I had bit of trouble with kids at the shop last night but now I saw it was all a trick and I'm disgusted.
It started off with a kid "losing" his £10 note. He came back to the shop and asked if I had seen it. Obviously what people lose in the shop is not my responsibility but I helped him look for a bit and didn't find it. The boy then turns and says how nobody came into the shop. I say where his line of reasoning went and immidiately became outraged.
Was this little shit actually accusing me of stealing his £10? I earn twenty times as much and have a healthy bank balance so I have absolutely no clue why I would go out of my way to keep £10. I have a till full of fucking cash next to me which I can steal from yet I do not because I consider myself a person with "acceptable" (I pirate after all
) moral standards.
He then went to demand that I show him the cctv footage which I obviously denied. I'm not allowed to show customers the footage and I sure as hell wasn't going to go out of my way to help some brat who is accusing me of being a thief. I said no and asked him to get out of my shop. He tried going behind the till and physically threatening me like he could scare me. He went on to say that if he does't get his money back "the wall will be red by tonight".
Now obviously I don't see a kid who is half my size as much of a threat but I live in a part of london where even looking at someone wrong is asking for a beating. Not long ago a drunk kid about my age (and race) was savagely beaten to death for spitting on someone. If I made the wrong move this kid would go and get his brothers/friends and probably make me end up in the hospital. I decided that it wasn't worth it and refused to argue with him. I told the boy to get out of my or else I'm calling the police. He left and that was the last I saw of him (and probably will for a long time).
Even though our shop is an internet cafe, we offer other things like phone and pc repairs, international phone calls and sales of mobile phones. The mobile phones are in a certain display cabinet near the till right in front of where I sit. When I came back to the shop I noticed the display cabinet for the phones was a bit odd, like something was missing. I didn't take any real notice of it untill the guy who is in charge of the phones came round to do his weekly inspection and noticed that one of them was missing. I put two and two together and realised that the kid must have distracted me while they stole the phone...
I guess that my biggest mistake was allowing the kid to get under my skin. I allowed him to get me all worked up and I was foolish to turn my back on such important items. I am disgusted and feel like such a fool for allowing them to get away with it. Luckily my boss and the guy who handles the phones are both understanding and told me to take this as a lesson. I don't have to pay for the stolen phone but I still feel really guilty about it...
It started off with a kid "losing" his £10 note. He came back to the shop and asked if I had seen it. Obviously what people lose in the shop is not my responsibility but I helped him look for a bit and didn't find it. The boy then turns and says how nobody came into the shop. I say where his line of reasoning went and immidiately became outraged.
Was this little shit actually accusing me of stealing his £10? I earn twenty times as much and have a healthy bank balance so I have absolutely no clue why I would go out of my way to keep £10. I have a till full of fucking cash next to me which I can steal from yet I do not because I consider myself a person with "acceptable" (I pirate after all
He then went to demand that I show him the cctv footage which I obviously denied. I'm not allowed to show customers the footage and I sure as hell wasn't going to go out of my way to help some brat who is accusing me of being a thief. I said no and asked him to get out of my shop. He tried going behind the till and physically threatening me like he could scare me. He went on to say that if he does't get his money back "the wall will be red by tonight".
Now obviously I don't see a kid who is half my size as much of a threat but I live in a part of london where even looking at someone wrong is asking for a beating. Not long ago a drunk kid about my age (and race) was savagely beaten to death for spitting on someone. If I made the wrong move this kid would go and get his brothers/friends and probably make me end up in the hospital. I decided that it wasn't worth it and refused to argue with him. I told the boy to get out of my or else I'm calling the police. He left and that was the last I saw of him (and probably will for a long time).
Even though our shop is an internet cafe, we offer other things like phone and pc repairs, international phone calls and sales of mobile phones. The mobile phones are in a certain display cabinet near the till right in front of where I sit. When I came back to the shop I noticed the display cabinet for the phones was a bit odd, like something was missing. I didn't take any real notice of it untill the guy who is in charge of the phones came round to do his weekly inspection and noticed that one of them was missing. I put two and two together and realised that the kid must have distracted me while they stole the phone...
I guess that my biggest mistake was allowing the kid to get under my skin. I allowed him to get me all worked up and I was foolish to turn my back on such important items. I am disgusted and feel like such a fool for allowing them to get away with it. Luckily my boss and the guy who handles the phones are both understanding and told me to take this as a lesson. I don't have to pay for the stolen phone but I still feel really guilty about it...
