Need legal advice: would I get a possible false charge?
I want to doublecheck and make sure I am in the clear. I work at a multi tenant business building and today (Mother’s Day) I chose to work at the office. Time got the best of me and I was the last one in the building, the gates were closed and I thought I was locked in.
Before calling my boss I went to every business door to see if anyone was there, including the back doors. There’s a sandwich/vetkoek store that had one of their folding doors open (not fully though, one of the doors were open and the rest of that folding door was closed). I go in to see if anyone was inside and can open the gate for me and no one was there. I call my boss and tell him that I was locked in and that door was open with no one inside and he tells me that the front gate is just hard to open but no one locks it. I pull it open in the car and here’s where my stupidity comes in:
I tend to think between generosity and logic and situations and this time both took over. It first started with generosity and I thought to myself.“ I would’ve appreciated if someone close the door for me if it wasn’t at least locked” and I proceed to close the door, THEN logic took over and I thought to myself again” this looks bad on camera if I was the one to report the door open and the door was just closed.” apparently that’s where my logic chooses to end.
I didn’t think it’s Wise to open the door again and talk out loud in case the camera can hear me, as the doors open I hear quiet beeping and I say “ the door-“ which was cut off by a blaring alarm and I tried to get my point across as I point at the door I just opened and shout a much louder “THE DOOR-“ and with my lack of logic decide to leave my message halfway and walk back to my car. I stand there for about five minutes after the alarm finished in case someone would come in and I explained to them what happened. No one came so I went home, the paranoia even made me turn around halfway and doublecheck if the gate itself was closed.
Tomorrow morning I will go to the cashier and explain to the lady who runs it everything. I’m basically writing to see if there’s any charge/conviction she can put on me for this accident because I was in my office the whole day, and our Neighbouring Engineer saw me there. If she can lay down charges what would they be and how would I compare them? Thanks for reading