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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 

From one retail worker to another. My most recent one was a lady who had the arrogance to comment on my weight who then yelled "fatso" at me when I ignored her and walked away.

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[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Stocking the dairy section shortly before Christmas and the store is insane, like some aisles body to body. My u-boat tips over twice and I have to clean a bunch of broken dairy stuff (I'm vegan too so not a fan of actually touching dairy stuff). Then a special needs guy comes through the aisle and is telling his caregiver/aide he's gotta go the restroom but I think she was an immigrant so she either didn't understand him or she was just ignoring him. A few seconds after he passes by the smell hits and I see poop fall out of his pants. It keeps falling out as he walks down the aisle and around the corner.

I run to my supervisor who tells me to put wet floor cones around the poop so I grab as many cones as I can and set them out while she pages someone to clean it. I was gagging (it smelled really bad) so I went in the back for a minute to pull myself together. Then I go back out to see the supervisor and a coworker trying to ward customers away from the poop and the wall of cones but the customers keep stepping in or rolling through the poop with their carts. Multiple people moved or completely ignored the cones and then went through it despite it being brown poop on a white floor surrounded by yellow cones and was stinking up the whole aisle.

My supervisor tells me to post up in front of the biggest pile to ward off customers while she goes and finds someone to clean it so I stood there over a pile of shit for ten minutes trying to get the most clueless people in the world to stop being mesmerized by the treats for two seconds so they wouldn't step in the very clearly marked out shit. Like it's a wonder most customers can even make it to the store without getting hit by a bus or something

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Congrats, you have the nastiest story in the thread visible-disgust

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Why are people like this? WTF?!?