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Buff · 08-23-2024, 02:21 PM

I almost killed a guy at Canadian Tire one time and I didn't even know it. It is quite possible, had he died, that he would have been found dead and nobody would have any clue who triggered his death. It would have been assumed that it was a stupid accident. Was it actually me that almost killed him? I don't even know.

This one memory was triggered from Locke's post regarding climbing into the trash compactor to unjam it. One day at work a co-worker told me that he was clearing out a jam when suddenly someone threw stuff in and pushed the button. He scrambled to get out of there and nobody was around when he got out and tried to look at who to holler at. He said it was quite slippery in there and he almost slipped back in but he got lucky.

I mean, he was dumb for doing that on his own. In my many years there I never went in there but if someone did, there was always someone on the lookout to make sure nobody came and pressed the button... that wasn't fool proof though because there was two doors with control panels, one on the warehouse side and one on the garage side. I'm pretty sure we actually weren't allowed to go in there but I recall many people doing it.

And now this triggers another story.

One kid got busted for shoplifting. We were "renovating" our store and I was moved to the reno crew. We worked over night to take apart aisles and set them up in their new location within the store. It was a complete revamping of the floor plan. My particular part of this crew was merchandising the freshly re-located/re-built aisles.

Well one of the kids who was moved to the night crew was stealing stock. He would take it to the warehouse, slide into the trash compactor and climb out into the outside bin and leave it within the gate for someone to pickup and/or grab it himself later on after the night shift was over. It was quite the scheme the kid had going but he was caught and arrested shortly after someone became suspicious of him. It took the security guard a couple of nights of hiding out in the warehouse to observe him but they caught him.

08-23-2024, 02:21 PM	#149
Buff Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: I don't belong here Exp:	I almost killed a guy at Canadian Tire one time and I didn't even know it. It is quite possible, had he died, that he would have been found dead and nobody would have any clue who triggered his death. It would have been assumed that it was a stupid accident. Was it actually me that almost killed him? I don't even know. This one memory was triggered from Locke's post regarding climbing into the trash compactor to unjam it. One day at work a co-worker told me that he was clearing out a jam when suddenly someone threw stuff in and pushed the button. He scrambled to get out of there and nobody was around when he got out and tried to look at who to holler at. He said it was quite slippery in there and he almost slipped back in but he got lucky. I mean, he was dumb for doing that on his own. In my many years there I never went in there but if someone did, there was always someone on the lookout to make sure nobody came and pressed the button... that wasn't fool proof though because there was two doors with control panels, one on the warehouse side and one on the garage side. I'm pretty sure we actually weren't allowed to go in there but I recall many people doing it. And now this triggers another story. One kid got busted for shoplifting. We were "renovating" our store and I was moved to the reno crew. We worked over night to take apart aisles and set them up in their new location within the store. It was a complete revamping of the floor plan. My particular part of this crew was merchandising the freshly re-located/re-built aisles. Well one of the kids who was moved to the night crew was stealing stock. He would take it to the warehouse, slide into the trash compactor and climb out into the outside bin and leave it within the gate for someone to pickup and/or grab it himself later on after the night shift was over. It was quite the scheme the kid had going but he was caught and arrested shortly after someone became suspicious of him. It took the security guard a couple of nights of hiding out in the warehouse to observe him but they caught him.