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North Carolina
Hi,
I was recently let go by my employer. Their reasoning was that I was taking company property.
Basically I worked for an optical shop making prescription lenses. Some of these lenses would be sunglasses. At the shop I worked at, we sold a particular brand that the demos that were in the frames were of good quality and there was a market for them on ebay. Our company policy was that we held all demo's for 90 days, the length of which was our return policy. At the end of the 90 days, the lenses would be thrown away. I would then after the 90 days, proceed to sell them and use a good portion of the money earned back into the store. I would buy lunches, snacks, ice cream, pizza, etc.
So that's it in a nutshell, so I was wondering since for one the lenses technically were not property of the company because once the frame is purchased. The lenses are then property of the person getting the prescription in them. Might I add, if the customer requested the demo lenses, they would receive them. Secondly, I waited the 90 days to which the items were no longer required to remain in the store.
Thanks for any feedback.
North Carolina
Hi,
I was recently let go by my employer. Their reasoning was that I was taking company property.
Basically I worked for an optical shop making prescription lenses. Some of these lenses would be sunglasses. At the shop I worked at, we sold a particular brand that the demos that were in the frames were of good quality and there was a market for them on ebay. Our company policy was that we held all demo's for 90 days, the length of which was our return policy. At the end of the 90 days, the lenses would be thrown away. I would then after the 90 days, proceed to sell them and use a good portion of the money earned back into the store. I would buy lunches, snacks, ice cream, pizza, etc.
So that's it in a nutshell, so I was wondering since for one the lenses technically were not property of the company because once the frame is purchased. The lenses are then property of the person getting the prescription in them. Might I add, if the customer requested the demo lenses, they would receive them. Secondly, I waited the 90 days to which the items were no longer required to remain in the store.
Thanks for any feedback.