Thursday night some lowlifes broke into one of my shops. They stole 3 of my computers and clipped all of the wires. Unfortunately they stole my main server computer that has my pos program on it. They also stole my cash drawer. It was empty but I’m a little upset that my manager shut the drawer at the end of the night. I prefer to have the cash drawer left open at night so that anyone thinking of robbing it can see that it has no money in it. The thieves also decided to trash the place as well which was really nice of them! What really sucks is that I have security cameras but they haven’t been working lately. If I hadn’t procrastinated on fixing them, I would have had these punks on camera.
The police told me that the jewelry store and pawn shop on my block also got broken into last week. Thieves went through an upstairs apartment and cut a hole through the floor to get into the pawn shop below. This kind of stuff doesn’t usually happen in the small city I’m in. It has a pretty low crime rate but lately it’s starting to get worse.
This whole situation couldn’t have happened at a worse time for me. I’m in the final stages of opening another shop so I’m pretty much low on cash at the moment so boy is it really frustrating! Sometimes it seems like you have to take 10 steps back to go 2 forward.
We didn’t find out that the place had been broken into until 4:00 Friday when my manager showed up to open. To make matters worse the cops kicked everyone out of the shop and wouldn’t let us open or even answer the phones. They treated it as a crime scene and took pictures and fingerprints. I understand this had to be done and I don’t have a problem with that. What upset me is that it took over 2 hours for the officers who took the fingerprints and pictures to even show up. So as a result not only did I get burglarized, I also lost all of my dinner sales on a Friday night! I feel like I got it stuck to me twice. The phone was ringing off the hook and they wouldn’t even let my employees in to answer it.
At least they didn’t get any money.
Boy are the thieves going to be pissed when they work their butt off to get the drawer open and find that it’s empty. At least they didn’t try to steal my safe. I guess these kinds of things are bound to happen sooner or later. It just pisses me off that some people can be such lowlife scumbags.
Sorry for writing so much, I just needed to vent a little.
The police told me that the jewelry store and pawn shop on my block also got broken into last week. Thieves went through an upstairs apartment and cut a hole through the floor to get into the pawn shop below. This kind of stuff doesn’t usually happen in the small city I’m in. It has a pretty low crime rate but lately it’s starting to get worse.
This whole situation couldn’t have happened at a worse time for me. I’m in the final stages of opening another shop so I’m pretty much low on cash at the moment so boy is it really frustrating! Sometimes it seems like you have to take 10 steps back to go 2 forward.
We didn’t find out that the place had been broken into until 4:00 Friday when my manager showed up to open. To make matters worse the cops kicked everyone out of the shop and wouldn’t let us open or even answer the phones. They treated it as a crime scene and took pictures and fingerprints. I understand this had to be done and I don’t have a problem with that. What upset me is that it took over 2 hours for the officers who took the fingerprints and pictures to even show up. So as a result not only did I get burglarized, I also lost all of my dinner sales on a Friday night! I feel like I got it stuck to me twice. The phone was ringing off the hook and they wouldn’t even let my employees in to answer it.
At least they didn’t get any money.
Boy are the thieves going to be pissed when they work their butt off to get the drawer open and find that it’s empty. At least they didn’t try to steal my safe. I guess these kinds of things are bound to happen sooner or later. It just pisses me off that some people can be such lowlife scumbags.
Sorry for writing so much, I just needed to vent a little.
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