Belk worker plays retail superhero, gets broken arm

Retail Superhero by Brian Wallace

Okay, when I was in college I worked at The Limited. I loved working retail...of course.  I have crazy stories about things I witnessed at the mall where I worked. It was like a daily soap opera.  With all the joy I found in that job, not once did I want to play retail superhero like the guy did at Belk's which you will read about below. I was not the guardian of The Limited.  So I would not don a cape to save the store...

My boss at The Limited was something else. She had two or three very wealthy boyfriends, and would crack me up with her stories.  I had a coworker who was cheating on her husband with a security guard.  I had daily access to cute clothes, cute male mall workers and fun times.

Now, there was one time when my manager asked me to watch this melanin rich chick who had come into the store. I said no! Why would I follow her? (Yeah... my melanin rich self following another melanin rich chick? Come on now!) Meanwhile in the dressing room to the right, the one no one ever used, a melanin poor chick was robbing the store blind!

I never let her into the dressing room...so apparently she had crawled under the door...took the security tags off her stash and fled.  Had my manager been paying attention to the entire store, instead of focusing on telling me to watch the other lady, it would not have happened.

When I did my cursory view of the dressing rooms, I found the tags, and told my manager. She had the audacity to tell me to go look for the chick in the mall.

Ha! Are you crazy?! No ma'am! I do not own anything in The Limited. I will not play retail superhero! I worked part time and earned about a buck fifty a week, and she thought I was going to go running after a thief?! Apparently people do just that... but do not realize it is a liability.

Check out what happened with this guy at Belk in Charlotte:

From WSOC Channel 9 in Charlotte:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — 

A Northlake mall employee is recovering after his arm was run over by a suspected shoplifter’s getaway car.

According to a police report, Thomas Wallace, a Belk department store employee, tried to stop the bandit Sunday before the suspect got in a car.

The thief pulled Wallace into the car and the driver took off, police said.

When Wallace fell on the ground, the car ran over his arm, police said.

Channel 9 is working to see if any arrests have been made.

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