Clyde is getting a $600 bonus instead of $100. Just got it OK'd. That will pay for his suspended time plus a couple hundred bucks. I wanted to go for $1000 but couldn't get it approved by the guy who signs the checks.
Well done!
I had to laugh when I was discussing this with the Pres..Me : "You're sure you don't want to go $1000?"Pres : "Stop and think for a minute. Yeah, we caught the theft, but we're basically rewarding Clyde for yelling motherf--ker 6 times and pantsing a kid in the call center during business hours. $600 is plenty."
You can't place a premium on the kind of initiative Clyde showed. If it were not for Clyde having grabbed the bull by the horns you would be facing an ongoing dilemma with this kid. You may eventually have had to confront or fire the kid, exposing yourself to potential liability. Clyde, having done this without direction from management, and on his own initiative, with no prior history for taking matters into his own hands, is about as clean a solution as you could hope for, liability-wise.