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I worked in a place where one of the customers left an item that I would value
to be over $200 maybe as high as $500.

The owner of the place found it and showed it to me after we closed.
He said "I'm keeping this, it's just what I wanted. Don't tell anyone you saw it."

I couldn't believe I was hearing that. Of course the customer is going to come
back to look for it the next day.

Sure enough, the customer comes back and asked me if I had seen the item.
I said no.

Guess I thought I'd be fired if I said the owner had it.

The owner could easily buy this shit himself so it makes no sense on any level
I can think of.

I think I should have told the customer about his item and quit at that point.
I ended up getting into an argument one day with a manager over a different issue and
quit the job anyway.

The taking of the customers item was a sign that I was working in a really shitty place
and I should have known that I wouldn't keep working there much longer.

No business ever kept anything I accidently left there in my whole life.

I fucked up by not standing up for that customer.

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