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Told another way: Two men came into the store, gave the cashier a BS story, then while one man distracted the cashier with an old battery charger, the older man destroyed a brand new battery charger. The men then left with the old battery charger, without paying for the damage they caused.
Dumbass Customers: "I Am Not Stupid!"
From u/UniqueUsername_Nope, TalesFromRetail It was late one evening about 30 minutes before the store closed. We were completely dead, not one customer in the store and the 3 of us that were on duty were chatting at the register at the front of the store when a son and father enter and approa...
PM: No, I don't have a fucking receipt. Did you sell the fucking game to him or not?
Me: I just need to see the GAME receipt; I don't care what else you spend your money on.
Game Store Hell: How Dare You Sell The Work Of The Devil To My Son!
From u/Cometophobia, TalesFromRetail Last year I got a job at a store that sells video games, which I absolutely love. Important note, I'm a twenty year old girl and my manager is an older woman, but the other six people who work at the store are men. An older woman, in her late 40s or maybe ...
Maybe in Australia, uniformed personnel are absolutely trustworthy. Here in the USA, there was an incident, to quote from Wikipedia: "Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is an American convicted of fatally shooting 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009. Hasan was a United States Army Medical Corps psychiatrist who admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013." Nidal Hasan was a commissioned officer, a Major, in the US Army. You could look it up.
Travel Hell: You People Are Idiots
From RHUer I was flying from Sydney to Melbourne one day after work, I had come straight from work so I was still in my uniform.... I'm in the Royal Australian Navy. I had also been working in the magazine all day disposing of out of date ammunition and checking explosives (stock take and bat...
Chiquita says, "Never put bananas in the refrigerator!"
Customer Rejects: Bacon Always Wins
Certainly, just taste one, but get a napkin first.
Signage Slip-Ups: Can You Back Your Claim On That?
--Troublemaker Mom
Where do you go when your shrift ends?
Microsoft Display Fail Spotted By Best Buy Associate
From u/thetoader14 I work at Best Buy and found this before the end of my shift.
I rate this place FOUR stars: the pizzas are pretty good, 3 stars, but the drivers are large and delicious, YUM! 5 stars. So it averages 4 stars.
You Had One Job: Our New Line Is Soylent Pizza
IT'S A TRAP!!
The Stairwell of an Abandoned Button Factory
From u/dittidot
Another curious case. . .
The Stairwell of an Abandoned Button Factory
From u/dittidot
"WE'RE CLOSED' today, and hope to be 'GOING OUT OF BUSINESS' soon.
When You Let a Cat Do The Closed Signage
Isn't it about time for The Weather Girls, or someone, to make a sequel to "It's Raining Men!" ?
Crazy Customers: Woman on Crack Gets Into Ceiling of Mexican Restaurant via Their Bathroom and Then Crash Lands Into Dining Area
From Daily Mail: A woman believed to be on crack cocaine fell through a ceiling at a Mexican restaurant in California. Footage shows the moment the woman comes tumbling down from a ceiling at Sabroso! Mexican Grill in Garden Grove, California. According to the video's poster, the woman had ...
Many men pulled on Excalibur, and could not pull it out, but it came easily for the chosen one. We all hope we are the chosen one.
Closing Time Nightmares: What Do You Not Understand About The Word 'Closed"?
From srbumblebeeman, TalesFromRetail So this is not about my store, but the one next to us. I used to manage a small electronics store in a small town. Right next to us was a coffee shop that everyone in town goes to. If there were cars in the parking lot, it was for the coffee shop. It was a...
Bridesmaid dress was custom ordered, tailored and paid for. Usher whispers, "Didn't the bride tell you to get the purple one?"
Mannequin Gore
From u/DaddyLongBallz
. . . and ice, don't forget to get ice.
Sidewalk Signage: When Life Gives You Lemons...
rachelmaryl, I nominate you for a Retail Balls Award, good luck!
Dumbass Customers: Someone Made The Text In Cursive!
From u/rachelmaryl, TalesFromRetail In college, I worked for a floral shop that shared a space with a bakery. We had the space for both businesses to operate and it naturally was a good partnership. This story takes place near the end of my senior year. I was six weeks shy of graduating with ...
I know it is difficult to deal with me, but you only have to do it for fifteen minutes. I have to deal with me all day, and it's like this ALL DAY, every day!
Mistaken Identity: Why can’t you look up my account!
From u/Clever_BigMack Tales From Retail: This happened a few days ago. I work at a cell phone retailer that has several ways you can pay a bill in store. We have systems where we can look up your account on a tablet to see a more detailed bill breakdown or a bill pay system where we just ...
This is a great service! Did you ever try to buy a week's worth of bananas at a time? Two green ones, two ripe ones two brown ones, throw one away every week.
Korean Market Creates Clever Banana Packaging
Genius at work. E-mart in Korea is now selling the "One a Day Banana" pack, containing several bananas of different ripeness so that you can eat them over several days. https://t.co/VWEkSsE1my pic.twitter.com/V2uLRLKpwL — T.K. of AAK! (@AskAKorean) August 6, 2018
When I've been blowing the dust off the chunks of limestone, I tell the boss, "I spent 7 hours in the lab, blowing chunks." Then I take the next day off.
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob: Geology Safety
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob ⛰ As a geologist, I regularly sit in my office in a full hazmat suit, safety goggles, and dust mask as I brush my chunks of limestone pic.twitter.com/35oPD4yXhR — Claire L. Cooper (@EarthSciCooper) July 26, 2018
OR my pet goat, 'Nut Butter'.
Justin explains the name behind his Nut Butter
--u/GGeoffK
There is a difference between 'Put some mulch on the median.' and 'Spread some mulch on the median.' Someone PUT mulch on the median.
Engineering fail : isn't this how you use mulch?
From Lee: It never needs replacing this way!
"Western Union is supposed to do extensive training. . ." which is why the scammers sent victims to big box stores to buy gift cards. IRS will contact you by letter, first. If they contact you by phone, first, request that they send you a letter. Do not give your address or social security number to anyone who calls you. If IRS can call you, they know your address already. If they don't know your address, it is a scammer.
The Entitlement Complex: I Fell For A Scam And Nobody Warned Me Ahead Of Time!
I'm trying to be sympathetic here, but there are two very important questions this twit needs to answer: 1) Why would the IRS tell you to pay off your student loans using iTunes gift cards? 2) Why the fuck is it Best Buy's job to tell you that you're being a fucking idiot? --Entitlement is...
"We adore Balzac!" Meredith Willson (from "The Music Man")
Unforgettable Store Names: Say It Out Loud, And Quickly
You can hope that the 'customer' did such a poor job of trying to scam the store that they will try some other line of work.
Craft Store Hell: You can't return a nonexistent marker
From u/Polvoroni Tales From Retail: I work at an arts and crafts store. A customer comes in with a receipt of maybe 12 items, saying that they purchased a "black marker" but accidentally left it in the store. No one left a marker up front, so another associate asks them to show the item on...
But he also pushed a manager down. Is that assault in your state? It seems to be a capital offense in Florida. (bing 'Parking Florida man')
Retail Hell Memories: Strange Shoplifter
From u/Harpyia13 Tales From Retail: A while ago, we had a shoplifter in the store. Nothing new (unfortunately shoplifters are quite common and our security is rather terrible), but this one was being very obvious about taking things off the shelves and stuffing them in his bag, so the cashie...
You could have given the rude man's daughter, or the cashier, some dating advice. "If you are out with a guy, or girl, if you prefer, and he is nice to you but rude or mean to the waitress, he is not a nice person."
Justice Served: He Deserves All The Suffering.
From ALLFATHER2233, Clipd I was at a Craft Store in my town, and it wasn't too busy, but only one register was open. The cashier, a teen aged girl, I could tell was working as best as she could. The process was a tad slower however, because she had a stutter, and a bit of a lisp. As she worke...
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