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For anyone who has worked "retail"...what's your worst work story?
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08-27-2009, 02:41 PM
HartAttack
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Arkansas City Kansas
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I didn't work at TRU during TME, but at Wal-Mart in Dodge City, KS. Half of that town does not speak english, but you better believe they all got pissed when they hear out of stock on that damn thing. We used to set them on the top shelf, start them up and watch them fall, we called it Suicide Elmo. I did work at TRU when Furby came out and had the unfortunate displeasure of working Black Friday that year. I broke up at least 6 fistfights before 10 am.
These 3 are the worst experiences I have ever had, and they all happened working for the same company about a week apart.
Anyone from Kansas knows of this resturant. I won't name it, but if you're from here, 2.99 ring any bells? Anyway, I had just been promoted from Crew Lead to Asst. Mgr. It was my last night at my regular store before I was transferred to my new store. I get a phone call from one of the other stores asking if I can come close that one down because they can't find the closer. I agree to do it and drive the 10 minutes across town. When I get there, now the closing manager is missing too. Boeing is right down the street and they would always come in after midnight since we were the only place open that late at that time. Me and the drive-thru guy, the other cook, and the front counter guy decide to just pray that the manager came back. Boeing 3rd shift lunch rush hits and we get killed and run out of patties. I walk into the freezer to get some more and find the original closer balls deep in the closing manager ontop of an open case of frozen burger patties. I started laughing and was asked by the assistant not to tell the store manager.
3 days later at my new home store, I find out that we were getting a new morning manager and it turns out to be the girl I caught in the freezer at the other store. I said nothing to anyone about what I had seen. I come in for my normal 3 pm to 4 am closing shiftaround 1:30 so I could get an early start on inventory paperwork and I can't find this girl. I walk into the manager's office and there she is with a frozen corndog, pants around one of her ankles and both feet on the desk. This time I said something to my boss.
The last one was a loaner manager was sent to my store because the store manager was having surgery on his inner ear due to a nasty fall on the ice that ruptured his eardrum. I'm closing and the loaner is the mid shift. I had been arguing with this idiot about everything he was doing wrong. Our safe in the office was never locked during buisness hours since the only 2 managers that knew the combo were the GM and the Morning manager. This idiot counted his money and made his deposit for his shift. I double checked his numbers and he was off by a couple hundred. We got into it about that in the office. He knocks me down, grabs the bank bag and stuffs in in the back of his pants. Then he has the balls to take my car and store keys and lock them in the safe. this jackass shoves me again on his way out the dor. I call the corporate office and tell the owner what happened. He tells me that he will come by and open the safe when he leaves the office. The owner never showed. I had to stay at that store until the opening manager came in at 6:15 the next morning. She cracks the safe and I go home, only to answer the phone from the office telling me the idiot loaner manager never deposited any money the night before and I need to go back to the store and recount his deposit when he gets to the store. Idiot loaner comes in with the bank bag and it's still short. I get accused by the idiot of faking the paperwork and stealing the money. The owner takes his side until I show him the paper trail that proved that my first audit was after he made the deposit. Owner tells the idiot to replace the missing money within 24 hours or he would get fired and prosecuted. I then get asked to cover the idiots midshift which I agree to do and then work my normal shift. after being in that store from 3:00 the day before until 6:30 that morning and then coming back at 8:45 and staying until 4 am the following morning I take the next day off with the owners approval. I get a phone call at 4:15 that afternoon from my district manager telling me I am no longer an assistant manager because of a no call no show and that I am being transferred to the only 24 hour store along with a pay cut to minimum wage and 15 hours a week. I ended up quitting a week later after the owner tells me there is nothing he can do. Man I hate Spangles...ooops!
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