By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

 

As a former member of the Air Force military police, as a
play-by-the-rules guy, Drew Pooters said he was stunned by what he found his manager doing in the Toys "R" Us store in Albuquerque.

 

Inside a cramped office, he said, his manager was sitting
at a computer and altering workers' time records, secretly
deleting hours to cut their paychecks and fatten his
store's bottom line.

 

"I told him, `That's not exactly legal,' " said Mr.
Pooters, who ran the store's electronics department. "Then
he out-and-out threatened me not to talk about what I saw."