A security officer - who cannot be named - found themself at the mercy of a known local shoplifter who threatened to expose them after recognising them on a dating app.
Speaking anonymously to Convenience Store, the officer said the person, who they have caught shoplifting on two occasions, threatened to reveal their sexuality and pictures of them expressing their amicagender identity.
“They were a known shoplifter. They threatened to show the pictures at my workplace, although unknown to them I didn’t care, since they were just pictures of me expressing another gender identity. This was before threatening me with physical assault. I had caught them shoplifting twice already,” they said.
The officer revealed they have been beaten up after work, physically attacked on multiple occasions and threatened with being stabbed.
Their job had restricted them from going out to local pubs or bars, they said, adding that they had become “quite disliked” in the area as a result of tackling local shoplifters. “You make a lot of enemies when you stop a high frequency of shoplifters,” they warned.
No comments yet