You Are Fired, Do You Copy?

My boss is on the phone with an ex-coworker who had been fired a few days earlier:

Boss: “No, I’m not going to reverse my decision.”

Pause.

Boss: “Because I can’t trust you.”

Pause.

Boss: “Dude, you told a mystery shopper that you could give her the order for a quarter of the price if she paid cash and didn’t need a receipt.”

This was a copy job, so just raw paper. Tracking sheets of paper in vs sold would be a fool’s errand since there was a big (5-10%) burn rate on jobs that failed. The ‘order’ never would have gone through the register. He would have taken $300 cash on a $1200 order and just deleted the order from the system.