April, 2013

To my readers, in the last blog I made reference to this event so for the one's that are curious about what I am talking about read on....

On Sunday April 14, 2013 I was working the closing shift at my job. The crew that night left a few minutes before me (yes I know mistake). I had set the alarm and had everything locked down nice and tight. Well I went out the door with the alarm beeping about to arm and these four masked men jumped in on me two of which had guns. They demanded the money in the safe and I was trying to stall because I knew that alarm was about to start going off any second. So one of them threatened to shoot me so I very nervously tried to get the safe open. Still trying to stall and still counting the seconds in my head, but unfortunately the damn alarm did not go off after sixty seconds, which I had been informed it would of. So still counting in my head and still trying to get the safe open so I would not eat a bullet, plus my hands were shaking like a leave in a hurricane. After an additional 30 seconds or so and I had started getting the safe open the alarm goes off they run away. So once all is said and done and I am still in one piece and took a little time off because this became the NUMBER ONE scariest event in my life.

Here starts the reason why my family and some of my friends said I need to get another job:

Two or three weeks later the area manager shows up and after the required meeting he wants to have a talk about what had happened. So I was expected to get the whole we the company are glad you are alright but NO. What I got instead was "because of what you have been through we are not going to terminate you for this since we think you have been through enough we don't want to add any more stress.." So basically it was my FAULT that they almost robbed and could have killed me in the process. So I did not get a glad you are OK I had to basically pry that comment out of the area manager and then I also had to pry a "glad they did not get any money from us too". Which is basically all that where I work (like most places) care about is that the money did not leave our fingers. Mind you after it happened I could barely talk I was in tears trembling etc. etc. but they acted like I was like OK robbers come on down I am here alone with a lot of money. Also after this happened where I work will not put cameras in because they see it as an unnecessary expense they can not afford. So I feel like if something had happened to me things would be different and I know all of you are going we are glad you are still here.

So now you all see why I want to leave my job and why I am trying to find another job and finish school. I have been in food/hospitality for a total of 11 years (4 at my current job and 7 at another).