An ex-general supervisor of a fast-food chain is at the moment in scorching water on fees of inventing a “ghost worker” on the restaurant she oversaw.
She allegedly siphoned off almost $20,000 in wages over the course of a yr by fabricating shifts for this nonexistent worker.
Based on the Manheim Township Police Division, Linda Johnson was charged with theft by deception on July 7, and a prison case was filed the following week.
Johnson managed a Wendy’s restaurant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and made up the fictional employee, naming him William Vivid, after an individual she is aware of, authorities. She allegedly clocked the faux Vivid out and in of the restaurant as if he had been working.
Come payday, Johnson would take the faux Vivid’s examine and pocket it, in response to a warrant issued for the 35-year-old’s arrest.
Police say the faux worker was logged in manually for 128 shifts from June 28, 2021, to Might 1, 2022. Legislation enforcement mentioned Johnson made $19,898 by cashing the ghost employee’s paychecks. They report Johnson instructed them she would get his checks and deposit them into her Money App account.
Johnson was discovered when Wendy’s discovered the “discrepancy” throughout an audit. A police spokesperson mentioned that was when the franchise known as authorities.
Based on the police, three extra managers from the identical location said that they’d by no means labored with an individual named Vivid. One in all them admitted to encountering Vivid however clarified that they’d by no means been on a shift collectively, Lancaster On-line reported.
Police say Johnson confessed that she fabricated Vivid, the employee’s existence, and falsely attributed shifts to him that he by no means really labored. She mentioned she did it as a result of she spent the additional cash on her kids.
Johnson’s whereabouts are nonetheless unknown to police, in response to the newest experiences.
