Okay, long story short, the company I work for has three retail locations, lets call them location A, B, and C (very creative choice of names, eh?) in very different physical locations, spread widely across the state
last summer, location A was robbed, classic smash-and-grab, in and out before the cops could arrive, we still haven’t got any leads on the perps
i told both store managers and the owner that we should alert the other store, as well as step up security measures in our store…
my recommendations were ignored
a few months later, location B (where I worked) was broken into, same M.O., crowbar the door, smash-n-grab the merchandise, again, local PD useless
again, I told management to inform the other store and step up security…
again I was ignored
we then moved location B to another town with better foot traffic (and right in-between low-income housing and a homeless shelter :rolleyes:), while we were in the process of setting up the new store, location C was hit
same as above, useless cops, my recommendations ignored…
at this point, the owner starts whimpering and whining about the possibility of the insurance company dropping his stores…
but does he listen to my recommendations, no!
but wait, it gets better!..
last night, location A was hit AGAIN, by a more methodical thief or thieves, they got away with enough inventory to be considered Grand Theft…
I made my usual recommendations, this time even sending an e-mail out to the managers with links to a security fencing company that sells roll-up security grates and collapsable security fences, and have sent an e-mail to that company for pricing requests, I showed the link to the owner, his immediate response?
“oh, those fences are ugly, I don’t like how they look…”
AAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!
Uhh, HELLOOO, MC’FLY, WHO CARES WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE, THEY’RE THERE TO DETER THEFT ATTEMPTS, LOOKS ARE IRRELEVANT!!! THINK OF HOW NICE A SECURITY SYSTEM YOU COULD GET WITH THE VALUE OF THE MERCHANDISE THAT WAS STOLEN!!!
As a sort of semiserious joke, I said that if we got those grates installed, we could put a sign on them that says “Danger, High Voltage”, just a sign a simple psychological deterrent, the fence would not be electrified (much to my displeasure), his response was “no we can’t do that, it would be bad”
Helooo, McFly, is this thing on?, the fence would NOT be electrified, it’s a psychological deterrent to scare off the would-be casual thief…
I’ve finally realized, I work for a MORON!
what the hell, if he doesn’t care, why should I, problem is, I DO care, I have a homicidal view of theft, in my mind, criminals have NO rights, they waive those rights as soon as they make the CONSCIOUS DECISION to commit a crime, and should have to live with the results, whatever they may be…
fucking morons!