Idiots Abound

~In A Tight Spot~

Bad things happened to heroes. That wasn’t news. Steph had been threatened, beaten up, and kidnapped (once by her own dad), and a couple times the bad guys had tried to kill her. None had succeeded, and even during the other stuff she hadn’t felt like she was in a huge amount of danger. Well, not most of the time. There was always Batman or Batgirl or Robin on the way. Plus the people who tried to hurt her often underestimated her, and that worked to Steph’s advantage. Especially as Robin—the bad guys were too busy laughing at a blonde Robin with boobs, and they let down their guard enough for her to get her licks in.

Now, though, she was scared. After standing up and moving her arms rhythmically within the limits of the cuffs, she got enough feeling back to try working on escaping. First she took stock of her situation. The cuffs were welded to a chain that ran up to a high ceiling somewhere in the darkness overheard. She was nauseous from the blow to her head, and aching all over from the fight earlier and hanging unconscious by her wrists. Her kit was gone, including the lock-picks normally stashed in her gauntlets. She just had her costume itself and her wits.

After a few moments, Steph realized why this situation frightened her so much. It wasn’t being held captive, it wasn’t waking up alone in a big dark room and having to wonder what the bad guys wanted. It was a small detail: the welded cuffs. Someone had taken the time and trouble to weld a set of steel handcuffs to a chain. That meant they used this setup a lot, and didn’t want any chance of someone slipping away.

It meant this might’ve been an unplanned capture, but whoever had her had done this before.

~Love and Other Headaches:
Won't See Me Closing In
[Chapter Thirty-Three]

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kalalanekent

24 May 2011 @ 01:26 pm

Idiots Abound

You know something's messed up in the system when you're looking up info for work and you run across questions on three different sites asking if your workplace drug tests. And you see 'no' as an answer when you know they do. Also asking if they do background checks. Honestly, if you know that this is an issue, I wouldn't bother with high-end retail. Because I'll be honest.

If I find out that you have a drug problem and my tills go short on YOUR shift, you're out. We've had theft issues before and I WILL rat you out. With a quickness. It's a sad world we live in when THAT'S a question to ask when you're setting out to get a job.

God, that makes me so damn crazy.

Tags: i am lois-hear me rant

On the Verge of:

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maaike_fluffy on May 25th, 2011 06:10 am (UTC)

Ugh, it's sad how often theft is being committed by the staff. In my 6 years in retail I've had 3 coworkers in my own pool fired for just that reason. One of them I truly considered a good friend, too. Makes you wonder exactly whose word you can still trust. *rereads* Yeah, that sounds a little more dramatic than I had intended. Still, it's such a shock everytime. You're absolutely right about reporting immediately. This sort of stuff can't happen...

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kalalanekent on May 26th, 2011 10:35 pm (UTC)

Same over here. And the worst part is that, knowing and liking the person. I always hate it all the more because I feel like it's not just management that they fooled. We've had this happen three times since December. SUCKS. SO. BAD.

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dandello on May 26th, 2011 05:46 am (UTC)

It's a sad time and place when you know you can't trust your co-workers and you have to guard your back against everyone. For that matter, I once had a supervisor who has fired for theft - the tills weren't short, but his deposits sure were.

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kalalanekent on May 26th, 2011 10:32 pm (UTC)

I think part of my fury over this was that, twice in my work history, I ended up working under an embezzler and was once fired with three others that he accused before being busted three months later.

That sort of thing just pisses me off SO bad.

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dandello on May 27th, 2011 12:49 am (UTC)

And it's nothing you can do to protect yourself, either. That's the real bummer. As an employee, you're entirely at the mercy of people who can do real damage if they have a mind to - and you have almost no recourse.

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kalalanekent on May 27th, 2011 01:21 am (UTC)

THIS. And it turned out the DM knew about it and they were just trying to catch him. And they let us take the fall so he wouldn't know they were onto him. After which they marked us as 'unrehireable'.

It's just sickening.

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