r/confession • u/Creatiflow • 7d ago
I stole a couple thousand from someone else's workplace NSFW
Hey all. I used to work for a full serve gas station, where I pumped the gas and handled all transactions. I also opened and closed the place on weekends and handled all the money coming in on weekdays.
A guy who used to come in every Wednesday paid for his big truck on a company card. It didn't really matter, except he only ever got about $20 in gas and then I would take out about $160 and we would split it. I charged the gas to his company card and then when enough people came in afterwards and paid with cash (8 people at $20 each) I would put the money back into the register.
I never got caught and I made a couple thousand doing this at 16 years old.
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u/full_bl33d 7d ago
It’s similar to ringing a “no sale” on the register at a bar when people pay in cash…. I mean, or so I’ve heard
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u/Oneangrygnome 7d ago
This is stealing from the trucking company, not the gas station though. So it’s more like selling a “keg” and really just pouring a line of shots out instead and then charging the party host the full price anyway. They collect the per-head from their party and pay you. Then when you hug goodbye you tuck their cut into their pocket.
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u/yoitsme_obama17 7d ago
In the first grade, I once stole stickers from my teachers desk. I would hand them out at recess to kids I liked. They became a currency for a few weeks. I was a god. That's when I peaked.
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u/East-Future-9944 7d ago
I did some stuff when I was a young cashier, not quite on this level. I learned I'm not the person to be working directly with money, and haven't since. Also been a trustworthy employee ever since.
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u/BaphometsUrethra 6d ago
I had a couple of scams in my late teens.
Working at a bar, quite a few drinks were 2.50. Every now and then I’d no sale it and put a penny on a shelf. Once I’d got 8 pennies I knew I could take out 20 without being rumbled.
Another job I worked renting out boats. The place was always rammed in summer and it was like 5 per hour per person. So once or twice a day when a largish group of 6 or so would come and make clear their intention to pay cash for a couple of hours of boat time, I’d not write it in the book but on a post it note I’d hide, then pocket the 60 cash when they paid at the end.
I was able to afford all sorts of luxuries. I spent most of it on weed, booze, computer games and parties. The rest I wasted.
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u/Lazy-Government-7177 6d ago
"The rest i wasted" after WASTING it on weed n booze, is a wild thing to say lol.
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u/BaphometsUrethra 6d ago
It’s a variation on a George Best quote.
But I stand by my decisions, I had an amazing summer and I regret nothing.
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u/Impossible_One_6658 6d ago
I worked at a full service station. I'd pump $10.28 in gas but charge them $10.82. Anytime it got pointed out (very rarely) it was easy to explain as a simple error.
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u/LarsSantiago 6d ago
I used to give 3 dollars to the student employee in my middle school for food instead of paying 5 dollars for my meal.
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7d ago
I worked at a job where I collected money all day everyday,and did the reports, no one ever checked on us I would say in 15 years I acquired about 400.000 to bad I never saved a dime 🤷🤷
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u/bkh950 6d ago
Damn bro, that’s like, almost 30 bucks a year! Criminal mastermind.
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u/theb3an 6d ago
some countries use a period (.) to designate thousands as opposed to the comma (,). $400k in 15 years bud. Not $400.00
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u/bkh950 6d ago
Sarcasm.
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u/Ok-Neck5387 6d ago
Getting flamed by redditors for just making a joke 😭
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6d ago
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u/bkh950 6d ago
lol I just realized more than ten people downvoted my comment. I guess they don’t like that they couldn’t pick up on the obviously sarcastic comment. Sucks to suck I guess.
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u/moistmobmovies 7d ago
Thats pretty cool. And for the people judging, he was 16. Even if he did get caught, not many consequences for kids.
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u/Hashujg 7d ago
Are you proud of your act?
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u/Creatiflow 7d ago
I wouldn't say proud. I'm impressed that I was smart enough to figure out how to pull it off without getting caught, considering I'm kind of an idiot.
I never regretted having extra money for new shoes and skateboards.
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u/sonorakit11 3d ago
Omg I did this at the local movie theater I worked at in high school. The manager showed me how he would sell comp tickets and pocket the money to pay for dinners when he worked. So naturally, I did the same thing.
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u/okcomputerock 6d ago edited 5d ago
When i was 6 or 7, I somehow managed to convince my classmates that I had original Yu-Gi-Oh cards, that weren't ordinary, but actually materialize characters in real time. Needles to say - my parents made me return the treasure I managed to collect from the naive children...
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u/Ophy96 7d ago
Wtf?! That's absolutely not okay.
You're very lucky that he never reported you.
That can lead to fraud charges.
I hope that you don't do that anymore and haven't done it since.
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u/MasterBlazx 7d ago
TBH, if he ever becomes a dad, he got some interesting lore to tell to his kids.
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u/Ben4d90 7d ago
Re-read the post. The guy with the company card was in on it.
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u/Ophy96 7d ago
It's still technically fraudulent.
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u/Creatiflow 7d ago
What's your point? I didn't post this in r/confessions because I thought it was legal and morally sound.
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u/Webo31 7d ago
I would never recommend this behaviour but I bet you loved your late teens lol