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Once upon a time...there was this Big Buffoon who worked for a major grocery company. The only thing he really knew was to keep his mouth shut and to CYA.

After a few years he got a transfer to a satellite facility and there his education began...for ya see...

There were 3 groups that were skimming from the company...

1. The employee group that five fingered cases into their cars

2. Foremen and low level management who took trailers full of merch... a pallet of Tuna was worth $7000 X 24 pallets = $168,000. They would even use company equipment that was red tagged as needing repair to unload those trailers at their warehouse. Then the equipment would be shipped back as being repaired. BTW Tuna is easy to unload to mom and pop stores...so long as it is not the store brand..

3. Upper Management who hired managers to embezzle.

Well the Foreman didn't like the employees and their activities as it was endangering their activities, so he dropped the dime on them to security. The leader of the forman group even set it up to pin it on a dim wit employee as the fink. Some of the employee group got busted and fired. One of the employees knew that the Director of the Dry Goods Warehouses was using company labour to unload trailers and billing the company for outside labour. Along with billing for non existent pallets. all told the company admitted to about 250K That fired employee dropped the dime on the Director. The Director got fired, and security went a lookin, soon after the low level management got fired. Only the Foreman got away because he was Union and was not caught red handed. However that Foreman told his tale to Security which information was used to prosecute the Director. That Director later got beaten up in a bar in Malibu by the actor Jan Michael Vincent.

Then there was the manager of the garage who maintained the fleet of Tractors and Trailers. The company bought 50 Great Dane 50 foot boxes that came with Michelin Tires (8 per Trailer), it seems that those tires were taken off and put in a trailer that well disappeared into the night. Those $250 apiece tires were replaced with recap tires...A Supervisor in the garage dropped the dime to security about the misplacement of those tires and someone told security to STOP investigating the matter....WHO in a major corporation can tell Security to stop an investigation of a manager???

It seems that the Manager of the garage had a reputation in the biz as a embezzlement artist, who nearly ran DR Pepper into the ground before he came to this company. He had a house in Huntington Harbour that was paid for with cash.

So the whole point of this little fairy tale is that the big buffoon learned some street smarts. He learned that everything is not as it seems on the surface of things. That it is better to be able to look around corners to see what is really happening. In all actuality the Big Buffoon is probably the only one who knows the whole story as he pieced it all together like a puzzle. Well that is the story I was told anyway by this Big Buffoon.