Today served as a reminder that I do not want a promotion to Tacoma. Though it would kick ass to work with Carrie again, I do not feel like being shot at would be a wise career move. Around 1 I received a call from Emily the Visuals manager at the Tacoma Hollister, she needed our district managers phone number. She sounded semi frantic and I asked her what was wrong. She replied.... There was some guys shooting a assault rifle, he had ammo strapped to his chest! I was like what the fuck, oh my god yeah hold on I'll get yah Daves phone number. When I got back I asked her what in the fuck happened. She was floor supervising and about to go into the lounge when she heard a loud series of sounds. She thought the porch was calapsing. Then people started running in the store diving on the floor and screaming he has a gun and he's shooting. Then she got people in the stock room which has a door that leads to the outside. Mettler had recently transferred to Crombie and I was worried about him. She told me that he was managing and he also got everyone into the stock room but they did not have a door that lead to the outside so they were trapped, but had been rescued by the swat team. I asked her if she had called Carrie (the store manager at Tacoma) yet and let her know, she had and Carrie had been trying to get a hold of Dave. He's in San Diego visiting his girlfriend. Nate the GM for ALderwood called me for the scoop he was worried and I informed him on what was going on and that no one could get a hold of Dave. He told me to get a phone number to a San Diego Crombie, call them and ask for their District managers number. If we could get ahold of Dave's GF then we could let him know what was happening. So I forwarded the number to Carrie so she could try and get ahold of her.
Our Hollister then picked up becoming really busy. A lot of the customers were tellin us they were at Tacoma Hollister when it happened. One couple I talked to said that they had heard the gun fire in the front rooms and ran to the back where the kids were still ringing people up. They yelled didn't u hear the gun fire! They hadn't because the music is so loud. After Emily got everyone in the stock room they were the ones who pushed open the door to the outside. I guess Em was pretty frantic according to one of our employees who also works at the Tacoma Victoria Secret. I can't believe after all the gun fire and people being shot that these people continued on they're shoppin adventure. If it were me I would have gone home immediately... The day was just fucking crazy.... I'm glad that I work at quiet South Hill in Puyallup...
