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[-] [email protected] 122 points 7 months ago

Today at my retail job, a customer decided to stand on the paint desk. Just cause he was mad.

[-] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago

How bad is life going for someone when they get mad enough at paint to stand on a retail sales counter?

[-] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I WANT MY YUMMY DETERGENT

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Probably not as bad as you're thinking, he's actually been waiting for this moment for years.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It's the side we all have, which society wants us to hide.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I don’t have this side. If I want to see the whole store I’ll use one of those employee-only ladders.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Not very. Or incredibly.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Sometimes I appreciate people like that to an extent. It's a reminder to myself that I'm not a shitty person.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I think I found the poster Mr. PaintStander has on his wall.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

is "Today at my retail job" a community, because it should be

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

. 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?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Surprised that the tales from subs from reddit haven't been copied over.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Was it Lowe's? Sounds like a Lowe's customer.

Paint department is hell.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Menards actually. Still a home improvement store though.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

How khaki were his cargo shorts?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Save big money at My Nards!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What does a pirate say when somebody kicks him in the testicles?

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