0:00 What are some things that you should have got fired for but your boss never found out? For me, when I was selling uh cell phones at the mall, we had this like weird hack where um so they allowed us to give accessories to people to sweeten the deal just to get them to sign up. So, like let's say if I was trying to get you to buy a phone, >> like extra chargers or stuff like that. If I was trying to get you to sign this contract to like start a new phone plan, I'd be like, "Hey, well, you know, I'll throw in uh, you know, this uh flip phone case, the leather holster, or I'll throw in a face plate for your Nokia, or I'll throw in uh, yeah, extra chargers, earbuds, whatever." And so, we would do that for like friends that, let's say, you just wanted only that, you could come by the store and you could uh, fake sign up for a plan and I could give you all the accessories you wanted to just
0:50 be like, and it would be written off as like, "Oh, that was to sweeten the deal." And then we would just cancel the contract. So all these people were getting like cases and holsters and ████ Yeah, it was pretty cool. Did you ever have anything that you could do like that? Did you ever do that in Cheesecake Factory with anything? All your years there you did everything by the book. >> I mean I would give away cuz you were allowed to eat soup and bread like an endless amount. So I would give that I would give a lot to my friends and family that would come in or bring some home. Yeah. >> You wouldn't you would have just soup and bread. You wouldn't accidentally put stuff in jail in the in the order. >> You would accidentally like put items in. >> You can't do that because you'd have to get a manager to to to avoid it. >> What about to cancel it cuz they don't they don't want their food. >> You just give them the food and they be like, "They didn't like it. I'm going to I'm going to cancel." >> Oh, I never did that. >> People did do that, but I'm I'm just
1:41 kind of a I'm kind of a straight edge. >> Can you Can you Can you discount them? Were Were you allowed to give family and friend discounts? >> You always needed a manager to swipe it >> when you were >> You couldn't do it. Did you work as host first before server at GC Factory? >> Yes. >> When you were host, did you uh ever do the thing where someone's like, "Here's a little can you get me a table now?" And they'll give you like a $5 bill or something like that. >> Can me and Benjamin sit right now? >> Yeah. Did anyone ever try that? >> You know what's so dumb is if someone were to do that to me, I think I would have been like, "Hell no, you're last in line now." >> Really? You should have worked that volcano. >> You should have worked that volcano. You know the house, they'll be getting paid like 50 bucks, 100 bucks, and then they'll just seat the people earlier. >> Wow. >> Cuz that's what we're supposed to do, right? That's part of the culture. >> That's part of the culture. So, you did everything completely fairly as a host, you saw you sat people like
2:32 >> if there was a couple or someone that came in that was being really nice and like, I'm just checking in on my table, you know, I'll I'll put them earlier. >> So, I would do that. >> I have terminal cancer. Can I have a table by the window? >> Yes. if that's your last dying wish. >> One of the borderline things I did was in the military. So, I was in supply. I worked in a warehouse. So, we're in charge of like all the inventory of all the uh gear that comes in. So, we order everything from highlighters to ammunition, like anything in between you could think of. ████ band-aids, first aid kits. And uh I had a lot of buddies that were also in the Marines but at other units, but they weren't in supply. So if they needed stuff that were uh like broken or they they needed a new one and they couldn't get it at their old unit, I'm like, "Oh, just give it to me." Because under supply, you have the
3:24 authority to go through inventory and go, "Oh, this is unserviceable. This is unserviceable." >> And when it's unserviceable, you send it back to like I guess Marine Corps headquarters and then they'll either refund you the budget or you they send you a new one. So they'll give it to me even though they're supposed to deal with that at their own unit. But if they don't have it, I'll just take in like a pack and then I give them a brand new one >> and I just say this was like unserviceable cuz in my mind I registered it as we're all one Marine Corps anyways, but you're not supposed to be you like that would be considered abusing your authority. >> You would get in big trouble if they found out you were doing that. >> I think so. I mean I don't know. I don't read books that much but I think so probably. But also there's like, you know, there's like every workplace there's kind of like the black and white rules and then there's the gray area rules >> and then there's a lot of gray area
4:15 rules and I usually lived in the gray area. >> Did you ever hear of anybody smuggling weapons out? >> That is almost impossible. >> Really? It's that hard to do. >> So that's good to know. >> So there's serialized gear and un serialized gear. Serialized gear is all weapon systems. So when those things come in, it's a completely different checks and balances. Like it's something comes in, that room gets either shut down or someone stays with the serialized gear and it's passed from person to person. >> It's almost like you know when someone ships something FedEx and it's signature required. It's like that style. >> The other stuff like let's say we're getting like a backpack or something, >> a backpack or a whole pallet full of cantens >> that can come in. I can sign off on it and then I can leave. I close the warehouse and I can sign off on
5:05 >> but ammunition, guns, all that hardcore ████ >> all the serialized gear. Yeah. And it's some and some of those things go straight to the armory. So the armory would be almost like a bank vault. Like you need like two three people like a a master key is split between two three people. They have to open it and they're a certain rank that they sign off on it. I run a warehouse which which is just like a rollup door with like padlocks. It's not like a full-on bank vault. So that stuff it'd be really hard to steal. >> What about for smuggling stuff into the base? Like what were people like getting drugs like onto base? >> Not that I know of. >> Never. That's not like it's super hard to do. >> I mean there's people there's some dumbass ████ in the military. I mean I've seen drunk people. Oh, but that's like >> but I don't I don't really I I didn't really meet anyone cuz like drugs
5:56 especially when I was in where back then weed's not even legal. Like that'd be a serious offense. >> Serious. >> Yeah, I guess that would be super hard to pull off. >> Do they piss test you guys in the military? So that's even harder. >> At least once a year. Oh, you know what's ████ crazy though? >> What's crazy was um you know the show NCIS? >> Yeah. I don't even know what the hell that was about, but apparently they're like naval investigators or whatever. Um, I was talking to my old boss at at uh me and my old boss and my other buddy um he found out I have a social media following. So, we just been talking and just like reminiscing about old times and he was like, "Do you remember when the FBI came in and arrested like 10 people?" And I was like, "What the ████ That happened?" And then uh so this happened maybe a month or two right
6:46 after I got out. But I know the guys he's talking about like the 10 dudes that he talked about. >> And uh what happened was uh so this is in the admin department in every unit has an admin department. In the admin department that's where you do like uh either they they schedule you to go to certain schools or like are you getting paid or like HR. It's it's like a whole whatever you think admin is for a building. That's what they do for the military. So if you like let's say you are assigned to go do this training and then you use your personal car for 2 weeks you can come back and apply for PDM which is like either the meals that they supposed to cover you for or gas mileage or whatever. This dude he was assigning like a very minuscule amount almost like office space per DM to him
7:36 and all his homies. So it doesn't really trigger a red flag >> cuz it's so small. >> It's so small. But I think over the years he stole I don't know like half a million dollars or some ████ like that and I think they found out. So uh so my buddy was like yeah that's when NCIS came the FBI they came ████ with guns drawn into a military base and arrested all those guys. And I was like oh ████ he was naming all the guys. I'm like what the ████ So I googled their names and so you know how they usually get 20 guys and then they find out oh only 10 of them were guilty. Yeah, >> my some of my friends were on the list and they had to go to court and testify. And I'm like, damn, that's crazy. And the main guy, I remember he was trying to convince me and my other buddy with this to invest with him in raceh horses
8:26 cuz he would he would always tell, dude. I was like cuz he was the only like enlisted military guy that had a 5 series BMW. I'm like, "Dude, where do you get all your money from?" He goes, "Dude, it's from racing and betting horses, man." So I remember clearly I remember that guy and then I googled that guy and he is still on the run. He's a wanted fugitive but he ran to Mexico so he didn't get caught for the other dudes got arrested. They're in jail or whatever but this guy is still a wanted fugitive. So he might have gotten away with >> they never got him. >> Yeah he might have got away with like I don't know millions of dollars through his whole PDM scam and then he's in Mexico so he made it. >> Wow. >> He made it. That's making it. made it to Mexico. Wait, so how long did they have to do that to get that much money? >> I don't know. I don't know. But but it was one where it's just skimming, you know, where you're like if you looked at if you had like a military accountant,
9:18 but that makes sense. Yeah. A couple hundred bucks a month like going to meals for this guy, that guy, that they're doing these things. Okay, that makes sense or whatever. >> But they got audited. >> But they got audited and then Yeah, they probably was like one guy was getting away with it like, "Oh, you should jump in with me on this game." And then and then it was probably like, "Wait, why are like seven dudes getting comped every month?" >> If at the time you were like very close to the inner circle of that, would you have said yes? >> ████ yeah, dude. Dude, I was like 19, 20. I'm like, "Oh, I'm like, tell me your scheme." And if they told me, I'd be like, "Yeah, it doesn't sound like we're going to get caught." >> Yeah, for sure. >> It does sound like it's a low likelihood of being found out. >> It doesn't sound like a obvious thing. That sounds like a good scheme. >> It's good for the top guy. He got away. >> I know that guy. Yeah. Yeah. He got He got to be in Mexico and hang out. >> And then over there he's probably
10:08 telling stories like, "Yeah, I used to be a US Marine." You know what I'm saying? While getting ████ ████ and stuff. >> If he spent it all then then we don't know what he's doing. >> I mean, money goes a long way in Mexico. >> That's true. >> Yeah. But it could be spent really quick if you're if you're not a good money manager. >> You don't think that schemer guy that got away is scheming something else over there? >> Yeah. But then it's like >> he sounds like an entrepreneur. >> It's less pesos. >> Yeah, he's in scheme land. >> Yeah, scheme land. >> But then that means if if you're around schemers, then everyone knows your game. >> Well, you can't scheme in schemers. >> Can't scheme that. Well, you it's not going to be immune. >> Did you have a scheme at Volcano? >> No, but you trying to get me to incriminate myself. Okay. >> What do you think someone's going to come after you now after all these years? >> So, you're still doing it? >> No. Okay. So, uh, I was at a I was at a
11:01 workplace with a bunch of us who and then their game was getting temporary employees. So, like they promised us like permanent status, all this stuff. >> And I realized that uh so like when you're when you're a business, you can go to a third party job agency. So like and you can hire temp employees, right? >> And it's cheaper to sometimes do that >> cuz if you want to just boot them, you don't have to go through a whole legal process or give them severance. you just let them go, >> right? >> So, what ended up happening was these temp employees like, "We're just supposed to work in a warehouse. We're just supposed to do entrylevel s███." >> Yeah. >> But they started getting us to doing assistant manager, manager roles. And I'm like, "These are career kind of roles." And I'm like, "You guys got to
11:51 >> Yeah, that's not for temps." >> Yeah. And they said, "Oh, yeah. after 6 months of temporary work, uh, we're going to let you know if you either get status or not. And then, um, they kept me around because I I did the job of two people. So, but I thought it was extremely unfair that after 6 months, they didn't hire a lot anyone and it kept firing people like perfectly good employees. And I was like, what's going on here? And I and I realized what they were doing is they were just exploding the system and giving people false promises. So, I started getting pissed and I was like, "Okay, ████ you guys." And then um I had uh one guy in the warehouse with me and I said, "Hey, I'm going to convince the manager to push you to a different department cuz you're ████ slow." And then he's like, "Why?" And I'm like, "Cuz this other department has a lot of broken pieces."
12:43 and we and I looked on eBay and we can sell these products for, you know, we could resell this, >> but we can't steal these products. So, you need to go there and get those broken pieces that nobody is accounting for. >> So, then I told the manager, "Hey, he's slow. I think that if me and me and this other guy can do the work." So then and I said I I might be better because I know that other department there's not enough people to fix the fix the machines, the repair guys. Teach him how to be a tech guy. He's good at that. >> So he went over there. >> I stayed in the warehouse. I was in charge of shipping all the products. >> And then we started collecting all of the pieces together, rebuilding the machines. >> Wow. >> And then selling them on eBay. I could have gone to jail for all this ████ >> Yeah. But then what I ended up doing was
13:34 all the guys that were getting ████ $10 an hour at the time, $102 an hour, we were just making enough on staying regular employees because of this scheme we were going getting getting on. And at the same time, I was like, dude, these if the business doesn't give a ████ about you and they're willing to fire you because they just, you know, want to do this ████ where they promise you everything and then they fire you, they bring another temp, another temp. It's like it's really ████ up. >> All these people are hoping they're working their hardest, man. They're like, "One day I'm going to be an employee. >> I'm proving myself." Some of these guys, they be dragged on for two years. >> Super sad. >> It's like a temp employee is a temp. The word is temporary, right? So, they're dragging them off for two years. >> Years. >> Yeah. And they're not getting any like they promised them healthcare, all this ████ They're not getting none of that
14:24 ████ That's why >> as a for me, it's my justice. Although it was illegal at the time, I was like, "F███ you guys. We're going to come up with we're going to make our own money." >> Yeah. >> And then at and then at the end of the day, those pieces were sitting there all day. No one was doing anything, but they was just piling up. >> Yeah. >> So, I'm like, "Okay, >> pretty good scheme." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Damn. How much money did you make doing that? >> Thousands. Damn. It's pretty tight. >> Damn. >> Let us know in the comments the some of the schemes you guys pulled at your workplace that you got away with or didn't get away with. Whatever you guys did, uh, share it in the comments below so we don't feel like we're alone. and going to jail.
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