Will I get fired for this?

Emmzi

if you have been "a victim of theft" and that is the card you are playing with your employer I would have expected you to have the crime number from the police and shopped your brother.

I would get £2k together by any means possible and have it ready to hand over.

sho_me_da_money

Weirdlittleman wrote: »

You have a company mobile phone. It would be reasonable to expect you to be using that most days hence know when it was missing on week days and take reasonable care on non work days. Therefore I would suggest that with the exception of weekends it should have been reported as being out of your posession within a maximum of 24 hours.

If you werent using it you should have returned it or had it kept in a secure location.

Have you reported this theft? are you willing too?

Regardless you have been neglient in your treatment of company property and some companies can class this as gross misconduct. In your case any sort of misconduct could mean dismissal. I would strongly hope you improve your attitude from this thread as if you came to me with this story and attitude the P45 would be issued by Friday.

You are all right.

I see where you are coming from now. I just needed to think with a selfless mind.

I appreciate all your comments and can just hope that this isnt deemed sufficient to go to disciplinary.

Thank you.

iamana1ias

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

Glad your not my boss then.

Me too. Your spelling is atrocious.

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

So your saying it is reasonable to expect one to treat everyone including your own family as potential thiefs? Is it reasonable to treat your family members as people to hide secrets from? Sorry it doesnt work like that in our home.

Yes. Even husbands and wives aren't meant to know each others' PINS/passwords etc.

And in this case you've proved your brother is a thief. (Oddly enough, murderers, drug dealers and thieves all have families................)

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

And a briefcase with a combo lock (at home) is the safest place I have. I do not have a safe, I do not have hidden key locked compartments.

Then you should have kept the phone with you, or in a locked desk/safe at work. I'm sure that's what your company intended by giving you the phone.

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

Congratulations, you are the first person that has scarred me.

I only speak the truth. You were incredibly foolish.

sho_me_da_money

Emmzi wrote: »

if you have been "a victim of theft" and that is the card you are playing with your employer I would have expected you to have the crime number from the police and shopped your brother.

I would get £2k together by any means possible and have it ready to hand over.

I could tell them to dock my wages next month and thats the quickest I could get it paid back.

BLT_2

Maybe I am missing something here, but when the OP received 15 calls from the Middle East didnt it occur to him that the number showing up on his personal phone looked familiar?

Weirdlittleman

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

I could tell them to dock my wages next month and thats the quickest I could get it paid back.

Not good for you. Why would the company want to wait for the money.

sho_me_da_money

BLT wrote: »

Maybe I am missing something here, but when the OP received 15 calls from the Middle East didnt it occur to him that the number showing up on his personal phone looked familiar?

Didnt use or know the new number. Even now, I dont know it. I thought he was calling off a mobile he owned or bought out there.

Plus the calls were coming in as Unknown number (i think).

sho_me_da_money

Weirdlittleman wrote: »

Not good for you. Why would the company want to wait for the money.

Well I could do what others said and offer a 10% and ask for a 28 day period to repay all costs.

Mischa8

Weirdlittleman wrote: »

Not good for you. Why would the company want to wait for the money.

Exactly - your wages should be docked THIS month - ie 30 April.

The company will not and should not wait for this.

Like others have said, the company may well (and be totally within their rights to do so) see this as *gross misconduct*, may well do an investigation as to where phone was etc and how it got out of hands of OP so they have every right to go to police and charge or whatever OP and/or brother with theft etc....

sad but true

Mischa8

sho_me_da_money wrote: »

Well I could do what others said and offer a 10% and ask for a 28 day period to repay all costs.

No, no no! aren't you listening at all?

What's stopping the company right now from going to the police?

why are you on FWW etc? (you don't have to answer that). if that was for breach of passwords etc or fraud then the company are well within their rights to fire your !!!.

sorry if this sounds harsh but it's TRUE. Put themselves in your shoes. :eek: