are you serious

[impy]

Work was pretty dead last night, which is not me complaining. Since today is the last day of the month, it's cig count and new tags get hung tonight. Because my boss loves me, she talked the store manager into letting me not count the cigs in order to do the tags instead. To make that job easier on the girl who has to do it instead, I went through and sorted things so it'll be really easy to count them.

And then around 5am I'm filling the area in front of the registers and I see a guy walking by the cos windows. And I just know it's the big guy who hops the counter and steals our cartons of cigs. He turns and then comes in and I'm not 100% sure because I've only seen him once before. I say hello and he says good morning and I take a step to the side because either he IS the guy and I don't want to find out if he's the shoving sort or he's not the guy and I'm in his way. The absolute second I take the first step, up and over he goes.


The best part is one of our regulars was in the store and he comes up as Biggie is raiding the Marlboros, and you can tell he doesn't realize the guy isn't an employee. And then it dawns on him and that's when Biggie hauls ass. Because he doesn't care whether we're around but customers are another thing entirely. He was in such a hurry that he dropped one of the cartons.

As I'm making my list of possibly stolen items, another customer comes in and warns us that today's gonna suck because everyone's going to be rushing to the stores for provisions because Dorian is now expected to make landfall near the GA/SC border. JOY.

Comments

[venivididolli]

Should the cigarettes maybe be locked up? And if he's a regular, why has no one done anything to catch him? I'm confused.

[impy]

My fav shift lead has suggested they be locked up but so far we haven't been given the go-ahead to do so for whatever reason.

The thing that gets me is the cops know who this guy is. After the first time he hit, they said, "Oh, that's Mike!" (I think that's his name but I'm not positive since I heard this part secondhand.) He's been locked up because, again, they know who he is... but still he gets out and goes right back to it.

[venivididolli]

Ughhhhhhhhhhh. That just sounds like a headache, but if they don't care enough to lock up the product after a repeated issue, then they kinda deserve it.

[impy]

To be fair, after each of his raids, we do wind up putting the cartons in the stockroom and then slowly they'll start putting them back on the shelf because it is a royal pain to have to walk all the way back there to grab a carton when someone wants to buy them. I think after his last one we were told they'd grabbed him but they keep letting him go for whatever reason. It's not like he hasn't stolen thousands of dollars worth of stuff from us alone but I guess since he's non-violent (thankfully) they don't care.