Also theft happens once you move a thing that is not yours with the intent to deprive the owner of it.
I never intended on depriving of its owner either...I mean, I thought this beef jerky was bought by someone in the store, left in break room, avaliable to be eaten.
Correct, but I didn't move the jerky from outside the break room to inside. I found it in there...but the manager is claiming that it was never in there to begin with. If it wasn't in the break room to begin with, I never would of even touched it.
I'm wondering if I have anything to work with here. I was falsely accused of stealing. Our company has a break room, and most of the items inside the break room are there without receipts(it's company policy to have everything with a receipt).
In our breakroom everyone eats each others food...