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It took the boss some time before
nce, a company owner
he could calm his feelings of
started experiencing
anger and betrayal. As he forced
the loss of goods from his
himself to ponder carefully about
warehouse. He had been
the situation, he had to admit that
adept at managing both
the value of what had been stolen
his staff and business and
everything had been going well. The employees were
One night, he
had been no problems with
passing boxes out
generally satisfied and there theft before.
Although the value of the
missing goods was not high,
the owner wanted to stop the
theft before it grew out of hand. So, he started monitoring the
warehouse after dark secretly.
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saw two men
of a side window
and he recognised them
to be employees he had always
thought highly of. They came from poor backgrounds, but both had
always been diligent and seemed completely reliable.
wasn’t that much.
When he thought about the two employees and how hard they had worked for the company,
he allowed himself to consider the possibility of extenuating
circumstances, so he decided to give them a second chance. If it
worked out, he would avoid ruining two men’s careers, while keeping two good employees.
