Corpsman_Billy
10-19-2008, 17:25
Hey everybody, I was put in a situation today where, I'm not really sure what I should do.
Right now, I am a busser at a restaurant and another kid I work with also happens to be in the DEP through another station and he has a contract for CTI. While I can't really say he is a friend since we never hang out outside of work, when we are working together we get along great as he is a hard worker and we like to randomly drill each other on things like when we walk past each other one of us calls out a general order number and the other person recites it.
He tells me all of the time he is going to quit soon because he has several thousand dollars saved up in the bank and can easily ride off of it until he ships out.
Well, earlier I was emptying a garbage and I looked up and there was a table that I had cleaned not that long before with a $2 tip on it. (You already know where this is going) and he walks up to it and takes the $2 and puts it into his pocket and walks off.
Now every once in a great while, when a waiter is leaving they will tell a busser to go grab a tip off of a table and keep it (for the busser's tip as they are tipped by the waiters). But about 10 seconds later the waiter walks over to it and goes "Where did my tip go? It was here just a second ago?" And he starts looking around. D'OH!
So I didn't say anything and I finish loading all of my garbages into the cart and go to the kid and tell him I needed help unloading it (which I did) and then I was like "Look man, I seen you steal that tip"
And then he did what I was sure he would do "Oh, ***** told me I could have it and walked off" Which of course wasn't true as I watched the guy stand there and look for it. So he went and gave the tip to the server and gave him some bullshit excuse.
But now I'm not really sure what to do. I've worked with this kid for almost 2 years ago and he is very intelligent and I generally thought he was a good kid, I never thought I would see him do that. Further more, I have seen a lot of drug addicts take tips off of the table to feed their drug habits, but never someone who has SEVERAL GRAND in the bank and no bills to pay. The fact that he is going to be a CTI with top secret security clearance handling that kind of information, and is willing to steal $2 off of a table even when he doesn't need it kind of scares me, and further more I don't want thieves in my beloved Navy!
And so now I feel like I should say SOMETHING to SOMEONE, but I don't really know who other than my recruiter. But even then I don't have any physical proof and then it becomes a his word vs. mine kind of thing. So really the only thing I could really accomplish is raise a few moral doubts about him. I'm also worried that if I tell someone he will just make something up about me for turning him in. THEN you would have two guys pointing the finger at each other yet I have done nothing wrong and he has.
So should I just let this go or what? :swn:
Right now, I am a busser at a restaurant and another kid I work with also happens to be in the DEP through another station and he has a contract for CTI. While I can't really say he is a friend since we never hang out outside of work, when we are working together we get along great as he is a hard worker and we like to randomly drill each other on things like when we walk past each other one of us calls out a general order number and the other person recites it.
He tells me all of the time he is going to quit soon because he has several thousand dollars saved up in the bank and can easily ride off of it until he ships out.
Well, earlier I was emptying a garbage and I looked up and there was a table that I had cleaned not that long before with a $2 tip on it. (You already know where this is going) and he walks up to it and takes the $2 and puts it into his pocket and walks off.
Now every once in a great while, when a waiter is leaving they will tell a busser to go grab a tip off of a table and keep it (for the busser's tip as they are tipped by the waiters). But about 10 seconds later the waiter walks over to it and goes "Where did my tip go? It was here just a second ago?" And he starts looking around. D'OH!
So I didn't say anything and I finish loading all of my garbages into the cart and go to the kid and tell him I needed help unloading it (which I did) and then I was like "Look man, I seen you steal that tip"
And then he did what I was sure he would do "Oh, ***** told me I could have it and walked off" Which of course wasn't true as I watched the guy stand there and look for it. So he went and gave the tip to the server and gave him some bullshit excuse.
But now I'm not really sure what to do. I've worked with this kid for almost 2 years ago and he is very intelligent and I generally thought he was a good kid, I never thought I would see him do that. Further more, I have seen a lot of drug addicts take tips off of the table to feed their drug habits, but never someone who has SEVERAL GRAND in the bank and no bills to pay. The fact that he is going to be a CTI with top secret security clearance handling that kind of information, and is willing to steal $2 off of a table even when he doesn't need it kind of scares me, and further more I don't want thieves in my beloved Navy!
And so now I feel like I should say SOMETHING to SOMEONE, but I don't really know who other than my recruiter. But even then I don't have any physical proof and then it becomes a his word vs. mine kind of thing. So really the only thing I could really accomplish is raise a few moral doubts about him. I'm also worried that if I tell someone he will just make something up about me for turning him in. THEN you would have two guys pointing the finger at each other yet I have done nothing wrong and he has.
So should I just let this go or what? :swn: