Stupidity

In my earlier post, I wrote how there must be something in the air. Well, I'm starting to wonder if there is something in the bloodlines. Well, genetics would be the better term.

Over a year and a half ago, three young employees of my current workplace were all let go because they were caught stealing. Scanning out items with none of them being paid for, made possible by taking advantage of certain privileges that employees in our little corner of the store had available. Previously, it was through the use of a manager override.

Now, it seems, history is playing itself out all over again, rather unhappily.

One of my coworkers, the lone male who is in some way related to one of the young men dismissed in March of 2009, has just been fired from the company. Why? Because at our comfy little store, there is a button used for discounting certain items. If a customer has a coupon, we honor it using this button. Well, not a coupon but an offer which grants them a drink at little to no cost to them. (All right, still a coupon, but to differentiate, please, bear with me.) And using this comfy little store's button, he managed to help someone steal upwards of $10,000 worth of merchandise. He's been told that in order to avoid being forced to serve time, he will have to pay X amount to the store.

Now, can someone please tell me how stupid one has to be in order to think they won't get caught for abusing the privileges that come with working in a licensed coffee shop? And why it seems that this stupidity comes from the combination of the X and Y chromosomes in one person's family? I've met their mutual family members. A highly intelligent woman in a managerial position who is quite possibly putting her own job at risk by simple association with these two. Another family member, who is also female, is also highly intelligent and has yet to prove herself insipid enough to consider herself capable of stealing in such vast amounts.

Dear Moo, I hope the sons of these two women prove that the stupidity isn't found in the Y Chromosome. That the two in question are just stupid of their own accord. A sign that life is indeed based more on nurture rather than nature. I need some faith in humanity.