Ugh. I'm sorry you had to experience that, OP. The same thing happened at a place I worked a few years ago, not while I was working there. The basement apparently had a huge vent that led into the product storage room on the first floor, which no one knew about, and a guy snuck into the basement (only accessible from outside, and locked when not in use) while people were moving holiday decorations upstairs. He hid behind some boxes or something, and no one noticed when they locked the door behind them. Over the next few months, the fridge was getting pilfered sometimes and things would get messed with... Like coworkers would leave their jackets in the main office upstairs and they'd be downstairs behind the payment terminal in the morning, stuff like that. One day the alarm was tripped (this took MONTHS?! What alarm system was that?!) And one of the owners, my former boss and now friend D, went in to check on the store, only to find a dude in his boxers wearing D's jacket. A strange dude in D's jacket and not much else. They had the dude arrested and hired contractors to seal the weird vent. Apparently it was an old school cooling setup, cold air from the basement kept the store cool. It was like a sauna after that. When I worked there they had installed an enormous AC to combat that, but it had died shortly before I started. The huge vent is still in the storage room, but there's concrete behind it, now.
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Ugh. I'm sorry you had to experience that, OP. The same thing happened at a place I worked a few years ago, not while I was working there. The basement apparently had a huge vent that led into the product storage room on the first floor, which no one knew about, and a guy snuck into the basement (only accessible from outside, and locked when not in use) while people were moving holiday decorations upstairs. He hid behind some boxes or something, and no one noticed when they locked the door behind them. Over the next few months, the fridge was getting pilfered sometimes and things would get messed with... Like coworkers would leave their jackets in the main office upstairs and they'd be downstairs behind the payment terminal in the morning, stuff like that. One day the alarm was tripped (this took MONTHS?! What alarm system was that?!) And one of the owners, my former boss and now friend D, went in to check on the store, only to find a dude in his boxers wearing D's jacket. A strange dude in D's jacket and not much else. They had the dude arrested and hired contractors to seal the weird vent. Apparently it was an old school cooling setup, cold air from the basement kept the store cool. It was like a sauna after that. When I worked there they had installed an enormous AC to combat that, but it had died shortly before I started. The huge vent is still in the storage room, but there's concrete behind it, now.