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Employer Is Keeping My Personal Decor That I Brought In From Home.

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Location: Flint, MI

Manager of a multi family property with a clubhouse. When I started there, it was barren and had only a few decorations. Between my house and an older female coworker we brought in unused decor to spruce up the office bought pans to use in the kitchen etc. That is not to say that they did not provide some of it as we bought some at Goodwill and online through Amazon with the company card. However, our personal decor items are still there. I left a few months ago as I found a better position and left a few things for my coworker to still use in the office, and she has a lot of things that she left there as well that they are now refusing to let her take without the regional manager's permission, including the stuff I left for her. When she complained about it, they fired her and refused to let her take her stuff. There are cameras in the office, so they know that we have brought some of these things in, and I have documented proof on some of those things as well. Not receipts per se as a lot of these things are older and bought from yard sales and stuff, but pictures of them in our home.

This is outright theft correct? Initiated by the current manager who took the position after I left as she didn't want to lose the decor and comfort items we had in place.

I am a former bankruptcy paralegal from Las Vegas, Nevada, however, employment law is not my strong suit.

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