01.13.08

Reckless Driving can lead to Stalking!!!!

Posted in Work at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

and this is how….

right mum was driving me to work this morning, and my sister and her boyfriend were going shopping where i work anyways so we were all in the car. So mums driving and the person in front (in their company car) was being really stupid, he was driving slowly then speeding off and stopping suddenly and it was annoying us but we didnt do anything about it till he did a major stop in the hope we’d go into his car, so i took down his lince place number and the name of his company. Then we got to a roundabout, so we tried to over take to which he opened his window and was swearing at us all and tryed to run us in the round about 3 times!

So we pull off at our turning of the round about and he follows, driving really close and again trying to run us off the road once again. so we over took a van and he stayed in between us, untill we reached the next round about and he pulled off and mum then dropped me at work.

10minutes after getting in to work my mum, sister and her boyfriend are standing at my till point explaining to me that he has just followed them into three different stores, following them up and down the racks and what not. We told me supervisor and he said just to keep a look out. After about 5 minutes my family decide he must have gone by now because he hasn’t came into my store and they couldn’t see him outside.

As soon as my family walked out the store and was half way down the shopping center i saw the driver following them. I went straight and told my supervisor who then told me to go out after my family. I ran out the store down the stairs to where i saw my family heading towards me.

They had also seen him and gone into Next. We all went back to my store and reported to my supervisor who sent us down to security and they in turn after hearing it all, wanted to ring the police, mum didnt want too but i made sure that the shopping centers security was watching out for them before they left.

Now I did the stupid thing of running out of the main entrance to work after my family today, with also my work t-shirt saying the name of the store across the back. So I had to be stationed at my till point today, incase he came in as he saw me when he pulled up his car next to ours…what a bad day to sit in the front eh! Good was I had a nice big button to push if he came in and security would remove him and a security guard placed on the shot floor……

Idiot drivers eh!!!!

11.05.07

My Acheivements/Injuries

Posted in College, Work at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

As most of you have caught on I have a job. At the wonderful Debenham’s in Basildon…Sometimes I wish the place would just eat itself! I really cant hack the place sometimes but then others I think its a brilliant job, such as pay day (£381.18!).

Right so I work in Home soft, which is towels, bed sheets, covers and all the fluffy stuff that gets stuck to your jumpers, to which me and Bobbie use up the stores supply of sellotape, getting it off! So generally soft things….HOW THE HELL DID I MANAGE TO HURT MYSELF WITH TOWELS AND SHEETS! I don’t rightly know, well those of you who know me, know i am a cluts! (i said cluts not sluts guys)

So I managed too:

Cut my finger on my locker
Cut below my thumb on a duvet! well the box
Bruise my arm -moving bed sheets
All in one weekend……stupidity! I think not! lol I’m proud to think that on the one department its impossible to get hurt on i did!

Also college! EH! Well Thursday’s serves the 2 hours of Fitness! ouch is one word. Now the Thursday just gone I managed to:

Fall over in Badminton and crack my left wrist and am now wearing a pressure brace.
Get hit in the face, with a football
Get hit in the Shoulder, with a football
Get hit in the Stomach with a football
Get hit in the thigh with a football….

DANGEROUS!!!!! I bloody well think so!!!! :]

Then back to work…. Overtime on Tuesday. The day before Halloween! Me and Bobbie, Alan (our boss) and Ryan get in the 20 year old industrial lifts and head down to the stock room in the basement, 10 minutes before the end of work. What happens….Less then 5seconds after getting out of these big old sceary lifts we have a power cut. Ryan and me both reach for our phones and put the flash lights on. Alan tell me and Bobbie to move the cages to the end of the stock room while him and Ryan go out onto the shop floor. WHAT HAPPENDS!!!!….The doors to the stock room lock due to the power cut alarms after Alan and Ryan leave. Trapping me and Bobbie in the basement of Debenham’s….clearly not getting paid enough….