Employee noticed that a coworker was stealing products from the store where they work, she took it to management and got fired, it was the boss's nephew: 'Over the course of three years, he’d taken over $10K in unpurchased merchandise'

She just tried to do the correct thing and got fired!Doing the right thing sometimes puts you in a worse position than doing something that you know is wrong. This story is crazy, and it got me thinking about all the times when people do the right thing, what they "have to do", and it ends up making things bad for them and not for the person that did the incorrect thing in the first place. This applies especially to work issues. There are millions of stories of employees going up to management to complain about some coworker behavior or their lack of work, and they end up getting a target on THEIR back instead of the coworker that was not doing their job correctly. Is this a thing of bad management? Is it just easier to blame the person that points out the issue instead of the person who causes it? Are the people in management hiding something?I find it so sad the fact that stuff like this is always happening and nobody seems to care enough. You are putting your job more on the line by being a "snitch" than by behaving incorrectly. Your coworker may be stealing from the company, and when you point it out, people start to treat YOU differently. And I mean that in a bad way. They wi…