Realistically I shouldn’t be this worried about this, but I am.
I am a low tier retail manager, and I really did love my job and see myself growing more within the company. Lately it’s been exhausting, and the day before my vacation I was screamed at on the floor. I told my friend about it and said I can’t do this anymore, so she offered to give me a recommendation and hand my resume to her boss. She works an office job, better hours, more opportunities for overtime. I got the job, signed the offer letter yesterday. They wanted me to start earlier but I called their HR department and told them I wanted to give a proper two weeks notice and asked them to push it back. They said that’s fine and were happy to see that I wouldn’t leave my current employer high and dry.
Today I gave my two weeks notice, my current boss was pissed. She said in the professional world we give at least a month, that this looks unprofessional to both them and the company im about to start at, basically I’m screwing them over. I tried explaining that I wasn’t necessarily looking, that an opportunity came my way and if it didn’t work out I was planning on staying. Other annoying things were said, such as saying I’m not allowed to slack off now that my foot is out the door (I genuinely wasn’t planning on it, if not for her sake, the sake of my staff and other managers who would pick up my slack. I want to leave on a good note incase I need the reference. Which at this point I’m thinking, will she even give me a good reference? Or will she say I didn’t give proper notice?) and trying to pry to find out the name of the company I was hired at.
Whatever, the rest of the day is fine, we chat. It’s going fine. I was closing tonight, so part of that is locking the building. I did it how I always do it. Sometimes the door is finicky and doesn’t close properly, she’s usually alerted about ten minutes after I close the building. Tonight she texts me an hour later, asking if I just left. I say no we all left on time, if not a few minutes early. (We’re scheduled until an hour after close to clean the store)
Apparently an employee entered through the employee door, which should only be accessed by managers if it’s locked. And I know I locked it, because I wait for it to beep twice before exiting. My staff makes fun of me for that and did so tonight. Police were dispatched. I really don’t know what’s going on. But as time goes on, I’m getting really stressed. Of course this happens the day I close and give my two weeks notice. I know I was at home and I had nothing to do with this. But I’m worried I will be accused of being an accomplice or something lol. I don’t know where the cameras are at, I’m sitting here like “did I lock the safe? If it’s not locked I’m going to look guilty.” The safe is in the office that only management can enter, but if whoever broke into the store overrides that, they can get to where the safe is as well, right?
I’m kind of panicking, I know this has nothing to do with me but the burden of proof will be on me if I’m accused of anything.
I wanted to post on this sub because of how mad I was about the reaction to my resignation, but now I’m posting because I’m afraid I will have a criminal charge lmao