Even if they had said "you're not a good fit" I would have totally agreed. I would have liked for them to work with me till I found a new job though and I would have continued to do good for them while I looked.

These people are something I've never seen before. And I make a side living out of bitching about people on here a lot. And I'm saying I've never seen anything like them before....

That's bad.

But they didn't just say it's not a good fit, something I would agree with. Instead they made up that I'm the reason for "missing money" and it's just not true. They've called me something I'm not. Frankly I feel I should be legally allowed to punch them in their faces. But I'll take the kind advice here instead.

I have left a voicemail at the district managers boss. I am anticipating a call back from him Monday. I will see if he is open to looking more into it. If he's not i will be out seeing if a lawyer can do anything with it.

It's wrong. It's probably provably wrong(The store should actually show short and since the company can't show me evidence of actual loss of money)

Seriously, they will not show me evidence of a shortage.

They deserve to be sued but I'm not confident any lawyers will take it if I start to ask them about this.

Oooookaaay....This place is psycho.

So I was losing my mind over this "missing money" issue and really had to stand my ground on it. Even to the point of texting my boss to work out some logic for her. I told her I know I didn't lose actual cash. And that when my district manager told me he counted my drops himself and they were short that it was a flat out lie. I told her that means someone shorted the drops after I made it/them. I asked her flat out if she went into the safe after I made the drops, shorted them on purpose, and then lied to the district manager about it. I asked her if she has had any more money issues since I've been gone. I told her if it wasn't her that did it, then it has to be someone else with a key to the safe. I then requested the district managers bosses contact information.

I already got the regional managers contact information from workers inside the stores before I requested it.
She sent the district managers phone number back. I saw it was different than the number I had and called it. I got the district managers voicemail and hung up. I texted the manager back and said it was the dm's number that I need the regional managers number. She said "Talk to the DM first, then the regional manager."
I said I already did talk to the dm, reminded her that she was there, and that I didn't feel he would help me resolve my issue and told her not to worry about it after all because I got the info from the stores. I told her I had left a message and will be reaching out to him again on Monday(he doesn't work weekends). But thanks anyway.

She didn't reply back.

This was yesterday, Saturday 9:50am.

So the following day (like just now about 3:15pm central standard time) I get a call from my Manager asking if I have a few minutes to talk. She said since I was so adamant about my innocence, she spent a lot of time looking over the last couple of weeks paper work for all the shifts which included literally watching the security camera footage for my entire shifts in question and...

She realized I'm not a thief after all...

OOPS...

She offered my job back and I accepted immediately. This is the most bipolar job I've ever had. I have to have an income to pay my bills. But I honestly don't even know what the hell to think about all of this....

I am glad to hear they know it wasn't me that lost all that money.

And I'm trying to remember how many real thieves they probably do have to deal with............BUT HOLY ****SHIT Can ya figure this ****shit out before you TOTALLY FIRE SOMEONE?? SMH

I can't help but feel like this place(the job and this city, state, national spy agency or something) has something against me.
Being wrongly accused of being a thief is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE feeling!

Everybody's all about putting obstacles in my way lately it seems. It makes me want to avoid them even more. It's frustrating to feel manipulated. If you're going to manipulate me at least let's agree on it first lol. but the kind that's not upfront, not honest, that's pissing me off lots. It's no fun at all. But thank you. It's confusing how anything like this could happen. It's even more confusing that she would have the balls to call me back with what she found. I'm glad she did though. I have to say it again. This is the most bipolar job I've ever had. Our social structure is bizarre and I really feel lost in it.

i'm going to get one of those glasses with the cameras in it like some of the cops are wearing. then it can record everything i see. i don't know WTF is WRONG WITH ME that i didn't turn my phones camera on and start recording during the meeting when i was fired. that'd be good to have right now.

Keep in mind I learned all this after my return to work.

I've spent one shift there since I returned to work. I learned, there really actually are some cash shortages at the store. Apparently, on the particular day in question, second shift was short $40 dollars. Third shift(my shift) was somehow short $20 dollars(which I still argue. I believe I was $6 and change over). The company allows for $10 per shift.

Side note:((You get over in the drawer, by the way, not by stealing or purposefully shorting change, but by giving customers a chance to give you more money. When the cash drawer runs out of pennies and when handing back change, you say things like "Here's $13.50 of your change, I still owe you three pennies. Allow me just one moment." As you turn to grab an unopened roll of pennies, they almost always just say "keep it." Or, "Don't worry about it." or my favorite, "Let somebody else use it."))

And I do give it to customers who don't have the pennies. LOL

Anyway, the shortages resulted in a $60 shortage for the day, total.
I was terminated because the manager thought it was all short from my shift (The WHOLE $60.00!).

Now, I have a new theory:
Weeks before this happened, the company failed to pay me twice(I'm supposed to be paid weekly). I had to go a full week once without a check at all. The following week, I caught it in time and they were able to deposit my pay a day late.

My manager loaned me $60 dollars to get by during the week I didn't receive a check.

Just a couple days before she told me not to come back to work, she called me at the store and asked for the money she loaned me to be paid back right away. Days before that, she was telling me it could be in payments and that it didn't really matter how it got paid back, just as long as it's paid back. I wondered, why the sudden change? So I clocked out at the end of my shift, went to my bank, and brought back $60 dollars to give to the first shift associate as the manager instructed. Just days later, she texted and told me not to report to work, but to meet her the next morning at 8am. Where she, her assistant manager, and the district manager treated me like a thief and pretty much threw me out.

I'll bet you, she saw a $60 dollar shortage around that time, mistakenly believed it was all from my shift, and thought I paid her that $60 dollars she loaned me with the stores money!

She realized AFTER she fired me, that 40 of it was from the shift before mine, and offered me the job back.

She just ******fucked up is all.

I'm never borrowing money from individuals again...

Wow...

After all is said and done, I'm not mad. She gave me the job back before I figured it out. So at least, if my theory is true, she tried to make it right.

I still feel there's still something I'm not seeing about all this yet though...

I'll keep thinking. Or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree..

She's acting kinda quiet around me since I'm back, and yet still tried to explain why they do things and seemed to genuinely try to be helpful. I think she's mostly trying to clear the air and help me understand the situation better. But I connected the fact there's a $60 daily shortage, and I just happened to owe her $60.00. Makes me wonder...

I told no one about the loan. If anyone knew it was because the manager told them. I considered no one else because store associates do not have access to the safe so they shouldn't be able to tamper with drops.

But It's less likely there is a thief among us, than there are associates being sloppy with paper work and their register cash. The manager has told me that for the last two days we've been within cents. She's stressed that we ALL must care about the money and the procedures concerning it and she's right, despite the recent drama. She's also told me some of the money has turned up in fact, $20 may have been found in other drops.

I really think it's all a misunderstanding. And I should have tried to figure out another solution first, than borrowing money from my boss in the first place. We are all guilty of being sloppy to some degree on the registers. I believe her when she said she wouldn't try to frame me or want to even lose me to begin with. We all got written up. But we've been getting along really well since I've been back.

Maybe the problem can just stay fixed and we won't have anymore issues.

...I have to admit though, the side of me that is a conspiracy theorist, is pinging like a bb in a tin can right now...

I still find it all very odd.

yah i'm glad it's worked out.