Two days ago when I went in to work, late in the afternoon, I open up the stores email to take a look at what new things we have to look forward too when I see an "Urgent" email from the president of our company. I think to myself "Oh great, I am about to be out of a job again because our stores are going bankrupt".
After I opened the email I couldn't help but feel selfish after finding out that one of my bretheren Managers was killed and here I was worried that my job was in danger.
I don't have the email with me or even memorized but the message it carred has stuck with me and I have not been able to shake the feeling of sadness and anger I have inside. Though, I may not have the person or her family personally, I have been in the retail business over 10 years and know of the dangers that we face each and everyday.
Many people think that Retail jobs are cushy and easy but, I do not know any job other than service jobs where a person gets confronted and threatened on a daily basis because we are asked to enforce company policies and people think we are doing thing's just to be jerks.
Even when we do as we are supposed to, as this young woman did, our lives are still in constant danger because of the ignorance and deviousness of certain people that enter our stores every day.
I have the following news clipping and have decided to post it here in hopes that people will continue to repost until we find the cowards who did this and bring her family closure.
As we all know it is human ignorance that leads people to bragg about their deeds or even human conciousness that eats away at us and forces us to tell someone what we did because we can no longer bare to hold inside what we deem to be a dark weight on our soul.
Please, repost this. Please if you know anything, give her family closure. She was someones child, and as I mentioned before, she may have been unknown to me but because of our line of work and the company we work for, she was my sister and I feel for her and her family.
Contact the San Antonio Police Department if you know anything.
:Flav242:
The news clipping is as follows:
The last time Randy Belken saw his daughter, they had just finished playing a new video-game system she had brought home from work.
"We had a real fun time playing it," remembered Belken, as he sat on his couch beneath a wall of framed photos of his only child.
But within 24 hours of that last visit, police were investigating the death of Amber Belken after her body was discovered in the back storeroom of the EB Games where she was store manager. The 24-year-old had been suffocated and the store had been robbed, police said.
No one has been arrested in the case. Police are calling her death a capital murder.
Witnesses told police Belken arrived at the store around 9 a.m. Monday, an hour before the store opens.
At 9:08 a.m., she text messaged one last "I love you" to her boyfriend. Police later told her father she turned off the store alarm around 9:12 a.m.
Police believe Belken was killed within an hour of sending the message and deactivating the alarm.
Her body was found after 2 p.m. when two other managers went to the store, in the 7300 block of San Pedro, when they couldn't reach her by phone, a police report said.
A bag covered her head, the report said. The Bexar County medical examiner's office ruled the cause of death asphyxia.
The front door of the store was locked. The police report said a security bar over the store's back door was lifted. But the back door was locked from the outside, said San Antonio Police Department Sgt. Edward Wise.
The safe in the back room was empty. A cardboard money box sat on the counter containing a few rolls of coins, the report said.
Belken's shoes rested on a back room shelf. Her left hand lay on her lower back and her right hand was at her side, according to the report.
Belken's car, parked in the lot in front of the store, was unlocked. A cell phone rested on the driver's seat; and a Lowe's tote bag was on the passenger seat, the report said.
The store had no surveillance cameras inside, said SAPD spokesman Joe Rios.
EB Games had no comment about security measures at the store pending the outcome of the investigation, said Chris Olivera, vice president of corporate communications for the Game Stop Corp.
Belken had worked for the company about three years, her father said.
He said his daughter was sometimes scared to work alone, because of robberies at other stores. Another store location was robbed on Christmas Eve while Belken was working.
Despite her fears, Belken wouldn't give up on her job.
"She wasn't a quitter," her father said.
Tuesday afternoon, as relatives filed in and out of the Belken home, reminders of Amber moved about the house: the Chihuahua and Shih Tzu she had adopted for her parents and a collection of turtles and frogs swimming in aquariums that bubbled softly in the living room.
And on the floor beside the fireplace sat another, older game system she had once brought home. Belken's father sat on the fireplace ledge beside it and stared into space, holding one of its pink video-game controllers in his hands.
After I opened the email I couldn't help but feel selfish after finding out that one of my bretheren Managers was killed and here I was worried that my job was in danger.
I don't have the email with me or even memorized but the message it carred has stuck with me and I have not been able to shake the feeling of sadness and anger I have inside. Though, I may not have the person or her family personally, I have been in the retail business over 10 years and know of the dangers that we face each and everyday.
Many people think that Retail jobs are cushy and easy but, I do not know any job other than service jobs where a person gets confronted and threatened on a daily basis because we are asked to enforce company policies and people think we are doing thing's just to be jerks.
Even when we do as we are supposed to, as this young woman did, our lives are still in constant danger because of the ignorance and deviousness of certain people that enter our stores every day.
I have the following news clipping and have decided to post it here in hopes that people will continue to repost until we find the cowards who did this and bring her family closure.
As we all know it is human ignorance that leads people to bragg about their deeds or even human conciousness that eats away at us and forces us to tell someone what we did because we can no longer bare to hold inside what we deem to be a dark weight on our soul.
Please, repost this. Please if you know anything, give her family closure. She was someones child, and as I mentioned before, she may have been unknown to me but because of our line of work and the company we work for, she was my sister and I feel for her and her family.
Contact the San Antonio Police Department if you know anything.
:Flav242:
The news clipping is as follows:
The last time Randy Belken saw his daughter, they had just finished playing a new video-game system she had brought home from work.
"We had a real fun time playing it," remembered Belken, as he sat on his couch beneath a wall of framed photos of his only child.
But within 24 hours of that last visit, police were investigating the death of Amber Belken after her body was discovered in the back storeroom of the EB Games where she was store manager. The 24-year-old had been suffocated and the store had been robbed, police said.
No one has been arrested in the case. Police are calling her death a capital murder.
Witnesses told police Belken arrived at the store around 9 a.m. Monday, an hour before the store opens.
At 9:08 a.m., she text messaged one last "I love you" to her boyfriend. Police later told her father she turned off the store alarm around 9:12 a.m.
Police believe Belken was killed within an hour of sending the message and deactivating the alarm.
Her body was found after 2 p.m. when two other managers went to the store, in the 7300 block of San Pedro, when they couldn't reach her by phone, a police report said.
A bag covered her head, the report said. The Bexar County medical examiner's office ruled the cause of death asphyxia.
The front door of the store was locked. The police report said a security bar over the store's back door was lifted. But the back door was locked from the outside, said San Antonio Police Department Sgt. Edward Wise.
The safe in the back room was empty. A cardboard money box sat on the counter containing a few rolls of coins, the report said.
Belken's shoes rested on a back room shelf. Her left hand lay on her lower back and her right hand was at her side, according to the report.
Belken's car, parked in the lot in front of the store, was unlocked. A cell phone rested on the driver's seat; and a Lowe's tote bag was on the passenger seat, the report said.
The store had no surveillance cameras inside, said SAPD spokesman Joe Rios.
EB Games had no comment about security measures at the store pending the outcome of the investigation, said Chris Olivera, vice president of corporate communications for the Game Stop Corp.
Belken had worked for the company about three years, her father said.
He said his daughter was sometimes scared to work alone, because of robberies at other stores. Another store location was robbed on Christmas Eve while Belken was working.
Despite her fears, Belken wouldn't give up on her job.
"She wasn't a quitter," her father said.
Tuesday afternoon, as relatives filed in and out of the Belken home, reminders of Amber moved about the house: the Chihuahua and Shih Tzu she had adopted for her parents and a collection of turtles and frogs swimming in aquariums that bubbled softly in the living room.
And on the floor beside the fireplace sat another, older game system she had once brought home. Belken's father sat on the fireplace ledge beside it and stared into space, holding one of its pink video-game controllers in his hands.
