For the love of the second coming of JOJO!

[candyland]

I just noticed raindrops outside! \o/

If you don't watch professorlayton, I made a post yesterday about something nerdy FUN that kaitodoushi and I did a couple days ago and could not stop giggling over. Because we are big, hungry nerds. Tasty fangirling is tasty! We also played more Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Not really a hard game, but it's very charming!

Yesterday was exciting at work because they caught a shoplifter! Someone had been stealing booze from the liquor department (which is, amusingly enough, right next to the pharmacy), and the missing merchandise had totaled well over five hundred dollars. Well, one of the managers saw a young guy walking out the door with a bottle in his hand and went after him. Asked the guy if he paid for that (guy said yes), asked if he had a receipt (guy said yes), asked to see the receipt (guy admitted he stole it).

It took two guys (the manager and one of the maintenance guys, who saw the manager going out the door and followed to help, just in case) to physically hold the guy and keep him from running. Manager also said that if it had been much worse, in the past he's actually just started calling for help and customers have come over to assist. But yeah, they called the police and the guy was arrested. Wouldn't give his name or an ID, though--said the cops would know him when they got there O_O

On today's List o' Things to Do: drop Mom's check off at the community college for her accounting class. Go to bank. Swing by Deb and Target/Wal-Mart. Top off the gas tank in my car. Get clothes, tickets, and MapQuest ready for tomorrow's adventure, since my time tomorrow will be really limited. Spend a bit of quality time with the ol' word processor today before work.


Tomorrow I work from eight-thirty to five. Then kaitodoushi and I are hopping in the car and driving to another city for a special movie event. The guys who did Mystery Science Theater are streaming a live show in which they are going to riff on Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, wildly regarded as the worst movie ever made. I have not seen it, but Kat found out about the event, and so we got our tickets online. This shall be fun!


New on candyfics: A Perfect Act, Part III: Encore (DC/MK)

Comments

[lwyn.livejournal.com]

I hate you... T^T JB and I have wanted to go to the event for months...

but we both work on the only day its in town... TT^TT WHICH SUCKZ

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

BUT WE LOVES YOU! *gives you a bath in our love*

[theorygirl.livejournal.com]

That was like the shoplifter that they caught where I work the other day (at least, I'm assuming that's how it went). I'm guessing he said the same stuff, only when asked for a receipt, he must have said he paid on self-scan and didn't take the receipt (which happens a lot), so they went to see if his receipt was still in the self-scan register, which can reprint up to the previous four transactions, and when it wasn't, they took him upstairs. Meanwhile, I, after being asked whether I remembered that guy coming through the line, was obliviously trying to be helpful by pointing out that I would have had to clear his beer purchase (when you buy age restricted stuff, a window pops up at the end of the order saying that someone will come over to check your ID, and I have to wave my card to clear the screen and let them pay), and I didn't remember doing that. Although with my limited information, I thought that they were checking to see if he had left behind his change or cash back (which happens), and I was trying to prove that that couldn't have happened, since I always feel bad when that happens and I don't notice before someone else takes it (usually by getting their own change, and not noticing that there's an extra bill in there). Once they took him upstairs to "talk" I figured out what was going on, and I heard later that a police officer showed up, but I didn't see it personally. So yeah.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Oh geez...the nerve some people just amazes me.

It used to be that if they called a "Code Blue" over the intercom, it meant that there was a theft in progress, all available managers go running to the front. And there was a story going around the store a couple years ago that they called a Code Blue on a guy who went in through the liquor door, grabbed a bottle of whiskey, and ran back out without paying for it. He then tore across the parking lot to his car, which was filling up at the gas station. Got into the car and drove off without paying. They checked the license plate. It was a stolen car.

...we also once had a guy come back to the pharmacy, about a week before I started working there. He picked up his medication (which was pricey), and a little later his wife called to say they'd changed their mind and didn't want it. We legally can't give a refund or take it back, except to destroy it. The guy came in, and our manager pulled out the Big Book o' Laws to show him exactly where it said we couldn't take it back. He looked at it for a moment, picked the book up, and actually threw it at her.

Another man was picking up a prescription at the other end of the counter. He immediately moved over to stand in front of the door that leads back into our area and wouldn't let the guy pass. Meanwhile, one of the techs grabs the intercom and tries to call for the store's general manager. The patient took off running out the liquor door when half the male employees at the front of the store came running towards the pharmacy.

Work stories are fun :D

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

Yay catching shoplifters! Now we just need to catch the people I'm sure exist that steal Chinese.

Eh, it'll take a lot to dethrone Manos for me, but indeed, it should be fun! :D

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Like the group that had eight people eating off two buffets, who then had the nerve to demand a refund for "lousy customer service" when they were confronted about it? :D

Manos was god-awful. I mean, I think there was a semi-decent story buried somewhere in there, but it seemed to have stage fright and hid behind the pajama dirt wrestling scene...thing. Either way, we're going to have a good time!