8 employees were fired, and 25 had their pay cut by 30%, for not paying for tickets on their own monorail service.

JR East Tokyo Monorail, says most of the employees were in management positions.  They would board the train for work, swipe their pay cards, then once at work, would use the company computers to delete the charge.

One employee almost got away with 590,000 yen worth of fares.  Unpaid fares have cost JR East over 1.2 million yen.