When the Best Manager in Your Restaurant Has Sticky Fingers

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Summary A departing employee drops a bombshell in her exit interview: she watched her manager steal from petty cash for over a year. She estimates several thousand dollars. She says she didn't report it sooner because she feared retaliation and needed her job. Now HR holds a disclosure it can't ignore—but the witness is walking out the door, the manager has a strong performance record, and the evidence is thin. In this episode of HR Voices, host Rebecca Taylor sits down with Laura McLand, VP of Human Resources at Sun Holdings, to work through this fabricated-but-very-real scenario about what happens when the information arrives at the worst possible moment. Laura brings a restaurant operations perspective that makes this conversation especially practical. She walks through the 24 to 48 hours window for pulling camera footage, following the financial paper trail, and talking to other employees before approaching the manager.