Top banker fired… for stealing sandwiches
British top banker Paras Shah can start polishing his LinkedIn profile again, because he has been summarily dismissed from Citigroup. Yes, Shah, you really shouldn’t steal sandwiches from the cafeteria.
Colleagues who eat all your tin of Smints when you’re not in the office for a day, spread the last bit of your tuna salad on their own cracker and always empty the licorice jar: everyone has that one colleague who is far too greedy when it comes to food at the office. Just ask Ross from Friends, because his boss casually ate his favorite turkey-and-gravy sandwich. But stealing bread from the cafeteria—that’s next level. It cost British banker Paras Shah his top job at Citibank in London.
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Lavish lunchbox
The banker, responsible for the department that trades shares for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, earns around a million pounds a year. That’s almost €1,200,000, including bonuses and other nice perks. More than enough money for a packed lunchbox, you’d think, or a lavish lunch out. Yet Paras Shah couldn’t resist rummaging through his department’s refrigerator. Citigroup won’t say how many sandwiches he took or how often the theft occurred, and Shah is also unavailable for comment.
Orange juice gone, trust gone
Britons reacted angrily to the theft on the BBC website. ‘If you take something you should have paid for, it’s theft, no matter what you earn,’ says Scott Hetherington. For journalist Carrie Bone, the news brings up an old trauma: ‘Someone once stole my orange juice from the refrigerator at work, and I never got over the betrayal. Who does something like that? Can’t you trust anyone?’ A Guardian journalist wrote on Twitter: ‘I’m absolutely terrified, because I’ve spread butter on toast in our company restaurant before, but I didn’t pay the butter surcharge.’
