Wendy\u2019s manager goes viral for creating \u201cfake employee\u201d to pocket $20K Wikimedia Commons: Jed De La CruzReports claim a manager at a Pennsylvania Wendy\u2019s location managed to pocket around $20,000 after allegedly creating a \u201cfake employee\u201d and taking their \u2018wages.\u2019 A bevy of wild fast food fiascos have gone viral over the years, but one particular situation that went down at a Pennsylvania Wendy\u2019s is raising eyebrows across the internet. In 2023, it was discovered that a Wendy\u2019s manager in Lancaster County, PA had racked up nearly $20,000 after creating a \u201cfake employee\u201d at the popular chain and taking their wages. The manager, Linda Johnson, clocked in as the \u2018ghost employee\u2019 for a reported total of 128 shifts, earning $19,898.15 from July 2021 through April 2022. Wendy\u2019s manager goes viral for making $20K off \u201cfake employee\u201d As told by police documents, an insurance company claimed the location lost $15,000 from the manager\u2019s theft. Police interrogated other employees at the Wendy\u2019s location about the \u2018ghost worker\u2019; some said they didn\u2019t remember ever working with them, while one allegedly met the employee and said they even had a timecard. During a conversation with police, Johnson admitted to making the employee up, saying she set up their paychecks to deposit in her Cashapp account. Thanks to her unconventional methods, Johnson might have made around $20K \u2014 but she also faces a charge for felony theft. Despite the charges, Johnson\u2019s case is earning some impressed reactions online nearly a year later as the story goes viral on Twitter\/X. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna lie, this is smart as hell,\u201d one user admitted. \u201cYou can\u2019t even be mad at her. 128 shifts without anyone noticing this \u2018new employee\u2019 is insane LMAO.\u201d \u201cI respect the hustle,\u201d another commented. Others wondered if Johnson didn\u2019t have the help of other staffers, with one writing, \u201cShe wasn\u2019t doing it alone, she must have been sharing the benefits with other staff.\u201d She wasn\u2019t doing it alone, she must have been sharing the benefits with other staffs \u2014 Mo_ Gives \u24c2\ufe0f (@Mompha_Gives) March 15, 2024 This is just the latest crime-related fast food story to take over social media after a McDonald\u2019s worker was fired after getting arrested mid-shift for violating their probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wendy\u2019s manager goes viral for creating \u201cfake employee\u201d to pocket $20K Wikimedia Commons: Jed De La CruzReports claim a manager at a Pennsylvania Wendy\u2019s location managed to pocket around $20,000 after allegedly creating a \u201cfake employee\u201d and taking their \u2018wages.\u2019 A bevy of wild fast food fiascos have gone viral over the years, but one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}