Bi-Sexual Male / 63
Emptying The McTill
I had my very first job at a very famous fast food restaurant over 40 years ago. I'm comfortable talking about this since the statute of limitations has run out for this decades ago.
I was not a very good employee. In fact I was a thief. I think they paid me around $2.80 an hour or something like that which even in those days wasn't much. So I felt justified in stealing from them.
They had just installed a new drive-thru and I was trained to work the register. I was always very good with money and doing math in my head and they didn't have the technology to track how much money should be in the drive-thru drawer nor could anyone afford cameras in those days. I think the cheapest video camera was probably about $5000 back then and that would be around 45 weeks of wages for a full time McWorker.
So I started skimming a little off the top of almost every transaction and I was so good and so fast making change that nobody figured it out. I ended up stealing about $6000 before graduating high school which was more than I earned the honest way. That was enough to pay for my associate's degree and buy a used car.
I worked at another location of the same chain while putting myself through college and stole another $11,000 by the time I got my associate's degree. I transferred to a four year college and continued and by this time I was a manager and had complete control over cash flow and figured out how to cook the books while I was at it. The day I got my accounting degree I had college all paid for and had saved up $27,000 which in those days was more than enough to buy a three bedroom house and pay cash and furnish it and have some cash left over.
I continued working for that chain but as an accountant for a large franchisee who owned 17 locations. I worked for him for twenty years and embezzled over a million dollars. I even figured out how to legally report that income so I wouldn't owe the IRS anything. seems that the IRS doesn't care that much about what you do to get your income as long as you pay your taxes. I retired at 43 with nearly three quarters of a million dollars saved up that I acquired from embezzling and another half million I earned the legal way all of it nicely invested.
Do I feel guilty? Not particularly. The business model of such a business relies on the extreme exploitation of their own employees.
I was not a very good employee. In fact I was a thief. I think they paid me around $2.80 an hour or something like that which even in those days wasn't much. So I felt justified in stealing from them.
They had just installed a new drive-thru and I was trained to work the register. I was always very good with money and doing math in my head and they didn't have the technology to track how much money should be in the drive-thru drawer nor could anyone afford cameras in those days. I think the cheapest video camera was probably about $5000 back then and that would be around 45 weeks of wages for a full time McWorker.
So I started skimming a little off the top of almost every transaction and I was so good and so fast making change that nobody figured it out. I ended up stealing about $6000 before graduating high school which was more than I earned the honest way. That was enough to pay for my associate's degree and buy a used car.
I worked at another location of the same chain while putting myself through college and stole another $11,000 by the time I got my associate's degree. I transferred to a four year college and continued and by this time I was a manager and had complete control over cash flow and figured out how to cook the books while I was at it. The day I got my accounting degree I had college all paid for and had saved up $27,000 which in those days was more than enough to buy a three bedroom house and pay cash and furnish it and have some cash left over.
I continued working for that chain but as an accountant for a large franchisee who owned 17 locations. I worked for him for twenty years and embezzled over a million dollars. I even figured out how to legally report that income so I wouldn't owe the IRS anything. seems that the IRS doesn't care that much about what you do to get your income as long as you pay your taxes. I retired at 43 with nearly three quarters of a million dollars saved up that I acquired from embezzling and another half million I earned the legal way all of it nicely invested.
Do I feel guilty? Not particularly. The business model of such a business relies on the extreme exploitation of their own employees.
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