This is just a rant of sorts, and then I can put it all behind me.
MY last night in my old job. Early into the shift, the delivery company decided to deliver a new drinks fridge. They dumped it inside the doorway and left. We asked if they could help to remove the old one. NO. So, as duty manager I stayed at checkout and let my assistants sort it. They unloaded the broken drinks fridge into 6 trolleys and put them out back of the shop. There were drinks everywhere! They tried to move the fridge out back - too tall. So one co-worker went to borrow a trolley. We get it out the front door and the young male worker wheels it to the back of the shop. In the meantime, I am serving customers and a man from 2 shops up comes in and tells me: "The two boys that were wheeling the fridge were hanging around the drinks trolleys out the back and one took some." Then comes back in 5 minutes later and says "I nabbed him. He had 2 bottles of wine. The police are coming to see you."
Seems the young boy (15) that I work with got assistance from a friend to move the fridge and paid him (another 15 year old) with 2 bottles of wine out of the stock room. He admitted it, immediately. SO the cop arrests him and takes him away. In the meantime the place is a mess with drinks everywhere, a half assembled fridge, the milk fridge is empty and there is a ton of stuff to do and only an hour to do it.
My other co-worker sold booze to a young lady without asking for ID. AFter the sale was completed she then decides to ask me. I ask for ID, she has none, so I refuse the sale and give her a refund. Can't risk losing my duty managers cert the last day on the job. Close call. That on top of at least 4 other attempts by young people with no ID to buy booze. (Paranoia has gotten the better of me and I suspect that my now ex-boss has set this up, to try to get me busted - There is a $10,000 fine and loss of licence for me, if this occurs.)
I ring the boss to tell him about D (the young boy) and his antics and he asks me "What about your duty managers certificate?" I say "What about it?" He says "you owe me. It was a waste of money for me, for only 2 months." He then suggests that he pay for the course that I had to do ($250) and I pay for the council paperwork (the general managers cert) which cost $135 and he'd take it out of my final pay. By this point I was so flustered by all the antics of the evening, I didn't argue with him and just said "whatever."
I'm sitting here now, still spinning out after all the events of the evening. I'm so glad to be out of there.
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