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From the Shop Log, click on "Tests and Certifications", then click on "Shopper Testing Center. Scroll down and look for your bar spotter Cert and take it if you really need it. Good Luck.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/2024 11:53PM by Miss Tree Shopper.

@Miss Tree Shopper wrote:

From the Shop Log, click on "Tests and Certifications", then click on "Shopper Testing Center. Scroll down and look for your bar spotter Cert and take it if you really need it. Good Luck.

Thank you so much!! I never would have figured it out on my own. I missed out on a nice self assign job the other day because I didn't have the certification. The course was actually very enlightening-who knew bartenders were so creative with their theft!

@bradkcrew wrote:

The course was actually very enlightening-who knew bartenders were so creative with their theft!

Those of us who have been doing these for decades like to say, "It's not IF they are stealing, it's HOW MUCH they are stealing." I'm hardened to the fact that they steal. It no longer surprises me. I had dinner at a hotel bar, which was basically empty. The bartender took my $60 and dropped it in the tip jar. Never went near the register. I snapped a quick photo of it. That actually shocked me. It was pretty bold.

I shouldn't be surprised, having worked in restaurants and retail for a quarter of a century. I have seen a postal worker steal toilet paper in his mailbag, managers selling pot through a drive-thru when it was a serious crime, a retail worker bending over pretending to tie his shoe but actually stuffing cash in his sock (this one was caught on video). One of the retail companies I worked for said there were over 600 ways to steal from them. I have seen lots of data on retail theft. It is astonishing. These big box retailers need to focus more on what employees are "taking to the dumpster" and leaving the building in their bags. In a different job, I had a client company who kept data on return and damage fraud. And I could go on and on. We used to say some of our top shoplifters were also our really nice regular customers.

There was a movie where the employee caught a woman shoplifting. When he brought it to his manager's attention, the manager said to look up her credit card statements. Apparently, letting her get away with shoplifting was just a cost of doing business.

Also, there was an episode of MASH where Hotlips became the officer in charge of the "mess". She insisted in counting every utensil and try before she would sign the paperwork.

They kept handing the trays out the back to be recounted over again until she had the right number.

An old manager said when he worked at JC Penney, his boss got fired when he did an actual inventory. He took the hit for all the losses under reported by previous managers.

And don't get me started on bartenders that use customer's credit cards left behind to go on shoppering sprees.

Isn't human nature wonderful?

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