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Originally Posted by tore
Unless I get angry, I'm not a very confrontational person and I care so little about "company gum" that people stealing it didn't really fire me up. I think it just made me feel stressed and slightly depressed. Of course I'd try and get the stuff back and then sometimes they'd take off. My boss wanted me to run after them. I didn't argue with him, but I secretly thought to myself "and possibly get in a fight over gum?" No way, Josè.
So yeah, I ran after them a few times, but my vigilance was pretty half-assed.
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what country was this in? i ask cause iirc you live in norway... i wasn't aware that they had 7-11's there.
edit - also, i'm surprised the manager told you to pursue them. most corporations tell their employees the opposite cause people are liable to get ****ed up scuffling with some thief and they'd rather take the minor loss in merchandise and avoid any sort of lawsuit.
it's funny cause one grocery store i worked at in florida... they drilled it into us that you never pursue a thief.. you alert a manager and then they basically confront the person and if they run away they call the cops. but this one time there was this guy who tried running out with a beer and a sub sandwich... and it was the managers who chased him down. he almost got away but he got stuck at the door cause he tried to run out the entrance and it only opens for people on the outside coming in
anyway the managers tackled him and subdued him and called the cops... and when the cops came they said he had some sort of felony warrant out for his arrest... i think it was murder but i'm not sure, something pretty serious anyhow... and he got busted over a ****in heineken and a sub sandwich.