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What a fucking night.....
15 years ago
It started about 4 pm today working at the convenience store, by myself. A couple of 9 - 10 year old kids stole something and ran out the door. Couldn't chase them down nor didn't see where they went. Little pieces of shit are not coming in the store again.
I see them every weekend. I decided to lock the 2nd entance door from there. Its a door that opens behind the cash registers, our backs are turned to it constantly when dealing with customers. Plus there is a wall of tobacco products where we can't see who comes in unless we look at the monitor that has a camera facing the door which is hanging across the way. If we don't look, we won't see them until they get to the entrance to the registers.
Nothing really happened between then and 9:15 pm. Normal customers, regulars and good people.
At around the 9:15 pm I heard some rustling in the corner inside the register floor. There is an opening right at the door where the fire extinguisher is. A guy from behind the registers, peeking over the tobacco product wall, asks if I had a pair of pliers. What for? IDK. Whatever. I had the pliers in my hand. I turned around the product wall and I see him pulling his shirt over two cartons of cigarettes down his pants. "Dude! WTF!" I exclaimed, put that shit back and get fuck outta my store! He darted as I was yelling obscenities at him. There were no other customers around. "I don't know what your talking about, durrrrrrrr" I swear I wanted to tackle him, hog tie him and call the police right then and there but by the time I call the police period he'll be long gone. The camera won't do shit and I didn't see what car he got into to tag. He made off with them, with the cartons sticking his shirt out like it was so not obvious. Fuxk! I wanted to throw a fucking boulder at his ass for doing something that fuckin stupid.
Then about an hour later when I was getting ready to go home, I got a call from a security office saying something was amiss with our alarm system. Things were going off, silent alarms, etc. They asked me to check around the building for an emergency alarm system Put me thru two people asking what I see, where is this and where is that. I thought it was the people who watch our cameras to see if they work. I kept being there guinea pig to figure out what the problem was with our system. There were buttons I was pressing and they said they could've been crossed. I went under the register where there is a red button. You know the cartoons that have the big red Do Not Press button? Yeah, it was the time that I had to do it but it was marked clearly as the emergency gas cut-off, DO NOT PRESS. Maybe the wires were cross with that, I dunno. I pressed it. People were pumping gas and it stopped on them. The security over phone said "We have identified the problem, thanks a lot." Then whoever I was talking to put me on hold and the supervisor got back on........................................
All I heard was a laugh in my ear and saying that you got owned! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ndule645y7hjmw58iwtrjdtkiul;sdfgjmndrtye86l!$)O(*&^%$#@!!!!!!!!
God fucking dammit!!!!! Threw an anger rage in front of customers. Not what I wanted, but it happened. Broke one of the cordless phones we had by slamming it to the ground. I never heard a line of people be so quiet before.
Now, how do I turn the gas back on?. IDFK how to fuckin do that! I don't have a phone nor does our landline phone make long distance calls so I wasn't able to call my manager what-so-ever! The third shift guy was there so he was handling the customers as I was flipping my shit.
Had to close the store down for an hour until we got things situated. Restarting/rebooting the computers, checking all types of switches, getting a phone to call my manager to walk thru the BS I put the store in. Denying customers of our gas. Nucking Futz.
Anyways, I had to call the customer service hotline store help and explained my fuck up. They walked me thru on how to turn the gas back on. Went into the office and low and behold, the circuit breaker for the gas pumps was off. Turn it completely off then back on. Ta-fucking-Da! Everything is ok, finally. Stayed an hour and a half over with no pay.
The worse part about that was I actually asked them for proof of who they were, but because it sounded real, and gullible I am. I went along with it. Lesson fucking learned. GAH!!!!
*beats self up* *cries*
I see them every weekend. I decided to lock the 2nd entance door from there. Its a door that opens behind the cash registers, our backs are turned to it constantly when dealing with customers. Plus there is a wall of tobacco products where we can't see who comes in unless we look at the monitor that has a camera facing the door which is hanging across the way. If we don't look, we won't see them until they get to the entrance to the registers.
Nothing really happened between then and 9:15 pm. Normal customers, regulars and good people.
At around the 9:15 pm I heard some rustling in the corner inside the register floor. There is an opening right at the door where the fire extinguisher is. A guy from behind the registers, peeking over the tobacco product wall, asks if I had a pair of pliers. What for? IDK. Whatever. I had the pliers in my hand. I turned around the product wall and I see him pulling his shirt over two cartons of cigarettes down his pants. "Dude! WTF!" I exclaimed, put that shit back and get fuck outta my store! He darted as I was yelling obscenities at him. There were no other customers around. "I don't know what your talking about, durrrrrrrr" I swear I wanted to tackle him, hog tie him and call the police right then and there but by the time I call the police period he'll be long gone. The camera won't do shit and I didn't see what car he got into to tag. He made off with them, with the cartons sticking his shirt out like it was so not obvious. Fuxk! I wanted to throw a fucking boulder at his ass for doing something that fuckin stupid.
Then about an hour later when I was getting ready to go home, I got a call from a security office saying something was amiss with our alarm system. Things were going off, silent alarms, etc. They asked me to check around the building for an emergency alarm system Put me thru two people asking what I see, where is this and where is that. I thought it was the people who watch our cameras to see if they work. I kept being there guinea pig to figure out what the problem was with our system. There were buttons I was pressing and they said they could've been crossed. I went under the register where there is a red button. You know the cartoons that have the big red Do Not Press button? Yeah, it was the time that I had to do it but it was marked clearly as the emergency gas cut-off, DO NOT PRESS. Maybe the wires were cross with that, I dunno. I pressed it. People were pumping gas and it stopped on them. The security over phone said "We have identified the problem, thanks a lot." Then whoever I was talking to put me on hold and the supervisor got back on........................................
All I heard was a laugh in my ear and saying that you got owned! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ndule645y7hjmw58iwtrjdtkiul;sdfgjmndrtye86l!$)O(*&^%$#@!!!!!!!!
God fucking dammit!!!!! Threw an anger rage in front of customers. Not what I wanted, but it happened. Broke one of the cordless phones we had by slamming it to the ground. I never heard a line of people be so quiet before.
Now, how do I turn the gas back on?. IDFK how to fuckin do that! I don't have a phone nor does our landline phone make long distance calls so I wasn't able to call my manager what-so-ever! The third shift guy was there so he was handling the customers as I was flipping my shit.
Had to close the store down for an hour until we got things situated. Restarting/rebooting the computers, checking all types of switches, getting a phone to call my manager to walk thru the BS I put the store in. Denying customers of our gas. Nucking Futz.
Anyways, I had to call the customer service hotline store help and explained my fuck up. They walked me thru on how to turn the gas back on. Went into the office and low and behold, the circuit breaker for the gas pumps was off. Turn it completely off then back on. Ta-fucking-Da! Everything is ok, finally. Stayed an hour and a half over with no pay.
The worse part about that was I actually asked them for proof of who they were, but because it sounded real, and gullible I am. I went along with it. Lesson fucking learned. GAH!!!!
*beats self up* *cries*
But to know that you were caught in the act and to make out like nothing happened is sheer ignorance.
Working at a convenience store, I'm not surprised by shit like that. All kinds of stupid little hoodlums and shitbags around. Though I've never heard anything like those guys calling you. Is there a way to trace back the call, redial or something and give the number to the police? And there should be a button that you press that locks the doors so no one can get out, so if douche-man with the cartons of cigarettes under his shirt is trying to run out, he can't get out the door.
Don't feel bad man. In each of those cases, I don't think there's much of anything you can do since you aren't given proper methods of preventing or stopping it from happening other than yelling at them. And the guys on the phone, I'm pretty sure anyone would have fallen for that because that is just out of nowhere. But you're now much stronger and wiser for having to have gone through that, so next time you'll be more prepared for it. I just hope there isn't a next time where you have to deal with this shit. *huggles*
I went back this morning before I headed off to my other job to explain the whole situation. Then I also came back afterwards and my manager and co-workers actually watched the tape of when it happened. Ignorant mfer did it right in front of the camera. But like I said, there is nothing we can do about it now. That's $100 stolen.
Everything is a key lock. Though our store is getting a renovation, I don't see those automatic locks going in. But the registers NEED to be rearranged. Its crazy the way they are setup now. >.<
As far as the phone call goes, there is no way of tracing it. They were playing a prank and thankfully it didn't cost much damage nor no money was taken. Just a few missed sales. I think it was a little website called phoneownage. Not quite sure about it but it really could've been anyone.
Unfortunately, this won't be the last it'll happen. I just fear the worst that will come next. Y.Y
Thanks, man. *cuddle huddle*
fucking customers...