A very surreal experience
Well, I’ve had a very interesting day on Sunday. First of all, I am in the first throws of a full blown cold. I really didn’t want to be at work, but a paycheck is a paycheck so I was there. The day itself was pretty much the same as any other business day before Christmas. Customer wanting this thing or that thing with additional money off for this reason or that reason. I mean, come on…It’s Macy’s, not Macy-Mart. Anyway, it was finally at the end of the day and my co-worker, Atifa, and I just dropped out bag of money into the drop box at the office.
Atifa and I started walking out of the gift wrap office and had just started down the aisle when a man in a black ski mask, with a gun pointed at us, told us to get on the ground. He stated that there was three other men there and to do as he said. At first I thought it was a joke that our security man, Steve, was playing but realized that it wasn’t a joke after all when I realized he held a gun in his hand.
Immediately Atifa and I dropped like a stone but he then demanded that we move back into the gift wrap area. Atifa and I did that pretty quickly. The man then told everyone, there was four of us outside of the counter and one woman inside, to get on the ground, face down. The woman behind the counter, Melissia, was told to get the key and open the safe, unfortunately she didn’t have the key. I could hear him threatening her with the gun to open the safe. It was quite frightening to hear him threaten her.
The guy then asked me if I was a manager and I told him no. He then asked if there was a manager there that would have a key. I told him there was a manager, but I didn’t think she had a key. He wanted to know which one it was, but I told him that I didn’t know, that I was to scared to think clearly. I mean, Michelle was there on the ground with us, but I didn’t want to point her out to be a victim too.
Once the man realized that he couldn’t get at the money since it was a drop box and a time release lock, he told us to stay where we were and that someone was watching us. He left told someone named ‘Steve’ to watch us as he left the office. (Of course, now we know there was no Steve).
A few minutes later he returned and asked me which door was unlocked. I told him that all the doors was locked now. Then he wanted to know how we got out. I then told him that we left through the employee exit on the first floor. He told me to get up off of the floor and show him which I did. I took him down the flight of stairs and nearly flew out of the two doors. I stopped just outside of the door and he flew by me, jumped into his truck and drove off.
Once I felt that he wasn’t returning I ran back into the building and into the security office. The guy who was there just looked at me like…What?
I screamed at him. “Didn’t you see all of that?”
He just gave me a look and I said. “We were just FUCKING ROBBED!” (excuse my language here, but I was a bit upset at being forced to run down a flight of stairs and across the freaking floor)
He looked shocked as hell and said. “Your kidding.”
What a freaking idiot. He was sitting at the blasted monitors for Goddess’s sake and didn’t think anything of a man with a damned black ski mask on?
I gave him such a murderous look and ran back upstairs to where everyone was still lying on the floor. Melissia was very upset where she was lying. I then told them that he was gone and went to call 911. Steve, from security, never came up to talk to us, but the police was quick to get there.
Our store manager, Richard was called in and he showed up not long after the police. I gave statement after statement before we were allowed to leave. It was near Midnight, by the time I got home.
I think the whole thing shocked the sickness germ out of me because I forgot all about being sick. That is until now, as I’m sitting here writing this blasted Blog. A full day after it happened. I guess it took me this long to get it all straighten out in my head.
I really wasn’t scared during it all, because I’ve been through it before when I worked at Sears several years back. Plus the one time where a man literally walked into my apartment demanding money. So I’m an old hat at this.
I just got the impression that he wasn’t going to hurt anyone so I wasn’t all that scared, just more worried about the others. Thankfully, the guy didn’t get anything and left without harming anyone else.
So I guess it ended up a pretty good day, I mean everyone was fine and all. But I swear, it was a very surreal experience.
Red/Sue
Atifa and I started walking out of the gift wrap office and had just started down the aisle when a man in a black ski mask, with a gun pointed at us, told us to get on the ground. He stated that there was three other men there and to do as he said. At first I thought it was a joke that our security man, Steve, was playing but realized that it wasn’t a joke after all when I realized he held a gun in his hand.
Immediately Atifa and I dropped like a stone but he then demanded that we move back into the gift wrap area. Atifa and I did that pretty quickly. The man then told everyone, there was four of us outside of the counter and one woman inside, to get on the ground, face down. The woman behind the counter, Melissia, was told to get the key and open the safe, unfortunately she didn’t have the key. I could hear him threatening her with the gun to open the safe. It was quite frightening to hear him threaten her.
The guy then asked me if I was a manager and I told him no. He then asked if there was a manager there that would have a key. I told him there was a manager, but I didn’t think she had a key. He wanted to know which one it was, but I told him that I didn’t know, that I was to scared to think clearly. I mean, Michelle was there on the ground with us, but I didn’t want to point her out to be a victim too.
Once the man realized that he couldn’t get at the money since it was a drop box and a time release lock, he told us to stay where we were and that someone was watching us. He left told someone named ‘Steve’ to watch us as he left the office. (Of course, now we know there was no Steve).
A few minutes later he returned and asked me which door was unlocked. I told him that all the doors was locked now. Then he wanted to know how we got out. I then told him that we left through the employee exit on the first floor. He told me to get up off of the floor and show him which I did. I took him down the flight of stairs and nearly flew out of the two doors. I stopped just outside of the door and he flew by me, jumped into his truck and drove off.
Once I felt that he wasn’t returning I ran back into the building and into the security office. The guy who was there just looked at me like…What?
I screamed at him. “Didn’t you see all of that?”
He just gave me a look and I said. “We were just FUCKING ROBBED!” (excuse my language here, but I was a bit upset at being forced to run down a flight of stairs and across the freaking floor)
He looked shocked as hell and said. “Your kidding.”
What a freaking idiot. He was sitting at the blasted monitors for Goddess’s sake and didn’t think anything of a man with a damned black ski mask on?
I gave him such a murderous look and ran back upstairs to where everyone was still lying on the floor. Melissia was very upset where she was lying. I then told them that he was gone and went to call 911. Steve, from security, never came up to talk to us, but the police was quick to get there.
Our store manager, Richard was called in and he showed up not long after the police. I gave statement after statement before we were allowed to leave. It was near Midnight, by the time I got home.
I think the whole thing shocked the sickness germ out of me because I forgot all about being sick. That is until now, as I’m sitting here writing this blasted Blog. A full day after it happened. I guess it took me this long to get it all straighten out in my head.
I really wasn’t scared during it all, because I’ve been through it before when I worked at Sears several years back. Plus the one time where a man literally walked into my apartment demanding money. So I’m an old hat at this.
I just got the impression that he wasn’t going to hurt anyone so I wasn’t all that scared, just more worried about the others. Thankfully, the guy didn’t get anything and left without harming anyone else.
So I guess it ended up a pretty good day, I mean everyone was fine and all. But I swear, it was a very surreal experience.
Red/Sue
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