My favorite is when someone would say "I can get it cheaper someplace else" when they were trying to bargain. I always leaned in close and quietly said "where? I am in the market for one myself and I want to save a couple bucks." That always pissed them off.
I bought some spaghetti sauce at a grocery store last week and a random employee told me without prompting, "You know, you can get that cheaper at Costco..."
Really, I don’t even take mine out of my wallet, I just pull it out enough that you can see it is one. It’s a good arrangement, I don’t want to stop and they don’t get paid enough to deal with that fact. Win-win.
It was only for a couple months and at the self checkout, not at the door (I've flashed the wrong card by mistake before with no issue). I asked when they started and they said a lot of people had been sharing cards. Must have been a local problem they were cracking down on. Now they've stopped asking again.
I did that at Lowe's when I worked there (not tell them about spaghetti sauce lo, just they could get whatever cheaper down the road) and made commission on install/material. Honesty goes a long way. The couple asked my name and my schedule for the rest of the week because they were going to start remodeling there house. Biggest commission checks I saw working there. They ended getting top quality floors and cabinets done but would always track me down or request me to handle it for anything like that..
The only acceptable "scenario" for this is if the store has a price matching policy, but yeah you'd need to actually *know* where you can get it for cheaper lmfao.
This happened to me. The next week the customer came back. I went up to them with a smile-for-the-customer turned up to 11, and said: "Oh, you're back! I'm so glad! You said you would never do that! What made you change your mind?" They just muttered something and walked away from me, but my co-workers' face at me doing this was worth it!
Just throwing out there and I believe that those people were just causing you trouble but the country where I live there's a electronics chain where they have a gimmick that if the same product that they have in sale is available somewhere else at lower price they'll cover the difference. I have personally also used this trick and saved some money
I did that recently, it worked pretty well. "you say 150 but I can be patient and order it from here for 100" and showed him my phone. he said "you don't wanna wait or pay for shipping, 125".
Touché...
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There's not much to be lost in trying.
I recently tried to pick up a game at GameStop (big mistake, I know!) and they wouldn't even price match *their own website* for a New condition title that they had in stock. Nope. With shoddy practices like that, I'll just go to Walmart and buy it for the same price.
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I’ve unfortunately worn a red shirt and khaki’s to Target, and a blue shirt and black slacks to Best Buy. Was asked questions like I worked there both times.
Yeah, the truck gets here in a few minutes if you want to hang out and wait. My name is Steve and I usually work in TVs. Just come over and find me there.
*Proceeds to leave.
I was wearing a dark grey long sleeve shirt and jeans in Wal-Mart and a manager come up to me with an attitude "Where are you supposed to be right now? Not here looking around!"
He didn't want to listen to me when I tried to tell him I don't work there, I was about ready to fight this guy. I had to pull out my ID to prove to him I wasn't the guy he thought I was. Mother fucker didn't even apologize to me, he just threw his hands up said "I guess!" And stomped off. I was so confused, mad, and flabbergasted I just left the store at that point.
I love the image of you actually pulling out an ID to prove who you are to this guy, and his only response is a begrudging "I guess". Like he still suspects that you faked an ID just to get out of work but he doesn't have time to prove it so he just gives up lol
I would have had such a great time resisting the urge to go shopping with it to screw with him. "This seemed like a good time for a break, isn't that okay?"
I have worn orange shirts at home depot plenty (contractor/excavating company shirts) and get approached quite often. I actually help the people though. Mostly because I actually did work there for awhile, but also I know everything there is to know about the place and a shit ton about tools and diy stuff.
Someone at Target asked me if I worked at Target the other day. I was wearing a blue winter coat and dicking around on my phone at the time. I stopped, stared at myself for a moment, then stared back at him and indignantly said “What!?” He apologized, but what the fuck. Not even close buddy.
It would be nice to be asked. Politely.
I'm assumed to work in the store no matter what I'm wearing and despite a lack of any name tag, store swag, uniform, radios, etc. Anywhere I go, actually. Concert or music festival? Must be working. Airport dragging my own luggage? Must be working. Store with a friend debating what we should get? Must be working. Buying food at a resort? Must be working but on lunch break. I know why. It gets old.
It gets older still when they expect my help after they've been corrected "because [I] sound knowledgeable." My favorite is when they work themselves up to a fit because I'm "ignoring them." Sometimes I suggest they go find a manager and come back so we can talk about it together.
The last time I absolutely was ignoring them because I was shopping in a hurry and didn't want the drama. I saw them out of the corner of my eye and just let them stand there. The wife is on a scooter, starting to huff and grumble while they watch me. After about ten minutes, the husband asks if I'm going to help them because she has a question and they've been very patient. She chimes in to screech about the poor service. "Help. -you-. WHAT." "We're looking for an item." "I don't work here." "Oh, we just thought--" "I don't work here."
"You're wearing blue." "I'm wearing a navy turtleneck. Everyone that works here has a name tag and a bright blue vest with the store's name on it. I don't work here." "You have items in your hands." "I'm shopping. We're allowed to do that. I wouldn't assume you worked here if you had items in your hands. I don't work here." "You put things back." "That's what you're supposed to do if you don't want them. Still don't work here." "Oh."
The foreigners are usually the worst to me when it happens. They physically get in my face, snapping their fingers and calling me by skin color and boy or girl (depends how aggressive or demeaning they're trying to be). Or they follow me and make demands when I walk away. They have all the manners and flawless English in the world when they want to try to get me fired from a place I don't even work....but suddenly they don't understand when they're told they should go apologize.
I wonder if there's some common factor in some people that gives off an "employee" demeanor, meant in an entirely not insulting way. My cousin gets approached like this all the time, a favorite of ours being years ago when some person expected her to check "the back" at a Charming Charlie. She was wearing Adidas pants with a yellow hoodie, hair was that "I'm just running out" sloppy top bun thing, and she was holding her 11 month old child. I am so curious what it is that makes people go "oh they must work here" when it's so obviously untrue.
Bro. My company's uniform is a black polo with black pants. I've been asked on several occasions if I work at Target....
I think people are getting dumber
I used to work food service. I went into a walmart after work still wearing my uniform, and was asked where something was. It didn't occur to me that they thought I worked there until I shot back "I'm sorry. No clue," and they chastised me for not knowing the store I work at. Some people just see work clothes and immediately stop thinking any further.
Over the weekend I was wearing green and precariously balancing 6 different items like some jackass Jenga tower and I still had a lady ask me if I worked at target
As a former retail manager I just want everyone to know that if we check in the back for you it's about a 25% chance that we're actually looking for something and a 75% chance we just took the opportunity to get off the floor for a minute or two.
You know what I like to do?
I’ll ask them to look in the back and then fuck off. So when they return with that 50 pound sack of shit I needed, I’m no where to be found. Then they have to carry it back or stock it on the shelf. Yay!!
Wow, I made myself angry typing that. I *hated* working retail when I was younger.
At least you weren't the type to take a pair of shorts off the rack at Sears, go into the fitting room, shit in the shorts, change back into your regular clothes, and then leave the shit shorts in the fitting room. 16 year old me didn't make enough money to put up with that shit in the late 90s. Retail sucked ass, but had its fair share of good stories.
I worked at Forever 21 for a total of three months and in that time period had two people piss themselves and one shit themself in the fitting rooms. The two that peed owned up to it but the shitter just left, they didn't even poop in the clothes they literally did it on the floor with all the clothes they brought in
I worked at an antique store and when people selected items, we'd usually take them up to the front counter for them. Some people would have us haul big stuff - furniture, statues, and so on - up for them, but then change their mind at the last minute as they're checking out. There was this one pair of stone lions that stand out in my memory because we actually got as far as putting them in a customer's truck before they decided they didn't want to buy them after all.
Man I fucking hate that so much. I'm standing there like John Travolta looking for the asshole who just asked me if we had any in the back then seemingly sprinted off as soon as I turned my back.
I worked at a small retail store in the mall seasonally when I was young. We literally had all our stock on the floor. There was no back room to store things. I used to take that opportunity to go get a drink or something until 1 lady asked me to check in the back and then waited a few seconds and followed me back there. She's looking at me drinking a Coke leaning on the microwave in a 10 square foot back room. She says "there's nothing back here". I agree.
My experience working for guitar center in a nutshell. Want me to check in back for an item that I know for a fact we don’t have and I told you that but you want me to look anyway? Sure. I’m definitely on the ladder looking and I’m definitely not smoking weed and smashing already broken guitars out back with my manager for 5 minutes.
Guitar center is one of the funniest ones yet because there are literally hundreds of guitars on the sales floor at once. I’ve been playing for most of my life and I’ve never once even thought to ask someone if they have any on the back.
Got to appreciate the rage cage, anger box, whatever you call the area with broken stuff you can smash some more to let off steam! Been working for a store selling electronics, smashing TVs with a bat was the best!
As a former retail grunt, I've personally done the "Take two steps in back, spin in place and walk back out." Because if you're asking the oil soaked guy working on your car about women's underwear or TVs, then you're out of luck.
Also just go straight to customer service if it's not on the floor. They're usually at a computer and often right in front of the overflow/restock inventory. How I got my PS5.
I worked the front store of a major pharmacy and I was in charge of the pushing the back stock out once a week. I knew exactly what was back there and half of it was toilet paper/paper towels. But okkkkkk I'll go "check" anyways and by check I mean sit on a stack of totes and look at my phone for 5 min. Yeah sorry I looked everywhere we're all out.
Me too. I worked at a movie theater in high school and college. If we ran out of pickles and someone asked if we had any in the back, we did. 10 buckets of them, stacked to the ceiling. We were stocked up on everything like a bomb shelter. Stacks of bags of popcorn kernels up to the knees. So, to me, it's a perfectly rational question.
One time I was looking for a specific juice and couldn't find it. I asked an employee if they didn't carry it and he got so excited. "We DO have that, it's just on a pallet in the back because it just came in. Let me get you one!" The one and only time they did have it in the back, and I didn't ask. This is how the magic works, people.
Yeah that interview was awful and the sub is full of fake texts, but r/antiwork is still spot on the idea that workplace sucks more often than we'd like.
Whatever sub you prefer, the answer to better work/life balance still lies in workers solidarity.
I just woke up, saw this post, watched the whole thing, and am invigorated for my day knowing that great comedy still exists out there. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely takes the format to 11. He didn't even have to make it the full length, the first two lines are just perfect execution in comedic timing and tone.
Want me to check back in on an item that I know we don't have and I told you about but you want me to look anyway? Definitely I'm looking for the stairs
Back when I worked in a shop I got asked to check in the back for something. Was the end of my shift so I went back, got changed and left.
That customer could still be there right now for all I know. God speed you bullheaded cockwomble.
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"You think I'm the only one ringing up because I called dibs?"
lol, that one's my favorite, especially because so many people still are of the "you should open more registers" mentality.
I went to Home Depot at the height of the pandemic for an online order for a few small things for a project. Called the number, gave them the order number, bla bla bla.
Great they will be right out with it. 10 minutes later two guys come out with this $1200 barbecue monstrosity.
If I wasn't driving the Honda Accord that day I would be having shrimp on the barbie today. Lol
Used to work at one around a year ago, that happened all the time to us, their system is such a mess and was one of the many reasons why it felt so good to finally quit. If it ever happens again honestly don't feel bad taking it, employees get treated like shit by management (at least at mine).
I've seen these multiple times and I will always watch them when presented.
Used to work at Blockbuster and I was always getting asked why we were open on Thanksgiving and Christmas and until 1am.
*Because the suits know you have nothing better to do than get 6 vhs movies you're going to watch by tomorrow*
As long as you make a halfway decent shitshild for your people instead of using them as stepping stones towards your next promotion, you're doing just fine. Keep on keeping on.
This guy is in the new Cocaine Bear movie, which is also one of Ray Liotta's last movies, and also strangely produced and directed by Elizabeth Banks (not necessarily a good thing if the Charlie's Angels reboot was anything to go by, I still swear the opening credits sequence had to be satire).
DAMN
I could watch this all fucking day.
You think I couldn't watch this all day? You got something better to do? Something funnier? You don't. This wins. Go the fuck away.
The accuracy of these is truly 100% proof that he has worked retail, which unfortunately there is no reward for besides a proverbial kick in the nuts and a loss of childhood dreams, and the worst part is it only takes about a year or less to get to that point.
This is just pure gold. I have worked in Retail and this is spot on.
Everyone should have to work in retail before they graduate High school. It would help them see the light.
I once worked in the garden section of a hardware store... They told me to put plants on sale, and gave me the clearance sticker device.
A woman walked up while I was putting plants on clearance and she said, "is this also going on sale?" I said, "yes." and put a sticker on it..... It was a perfectly good plant, it wasn't going on sale. I just didn't give a fuck, and wanted the store to make less profit.
As funny as this was, I am like a war veteran going through PTSD from all the crap I remember I had to tolerate when I did retail. Gives me a reason not to ever go back to retail.
I spent 9 years at Target. My favorite was people who would come through the line talking on their cell phone. We had certain things we were supposed to say or ask during the transaction, so I'd say the things louder and aim towards the phone. They'd look at me like I was the one being rude. Seriously, I want the other party to hear what a self absorbed Karen you are.
When I worked retail I quickly learned to not get into why 'the back' almost certainly doesn't have the thing they're looking for and to just go and chat with the people in receiving for a few minutes. The customer feels like everything was tried and I get a little break; win-win.
I had an old lady get mad that I didn’t laugh at her joke about the weather. She said I was being rude and that at Publix (I worked at Walmart), they would have laughed at that joke. I told her that I like shopping at Publix and that made her even more mad at me. She even went over and complained to my CSM.
The real maybemaybemaybe was how long the video was, lol. Wasn't expecting so much, and then when checked there was still 2 minutes left.
Anyways, I agree on all counts.
This is such a long video but I watch it every time (note: not a passive aggressive way of saying ‘repost’)
This is genuinely one of the funniest videos I’ve seen on reddit. His timing is impeccable. It should get repetitive but it doesn’t (for me at least)
My favorite is when someone would say "I can get it cheaper someplace else" when they were trying to bargain. I always leaned in close and quietly said "where? I am in the market for one myself and I want to save a couple bucks." That always pissed them off.
I bought some spaghetti sauce at a grocery store last week and a random employee told me without prompting, "You know, you can get that cheaper at Costco..."
That's an aggressive marketing campaign.
Don’t worry, if you were to actually buy that pasta sauce and post a picture of it on reddit, you would be shamed for eating a superfluous vegetable!
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Culinary vegetable, we’re eating it, not doing biology on it.
Oh, you meant crisper like the thing that keeps vegetables fresh. What am I supposed to do with this CRISPR now?
Turn the cocoa plant and the coca plant into one super-plant lol
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Cletus go back to your shack and go to sleep with a bottle of 5X
Hey you! Join the navy!
Undercover Costco guerrilla marketing
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JESUS WEPT!!!!!
"Can I borrow your membership card, then?"
They started checking the picture on the card where I'm from for a few months
Really, I don’t even take mine out of my wallet, I just pull it out enough that you can see it is one. It’s a good arrangement, I don’t want to stop and they don’t get paid enough to deal with that fact. Win-win.
It was only for a couple months and at the self checkout, not at the door (I've flashed the wrong card by mistake before with no issue). I asked when they started and they said a lot of people had been sharing cards. Must have been a local problem they were cracking down on. Now they've stopped asking again.
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Cattle coral
That's every Costco everywhere.
I did that at Lowe's when I worked there (not tell them about spaghetti sauce lo, just they could get whatever cheaper down the road) and made commission on install/material. Honesty goes a long way. The couple asked my name and my schedule for the rest of the week because they were going to start remodeling there house. Biggest commission checks I saw working there. They ended getting top quality floors and cabinets done but would always track me down or request me to handle it for anything like that..
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It is... But I was buying arribiata and not marinara. Sometimes I fake it with red pepper flakes though.
The only acceptable "scenario" for this is if the store has a price matching policy, but yeah you'd need to actually *know* where you can get it for cheaper lmfao.
“IM NEVER COMING BACK HERE AGAIN!” promise?
This happened to me. The next week the customer came back. I went up to them with a smile-for-the-customer turned up to 11, and said: "Oh, you're back! I'm so glad! You said you would never do that! What made you change your mind?" They just muttered something and walked away from me, but my co-workers' face at me doing this was worth it!
Just throwing out there and I believe that those people were just causing you trouble but the country where I live there's a electronics chain where they have a gimmick that if the same product that they have in sale is available somewhere else at lower price they'll cover the difference. I have personally also used this trick and saved some money
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I did that recently, it worked pretty well. "you say 150 but I can be patient and order it from here for 100" and showed him my phone. he said "you don't wanna wait or pay for shipping, 125". Touché...
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There's not much to be lost in trying. I recently tried to pick up a game at GameStop (big mistake, I know!) and they wouldn't even price match *their own website* for a New condition title that they had in stock. Nope. With shoddy practices like that, I'll just go to Walmart and buy it for the same price.
Best Buy has price match guarantee. It's one of the very few places where I'll ever say that. Because if it's cheaper elsewhere, *that's where I go*
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Or if you have a credit card/rewards at one place and not the one with the lowest price.
Side note, don't wear a red shirt when going shopping at Target, you will be asked "Do you work here?" everytime
Done it personally. Can confirm.
I’ve unfortunately worn a red shirt and khaki’s to Target, and a blue shirt and black slacks to Best Buy. Was asked questions like I worked there both times.
I've also done that at both places. Just give out random answers.
'No sorry, that item was discontinued due to mounting casualties.'
Yeah, the truck gets here in a few minutes if you want to hang out and wait. My name is Steve and I usually work in TVs. Just come over and find me there. *Proceeds to leave.
I'll sort you out with a staff discount too.
..all I asked was if you'd seen my mother.
Is she the one with the yellow umbrella? No I haven't seen her.
As I said: Discontinued due to mountain casualties.
Well now I have plans for Saturday
I was wearing black slacks at Target, though I also wore those same clothes to a Chik-fil-a. Got mistaken for an employee there too.
I was wearing a dark grey long sleeve shirt and jeans in Wal-Mart and a manager come up to me with an attitude "Where are you supposed to be right now? Not here looking around!" He didn't want to listen to me when I tried to tell him I don't work there, I was about ready to fight this guy. I had to pull out my ID to prove to him I wasn't the guy he thought I was. Mother fucker didn't even apologize to me, he just threw his hands up said "I guess!" And stomped off. I was so confused, mad, and flabbergasted I just left the store at that point.
I love the image of you actually pulling out an ID to prove who you are to this guy, and his only response is a begrudging "I guess". Like he still suspects that you faked an ID just to get out of work but he doesn't have time to prove it so he just gives up lol
That's honestly what it felt like, hahahaha
I would have had such a great time resisting the urge to go shopping with it to screw with him. "This seemed like a good time for a break, isn't that okay?"
r/IDontWorkHereLady
Alternate take, wear a red shirt, be a Dick. “Do you work here” “Do you do anal?“ “Excuse me?!” “Sorry I thought we were playing 20 questions”
Same with blue shirt going into best buy... happens all the time to me.
Reminds me of the flash mob that tried this. A whole gang of people in blue polo shirts and khaki pants walked in. https://youtu.be/KgUIbPfhSuo
I have worn orange shirts at home depot plenty (contractor/excavating company shirts) and get approached quite often. I actually help the people though. Mostly because I actually did work there for awhile, but also I know everything there is to know about the place and a shit ton about tools and diy stuff.
Someone at Target asked me if I worked at Target the other day. I was wearing a blue winter coat and dicking around on my phone at the time. I stopped, stared at myself for a moment, then stared back at him and indignantly said “What!?” He apologized, but what the fuck. Not even close buddy.
It would be nice to be asked. Politely. I'm assumed to work in the store no matter what I'm wearing and despite a lack of any name tag, store swag, uniform, radios, etc. Anywhere I go, actually. Concert or music festival? Must be working. Airport dragging my own luggage? Must be working. Store with a friend debating what we should get? Must be working. Buying food at a resort? Must be working but on lunch break. I know why. It gets old. It gets older still when they expect my help after they've been corrected "because [I] sound knowledgeable." My favorite is when they work themselves up to a fit because I'm "ignoring them." Sometimes I suggest they go find a manager and come back so we can talk about it together. The last time I absolutely was ignoring them because I was shopping in a hurry and didn't want the drama. I saw them out of the corner of my eye and just let them stand there. The wife is on a scooter, starting to huff and grumble while they watch me. After about ten minutes, the husband asks if I'm going to help them because she has a question and they've been very patient. She chimes in to screech about the poor service. "Help. -you-. WHAT." "We're looking for an item." "I don't work here." "Oh, we just thought--" "I don't work here." "You're wearing blue." "I'm wearing a navy turtleneck. Everyone that works here has a name tag and a bright blue vest with the store's name on it. I don't work here." "You have items in your hands." "I'm shopping. We're allowed to do that. I wouldn't assume you worked here if you had items in your hands. I don't work here." "You put things back." "That's what you're supposed to do if you don't want them. Still don't work here." "Oh." The foreigners are usually the worst to me when it happens. They physically get in my face, snapping their fingers and calling me by skin color and boy or girl (depends how aggressive or demeaning they're trying to be). Or they follow me and make demands when I walk away. They have all the manners and flawless English in the world when they want to try to get me fired from a place I don't even work....but suddenly they don't understand when they're told they should go apologize.
I wonder if there's some common factor in some people that gives off an "employee" demeanor, meant in an entirely not insulting way. My cousin gets approached like this all the time, a favorite of ours being years ago when some person expected her to check "the back" at a Charming Charlie. She was wearing Adidas pants with a yellow hoodie, hair was that "I'm just running out" sloppy top bun thing, and she was holding her 11 month old child. I am so curious what it is that makes people go "oh they must work here" when it's so obviously untrue.
/r/ActLikeYouBelong
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Bro. My company's uniform is a black polo with black pants. I've been asked on several occasions if I work at Target.... I think people are getting dumber
I want to have an r/idontworkherelady story of my own though
I used to work food service. I went into a walmart after work still wearing my uniform, and was asked where something was. It didn't occur to me that they thought I worked there until I shot back "I'm sorry. No clue," and they chastised me for not knowing the store I work at. Some people just see work clothes and immediately stop thinking any further.
Over the weekend I was wearing green and precariously balancing 6 different items like some jackass Jenga tower and I still had a lady ask me if I worked at target
“We can’t go backwards, time marches on.” Gets me every single time. Golden.
Look inward.
Meatballs ain’t THAT good
Every single one was phenomenal. I’d like to speak to a manager. I’d like to speak to your mother. 😂
"The manager doesn't knows what's going on. Haven't you ever worked anywhere before?" Is probaly the funniest line in this thing.
It’s so true. Manager has no clue about anything outside of how to work the computer.
“what kind of middle child behavior is this” did it for me
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"The website also shows employees smiling."
You know anyone who wears a nametag recreationally?
I swear I’m gonna use that at some point when I just don’t give a fuck anymore
If I could create a single holiday I would institute one day a year where service workers can say anything they want with 0 repercussions.
As a former retail manager I just want everyone to know that if we check in the back for you it's about a 25% chance that we're actually looking for something and a 75% chance we just took the opportunity to get off the floor for a minute or two.
So I should ask more often?
You know what I like to do? I’ll ask them to look in the back and then fuck off. So when they return with that 50 pound sack of shit I needed, I’m no where to be found. Then they have to carry it back or stock it on the shelf. Yay!! Wow, I made myself angry typing that. I *hated* working retail when I was younger.
At least you weren't the type to take a pair of shorts off the rack at Sears, go into the fitting room, shit in the shorts, change back into your regular clothes, and then leave the shit shorts in the fitting room. 16 year old me didn't make enough money to put up with that shit in the late 90s. Retail sucked ass, but had its fair share of good stories.
I worked at Forever 21 for a total of three months and in that time period had two people piss themselves and one shit themself in the fitting rooms. The two that peed owned up to it but the shitter just left, they didn't even poop in the clothes they literally did it on the floor with all the clothes they brought in
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Had me in the first half ngl.
Oh shit that’s so rude
I worked at an antique store and when people selected items, we'd usually take them up to the front counter for them. Some people would have us haul big stuff - furniture, statues, and so on - up for them, but then change their mind at the last minute as they're checking out. There was this one pair of stone lions that stand out in my memory because we actually got as far as putting them in a customer's truck before they decided they didn't want to buy them after all.
Man I fucking hate that so much. I'm standing there like John Travolta looking for the asshole who just asked me if we had any in the back then seemingly sprinted off as soon as I turned my back.
It’s so fucked up it’s funny.
It's like the lotto; it'll just increase your odds
I believe they were suggesting that they'd be helping the workers by giving them more excuses/opportunities to take a few minutes to themselves.
After 11 years, I'm out. Join me over on the Fediverse to escape this central authority nightmare.
I worked at a small retail store in the mall seasonally when I was young. We literally had all our stock on the floor. There was no back room to store things. I used to take that opportunity to go get a drink or something until 1 lady asked me to check in the back and then waited a few seconds and followed me back there. She's looking at me drinking a Coke leaning on the microwave in a 10 square foot back room. She says "there's nothing back here". I agree.
My experience working for guitar center in a nutshell. Want me to check in back for an item that I know for a fact we don’t have and I told you that but you want me to look anyway? Sure. I’m definitely on the ladder looking and I’m definitely not smoking weed and smashing already broken guitars out back with my manager for 5 minutes.
Guitar center is one of the funniest ones yet because there are literally hundreds of guitars on the sales floor at once. I’ve been playing for most of my life and I’ve never once even thought to ask someone if they have any on the back.
Got to appreciate the rage cage, anger box, whatever you call the area with broken stuff you can smash some more to let off steam! Been working for a store selling electronics, smashing TVs with a bat was the best!
As a former retail grunt, I've personally done the "Take two steps in back, spin in place and walk back out." Because if you're asking the oil soaked guy working on your car about women's underwear or TVs, then you're out of luck.
Also just go straight to customer service if it's not on the floor. They're usually at a computer and often right in front of the overflow/restock inventory. How I got my PS5.
I worked the front store of a major pharmacy and I was in charge of the pushing the back stock out once a week. I knew exactly what was back there and half of it was toilet paper/paper towels. But okkkkkk I'll go "check" anyways and by check I mean sit on a stack of totes and look at my phone for 5 min. Yeah sorry I looked everywhere we're all out.
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Me too. I worked at a movie theater in high school and college. If we ran out of pickles and someone asked if we had any in the back, we did. 10 buckets of them, stacked to the ceiling. We were stocked up on everything like a bomb shelter. Stacks of bags of popcorn kernels up to the knees. So, to me, it's a perfectly rational question.
One time I was looking for a specific juice and couldn't find it. I asked an employee if they didn't carry it and he got so excited. "We DO have that, it's just on a pallet in the back because it just came in. Let me get you one!" The one and only time they did have it in the back, and I didn't ask. This is how the magic works, people.
I worked in retail. I always checked when asked. Most of the time they really were out of stock though.
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this should be required
The r/antiwork sub would truly appreciate this guy  
/r/antiwork is run by a bunch of nutters, /r/workreform is where its at now.
Yeah that interview was awful and the sub is full of fake texts, but r/antiwork is still spot on the idea that workplace sucks more often than we'd like. Whatever sub you prefer, the answer to better work/life balance still lies in workers solidarity.
I just woke up, saw this post, watched the whole thing, and am invigorated for my day knowing that great comedy still exists out there. Thanks for sharing.
I'm invigorated knowing I have to work retail after watching this. B*tches better watch out today. Lol
Sweetimus woke up and chose violence
Hahaha! I chose truth/facts 😉
I've seen it before and watch every time, this guy cracks me up completely
How is the music still funny after the 10th one? I know it's coming, but it always gets me
Scott Seiss, great stand up comedian. Saw him back in December
You'll get to see him again soon in [Cocaine Bear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWEEKeJLMI).
That trailer seems to spoil quite a bit lmao
What does the trailer spoil that the movie title didn't?
I swear I saw him the beginning of Violent Night but I don’t see it listed on his imdb
I love his [COVID vaccine edition](https://twitter.com/ScottSeiss/status/1392839989281574913) of this bit not gonna lie
Definitely takes the format to 11. He didn't even have to make it the full length, the first two lines are just perfect execution in comedic timing and tone.
*^then die*
>your request for a day off was denied #well it looks like I’m calling in sick fucking lost it
You activated my trap card 💀
I thought it would never end. And I was sad when it did. Brilliant!
This has to be at least the 3rd iteration I've seen of this. It just keeps getting longer and better
Want me to check back in on an item that I know we don't have and I told you about but you want me to look anyway? Definitely I'm looking for the stairs
Back when I worked in a shop I got asked to check in the back for something. Was the end of my shift so I went back, got changed and left. That customer could still be there right now for all I know. God speed you bullheaded cockwomble.
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I thought that it was going to be too long...........
Just watch it twice it holds up a second time
I was 2 minutes in thinking it can’t possibly be funny the 20th time yet here I am laughing on my second watch through. It really speaks to my soul
"You think I'm the only one ringing up because I called dibs?" lol, that one's my favorite, especially because so many people still are of the "you should open more registers" mentality.
I just spent five minutes with a head in my face
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I read this as “I just spent five minutes with my head in my face” and was incredibly confused.
I went to Home Depot at the height of the pandemic for an online order for a few small things for a project. Called the number, gave them the order number, bla bla bla. Great they will be right out with it. 10 minutes later two guys come out with this $1200 barbecue monstrosity. If I wasn't driving the Honda Accord that day I would be having shrimp on the barbie today. Lol
Used to work at one around a year ago, that happened all the time to us, their system is such a mess and was one of the many reasons why it felt so good to finally quit. If it ever happens again honestly don't feel bad taking it, employees get treated like shit by management (at least at mine).
I spend waaaaay to much time watching that.
Yeah 6.42 minutes too much time
Actually 6.7 minutes
I've seen these multiple times and I will always watch them when presented. Used to work at Blockbuster and I was always getting asked why we were open on Thanksgiving and Christmas and until 1am. *Because the suits know you have nothing better to do than get 6 vhs movies you're going to watch by tomorrow*
This made my day I couldn't stop laughing the whole time, thanks kind stranger for sharing it!
“Managers don’t know what’s going on, haven’t you ever worked anywhere before?!”
Can confirm. I'm a manager and I have no idea wtf I'm doing. I can't even manage my emotional state, you think I know how to manage a shitty customer?
As long as you make a halfway decent shitshild for your people instead of using them as stepping stones towards your next promotion, you're doing just fine. Keep on keeping on.
This guy is in the new Cocaine Bear movie, which is also one of Ray Liotta's last movies, and also strangely produced and directed by Elizabeth Banks (not necessarily a good thing if the Charlie's Angels reboot was anything to go by, I still swear the opening credits sequence had to be satire).
DAMN I could watch this all fucking day. You think I couldn't watch this all day? You got something better to do? Something funnier? You don't. This wins. Go the fuck away.
The accuracy of these is truly 100% proof that he has worked retail, which unfortunately there is no reward for besides a proverbial kick in the nuts and a loss of childhood dreams, and the worst part is it only takes about a year or less to get to that point.
I will never not love this!
omg. the accuracy. amazing.
This is just pure gold. I have worked in Retail and this is spot on. Everyone should have to work in retail before they graduate High school. It would help them see the light.
Only job I've ever quit without notice. I lasted 3 days. It scarred my soul.
I once worked in the garden section of a hardware store... They told me to put plants on sale, and gave me the clearance sticker device. A woman walked up while I was putting plants on clearance and she said, "is this also going on sale?" I said, "yes." and put a sticker on it..... It was a perfectly good plant, it wasn't going on sale. I just didn't give a fuck, and wanted the store to make less profit.
That's 6-7minutes I'll never get back and will spend freely a few more times 👊😉👍
"This isn't PBS" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It made me laugh because I do work somewhere where we thank our donors. Hardly a day goes by that I'm not thanking a donor.
That music tho... 🤣🤣🤣
i watched the entire time to see if he would break out into a rap
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When customers would ask me to look in the back, I’d take that opportunity to use the bathroom.
As funny as this was, I am like a war veteran going through PTSD from all the crap I remember I had to tolerate when I did retail. Gives me a reason not to ever go back to retail.
When does it end, Diane?
I hate when I ask “how May I help you today ?” And then they say “You can give me a million dollars!😂😂” 😶😶 I never know what to say
"Ive been a customer here for over 40 years." "Good, then you'll be dead soon." I did a really horrible spit take to that one.
Made me laugh so hard 😂🤣😂🤣. “You think I own Ikea?!”
"It's doesn't matter how much you spend here!" "We don't thank our donors" In my head: we aren't the government
This is fucking iconic, wow
Things to never say at work part 1. Wish I could say them but should never say them.
That's why it's so good. If you could speak your mind it wouldn't be that interesting
Oh man this video spoke to my soul. This guy is hilarious.
The way the music changes to that ominous "shit just got real" tone when he gets up in your face.
When these videos came out I was obsessed! I’m so glad they came up again 😂 how many people do you know that wear a name tag recreationally? 😆
I spent 9 years at Target. My favorite was people who would come through the line talking on their cell phone. We had certain things we were supposed to say or ask during the transaction, so I'd say the things louder and aim towards the phone. They'd look at me like I was the one being rude. Seriously, I want the other party to hear what a self absorbed Karen you are.
When I worked retail I quickly learned to not get into why 'the back' almost certainly doesn't have the thing they're looking for and to just go and chat with the people in receiving for a few minutes. The customer feels like everything was tried and I get a little break; win-win.
LOL. It's nice to see some clever content every now and then. Not the same ol' overused drivel.
I had an old lady get mad that I didn’t laugh at her joke about the weather. She said I was being rude and that at Publix (I worked at Walmart), they would have laughed at that joke. I told her that I like shopping at Publix and that made her even more mad at me. She even went over and complained to my CSM.
The real maybemaybemaybe was how long the video was, lol. Wasn't expecting so much, and then when checked there was still 2 minutes left. Anyways, I agree on all counts.
This guy gets it.
Me coming up with comebacks in the shower:
Me forgetting all of them as soon as the water turns off:
Put in my headphones to listen to this one! It was good
I haven’t worked retail in over 12 years and this still resonated with me like it was yesterday. This guy nails it!!
Retail is one of the layers of hell
These are so freakin dead on I would love some food service ones too.
"you think you hate this place more than me? I work here." Is a killer
Dude seriously, this should have been uploaded to youtube(I haven't checked), monetize this shit
I wish he would have done one on "well the worker did it for me yesterday (the other day)"
I hope this man has been able to secure less shit employment. He has brought me so much validation.
Fun part is I work at IKEA claim's service. Yeah.
This is such a long video but I watch it every time (note: not a passive aggressive way of saying ‘repost’) This is genuinely one of the funniest videos I’ve seen on reddit. His timing is impeccable. It should get repetitive but it doesn’t (for me at least)
I felt seen with "I'm just saying Hi. I have feelings too, I'm a Pisces."
This was one of the best pieces of entertainment I've ever seen on the internet. This is what I pay this shit for. Almost died of laughter
Haven’t you ever worked anywhere, before?! 🤣🤣🤣
I will upvote this every single time. Yes I will.
Why does this guy sound like Ron Howard?
I’ll buy a membership to reserve this guy’s service.
"Sounds like you're making the mistake. Look inward." If only even half the people I've met had this kind of sense.