Tell us some of your nightmare stories in retail

[Roxyluvsme13]

Well, I'm not old enough to have a job, but I do know something that happened to my cousin.
She used to work in retail at Proffitts, and there was this lady who used to go into the dressing room and POOP in the floor! Her excuse was she had some sort of IBS (irrital bowel syndrome) but my mom (a nurse) said she would have had runny poop, and my cousin said it wasn't runny it was solid.
Just EW!

[Kfamr]

Background:
I work at Chick-fil-A. We sell breakfast from 6:30-10:30.

A lady comes in around 2:00 and with a box of Chick-N-Minis (breakfast item, ONLY sold during breakfast hours) She opens it up and all that is there are the Mini rolls. She says that HOURS ago there were never chicken nuggets in the minis. She goes to Mrs. Pat, and older lady I work with. Mrs. Pat asks for my help in the ordeal.

I KNOW it was complete bullshit for several reasons.

1. There were chicken nugget breading crumbs inside of the rolls and in the box.

2. I had my BEST boards person on during breakfast. There's NO way in heck she would have forgotten to put nuggets in the box.



Company policy makes it where I have to refund if the lady requests, and I did exactly that.

[Suki Wingy]

Yes, I worked at a walgreens for a month, every SECOND was complete HELL and I'm not kidding you. First off, the dress code was rediculous for a store where people come in 1/2 dressed, literally. One day this lady came in wearing a pretty shear white shirt and no bra. ew. and we have to wear dress pants or a skirt and a nice shirt and no sandals and we can't eat a lolipop while we stick stickers on boxes and all that bu11$/-/!t.

[dionne]

ugh...i used to work at a taco bell and this guy came thru for the second time, and said his soft taco had onions when it wasn't supposed to. i DISTINCTLY remember making his food myself, becuase he had been the only one that was in the store at the particular time he came in. i was flustered when he told me and of course, as has been kfamr had mentioned, i told him we would gladly remake it. and this guy! he straight up says to me, "no you are going to remake it, AND give me my money back" i went back to being flustered and told him as politely as i could that i could not do any such thing. and he says to me, "then get me a manager, you stupid brainless little @#$%!" that was it. i replied to him (still as politely as i could, but with teeth gritted together and my face flushed), that a manager COULDN'T do it either, it was just not something we could do, but i told him for the 6th time that i'd remake it.
he CONTINUED to argue with me, and then before i knew what was going on, he had unwrapped his soft taco, hocked a giant snotty loogie into it, leaned forward and smashed it into my face, grinding it in. i rememebr the taco distinctly falling off of my face and making a huge SPLAT! as it hit the ground, and i broke out into tears. i went to the back where the manager was and she YELLED AT ME! which then resulted me running outside, and going into a massive panic attack, and then the manager fired me for the panic attack. the end.
dionne
PS...AND on top of everything else, i noticed when it was being ground into my face, that the soft taco had NO onions in it.

[kitten645]

I can't begin to imagine working any food service because you really get a cross section of peeps you really don't want to be around.
However I've worked retail for 25 years from high end dept stores to really high end specialty stores and I can assure everyone that just cause they got money don't mean they have manners!!
First few years at Macy's I had the poop in the dressing room. I had the HUGE woman returnin a small bathing suit after five years saying it fell apart! I had the crazy ass women RUNNING into a "one day sale" back when they weren't an every day occurance, RIPPING everything including the wigs off maniquines. People switching tags on designer jeans reading 14.99 like I wouldn't notice.
Then I "moved up in the world" to a super exclusive store as a buyer/executive and had women buying sets of six soaps at $25 and wanting them wrapped individually, which we couldn't/wouldn't do to avoid embarresment on reciepient, givers and our behalf when the reciepient tried to return one sixth of an item after xmas! Crazy people appearing at the gift wrap desk in Dec, three minutes after making their purchase (time is stamped on the reciept) wondering why their 15 gifts aren't ready to go! People appearing in the stock room wanting to "look around"!
I have a good friend who is a comedian and one of his jokes is, "I worked in retail for 2 days and had a revelation...the american public SUCK!" LOL
Harsh as a generalization. Unfortunately the bad ones stick with you more than the good. I always make an effort to compliment anyone who isn't on their cellphone talking to their girlfriends instead of taking my money at the register!
Kitten

[Daisy and Delilah]

I work at the local library and we get some winners in there too-believe me. Especially the smelly ones that come out of the 100 degree heat. Our library is more like a community center/homeless shelter.

However, after reading these stories, I'm standing up and cheering all of you for doing these jobs that I could never do. You're a very special group to endure such torture. dionne: I hate to say what I would have done to that guy--holy cow!! Some people are truly in need of some serious help

[critter crazy]

I spent 3 horrifying years as a department manager at a local Wal-Mart!! Wal-mart itself is great, Its the customers that suck!!! It was during the holiday season and had gone to th sporting goods dept to lend a hand at the register. A woman came over with her stuff placed it on the counte and began to check out. I was ringing up her items and there was a container of Pringles potato chips on the counter, all I did was ask if they were hers. She went nuts, saying that if they were hers she would have said so, that i needed to pay more attention ect...... all i did was say okay, sorry for asking. She once again goes nuts and is now telling me she will be throwing me into the plate glass display if i said one more thing to her!!! I couldnt believe it!! All i did was ask her if the chips were hers, and now she is threatening my life!!!!! upper management came over and escorted the woman out of the store, they came back and said I needed to go home, but they would have someone drive me because she had made numerous threats on my life, while being escorted out of the store! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??????