- Oct 10, 2013
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Lol they did. When I broke down how this was my BS college job the jaws hit the floor and hearts were broken.
“You were the chosen one!! You could of had it all!!”(All meaning store #14165)
Good/Bad/Weird Retail Experiences
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“You were the chosen one!! You could of had it all!!”(All meaning store #14165)
- Dec 31, 2012
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They use to hustle those shoe cleaners HARD
- Oct 10, 2013
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so in a shoe store workers needed to hit goals for shoes, multiple sales and accessories.
- Mar 19, 2013
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The lil shoe cleaning kiosk in the mall when they try to do their little spiel about the cleaning process.
One dude asked my cousin “let me clean your shoes” my cousin said “clean yours first” I died
I would’ve died hearing that as a passerby
- Jul 27, 2012
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Man. Someone’s dropping 10k, I’m closing the deal immediately
I went off on the manager and told him he needed to see the bigger picture. Push the protection stuff when practical but when it’s excessive it’s a detriment. It happened quite a few times where the sales managers would ness the sales up for the salespeople by being too pushy. If it was certain managers I knew who were too extra and I got the vibe the customer wasn’t the type to deal with that nonsense I’d just write the order up, take the payment and if they complained I didn’t have them review it, I’d deal with that later. Ones who were more easygoing, I’d just tell them to take the managers sales pitch with a grain of salt.
- Jul 22, 2012
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Worked at a gun shop before. About 5 or 6 years ago two fishy/sketchy cats walk in to buy ammo. Dude wants 9mm. Standard practice for us if a sketchy dude wants ammo we ask for ID and make a copy.
Two days later a PD Detective is waiting for me and my boss to open shop. Night prior there was a homicide and the suspect used 9mm. We are the only gunshop in the city so they asked to review our footage and file of people buying ammo.
Detective see the two dudes from before and goes yup thats the suspect and his boy next to him is the victim.
Two days later a PD Detective is waiting for me and my boss to open shop. Night prior there was a homicide and the suspect used 9mm. We are the only gunshop in the city so they asked to review our footage and file of people buying ammo.
Detective see the two dudes from before and goes yup thats the suspect and his boy next to him is the victim.
- Dec 11, 2007
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Whoa
- Jan 7, 2003
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Post to SN ratio is
Ya Hands dirty my boy
Ya Hands dirty my boy
- Mar 5, 2005
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Talking to him like he indirectly killed someone, it ain't on him.Post to SN ratio is
Ya Hands dirty my boy
- Aug 31, 2012
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From my days working retail:
First one was an outside of the store experience: I was working at a Michael's Arts & Crafts during high school and made a point to
before going in and on every break. I walked out to my car to pack a bowl and go to Wendy's. I took the cash out of my wallet and put it in the cupholder while I packed a bowl. In the middle of this some lady comes up to my car (my window is down) and starts trying to initiate a conversation and then goes "...oh you're smoking weed?". I try to cover it up real fast and she's all "No, I don't care. I honestly wish I was smoking right now" then proceeds to give me a sob story about how she ran out of gas and needs a few bucks to make it to the next station to fill up. Knowing this is the oldest fiend juug in the book, I say "sorry, don't have any cash on me." She goes "well how about you give me that cash in your cupholder so I don't have to go inside and tell your boss what you're doing out here?" Heated, I throw the money out the window, tell her to **** off, and drove off. Didn't even smoke or get food. Just drove around pissed about how bad I got got. 
Same job. I had just gotten an offer as a prep cook working in a nursing home kitchen (same job from the Lorenzo story from the Crazy Stories From Your Job thread). I was restocking shelves one day and this burly looking dude was standing in front of the area I was stocking with his kid. I motioned to walk past the display and said "excuse me" as I did so, and he said "you mind not walking in front of us, you ******* dickhead." I could immediately tell from the tone that he was dead serious so I just blew up on the guy. Starting cursing him out, getting up in his face, almost to the point where we were gonna fight. Finally a customer came down the aisle and broke it up and pulled me aside. He had heard how the dude had spoken to me and how he carried on and was on my side. Told me it wasn't worth it and it's dangerous to provoke someone that crazy. He was able to cool me down and I explained to him that I had just gotten a much better job and was sick of the mistreatment. He was really understanding and sympathetic, so I went in the back and threw him a friends & family coupon so he got 50% off his entire purchase. The other dude stormed out of the store immediately. Never faced any repercussions.
Not retail, but worse. From my days working in healthcare:
Had a patient's son request that we shave his mom's pubes. No.
Had a patient's daughter try to convince me that the reason that her mom's heart failure is getting worse is because she has sodium in her diet at our facility. She told me at home she has her mom on a "zero sodium diet." I explain to her that it was literally impossible to have a diet with no sodium and asked if she meant a "no added sodium" diet. She tried to shoot me down and said "NO. I SAID A NO SODIUM DIET." I explained how sodium is a necessary electrolyte for just about all neurological functions and for cardiac conduction, but she wasn't having it. I asked her that if her mother had bloodwork done at while she was home what would she expect the serum sodium level to be and she quickly replied "ZERO." At this point I lost my patience and said "well that would mean your mom would be dead." She just said "well I disagree" and I replied "this isn't a democratic process." She only interacted with the other nurses after that exchange.
We also had a dude that was completely alert, independent in all activities of daily living, and had no issues with his bowels or bladder. Conveniently enough though, every night at midnight he'd "accidentally" **** himself. He'd ring his bell and specifically ask for certain female aides to come in (it was right at change of shift and he knew the night crew ladies that he had the hots for were just coming on). He would't tell anyone why, but the aides would come out saying what had happened. The pattern was quickly recognized, so we nipped it in the bud as quick as we could. Every time he would ring the bell, we would send the biggest dude in the room to answer it. The dude would say the girls are busy, but he could help him with whatever he needed. He would eventually just get flustered and walk himself into his bathroom to clean the **** off him. He cut that out real quick after that.
First one was an outside of the store experience: I was working at a Michael's Arts & Crafts during high school and made a point to
before going in and on every break. I walked out to my car to pack a bowl and go to Wendy's. I took the cash out of my wallet and put it in the cupholder while I packed a bowl. In the middle of this some lady comes up to my car (my window is down) and starts trying to initiate a conversation and then goes "...oh you're smoking weed?". I try to cover it up real fast and she's all "No, I don't care. I honestly wish I was smoking right now" then proceeds to give me a sob story about how she ran out of gas and needs a few bucks to make it to the next station to fill up. Knowing this is the oldest fiend juug in the book, I say "sorry, don't have any cash on me." She goes "well how about you give me that cash in your cupholder so I don't have to go inside and tell your boss what you're doing out here?" Heated, I throw the money out the window, tell her to **** off, and drove off. Didn't even smoke or get food. Just drove around pissed about how bad I got got. Same job. I had just gotten an offer as a prep cook working in a nursing home kitchen (same job from the Lorenzo story from the Crazy Stories From Your Job thread). I was restocking shelves one day and this burly looking dude was standing in front of the area I was stocking with his kid. I motioned to walk past the display and said "excuse me" as I did so, and he said "you mind not walking in front of us, you ******* dickhead." I could immediately tell from the tone that he was dead serious so I just blew up on the guy. Starting cursing him out, getting up in his face, almost to the point where we were gonna fight. Finally a customer came down the aisle and broke it up and pulled me aside. He had heard how the dude had spoken to me and how he carried on and was on my side. Told me it wasn't worth it and it's dangerous to provoke someone that crazy. He was able to cool me down and I explained to him that I had just gotten a much better job and was sick of the mistreatment. He was really understanding and sympathetic, so I went in the back and threw him a friends & family coupon so he got 50% off his entire purchase. The other dude stormed out of the store immediately. Never faced any repercussions.
Not retail, but worse. From my days working in healthcare:
Had a patient's son request that we shave his mom's pubes. No.
Had a patient's daughter try to convince me that the reason that her mom's heart failure is getting worse is because she has sodium in her diet at our facility. She told me at home she has her mom on a "zero sodium diet." I explain to her that it was literally impossible to have a diet with no sodium and asked if she meant a "no added sodium" diet. She tried to shoot me down and said "NO. I SAID A NO SODIUM DIET." I explained how sodium is a necessary electrolyte for just about all neurological functions and for cardiac conduction, but she wasn't having it. I asked her that if her mother had bloodwork done at while she was home what would she expect the serum sodium level to be and she quickly replied "ZERO." At this point I lost my patience and said "well that would mean your mom would be dead." She just said "well I disagree" and I replied "this isn't a democratic process." She only interacted with the other nurses after that exchange.
We also had a dude that was completely alert, independent in all activities of daily living, and had no issues with his bowels or bladder. Conveniently enough though, every night at midnight he'd "accidentally" **** himself. He'd ring his bell and specifically ask for certain female aides to come in (it was right at change of shift and he knew the night crew ladies that he had the hots for were just coming on). He would't tell anyone why, but the aides would come out saying what had happened. The pattern was quickly recognized, so we nipped it in the bud as quick as we could. Every time he would ring the bell, we would send the biggest dude in the room to answer it. The dude would say the girls are busy, but he could help him with whatever he needed. He would eventually just get flustered and walk himself into his bathroom to clean the **** off him. He cut that out real quick after that.
- Nov 5, 2007
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This past Monday I sold Rudy Gay a suit. It's hard to fit a 6'8" dude for a jacket but it went well. Real nice guy and his wife was cool too. They dropped like 6K altogether. I'm still waiting for Dwyane Wade to come in though. The brand is known for being loud and colorful so I know he'd like our stuff.
mplsdunk
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- May 25, 2004
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How is that weird?
- Nov 5, 2007
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It fell more under the good category. I've actually worked retail since 2016 but don't have any weird stories.
- Sep 6, 2000
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I couldn't. Believe me, I mentioned it. They already had my account up, the old phone turned off, and the stuff on the account. Literally nothing I could do. Even if I took the old phone back, they were still hitting me with the $60 restock fee. Folks at customer service were horrified when I told them the story.
cedric ceballos
Yep. When I used to work at Foot Locker in college, they pushed "multis" down our throats. Forcing us to pitch insoles, cleaner, literally anything to get multiple items into a sale or we got a talking to/write up from the district manager. Terrible.
mplsdunk
Supporter
- May 25, 2004
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My bad I forgot we had that category.
I used to work at crate and barrel when I was 16-19. That job was dope, I was soooo out of place but it was cool.
I used to work at crate and barrel when I was 16-19. That job was dope, I was soooo out of place but it was cool.
- Mar 19, 2013
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How is that weird?
Weird was my Mexican cousin greeting comedian Sinbad to the smoothie bar.
Mexican cousin said in a mixture of crying voice x nervous voice and singing voice...
”Hey Bru-thhhhhuu-uh-uh-uh-uuuuhhhh”
Sinbad looked puzzled a Mexican dude called him brotha and in a super funny way. He just slightly chuckled and said “hey man, what’s happenin’“. Me and my female co-worker had to run to the back room and crack up, boy almost cry-sang his greeting
mplsdunk
Supporter
- May 25, 2004
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dude
- Jul 20, 2013
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Haha did your cousin know it was Sinbad or something and that’s why he did that awkward greeting?Weird was my Mexican cousin greeting comedian Sinbad to the smoothie bar.
Mexican cousin said in a mixture of crying voice x nervous voice and singing voice...
”Hey Bru-thhhhhuu-uh-uh-uh-uuuuhhhh”
Sinbad looked puzzled a Mexican dude called him brotha and in a super funny way. He just slightly chuckled and said “hey man, what’s happenin’“. Me and my female co-worker had to run to the back room and crack up, boy almost cry-sang his greeting
- Mar 19, 2013
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Yeah man, he knew it was him and he got nervous. Probably ran it through his head first but it came out all wrong, haha.
- Mar 12, 2011
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When I worked at a run specialty store we used to have homeless people sleep in front of the store door all the time. We never cared as long as they left by the time the store opened and they didn’t leave any junk behind. One time though we had this racist motha****a give us problems and my manager had to call the local police to get him to move. The next day he smeared his **** in front of the whole store writing the n word. Manager eventually got a restraining order against him.
Mister Meaner
formerly super producer j
- Mar 24, 2007
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Watching this white woman explain why she should not be arrested after being busted shoplifting, at the Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store on 5th avenue here in NYC.
This little thing?
Dat privilege backfired on this day.
