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Hi there.
Looking for some advice. In February I was dismissed and accused of stealing £3660 from my work (post office inside a cost cutter).
Its such a long story but I’ll try to keep it short. So we had a visit from auditors who discovered that 2 girls were both down over £1000 on their post offices and mine was missing £3660. I was called in while the auditors were there. I could not explain where it was. I had been on my 2 days off and my post office was fine and all cash balanced prior to my days off. I got a phone call from my boss saying my post office was missing cash and could I come into work. I went immediately and tried to assist the auditors to check the safe etc. I was told to go home after that and that my boss would let me know what happened. Fast forward to that evening (and a lot of distressed tears from me!) I text my boss as to what was happening. He was very evasive and said he’d be in touch. I again text the next day for any updates etc and had to continue to chase him for information for another day or two after that.
He called me In for a meeting (in his words) to see how we can move forward. I got to the meeting and was dismissed immediately. I was not aware that the meeting was any kind of disciplinary prior to attending.
Almost 4 weeks later, the police arrive at my door in regards to the allegation. They asked me if the could search my house to which I fully complied. They said it was my word against his. I mentioned that the store is covered by at least 25 CCTV cameras and that the boss continually watches them from his office so it was pretty much impossible to steal anything. The police said that he hadn’t even mentioned the fact that there was CCTV.
Anyway they then asked me to attend a voluntary interview the following week which, again, I complied with.
I attended the interview and answered all their questions. The asked me about my bank account and asked I f
i would allow them access to check them. I filled in the necessary paperwork to allow them access to check my account without hesitation.
The policeman interviewing me said it would be a couple of weeks and they would let me know whether the case would be dropped or sent to crown court (because of the amount). I haven’t heard a thing since. The police man who interviewed me never gave me a contact number or anything or even an email address I could
contact him on and to be honest, I now can’t even remember his name so I can’t even ring him to ask for an update.
Surely I should have heard something by now? I suffer bad anxiety and this is just ruining my life. I still go into the shop and have never been barred or anything which surely if he truly thought I’d taken the money, barring would be standard?
Even though I know I haven’t taken it and there 100% wouldn’t be any footage of me taking anything because it doesn’t exist, I’m just worried why it’s taking so long?
could they have dropped the case and not told me?
Any advice would be great!
Looking for some advice. In February I was dismissed and accused of stealing £3660 from my work (post office inside a cost cutter).
Its such a long story but I’ll try to keep it short. So we had a visit from auditors who discovered that 2 girls were both down over £1000 on their post offices and mine was missing £3660. I was called in while the auditors were there. I could not explain where it was. I had been on my 2 days off and my post office was fine and all cash balanced prior to my days off. I got a phone call from my boss saying my post office was missing cash and could I come into work. I went immediately and tried to assist the auditors to check the safe etc. I was told to go home after that and that my boss would let me know what happened. Fast forward to that evening (and a lot of distressed tears from me!) I text my boss as to what was happening. He was very evasive and said he’d be in touch. I again text the next day for any updates etc and had to continue to chase him for information for another day or two after that.
He called me In for a meeting (in his words) to see how we can move forward. I got to the meeting and was dismissed immediately. I was not aware that the meeting was any kind of disciplinary prior to attending.
Almost 4 weeks later, the police arrive at my door in regards to the allegation. They asked me if the could search my house to which I fully complied. They said it was my word against his. I mentioned that the store is covered by at least 25 CCTV cameras and that the boss continually watches them from his office so it was pretty much impossible to steal anything. The police said that he hadn’t even mentioned the fact that there was CCTV.
Anyway they then asked me to attend a voluntary interview the following week which, again, I complied with.
I attended the interview and answered all their questions. The asked me about my bank account and asked I f
i would allow them access to check them. I filled in the necessary paperwork to allow them access to check my account without hesitation.
The policeman interviewing me said it would be a couple of weeks and they would let me know whether the case would be dropped or sent to crown court (because of the amount). I haven’t heard a thing since. The police man who interviewed me never gave me a contact number or anything or even an email address I could
contact him on and to be honest, I now can’t even remember his name so I can’t even ring him to ask for an update.
Surely I should have heard something by now? I suffer bad anxiety and this is just ruining my life. I still go into the shop and have never been barred or anything which surely if he truly thought I’d taken the money, barring would be standard?
Even though I know I haven’t taken it and there 100% wouldn’t be any footage of me taking anything because it doesn’t exist, I’m just worried why it’s taking so long?
could they have dropped the case and not told me?
Any advice would be great!
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