Man who worked 364 days a year fired

It's not proven that he was stealing, the investigation is ongoing. He might have taken the money in cash while he was in the fuel depot, to put them into the register later. Just saying.

However, he was clearly dismissed without following the correct procedure. Frankly, I think the compensation is too small. No time off for 50 years?

When I read it first it reminded me of Pat Shortt's character in the movie Garage.

uh - Irish times article has a bit more in it - a lot of information and details there for them to unravel...

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/02/15/man-told-fk-off-with-yourself-now-you-are-fired-after-51-years-working-in-garage-awarded-30000/

Sad story imo. For family events he used to attend and then goto the garage to work afterwards. A flippin garage??? Hardly urgent stuff. He says he was stuck in a rut for 50 years 😳

What a thing to be your legacy.

Sounds less like a slave, and more like some lad who made the garage his identity and spent all his time there by his own choice. I don't get any sense that the owners forced him to do anything, but that it was his life and he could have changed if he wanted to. Do that for decades and people will stop trying to change it for you.

Of course it helps when you're skimming the till and selling stock on the side for cash, bet it added up to a few quid over the decades.

The real shame here is that you can't just tell a thief to get the **** out.

Seems to have been quite an unusual relationship between the owners and the employee at the centre of this. No particular working hours, he was to come and go as he saw fit. Seemingly it was in his interest to remain there most of the time!

44,200 litres of gas? Gas wouldn’t typically be sold by the litre at a garage. Unless it is the Americanism of petrol?

Not sure I actually believe it. 50 years is about 16500days. If true it’s just plain weird all round. And I am not ready to believe that he was somehow held to ransom and made do it.

Amateur , the perfect crime in this roll is short changing the high rollers

300 customers a day, all short 50 cent, 150 a day, 7 days a week, 1050 per week

🤣

A staff member who never takes leave is suspicious.

Very few places, even large organisations, actually practice this, but one mitigation against operational risk is if a company occasionally, and without warning, puts staff on leave for a few days and cuts off their access. A more easily implemented version is to insist that X days are actually taken. It probably wouldn't be quite so relevant for a man working in a garage though.