getting kicked when you're down

at my workplace we've not been having much fun recently.
1st the water board close the road our shop is on, then the kwiksave close and all our customers think we are closing too. the article in the evening leader didn't help when it talked about an old man being unhappy that he wouldn't be able to have a cuppa at the complex any more. mum phoned up and complained so they printed an article titled 'we're still open for business', which can be found here.
as it's not today's news you have to type the word 'business' into their search engine and the title should be listed, the date is the 31/3/2006.

today i arrived to open the shop at 8am and found the outer doors wouldn't open. then as i looked more closely at the news agent's shutters oposite i saw something was wrong. they had been prized open. i looked across and saw that the shop nextdoor had a hole in the wall. then i saw that the petshop shutters had suffered the same fate as the news agent. my next thought "where's this waste of space security then?" i found them round the corner sat in their car and was told that there was a break in last night and that the police weren't letting anyone in.
i went round the back to see what was happening. there was a police woman there waiting for csi to turn up, until then no-one could enter the building. she took my name and mobile number and told me she'd let me know when i could get in, so i went to tesco for a cuppa, then another cuppa and some breakfast, then i still hadn't heard anything and it had been almost 2 hrs so i got bored and went back to the petshop. i could see a woman inside the shop moving things around, she was wearing gloves, so i assumed csi must have turned up then. then i spent an hour letting customers know that there had been a break in and that we couldn't open till the police said so. eventually i got in. all the shops were allowed to have a look to see if they noticed anything in particular that was missing. with us it was just the money from the safe. other shops had stock stolen, the wallpaper shop even suffered vandalisation. paint and varnish were thrown everywhere. it was completely senseless. there are some idiots in this world.
this is what they did to our safe









i didn't take any pictures of the shutters. they've been fixed now.
we're fighting so hard to keep our cutomers coming to us and we're only small businesses, but we will not be squashed.
these idiots had the cheek to leave a note in the bakery saying "thank you very much, ha ha ha!"
they must be found and punished. there was no need to do this to us.
we're all very angry.
there's already an article in today's flintshire evening leader, i'll add the link as soon as the put it on the website. *still no sign of this article on ther site*7/4/06
somerfield have let us down. they removed kwiks and left us vulnerable, the security situation is beyond a joke. one manager has demanded over night security, it's the least we deserve, all the shops in the complex pay rent.
that's my angry rant for the day.

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