Is he justified for doing this?

What is a dark secret that you have?

Years ago, I got a summer job at a

grocery store. I was a teenager from a

poor family just trying to get a job so

that we could afford food. My mom

couldn't afford to feed us in the summer

without the school lunches, but she made

slightly too much to qualify for food

stamps. If you've ever been poor, you

know how it goes. The manager was a

complete ass swipe who fired me 2 weeks

in because, and I quote, "I just don't

like your personality." We had never

actually spoken until that point. I

cried because my mom was counting on me

to be able to pay for the groceries that

week, and I told him that. He told me I

was being dramatic. The store had these

barcodes they would stick on things to

mark them down if they were expired. I

realized that I still had the rolls of

printed up stickers in my pocket when I

got home because I had been marking

things down that day. I copied the

stickers off onto sticky paper and stole

probably a few thousand of groceries

that summer. I technically did pay for

the groceries because I was checking

them out at the selfch checkckout and

paying money for them, but I was getting

salmon fillets and racks of ribs for $2,

big veggie trays for $1, expensive

cheese for 99 cents, etc. I was careful

not to be too greedy and not try to buy

a cart full of expensive at a time.

I would do several smaller transactions

at selfch checkckouts and spread it out

over about a dozen stores. It was a big

national corporate chain. I always paid

in cash. I never got caught. I told my

mom that I got an academic scholarship

and that's where I got the money for the

groceries.