Work: Today, my first day on the job, I locked up the office after...

By mrsimintrouble - 29/07/2016 06:01 - United States - Redding

Today, my first day on the job, I locked up the office after everyone left and set the alarm. An hour later, my new boss angrily emailed me that I locked him inside the building, setting off the alarm and prompting the entire police department to show up. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/09/2010 15:01 - France

Today, my boss walked down to my office with me to get some paperwork after a very tense, important meeting. He patiently waited while I tried to unlock my office door with my remote for my car. Twice. FML

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Elielili 13

Friday 29 July 2016 18:26

Unless they gave you proper instructions on how to do it you're not to blame. Granted, someone should've stayed with you just in case.

Welshite 39

Friday 29 July 2016 18:29

Promoting an entire police department? Your office must be super popular with law enforcement.

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mzdaisylynn 12

Friday 29 July 2016 20:31

Doesn't the boss have the code to the alarm?

flaka816 8

Friday 29 July 2016 20:44

I did that to my boss one time. Lol. I work in a liquor store that has an apartment attached to it. I didn't know he was in the apartment when I closed the store. He called me about a hour after I closed and started yelling at me about it. Once he stopped yelling at me I asked him why he couldn't just use his key. He knows the code to the alarm and has keys so it shouldn't have been a problem. I didn't even know he was there anyways!

peterj96 11

Friday 29 July 2016 20:48

First day on the job employees usually aren't trusted with locking up, that's usually the manager/ supervisors job or it left to an experienced employee that works the latest shift. Sorry but it's a big fat no here. Maybe if you worded it somewhere along your promotion excluding that duty but you didn't so I call bs.

peterj96 11

Friday 29 July 2016 20:51

Seeing as how the boss wouldn't have been taken to jail that's a big fat no, he could maybe go for kidnapping but since he never said he didn't want to be there to the employee ( or I would hope manager is smart enough not to say that) but even still it would be thrown out of court because no foul play was involved at all.

TheAwesomePossum 11

Friday 29 July 2016 20:58

This used to occasionally happen at my old job. We just had to enter the code to stop the alarm.

DanielleinDC 33

Friday 29 July 2016 22:03

You made an honest mistake. You thought everyone was gone. Depending on the size of the building, it's sometimes hard to check. So you're not totally to blame.

chrisbeaudoin 26

Friday 29 July 2016 22:09

Who let's someone close on their first day of working?

peterj96 11

Friday 29 July 2016 22:35

My first comment was deleted because it was assumed to be an opinion not based on any facts so let's try again, when security companies set these systems into place, and when they come to inspect the systems, they specifically tell owners not to give the code out to new employees. So I'm sorry but I do not for a second believe that you did this as a new employee, not to say that it didn't happen, but to say that this wasn't your first day on your job. I also want to note, no employer in their right mind would leaving locking up their place of business to a brand new employee. I might have bought it if you said first day back from vacation or first day being allowed to lock up the store, but first day on the job is a big fat no. Not because this is my personal opinion, because the facts stand no employer or manager or superior of any type, would put their store at risk like that.

peterj96 11

Friday 29 July 2016 22:42

There is another thing to note, security breaches like that prompt at most 4 cars depending on the security level of the store, so if by some stroke of the superior not knowing at all s/he was doing, and the they did let you lock up, he probably had 2 cars driver and rider (4 officers) arrive at the most, and is trying to make you feel stupid, I have friends in that have gone to these calls with only one car driver and rider even in the bad parts of town because unless you're working at a bank, which you wouldn't have even known how to lock you. They don't send very many cars because believe it or not store systems go off all the time for no reason. And they have a lot of other things the department needs to be at base or on the road and ready to take on. Not checking a sensor breach inside a locked building.