tales-from-retail

Retail worker fails to catch a shoplifter, but still manages to catch him red-handed after shoplifter gets greedy and comes back for round two: ‘I got every single item he stole back’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Store vendor refuses to follow company’s standards, leading manager to retaliate against her, giving her nothing to do and starting a whole investigation into her behavior: ‘Vendor left crying’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Entitled customer demands a discount from a retail employee for a non-sale, undamaged product: ‘"Like, just take ten off. It's not hard"’

Lana DeGaetano

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Retail worker accused by their boss of stealing for simply taking their lunch break: 'I told her if it’s unpaid, that time is mine'

Brad Dickson

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‘I'm not like regular customers’: Entitled lady demands cashier waive store's policy because she is an executive member and “rules don't apply to her”, cashier refuses

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager tells 21-year-old retail worker to "just smile more," she obliges by smiling non-stop for her entire shift, horrifying a Karen customer: 'For the rest of my shift, and every shift after, I smiled'

Brad Dickson

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Clueless customer ignores store safety precautions, moves barriers on both ends of the aisle while forklift operator works: 'She casually opened the barrier like it's a garden fence'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled mom demands shopper empty their full grocery cart and give it to her, shopper refuses, leading to a dispute in the store: ‘Ma'am, your crisis doesn’t make my cart your property’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Retail worker overcharges entitled customer on purpose: 'It made my day to inconvenience that guy like he did everyone around him in line.'

Christiana Maimone

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‘Lock the doors’: Retail employee kicks customers out after manager demands they abide by ever-changing schedule, store loses major sales, manager gets written up as a result

Bar Mor Hazut

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18-year-old working her first job takes her loafing coworker up on his offer after he tells her to "do it herself", takes his job after doing his work for him: 'I’m doing it myself now. With a raise'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled customer expects retail employee to apply outdated discount on an item their store doesn't sell, an audacious argument ensues: ‘He got all huffy when he didn't get his way’

Lana DeGaetano

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Bookkeepers refuse to continue working 18-hour-shifts, call out sick and ghost employer so there's no one to fill their role: '[They] refused to let me switch schedules after scheduling me to close at 11 PM and open at 5 AM'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: 'The store... treated me like I was not a potential client': Furniture store customer gets unfairly judged by employees, contacts manager to share their experience

Remy Millisky

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Boss calls 20-year-old woman working her first job "ungrateful" for not working unpaid overtime: 'Now I'm worried they're going to cut my hours or make my life harder'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled customer pays $40 to get car unlocked at the last minute, employee gets even with him: 'I throw his keys in the car, lock the doors... and leave':

Remy Millisky

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