LITTLETON—
Employees of a local Pizza Hut franchise are outraged after personal documents, including employment applications, social security numbers, and tax information, are left at a car wash on Federal Boulevard.FOX31 viewer Melvin Burris found the documents at the Road Runner Car Wash at Belleview and Federal when he stopped to empty trash into a trash can. There was a large manila envelope in the trash that Burris said clearly didn't belong there. There were multiple invoices for the Pizza Hut at 5856 South Lowell Boulevard, as well as employee folders for five people.
"I started seeing people's personal information, social security numbers, bank routing numbers, address, date of birth," Burris told us. "If it was my stuff I wouldn't want it out there."
Burris decided he had to do something, because he was once a victim of identity theft himself.
"You're hopeless, you're at a loss when that happens, you feel violated," he said.
When Burris called FOX31, we tracked down four of the five employees, to arrange for their documents to be handed back.
"I'm extremely mad, this should have been filed," Nick, a former cook at the Pizza Hut told us. "We were hired in October, I'm gonna say, this is something that should be deep in the filing cabinet, it should be hard to find, not something that someone can grab and throw in an envelope."
"I'm shocked that they would just leave our information just lying out for anyone to grab," said Josh, another former cook at the restaurant.
A manger at the Pizza Hut had no comment, saying only that they were looking into the issue. Calls to the national Pizza Hut office, and NPC, the owner of the franchise, went unanswered.
However, we have learned that these employee documents are not usually kept at the actual restaurant, and could have been taken or stolen from somewhere else.
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