I've worked for a corporate office before and I can tell you it's incredibly easy to be paying bills that you wouldn't normally be paying, or that you shouldn't be paying. I spotted a bill that didn't seem to make sense - for some kind of cloud service. I'd never seen any mention of it in the year (by that point) that I'd worked at the office. I asked about it, and it was some kind of legacy cloud storage software that the company had bought a license (to be renewed yearly) for almost a decade prior. I checked with the IT team and the manager of them said "oh we stopped using that like five years ago..." So the company had been paying like two grand a year for something that no one knew about. The bill would come in and everyone just ASSUMED that it had been authorised.
i do unless the company they pretended to be ended up having issues with getting paid. it's tough because 99% of the time, the huge corporations will just find a way to recoup those losses by screwing over their minimum-wage employees
So, the first story: Wendy’s almost certainly knew *long* before the $20k point. Corporations often intentionally wait to press charges in cases like this so they can 1) continue collecting evidence and 2) hit them for felony charges rather than a misdemeanor.
It's very strange to me that the UPS address change was considered illegal. It's not as if the guy hacked them or something; as far as we know, he just told them to change the address and they did. That's like if I sent someone a message telling them to give me money for no reason, they gave me the money, then they tried to sue me for theft. There's no lies or fraud going on, just a very weird company infrastructure.
could be wrong, but from my experience when changing address with post office theres usually a disclaimer like, "i understand that lying on this form is fraud and could constitute felony charges", and a bunch of other security/confirmation measures or whatever. just think, if stealing someone else's mail is a felony, of course rerouting someone else's mail without their consent is also a crime!
@@videoenjoyerrr I guess the real question is HOW he changed the address. If he changed the mailing address through the US postal service that’s obviously illegal, but if he managed to do it through some UPS website instead… I don’t really know what that’d be considered lol
@@AnaPie896 Okay but would they not be held negligent for not cross-referencing the address? Is it not standard procedure to check if the address is an actual house or appartment and not a government building? Also this guy could've either done it by complete accident or was high as fuck, I really don't know
@@baricode I have no idea honestly I’m a dentist not a lawyer, 😂 but it tracks for the U.S. to put all the responsibility on the person instead of themselves. Hopefully the guy had someone on his side to pose those same questions
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@@kailam1481 they weren't working extra hours, they were just putting in extra effort because there was someone assigned to their shift that did not exist
15:02 i honestly think it’s so funny when UA-camrs apologize for loud background noises, because 9 times out of 10 I can’t hear a thing (or I have to listen really hard after they mention it lol)
I have a friend who owned a restaurant. He had a loyal chef for 15 years who he trusted to do all the kitchen hiring and purchasing because he didn't have any experience with that himself. The chef had hired at least 6 cooks and my friend never questioned it as he cut paychecks for all these people, though he never met them. The chef said that their schedules were just out of sync and he accepted that. And he kept this chef for years while getting more and more complaints that the food was awful. By the time he figured out that none of these employees ever existed, the chef had embezzled over $130K. My friend sold the business at a massive loss and the chef ended up with a lengthy prison sentence.
hey! someone who trained to be an anchor here,😅 most companies force u to say acronyms in full on first reference unless its a big government agency like the fbi or cia
@@blankness8 no because Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cental Intelligence Agency is appropriately intimidating and terrifying names for terrorist organizations.
The Wendy’s lady scam probably led to that location being chronically understaffed with 1-2 people doing double the work while she profited off their effort.
Fake employees are actually something we learn to look out for in financial audit. We test an organization’s employee rolls against other evidence to detect fraud
@@1LetterLef @Noneofyourbyisness Stuff of this nature, yes! But I don’t have a way of verifying SSNs. We would compare different employee lists if available (like if an organization has a list for an HR function and another list for payroll) and also make a sample selection of employees, verifying items like their onboarding documents, signed policy agreements, training certificates, timecard, and payroll data. These hopefully represent multiple areas of the business where it’s not one person who verifies. As in, the person in charge of your onboarding documents is different from the supervisor who approves vacation time. This concept is called segregation of duties and makes fraud of this nature much harder to do since it requires collaboration between multiple individuals.
I'm from Bristol and live and work just round the corner from Bristol Zoo. I've always known it to be a myth that one man was a parking attendant for 20 years and claimed millions. But people DEFINITELY scammed there often!!!! Instead what happened was because there was a lot of confusion with that car park and if you need to pay (you didn't need to pay, it was free, but so many people didn't realise this. Due to the parking in the area being a bloody fortune..no one would expect it to be free at the zoo). Sometimes random people would go to the zoo and pretend to be parking attendants for the day to get money, this 100% would happen as I know many people who were scammed by it.
The thing with the Wendy's story is that, since it wasn't a franchise, corporate absolutely determines how many employee hours they are allowed to staff the store with based on projected sales for that day. Which is to say the ghost employee wasn't an EXTRA employee on the schedule, instead the manager was just understaffing the store by one fulltime employee while forcing her low level employee's to pick up the slack for being understaffed.
as a former bristol local I can confirm as a kid I was told about the car park thief a lot, although in the UK a parking attendant isn't like someone who parks your car for you it's just some guy who vaguely points in the direction of an empty spot that probably has a tiny car in it which is was the car parking thief was like a mystical hero at my school bc of the lack of effort, bristol zoo closed for good a few years ago now but I believe the car park is still there just waiting for the next scammer, cough cough danny
Ive been a bristol local my whole life, used to live near-ish the zoo, and i can genuinely remember the parking attendant guy. I don't know if he even indicated a spot, i just remember him being sat at the entrance of the car park collecting a pretty reasonable fee
the wendy’s one just screws over other workers tho bc if the store has hours for four people but only three are there bc she’s used one of the slots to clock in a fake person then that’s just overworking who’s already there
I went to college down the street from THIS EXACT WENDY'S! One time a buddy of mine was in the drive thru line for like 30 minutes and by the time he got up to the menu the woman said "Sorry everyone just quit so I can't make the food." One time I was waiting in line and when I got up to the window they said "Oh sorry the card reader broke we can only take cash." And I didn't have any cash haha. I googled it when I heard it was a Wendy's in PA and I literally screamed "OF COURSE IT WAS OUR WENDY'S!"
@@rosesmith3694 It won't. Like I'm certain you have never paid attention to a single Danny video because he clearly would not ever do that. He's a content creator and a father, not your little voodoo doll.
5:14 in journalism you’re supposed to state the full name of an organization before using the abbreviated one which is why they didn’t just start out with UPS
My dad and his coworkers actually made up a fake coworker when he was in his 20s at a movie theater. He didn’t pocket the money or anything, but the employee did get paychecks! He named him Gern Blansten and whenever my dad got in trouble at work, he blamed Gern and then everyone got mad at Gern! They fired Gern eventually for failing to show up to a disciplinary meeting. No one ever found out.
the fake parking attendants are very real. one got me and my sister with a fake receipt, then we got fined for not having a legit receipt, and were thankfully able to dispute it.
The Bristol Zoo one is a bit different because both the government and the zoo were aware of the man and thought the other one employed him so nobody ever got fined for parking since both companies thought the guy was a legit employee. Bristol Zoo is so old they didn't realise they owned the car park, they thought it belonged to the council. It's actually a really sweet story because nobody got hurt, my guy was hustling hard and it paid off for him.
It is kind of refreshing to hear of scammers going after big corporations instead of vulnerable individuals. Also, given how rampant wage theft is, I honestly understand the first case of the fake employee.
There's a limit to how many employees/work hours they pay per default for a store. If there's a fake employee, that only works, if everyone else has to do the work of that fake employee.
You can trust me! Now that we're friends, we should get to know each other more. What was the name of the street you grew up on and your mother's maiden name?
Postal scams and theft are actually a lot more common than you think. Used to work at a post office and multiple people would just steal packages they assumed to be valuable. Christmastime was always the best since a lot of cards with money in them would get sent. My friend got arrested for stealing around 100 Christmas cards. He kept them in his home, (rookie mistake, you open the envelope, take the money out and reseal it)
The Bristol Zoo story is absolutely true haha, I live in Bristol and spent a lot of childhood days out at the zoo and my parents remember the parking attendant working there and say he was really nice. Insane that it got a mention in a Danny video!
"For 128 shifts.... let's do some math.... so that would be 156 shifts" 💀1:29 Edit: wait I just understood lmao 💀 he meant to say for 128 shifts divided by $20,000 is $156 per shift, but he accidentally said 156 shifts lol
I read a story once about a guy who sent invoices to a company for "services rendered," and they were paid. For a significant amount of time. The company tried to sue him, but they lost because they were negligent in not looking into what services were actually rendered before they paid the bill.
I knew an old fella that did this for years and when his son forgot to check the postal box the post office got suspicious of all the mail (checks) coming in so fast. Guy ended up in prison with a pretty substantial sentence. I met him at a work release program.
I am weirdly happy to hear someone else mention that grand theft auto is a strange name for a crime. Like, I thought for sure you had to steal *at least* two cars, but no. As far as I'm aware, you can just steal one car and it's "grand theft." You literally don't even have to get away with it at that point. What's so grand about stealing _one_ car and then immediately getting caught? In my ted talk I will-
@@randomtinypotatocried That's an interesting point! I like what PeterParker said tho, that, if that's true, stealing an Iphone would be grand theft too. xD
The "grand" modifier is added to a theft charge when a minimum monetary value has been met. Anything worth less than that is considered petty theft and the minimums vary per state. Grand v. petty theft also carry the difference between being charged with a misdemeanor or a felony.
It's wild to hear Danny talk about the Bristol Zoo parking ghost. I live/grew up in Bristol. The story about one guy making millions might not be true - but it's based on some very real stories. When the zoo parking lot was full, cars used to illegally park on some field nearby. Apparently some random people took it upon themselves to put on hi-vis jackets and collect money from anyone parked on the grass... except money collection wasn't authorised by the people who owned the field, and no one knows where that money went. The legend of the Bristol Zoo ghost might not be so unreal after all.
Hello, I'm a news producer, and we start off certain videos with full names instead of acronyms to establish who we're talking about. In this case, there's a UPS as well as a USPS, so to avoid confusion, we'll just say the full name first and then use the acronym later in the stript since we already established who we're talking about. In cases like the NYPD, LAPD, NAACP, etc, everyone already knows who they are, so there's no need to say their full name. In cases of small town police departments like the CBPD, it's not as well known, so we would then write out the Cocoa Beach Police Department. Hope this helps👍🏾 love your videos btw❤
@@deliamarjoribanks7881 ups is united parcel service and it's a publicly traded company, usps is united stated postal service and its an independent agency of the federal government
That absolutely is how they figured it out. I was a shift manager under the same franchisee as the location it happened at. Literally only an assistant manager would’ve been at that high of an hourly, or someone with the company for more than a decade and racked up raises.
Ghost employees are like oldest wage scam in the books. Pursers in the Royal Navy used to keep issuing rations and clothes to dead sailors so they could be paid twice, first on the commission (called the purser's pound) that they skimmed off all the supplies issued and then again when they resold the goods in a foreign port. This Wendy's manager was small potatoes.
You can get arrested and not be in jail. There's a hearing to decide if you're dangerous or a flight risk where they decide how much your bail is. If you have the money, you get to go home until your trial. When you show up to court, you get your money back. But it can take months or years for the trial to conclude. Then, you go to jail for shorter sentences or prison for longer sentences if you were found guilty. If you already spent a while in jail awaiting trial, you can sometimes get "time served." Bail is a really messed up system that disproportionately impacts poorer people. They don't have enough money to pay it, which causes them to lose housing and their jobs, leaving them in an even worse spot even if they're innocent. That's why so many people take plea deals even when they didn't commit the crime: they need to get out so they can work and feed their families
The Wendy's story doesn't even surprise me. Every retail place I've worked at had that one guy that would clock in and then disappear in the back for eight hours. Managers don't really care, they just make everyone else to pick up their slack.
The fake emplyee is pretyy common here in Brazil, especially within public services, but they usually hire some random dude to clock in then go home. At public hospitals some doctors clock in then leave to their private office to make particular appointments.
There's a guy here in Mexico who recently "scammed" Cartier by buying two pairs of earrings from them for the equivalent of about $20 because an error on the website removed a few zeros lol. They did honor it and sent them to him but some Mexicans are discussing this and saying that it was unethical but luxury brands are basically the epitome of unethical.
Yes I just heard about this!! He definitely deserves the earrings that’s completely on the company how could they say that he’s the one who scammed them?
I heard about the fake bills before, and it actually happened before. In one case, the item on the bill was literally the bill itself, and stipulated that paying the bill meant agreeing to this term. The courts found that this was a valid contract, and the scammers got to keep the money.
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Oh my god I love stories like the last one. Man shows up for 25 YEARS and suddenly just vanishes one day- he never worked there. He's literally just some random guy
The normal behavior of corporations is basically scamming, but we're so numb to that being considered acceptable that we only debate the morality of a 'scammer' when it's someone doing basically the same stuff on their own without the approval of a corporation- or against one
It's astounding to see how far some people would go to scam, even though it's morally reprehensible. But indeed, if they channeled their creativity into legit ventures, they'd probably be just as successful, if not more, and certainly happier.
For real like instead of risking life in jail for stealing from a evil corporation that makes refrigerators that break down after a year to scam people, you can instead start your own company that makes decent refrigerators and completely destroy the competition and make way more money without that risk .
Honestly, I had so many times when I worked at Dairy queen that I was doing more than twice as much work as some of my coworkers (the management had lower standards for minors than adults for worker retention), and some of them screwed off so much that honestly, if I had the option, I would have 100% have took their wages in exchange for having to do the little amount of work they did myself if I had the option.
With how corporations underpay people they were probably doing the amount of work they were paid for tbh, you were just doing multiple wages worth of work and should’ve been paid accordingly . Remember the corporations are the enemy for putting you in the situation where you’re understaffed and underpaid so that you all blame eachother and fight among yourselves instead of realizing the higher ups are who you should be banding together to fight .
These restaurants watch their labor like HAWKS. They expect employees to be sent home early when it's slow to save labor cost and would most definitely notice an extra employee clocked in within a day. The reason it hasn't been done before is because no place has allowed it to happen for as long as they did.
Idk how she did it, but she could have just added the one fake employee on top of the normal amount of employees they usually had in the back. I personally doubt that it was a significant amount of “extra” work for the other employees. Maybe she could have spread the extra money around a little, but I don’t think there’s usually a max amount of employees.
@@madiz4228 there actually is, Wendy's being a franchise calculates the bare minimun amount of employees needed to run a restaurant based on it's earnings, wich means her employees were doing the extra work of an already short staffed place.
i like that the guy they interviewed in his apartment seems like he just woke up from a nap
Up all night checking the mail. Must be tuckered
@@anodosarcade7355bro was like “where the fuck did this mail come from… didn’t order this body pillow the fu-“
or high af
@@roedor2802 he prob submitted that form high asf in the first place🤣
If you had a comfy, warm pile of UPS corporate mail in your house, you'd be napping too.
Scamming grandma: bad
Scamming big company: less bad
Scamming big company and kind of getting away with it: objectively funny
when the scamming of a big company is somehow absurdly easy: almost moral to do
When the company doesn't even care: funny *and* moral
@@random_dragon when the company cares: still funny and moral
Get out of jail free card
@@Coristic121 LMAO TRUE
love how they described the ups guy as "Chicago man" and then he's wearing a shirt that just says "Chicago" when they go see him
Fuck dude. he really was The Chicago Man
"Chicago man." you sure are, buddy
the one and only
Accurate
Full name Chicago Ups Man.
I've worked for a corporate office before and I can tell you it's incredibly easy to be paying bills that you wouldn't normally be paying, or that you shouldn't be paying.
I spotted a bill that didn't seem to make sense - for some kind of cloud service. I'd never seen any mention of it in the year (by that point) that I'd worked at the office. I asked about it, and it was some kind of legacy cloud storage software that the company had bought a license (to be renewed yearly) for almost a decade prior. I checked with the IT team and the manager of them said "oh we stopped using that like five years ago..."
So the company had been paying like two grand a year for something that no one knew about. The bill would come in and everyone just ASSUMED that it had been authorised.
As someone who works for the government....this happens ALOT. Yay wasted tax dollars
@@annysebuchanon9237damn. and people are worried about sick disabled pepe getting TOO MUCH money lol. god forbid we can afford food.
Happens in corporate
Do you get the other company to pay you back or is it just money lost ?
@@sydnerxx it depends on the situation but most often not
I have nothing but respect for anyone that figures out how to scam Google and Facebook out of $122 million dollars.
i do unless the company they pretended to be ended up having issues with getting paid. it's tough because 99% of the time, the huge corporations will just find a way to recoup those losses by screwing over their minimum-wage employees
I get what you're trying to say, but stealing is a shitty thing to do yk?
@@Leah-up8pmthey steal peoples data. no one cares
What if I scam Google and Facebook out of $123 mil?
@@Leah-up8pm Counterpoint: wage theft is by far the largest amount of theft, so people stealing from corporations is morally justified.
So, the first story: Wendy’s almost certainly knew *long* before the $20k point. Corporations often intentionally wait to press charges in cases like this so they can 1) continue collecting evidence and 2) hit them for felony charges rather than a misdemeanor.
Ah, like stores and shoplifters
the fact you know that is crazy
@@Ma6ic the fake employee scam is quite common. people are expected to report wage theft as well if they see it
Mmmm
@@1LetterLefthat’s…Not what wage theft is
Wage theft refers specifically to when *employers* do not pay workers according to the law
It's very strange to me that the UPS address change was considered illegal. It's not as if the guy hacked them or something; as far as we know, he just told them to change the address and they did. That's like if I sent someone a message telling them to give me money for no reason, they gave me the money, then they tried to sue me for theft. There's no lies or fraud going on, just a very weird company infrastructure.
could be wrong, but from my experience when changing address with post office theres usually a disclaimer like, "i understand that lying on this form is fraud and could constitute felony charges", and a bunch of other security/confirmation measures or whatever. just think, if stealing someone else's mail is a felony, of course rerouting someone else's mail without their consent is also a crime!
@@videoenjoyerrr I guess the real question is HOW he changed the address. If he changed the mailing address through the US postal service that’s obviously illegal, but if he managed to do it through some UPS website instead… I don’t really know what that’d be considered lol
@@Dude-hs7zmat 8:39 it says he did submit the address change through the U.S. postal service which is why it was illegal
@@AnaPie896 Okay but would they not be held negligent for not cross-referencing the address? Is it not standard procedure to check if the address is an actual house or appartment and not a government building? Also this guy could've either done it by complete accident or was high as fuck, I really don't know
@@baricode I have no idea honestly I’m a dentist not a lawyer, 😂 but it tracks for the U.S. to put all the responsibility on the person instead of themselves. Hopefully the guy had someone on his side to pose those same questions
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i read the first sentence as meowing and got so confused bc ur pfp is a guy and not a cat lmfao 😭
@@janskans i like the implication that if his profile pic _was_ a cat, you'd assume that the commenter was actually a cat apologising for meowing
@@heythisanimalcantalk it happens
@@janskans OMG same! 😅 I was like "wait, he said his dogs were barking at the mailman, not meowing" 😂
@@heythisanimalcantalk hey, i just thought this animal could talk
The Wendy's manager was definitely not the one doing the extra work, employees likely just had to cover for the "missing" worker
Classic manager 👌
Daddy
Also, who else would notice an extra employee besides the manager?!
but if this was the case, the employees would still need to be paid because they were working extra hours. so how was the manager pocketing the money?
@@kailam1481 they weren't working extra hours, they were just putting in extra effort because there was someone assigned to their shift that did not exist
I yearn for freedom Daniel.
Let me out of the attic Daniel.
Daniel is going to punish you for asking by keeping you for another 20 years
At least he kept you in the attic, I got locked in the basement.
Capybara’s require a large open space in order to love, Orperius, how big is that attic?
@@abbi_eeat least you got locked in the basement, I got locked up in a cupboard under the stairs
i got locked in the bedroom 🥴
15:02 i honestly think it’s so funny when UA-camrs apologize for loud background noises, because 9 times out of 10 I can’t hear a thing (or I have to listen really hard after they mention it lol)
It's because noise cancelling works quite well nowadays, so whatever the Tuber hears doesn't necessarily get recorded.
Right?? I usually never hear whatever they're talking about like a plane, lawn mowing, or whatever else
Same. Also happens when I'm in Zoom meetings
I have a friend who owned a restaurant. He had a loyal chef for 15 years who he trusted to do all the kitchen hiring and purchasing because he didn't have any experience with that himself. The chef had hired at least 6 cooks and my friend never questioned it as he cut paychecks for all these people, though he never met them. The chef said that their schedules were just out of sync and he accepted that. And he kept this chef for years while getting more and more complaints that the food was awful.
By the time he figured out that none of these employees ever existed, the chef had embezzled over $130K. My friend sold the business at a massive loss and the chef ended up with a lengthy prison sentence.
Some guys never know when to quit.
I think you failed to realise that there was a ratatouille situation ongoing where the “chefs” were 6 rats
@@unclekarl5219 Excuse you, I think you mean _Ratatoing_ . Don't disrespect our boy Marcel like that.
Part of me doesn’t want to dig on someone for being a trusting person, but my cynical side is also being cynical-
hey! someone who trained to be an anchor here,😅 most companies force u to say acronyms in full on first reference unless its a big government agency like the fbi or cia
I wonder why those two are excluded! Because it's presumed everyone already knows? I would've thought UPS was on the same level of ubiquity
@@blankness8 no because Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cental Intelligence Agency is appropriately intimidating and terrifying names for terrorist organizations.
That’s crazy, I didn’t know sea crafts used people as anchors
@@blankness8 cause theyre scary-sounding terrorist organizations
@@fridgemagnet9667 I'm peeeing
i love you danny please don’t die
This comment made me drop an onion in my milk. Thanks a lot andrite7060
Edit: I drank it because wasting food is cringe, it wasn't that bad actually
This sounds oddly ominous, almost like a threat.
everyone is gonna die, lol such a weird comment anyhow.
really hope he doesnt die on 17 October 2024
@@TRVPHAUS ı mean at least danny can try not to, that would be appreciated dont you think?
Danny's eyes being one of the only blue toned things in the shot really makes him look like a Dune character
HE IS LISAN ALGAIB
“She ate hot chip and lie” holy shit what a callback
The Wendy’s lady scam probably led to that location being chronically understaffed with 1-2 people doing double the work while she profited off their effort.
Tbf, Wendy's does that already.
Exactly. And they could have paid it. Crazy
Only the companies can do that
@sass wdym "could've" they did lol yet workers suffered bc of the thieving manager lady. Yes, she shorted a possibly already short staff...
@@favoritemustard3542 not really if she was doing the work the "fake" was doing
Fake employees are actually something we learn to look out for in financial audit. We test an organization’s employee rolls against other evidence to detect fraud
What other evidence do you look for?
I'm curious too! If it's not confidential 😅
@@Noneofyourbyisness im not sure but usually in most cases paystubs, false SSNs. payroll auditing. cross verifications of personal data and whatnot
@@1LetterLef @Noneofyourbyisness Stuff of this nature, yes! But I don’t have a way of verifying SSNs. We would compare different employee lists if available (like if an organization has a list for an HR function and another list for payroll) and also make a sample selection of employees, verifying items like their onboarding documents, signed policy agreements, training certificates, timecard, and payroll data. These hopefully represent multiple areas of the business where it’s not one person who verifies. As in, the person in charge of your onboarding documents is different from the supervisor who approves vacation time. This concept is called segregation of duties and makes fraud of this nature much harder to do since it requires collaboration between multiple individuals.
@@HawkOni very interesting! my old place used some sort of ssn verif software. And thank you for going in depth!
Everyone always asks "Wire Fraud?" But no one ever asks "How are Fraud?" 😔
I'm from Bristol and live and work just round the corner from Bristol Zoo. I've always known it to be a myth that one man was a parking attendant for 20 years and claimed millions. But people DEFINITELY scammed there often!!!! Instead what happened was because there was a lot of confusion with that car park and if you need to pay (you didn't need to pay, it was free, but so many people didn't realise this. Due to the parking in the area being a bloody fortune..no one would expect it to be free at the zoo). Sometimes random people would go to the zoo and pretend to be parking attendants for the day to get money, this 100% would happen as I know many people who were scammed by it.
hello daniel
Hi (my name is not Daniel and also I know this wasn't directed at me)
He’s not real yk
Drew*
best comment ive ever seen
i’m sorry for your loss
The thing with the Wendy's story is that, since it wasn't a franchise, corporate absolutely determines how many employee hours they are allowed to staff the store with based on projected sales for that day. Which is to say the ghost employee wasn't an EXTRA employee on the schedule, instead the manager was just understaffing the store by one fulltime employee while forcing her low level employee's to pick up the slack for being understaffed.
Oh that makes it way less cool :(
Lean staffing absolutely sucks. 😢
Actually foul.
less funny
damn i was kinda rooting for her until i heard this
Linda hired a ghost and he was a hard working employee. In this economy even ghosts need to work. The price of rent these days
as a former bristol local I can confirm as a kid I was told about the car park thief a lot, although in the UK a parking attendant isn't like someone who parks your car for you it's just some guy who vaguely points in the direction of an empty spot that probably has a tiny car in it which is was the car parking thief was like a mystical hero at my school bc of the lack of effort, bristol zoo closed for good a few years ago now but I believe the car park is still there just waiting for the next scammer, cough cough danny
Why is it so exciting for me finding a fellow former Bristol local 😂 was not expecting to hear a crazy story about my childhood zoo through Danny 😂
Ive been a bristol local my whole life, used to live near-ish the zoo, and i can genuinely remember the parking attendant guy. I don't know if he even indicated a spot, i just remember him being sat at the entrance of the car park collecting a pretty reasonable fee
Scamming is good when it’s big companies that lose money
I agree
unless it’s like a charity or something
the wendy’s one just screws over other workers tho bc if the store has hours for four people but only three are there bc she’s used one of the slots to clock in a fake person then that’s just overworking who’s already there
@@coal1235 yeah they said big companies
What if you owned a big company 💀 anti-rich people are the strangest fakest most jealous people
DANNY IN HIS MLM SCHEME ERA
I READ THAT AS MALE-LOVE-MALE😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀
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Danny in his mlm era
I support you danny!! #gaymenrights
I went to college down the street from THIS EXACT WENDY'S! One time a buddy of mine was in the drive thru line for like 30 minutes and by the time he got up to the menu the woman said "Sorry everyone just quit so I can't make the food." One time I was waiting in line and when I got up to the window they said "Oh sorry the card reader broke we can only take cash." And I didn't have any cash haha. I googled it when I heard it was a Wendy's in PA and I literally screamed "OF COURSE IT WAS OUR WENDY'S!"
the white streak in danny's hair is so pretty
next video I want Danny to say "go ahead and crack open a sparkling water" but proceed to drink a whole bottle of moonshine and never address it
This will happen.
It will.
@@rosesmith3694 It won't. Like I'm certain you have never paid attention to a single Danny video because he clearly would not ever do that. He's a content creator and a father, not your little voodoo doll.
@@nomoretwitterhandles except it will.
@@nomoretwitterhandles This will happen.
It will.
@@nomoretwitterhandles Take it as a joke... Because it is a joke
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5:14 in journalism you’re supposed to state the full name of an organization before using the abbreviated one which is why they didn’t just start out with UPS
My dad and his coworkers actually made up a fake coworker when he was in his 20s at a movie theater. He didn’t pocket the money or anything, but the employee did get paychecks! He named him Gern Blansten and whenever my dad got in trouble at work, he blamed Gern and then everyone got mad at Gern! They fired Gern eventually for failing to show up to a disciplinary meeting. No one ever found out.
the fake parking attendants are very real. one got me and my sister with a fake receipt, then we got fined for not having a legit receipt, and were thankfully able to dispute it.
bro wth that's sucks i would be so annoyed
The Bristol Zoo one is a bit different because both the government and the zoo were aware of the man and thought the other one employed him so nobody ever got fined for parking since both companies thought the guy was a legit employee. Bristol Zoo is so old they didn't realise they owned the car park, they thought it belonged to the council. It's actually a really sweet story because nobody got hurt, my guy was hustling hard and it paid off for him.
@@peachygrace9871 oh yeah, i don't have a problem with that guy 😅
@@peachygrace9871 I thought I replied to this, but it disappeared. But anyway, yeah, no problem that guy. 😅
As a former Restaurant Manager. I have never thought of creating a fake employee to pay myself. It's really kinda smart but SUPER illegal
and very unkind to your employees
the only issue with it you have is it's illegal?
well if caught that leads to major legal consequences
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1:56 Danny that's probably the plot of one of those official FNAF short stories
It is kind of refreshing to hear of scammers going after big corporations instead of vulnerable individuals. Also, given how rampant wage theft is, I honestly understand the first case of the fake employee.
I actually disagree with the first one because she just made it more difficult for the workers of the Wendy's while earning money she didn't deserve
There's a limit to how many employees/work hours they pay per default for a store. If there's a fake employee, that only works, if everyone else has to do the work of that fake employee.
She was putting more work on her employees and keeping the money. You are not a good person.
buying anything online or talking to anyone online freaks me out a little because of how common scams are
You can trust me! Now that we're friends, we should get to know each other more. What was the name of the street you grew up on and your mother's maiden name?
Valid
@@msjkrameytrosa, the house number is 1177, her full name was ann-sophie gunilla äpplepaj karlsson before she got murdered by danny
Skill issue
@@msjkrameyand the wacky 3 numbers on the back of my card?
greetings daniel gorgenzola
daddy Gonzalez
What's up Danny Gonzo
@@luzolivares6568 his nickname is Danny, but his real name is Danny
Daniel Gorgonzola, the internet’s most notorious rip off of Diggy Gorgonzola
Postal scams and theft are actually a lot more common than you think. Used to work at a post office and multiple people would just steal packages they assumed to be valuable. Christmastime was always the best since a lot of cards with money in them would get sent.
My friend got arrested for stealing around 100 Christmas cards. He kept them in his home, (rookie mistake, you open the envelope, take the money out and reseal it)
The Bristol Zoo story is absolutely true haha, I live in Bristol and spent a lot of childhood days out at the zoo and my parents remember the parking attendant working there and say he was really nice. Insane that it got a mention in a Danny video!
As a Chicagoan, that Chicago man changing the UPS HQ addy was funny af and if I ever see him around imma give that man $100 😂
i am that man actually, so u can give it to me now
i am that man actually, so you can give it to me now
👆LIARS! Do Not believe these imposters! The truth: I am that man, and thank you for the $100.
i am that man actually, so u can give it to me now
I am that man actually, so you can give it to me now.
"For 128 shifts.... let's do some math.... so that would be 156 shifts" 💀1:29
Edit: wait I just understood lmao 💀 he meant to say for 128 shifts divided by $20,000 is $156 per shift, but he accidentally said 156 shifts lol
i’ve been looking for someone else who noticed this lmao
He probably meant to say dollars per shift considering you can see the 128 above the 156
@@romancatholicgameing edit: it twas me who made the funny mistake lmao, you're completely right
@@mushroom4095 the 19ish was the dollars per *hour* in a shift, assuming 8 hour shifts
hello danny gongaga
It's spelled "Gazongas"
"128 shifts so that's 156 shifts" what Danny? xD
I read a story once about a guy who sent invoices to a company for "services rendered," and they were paid. For a significant amount of time. The company tried to sue him, but they lost because they were negligent in not looking into what services were actually rendered before they paid the bill.
I knew an old fella that did this for years and when his son forgot to check the postal box the post office got suspicious of all the mail (checks) coming in so fast. Guy ended up in prison with a pretty substantial sentence. I met him at a work release program.
@@DerrickBarrows the lesson here: never trust anyone to help you when you're stealing from the big guys Robin Hood style
Would have been amazing if he had answered the door in a UPS uniform and try to convince the reporter he IS the HQ for UPS
Technically he is. Or was, I guess.
Someone should tell him, bristol zoo shut down last september so no one could scam them anymore
Calling UPS by its full legal name is wild
UPS: United Parcel Service
USPS: United States Postal Service
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I love that he was okay saying United postal service but saying United Parcel Service sent him back to pony express times 😂.
I am weirdly happy to hear someone else mention that grand theft auto is a strange name for a crime. Like, I thought for sure you had to steal *at least* two cars, but no. As far as I'm aware, you can just steal one car and it's "grand theft." You literally don't even have to get away with it at that point. What's so grand about stealing _one_ car and then immediately getting caught? In my ted talk I will-
Pretty sure it's because it's worth more than a grand
@@randomtinypotatocried Therefore stealing something like a new phone should be called grand theft cellular
Maybe its because.. car big? Big = grand?
@@randomtinypotatocried That's an interesting point! I like what PeterParker said tho, that, if that's true, stealing an Iphone would be grand theft too. xD
The "grand" modifier is added to a theft charge when a minimum monetary value has been met. Anything worth less than that is considered petty theft and the minimums vary per state. Grand v. petty theft also carry the difference between being charged with a misdemeanor or a felony.
2:05 this is very off-topic, but I think Danny is predicting the FNAF lore
2:09 everyone say hi to Garred 🖐
Hi Garrett
Hi Garret!
Hi Garett
It's wild to hear Danny talk about the Bristol Zoo parking ghost. I live/grew up in Bristol. The story about one guy making millions might not be true - but it's based on some very real stories. When the zoo parking lot was full, cars used to illegally park on some field nearby. Apparently some random people took it upon themselves to put on hi-vis jackets and collect money from anyone parked on the grass... except money collection wasn't authorised by the people who owned the field, and no one knows where that money went. The legend of the Bristol Zoo ghost might not be so unreal after all.
Yay! I need stories with that kind of magic tomfoolery in my life 😂
I work at UPS, I haven't heard about this and I WILL be telling all my buddies about it
I work at USPS and I never heard about it either
I work at FedEx and i hate you
Daddy appreciates you❤
@@moodycheese9621I'm guessing this ups coa is the reason we added all the annoying ID scans for coas now
Same. I've been working for UPS for years and this is news to me 😂
5:42 it sounds like someone dared him to do it 😭😭😭
3:15 missed opportunity to call mustached Linda “Lydia B Johnson”
Peter B Parker reference?
Hello, I'm a news producer, and we start off certain videos with full names instead of acronyms to establish who we're talking about. In this case, there's a UPS as well as a USPS, so to avoid confusion, we'll just say the full name first and then use the acronym later in the stript since we already established who we're talking about. In cases like the NYPD, LAPD, NAACP, etc, everyone already knows who they are, so there's no need to say their full name. In cases of small town police departments like the CBPD, it's not as well known, so we would then write out the Cocoa Beach Police Department. Hope this helps👍🏾 love your videos btw❤
I never knew that but also isn't ups United postal Service or am I really wrong
@@deliamarjoribanks7881without googling it, i think USPS is united states postal service and UPS is united parcel service
@@deliamarjoribanks7881 it's United Parcel Service, look it up.
@@deliamarjoribanks7881USPS is the United States Postal Service:D
@@deliamarjoribanks7881 ups is united parcel service and it's a publicly traded company, usps is united stated postal service and its an independent agency of the federal government
That absolutely is how they figured it out. I was a shift manager under the same franchisee as the location it happened at. Literally only an assistant manager would’ve been at that high of an hourly, or someone with the company for more than a decade and racked up raises.
Should’ve just paid herself minimum wage lol
They coulda gotten away with it if it was $15/hour or even several different average wage workers over time
Or that he never missed work lol
Ghost employees are like oldest wage scam in the books. Pursers in the Royal Navy used to keep issuing rations and clothes to dead sailors so they could be paid twice, first on the commission (called the purser's pound) that they skimmed off all the supplies issued and then again when they resold the goods in a foreign port. This Wendy's manager was small potatoes.
13:57 Talk about fake it till you make it. Damn.
You can get arrested and not be in jail. There's a hearing to decide if you're dangerous or a flight risk where they decide how much your bail is. If you have the money, you get to go home until your trial. When you show up to court, you get your money back. But it can take months or years for the trial to conclude. Then, you go to jail for shorter sentences or prison for longer sentences if you were found guilty. If you already spent a while in jail awaiting trial, you can sometimes get "time served."
Bail is a really messed up system that disproportionately impacts poorer people. They don't have enough money to pay it, which causes them to lose housing and their jobs, leaving them in an even worse spot even if they're innocent. That's why so many people take plea deals even when they didn't commit the crime: they need to get out so they can work and feed their families
And people think I'm crazy when I say the only job of the police is to extract capital for the state through imprisonments and fines and quell riots.
If you can find a good bondsman they will help you so much. Some really do care about people.
what a disgusting country
i doubt the manager actually picked up the extra slack. it probably went to the min wage employees
0:26 aegoromantics and aegosexuals:
Bro 😭
And read about it too
Danny's motifs right now:
Canned bevarages
Dogs barking at the postman
Fire hair
Danny refuses to talk about scamming his fans with a fake speedrun
The Wendy's story doesn't even surprise me. Every retail place I've worked at had that one guy that would clock in and then disappear in the back for eight hours. Managers don't really care, they just make everyone else to pick up their slack.
The fake emplyee is pretyy common here in Brazil, especially within public services, but they usually hire some random dude to clock in then go home. At public hospitals some doctors clock in then leave to their private office to make particular appointments.
12:19 that’s the second time Danny has made a joke about somebody’s name being Facebook
There's a guy here in Mexico who recently "scammed" Cartier by buying two pairs of earrings from them for the equivalent of about $20 because an error on the website removed a few zeros lol. They did honor it and sent them to him but some Mexicans are discussing this and saying that it was unethical but luxury brands are basically the epitome of unethical.
I heard about that and was confused why they were saying he scammed them.
Neat that they honored their screwup.
Someone likely got fired for that one.
@@marcel_the-shark1892 depending on the jurisdiction, obvious pricing errors do not have to be honored, as they are mistakes not bait and switch.
Yes I just heard about this!! He definitely deserves the earrings that’s completely on the company how could they say that he’s the one who scammed them?
@@favoritemustard3542i think the law forced them to lmao, but still good for him
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personally i think scaming Wendy's is the funniest shit ever
it was more of an scam on her employees doing the extra needed work actually.
Poor Scott, people always trying to be free of that guy
I heard about the fake bills before, and it actually happened before.
In one case, the item on the bill was literally the bill itself, and stipulated that paying the bill meant agreeing to this term.
The courts found that this was a valid contract, and the scammers got to keep the money.
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2:09 The fact that you called him Garrett reminds me of the fnaf movie.
Danny bringing his own installment to the Drake/K Dot beef
9:56 Oh my gosh this is so funny i definitely watched the whole
video! love you danny!!
LMAO not it being out 1 minute ago😭😭
Indeed the part at 18:50 was hilarious
“This might be deception”
the part at 3:45:21 killed me
Loved this part 😂 20:20
I'm loving the gray streak peeking through Danny's hair
So nice of Danny to give us a bu bye every video, very generous
Danny made a Scott free joke years ago and I have thought about it every day since then. I am so glad to see him continuing the saga.
Oh my god I love stories like the last one. Man shows up for 25 YEARS and suddenly just vanishes one day- he never worked there. He's literally just some random guy
Danny is so cool and awesome! i wish he was real :(
Same :(
*Drew
@@SydneyAndHerArt all of the above
@SydneyAndHerArt
*kurt
@@rosesmith3694
*dirt
“Now you’re stuck with Scott” had me rolling lmao
Fraud is a good description for scamming an organization
Funniest part for me, as Lithuanian, is 11:58 when Danny read his surname so wrong, that it sounded correct.
Oh jeez I hope Danny doesn't talk about the small business I ran at Bristol Zoo 😅😩
The normal behavior of corporations is basically scamming, but we're so numb to that being considered acceptable that we only debate the morality of a 'scammer' when it's someone doing basically the same stuff on their own without the approval of a corporation- or against one
It's astounding to see how far some people would go to scam, even though it's morally reprehensible. But indeed, if they channeled their creativity into legit ventures, they'd probably be just as successful, if not more, and certainly happier.
For real like instead of risking life in jail for stealing from a evil corporation that makes refrigerators that break down after a year to scam people, you can instead start your own company that makes decent refrigerators and completely destroy the competition and make way more money without that risk .
i’m actually so glad that you are able to post more often without overwhelming yourself, it’s so amazing
daniel in his new mother era bc he really delivered with this
The grey hair is so stylish.
Honestly, I had so many times when I worked at Dairy queen that I was doing more than twice as much work as some of my coworkers (the management had lower standards for minors than adults for worker retention), and some of them screwed off so much that honestly, if I had the option, I would have 100% have took their wages in exchange for having to do the little amount of work they did myself if I had the option.
With how corporations underpay people they were probably doing the amount of work they were paid for tbh, you were just doing multiple wages worth of work and should’ve been paid accordingly . Remember the corporations are the enemy for putting you in the situation where you’re understaffed and underpaid so that you all blame eachother and fight among yourselves instead of realizing the higher ups are who you should be banding together to fight .
“LOGAN PAIL!?” we all scream in unison
"Scamming is wrong."
"but..." -Danny Gonzalez
I came back to Danny's channel after 3 years. watching him moved on from La Croix really broke my heart :(
"you are stuck with Scott, unfortunately" is now in my repertoire.
0:00 start of a banger (it ends at 15:37)
These restaurants watch their labor like HAWKS. They expect employees to be sent home early when it's slow to save labor cost and would most definitely notice an extra employee clocked in within a day. The reason it hasn't been done before is because no place has allowed it to happen for as long as they did.
i’m living for the frequent uploads 😁
3:34 idk why yall are defending the manager here;she probably made the other employees work double to fill in for the fake employee 😭
Idk how she did it, but she could have just added the one fake employee on top of the normal amount of employees they usually had in the back. I personally doubt that it was a significant amount of “extra” work for the other employees. Maybe she could have spread the extra money around a little, but I don’t think there’s usually a max amount of employees.
@@madiz4228 there actually is, Wendy's being a franchise calculates the bare minimun amount of employees needed to run a restaurant based on it's earnings, wich means her employees were doing the extra work of an already short staffed place.