I finally got my interview at a retail job the other day. Alls I did was sit through six videos and fill out a bunch of paper-work. The videos were okay, I guess. One was about Customer Service, another was about the alarm system that goes off when a certain tag isn't taken off, another was about keeping yourself clean of all those blood carrying yuckies. So yeah, one of the videos that I watched was about Code Adam.
Code Adam is a code for when a child is missing. (Adam Walsh was a six year old Florida boy who was abducted from a Sears department-store in 1981 and was later found murdered.) -If a parent comes to you and says that they're child is missing the employee is suppose to go to the phone, alert everyone that a Code Adam is taking place and then all the employees/managers are suppose to watch the doors, check that bathrooms, and all that good stuff. Anyway, during these short cheesy videos it showed a mother and her five year old daughter at a store. The mother, who was all engrossed in a pair of ugly socks, didn't notice when her daughter disappeared. "Jessica! Jessica, where are you!" The mother panicked when she finally noticed the girls absence.
The mother left her cart and started zipping past the isles in search of her daughter all the while screaming out the young girls name. The fellow customers soon became aware of the child's disappearance and demanded of the employee why he wasn't doing anything about it. -That was the beginning of the video, of what NOT to do. And then it showed what TO do. -In the TO-DO version the employee actually went up to the mom and told her to stay calm and that everything would be alright. ...As I watched the employee signal a Code Adam and as I saw the horrified look on the mothers face, I started to get really emotional. Through the entire video Code Adam was taking place. Then, just as the narrator was wrapping everything up, a customer (-the video revealed two versions of whether this customer -this guy -was good or bad) brought the child safely to her mother. It wasn't until they were reunited that I started to cry. I felt totally relieved that they were together and I felt totally ridiculous that my maternal instincts just had to kick in. It was just a video for cryin' out loud!
Sweet Moments in Primary
5 years ago
1 comment:
I would have cried too.
I have had to rely on code Adam too.
Alicia would take off as soon as we got into Wal-Mart and go for an employee. I would be frantically looking and hear my name paged that my daughter was at the service desk and I needed to come get her.
The first couple times I was so relieved, after that I was mad,
it didn't happen much after that.
I lived in Florida and remember that horrible Adam story. They aired a movie on tv about it too.
I am sure many children have been saved because of his tragedy.
They have a full lock down of the store. I hope all employees feel as strongly as you do. In Adams case he was escorted out the door by a store clerk and left alone he was only 6 years old. While the mother searched inside knowing he wouldn't leave alone he was outside and taken. They found his body fifteen days later.
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