Recently had a female coworker talking to her bf outside our business.
About a 3 weeks previous to this, she told some coworkers that she was having relationship problems, and had found a new place to move into. That never happened.
He was obv drunk, but engaging her in a convo with them both laughing a lot. He was really loud, though; we could hear his laughs from inside. Her laugh has always been loud, so hearing it didn't set off any warning bells. Someone came inside to buy cigarettes, and he said that there was some guy being loud and creepy with an employee out front.
BF outside started getting louder, I came outside to monitor the situation, asked her if everything was okay. She put her hand up "Stop"-style, smiled, and nodded me away.
A few minutes later a customer came in and told us that he saw the guy in her face, and that he slapped her.
I ran outside, and her bf was getting into his fucking big wheel truck (I don't know how else to describe it, it didn't have as huge of a body as most though), rubber screaming as he shot out of our parking lot.
She ran into the back of the store, and another coworker went and made sure she was alright.
She lived with her bf. She had to go home to him after her shift. I was told that she was calling around to see if a friend would let her stay the night. I never asked about her plans that night, because if they weren't in her favor, I'd feel like shit. No one wanted to call the police because they'd be inserting themselves into the situation. Not as if we were scared, but we felt that it wasn't our place to do that, especially if she said she was ok.
Typing that, I know it makes us all sound like huge pussies, but do you want to be the one working side-by-side with the girl who didn't want you to send her bf to jail (if he even went), yet you did anyway? You can act like you're doing the right thing as much as you like, but there's a line that being crossed when you do that. Again, yes, pussies-r-us.
The next time she worked (5 days later), I asked her how everything went. She laughed and said that her bf felt like shit about the whole situation, and he'd been making it up to her, big time.
I seriously don't know if I believe her.