Shoplifting Accusations

So today was a fairly dull day at work. Okay, more like incredibly dull. I worked with another person again (might have been a mistake on his part the way he was talking, I don't know), and I don't get along with him too well. It's not that he's a bad guy or anything, it's a personality clash. Where as I am very much into the art scene, and obscure, and anime and manga; he is into running and chess. Literally, that is what the majority of his conversation was about. And he's not too good at keeping conversation going... and he uses "like" waaaaaaay too much. At least for my taste. So there was definitely no definite connection. I mean, I don't hate him or anything, and I'd work with him again. He's not a bad person. I just don't care much for some of his mannerisms and we don't care much for the same things. LOL There are definitely other people I would prefer to work with.

Like Caitlin, who came in wearing the most adorable gothic lolita outfit EVER. Man, I wanted it. <3

And of course, couldn't escape the day without having to talk to our favourite Middle Eastern men...

There was a severe lack of people in the mall today, and as such business was slower than slow. So when Glen took the stool at the register, I wandered the calendars. Because I figured he would stay there and just keep watch, you know? I was curious as to what we had in stock, since I didn't get to stock everything, and to know what the calenders were about so that if the exact calender someone wanted wasn't in, I could direct them to something similar and try to keep sales up.

While I was doing this, I noticed a girl looking around, but that's normal, we have people come and look all the time. And I let her on her way. I mean, as far as I knew Glen was at the register so if she needed something or wanted to buy, she'd ask him. Made sense to me. She could have asked me too, it's not like I was estranging myself, but it would be hard to see my name tag with me crouched down. LOL Glen, by the way, did not have a name tag until later when Alix was able to show us where they had been stashed. She had to wait for Bonnie so that the store wasn't left unmanned.

So anyways, I continue my browsing and the next thing I know there is a Middle Eastern guy talking to me. I had to have him repeat himself three times before I understood what he said. He was asking me if a girl had bought a calendar. And I told him not that I had seen. Like I said before, I figured Glen was still at the register.

Well apparently he wasn't. Because this guy lays in about how this girl, who was right there had come into his store (ya know, the Dollar Store that is shutting down~! :D) and slipped the calendar in her bag, and was obviously shoplifting and stuff and he had caught her and on and on and on.

I felt so bad for this poor girl. I told the guy thanks, and that I would handle it. And as soon as he walked away (he went like three steps outside of the kiosk and just eavesdropped and stuff. Jerk) I looked at her and she started apologizing.

Now, I'm not perfect, but I consider myself to have a pretty good judge of character. And the way she was acting, she wasn't a shoplifter.

First of all, like she stated, she came back. And if she really wanted to steal the calendar, I doubt she'd have gone and STOOD IN FRONT OF someone else to do it. Just doesn't make sense.

And she also made mention that she had gone to the register but no one was there and she wasn't sure who worked the kiosk, that Glen and I looked like customers. Fair enough. Like I said, I figured Glen would stay at the register while I had a look. It's what I was doing while he was browsing calendars. Oh well, I was wrong.

In the end, she paid for the calendar. My guess is that she went into the Dollar Store and slipped the calendar in her bag on instinct, and was going to ask if that guy knew who worked the kiosk. Because seriously, that's not the behavior of a shoplifter. And people make mistakes. My mom has walked out of a store without paying for something before because she just forgot she was holding it (handbag, for example) and the alarm never sounded, and the minute she realized she went back and paid for it. It happens.

But man, when she left that Middle Eastern guy came right back over and was just laying in on how he knew those types and had seen it before and he knew shoplifting when he saw it, and that we should have reported her and whatnot. Seriously... it was not his place. We thanked him, and told him the situation had been handled. He just couldn't resist making a few more remarks before he went back to his store... and continued to stare at our kiosk.

I. CANNOT. WAIT. FOR. THEM. TO. BE. GONE.

That just pissed me off. I was glad he told us, but he didn't have to accuse her of shoplifting. Seriously. If she had been, I don't think she would have followed him back over. Hell, I would have walked off. I wouldn't have even entered another store without first bagging the merch. Come on... pretty stupid.

On the flip side, had this one guy want to purchase two box calendars, only his credit card did not want to work. So Glen taught me this trick where you put it in a plastic bag and then it will, miraculously read it. COOL! So that was a good think to learn for future reference.

One down, three more days of boring to go. I really need to bring my sketchbook. Reading just isn't cutting it. And maybe a videogame... like, a puzzle. Just something to pass the time.

OR PEOPLE TO VISIT. *hinthintwinkwinknudgenudge* LOL

I can't wait for next week though. I get 35 hours, and it's all in the bookstore! :D