I AM TIRED BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME.
I HATE PEOPLE WHO STEAL.
I work at Tower Records and today I found FOUR cds that had been stolen. Three were by the same person - two Nirvana cds and one AFI, and they were so cocky that they took the liner notes and everything and then stashed the stuff behind the Marx brothers dvd box set. I take this stuff very personally sometimes. I don't care if you're one of those people who think huge corporations are evil and whatnot. It is STILL not okay to steal from them. I'm not talking about some kind of "I have five starving kids and I need a loaf of bread" type thing. You do not NEED cds so badly that you have to take them from my store. If you can't afford it, then don't just take it! 9 times out of 10, the people we catch are 15 to 16 year old kids who just don't want to pay for the cds or dvds, and then of course, their parents are furious and come down to the store and scream at their kids.
Except that one time we caught two 12 year old kids stealing a porn magazine. That was funny.
When I worked at the Gap in New York, there was this group of women who would come in and want to exchange TONS of stuff they had supposedly all gotten as gifts , or they had bought and now changed their minds for stuff they wanted. They would go to a much bigger busier gap, steal five bottles of the same $20 perfume, four of the same $30 belts and all kinds of other stuff, and then come to our Gap and want to exchange it all. Literally, BAGS of stuff, and we had to take it!! I don't know why we did, and I HATED it. Because it was like we were just giving away merchandise. I know that Gap is a pretty bad company and uses sweatshops and all that awful stuff, which, by the way, I hate, and I'm kind of glad I don't work for them anymore because of that, but that does NOT make it okay to steal!!!
The music industry is already doing very poorly because of downloading and if people didn't steal, then maybe Tower Records could afford to pay me more than $6 an hour! Although, they probably can, there's a lot of bullshit that goes on within that company.
That being said, sometimes I really do hate working for a company who charges such outrageous prices for things. The standard price for our cds is $18.99. Tennessee's sales tax is 9.25% (which is maybe the highest in the country, I'm not sure), and so that makes ONE 18.99 cd $20.75. That's a lot of money for one cd! And I hate that we sell so much stuff that most people really can't afford. Like okay, this story made me cry:
Chad (oh, he got a job at the other Tower Records in Nashville) said that last Sunday, a group of "mentally handicapped" (I guess there's not a way to say "retarded" anymore without it sounding like I'm making fun of them) people came in. This one guy picked out some rap cd, and the total was $20.75. HE WAS SHORT SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. So he asked all of his friends for it, but they didn't have it. So then he went to find another cd (while a line was forming and people were getting annoyed) and left his wallet with his $20 on the counter. So Chad moved it over for him and rang up some more people, and then the guy had to get back in line to pay for the new cd. So he got that cd and then went outside and tripped on the pavement and scraped his leg which started bleeding and then dropped his wallet and didn't even realize it. So then Chad went outside and gave him his wallet and helped him to the bathroom and helped clean him up.
Okay, maybe that story isn't so sad if you're not on your period like I was when he told me and if you're not so very emotional like I am, but I cried when he told me about it and told him that he should've given him a %10 discount in the first place. And then I cried when I told my mom about it, although I had just watched the 2nd half of American History X, which also made me cry.
I had another story to tell, but it's not half as sad, and just a testament to how emotional I've been lately. (and by lately, I may mean my whole life, I'm not sure.)
But sometimes working for a company whose goal is to make money and that's really about it really gets to me. And sometimes I really have doubts about going into marketing, even though that's really what I want to do, I feel guilty about how my life ambition is to research how to make companies money. Like, that's it. That's what I want to do, and ..I don't know.
Also, I am not perfect, and here is a list of things I have stolen:
1) a reece's peanut butter cup from Tower the day before my last last day.
2) Two one minute phone calls to Australia before me last last day.
3) candy that I have to put away for my mom's crap job that she makes me do (like, eating a couple pieces in the store, not bags or anything)
4) quarters from the Gap, but not from the register, the managers were allowed to take quarters from the store to pay for their parking meters, and I took a few to use for the vending machines a couple times.
5)I'm not sure what else....I think some stickers from a friend's house when I was 7 or something
I think that's all...I don't know, I guess I'm kind of a hypocrite for stealing from the two companies that I just bitched about other people stealing from.
...I used to be a lot more grammatically correct.
Have any of you ever stolen anything?
Oh yeah, I made the Dean's List, even though I got a D in accounting. Isn't that awesome? I got an A in everything else. My summer has been pretty much filled with working so far, but that's cool. Danielle is going to visit me and Amy is supposed to, and I really really want her to, but you guys both need to give me the dates when you can come so I can get off of work [please]. Because my life revolves around my $6 an hour corporate job.
I'm going to call Joey now and she probably won't be home.
I work at Tower Records and today I found FOUR cds that had been stolen. Three were by the same person - two Nirvana cds and one AFI, and they were so cocky that they took the liner notes and everything and then stashed the stuff behind the Marx brothers dvd box set. I take this stuff very personally sometimes. I don't care if you're one of those people who think huge corporations are evil and whatnot. It is STILL not okay to steal from them. I'm not talking about some kind of "I have five starving kids and I need a loaf of bread" type thing. You do not NEED cds so badly that you have to take them from my store. If you can't afford it, then don't just take it! 9 times out of 10, the people we catch are 15 to 16 year old kids who just don't want to pay for the cds or dvds, and then of course, their parents are furious and come down to the store and scream at their kids.
Except that one time we caught two 12 year old kids stealing a porn magazine. That was funny.
When I worked at the Gap in New York, there was this group of women who would come in and want to exchange TONS of stuff they had supposedly all gotten as gifts , or they had bought and now changed their minds for stuff they wanted. They would go to a much bigger busier gap, steal five bottles of the same $20 perfume, four of the same $30 belts and all kinds of other stuff, and then come to our Gap and want to exchange it all. Literally, BAGS of stuff, and we had to take it!! I don't know why we did, and I HATED it. Because it was like we were just giving away merchandise. I know that Gap is a pretty bad company and uses sweatshops and all that awful stuff, which, by the way, I hate, and I'm kind of glad I don't work for them anymore because of that, but that does NOT make it okay to steal!!!
The music industry is already doing very poorly because of downloading and if people didn't steal, then maybe Tower Records could afford to pay me more than $6 an hour! Although, they probably can, there's a lot of bullshit that goes on within that company.
That being said, sometimes I really do hate working for a company who charges such outrageous prices for things. The standard price for our cds is $18.99. Tennessee's sales tax is 9.25% (which is maybe the highest in the country, I'm not sure), and so that makes ONE 18.99 cd $20.75. That's a lot of money for one cd! And I hate that we sell so much stuff that most people really can't afford. Like okay, this story made me cry:
Chad (oh, he got a job at the other Tower Records in Nashville) said that last Sunday, a group of "mentally handicapped" (I guess there's not a way to say "retarded" anymore without it sounding like I'm making fun of them) people came in. This one guy picked out some rap cd, and the total was $20.75. HE WAS SHORT SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. So he asked all of his friends for it, but they didn't have it. So then he went to find another cd (while a line was forming and people were getting annoyed) and left his wallet with his $20 on the counter. So Chad moved it over for him and rang up some more people, and then the guy had to get back in line to pay for the new cd. So he got that cd and then went outside and tripped on the pavement and scraped his leg which started bleeding and then dropped his wallet and didn't even realize it. So then Chad went outside and gave him his wallet and helped him to the bathroom and helped clean him up.
Okay, maybe that story isn't so sad if you're not on your period like I was when he told me and if you're not so very emotional like I am, but I cried when he told me about it and told him that he should've given him a %10 discount in the first place. And then I cried when I told my mom about it, although I had just watched the 2nd half of American History X, which also made me cry.
I had another story to tell, but it's not half as sad, and just a testament to how emotional I've been lately. (and by lately, I may mean my whole life, I'm not sure.)
But sometimes working for a company whose goal is to make money and that's really about it really gets to me. And sometimes I really have doubts about going into marketing, even though that's really what I want to do, I feel guilty about how my life ambition is to research how to make companies money. Like, that's it. That's what I want to do, and ..I don't know.
Also, I am not perfect, and here is a list of things I have stolen:
1) a reece's peanut butter cup from Tower the day before my last last day.
2) Two one minute phone calls to Australia before me last last day.
3) candy that I have to put away for my mom's crap job that she makes me do (like, eating a couple pieces in the store, not bags or anything)
4) quarters from the Gap, but not from the register, the managers were allowed to take quarters from the store to pay for their parking meters, and I took a few to use for the vending machines a couple times.
5)I'm not sure what else....I think some stickers from a friend's house when I was 7 or something
I think that's all...I don't know, I guess I'm kind of a hypocrite for stealing from the two companies that I just bitched about other people stealing from.
...I used to be a lot more grammatically correct.
Have any of you ever stolen anything?
Oh yeah, I made the Dean's List, even though I got a D in accounting. Isn't that awesome? I got an A in everything else. My summer has been pretty much filled with working so far, but that's cool. Danielle is going to visit me and Amy is supposed to, and I really really want her to, but you guys both need to give me the dates when you can come so I can get off of work [please]. Because my life revolves around my $6 an hour corporate job.
I'm going to call Joey now and she probably won't be home.