Theft

I can't really fully express how much I hate theft.
Today we got hit and I mean hit HARD by some mother fucker with no morals.

I went in today at 3 PM, but I usually arrive early - 30 minutes early to be exact - and I was immediately pulled aside and informed that we had just experienced a HUGE loss. I won't say what the item was, but believe me...it was fucking expensive. They don't know who did it or at what time. The person also happened to do it in a blind spot where my security cameras cannot get to and THAT is even more frustrating. We think it might be an inside job, but we can't tell.

After I clocked on, I was extra vigilant in watching the area that was being targeted. I kept updating the employees on the situation via the walkie-talkies that we all carry and I maintained a constant eye on possible thieves. I can usually spot it when people are acting suspicious but today was just so strange - every fucking person seemed suspicious! I didn't know which was heads or tails today.

I went on lunch around 7 at night only to get back and be greeted by another loss of the very same item that we'd lost earlier that day.

Now what a fucking coincidence that they stole it when I was on lunch. What a fucking coincidence that they stole it before I clocked on earlier today as well. hmm makes me wonder.

We've had a recent spike and we didn't get this bad until we hired some losers for holiday seasonal help to assist us with our Christmas rush of customers.

I was forced to endure a meeting this morning and listen to my boss bitch at us for doing this or that wrong or for talking to the other employees too much. We were then accused of not being passionate enough about stopping theft simply because we don't talk about it "every day like we should be doing" in our store's morning meetings. Well, she is dead wrong.

NO ONE could be more passionate about stopping theft than me. She couldn't ask for a more honest, loyal employee. I simply don't talk about theft very much in our meetings because I am a shy person and I hate speaking in front of people in the form of groups. This is not to say, however, that I would not take care of a thief and secure merchandise. I most certainly wouldn't let my shyness get in the way of my job or cause it to make me less passionate about catching theft. It angers me for her to even SUGGEST for a fraction of a moment that I am not passionate enough. She said, "How can we claim we are passionate about it when we don't even discuss it in the meetings?"

I was further frustrated because I came up with possible solutions to her complaints and she just brushed them aside. If anyone lacks passion about preventing theft, it's her not me. She just bitched at us because she thinks she's not doing her job unless we get bitched at. She said, "If I see you guys having a conversation with someone from now on, it's an automatic write up."

Dude, I fucking dare this bitch to write me up. The world would fucking end and hell would freeze over. I'll be damned if I allow someone to write ME up. Other people get write ups. Amanda Carter does not. I am not your ordinary fucking average Jane employee. I've been written up ONCE and it was over 3 years ago. I forgot to attend a meeting and my GM was angry over my absence so he wrote me up. That was in summer 2006. If they ever write me up, they'd better have a good God damned reason for it because I'm among the best they have. PERIOD.

I know I'm a good, hard worker so FUCK THEM.

And FUCK the thieves. I think those fuckers know better than to come in on my shift, or if it's an employee I think they know better than to try to get that shit past me. Whatever it is, I'm going to raise hell if I find out who it is. I can't guarantee I won't do something that might cost me my job because I just might grow that angry on the spot if I bust the person. I have caught internal theft before and I was absolutely livid!

I gave a lecture in the meeting tonight after the store was closed. We had a large crew tonight and everyone got to hear me rant. My manager turned the floor over to me to actually talk to everyone and my anger was far more powerful than any amount of shyness I might have otherwise had within me. I simply let into everyone and expressed how there was no excuse for us to have let it happen. I said we were all to blame and that things must change around the store. We lack the passion and drive to actually GIVE A SHIT and contact customers to the point of deterring theft. I told them they should all be as angry as I am because it hurts our NOP (net operating profit) which affects our quarterly bonus and our labor budget.  I'm sure employees would get on the ball if it started biting into their fucking paycheck, and it WILL happen if this theft problem gets worse.

I just find it so troubling because I can't stop it if I'm not there for it. It makes me want to be there at all times to catch this motherfucker but I do have a life and other things to tend to. Besides, it'd drive me nuts to work all the time and they wouldn't let me anyhow - I'd have overtime out the ass. I just can't solve this because I'm 99.9999% sure they're not stealing on my shift.

I hate thieves.

If I had my way, we'd do like they did in the old days and cut off thieves' hands.

Now I'm NOT saying I'd do it to someone who was stealing food because they were hungry. I can understand that a little more because it plays into human survival (its still wrong but more understandable at least) but stealing electronics?! NO. Just NO.  As I said, I'd love to cut the hands off people who fucking steal.

It pisses me off when they get caught and they say, "I'm sorry!"

Bullshit dude, you're not sorry you did it. You're sorry you got caught.

There's a big fucking difference.

If you got away with it, you'd not be "sorry"!

Being sorry means you have true remorse for what you have done.

You're not sorry you did it, just sorry you didn't do it successfully.

People shouldn't have such tolerance. It makes me fucking angry. Don't give me that bullshit about, "Oh we're all human. People make mistakes. People can change. Society should forgive past wrongs and crimes of people and give them a second change."

Bull-fucking-shit

Yes, we all are human.

Yes, we all make mistakes.

Yes, we all do shit we aren't proud of.

But we shouldn't tolerate these behaviors and shrug them off as if we're passing off our humanity as an excusable reason for us to just fuck things up and its OK. No, no it's not ok.  If societies tolerate such bullshit from people, people will keep fucking doing it. Thieves that come into my store are people and steal are those who try it repeatedly. If someone comes in who has been caught stealing before, you can bet they're in there trying it again.

So don't say how cutting off hands is cruel unusual punishment. They should have thought of it when they were stealing. If I had my way, those fuckers wouldn't be in jail with 3 meals a day supported by my tax dollars. They'd just get the punishment of not having a hand and be reminded of their fuck up every second of every God damned day when they wish they had a second hand and curse their own stupidity. Who needs tax dollars to support assholes like that when you had good, old fashioned justice to be both the solution and the future deterrence for such actions? I'll cut off the fuckers hand for free as a matter of fact so we can spend tax dollars on more important stuff like our educational system.

Everyone wins.

Fuck thieves.

Oh and...

fuck my boss as well.

She's a bitch.


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