One helluva an April Fool’s Day
So I show up at my store early as usual, take my gear off (I ride a motorcyle to work) and start my day.
My sales reps trickle in and one says “Smitty, where’s the TV?” (a nice 42″ flatscreen we use to run loops of company stuff for customers).
I look, and sure as hell, it’s gone. I call some other store managers and see if anyone took it as a joke, but they all ask me if it’s an April Fool’s joke on them. I call our manufacturing guys and see if they did it, but nope, so I call the police. Just as a vendor rep shows up for some training with us.
I then have to interupt her as a criminal investigator shows up, then his boss, then a csi. They get busy asking all kinds of questions, taking pictures and dusting for finger prints…It seems that the back door had been jimmied.
Next the landlord comes by because he’d heard about the break in, and he asks me if I have his rent check. I don’t because that’s handled by accounting, but I make a few calls. He then says “Well you fellas owe two months, and I want certified funds. The last check I got had a stop payment put on it and the one before that bounced…” That made me feel just great in front of the police, who are asking me at that point if anyone would have any reason to be disgruntled with us (we’re in the process of restructing the company because of stuff like this, and have employees and vendors who either haven’t gotten paid or their checks bounce). At this point I’m feeling a whole lot like George Thorogood:
“Had to tell the landlady I’d-a lost my job
She said that don’t confront me,
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn’t get the rent,
And out the door I went..”
Then my boss shows up and the cops talk to him for a bit and they ask him the same questions. When they get to the disgruntled part, he laughs and says “We’re all disgruntled!” Smart boss, real smart…
The day goes along fine until about 5:30 when the boss calls from another office, where he’s with the owner. The good news? As part of our restructuring, we’re closing my showroom, to open in a much better location (it’s in a run-down shopping center now). The bad news? I have to lay off my sales reps immediately, and close the store.
One helluva day…
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