Today at my retail job, a customer decided to stand on the paint desk. Just cause he was mad.
is “Today at my retail job” a community, because it should be
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is “Today at my retail job” a community, because it should be
Customer facing retail workers are a unrecognized heroes of our society. They face the worst of us and have to keep their sanity in check usually for the lowest wages an employer can get away with. Some countries have compulsory military service. I would support legislation making compulsory customer service in a public facing role a requirement.
Though it has been decades since I worked customer facing retail, the cruel lessons I learned about how people treat others they have power over are absolutely foundational to my own interactions with customer facing workers. I work to inject patience, understanding, and respect when I can to those in customer facing roles. If I hadn’t worked retail, I can’t dismiss horrifying the possibility I might be standing on a paint counter today myself secure in my incorrect convictions and ignorant of my hubris.
. I would support legislation making compulsory customer service in a public facing role a requirement.
If you disobey a direct order do the retail police send you to the warehouse as the brig?
There used to be a phenomenon on imgur (for people who spent all their free time there and didn’t know what reddit was) called “work stories.” We had a lot of fun sharing those.
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Was it Lowe’s? Sounds like a Lowe’s customer.
Paint department is hell.
wtf
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Menards actually. Still a home improvement store though.
Ow! Menards!
Save big money at My Nards!
What does a pirate say when somebody kicks him in the testicles?
How khaki were his cargo shorts?
How bad is life going for someone when they get mad enough at paint to stand on a retail sales counter?
Probably not as bad as you’re thinking, he’s actually been waiting for this moment for years.
I’m not quite following you. Are you suggesting this is pent up righteous indignation? Or like they feel it is an injustice so egregious they now get to “make a stand” or something?
I think the suggestion is that he’s always wanted to stand on the desk, and was just angry enough to feel justified in doing so.
I’m imagining a grown man indignantly yelling about his Warner Houses Velvet Peacock actually being Royal Garter but secretly having the time of his life standing on the counter. So happy he can see soooo far, almost to the other side of the store! “It’s like I’m a giant, rarrrr!” he thinks.
It’s the side we all have, which society wants us to hide.
I don’t have this side. If I want to see the whole store I’ll use one of those employee-only ladders.
“Color me surprised.”
Can you just choose to be a POC like that?
I WANT MY SZECHUAN SAUS
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
I WANT MY YUMMY DETERGENT
Not very. Or incredibly.
Sometimes I appreciate people like that to an extent. It’s a reminder to myself that I’m not a shitty person.
I think I found the poster Mr. PaintStander has on his wall.
“I took a chug of detergent at Walmart and this happened” video dropping soon
Not to be that guy but I am betting it is more likely that somehow he didn’t see that happening vs the almost certain suicide attempt he thinks he saw.
Which island?
This feels like a fun thing to do on the weekend. Just go to Walmart with a cleaned out bottle of detergent filled with the beverage of your choice and make people think you’re drinking Gain. If they ask you what your problem is, assure them you intend to pay.
I know in person someone who used to eat bar soap. She eventually had to be hospitalized and confessed it to her family. She would eat a lot of other weird things too, and didn’t even understand why people were so shocked about it. In the end, she had to undergo a psychiatric treatment.
Remember, if you see someone drinking laundry detergent, no you didn’t.
I wonder what it tastes like. I guess there’s only one way to find out. BRB I’m goin’ to Walmart…
https://www.amazon.com/Fabuloso-Purpose-Cleaner-Lavender-Sparkling/dp/B0B61VTJN3 honestly, I can see someone trying to drink these.
It tastes like your oesophagus turning into dead tissue.
Oh dang you must have gotten to Walmart before I did. Thanks for letting us know how the detergent tasted.
But… Why would anybody lie about things on the internet?
I think it was more a joke on ‘if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t’
You don’t remember that whole Tide Pod thing?
I saw a neighbor fill his lawnmower with gas, take the can and take a huge swig. He capped it and started his lawnmower like nothing. so many questions.
alcohol maybe?
Yeah you’d definitely have to be shit faced to take a swig of gasoline
Although when I searched the internet for the ways to purify kerosene I found several recipes of how to distill kerosene for drinking. On the other hand, kerosene is much safer for health than gasoline.
Sounds more like being fucked with for lulz. Like walking around drinking blue Gatorade out of a windex bottle.
Using old vodka bottles for water.
Apple juice out a whiskey bottle
Yeah this sounds like a prank. You could easily wash out an old detergent bottle and fill it with water or something
Probably got tired of having to chew the pods.
You chew them? I thought you had to suck on them. 🤔
I use them to make stock
You making soap soup?
soaup
Dang, I figured the soapy film was lube. These things aren’t suppositories?
I had a friend in high school. We were at a gas station, and he went in to get some additive to put in his tank. On the way back to his car he unscrewed the cap, and took a big swig. The bottle still had the foil cap, so he wasn’t actually drinking anything; he just did it for the reaction. The thing was, he didn’t actually check if anyone was watching.
Sometimes people are just weird…
Well you obviously saw him do it, so he must’ve known in his peripheral vision that you were watching. That’s all the thrill he needed.
If he checked before he committed, it would devalue the bit if anyone noticed! Its infinitely funnier to turn around like you were caught with a hand in the cookie jar lol
Checking to see ruins the act
An adherent of the Church of Drink Bleach
my sister said she craved bleach for her second pregnancy.
she abstained of course but the craving was there
Oh those were interesting days. Driving out in the middle of the night to get underripe green sour fruit and eating this one weird chicken rice curry thing every day for a month because “it’s the best shit ever”.
Pregnant woman are supposed to report cravings like that to their doctor… Apparently it can be a symptom of a serious problem.
I craved spaghetti during my first pregnancy. Am I gonna be okay?
My second and third pregnancies, I craved nothing in particular. Am I gonna be ok?
I think they meant like, non-food, dangerous substances.
Dangit, I was hoping to be added to some bizarre statistic of people with raging spaghetti cravings.
🍕 it’s like pasta but better
Yeah, it’s just nonfood things. The main one that it manifests as is clay.
That’s vitamin deficiencies, calcium in particular
Maybe she had covid??
Thanks, Donald.
So, she died from that, right?
You might say she paid for it.
I see this as an absolute win. The only downside is the results aren’t instant.
