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Special Edition Tortelicious: Tracking Rebecca Thybulle (Jury Duty Idiot)

November 9th, 2010. By admin

It’s a two-for-Tuesday today at Totally Tortelicious. Some stories are really just too precious not to share—and this baby deserves her very own Tortelicious…

[Note, as you read on, I have another “two” for you—two words: Background Check. Just tuck those away for now…]

So here’s Rebecca Thybulle. She’s an HR Manager in Staten Island, NY—and she’s been a Payroll Manager according to several reports, as well as her LinkedIn profile. That’s right—a Payroll Manager—you know, one of those people who figures out who’s been working when and how much they should be getting paid every two weeks and all. She should know a thing or two about “paid time off“, right? (Not to mention that you’d hope she had a bit of integrity when it came to a company’s purse strings…but I’m ahead of myself.)

Well, she may know about it, but she apparently doesn’t feel the need to play by the paid-time-off rule book herself. First, her latest news…

It seems Rebecca wanted to take some time off from work. Several days’ worth. Clearly, no one would want to blow vacation days on that. And to feign illness and call in sick would only work for a day or two…hard to milk a week or so outta that one—and then you risk that whole short term disability thing, too. No that won’t work. So what else does a red-blooded American have in her paid-time-off (aka PTO) toolbelt to skip out of work for several days and still get paid for it? Hmm…

Well, there’s the death-in-the-family route, but that would probably risk a few do-gooders at work trying to offer their condolences and wondering where to send flowers… Nah…that won’t cut it.

Oh! There’s jury duty! Oh—but wait—you need one of those you’ve-been-summoned-to-jury-duty mailer thing-a-ma-jigs to submit to your HR department. That’s the usual policy at least. And, how fortuitous! How seemingly serendipitous! It appears that Rebecca—or at least someone in her household—had received a jury duty notice! Lucky, lucky Rebecca!

Only thing was, it was apparently for her dad.

No biggie. She allegedly just forged the notice to say it was hers, handed it in at work, and…voila!…she’s a free bird!

But, foolish, foolish Rebecca did not cover her tracks. She—one hopes in her haste vs her stupidity—left the original jury duty notice—the undoctored one—on her desk! Bad move Rebecca! Bad move!

It gets better: she decided to share her jailbreak news on Facebook—and told her best buds that she was “Bmore bound!” and en route to see a Kevin Hart show.

Long story short, she got nabbed bigtime…held in lieu of $25,000 bond and is now facing potentially up to 14 years in prison. Ouch!

Ok, but remember when I said to tuck those two words—background check—away? Well, here’s where they come into play. See, Rebecca is apparently not a “first time offender” as they say. Here’s her recent rap sheet. She is due for sentencing this month on a grand larceny charge. What did she do? Theft of about $6,400 from Coffee Shop (the Union Square eatery) where she had worked as a Payroll Manager.

Huh? And…

Ms. Thybulle was also previously convicted in 2002 for embezzling about $28,000 from an elderly home in Poughkeepsie, NY where she had worked…in charge of payroll.

Ok—I can’t condone what Rebecca has done. Worse, she clearly sucks at it—she’s three for three on getting caught—not on getting away—and let’s just say that when performance review time comes around, well, Rebecca will be getting a “Needs Improvement” on a couple of things. Seriously, if Rebecca were part of the animal kingdom, predators wouldn’t have to work too hard—it’d be like, “oh look, yep, there’s Rebecca’s paw prints—she went thataway”.

But where the hell are the hiring managers who put her on payroll—and put her IN CHARGE of it—to begin with? Have they not heard of doing background checks? And heck, we’ve established that Rebecca’s not that good at covering her tracks so how hard could it be to uncover her rap sheet?

And people wonder why we have things like elder abuse, consumer fraud, malpractice…and on and on…

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