Ep. 38: The Loss That Clocks In · Employee Theft Investigations and Interview Liability

A site supervisor, a three-page exception report, and an operator who walked into the room already certain. Don Carr opens with his own near miss and Jim Cords explains why most versions of that story end in a deposition: exception reports tell you where to dig, never what you'll find; an employee's belief they can't leave does the false-imprisonment work by itself; and promises and threats are the two ways a good interview commits suicide. Don presses Jim on how any of this works at two in the morning on a site with one supervisor, and gets a real answer. Then the week after, where a single hallway conversation becomes defamation and the termination letter's one forbidden word. Loss. Liability. Law.