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So, I'm gonna be fired. :(
I don't know if this is the right place for this, if it's not I'm sorry.
This happened right after I came back from my break, I walk up to my department and I see these 3 kids coming around the corner from produce, 2 of them are in shopping carts back to back (or more appropriately front to front) and the third one is hanging off the back of the second one. I see this and they know that they're caught, by the time I stoped walking and they stopped rolling along I'm about 6-7 feet away from them. (that's important for later)
I tell them 4 times to "get out of the carts or I'll call security and a manager." The kids tell me no to mind my own business after I tell my coworker Cas who saw the whole thing to call the manager Charlie they started making jokes about Willie Wonka, I see Jerry from produce walk into the prep room of his department and tell him to call Charlie but he doesn't hear me. I go into the produce prep room and use the PA system to call "Charlie come to seafood immediately" I go back out and the kids are finally getting out of the carts and I tell them to "please leave" and what I get in return is screw you, shut up and you're not the boss of me.
Let me say again the shortest distance between me and these kids was about 6-7 feet. Charlie comes over and I tell him everything that just happened so he tells me to come with him to point the kids out, we get right in front of the customer service counter and this woman stops us and yells "excuse me!" we both stop and I think we're out of something or something she wants isn't on sale but here's where my life turns to hell.
"Are the one who was harassing my son!? Who the hell do you think you are to yell at my son like that?!" Now up to this point in my life I've only heard about and read about parents like her, now I have the misery of saying that now I know what it feels like. Shocked and wanting to defend myself I opened my mouth " the way they were in the carts wasn't safe, they could've hurt themselves or someone else" this only enraged her "well who the fuck are you mother Theresa?! What gives you the right to scream and curse at my son, to go up to him and get in his face and threaten him?! I'm going to do everything I can to make sure you get fired! And if you EVER go near or yell at my son again I'll call the police!" once again I tried to defend myself and I thought a couple of times that she was going to hit me from the little movements she was making, Charlie tried to shush me 3 times but I felt like I needed to speak my side of it.
Charlie then told me to "go into the back right now and wait till get there." I went and hid in the produce cooler behind some stuff so if anyone went back there you wouldn't know where I was unless you knew where to look (the morning people sometimes use the space if they want to be lazy and take a 30minute break) I told Cas and Jerry unless it's Charlie you don't know where I am, about 20 minutes later Charlie comes in and asks me for my side once again this time with a smile on his face, and I feel like I'm 8 seconds from either throwing up or messing up my pants, this is not good. (99% of the time it's not a good thing when he smiles) He says she has a full recording with sound of their entire cart ride beginning (her telling them to go ahead) to end (me calling Charlie) and that she's a fucking bitch and full of shit. He tells me that the security cameras show her recording them with her iPhone laughing and smiling but with no sound, he escorted me up to the office to see it and then he told me to calm down and said that he was going to defend me.
She called 2 times in the 20 minutes I was up there, the first time she called I could hear her screaming on the other side of the phone (our phones are LOUD plus I was standing right next to Charlie) about how upset her son was and how she wants me fired and that I deserve to get fired and she was going to make sure I got fired, Charlie told her that I already got disciplined but that wasn't good enough for her she wanted proof that I was fired. Then she decided that Charlie was talking down to her and not respecting her as a customer or person and not taking the situation seriously and that I was an insubordinate little bitch. Then she demanded the corporate number. The second time she called it was more yelling and screaming about how Charlie was completely unprofessional and how no matter what she would "get justice for her and her son and his friends extreme emotional distress and embaresment".
Before I left I thanked Charlie for trying to defend me but I know exactly how corporate is and that this woman is out for blood and wants "justice." (me fired) So knowing those 2 things since they don't have the extra help without me for the next 2 days I'm pretty sure they're going to tell me not to come back after Christmas, or once the store manager Gesner and corporate hear about it I'll be fired tomorrow morning. The other thing about this is if I just looked away and ignored it and they or someone else got hurt they would've looked at the tapes blamed me for ignoring that and not helping to prevent it and I would be fired anyway. After 8 and a half years this is how I'm leaving my store.
This happened right after I came back from my break, I walk up to my department and I see these 3 kids coming around the corner from produce, 2 of them are in shopping carts back to back (or more appropriately front to front) and the third one is hanging off the back of the second one. I see this and they know that they're caught, by the time I stoped walking and they stopped rolling along I'm about 6-7 feet away from them. (that's important for later)
I tell them 4 times to "get out of the carts or I'll call security and a manager." The kids tell me no to mind my own business after I tell my coworker Cas who saw the whole thing to call the manager Charlie they started making jokes about Willie Wonka, I see Jerry from produce walk into the prep room of his department and tell him to call Charlie but he doesn't hear me. I go into the produce prep room and use the PA system to call "Charlie come to seafood immediately" I go back out and the kids are finally getting out of the carts and I tell them to "please leave" and what I get in return is screw you, shut up and you're not the boss of me.
Let me say again the shortest distance between me and these kids was about 6-7 feet. Charlie comes over and I tell him everything that just happened so he tells me to come with him to point the kids out, we get right in front of the customer service counter and this woman stops us and yells "excuse me!" we both stop and I think we're out of something or something she wants isn't on sale but here's where my life turns to hell.
"Are the one who was harassing my son!? Who the hell do you think you are to yell at my son like that?!" Now up to this point in my life I've only heard about and read about parents like her, now I have the misery of saying that now I know what it feels like. Shocked and wanting to defend myself I opened my mouth " the way they were in the carts wasn't safe, they could've hurt themselves or someone else" this only enraged her "well who the fuck are you mother Theresa?! What gives you the right to scream and curse at my son, to go up to him and get in his face and threaten him?! I'm going to do everything I can to make sure you get fired! And if you EVER go near or yell at my son again I'll call the police!" once again I tried to defend myself and I thought a couple of times that she was going to hit me from the little movements she was making, Charlie tried to shush me 3 times but I felt like I needed to speak my side of it. Charlie then told me to "go into the back right now and wait till get there." I went and hid in the produce cooler behind some stuff so if anyone went back there you wouldn't know where I was unless you knew where to look (the morning people sometimes use the space if they want to be lazy and take a 30minute break) I told Cas and Jerry unless it's Charlie you don't know where I am, about 20 minutes later Charlie comes in and asks me for my side once again this time with a smile on his face, and I feel like I'm 8 seconds from either throwing up or messing up my pants, this is not good. (99% of the time it's not a good thing when he smiles) He says she has a full recording with sound of their entire cart ride beginning (her telling them to go ahead) to end (me calling Charlie) and that she's a fucking bitch and full of shit. He tells me that the security cameras show her recording them with her iPhone laughing and smiling but with no sound, he escorted me up to the office to see it and then he told me to calm down and said that he was going to defend me.
She called 2 times in the 20 minutes I was up there, the first time she called I could hear her screaming on the other side of the phone (our phones are LOUD plus I was standing right next to Charlie) about how upset her son was and how she wants me fired and that I deserve to get fired and she was going to make sure I got fired, Charlie told her that I already got disciplined but that wasn't good enough for her she wanted proof that I was fired. Then she decided that Charlie was talking down to her and not respecting her as a customer or person and not taking the situation seriously and that I was an insubordinate little bitch. Then she demanded the corporate number. The second time she called it was more yelling and screaming about how Charlie was completely unprofessional and how no matter what she would "get justice for her and her son and his friends extreme emotional distress and embaresment".
Before I left I thanked Charlie for trying to defend me but I know exactly how corporate is and that this woman is out for blood and wants "justice." (me fired) So knowing those 2 things since they don't have the extra help without me for the next 2 days I'm pretty sure they're going to tell me not to come back after Christmas, or once the store manager Gesner and corporate hear about it I'll be fired tomorrow morning. The other thing about this is if I just looked away and ignored it and they or someone else got hurt they would've looked at the tapes blamed me for ignoring that and not helping to prevent it and I would be fired anyway. After 8 and a half years this is how I'm leaving my store.
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