Today at my retail job, a customer decided to stand on the paint desk. Just cause he was mad.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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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.
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.
Not very. Or incredibly.
is "Today at my retail job" a community, because it should be
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.
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !retailhell@lemmy.world
Surprised that the tales from subs from reddit haven't been copied over.
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.
Was it Lowe's? Sounds like a Lowe's customer.
Paint department is hell.
Menards actually. Still a home improvement store though.
How khaki were his cargo shorts?
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Remember, if you see someone drinking laundry detergent, no you didn't.
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'
I wonder what it tastes like. I guess there's only one way to find out. BRB I'm goin' to Walmart...
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Probably got tired of having to chew the pods.
my sister said she craved bleach for her second pregnancy.
she abstained of course but the craving was there
Pregnant woman are supposed to report cravings like that to their doctor... Apparently it can be a symptom of a serious problem.
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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
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.
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Sounds more like being fucked with for lulz. Like walking around drinking blue Gatorade out of a windex bottle.
Yeah this sounds like a prank. You could easily wash out an old detergent bottle and fill it with water or something
Which island?
"I took a chug of detergent at Walmart and this happened" video dropping soon
An adherent of the Church of Drink Bleach
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