Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Crime Increasing at the Los Angeles Times

I took it for granted the thieves that had been breaking into our lockers no longer worked at the Los Angeles Times Olympic Facility, wrong. Last Saturday between 7:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. someone broke into pressroom supervisor John Hunter’s locker, located on the first floor, removing his work hats.

Pressroom personnel are not permitted to return to their lockers until the end of their shifts, something the thief knows also, or take the chance of being suspended or as one unfortunate discovered, terminated.


This latest crime pales in comparison to what occurred at the end of last year at the Olympic Facility. Seems two of our outside contractors, hired as custodians, helped themselves to all the metal they could fit in their cars, for many months.

What they would do was slip the metal pipes into a cardboard looking eight foot long tube, which was placed into a mop pail and pushed to the third floor where the metal was cut into pieces that would fit into their cars for recycling.

No one seems to know the exact loss in dollars, but I’m told the scam ran for months if not over a year.

My suggestion to my colleagues working at the Olympic Facility, leave everything of value at home and keep your wallets in your pocket.

3 comments:

LaLaLand said...

well look whos running the joint !! The Three Stooges:the eunuch, puss n boots & stumpy

$.02 said...

American Express don't leave home without it. What's in your wallet?

Can't go back to your locker until the end of the shift? Is that in the contract?

Locker room looks like they busted out some cash-- who's job did they cut to pay for that?

RegularJoeOC said...

you cannot go to the locker room???
what if you need to retrieve a tool or use the faciities?

Where is this rule posted?

somebody was disciplined over a non posted rule????

hmmmmmm