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Is using the company card grounds for dismissal?  Tommy and Magic City.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, this is from John on Steve Harvey FM. Guys.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
John says, I'm a forty nine year old man and
I got fired last week. My wife does not know yet,
and I don't know how to tell her because we're
redoing her home office and she just got a new
car for Christmas. Finding a new job might be hard
because I used my company's credit card to pay for
the work being done at our house. I did it
to give my wife. Yeah, I did it to give

(00:26):
my wife all of the stuff she asked for in
her new home office. Do I tell my wife I
got fired because of her? Or do I act like
I don't know why I got fired?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
What?

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, we got to shut this office down. In this car,
let's have to stop.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm sure they took that when they fired him.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, we got to stop. Well no, he said he bought.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Her a car, right, Yeah, she got a new car
for Christmas. But they're redoing her home office. That's where
the office credit card comes in.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
You didn't get fired because of her, you know, fired
because you ran a credit card dot at home.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's appropriation.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, that's why you got.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
No. No, you you got to tell your wife what's
going on what you did? This, this, this, it's time
to come to the to the table. Now you got
to gone and confess on what you did. It's it's
a wrap all this up.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
How is he gonna tell her he got fired because
of her? I mean, how is that because of her?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Because if you want to ye and what he did?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
You use the company credit card?

Speaker 4 (01:30):
You should have went down at home depot and got
some supply and did this yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
D I y your card on your own card, your card.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know you probably work somewhere there with
they checking the receipt, they see the credit card bill,
Who got who got?

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Who got all this?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
All this equipment? What is all this stuff for? Who
got a desk? Who got you? Look, you ain't going
to jail?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, really is stealing?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It is because they.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Tell you when they give you a corporate card, do
not use for per personal purchases or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So you at home details.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
What are you able to use a company card for travel?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Business travel? Expensive detail?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, anything that's associated with business related things. Travel, maybe
some supplies for the office.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
You know, but you have to have a receipt.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
You have to submit that receipt for everything you purchase expensive. Right,
you have card and you at home depot buying some paint,
so you get re paint office?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Figure that out? What what's happening? So let me ask
you this.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
So if I take a client out to Magic City,
do I just need to get a receipt.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Right there and right there? You're gonna get fired just
like this.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Man, if I take if I take a client out
for entertainment, you know, because people take out, you know,
to have dinner, stuff for entertainment. Right now, take a
client out the Magic City, do I need to get
the girls to give us a receipt?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
How do we handle that? Part? Is what I mean?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, let me ask you this. Wait, wait, hold on,
let me ask you this. How much have you spent
at Magic City?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're gonna spend cup down?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Go ahead, go ahead?

Speaker 5 (03:12):
What's and what's the purpose of going to specifically Magic
City for a business meeting?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Specific What does that have to do with your job?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Specifically? I'm taking the client there to get some appetizer,
which is the wings spif so.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Why are you spending a thousand dollars on wings? A
couple of times we chilled some?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Why do you need the detail of all that.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Because there's a company cards.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
That's that's the thing about company cars.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
And when you tip.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
So if you bind appetizers, you look at me at
air quotes, appetize with wings and then it's a certain
amount of money, then the tip should only be.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
So we bind appetizers and aesthetizers.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Give me your card, yes, And I'm telling your wife.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
He's over tipping over.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
You don't know what anthetiz has called.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
You have no idea that but I've never heard of him,
but sounds pretty.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
All the places in the world to take a client.
This was client.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
What is you talking about?

Speaker 4 (04:25):
You as ain't never been a client before.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
You have no idea.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Only the boss, only the boss. Membership has a yank you.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
All right, guys, thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Coming up at twenty minutes after, we'll have more of
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Speaker 1 (04:44):
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