Here's a story from my old job:

When I first got into shoplifting, I was 14. I didn't exactly know my limits and I hadn't been caught yet, so I felt invincible. <br><br>I worked as a deli clerk at a grocery store, which meant that I had access to all the cheese, meats, and baked goods in the store. <br><br>If you want the short version, go to the last paragraph.<br><br>I would often take a few slices of cheese or meat for myself sometimes, and when my manager first caught me, he told me to be more careful, but not to stop. <br><br>I would also occasionally take sandwiches that I had made for myself, or grab a few cookies from the bakery bin, and no one would ever bat an eye. <br><br>I would occasionally take sandwiches that I had made for myself, or grab a few cookies from the bakery bin, and no one would ever bat an eye. <br><br>Eventually, I had a new manager, that was head of the cheese and meat department, and since I worked there, he was my manager as well. <br><br>He was strict asf, he would actually get mad at me if I took a single slice of cheese for myself, even if I had broken it by accident, and he would actually sit in the back room and watch the camera to see if he could catch anyone taking something. <br><br>One night, when he was closing up, he realised that there was something missing from our inventory count, and it was a pound of deli meat that we were missing, but he never found out who took it, and he literally spent a week sitting in the back room watching the cameras, and eventually found out exactly who took the meat. <br><br>A few days after that, my manager brought me into his office and told me that I had been caught on camera taking food from the case, which I had done since my very first day working for the company, and we both knew it, but we had to play this game where he scolded me and told me not to do it again. <br><br>Except this time, he told me to get my things and leave, I was being terminated. <br><br>Never in my life had I felt such an emotion as the one that I felt that day. I was so angry and I didn't know what to do, I felt like I had been screwed over, and sometimes I still think back on that day and wonder how my life would have been different if I wasn't fired, and I was able to continue my shoplifting career in peace.<br><br>TL;DR:When I got my first job at 14, I immediately started shoplifting from my workplace. Eventually, a strict manager caught me on camera, and I was fired.