she had me go through all of my receipts again. Nothing turned up, and she called the sherrif's deptartment. The officer arrived and took my name, address and telephone number. He asked me what the problem was, and being as tired and hungry as I was, I wasn't able to give as thorough description as I had hoped. He said that I wasn't under arrest and that we were merely having a conversation. He searched my pockets, my purse and my car along with another officer who arrived later. My manager was present for all of this. After the searches, we returned to my manager's office and she gave her side of the story, which was that the report generated by the computer was showing that $537.38 was missing from my register. I really had no idea what could have happened to the money, and there wasn't much that I could say in my defense. The officer had told me several times that if I were to return the money then he was sure my manager would be lenient. I kept insisting that I hadn't taken the money. The officer said that he would continue his investigation, and after I left he would review something else with my manager that employees don't know about. I'm assuming he meant the surviellance tapes. He suggested that I would be arrested if it was found that I had stolen the money, and that if I came back on the premises I would be searched to see if I had hidden something in the store and was trying to take it away. My manager added that I was suspended from work without pay. After that, I left and went home. It has been two days and no one has contacted me concerning this matter.
I want to know if I was wrongfully terminated, and also I would like some sort of compensation for the money I lost for not working this week.
I also do not know how I am to recieve my check for the current pay period. I would have gotten it today but I'm not allowed on the truckstop property.
I'm also concerned of the effect this ordeal will have on my future ability to find a job, and if I will have a criminal record.
I considered calling the police department and asking but I am not sure which actions to take. Thank you.
