I work at a gas station in rural Pennsylvania.

It's a boring job, but it's pretty easy.

He's all right.

A few weeks ago, this new guy started, started, I'll call him Jeremy.

Jeremy's weird. He's about 25 or 26.

He hardly speaks, but he's got the creepiest laugh I have ever heard.

My boss and I have both noticed this, but it's never been a problem, so there's not much

we can do about it.

Customers have never complained about him.

He's always done his job fairly well.

I'll tell a few weeks ago, anyway, and that's when things started going missing.

Employee theft can be a problem at any business that sells consumer goods.

There's only one person working at a time at its gas station.

It's a pretty small place.

About two weeks ago, my boss started noticing that we were short on motor oil.

At first was few containers at a time, then entire shelves, boxes, from the back room. Pretty soon, entire shipments would be gone the next day. You know, after we got them. It would always

be right after Jeremy shifts. My boss has checked

the security tapes from every single night that he worked, but he could never

catch them in the act. Jeremy would lock up at closing, then the motor oil would be gone the next day.

My boss usually takes the tapes home with him to try to catch Jeremy stealing, but his daughter

had a softball game last night, so he asked me to watch the tapes for him. He offered to pay me overtime

under the table so obviously I took that offer. There are three cameras so he

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