Heard this one from Daria today and also from Baby Beavis(who is now our Evening Manager.)
This past Saturday night, someone apparently slipped into the store before closing time and somehow hid inside the ice cream freezer.
Our freezer doors are hard to pull open (at least for me.) They have a pretty tight seal around them as well as the fact that it's well below zero in there to begin with. There is also a push button inside the door to allow someone who is inside to be able to get out (safety feature.)
Baby Beavis was closing MOD and he and office person both left around 10:50 pm. Our store closes at 10pm, and we make closing announcements every 5-10 minutes beginning at 9:30 all the way until we close, so there's no way I can see where this person didn't know we closed at 10.
Security camera footage shows someone walking out from the freezer and out onto the salesfloor onto one of the aisles - but they only see a set of legs on camera - person didn't walk down far enough the aisle to be filmed in his (or her) entirety, then walked to the back room area.
Apparently this person then went through the grocery back room and into the Receiving area and attempted to get out both the doors that are back there (there's one by my desk and another door on the opposite side of the room directly across from the baler that will take you out into the back of the shopping center. This person in the end didn't get out either door, but alarms sounded off b/c the bars were pushed, so the camera partially catches the person back up front and he (or she) pushed out one of the front electric doors to make their escape.
So now b/c of this, the MODs will have to check all coolers and freezers prior to closing as well as not allowing ANY employee to leave the premises until all the closing duties are finished.
Also, Corporate is wanting to write up this incident as a customer lock-in rather than suspicious incident (which to me it's definitely the latter b/c most folks wouldn't think to deliberately hide in a freezer unless they are looking to rob the place after closing.)
We have some strange goings on and it's not good . . .
This past Saturday night, someone apparently slipped into the store before closing time and somehow hid inside the ice cream freezer.
Our freezer doors are hard to pull open (at least for me.) They have a pretty tight seal around them as well as the fact that it's well below zero in there to begin with. There is also a push button inside the door to allow someone who is inside to be able to get out (safety feature.)
Baby Beavis was closing MOD and he and office person both left around 10:50 pm. Our store closes at 10pm, and we make closing announcements every 5-10 minutes beginning at 9:30 all the way until we close, so there's no way I can see where this person didn't know we closed at 10.
Security camera footage shows someone walking out from the freezer and out onto the salesfloor onto one of the aisles - but they only see a set of legs on camera - person didn't walk down far enough the aisle to be filmed in his (or her) entirety, then walked to the back room area.
Apparently this person then went through the grocery back room and into the Receiving area and attempted to get out both the doors that are back there (there's one by my desk and another door on the opposite side of the room directly across from the baler that will take you out into the back of the shopping center. This person in the end didn't get out either door, but alarms sounded off b/c the bars were pushed, so the camera partially catches the person back up front and he (or she) pushed out one of the front electric doors to make their escape.
So now b/c of this, the MODs will have to check all coolers and freezers prior to closing as well as not allowing ANY employee to leave the premises until all the closing duties are finished.
Also, Corporate is wanting to write up this incident as a customer lock-in rather than suspicious incident (which to me it's definitely the latter b/c most folks wouldn't think to deliberately hide in a freezer unless they are looking to rob the place after closing.)
We have some strange goings on and it's not good . . .
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