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writes:Why did I steal I feel awful!! I can't stop crying:(?OMG!! I feel awful.. Words can't even describe how I feel:(Yesterday I was tidying up the stock room at work and there were these pair of sunglasses that I liked and I took them.I went home and couldn't sleep last night. I've been crying since. I feel so awful.I'm at work and I look a mess. The security woman who watches the camera is not in today so I don't know if they will catch me or not.I feel so terrible. I've never stolen before. I feel like death. I can't smile. My voice is so low and I'm scared!!:(I want to put it back but I don't know how:( I don't want to lose my job.. I'm such an idiot. I didn't think:(
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reader, anonymous, writes (8 August 2013): Buy a similar pair from somewhere else, and put back this pair and say to a 'witness'you think somebody left them because they did not look like the ones you sell,and you were putting them into lost property but forgot. ( This white lie protects you if somebody is already onto you,seeing you on camera(proof) so long as you return A pair of glasses they can't prove that they were not the glasses you picked up and put in your bag( therefore you never actually stole )BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE SAME STOCK THEY SELL, bin the others. Don't do anything silly again like this, it could ruin your future career big time. On this ONE occasion I would do your best to keep your 'slate'character clean and don't be tempted to confess out of guilt,or think you will get brownie points for been honest, just learn from it and sort quick as possible then stop worrying.
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reader, anonymous, writes (6 August 2013): Just take then back. Probably no one will see you. If they do, just say you're restocking, or you accidentally grabbed them b/c they look like yours or something. People don't usually care too much. I don't think they'd be bothered by you putting a pair of sunglasses on the shelf where they belong. Try to calm down. It's okay. Just don't do it again.
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reader, anonymous, writes (6 August 2013): I initially had the same thought as Brokenv -that if the sunglasses had been left in the stock room by accident, then you could simply hand them in explaining that you'd found them and wanted to get them back to their original owner before they got lost... But then I realised that you probably work in a shop that sells sunglasses and that these actually WERE the stock!
If you think that there's ANY chance of your having been caught on camera, then maybe make a point of purchasing them through the till as a staff transaction ASAP rather than quietly returning them. And keep your receipt!
I think that your remorse says a lot more of your innocence of heart than the spur of the moment mistake in the first place. Let's face it- you're never going to steal anything ever again in your life!
Get it put right ASAP so that you can sleep again at night! ?
And then forgive yourself.
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reader, anonymous, writes (5 August 2013): I would do what one of the other people suggested, take them to work and BUY them .... that way you don't have to sneak them back. Just pull them out somewhere private and walk to the till, even if you pull out of your pocket casually (like just holding on to them, no big deal) they are not gonna say anything as long as paid for it. That way you have reciept if anyone cataches you, proof you paid.
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reader, Brokenv  +, writes (5 August 2013):
I'm not going to say a bad thing about what you did. I think you are taking care of that yourself. Lessons learned are always good thing.
You have the sunglasses so when you return to work place them with a note on them saying you found them in the stock room or send out a general email so the owner can pick them up. No buggy and the person will most likely thank you for the safe keeping.
You are not a bad person.
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reader, anonymous, writes (5 August 2013): why don't you just purchase the glasses. Get the money and have the legitimate transaction put through.
Get the proper tag(s), eye-glass case, and matching bar-code for the item; and have put them through as a legitimate purchase. They will check stock, and will discover them missing. The sooner you resolve this the better.
There may be hidden cameras in the stockroom, that have you on film taking the item. If there is a transaction to match, they aren't stolen.
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reader, dougbcoll  +, writes (5 August 2013):
 i would put them back in the store room soon as you get a chance.
why you feel bad is because your conscience is tell you it was wrong to take them. that is a good thing , it lets you know your heart is tender enough to correct you when you are in the wrong.
there is people that can take what is not there's from a cheap item on a shelf , or somebodies husband or wife and not feel guilty about it. in most case's they will make excuse's for rationalization of what they are doing. that is done to justify in there mind what they are doing.
it is good if not great that your heart is not cold but you can feel when wrong has been done.
you stole, you take them back, you have learned a lesson. its not worth your job,its not worth changing you from who you are.
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reader, CMMP +, writes (5 August 2013):
Well, hopefully you learned a lesson. Put them back where you got them as sneakily as you took them. If there was supposed to be tags on them and you took them off I'd put them back anyways.
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reader, anonymous, writes (5 August 2013): just put them back, anyone sees you say you took them by accident .... wasn't thinking, grabbed them thinking they were yours only to realise later they were not. No harm done. Unless you work in a place that sells sunglasses. I was imagining they are someone else's who work there. But if its owned by the company then i'd be more worried. I'd just put them back and use the same excuse i offered, you weren't thinking about it but obviously returned when realised mistake that they are not yours.
I would question why you stole in the first place? What drove you to it? Maybe you just wanted them or maybe its something else, maybe you need to talk to someone xxxx
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