Work

So I have finally found a job! I am now one of the new members of the Kmart team! It is actually a lot more fun than what I thought it was going to be! My first few days were all computer work and orientation stuff. It is the most boring stuff to cover ever, but at least you get paid for just sitting around! I finished all my orientation stuff on Friday October 9th! I was so happy once I was done. The next day that I worked was actually a very exciting one! Our LP manager (Lost Prevention Manager) caught the guy that was coming into our store and stealing our blue ray discs. He was taking a knife and cutting them out of there cases and just taking the discs. She noticed that he was in the store and immediately called the police. When the police showed up the couple was cutting up Halloween costumes in the parking lot. Both the guy and the girl were hauled away in separate cars. That same night the girl running the service desk told our LP manager that she should follow these three girls that came in. Well she followed them around the store for about 20 minutes and then we called her up front. I had a guy come through my line and try to use a fake 10 dollar bill. I noticed that the color was way wrong so I checked the bill with our counterfeit pen. It confirmed my suspicions, it was a fake 10 dollar bill. So I called over the manager that was training with me and gave her the bill. The guy began asking me questions like What is wrong?, Is it fake? To both questions I answered I don't know. I was trying to keep him at my check out for as long as I could. Meanwhile the manager that I gave the bill to was trying to get our LP manager to come up front, but she was tailing those three girls. So the service desk calls us and asks what was wrong and the manager answers FAKE! So the girl at the desk calls the LP manager and gets her to come to the front. As she is walking to the front she calls the police. Meanwhile the guy says I forgot something so he goes to the back of the store. We all think he wanted to run, and was going to see if there was an exit at the back of the building. Well there wasn't so he came back to the front with a dvd. The LP manager asked the officer what we should do with the bill and he said I honestly can't tell you so we had to go by the stores policy which was to give it back to the customer and ask for an alternate way of payment so he paid for his items with a debit card and asked for 10 dollars back in cash. He then asked me to check this ten to see if it was real. He also was asking what he should do with the fake ten that he had. He asked if he should burn or if he should take it back to the bank where he got it? To both questions me and the manager answered I don't know. So then the guy leaves and the cops didn't get there before he left and we couldn't hold him in the store any longer, so the LP manager went outside and got his licensed plate number and within 15 to 20 minutes of him leaving the store he was in custody. Since the officer was at the store already the LP manager decided to bust the three shoplifters. It is all on tape and it is actually really funny to watch these girls ditch all the stuff they had attempted to shoplift. One of the girls got like 300 dollars in tickets and fines because she was lieing and raising her voice plus what they got for shop lifting. It was so crazy. I actually didn't get to leave that night until 9:30 and I was suppose to leave at 8. I had to fill out a report about what all happen just in case the case ended up in court. So basically that night we caught a bunch of criminals and would have been considered a good night.

For catching the counterfiet guy I got a 5 dollar gift card which I thought was kind of lame because after all I did save the store 10 dollars and chances are this guy will not be coming back to KMart and paying with a counterfiet bill. I am just happy that I caught the guy and I was so new it kind of gives me some confidence and it also helps them with their confidence in me!