Yesterday, I went to the restroom before I went home. Before that, I put my most favorite huge ring inside of my pocket to wash my hands really good. About good 10 minutes after, I realized that I wasn't wearing my ring. It wasn't there in my pocket. I went back to the restroom to look for it. It was no where to be found. I saw two cleaning ladies in the break room that come to the restroom two times a day. I asked one of them if they had seen a ring there. She said no. I went to my desk and I was gonna write an email to people on my floor asking for whoever that took it to give it back because I love love that ring. One of my co-workers sent me an IM, asking me if I lost a ring. I told her yes. She asked if it had black on the ring. I was like, "Yea! Thats my ring! Do you have it?" She told me that some guy told her that I was looking for a ring. He saw me talking to the cleaning lady and told her. She said she was in the restroom when the ladies were cleaning the restroom and she saw one of them picking the ring up from the stall that I was in. She didn't know that it was my ring. We went to the restroom to look for it. She showed me where the ring was, behind the toilet in the stall. She assumed that that lady would turn it in. I didn't ask that lady but other one. So we went down to look for her to ask her if she had it. She was about to go home for the day. She told us, "No, I don't have it." Angela (my co worker) told her that she saw her picking it up. She got completely flustered and said "I was picking up trash on the floor" So we went to the building manager to talk about it. Angela turned around to me and mouthed "I know she picked it up!" The lady told the manager that she was picking trash on the floor and could have threw it away. (The floor is always clean during the day and there was no way that she was "picking" trash up and throw it away. Why would somebody throw a big pretty ring like that away?) So the manager said that they would look through the bag to find the ring. The lady went home. I HAD to go through the last stupid restroom trash(it only had paper towels) to find my ring with Angela. We didn't find it. By then, I was already pissed and filed a report. When I was no longer pissed, I felt bad. Was I a b**** for doing that? I had a witness in my case. I wouldn't have filed it if Angela didn't tell me or the lady admitted that she took it. I would have gave it to her if she wanted it. I only spent about $50 on that ring...money isn't an issue but the principle of being honest is an issue. I can't stand people who are like that. Was I justified to file a report? P.S. I did not get her fired. I don't know why people keep saying that she was fired. She wasn't.
Is Angela a good friend? great friend? coworker friend? Some people are just nosey and would do anything to stir things up. From what I can tell. We don't know the characters of the cleaning lady or Angela, thus I cannot give a good assessment of the situation. But... a $50 dollar ring isn't worth the trouble in my opinion. Especially framing someone that could be innocent.
Hell yes you were justified. Lying thieves don't deserve your sympathy, or your apathy. Give her what she deserves - a one-way ticket to a new job.
where did she say the cleaning lady was hispanic? But assuming that your coworker saw what she saw then you shouldn't feel guilty and I don't think that filing a report is necessarily wrong. Afterall, if she was point blank lying to yours and the managers face, then she deserves a little heat. Plus, who knows what else she's stolen around the office. Dishonest people deserve all the bad that happens to them
Till the end I thought it was a really expensive ring. But regardless, can't stand liars. Based on your story, seems like Angela pretty much has to be telling the truth. So the cleaning lady lied. She was given multiple opportunities to return it and continued the lie. Of course, she was facing job-loss since she was being confronted in front of the building manager. And maybe she was just too flustered at first. Maybe you can give her a chance and say "If you just give it back, I won't file the report and I'll tell them I found it on the floor in my office" or something. (I don't like liars, but I also feel bad for people that are relegated to cleaning toilets..)
We go to lunches together...she is not the type to stir things up in the office at all. She would keep things to herself. I know she's not like that. I see the lady everyday and she seems nice. THERE ARE SOME cleaning people who would take things who make honest cleaning people look bad. Apparently, you're the racist. I didn't mention the ethnicity. Read my story again. Take note of "I was going to send an email to the people on the floor"
I think you were too dramatic. The ring was only $50, not $3000. Your co-worker said she saw the cleaning lady, but YOU didn't see it so how can you be sure? What if the cleaning lady didn't do it? What if she seemed flustered because she knew she didn't do it and she was afraid of losing her job? You're mean. j/k I think you did go crazy over it.
Is that all she said? "I was picking up trash on the floor"???? Laaaame. What does that mean? Does "trash" include rings? If so she's a thief and has bad taste apparently? A stealer of things trashy in her opinion? It's not as if you had no clues who did it. Then you'd be a b****. This is fine. And even so, a b**** wouldn't have started a thread about it.
Just cleaning people steal? Everyone steals. It does sound like you're talking down about the cleaning people. One of your co-workers could have taken it too. If the cleaning women were white would you have pointed that out in your OP?
A friend of mine had his iPod stolen by one of the cleaning ladies in our office, and another guy had a lot of loose change (Coke machine money) taken. To find the culprit, they eventually set up a web cam and found out it was one of the cleaning ladies going through people's stuff. I don't know how wide-spread the problem is, but I guess it wouldn't surprise me if she did take your ring.
This is interesting. I'd employ the services of these guys right away: Spoiler Royals Ego has the correct response. If your friend/coworker/Angela/theInstigator/accuser/liar (oops, that last one ain't true) is willing to testify what she saw as the complete truth, you're in business. Really, you don't want to get into so much trouble for a ring that <s>cheap</s> costs that little.
Cleaning people have thief hands. I bought a brand new can of Planters lightly salted cashews the other day from Walgreens. We ended up going to a lunch meeting that day so I didn't get to eat them. Came to work the next day planning to eat my lightly salted cashews and BAM they're gone from drawer. THEY STOLE MY CASHEWS. Anyone who would steal a man's cashews out of his jar is clearly scum of the earth.
