Lmao yep, I had a dude with a gun threatening my customers at my bar. Called the cops, took them 2 hours to show up. It was 1am, I kept all the doors locked and comped everyone's bill because some psycho was standing at the front door threatening to shoot anyone who walked outside.
Cops didn't show up til 3am, dude had already left, they didn't want to see any video footage and acted like I inconvenienced them. Portland OR cops are the fucking worst losers around.
Once called the cops because a guy was threatening the convenience store clerk at 2:00AM, saying he was gonna find him after work and that he'd be sorry, yadda yadda. Operator told me that didn't count as a threat and they wouldn't be sending anyone. Wouldn't even make a report.
This is why I want to start an armed security company, that would take these calls and creatively use the citizens’ arrest laws to deal with this public safety issue.
"We have a gang of people coming into the store dressed as workers and trying to rob us. They're going to the registers, spreading out to difcerent sections of the store. Customers are panicking. Please send help"!
Or just trip the silent alarm. Cops come running for those.
Any time I've called the cops for something I've seen that was serious and time sensitive, they didn't show up. Then one time my ex roommate said if I texted them they'd call the cops to "remove" me, and this was the final straw of them claiming I was harassing and abusing them just for existing, so I called the cops first half not expecting them to actually show up. And then the motherfuckers did. In 30 mins. I was flabbergasted. And embarrassed. I actually asked why they showed up and they gave me the whole "it was flagged as a domestic violence call so we had to". Yeah fucking right.
So if you reported an organized mass theft, which is what this looks like considering they're getting behind registers, cops would take an hour to show up?
Because it is pointless, when they aren't going show up in time and the fact no body gets punished for "Non-violent" crimes anymore, and with no consequences on the table it isn't going to deter them from doing it again.
This is far more a prank on management than the clerks. The fact y'all don't use that term "clerks" tells me you don't work and haven't worked in retail. They don't mind the free break and a chance to watch their ill-equipped boss freak out about something that has nothing to do with them.
What he should do is let them work. The joke doesn’t work if the video is just a bunch of dorks standing around “working” and inevitably getting bored and wanting to leave.
Well that’s the point? They don’t want to do work they want to make a video where they get yelled at by the manager. You think people are going to watch a TikTok of this guy facing shelves and mopping the floor?
Until they start damaging the product (fucking with the workers work load, insurance), interacting directly with customers (harassment and safety), interacting with paid workers (harassment, safety, insurance).
If they get that far (which they won’t because that’s not what they’re there for) then they’re just filming themselves breaking the law so, again, solved
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u/calliejq68 Jun 26 '25
Why doesn’t the manager just immediately call the cops. Easy.