Staff says cash got stolen

[Tim1980]

One of my staff who collects the rent from my tenants told me that couple hundred thousand cash got stollen when she went out for rest room. How should I deal with problems such as this? please advise… Did anyone in here experienced something like this from your local staff?

Advise please…

Tim

[David48]

Nice Tyre Tim.

Good luck getting the money back.

Great First Post BTW ...

[Briggsy]

[Tim1980]

Hmm don't know how we gonna get this done huh

[Briggsy]

[MegaRanter]

Happens all the time, be careful next months rent collection.

Did she leave it at the mandatory house budha post while s he went to get herself off in the rest room?

[Pomthai]

Tell her that the money was to be used at the temple to help deal with the ghosts you keep seeing at work. If the moneys not returned, "You're certain the office and everyone in it is gonna be haunted".

Buy some yellow candles and some incense sticks first and then pull em out during the conversation I outlined above for additional authenticity

[David48]

Tell her that the money was to be used at the temple to help deal with the ghosts you keep seeing at work. If the moneys not returned, "You're certain the office and everyone in it is gonna be haunted".

Buy some yellow candles and some incense sticks first and then pull em out during the conversation I outlined above for additional authenticity

Tis merit in that approach ...

Don't know if it would work or not though.

'A' for effort!

[up-country_sinclair]

Not sure of what would come of it, but did anyone call the police? I know I would if someone stole a couple hundred thousand from me.

[transam]

Collect it yourself. Put down the beer glass and all will be cool.

[Banzai99]

Not sure of what would come of it, but did anyone call the police? I know I would if someone stole a couple hundred thousand from me.

I wouldn't, I'd start yet another topic aimed at mass Thai Bashing on ThaiVisa.

[infinity11]

Get Transam to collect for ya, for a modest cut?

[Tim1980]

Yes we reported police and just knew that even mu CCTV was long broken, said they could do nothing

[Spoonman]

Well it was only stollen.

[mrtoad]

The money has long gone, how about the staff member who is effectively responsible for collecting it?

[Tim1980]

She was the only one responsible and am here working only since week a go and now my father in-law is getting little upset

[CharlieH]

So, we have ONE individual alone, collecting/responsible for several hundred thousand baht, you deserved to lose it mate, question is have you learned your lesson?

If thats how you operate/ handle large amounts of cash I am surprised it hasnt happened sooner and will no doubt happen again if you are so totally irresponsible with your cash.

[899cc]

Call columbo[aka Peter Falk] he'll sort for you

[seajae]

She was the only one responsible and am here working only since week a go and now my father in-law is getting little upset

mate although I do not agree with it do what thais do, tell her she is responsible for it, she collected it, she had it in her possesion therefore she has to pay it back to you. This is exactly what happens with thais, they lose the money they replace it. This way it stops them taking it themselves, makes it hard when they are innocent but you dont leave a few hundred thousand baht just lying around while you go to the loo then claim it was stolen. Have to admit it sounds very fishy and there is a chance that she is the one that now has it, make her pay it back.

[farang000999]

what does it have to do with your father in law?

[Tim1980]

Well it's my father in-laws business, me & my wife are given to handle it couple days a go and this thing happened right from the start huh

[RubbaJohnny]

If you plan to get the uniforms involved make sure all your paperwork is in order and have an answer ready fr when you are accused of something..

[Tywais]

Flame removed

[norrona]

kidnap her....take her to a disused building, tie her arms behind her back and pull out a plastic bag and tell her if she doesn't tell you where the money is.....only kidding!!!

if not a troll then I suspect that this employee thinks that she should have been put in charge of collecting the rents and got a pay rise or something....you've been there a week and this has happened but never happened before?

you sure your father in law likes you and isn't in on it?

good luck

[harrry]

She was the only one responsible and am here working only since week a go and now my father in-law is getting little upset

Who gave the the authority for her to collect the rent...did you select her or you FIL?

If you it is something you must handle on your own. Decide whether to press charges, fire her, make a token repayment plan (which of course can only be token or she cannot do it.)

If your father in law is the one that apponted her you need to discuss it with him. He knows her background and then you have to decide if she was taking advantage of your newness..in which case you need to throw the book at her.

Until that is decided of course you will have to stop her collecting any rent or handling money.

[mogandave]

Is the daughter just rich or is she hot as well? She must be both. Any guy with a cushy management job, that can't even be bothered to hang around the office on rent day, that has not noticed the security cameras not working for quite a while, that can't spell, and that comes here for advice deserves a rich, hot wife.

[Tim1980]

We operate one small mall & an apartment, our work place is in the mall and apartment got its own office in the apartment building and that's where the staff works and that's from where the money disappeared. When me and my wife where half way to office our manager called us to inform this stuffs huh

[falkan]

well she just waiting to get sacked then she will buy a new car...

[NeverSure]

It is your father in law's business. Did your father in law set up this system of keeping all that money so unsecured? Is that how he ran it? If so, I'd insist that it's his fault. Of course you can't be that blunt, but if you were just following the established procedure...

Obviously there needs to be good accounting and a bank run at least once a day or even more often depending on how fast the money piles up.

It's standard procedure for dishonest employees to report rented units as vacant and pocket the rent, steal 1/2 the money from coin operated machines and so on.

It's up to you to put some controls in place, and to do some spot audits. It's also a VERY good idea to have anyone who handles cash take a mandatory two week consecutive paid vacation once a year so you can run it yourself and discover if there's more money coming in when you run it.

For now I'd fire that employee just for allowing the money to get "lost" and start over.

[Tim1980]

NeverSure thanks, sounds like a good idea. Yes all the staffs and whatever systems we have are all done by my father in-law and his staffs so we are trying to figure things out. Till date all the books of accounts are manual. I mean hand written we are changing those things now ...