Sit through interrogation by the companies loss prevention officer as he was trying his hardest to implicate me in a scheme that saw a fellow employee stealing from the store. The lpo was watching the employee and saw him offer me candy. I initially said yes, but then changed my mind. I didn't know that a piece of candy he pulled out of his pocket was stolen from the store's halloween section. Apparently the guy was stealing left right and center and they finally caught him with the candy.
He questioned me and told me I was lying and would question me again and again, all the while telling me that I was lying and going to jail for longer than the theif because I wasn't cooperating. He finally gave up on me and let me go because he had nothing on me and never could have anything on me. I was forced to apologize to the general manager for not noticing that an employee in a department on the other side of the store was stealing.
I should've quit but I didn't want them to think I was guilty. If I quit on the spot or didn't return to work it would have made them think that I had something to hide. I felt that I had to keep coming to work to prove to them about how wrong they were. Ever since then I have been unable to trust authority figures to properly do their job. I see a cop and I worry that he is going to make up something to charge me with... and since then I have twice been pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt even though I was.
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