Last night I was working at work(duh) and some guy comes in. He asks me repeatedly for free stuff. After I told him for the 5 time NO, he finally gave up. then, he asked me if the till where I was was a kissing booth. I gave him my best glare. He left me alone.
Then, he went to the next till where my coworker, Shawna, was.
He started to flrit with her, but in a bad way. Then, he reached out and pinched her hip. Her being a quiet person, she jsut stepped back and kinda looked uncomfortable. He got told to leave by Melissa, my OTHER coworker, but he didn’t leave, he just kinda loitered. Then, he came up to me and asked me if he would “feel up my shirt for a minute”. I told him to fuck off and get the hell out. He left. We called the cops.
An hour later, the idiot came back. We called the cops again, without the dude knowing, and then 10 minutes later when after I finally got it through his head that No, I couldn’t sell him snuff because he told me he was 17, the cops were waiting outside. They handcuffed him. And arrested him.
But still. What if I ruined his chance at getting a job? Or being a police officer? You can’t be a police officer if you ahve any charges on your record.
You didn’t do anything. He was a dumbass. He is the one who screwed around and got arrested. He was the one who tried to get you to steal for him, he was the one who tried to grope one of your coworkers, and he is the one who trespassed after being told to leave.
If getting arrested keeps him from being a cop, then you did a GOOD thing. Would you want this dumbass as a cop? Would you want him walking around town with a gun and authority?
YOU didn’t ruin his chance at getting a job. His desire to fondle your - ahem - “shirt” did. Besides, if he was 17, then this infraction will be wiped off his record in short order, anyway.
Hopefully, while in the clink, some big, meaty, scary guy named Bubba made a few gestures to Our Friendly Asshole that were similar to those he made towards you and your coworkers. Maybe that’ll scare him straight. Think of it this way: You just did the best possible thing you could do for this guy. Congratulations. In my opinion, you deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor.
If he’s the type of guy that grabs random store clerks and pinches their hips, I don’t think it’s really in society’s best interest to give him a badge.
Well, yeah, but only because Carter hogged that Nobel all to himself.
No, M8B, you did the right thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if in his mind it was your (all of you, not just you personally) fault he got arrested; but that’s just the way some people think (if you can call it that).
[Had a relative once who was mad at me because he had to spend the night in jail and it was my fault! Why? Because he got drunk off his ass at a football game and got thrown out of the stadium and hauled downtown. He called me (I was at work) to come down and bail him out. I explained to him that I couldn’t leave work, as I was the only one there, and besides, I didn’t have the $250 (or whatever it was) to bail him out anyway. Thus, it was MY fault he was in jail. I don’t think it even occured to him that his own actions might have had something to do with it.]
As people have said, you didn’t ruin his chances of getting a job.
While we’re on the subject, why the fuck are people so fucking retarded? Where did this guy get the idea that he could go up to some stranger and ask to grab her boobs?
He’ll be out on the streets in no time at all, magic8ball. Where he’ll probably be doing more begging and ass grabbing, but hopefully somewhere else.
Actually, m8b, I think you should do that more often. If the idiots out there had to face consequences like arrest and jailtime for their churlish behavior more often, we might not see such idiotic behavior as often as we do.
When I used to work at a medical clinic in downtown Winnipeg, we had to have people arrested all the time - probably once a week. It just comes with the territory in some jobs; please don’t feel badly, Magic 8Ball. You did nothing wrong, and you didn’t ruin anything for him. It sounds like you and your co-workers gave him every opportunity to act like a decent citizen, and if he just couldn’t find it in him, too bad for him. I feel badly for you and your co-workers, being in a situation where you may have felt threatened and scared by his erratic, inappropriate, and possibly dangerous behaviour.
Magic8ball, what if the job he doesn’t get is working with you? Part of being a civilized human being is accepting the consequence of your own actions. He acted unacceptably; hopefully he finds the consequences unacceptable. Maybe he’ll even have a harder time next time of convincing himself that “girls like that/me.” Normally, I’m not in favor of having people arrested for acting like jerks – we don’t have that much room in our jails. In this case, not only was he acting like a jerk, he was behaving a bit dangerously, especially with regard to the person he pinched.
Ever notice how it’s the good people who wonder if they’re doing wrong? [sigh!]
Others have already said it, but I just wanted to voice my agreement: you did the right thing. Anything ruined for him, he ruined through his own actions. If anything, you’re doing him a favor: by getting arrested (and appropriately punished, hopefully) for this, it just might get through to him that this kind of behavior won’t fly before he starts going on to bigger and worse things. I doubt that it will, unfortunately, but you never know.
As for him not becoming a cop, I can’t think of anything better for the people of your town. Can you imagine how much more obnoxious (and dangerous) this guy would be with a badge, nightstick and gun?
And the ones who are doing wrong are blaming everyone else for their problems? It’s your fault I got arrested. It’s society’s fault I got fired. It’s [pick the group you want to blame] fault for [pick your latest problem.]
Don’t blame your self for this jerks behavior. At least he’ll be off the street for a short time.
Ditto. There is nothing to feel bad about. Do not feel guilty. You did your store and your neighbors a favor by getting this twit off the streets for a bit.
Never be ashamed to defend yourself or your property.
Okay, assuming this guy was sober…(I don’t know if he was or wasn’t), how the hell do some guys get the idea that they’ll get some from girls like that? Are there girls somewhere who would be thrilled by this sort of attention?
You know, everything that you guys have said si EXACTLY what my boss said. She got back today from a gambling trip in Nevada, and she told me that I did the smart thing. You never know… I might even get a raise!!!
The police dude came by today and asked us if we wanted to press charges… I don’t think I will.
