ABSTRACT
Employee dishonesty is a subject about which nobody likes to talk. If it were once possible for dishonest employees to milk employers of thousands of dollars, the amount has grown, with the computer’s help, into the hundreds of thousands. Long-term employees are understandably exempt from the usual interrogations that take place when a white-collar crime is being unearthed. The suggestion continues to be heard that the polygraph test be used to determine the honesty or lack of honesty of employees. A more common kind of employee dishonesty is the misappropriating of the money from library fines. The Public Library of Rockport, Maine was given an Eastman Johnson painting, “Sugaring Off At The Camp,” in 1953. The manager’s reaction to the charges was not given: “Officials at the Library also refused to say what the manager’s response had been when he was confronted with the charge that the funds had been misallocated.”
