The Mystery of the Missing Paper

It all started right around the time we hired two new guys at work. One was a computer guy who went to college, the other guy was hired because he was the nephew of our boss. He and I worked in the same building. The computer guy worked everywhere we had offices so he was in and out alot. I was real surprised when I had to order paper for our building as we never had a lot of use for it. I ordered some though and then I started to keep an eye on the reams by checking the boxes every Friday. I started to notice the printers getting lower each week too and that in itself was surprising. Sure enough a ream or two continued to be missing each week. I told the manager above me and she alerted my boss. My boss called me and I explained what I was noticing. She sent out an email to all employees saying how much she paid for the paper and the honesty of all that worked for her. She made her point because for awhile the paper thief stopped. I had my suspicions that it was the guy that worked with me. My boss on the other hand and a few others thought it was the new computer guy. Well our boss went on vacation and the paper thief hit again while she was gone. We started keeping a count on the printers, we were amazed as some days the thief printed off over two to four hundred sheets! What could he be printing we wondered. We now knew why a whole ream would be gone,one ream has five hundred sheets. We also deducted that the only one that was available to do this was the guy I worked with. He knew I left early so he printed when I left, he also had access to the other area where my boss worked and he worked there when she was on vacation too. So we knew it was him and waited to tell the boss when she came back. It was not what we all thought, he did not get fired. Can you believe it? He had a talking to and the boss said it was taken care of. We know relatives are a sticky situation but a thief and you still want him around! We all are real disappointed. We don’t  want him around, we don’t know what he printed a ton of. Could it have been books? We are puzzled with how she took care of it, wouldn’t you fire him, she knew her toner cartridges were out more than normal as she told someone else about it. The cost of that is more than the boxes of paper which we all estimated to be around six thousand and counting. We shall see how things go as everyone knows he is the thief. Anyone else work with a known thief?