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Minnie_the_Minx
09-05-2006, 09:32
Apparently the staff there are being abused and threatened to the point that it's "getting out of control".
It's a charity shop :eek: Why is this happening? Does it happen at other charity shops. Are people that tight that they're arguing over a few quid or what? :confused:
Feel free to enlighten me. :confused:
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0400lambeth/tm_objectid=17049334%26method=full%26siteid=50100%26headline=staff%2dattacked%2din%2dcharity%2dshop-name_page.html
When i worked in a charity shop, the staff reckoned that almost 1/3 of the stuff that left the shop wasn't paid for, one of the female staff had someone try to rape her, and it was an absolute magnet for bored people who wanted to come into a shop and start a fight with someone over absolutely anything. They also were broken into regularly for goods worth less than £5 displayed in the window.
The buzzer system got put in recently to deter shoplifters (I didn't think it would attract many of those tbh) but I had no idea they got threatened by people. Weird isn't it? A charity shop of all places :confused:
The buzzer system got put in recently to deter shoplifters (I didn't think it would attract many of those tbh) but I had no idea they got threatened by people. Weird isn't it? A charity shop of all places :confused:
There seems to be a lot of epople who think that stealing from a charity shop is less wrong than fromanother sortof shop, because the goods in the charity shop are donated. At least, my manager heard that one a lot of times when she caught the shoplifters
Minnie_the_Minx
09-05-2006, 09:59
The buzzer system got put in recently to deter shoplifters (I didn't think it would attract many of those tbh) but I had no idea they got threatened by people. Weird isn't it? A charity shop of all places :confused:
He said he had been assaulted himself when he confronted a shoplifter he caught red-handed.
"The most frightening thing was this guy was a regular customer," he said.
"When I saw him putting things in his bag and approached him he just went mad.
"He came after me and slapped me around the head. I was shocked."
Wonder if he knew his name and address to report him to the police :mad:
There's not even any embarrassment there!!! He's a regular customer that gets caught and then whacks the person who caught him :confused: :eek:
I'd be so fucking embarrassed for:
a.) being known to them
b.) stealing from a charity shop
Truely bizarre.
brixtonvilla
09-05-2006, 18:23
For fuxake... who steals from a charity?
tbaldwin
09-05-2006, 21:06
For fuxake... who steals from a charity?
Loads and loads of people. Working in Charities you realise that the kid who stole the collection box at the chip shop was not exactly the worse person to be handling their money.
Sweetpea
09-05-2006, 23:14
Apparently the staff there are being abused and threatened to the point that it's "getting out of control".
It's a charity shop :eek: Why is this happening? Does it happen at other charity shops. Are people that tight that they're arguing over a few quid or what? :confused:
Feel free to enlighten me. :confused:
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0400lambeth/tm_objectid=17049334%26method=full%26siteid=50100%26headline=staff%2dattacked%2din%2dcharity%2dshop-name_page.htmlThat desperate, that poor?
Louloubelle
11-05-2006, 09:27
The charity shops in Camden Hight Street seem to attract the local crack heads, they don't just steal stuff from the shop they steal customers bags and one even ran in threatened the manageress with a kife and ran off with the donations tin.
the staff have radios to the street wardens but they don't have the kind of security that the other shops have so the charity shops are an easy target.
Generally the staff will let the crack addicts take staff rather then confront them as it's just too dangerous to confront them and the thieves are opbviously deperate or they wouldn't be stealing stuff.
One of my friends works in a charity shop and she's an Iriqi Kurd, a refugee. Her brother was murdered by Saddam Hussein and she used to live in a massive luixurious home and ended up losing everything. She told me how she and her husband decided to burn her bother's books (he was an intellectual critic of Sadam) even though they were the only things of her brothers she had, because they were frightened that they would be arrested and tortured or worse if they were found to have them in their possession.
My friend feels really lucky to be here in the UK and she volunteers to work in a charity shop to try to do something good in the world, yet she's threated by violent crack addicts at least once a week.
I appreciate that they're desperate but I have to admit feeling very angry with them.
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