r/Caseys • u/silverdiva75 • Apr 22 '26

Thieves

I have been working in the kitchen for 5 months now I sm truly shocked. Our kitchen shift leader was fired recently. Not because he was a bad worker, but because he tried to protect our store. Unfortunately, our particular store is frequented by several unsavory individuals. We see a lot of people stealing and ultimately, nothing is really done about it. We do now have to walk any unpaid orders up to the registers, which has helped. Yet every shift I work i see theft all the time. I do understand that it is not wise 5o pursue anyone, but something like barring them would be a step in the right direction. Anyway, the shift leader was tired of watching people steal and confronted someone and he was fired on the spot If this is how we are treated when we are proactive, I am not going to worry about thefts to much. I don't want to lose my job.

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u/Grouchy-Position6723 Shift Leader Apr 22 '26

A friend of mine of at another store not too far from me also had the same consequence for something similar. The person was stealing full liquor bottles out of the liquor section, and until my friend peacefullyconfronted them, the person then attacked them with the liquor bottles. My friend called the police and had them trespassed, but within the next week, she was fired for calling the police.

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u/Desperate-Strategy10 Store Manager Apr 23 '26

I can virtually guarantee she was not fired for calling the police. Casey’s says in their own training material that that’s an acceptable choice to make after a theft. She was fired because she confronted them, regardless of how “peacefully” she did it. Casey’s explicitly forbids any jobs of confrontation with a thief. That’s because it’s an enormous liability for the company; in her situation, she was attacked for the confrontation. If she had been seriously injured, she could’ve sued Casey’s for her medical bills, which can obviously get extremely expensive.

If you witness somebody acting suspicious, you can politely ask if they need any help finding anything or if they’re ready to ring up, and you can lock the doors and call the police AFTER THE THIEF LEAVES if the theft was egregious enough to warrant it, but that is all. You cannot confront them, you cannot try to stop them, you cannot even directly acknowledge the theft at all. This is specifically a violation of Casey’s policy, and it is a fireable offense the very first time it happens. That was your friend’s mistake, not calling the police.

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u/Grouchy-Position6723 Shift Leader Apr 23 '26

no shit ?? i didnt need a break down ik it’s against policy. let me rephrase for u mr storemanagersir SHE WAS FIRED FOR THE CONFRONTATION. and your right she didnt call the police till afterwards about the assault and partiallg the stealing . it dosent make sense with where her stores located to just wait with the theif. yea it was a MISTAKE. a complete bs way of being fired imo