On Reddit, a person writes that they noticed their colleague using the company shipping account to send items associated with their side hustle
Given the poster is responsible for tracking the use of some company funds, they ultimately reported the situation, though without using names
Now, others are mad at the poster, accusing them of being a “snitch”
An office worker says their co-workers are calling them a “snitch” after they reported a colleague for his so-called “side hustle.”
In a post shared to Reddit, the worker writes: “I work as an operations analyst at a mid-sized company. One of my coworkers, let’s call him Dave, has a sneaker-electronics resale side hustle. He’s pretty well liked, and we used to grab lunch a lot.”
“Over time, I noticed Dave was using our company’s shipping account like a lot. at first I thought it was just small stuff, but after months of seeing daily packages and digging into our logistics spend (which Ive been assigned to track everyday), I realized he was shipping all his orders through our company. I estimated he’d burned through several thousand dollars in costs the business was unknowingly covering,” the person adds.
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After confronting Dave “lightly,” he “laughed it off,” saying the company owed him. But shortly after, leadership flagged rising shipping costs, and the worker “panicked.”
“If they audited and found out I knew and did nothing, it’d come back on me. So, I reported it not naming him, just saying someone might be abusing the system,” the person writes. “Long story short, they traced it back to Dave and fired him.”
Now, Dave is texting the worker, saying they “destroyed his life,” and “ruined” his only source of income when he and his wife have a baby on the way.
“Now some coworkers think I’m a snitch. Others quietly support me. I genuinely feel awful, but I also didn’t want to be the fall guy,” the worker writes.
Other Reddit users are weighing in, arguing that the poster was right to report the fraud.
“Anyone who says you were a snitch (which you weren’t as you didn’t name names and you did give him a warning) can thank you for not having a whole round of layoffs if the company continued to lose money,” one commenter writes. “And as for Dave, one warning was enough, that’s on him, he’s lucky they aren’t pressing charges for fraud and embezzlement.”
Added another: “He could have easily foreseen that he would be found out, particularly after you mentioned it, and he chose to do it and to continue doing it.”
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