Supermarket stock worker sets a precarious chocolate bar trap, deliberately overloading shelves after a snarky demand from a manager: 'Like a cocoa avalanche waiting to happen'

Have you ever played Jenga? Whether you've enjoyed the giant version in some outdoor patio or played tabletop Jenga, the premise of the game is simple: Don't let the block tower fall. Growing ever more precarious as the game goes on, the tower of blocks is designed to be an architectural marvel, but when the cornerstone piece is removed, it tumbles with a crash to the floor. 

But Jenga teaches us valuable lessons about life. Don't remove the block that's holding the structure up, and if you want to avoid a noisy, clattering mess to pick up, maybe don't build an unstable structure to begin with. However, for the supermarket stock worker in this next story, his Jenga tower of chocolate bars was only the beginning of a long-game set up to get back at a manager with no professional manners. 

And this worker proved to be the Jenga block holding the entire company up…

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  • Grocery store work can be mind-numbing yet infuriating at the same time. As the cyclical ambient playlist of tunes goes around on repeat, customers continually act like this is their first time shopping for groceries. At the same time, management breathes down your neck about stocking shelves faster, and at least one Karen is insisting that her untrained golden doodle is a ‘Service Animal.’ But the one thing that makes a grocery shift fly by is setting up a boobytrap for your boss, after they insist you do your job incorrectly. 

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  • ""You will stock the shelves!" – Okay, but you won't like it..."

    Some years ago, back in the last millennium, I earned some extra money stocking shelves in supermarkets. I wasn't working for the supermarkets themselves, but for a well-known chocolate brand-you know, the one with the violet cow. Usually, my job was simple: Check in, look at the shelves, restock, tidy up,
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  • check expiration dates, and leave. Each store took maybe 1-2 hours. But there was this one store... The manager was never satisfied. He'd always inspect my work, find some bizarre issue, and make me do extra tasks. I didn't really mind, since I was paid by the hour.
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  • Above the chocolate shelves, there was a little space where we kept extra boxes to restock quickly without fetching the pallet from the warehouse every time. So, one day, I'm in that store doing my usual routine. I only needed about
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  • half the weekly pallet-no big deal. I prepped the rest to go back to the warehouse. Just as I was about to leave, the manager blocks my way: "The warehouse is full. Nothing goes back. Fill everything into the shelves and put the rest on top!"
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  • I paused. I had already filled the shelves. The top space wasn't exactly empty either. So I replied, politely: "Sorry, everything's already full. There's no more room." His answer? "I don't care how, just do it!" Cue malicious compliance.
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  • I filled the shelves. Every. Single. One. Front to back, top to bottom. I stacked chocolate bars behind, on top of, and between other chocolate bars. It looked awful. Like a cocoa avalanche waiting to happen. Then I got my work signed off, smiled, and left.
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  • About 30 minutes later, I got a call. Apparently, it is possible to exceed the weight limit of supermarket shelves-with chocolate bars. Something bent. Everything spilled onto the floor. The manager was furious, but sadly I was already working in another store... So tragic.
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  • keepingitrealgowr... Everyone smiles at the end of these stories
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  • AsleepContest1197 I want to say that the CAD got BURIED in chocolate, but it's the wrong brand. DazzleLove You really milka'd that joke
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