Most people I work with at the HVAC supplier are pretty good people.
Then there was this new guy that started working there. He started training with one of my friends and my friend was telling me how shady this new HVAC worker was. He said he didn’t trust him and he was pretty sure he stole some tools from his HVAC van when they went out last. My buddy actually requested that the new HVAC tech work with somebody else and he was glad when he no longer had to deal with the guy. Even when I met the guy, he seemed entirely shady to me also. Then one day, I noticed that we were missing a bunch of smart thermostats and there was no record of them being sold to our customers. I know I didn’t install any smart thermostats recently and yet our inventory was low. There were also a few window A/C units that were missing and this was highly suspicious. So I told the boss about my discovery of the missing HVAC equipment and he said he was going to check the surveillance system. There are always cameras watching our inventory and I realized it would be entirely stupid for any of our HVAC workers to actually steal from the HVAC supplier. When I talked to the boss later about what happened, I came to learn that it was the new shady HVAC tech who was on camera stealing the smart thermostats and a couple of window A/C units. Before I knew it, the police were there taking this guy into custody.
Heating industry