Archive for March, 2010

This is the second installment in my series about working at “Big Box Mart”. Today I came into work for my scheduled shift at Noon. Not long after I got there, the store’s Assistant Manager came to me and asked me to sign a paper acknowledging that a register I had used a few days prior was $100.00 short. Here’s the backstory.

On the tail end of one of my Liquor Store shifts, I had been assigned to process claims items, or items that are damaged or defective. Basically this involves filling out a slip that includes information such as the UPC, department number and description of problem. Now in order to know what department number the item is, you need to do an item lookup on a cash register terminal. When this is done, it simply displays the item, price and dept. number, no transaction takes place, the cash drawer doesnt open, no nothing. So I logged onto this register for literally 30 seconds to look up this item, but because my numbers were logged onto the machine, I am apparently being held responsible for this missing money. Even though I made no transactions on that register, even though the cash drawer was never opened, I still have to sign a paper saying that “my” drawer was short and this goes in my file.

Now, every register has a camera above it, i know this, so do most every other soul who works there. But will management do their jobs and review the footage to see where this phantom $100 has gone? Hell no, they’d rather just hold everyone who touched the register that day responsible instead. Making those of us who are honest people, part of the problem.  To this I say, FUCK YOU!

Do you god damned job, watch the LP tape, find who took it and charge them. Don’t hold me and other innocent people responsible and ruin our records because youre too fucking lazy to sit at a TV and watch some tapes. While you’re at it, hire some competent people who aren’t likely to steal money for the drawer instead of hiring mostly drug addicts, dealers and gangsters. Then maybe you won’t have as much theft..

That’s my opinion, I don’t give a shit about yours..

JC