Infamous Incidents That Happened At Retail Workers' Jobs

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    Font - octopuswaffle · 4y This is my husbands story. He works at a pet store. There is a lovable parrot there that the staff all interacts with and he is super sweet. It was a very busy evening so all of his co-workers were dealing with things, and he was at the till so he did not notice anything right away either. The parrot is gone. Someone shoved a $3500 African Grey parrot into their coat (later when they reviewed the video tape, they saw this) and walked out the front door. Everyone was fre
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    Font - TriscuitCracker • 4y Barnes & Noble "The Volleyball Incident" So we have a typical 7 foot high shelf with a bunch of 8" by 10" loose leaf college ruled notebooks for back to school. They are bendy, very lightweight and sometimes they fall off as their front covers bend from standing upright to long. So one fell on the head of an older teenager, it barely glanced off her head, and it hit the floor. No employee actually saw it happen, she came up and said it had. She seemed fine, we asked i
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    Font - [deleted] • 4y Our grocery store was about to close so one of our cashiers bought the last whole cooked chicken we had. We kept it in the warmer oven so that it would stay warm, and put a big sticker that said "SOLD"'on it so that no one would mistakenly grab it. Last customer of the day decided to ignore the sticker, and took it anyways. Our cashier tried to explain to her that it had already been purchased and was in the warmer to keep it warm. The customer was not happy about this, so
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    Font - fixedfocus · 4y I worked in a grocery store. One day, in the seafood department, a customer started rooting around in the live lobster tank. The clerk stopped him, saying "sir, for safety reasons, you can't go into the lobster tank". He tried to argue that he "was from down East, and grew up handling lobsters". She persisted, and turned her back on him to put on gloves. He apparently got annoyed by this and threw a live lobster at her head. The police were called. He was charged with assa
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    Font - aroll10 · 4y I worked at Express for Men. Two managers were required to check the cash box each night. Two of them decided nobody else would notice if they both went in together to check the cash box and stole all of that day's money. It didn't last a day. 1 141 ...
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    Font - fourtaco • 4y Worked at a small store in a not-so-great area. Products were stored in the dirt floor basement and you'd have to go down with a flashlight and really bend because the ceiling was only five feet tall. Creepy enough. But one day a female coworker comes running up and is screaming about a rat she saw. There was major construction going on around us so we expected some extra vermin. But she said it was pretty big. So they go get Julio, the part time, little to no English skills
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    Font - [deleted] • 4y Some lady found a worm in her raw salmon after taking it home. She made a huge storm about it, recorded a video that went viral, and took it to the local news. All the comments on story were trying to tell her that eggs in raw salmon are common and it's not really possible for the store to sort them all out, which is why you cook it. The bright side is that wild caught salmon went on sale for $2/pound after that and I snatched up as much as my freezer could fit. I ate salmo
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    Font - soup_party · 4y Mmm. Starbucks: we had a one-legged veteran who was a little off his rocker. He used to shout at the employees and clean tables with reeeeeeally weird smelling chemicals that stunk up the whole café. Then one day he decided there was a fly problem, so he released a box of spiders into the store. He's not allowed in any Starbucks in this town anymore. He did keep stealing our newspapers though 166 ...
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    Font - DrDragon13 · 4y Probably the time my old manager caught sisters stuffing clothes in their giant purses. One of them ran with both purses and drove off leaving her sister at the store. Cops were called. Sister refused to talk but matched the description of several shoplifting incidents and was arrested. Or the time that a coworker was siphoning between 1-5 dollars every shift (at Walmart and the in store Mcdonalds) and taking it home. She didn't get caught for nearly a decade (so long befo

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