‘This event has reached legend status’: Supermarket employee sick of low pay and long hours epically quits and leaves hilarious ‘gift’ behind for management and customers to discover

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Apr 11, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

When working as a disgruntled employee, you can get away with a lot. That is because you dgaf anymore. So what do you have to lose? Sure, you'll probably lose out on getting unemployment money, but if you are disgruntled, then it's probably safe to say that the place you work out would've threw their lawyers at you to avoid you getting that anyway. So why not leave with a mic drop?

 

Many disgruntled employees leave by cussing out the coworkers and managers they hate the most. But that is so basic. That is a quick satisfaction, but it is fleeting. You can carry that high for like a day, but that's it. The best way to leave as a legend is to do something that last much longer. Like this super market's meat/seafood counter employee did! 

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  • This employee was disgruntled for a classic reason: The pay was too low and the hours too long. That is a good cause for any employee to lose it over. He may have tried his hardest to remedy that situation, but management did nothing. So, instead, he put in his two weeks and spent that time devising a devious yet hilarious plan of revenge. I don't want to ruin it—you can read the entire low down below—but let's just say you should start reading the labels employees make for your seafood products… You might just get a good LOL!

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  • "A story of revenge"

    Let me start off saying this is not my revenge but I was the one to confirm it. I worked in a meat department for a very large grocer in the southwest US. The Government required C.O.O.L.( Country of origin labeling) labeling is needed for all raw unprepared seafood
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  • items. It shows up on required items both at the display price tag and also on the printed scale price label that is placed on the item to ring it up at the register. At our fresh full service meat/seafood counter a customer could come up and get a pound of shrimp or salmon or whatever.
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  • Farm-raised Atlantic Salmon was undoubtedly our best seafood seller. Our Atlantic salmon usually came farm- raised product of Canada. Occasionally it would be from Norway or Argentina. Because the country of origin could vary, we could change COOL info in the scale where we weigh up the product. Usually
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  • you would just tap the presets like farm-raised or wild and then tap the country it came from. But because these Hobart scales were setup for all seafood items, you'd need the functionality to customize a country as sometimes a country's name would change so you could manually spell out a country if needed. These
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  • scales would keep whatever COOL info was stored for each item and print it out the same farm-raised product of where ever until someone manually changed it between seafood deliveries. Our Atlantic salmon was farm-raised product of Canada 95% of the time so it was rarely manually changed.
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  • This was a very busy meat department and the butcher block supervisor was supposed to change all the COOL info in the scales everytime we got a seafood load in. Butcher block supe was on a 2 week vacation and the closing counter person had just quit. Lets call him Joe. He
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  • was tired of the low pay and erratic work schedule I'd guess. We were very short- handed. I got a call early week 1 of the vacation. The customer said the label on their salmon said uck you on it. I kind of
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  • brushed it off because this store was near a university and figured some college kids were just messing around. Week 2 of no butcher block supervisor and another call that said my salmon says farm-raised product of luck you on it. Then
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  • it hit me. Oh no. Nobody has checked the COOL info on the salmon since we were short- handed and supervisor was on vacation. So I go to the seafood scale and sure as sh right before Joe quit he changed the Atlantic salmon COOL to the customized one and manually entered in uck you for the country!
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  • We sold probably 400lbs of salmon over those two weeks and every price label that was placed on the customer's salmon said farm-raised product of f you. Joe is still talked about to this day and this event has reached legend status.
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  • Narayani1234 I once got a receipt from Walgreens and in the space where it says "I'm (name of clerk checking your purchase out)" it said, "I'm Totally Bored." Favorite receipt ever.
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  • justaman_097 Joe got some epic revenge on everyone.
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  • Lloyd Penfold Just shows how many people actually read the labels - although a few might have and guessed a disgruntled employee had set it up when he left, as was the case!
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  • Lloyd Penfold Husband "That was a lovely piece of salmon, darling where did it come from?" - Wife "I've still got the pack in the Kitchen, I'll go and look!" Wife, shouting from kitchen "uck You!"
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  • tired_but_wired6 I love it, especially cause you ignored the first warning, it went on much longer than it needed to. Well done, Joe.
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