Shoplifters of the world...

__2004-09-05 @ 6:22 p.m._______ I wish I had a lasso. That way, I could catch and bitch slap the punk that stole from the record store while I was working security. I'm sitting right by the door, next to the fucking detection gate watching everyone go through the door, and this guy slowly walks right through and the alarm goes off. Immediately, he goes blazing through the busy berkeley streets, knocking people over and barreling down the street, while I chase his sorry ass for about three seconds until I get someone on my ridiculous walkie talkie saying to stop and come back. I kind of have an idea where the thief is hiding and as I'm walking back, I tell my manager that I might be able to identify him in this hall of stores he has run into. So we go out take a look at the suspects, one of which is visible and pretty much daring us approach and accuse him (like he knows his rights or something). My manager then asks me if I can 100% be sure that he was one of the guys who ran out of the store. Of course, I'm like "not 100%, but I'm pretty damn sure it was him." Obviously, this is not good enough, and the manager guy is pretty much pissed at me. I tell him I'm sorry and that jazz about how he took off immediately and I couldn't do anything about it. Let me just say that this whole scenario was really fucking shitty. Next thing I know, I'm basically the newbie who can't handle security. This pisses me off. There was nothing I could do about this situation and there was no way I could have handled it any better- I was in position and doing my job and then some asshole just takes off out the door into a sea of people! Not my fault. Yet the rest of the people there are basically like "well, the new guy can't hack it up there...funny shit, huh?" Bad day at work...that's just about all I can say. In sum, people are going to steal and even if you put a security gate at the door, put security devices on all of the merch, AND put a guy at the gate. Thanks for stealing that hip hop disc asshole- makes my day. << | >>