If these statistics are accurate, it means that 140 million shoplifting incidents occur each year in a nation of 260 million people. Only 10 percent would be considered poor.
Hotel managers count on one of every three guests stealing something.
Security officials estimate that 9 percent of all employees steal on a regular basis and that 75 percent of all employees in retail establishments steal to some degree, taking three times as much as shoplifters. He was employed by a wealthy citizen who had hired him to be the administrator, or manager, of his farm and all of his goods. In what is better known as the parable of the unjust steward, Jesus said that this wasteful servant had been squandering and mismanaging his master's resources. One day an accusation was brought against the man, and apparently there was substantial evidence that he wasn't doing his job very well. So the master of the estate called his employee and told him that he was about to be dismissed.