“I gave an advance of 400,000 won” ... Fired employee breaks into chicken shop at dawn the next day

[Financial News]  A story has emerged about an employee who was fired after repeatedly missing work without authorization despite receiving an advance of about 400,000 won from a chicken restaurant, then sneaked into the shop at dawn the next day and fled with 330,000 won in cash from the safe. The incident was captured on the store’s closed-circuit television (CCTV).
According to JTBC’s “Scandal Supervisor,” which aired on the 11th, A, who runs a chicken restaurant in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, went to the shop on the 6th and discovered that about 330,000 won in cash was missing while checking the safe.
When A found that money kept in the safe until the previous day was gone, A checked the store’s CCTV footage. It showed a man entering the shop in the early hours, taking cash from the safe and fleeing.
The man in the footage was employee B, who had been fired the previous day. Just one day earlier, he had been working at A’s chicken restaurant.
B had worked at the chicken restaurant for about two months. However, he reportedly missed work several times on days he was scheduled to work, saying he was ill, and continued to skip work without authorization even after receiving an advance of about 400,000 won, including meal expenses. A eventually fired B.
Angry about B’s repeated unauthorized absences, A sent him a message saying, “They say people don’t change, and that’s exactly right. I’ll report you for fraud.”
B replied, “Something came up at home, so I’m at my parents’ house in Seoul.” He also pushed back against A’s message, saying, “You barely know me—how can you say that?”
The next dawn after the two exchanged messages, B reportedly sneaked into the chicken restaurant and took the 330,000 won in cash from the safe.
B later told police, “My phone service was suspended, so I only just saw your messages,” and said, “I’ll voluntarily turn myself in this Friday.”
A was furious, saying the employee A had hired in good faith had repeatedly missed work without authorization and then stolen cash as well. A said, “I trusted him and gave him a chance to work, but he was consistently irresponsible and even stole money.”


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