Time Travelin' aka Stop Thief!!!

I saw The Time Traveler's Wife last night and it was incredible!!! I won't give anything away except to say BRING KLEENEX!!!

So from here on out I'm going to refer to my workplace as Job 1 (creative I know right? lol) anyway, on the offchance that my blog becomes rich and famous I won't be saying names and such, though I will say that one job that I work is retail and the other is education (aka Job 2). If you look below you'll notice no names or locations of any sort! Wow I'm good! :o)

It all started on a blisteringly hot day, in a car with no air conditioning (YIPES!). I was driving to Job 1 and all seemed normal when I arrived. I was master (mistriss?) of my zone and on top of things :) I take my break and then my lunch. I come back and return to my zone. Maybe an hour later I hear my manager, in a fierce whisper, over my walkie (which connects all employees) "Don't let her leave the store! Do anything you can to keep her occupied!" I'm recovering the product and wondering what the heck is going on here! I look around and am curious as to which customer the are refferring. I see this girl who looks kinda upset and annoyed walk over to my zone (which happens to be our other entrance/exit) and she can't see me at first because I'm recovering behind an island. I hear her complain about her wallet and finding her mom. Me, because I'm the ever-so-helpful associate, move over to help her. I ask if she's tried the fitting room and if she wants I'll look for her wallet here. She looks startled and just walks away. I see my manager walk away with her and realize that this is the girl. I still don't really know what's going on until I hear the other girls talking about having seen some of our merchandise in her bag! OOH! Now it makes sense! So, I'm on one side of the store recovering and half hoping she'll come over here so that I can have a go at catching her and half fearing I won't be able to and she'll leave! That would've been MAJOR fail points! Eventually we are able to contact security (and the shrink hotline) and they come and it turns out they called the PD. So outside our store I see a few police cars with their lights going (I felt like our store was celebrating independence day again!) and the friend of the girl (I saw them walking around) kinda standing far away, as if to say "I'm waiting for you but I don't know you!" lol. So the girl is taken away in the police car and I hear over the walkie that this girl stole (read: attempted to steal) almost $1000 in merchandise! And my manager's awesome skills recovered it all! At the end of the night when we were leaving, she showed us all of the stuff she had in her bag! It was crazy!

So the happy ending to my story? We got all our product back AND our manager gave us all $5 rewards! :D