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Post by Kill Em' All on Sept 20, 2019 10:01:03 GMT -5
I always thought it would be cool to hear crazy stories from everyone's work related experiences.
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Post by MacReady on Sept 20, 2019 11:24:17 GMT -5
Once caught two teenage kids getting it on in the handicap fitting room back (it was the most spacious) when I worked at GAP. Had to call the security team, who then called the cleaning team to clean up... AHEM... remnants...
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Sept 20, 2019 11:58:17 GMT -5
Man, go to Reddit.
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Post by Kill Em' All on Sept 20, 2019 21:37:53 GMT -5
Once caught two teenage kids getting it on in the handicap fitting room back (it was the most spacious) when I worked at GAP. Had to call the security team, who then called the cleaning team to clean up... AHEM... remnants... Ah man, I remember kids would go at in the movie theater in the end of Middle of School/Early High School.
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Sept 21, 2019 7:54:50 GMT -5
Man I'd have to make a whole throwaway account for that
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Post by Valbroski on Sept 22, 2019 21:39:35 GMT -5
A woman who worked in the shoe department of the store I worked at would take dumps in plastic bags every morning and then throw them out in the garbage can in the women's bathroom. This went on for months before enough people started to notice and reported it to our operations manager. The women quit on the spot when confronted about it and never explained why she would do it.
I also got confronted by an angry customer and accused off racial profiling. The lady said she saw me following her but honestly I never even noticed her. Part of my job was going around from department to department and it just so happened she'd seen me multiple times.
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Post by Kill Em' All on Sept 22, 2019 23:03:50 GMT -5
A woman who worked in the shoe department of the store I worked at would take dumps in plastic bags every morning and then throw them out in the garbage can in the women's bathroom. This went on for months before enough people started to notice and reported it to our operations manager. The women quit on the spot when confronted about it and never explained why she would do it. I also got confronted by an angry customer and accused off racial profiling. The lady said she saw me following her but honestly I never even noticed her. Part of my job was going around from department to department and it just so happened she'd seen me multiple times. Taking dumps in plastic bags, respectable. And racial profiling, that's some broad stuff.
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Post by Nivro™ on Sept 22, 2019 23:58:41 GMT -5
A guy crap on the side of our building at work a couple weeks ago. I guess he had had the runs. Appears his put his ass against the wall and let'er go. Then left his tighty whiteys on the ground. Came inside and asked where the bathroom was and apparently finished up. I just happened to go into the mens room and see the mess in there. Boss lady is the one that found the mess outside.
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Post by JP on Sept 23, 2019 4:31:24 GMT -5
In my last job, we had a few faeces related incidents. The first was this well known drunk who wandered into one of the men's changing rooms and had a bit of a dirty protest all over the walls of the cubicle.
Then, we had a member of staff - who was never discovered - kept dumping outside the store manager's office for about three months.
There was also a customer who had crapped themselves, and stood in the middle of an aisle and shook it right out of their trouser leg.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Sept 23, 2019 8:49:21 GMT -5
once watched someone try to steal 4'x3' floor standing speaker by putting it in a bookbag and heading towards the door. legitimately looked like a turtle as he hunched and strained to carry it.
I always said I was going to keep a diary of the weird stuff I seen at retail and publish it as a book down the line. I regret not keeping up with that goal, but the entire job is so soul crushing it's hard to see the forest for the trees
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 25, 2019 8:32:50 GMT -5
I worked at Walmart as a cart pusher for 9 years. I have a ton of stories I could tell.
I once saw an elderly man who was confused, leave his wife behind in the store and he proceeded to drive off and hit a brand new Mazda.
I've found dentures in the Parking Lot.
There was a guy who was refused a gun sale once. He went around swinging an axe around electronics. They asked him how he was going to pay for the gun, and he said with Monopoly money. I wasn't there that day when it happened. I've heard about it from the guy in sporting goods.
I've seen a snowplow truck catch fire in the parking lot.
There was a crazy lady who was very mentally unstable who had her quirks when she shopped. She tried to return Coca-Cola once because it didn't have the right ingredients. She also tried to return peanut butter crackers because the holes in the crackers didn't line up. When she would go check out she only wanted her stuff on the conveyor belt and would yell at anyone who would put stuff next to her stuff. She once put shopping carts around her car to protect it from aliens. She was banned from Walmart before I started working there. I loved hearing the stories about her.
A customer who took a mart cart in the outside the store told a people greeter that he could tell Walmart and all their lawyers to go to hell. The people greeter threatened to knock the guy out. The greeter wasn't fired or even reprimanded for that.
There once was a customer who accidentally bought a dummy Power Wheels car. The ones on display don't work. She went home and found out it was a display model and had to return it.
There were prank phone calls made to the store.
Too much stories to list. I work at a car dealer now and it's nowhere near as crazy as Walmart
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Post by vampiroporvida on Sept 25, 2019 16:54:26 GMT -5
These are brutal, but reading them made my day. I have had bad clientelle, but nothing like this.
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Post by Kyle on Oct 8, 2019 8:05:45 GMT -5
I worked at sears when I was 18-22. Got yelled at because my knowledge of seamless womens panties wasnt up to snuff. Found a travel thermos full of piss doing a planogram once. Here's the best though- we had an employee who would ask other workers to buy him lunch every day in February because it was "his month". He hassled everyone that worked there. One morning before the store opened another guy and myself were assembling patio furniture when the dude came over, again, asking us to buy him lunch that day. My guy assembling a little patio table says "F off Terry (the hassler), I'm not buying you lunch". Terry (the hassler) grabs a rubber mallet, smashes my guys toes, and yells "It's my month! Black power!!!" as holds the mallet over his head, pumping his fist. As a 21 year old who had been in management for like 2 months, I was absolutely flabbergasted.
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Post by Quazimoto on Oct 8, 2019 8:33:07 GMT -5
Way back when, I worked the night shift at a national department store. One night, while changing price signs (from a 50% off sale to a Buy One, Get One Free sale, which happened a LOT), heard some deep, rhythmic breathing coming from one of the dressing rooms behind me. Being the curious sort and know there wasn't supposed to be anyone in the store aside from myself and five other night shift employees, I went to check it out. Opened the dressing door to find a man and a woman, both totally naked, sleeping inside. There were three used condoms tossed on top of their clothes on the floor and a large bottle of wine on the bench next to them. Apparently, they just couldn't wait to get home.
Don't know how whomever was working that department during closing missed them as the dressing rooms are supposed to be checked and cleaned before leaving for the night.
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Post by TheLastDude on Oct 9, 2019 15:32:47 GMT -5
I worked at sears when I was 18-22. Got yelled at because my knowledge of seamless womens panties wasnt up to snuff. Found a travel thermos full of piss doing a planogram once. Here's the best though- we had an employee who would ask other workers to buy him lunch every day in February because it was "his month". He hassled everyone that worked there. One morning before the store opened another guy and myself were assembling patio furniture when the dude came over, again, asking us to buy him lunch that day. My guy assembling a little patio table says "F off Terry (the hassler), I'm not buying you lunch". Terry (the hassler) grabs a rubber mallet, smashes my guys toes, and yells "It's my month! Black power!!!" as holds the mallet over his head, pumping his fist. As a 21 year old who had been in management for like 2 months, I was absolutely flabbergasted. Please tell me Terry got fired for assaulting that dude.
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Post by Kyle on Oct 9, 2019 18:51:45 GMT -5
I worked at sears when I was 18-22. Got yelled at because my knowledge of seamless womens panties wasnt up to snuff. Found a travel thermos full of piss doing a planogram once. Here's the best though- we had an employee who would ask other workers to buy him lunch every day in February because it was "his month". He hassled everyone that worked there. One morning before the store opened another guy and myself were assembling patio furniture when the dude came over, again, asking us to buy him lunch that day. My guy assembling a little patio table says "F off Terry (the hassler), I'm not buying you lunch". Terry (the hassler) grabs a rubber mallet, smashes my guys toes, and yells "It's my month! Black power!!!" as holds the mallet over his head, pumping his fist. As a 21 year old who had been in management for like 2 months, I was absolutely flabbergasted. Please tell me Terry got fired for assaulting that dude. Terry did not get fired. On a conference call with corporate HR they recommended firing both employees involved or neither. They were gonna fire the other guy for "provoking" him. It was nuts. I couldn't justify letting a hard working guy go like that. After a long talk with Terry, we recommended he transfer to another store, which he did. I saw him a few times after and he always acted like he didn't know me.
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Post by TheLastDude on Oct 9, 2019 21:34:57 GMT -5
Please tell me Terry got fired for assaulting that dude. Terry did not get fired. On a conference call with corporate HR they recommended firing both employees involved or neither. They were gonna fire the other guy for "provoking" him. It was nuts. I couldn't justify letting a hard working guy go like that. After a long talk with Terry, we recommended he transfer to another store, which he did. I saw him a few times after and he always acted like he didn't know me. There will never be a time that I do not hate HR.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Oct 9, 2019 22:23:28 GMT -5
This has been an entertaining thread. It reminded me of an incident that I hadn't thought about in years. I was working as a lifeguard at a park. The lifeguard team was also responsible for some basic clean-up detail after the swimming area closed. On my way to clean the bathroom one evening, I found the remnants of a baby's blowout poop at the bottom of a flight of steps. The parents had dropped the diaper on the bottom step, there was fecal matter on each step leading up to the changing area, and a trail of poop leading to the women's room. I really appreciated them leaving that for me to clean up.
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Post by WreckerJack on Oct 13, 2019 23:06:50 GMT -5
I worked at a costume shop and I had zero idea what I was doing because I hadn't worked retail before. I had done other things like working in a woodshop and a restaurant but this was my first time really working with the public. Anyways this lady came in, already I could see she was a little off - she was about 60, tons of plastic surgery and dressing like she was 20. She comes up to me asking if she can try a costume on and I got a whiff of what can only be describes as poop and baby powder. I was told I couldn't say no to a customer so I had to ask my manager to damage out that costume after. He told me if that ever happened again to get him so he could tell a customer no for 'hygiene concerns'. Another thing we have at our store are are 'facinators' you probably don't know what they are because I sure as hell didn't so here is a link to a picture. Anyways I just assumed that they were for women to put on their boobs at parties. I mean the name facinator is kinda ambiguous but what is more facinating than boobs? The shape is correct so it made sense to me. Several female customers purchased them and I never batted an eye because the last thing I want to do is make someone feel uncomfortable. I always wondered why they were not sold in pairs until it dawned on me that they were usually purchased one at a time. One of the guys finally googled it and found out they are little hats. When people think they are something other than little hats we don't correct them and chuckle as they figure it out.
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Post by bababooey on Oct 22, 2019 15:15:16 GMT -5
I have way too many to list from when I worked at a restaurant. But a quick one from when I was a waiter was a guy that came frequently brought a new woman there on a date. He tried to be impress her by ordering a carafe of wine. Only problem was he asked me to bring him a catheter of wine. I looked at him and was like “...I don’t think we provide those kinds of services here.” The joke went right over his head, but as I went to go get them their wine I heard the woman explaining it to him.
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