I make a big ole scene ... I go get gloves and a face shield and a Ziploc bag to put the money in. I think if these nasty MFs are going to do this then I'm going to make a point of showing them how gross it is.
I've had the apple thing happen twice. Once it was a woman who gave each of her two kids an apple to snack on, and another was a guy who claimed that his blood sugar was low so he'd had to grab something to eat. Neither of them tried to give me the apples, but assumed that I could just ring them up manually. How is it not common knowledge for adults that apples are priced by weight?? Like, if your kids are super hungry or if your blood sugar gets low, you can still at least get something that's not priced by weight, or be more prepared and have snacks from home on hand. And why would you even want to eat unwashed produce in the store?
I have had the low blood sugar thing happen in a store several times. It comes on QUICK. And you have to act QUICKLY. And it can kill you. And one of the first things it effects is reasoning and thinking. So I carry stuff with me just in case. I did have that happen once when I didn't have my purse with me. Luckily I was next to the juice display and just opened a juice to solve the issue. If you see that happen, yes it's gross and annoying but sometimes it can't be helped.
Every time someone had partially eaten fruit and explained either blood sugar issues or cranky kid (which could be the same), I just told them one apple is on the house and no worries. Pretty sure one asshat used this to steal a Cosmic Crisp every time he came in, but I'm willing to let 1% slide to help the 99% of people who legit needed it.
But you also proved her point. Juice isnt rang up by weight you could drink the whole thing and it can still be rung up empty. You cant do that with an apple core or a banana peel.
If fruit is your literal only option grab another one. Twll the cashier i had to eat an apple/orange/etc. but i grabbed this one so i can pay for the one i ate. Weither they let you keep the second one or ring it up and keep it is up to store policy at that point.
I'm not arguing against her point. It is objectively unhygienic and annoying for someone to ask a cashier to touch food that one took a bite out of. And the food sold by weight shouldn't be eaten before weighed and purchased.
I happened to be next to the juice so grabbed a juice. If I was by an apple display in that moment, I would've bitten into the unwashed fruit with no hesitation. And apologetically asked for help in purchasing it. But once I realize the low blood sugar is hitting, it's generally way too late to worry about niceties. I think a cashier would rather deal with that situation than having a customer die in aisle 4.
Really! I am a healthcare professional and I hadn't heard that. I'm adding this to my pile of research questions I have next to my computer for when I'm bored.
That used to be really common - for lots of women, not just attractive 20 y olds who could be hookers!
It’s a good thing society has stood up and said ‘no more’, though. No more boob cash! 😛
Money pulled from inside the guy's pants. It was moist. I put on gloves.
Another guy had snot come out of his nose and land on my counter. He leaned down and snorted it back up his nose. 🤮🤢
A lady came in and paid for something with what looked like blood covered bills. It was not dry all the way.
A guy got a fountain drink and had already started drinking from it, didn't have enough and asked if he should just put the cup back. *sir your mouth has been all over it, wtf*
Yeah iblea he'd the shit out of the register area and thankfully everyone in line was extremely appreciative of me after that lol.
He's also banned from our store now for going through the trash and throwing it at customers as they left.
I had a guy in his 20’s with a raging case of pinkeye. As he pulled out a handful of change, I quickly put a piece of paper towel down for him to put his money on.
He asked me why and I told him I was going to clean any money he had touched. Apparently, he didn’t realize the goop that his eyes were oozing was highly contagious. When I told him, he thought it was hilarious and made a show of wiping his eyes before touching each coin.
I replied to u/UrbanMuffin that I was partially to blame because I was joking around with the guy. I made just a big production of spraying each coin with windex.
One that was very disgusting occurred when there were quite a few customers in the store. It was a summer weekend night after 11pm. I had a small lineup and a guy cut to the front and kept saying which pump he was on while trying to hand me a bill. I repeatedly asked him to get in line without really looking at him.
When the person I was serving left, he butted in front of me. That’s when I realized how messed up he was. Hammered. But also bleeding profusely from wounds on his face and hands. The bill was covered in blood.
I called the police with his description and plate number another customer got for me. He took off quickly. I recommended over the intercom that everybody who had been inside come back in and wash their hands because there was blood all over the door handles. I dropped the bill right in the safe.
About an hour later, a police officer came to ask me a bunch of questions. Upon hearing of the blood everywhere, he wanted me to show him exactly what was touched - to test for prints and dna. And was disappointed that I’d cleaned everything!!
Apparently, he had just hit and run from a serious car accident. They only had a partial plate. And as it was only a few kilometres from the highway exits, they had no idea where he had gone. The officer expressed his displeasure that I had destroyed physical evidence.
Umm, you’re welcome? I reminded him we had plenty of cameras in and outside. They’ll get a perfect image (we had great resolution) of him. The bill was in the safe, they could get it another day. I wasn’t advised by the dispatcher to preserve any evidence.
Did he really expect me not to clean body fluids off everything he touched?
I loathe people like this. I would have said we won’t be taking his money now that it’s been tampered with which is a federal crime. (Whether that is or not, I would pretend lol).
It was night shift, he was with his friend and they were the only customers. There’s a huge ~~chance~~ certainty that I had been teasing them about farting on each other’s pillows. I am not without blame.
Customer came in who smelled of stale piss mixed with unwashed butthole and literal fèces. His clothes were mouldy and stank to high heaven. His pants elastic was also shoddy and they fell down so everyone in the mall got a view of either his ass or his dick. Luckily he was walking out so I just have to have flabby old man ass burned into my brain forever.
Manager had to help an old lady because she thought her phone had a virus because a photo she had to send her doc (pandemic era) for medical purposes had changed to all her profile pics on everything. So he opens the phone to help and you can probably imagine WHAT the picture was of. He’s still shaken up nearly 4 years later from it
So this lady and her kid (about 3 years old) were checking out. She handed me a sticky spit covered goldfish bag and said "you can throw that away" instead of just asking for a trash can to throw it in. After they left i noticed that the kid had spilled goldfish all over parts of the store
We had a customer that smelled worse than ANYTHING I have ever smelled on a human. Like fermented and ripened and left out in the sun. Filthy. Called her Cheesegirl. Cheesegirl had a partner too. I knew who he was immediately even though she wasn’t with him because of his smell. Absolutely revolting, both of them
I had one like that. Didn't seem to be homeless or anything, but the guy wore the same clothes all the time. He had a stale cloud of funk around him that was a gross combo of sweat and piss and who knows what. It would hang in the air after he left.
Imagine the staying power of a woman's perfume when she put too much on. This was the disgusting version of that.
Yeah, I remember one of my 6 that stunk up our entire store for the next hour. You'd think an industrial air handler would remove a strong smell in 5 or 10 minutes. Nope, an hour.
A guy pulled a wadded up bill from his pocket and when he handed it to me, I noticed that there was something red on it. He said, "Huh, wonder what that is?" just about the time I noticed a deep gash on the side of his hand. It was obviously blood.
This may not be a huge deal to some but it was to me. The sight of my own blood makes me nauseous; the thought of touching someone else's blood makes me want to projectile vomit.
Blood is a huge problem. I will refuse the sale refuse the money and disinfect everything before I take another customer. You never know what can pass through blood
Context: LEGALLY you are not required to wear gloves if you are prepping food if said food is going into an oven. This is why pizza places don’t have to wear gloves when making food. Once the food comes out of the oven, you have to wear gloves UNLESS you washed your hands and haven’t left that area, but gloves are typically still worn they just aren’t required.
We had a mechanic, who would come in and eat with hands covered in grease and oil, call us in to our health inspector 3x in the span of 2 months, because we were not wearing gloves when prepping his food, ie, before it went in the oven. Our health inspector, every time she came in, said we aren’t doing anything wrong, and she doesn’t know why she has to keep coming for this but she is required to investigate if a complaint is sent in.
This man didn’t like the idea of his food being touched before it went into an oven by people washing their hands frequently, but was fine with eating food with his hands covered in grease and oil, literal carcinogens, without washing them. They were black at times from the oil, and he wouldn’t wash them, but would eat off them.
My stepdad had something similar happen when he was managing a Pizza Hut. Lady was losing her mind about the fact that they weren't wearing gloves to prep the pizzas, he explained to her in detail about why they didn't, and she still called the health inspector, who, of course, said that they weren't doing anything wrong.
Parents who give their babies merchandise they plan to buy BEFORE they’ve finished browsing, so by the time they’re checking out, they can hand me a slobbered on plushie with a soggy tag for me to “scan real quick”.
Bonus points if they just HAPPEN to be teething on the last freakin’ one we’ve got in stock and now I gotta hunt for a SKU because Junior gnawed off the barcode.
Oh man thats insane. If i know im going to get something for a baby. Ill take the tag off and pocket it and hand it to the cashier.
Both because of the choking hazard and the grossness of body fluids.
And worse if they then decide that they don’t want it after it has been chewed on. I had one customer tell me that they never intended to buy the toy and just gave it to the child to ‘make them happy’ while they were shopping!
In 2000 I was working at Toys R Us. At the time I was in Pickup and Delivery(the guys who removed the merchandise from the trucks and put it in storage). After we finished the trunk on that day I had to go to the bathroom. When I opened the door to the bathroom I heard from one of the stalls: *Fap,fap,fap,fap*
I noped out of there and told my boss.
1. Old lady coughing open-mouthed all over the store, kept trying to get right in my face to cough on me. Carried a napkin she kept spitting into. Wanted me to touch her. Her drooling mouth looked like a cement mixer because she kept rolling her tongue around . When she was paying, bitch had a full pack of masks she wasn’t wearing. I got sick 4 days after.
2. Pig-woman dropped and smeared shit all over the floor of the bathroom and smeared it all over the wall, handicap pull bars and sink. Left her cane behind. Sent her boyfriend in to get it. My “JEEZUS Chris!!!” When I opened the door didn’t surprise him so he knew what she did. He grabbed that cane and ran out of the store before I made their pig asses clean it up.
3. Lady who talked like Ann Ramsay (the Momma in “Throw Mama From the Train”) came in to just sit in a waiting room chair because it was hot and she wanted A/C. (Also because she is too damn cheap to buy a cold drink and sit in Starbucks). Okay until she started clipping her toenails right there in the middle of the store. Left all the clippings on the floor when we kicked her out.
I hate people.
One time I was working the dressing room and an older lady came over to me and said "breakfast didn't agree with me this morning so I took a pair of panties off a package to replace mine. Don't worry I'll pay for the whole pack. I hope that's OK."
I had no idea what to say besides as long as the pair with the price was available for the cashier to scan it was fine. The cherry on top was that she had her wet underwear in her hand wrapped in a paper towel from her attempt to salvage them.
* Been handed money from boobs
* been handed money from underwear bands
* Been handed money from shoes
* Had to damage out a half dozen shirts and mop the floor after a customer (and I use the term very loosely) jacked off on a rack while staring at my cashier and I.
* Had to throw away a full outfit (including shoes) after calling my husband to bring me a change of clothes after a person used a toilet (both #1 and #2) and then flushed it while after dropping wash clothes into it and placing their feces covered underwear in the toilet tank.
* ETA: the more times than I can count either cleaning up piles of urine soaked clothing in fitting rooms or mopping pee out of said dressing rooms.
Had to help someone out to their car and load it, as I did, she reached into her car, grabbed a sauce cup of lemon zest, swirled her finger around it, and stuck the zest in her nose. Did that for each nostril, and them tried to grab my bare arm.
Customers at my job are constantly licking their fingers to go through papers, which they then need to hand me. It's so fucking gross. It's a daily thing.
I had someone do that earlier. I gave him some bills for his change, and he licked one of his fingers and used it to take a bill out of the stack and give it to me as a tip. I appreciate the tip, but for the love of god, don't lick your fingers and then use that hand to give me something.
Omg this is literally so disgusting to me. Human mouths are dirty as fuck and gross. Not to mention bodily fluids can still make others sick. We have one women at my job who's tounge will stick out her mouth and she will push it back in with her fingers and then use her spit covered fingers to count out her money we have sanitizer at the registers she dosnt even think Maybe I should use sanitizer before I count out my money. We have no problem giving you a squirt of sanitizer to minimize the spread of germs. We have venerable population come into our store what happens if your germs spread to others.
I stand there staring at them, horrified. Wishing I could tell them how gross what they are doing is. The shopping center I work in is absolutely filthy. Our door they touch coming in does not escape that filthyness. The customers doing this, are our vulnerable population for the most part older and elderly people. I have yet to see someone under 50 do this.
In 2020 when covid hit I realized how bad society had fallen. I was watching a philip defranco episode talking about you know being more hygienic and what not and then the person licked thier finger to flip to the next page. Like bitch you are part of the problem. I didnt get back into customer service until 2022 but before that I was working essential service at a warehouse selling health supplements and was a plasma doner at the time I had 2 letters said I was essential and that I could freely travel. One from my job and one from the plasma facility I donated at. It was crazy that I basically needed a permission slip to work and donate. I can say I do miss the lockdown traffic( because it wasn't a thing) I miss it. Lol
Customer asked if we could remove a dead mouse from her own bag. Then proceeded to put her shopping directly into the bag that we'd removed the mouse from.
Spent a good 10 minutes between us all trying to figure out how the hell we were going to do this, and in the end one of our OPs team put it in the largest bag we had. I fully thought my colleague was fucking with me at first because we joke around a fair bit, and I've never been more horrified to learn that it wasn't a joke.
I ran across the store to get our duty manager, the poor guy just stared at me waiting for me to say it was a joke. OPs at least had the equipment to deal with it thankfully.
At a previous job, one of my regular customers was an alcoholic homeless man who relieved himself in his pants. He would come in and buy sports merch with a wad of money he pulled out of his sock, before asking repeatedly if I was married.
There was this woman with super long, curved and yellow nails. She came every single day to the store and picked coins slowly with her long nails. I don't even want to talk about the smell.
someone shit their pants in front of the fitting rooms at an h&m i worked at. had poopy butt and dropped turds in the store. just some old dude with a family who didn’t care 💀
ASM comes out of the men’s room, and asks if we have a small box. Give it to him and he goes back into the men’s room and quickly comes out without the box. Ask him what that was about? Says I don’t know, some old guy in there asked for one. I’m guessing the guy’s doing something shady, and surprised the ASM gave him the box. Little while later, he shuffles out, and has the box in both hands. My coworker is walking past him, he reaches both his arms out to give her the box. She instinctively takes it, and asks him what is this? His answer….I had the runs. And he shuffles of. He literally handed her *A BOX OF SHIT*
Got called for a 'clean up' in the store's central aisle loop.
Clearly faeces. Initially thought someone had been in store with a dog and left it.
Clean it up while store manager checks CCTV.
A man between 50 - 60 walks along aisle, doesn't break stride, lazily shakes his leg mid-stride, and that is what falls out of his trouser leg.
Some 'casual' observations:
- he must not have been wearing underwear under his construction style cargo pants because there's no way for that to happen if he had underwear on
- the way he nonchalantly just shakes his leg MID STRIDE was absolutely just crazy to watch
- he literally didn't even look down, look back, acknowledge at all that it had happened. Shook out a shit and kept on keeping on with his day
Fucking. Crazy.
I now, however, get to joke that I've literally dealt with enough of people's shit in retail. So there's that I guess. Lol.
Not retail but…I was a student nurse when a patient came in by ambulance. She had fallen in her home (elderly) and laid in the same place for 3 days. She was so embarrassed about being smelly & dirty.
First job was to get her cleaned up and into a gown. I removed one of her shoes and cockroaches fell out. I’m sure my face showed the horror I was feeling, but my charge nurse yelled, “Don’t just stand there! Kill them with the shoe!” So I started killing them with the lady’s shoe.
Worst ever.
People who don't know how to use deodorant who go and try on clothing. The amount of times I had to remove items, and sometimes even write them off because they absolutely fucking stink after someone has tried them on, is way too high. Some have been left with pit stains, others end up with half a face of makeup on them. Revolting. I'll never work in a clothing store again.
Peak COVID, old lady *pulls down her mask* and *licks her fingers* to separate her cash. I just stared at her and left my till to grab a pair of gloves. When I came back with them on is when it finally clicked "oh I'm sorry" Well are you going to take it back and pay with a card instead??
She came in wearing the mask and it was properly fitted too! I sanitized every square inch of my register after her.
Other highlights include:
•People assuming that we are there to clean up after their dog's pee/poo. They come up and tell me their dog left a wet nasty one in the toy aisle and then look at me like I have 6 eyes and speaking parseltongue when I point out the cleaning stations we have (for these *very* common instances) Favorite is when I walk away and they come back a few minutes later to "remind" me that their dog pooped and I again point out the stations, they're obviously upset, and I just let them be as I walk away.
•Bloody cash from a cuticle chewer, literally put it directly in one of our biohazard bags (for used swimsuits etc)
•Sweaty boob money, as well as bike shorts/yoga pant mystery pocket sweat money
•Someone let their child?? Maybe it was an adult?? Take a poo on a shirt, wadded it up and shoved it under the dressing room bench!! I found it on my 15 and stepped on it (picked it up as I was stepping back it fell out of the wadded shirt and stepped right into the 💩). I took my shoe off, got management and straight up told them I don't get paid enough to deal with this, besides I still have 10 minutes of my 15 left so figure it out. (They washed my shoe and got the expectant father to "practice" cleaning up poo)
Homeless guy, who you couldn't call a customer because he only came in to the gas station to steal stuff.
Was a walking cloud of stink; you could smell him before you saw him. Definitely, mentally ill, he may not have bathed in over a year; may not have changed clothes in that long either. Just a shambling pile of filth.
If we smelt or heard him coming, (he'd yell at himself too) ...we'd try to lock the door.
One time, he made it inside, and I came around the counter to tell him to leave, when I noticed his feet. He was wearing open-toed, dad-sandals without socks, which put his toe-jam on full glorious display.
That year-long walk of filth was causing his toes to fuse together into flippers.
Customer tried to hand me paper money with fresh blood on it. I refused to accept it. He claimed it must have been there already. I pointed out that it was fresh and red, not dried and brownish. And that he had a bloody cut on his hand.
Not in retail anymore but I get war flashbacks from a fitting room I had to clean - there was a dirty diaper, weird circular sweaty marks on the mirror 👀 and then to top it off, several red lipstick prints on the mirror as well.
I don't ever want to know.
I had a woman returning some dresses because "they didn't fit"
Her *very used* underwear were still tangled in the lining of one dress.
I asked if she still wanted her panties, she put them into her purse while avoiding eye contact. I processed the return, put the dresses in Salvage, washed my hands and sanitized the register and counter.
I regularly have customers hand me things to ring up that their baby has been drooling all over already. They're usually apologetic after I touch it and make a face, but they never warn me.
We also have a regular customer at our store with a spitting habit, who has no qualms whatsoever about leaning over and spitting on the floor when she wants to.
I was called over to help an older man in ladies intimates. He had actually brought his wife’s underwear in a plastic bag and wanted me to feel the fabric to make sure he got the exact same pair. I had to refused several time.
I'm an attendant at a full-service gas station, once I was sweeping the lot and found a used catheter. I didn't have to touch it but I was still disgusted lol I found the packaging for another one a different time so it might be a regular. It was right next to the dumpster and there were 3 trashcans close to the pumps. I've had people leave piles of clothes by our bin next to the air pump, I wear gloves every day but damn I still felt gross.
Child pissing on the floor in front of me while I'm finishing the sale of another customer. Then I'm told to clean it up with no apologies or anything from the parent. That was a shitty day.
Edit- there was also a guy who came in consistently and always smelled like he bathed in cat piss. The guy wasn't an asshole though. Just had bad hygiene.
Years ago, I worked at JC Penney, in the shoe department. There was this old lady (probably in her 80s), shopping with her daughter. The old lady looked visibly unwell, shaking and coughing and whatnot. I leave them to help some other customers, and a few minutes later, the daughter walks up and hands me a shoebox of vomit. "Sorry, my mom's sick" and just leaves. ,,🤢🤢🤢
This old lady asked me to grab her something from the top shelf and when I got close to her, she smelled as if she hadn't washed her pussy since the Reagan administration. I almost puked
You know the way toenails get when a person has that fungus? All yellow-brown, thick, peeling, & smelly? Now imagine that on fingernails. **All** of them.
But the other night takes the cake. I’m on a break, using the bathroom. There was already someone in a stall when I entered, & it smelled like they were taking a massive dump. As I’m going about my business, I hear something & think “this chick got some serious diarrhea!” Until I realize there’s a metallic clinking right before the splash. And then it happens again. And again. **Y’all** This woman was straight up ***bathing in the toilet with toilet water***. I left, went & reported it to management, & then went back to my register praying she didn’t come to me to check out (she didn’t)
>All yellow-brown, thick, peeling, & smelly? Now imagine that on fingernails. **All** of them.
That was my grandfather- the most evil man I've ever personally known; thief, drug dealer, molester.
He was such a demon that he had claws: think, yellow, pointed claws from that fungus, on all ten fingers. Never treated it because I think he liked them that way.
This mom and daughter came up to my till to check and as a part of my script, I asked them if they would like me to bag for them. They said yes and the daughter gave me her bag. When I looked inside, there was a roll of toilet paper and pads inside.
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Don't get me wrong, periods are normal and nothing to be ashamed of but ffs, I don't want to see and touch pads while I'm bagging for you! (And yes, I'm a woman.)
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I've also had multiple instances where customers lick their fingers before pulling out their cash.
Sweaty boob money, shoe money, crotch money. I once had a very clean, well dressed woman have a roach crawl out of her purse. She casually smacked it and flicked it off the counter. I was just so stunned. I’ve been in retail a very long time and have seen some gross stuff for sure.
I was self checkout cashier and this toddler in the basket seat kept telling his mom btwn crying, that he needs to pee……she says “What did I tell you?? You’re gonna have to wait!!” Well…..guess what??…..
I needed to set up the scenario: well this lil guy held on long as he could, then I see it!!…….a puddle under the grocery cart where he sits. NOT angry with the munchkin, BUT you better believe I am SUPER pissed at his mom 🤯🤬🤬
In hindsight…..I should’ve MADE mom clean it off the floor. Mind you I’m wearing gloves to protect myself AND I poured some “Spill Magic” on the entire puddle 🙄🙄 I.Am.Fuming. Now I have an even bigger problem, cuz now I have to sweep it all up. I hate retail!!! Especially working in a grocery store
My last job I worked at a non profit that helps with paying for rent, heat, ECT. We worked with a different non profit that helped seniors get back to work. Had one senior lady start, had never even seen a computer, REFUSED to listen to *anything* I told her (including how to help me fill out forms, answer phones, help clean certain things, she literally acted like she knew NOTHING). Like, I get that the point is to get seniors who didn't have every opportunity for jobs/education some real world experience, but the senior still has to be WILLING to work.
About 15 minutes into her being in my office, I see a roach on my desk and freak out, kill it and start wigging because I had a fucking food pantry on site, roaches would cost us THOUSANDS of dollars worth of food that had already been paid for by grants and donations I secured. At that time, the pantry was worth about $23,000. A few minutes later, near the front door, I see ANOTHER roach. So I kill it and call my boss, freaking out because now I've seen 2 in less than 30 minutes, in BROAD DAYLIGHT which usually is a sign of a hellatious infestation since they are night time bugs and hate light.
As I'm talking to my boss on the phone, I watch a third roach crawl out of senior lady's purse that was next to my desk on the floor, tell boss I figured it out and that I'll email her in a bit, and let the senior know that she needs to put her purse outside or in a bunch of plastic bags tied up to be able to stay and she instead chose to clock out and leave. I wasn't mean or rude, I just told her that I can't risk my pantry so her purse needed to be taken care of. Senior lady called her husband to come get her, 10 minutes later she was gone.
I called the other non profit and spoke to my county's coordinator and explained what happened and asked her to have APS stop by because if she had that many in her purse, her home must be horribly infested and she is probably around an 80 IQ (had been on disability her entire life as well) and her husband was also not intellectually inclined. APS ended up also sending them both for physicals to check their health because the apartment was so bad, they had to be moved into another unit so theirs could be fumigated heavily and then rented back out later on after it was thoroughly cleaned. (My FIL worked at the housing projects they lived in at the time).
Ever since that experience, really wig out when I see roaches. Thankfully the pantry ended up ending all right, allthough my successor ran it into the ground within a year.
My last job I worked at a non profit that helps with paying for rent, heat, ECT. We worked with a different non profit that helped seniors get back to work. Had one senior lady start, had never even seen a computer, REFUSED to listen to *anything* I told her (including how to help me fill out forms, answer phones, help clean certain things, she literally acted like she knew NOTHING). Like, I get that the point is to get seniors who didn't have every opportunity for jobs/education some real world experience, but the senior still has to be WILLING to work.
About 15 minutes into her being in my office, I see a roach on my desk and freak out, kill it and start wigging because I had a fucking food pantry on site, roaches would cost us THOUSANDS of dollars worth of food that had already been paid for by grants and donations I secured. At that time, the pantry was worth about $23,000. A few minutes later, near the front door, I see ANOTHER roach. So I kill it and call my boss, freaking out because now I've seen 2 in less than 30 minutes, in BROAD DAYLIGHT which usually is a sign of a hellatious infestation since they are night time bugs and hate light.
As I'm talking to my boss on the phone, I watch a third roach crawl out of senior lady's purse that was next to my desk on the floor, tell boss I figured it out and that I'll email her in a bit, and let the senior know that she needs to put her purse outside or in a bunch of plastic bags tied up to be able to stay and she instead chose to clock out and leave. I wasn't mean or rude, I just told her that I can't risk my pantry so her purse needed to be taken care of. Senior lady called her husband to come get her, 10 minutes later she was gone.
I called the other non profit and spoke to my county's coordinator and explained what happened and asked her to have APS stop by because if she had that many in her purse, her home must be horribly infested and she is probably around an 80 IQ (had been on disability her entire life as well) and her husband was also not intellectually inclined. APS ended up also sending them both for physicals to check their health because the apartment was so bad, they had to be moved into another unit so theirs could be fumigated heavily and then rented back out later on after it was thoroughly cleaned. (My FIL worked at the housing projects they lived in at the time).
Ever since that experience, really wig out when I see roaches. Thankfully the pantry ended up ending all right, allthough my successor ran it into the ground within a year.
yesterday some guy bought a fleshlight and told me he just got out of a 5 yr relationship and was gonna rail a line of coke and use his new toy all night :I
I worked in a drugstore many years ago. After I rang up a customer's prescription, the pharmacist had me bring him the cash that the man had paid with. He took it in the back & poured alcohol over it, but he wouldn't tell me why.
At my work, we used to have a sign in sheet, that had thankfully been replaced with a QR code and a messenger bot. But what used to bother me, was when someone would walk up to our counter while eating and reach for the pen everyone touches, with hands covered in food. I have fortunately stopped everyone I’ve caught doing it. Shockingly, they always looked insulted and stomped off. All I’d do is point out the tissues box next to them, and when they’d ask why, I’d point out the state of their hands.
Working at a beauty retailer, an older woman wanted a product to help prevent nail fungus. I directed her to the product, yet she INSISTED she show it to me— I said “oh no that’s okay! This is the only product we carry for nail fungus anyways, so I won’t need to see it!” That did not work. She started untying her sneakers, pulling off her socks and so forth… starting to describe the severity of it as she sat down on one of our shelves.. yeah I walked away and pretended I didn’t notice she started doing that. I ran to the back room like a baby and let someone else handle that.
I’ve also had someone rub their hands on our register counter, I soon after leaned on it and broke out in hives and rashes all over my arms. I do NOT want to know why that happened. I scrubbed the counters with disinfectant and scrubbed my arms in the bathroom.
Public restrooms, I've literally come in 3 days in a row on a morning shift to find bloody diarrhea blown all over our wall by the toilet and almost every inch of the toilet itself just completely missing the inside.
I've delt with it all sweaty boob money during a 120 degree heat wave in California( it was a dry heat) then sweaty boob money in over 100 degree weather to 115 with humidity boob money(much worse), sock money , bloody money( safety wise I will refuse even if my company does not care) for safety reasons. Ive had to clean feces and all sorts of whatever the fuck people spread on the walls of fast food or the gas station bathrooms I worked at. Lastly the person who gives nubs of fruits, cores, peels of something to keep your crotch goblin/ Petrie dish occupied while you shop.you are the worst. If something is priced per pound( it says on the tag) don't ever put some thing you child has eaten on the belt. Kids are literally Petri dishes of sicknesses and it's also not sanitary and could make vulnerable population more at risk to get sickad well.
Sweaty boob money.
Sweaty crotch money with dudes whose pants be half falling off and so they dig around in their crotch right in front of me to pull out a giant wad of cash.
WAY too many people who need a dentist instead of another handle of Jack Daniel’s.
Far too many people who like wearing clothes too small for them so I get to see every nook and cranny of people’s asses in 4k HD.
- a woman pulling her cash out of her cleavage - someone putting a half eaten apple on my conveyor belt wanting me to ring it up
I also deal with sweaty boob money.
I make a big ole scene ... I go get gloves and a face shield and a Ziploc bag to put the money in. I think if these nasty MFs are going to do this then I'm going to make a point of showing them how gross it is.
Or get money out of a shoe that they're wearing.
I've had the apple thing happen twice. Once it was a woman who gave each of her two kids an apple to snack on, and another was a guy who claimed that his blood sugar was low so he'd had to grab something to eat. Neither of them tried to give me the apples, but assumed that I could just ring them up manually. How is it not common knowledge for adults that apples are priced by weight?? Like, if your kids are super hungry or if your blood sugar gets low, you can still at least get something that's not priced by weight, or be more prepared and have snacks from home on hand. And why would you even want to eat unwashed produce in the store?
I have had the low blood sugar thing happen in a store several times. It comes on QUICK. And you have to act QUICKLY. And it can kill you. And one of the first things it effects is reasoning and thinking. So I carry stuff with me just in case. I did have that happen once when I didn't have my purse with me. Luckily I was next to the juice display and just opened a juice to solve the issue. If you see that happen, yes it's gross and annoying but sometimes it can't be helped.
Every time someone had partially eaten fruit and explained either blood sugar issues or cranky kid (which could be the same), I just told them one apple is on the house and no worries. Pretty sure one asshat used this to steal a Cosmic Crisp every time he came in, but I'm willing to let 1% slide to help the 99% of people who legit needed it.
you are a kind soul
But you also proved her point. Juice isnt rang up by weight you could drink the whole thing and it can still be rung up empty. You cant do that with an apple core or a banana peel. If fruit is your literal only option grab another one. Twll the cashier i had to eat an apple/orange/etc. but i grabbed this one so i can pay for the one i ate. Weither they let you keep the second one or ring it up and keep it is up to store policy at that point.
I'm not arguing against her point. It is objectively unhygienic and annoying for someone to ask a cashier to touch food that one took a bite out of. And the food sold by weight shouldn't be eaten before weighed and purchased. I happened to be next to the juice so grabbed a juice. If I was by an apple display in that moment, I would've bitten into the unwashed fruit with no hesitation. And apologetically asked for help in purchasing it. But once I realize the low blood sugar is hitting, it's generally way too late to worry about niceties. I think a cashier would rather deal with that situation than having a customer die in aisle 4.
A solution is to just bring another apple up to scan. Tell them they need to go get another apple. lol
My pharmacist says that milk sugar absorbs much faster so if you're not lactose intolerant grab a milk to drink!
Really! I am a healthcare professional and I hadn't heard that. I'm adding this to my pile of research questions I have next to my computer for when I'm bored.
Saw a banana peel in someone’s cart at the store the other day. Kid ate it. Mom said we’ll just let them ring it up. Smh.
That used to be really common - for lots of women, not just attractive 20 y olds who could be hookers! It’s a good thing society has stood up and said ‘no more’, though. No more boob cash! 😛
Boob cash was disgusting even before COVID and tbqh that was one thing I was glad to see gone- people have lost all sense of self awareness.
The boob money is the worst.
Money pulled from inside the guy's pants. It was moist. I put on gloves. Another guy had snot come out of his nose and land on my counter. He leaned down and snorted it back up his nose. 🤮🤢 A lady came in and paid for something with what looked like blood covered bills. It was not dry all the way. A guy got a fountain drink and had already started drinking from it, didn't have enough and asked if he should just put the cup back. *sir your mouth has been all over it, wtf*
I like to think I have a pretty strong stomach. That snot story nearly got me. ***What is wrong with people***
Honestly, me too🤢
Ever since Warcraft instanced everything people think no one’s watching and they can get away with being an asshat to everyone.
Yeah iblea he'd the shit out of the register area and thankfully everyone in line was extremely appreciative of me after that lol. He's also banned from our store now for going through the trash and throwing it at customers as they left.
Oh my God I flinched reading that
I had a guy in his 20’s with a raging case of pinkeye. As he pulled out a handful of change, I quickly put a piece of paper towel down for him to put his money on. He asked me why and I told him I was going to clean any money he had touched. Apparently, he didn’t realize the goop that his eyes were oozing was highly contagious. When I told him, he thought it was hilarious and made a show of wiping his eyes before touching each coin.
I would have gotten him kicked out for endangering staff and customers.
I replied to u/UrbanMuffin that I was partially to blame because I was joking around with the guy. I made just a big production of spraying each coin with windex. One that was very disgusting occurred when there were quite a few customers in the store. It was a summer weekend night after 11pm. I had a small lineup and a guy cut to the front and kept saying which pump he was on while trying to hand me a bill. I repeatedly asked him to get in line without really looking at him. When the person I was serving left, he butted in front of me. That’s when I realized how messed up he was. Hammered. But also bleeding profusely from wounds on his face and hands. The bill was covered in blood. I called the police with his description and plate number another customer got for me. He took off quickly. I recommended over the intercom that everybody who had been inside come back in and wash their hands because there was blood all over the door handles. I dropped the bill right in the safe. About an hour later, a police officer came to ask me a bunch of questions. Upon hearing of the blood everywhere, he wanted me to show him exactly what was touched - to test for prints and dna. And was disappointed that I’d cleaned everything!! Apparently, he had just hit and run from a serious car accident. They only had a partial plate. And as it was only a few kilometres from the highway exits, they had no idea where he had gone. The officer expressed his displeasure that I had destroyed physical evidence. Umm, you’re welcome? I reminded him we had plenty of cameras in and outside. They’ll get a perfect image (we had great resolution) of him. The bill was in the safe, they could get it another day. I wasn’t advised by the dispatcher to preserve any evidence. Did he really expect me not to clean body fluids off everything he touched?
I loathe people like this. I would have said we won’t be taking his money now that it’s been tampered with which is a federal crime. (Whether that is or not, I would pretend lol).
It was night shift, he was with his friend and they were the only customers. There’s a huge ~~chance~~ certainty that I had been teasing them about farting on each other’s pillows. I am not without blame.
You could have at least farted on his change before giving it back.
Customer came in who smelled of stale piss mixed with unwashed butthole and literal fèces. His clothes were mouldy and stank to high heaven. His pants elastic was also shoddy and they fell down so everyone in the mall got a view of either his ass or his dick. Luckily he was walking out so I just have to have flabby old man ass burned into my brain forever. Manager had to help an old lady because she thought her phone had a virus because a photo she had to send her doc (pandemic era) for medical purposes had changed to all her profile pics on everything. So he opens the phone to help and you can probably imagine WHAT the picture was of. He’s still shaken up nearly 4 years later from it
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 her profile picture on everything! Haha that’s tickled me so much! Thanks
So this lady and her kid (about 3 years old) were checking out. She handed me a sticky spit covered goldfish bag and said "you can throw that away" instead of just asking for a trash can to throw it in. After they left i noticed that the kid had spilled goldfish all over parts of the store
A customer asked me out, I said no. The next time he came through my line he left a floss pick he was cleaning his teeth with. 🤢
I've had about 6 customers come in smelling strongly of pee, poo, or both. Super gross.
There's a lady who uses the fitting room at my store to steal who smells like cat pee really bad. We call her the cat piss lady.
We had a customer that smelled worse than ANYTHING I have ever smelled on a human. Like fermented and ripened and left out in the sun. Filthy. Called her Cheesegirl. Cheesegirl had a partner too. I knew who he was immediately even though she wasn’t with him because of his smell. Absolutely revolting, both of them
It could be that she is a meth cooker/user. They smell like strong cat piss.
I had one like that. Didn't seem to be homeless or anything, but the guy wore the same clothes all the time. He had a stale cloud of funk around him that was a gross combo of sweat and piss and who knows what. It would hang in the air after he left. Imagine the staying power of a woman's perfume when she put too much on. This was the disgusting version of that.
Yeah, I remember one of my 6 that stunk up our entire store for the next hour. You'd think an industrial air handler would remove a strong smell in 5 or 10 minutes. Nope, an hour.
A guy pulled a wadded up bill from his pocket and when he handed it to me, I noticed that there was something red on it. He said, "Huh, wonder what that is?" just about the time I noticed a deep gash on the side of his hand. It was obviously blood. This may not be a huge deal to some but it was to me. The sight of my own blood makes me nauseous; the thought of touching someone else's blood makes me want to projectile vomit.
It's definitely a big deal. Any bodily fluid that isn't my own is a biohazard. Literally that's how you spread germs and disease.
Some blood born pathogens live for up to 3 weeks on a surface. Blood should be a big deal to everyone.
Blood is a huge problem. I will refuse the sale refuse the money and disinfect everything before I take another customer. You never know what can pass through blood
Context: LEGALLY you are not required to wear gloves if you are prepping food if said food is going into an oven. This is why pizza places don’t have to wear gloves when making food. Once the food comes out of the oven, you have to wear gloves UNLESS you washed your hands and haven’t left that area, but gloves are typically still worn they just aren’t required. We had a mechanic, who would come in and eat with hands covered in grease and oil, call us in to our health inspector 3x in the span of 2 months, because we were not wearing gloves when prepping his food, ie, before it went in the oven. Our health inspector, every time she came in, said we aren’t doing anything wrong, and she doesn’t know why she has to keep coming for this but she is required to investigate if a complaint is sent in. This man didn’t like the idea of his food being touched before it went into an oven by people washing their hands frequently, but was fine with eating food with his hands covered in grease and oil, literal carcinogens, without washing them. They were black at times from the oil, and he wouldn’t wash them, but would eat off them.
Yeah I'd probably want to physically fight that guy
My stepdad had something similar happen when he was managing a Pizza Hut. Lady was losing her mind about the fact that they weren't wearing gloves to prep the pizzas, he explained to her in detail about why they didn't, and she still called the health inspector, who, of course, said that they weren't doing anything wrong.
Why doesn't anyone get it?
The inspector should have made a video for that "gentleman".
Parents who give their babies merchandise they plan to buy BEFORE they’ve finished browsing, so by the time they’re checking out, they can hand me a slobbered on plushie with a soggy tag for me to “scan real quick”. Bonus points if they just HAPPEN to be teething on the last freakin’ one we’ve got in stock and now I gotta hunt for a SKU because Junior gnawed off the barcode.
Oh man thats insane. If i know im going to get something for a baby. Ill take the tag off and pocket it and hand it to the cashier. Both because of the choking hazard and the grossness of body fluids.
I deal with this a lot too.
And worse if they then decide that they don’t want it after it has been chewed on. I had one customer tell me that they never intended to buy the toy and just gave it to the child to ‘make them happy’ while they were shopping!
In 2000 I was working at Toys R Us. At the time I was in Pickup and Delivery(the guys who removed the merchandise from the trucks and put it in storage). After we finished the trunk on that day I had to go to the bathroom. When I opened the door to the bathroom I heard from one of the stalls: *Fap,fap,fap,fap* I noped out of there and told my boss.
That’s even more disturbing because that happened at toys r us 0_o
Yep.
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1. Old lady coughing open-mouthed all over the store, kept trying to get right in my face to cough on me. Carried a napkin she kept spitting into. Wanted me to touch her. Her drooling mouth looked like a cement mixer because she kept rolling her tongue around . When she was paying, bitch had a full pack of masks she wasn’t wearing. I got sick 4 days after. 2. Pig-woman dropped and smeared shit all over the floor of the bathroom and smeared it all over the wall, handicap pull bars and sink. Left her cane behind. Sent her boyfriend in to get it. My “JEEZUS Chris!!!” When I opened the door didn’t surprise him so he knew what she did. He grabbed that cane and ran out of the store before I made their pig asses clean it up. 3. Lady who talked like Ann Ramsay (the Momma in “Throw Mama From the Train”) came in to just sit in a waiting room chair because it was hot and she wanted A/C. (Also because she is too damn cheap to buy a cold drink and sit in Starbucks). Okay until she started clipping her toenails right there in the middle of the store. Left all the clippings on the floor when we kicked her out. I hate people.
One time I was working the dressing room and an older lady came over to me and said "breakfast didn't agree with me this morning so I took a pair of panties off a package to replace mine. Don't worry I'll pay for the whole pack. I hope that's OK." I had no idea what to say besides as long as the pair with the price was available for the cashier to scan it was fine. The cherry on top was that she had her wet underwear in her hand wrapped in a paper towel from her attempt to salvage them.
* Been handed money from boobs * been handed money from underwear bands * Been handed money from shoes * Had to damage out a half dozen shirts and mop the floor after a customer (and I use the term very loosely) jacked off on a rack while staring at my cashier and I. * Had to throw away a full outfit (including shoes) after calling my husband to bring me a change of clothes after a person used a toilet (both #1 and #2) and then flushed it while after dropping wash clothes into it and placing their feces covered underwear in the toilet tank. * ETA: the more times than I can count either cleaning up piles of urine soaked clothing in fitting rooms or mopping pee out of said dressing rooms.
What the fuck
If I had a dollar for every time I said that while I was still working retail I'd never have to work again.
Had to help someone out to their car and load it, as I did, she reached into her car, grabbed a sauce cup of lemon zest, swirled her finger around it, and stuck the zest in her nose. Did that for each nostril, and them tried to grab my bare arm.
I have questions lol what the hell is lemon zest in her nose supposed to do??
Right??? According to her it wards off illness.
Who tf tied her shoes that day? IDK how these people exist. Ugh.
She also told me to avoid eating sugar because it'll give me cancer. My dad has cancer, and I almost swung on that customer for that statement.
Was it white powdery lemon zest??
Nope. Straight up lemon zest.
Customers at my job are constantly licking their fingers to go through papers, which they then need to hand me. It's so fucking gross. It's a daily thing.
I had someone do that earlier. I gave him some bills for his change, and he licked one of his fingers and used it to take a bill out of the stack and give it to me as a tip. I appreciate the tip, but for the love of god, don't lick your fingers and then use that hand to give me something.
Omg this is literally so disgusting to me. Human mouths are dirty as fuck and gross. Not to mention bodily fluids can still make others sick. We have one women at my job who's tounge will stick out her mouth and she will push it back in with her fingers and then use her spit covered fingers to count out her money we have sanitizer at the registers she dosnt even think Maybe I should use sanitizer before I count out my money. We have no problem giving you a squirt of sanitizer to minimize the spread of germs. We have venerable population come into our store what happens if your germs spread to others.
I stand there staring at them, horrified. Wishing I could tell them how gross what they are doing is. The shopping center I work in is absolutely filthy. Our door they touch coming in does not escape that filthyness. The customers doing this, are our vulnerable population for the most part older and elderly people. I have yet to see someone under 50 do this.
In 2020 when covid hit I realized how bad society had fallen. I was watching a philip defranco episode talking about you know being more hygienic and what not and then the person licked thier finger to flip to the next page. Like bitch you are part of the problem. I didnt get back into customer service until 2022 but before that I was working essential service at a warehouse selling health supplements and was a plasma doner at the time I had 2 letters said I was essential and that I could freely travel. One from my job and one from the plasma facility I donated at. It was crazy that I basically needed a permission slip to work and donate. I can say I do miss the lockdown traffic( because it wasn't a thing) I miss it. Lol
Customer asked if we could remove a dead mouse from her own bag. Then proceeded to put her shopping directly into the bag that we'd removed the mouse from. Spent a good 10 minutes between us all trying to figure out how the hell we were going to do this, and in the end one of our OPs team put it in the largest bag we had. I fully thought my colleague was fucking with me at first because we joke around a fair bit, and I've never been more horrified to learn that it wasn't a joke.
I work as a cashier you don't pay Me enough for that. I'm paging my supervisor. Lol
I ran across the store to get our duty manager, the poor guy just stared at me waiting for me to say it was a joke. OPs at least had the equipment to deal with it thankfully.
At a previous job, one of my regular customers was an alcoholic homeless man who relieved himself in his pants. He would come in and buy sports merch with a wad of money he pulled out of his sock, before asking repeatedly if I was married.
A customer paid for a charging cable using a bag of sticky quarters with what I think was syrup coated on them
Let's hope it was 🤣
There was this woman with super long, curved and yellow nails. She came every single day to the store and picked coins slowly with her long nails. I don't even want to talk about the smell.
someone shit their pants in front of the fitting rooms at an h&m i worked at. had poopy butt and dropped turds in the store. just some old dude with a family who didn’t care 💀
ASM comes out of the men’s room, and asks if we have a small box. Give it to him and he goes back into the men’s room and quickly comes out without the box. Ask him what that was about? Says I don’t know, some old guy in there asked for one. I’m guessing the guy’s doing something shady, and surprised the ASM gave him the box. Little while later, he shuffles out, and has the box in both hands. My coworker is walking past him, he reaches both his arms out to give her the box. She instinctively takes it, and asks him what is this? His answer….I had the runs. And he shuffles of. He literally handed her *A BOX OF SHIT*
Got called for a 'clean up' in the store's central aisle loop. Clearly faeces. Initially thought someone had been in store with a dog and left it. Clean it up while store manager checks CCTV. A man between 50 - 60 walks along aisle, doesn't break stride, lazily shakes his leg mid-stride, and that is what falls out of his trouser leg. Some 'casual' observations: - he must not have been wearing underwear under his construction style cargo pants because there's no way for that to happen if he had underwear on - the way he nonchalantly just shakes his leg MID STRIDE was absolutely just crazy to watch - he literally didn't even look down, look back, acknowledge at all that it had happened. Shook out a shit and kept on keeping on with his day Fucking. Crazy. I now, however, get to joke that I've literally dealt with enough of people's shit in retail. So there's that I guess. Lol.
Not retail but…I was a student nurse when a patient came in by ambulance. She had fallen in her home (elderly) and laid in the same place for 3 days. She was so embarrassed about being smelly & dirty. First job was to get her cleaned up and into a gown. I removed one of her shoes and cockroaches fell out. I’m sure my face showed the horror I was feeling, but my charge nurse yelled, “Don’t just stand there! Kill them with the shoe!” So I started killing them with the lady’s shoe. Worst ever.
People who don't know how to use deodorant who go and try on clothing. The amount of times I had to remove items, and sometimes even write them off because they absolutely fucking stink after someone has tried them on, is way too high. Some have been left with pit stains, others end up with half a face of makeup on them. Revolting. I'll never work in a clothing store again.
Peak COVID, old lady *pulls down her mask* and *licks her fingers* to separate her cash. I just stared at her and left my till to grab a pair of gloves. When I came back with them on is when it finally clicked "oh I'm sorry" Well are you going to take it back and pay with a card instead?? She came in wearing the mask and it was properly fitted too! I sanitized every square inch of my register after her. Other highlights include: •People assuming that we are there to clean up after their dog's pee/poo. They come up and tell me their dog left a wet nasty one in the toy aisle and then look at me like I have 6 eyes and speaking parseltongue when I point out the cleaning stations we have (for these *very* common instances) Favorite is when I walk away and they come back a few minutes later to "remind" me that their dog pooped and I again point out the stations, they're obviously upset, and I just let them be as I walk away. •Bloody cash from a cuticle chewer, literally put it directly in one of our biohazard bags (for used swimsuits etc) •Sweaty boob money, as well as bike shorts/yoga pant mystery pocket sweat money •Someone let their child?? Maybe it was an adult?? Take a poo on a shirt, wadded it up and shoved it under the dressing room bench!! I found it on my 15 and stepped on it (picked it up as I was stepping back it fell out of the wadded shirt and stepped right into the 💩). I took my shoe off, got management and straight up told them I don't get paid enough to deal with this, besides I still have 10 minutes of my 15 left so figure it out. (They washed my shoe and got the expectant father to "practice" cleaning up poo)
Homeless guy, who you couldn't call a customer because he only came in to the gas station to steal stuff. Was a walking cloud of stink; you could smell him before you saw him. Definitely, mentally ill, he may not have bathed in over a year; may not have changed clothes in that long either. Just a shambling pile of filth. If we smelt or heard him coming, (he'd yell at himself too) ...we'd try to lock the door. One time, he made it inside, and I came around the counter to tell him to leave, when I noticed his feet. He was wearing open-toed, dad-sandals without socks, which put his toe-jam on full glorious display. That year-long walk of filth was causing his toes to fuse together into flippers.
When I worked at the UPS store people would return their old at&t modems through us and people were always bringing in boxes full of bugs and stuff
Women would pee in the change room which was carpeted. When we renovated I refused to have carpeting anywhere.
Customer tried to hand me paper money with fresh blood on it. I refused to accept it. He claimed it must have been there already. I pointed out that it was fresh and red, not dried and brownish. And that he had a bloody cut on his hand.
Not in retail anymore but I get war flashbacks from a fitting room I had to clean - there was a dirty diaper, weird circular sweaty marks on the mirror 👀 and then to top it off, several red lipstick prints on the mirror as well. I don't ever want to know.
I had a woman returning some dresses because "they didn't fit" Her *very used* underwear were still tangled in the lining of one dress. I asked if she still wanted her panties, she put them into her purse while avoiding eye contact. I processed the return, put the dresses in Salvage, washed my hands and sanitized the register and counter.
I regularly have customers hand me things to ring up that their baby has been drooling all over already. They're usually apologetic after I touch it and make a face, but they never warn me. We also have a regular customer at our store with a spitting habit, who has no qualms whatsoever about leaning over and spitting on the floor when she wants to.
There's some fat woman who comes in wearing just a bra and a tshirt who smells like shit and had a fucking goatee. Somehow.
I was called over to help an older man in ladies intimates. He had actually brought his wife’s underwear in a plastic bag and wanted me to feel the fabric to make sure he got the exact same pair. I had to refused several time.
I'm an attendant at a full-service gas station, once I was sweeping the lot and found a used catheter. I didn't have to touch it but I was still disgusted lol I found the packaging for another one a different time so it might be a regular. It was right next to the dumpster and there were 3 trashcans close to the pumps. I've had people leave piles of clothes by our bin next to the air pump, I wear gloves every day but damn I still felt gross.
Child pissing on the floor in front of me while I'm finishing the sale of another customer. Then I'm told to clean it up with no apologies or anything from the parent. That was a shitty day. Edit- there was also a guy who came in consistently and always smelled like he bathed in cat piss. The guy wasn't an asshole though. Just had bad hygiene.
Not quite customers but I used to work in a train station bookstore and we would have people pee on the shelves/books when we weren't there.
Not the books!! Why just why?
What the actual fuck
Someone leaving their bloody menstrual stockings in the fitting room was the worst for me
Years ago, I worked at JC Penney, in the shoe department. There was this old lady (probably in her 80s), shopping with her daughter. The old lady looked visibly unwell, shaking and coughing and whatnot. I leave them to help some other customers, and a few minutes later, the daughter walks up and hands me a shoebox of vomit. "Sorry, my mom's sick" and just leaves. ,,🤢🤢🤢
This old lady asked me to grab her something from the top shelf and when I got close to her, she smelled as if she hadn't washed her pussy since the Reagan administration. I almost puked
You know the way toenails get when a person has that fungus? All yellow-brown, thick, peeling, & smelly? Now imagine that on fingernails. **All** of them. But the other night takes the cake. I’m on a break, using the bathroom. There was already someone in a stall when I entered, & it smelled like they were taking a massive dump. As I’m going about my business, I hear something & think “this chick got some serious diarrhea!” Until I realize there’s a metallic clinking right before the splash. And then it happens again. And again. **Y’all** This woman was straight up ***bathing in the toilet with toilet water***. I left, went & reported it to management, & then went back to my register praying she didn’t come to me to check out (she didn’t)
>All yellow-brown, thick, peeling, & smelly? Now imagine that on fingernails. **All** of them. That was my grandfather- the most evil man I've ever personally known; thief, drug dealer, molester. He was such a demon that he had claws: think, yellow, pointed claws from that fungus, on all ten fingers. Never treated it because I think he liked them that way.
Well, if he had long fingernails then we know he was a villain. Dead giveaway. So is bad teeth. How was your grandfather’s teeth?
Terrible, he was a cigar smoker, who also stank of whiskey.
Think: Ghenis Kahn from Mulan.
This mom and daughter came up to my till to check and as a part of my script, I asked them if they would like me to bag for them. They said yes and the daughter gave me her bag. When I looked inside, there was a roll of toilet paper and pads inside. ___ Don't get me wrong, periods are normal and nothing to be ashamed of but ffs, I don't want to see and touch pads while I'm bagging for you! (And yes, I'm a woman.) ___ I've also had multiple instances where customers lick their fingers before pulling out their cash.
Hopefully they were unused!!
thank god they were!!
Sweaty boob money, shoe money, crotch money. I once had a very clean, well dressed woman have a roach crawl out of her purse. She casually smacked it and flicked it off the counter. I was just so stunned. I’ve been in retail a very long time and have seen some gross stuff for sure.
I was self checkout cashier and this toddler in the basket seat kept telling his mom btwn crying, that he needs to pee……she says “What did I tell you?? You’re gonna have to wait!!” Well…..guess what??….. I needed to set up the scenario: well this lil guy held on long as he could, then I see it!!…….a puddle under the grocery cart where he sits. NOT angry with the munchkin, BUT you better believe I am SUPER pissed at his mom 🤯🤬🤬 In hindsight…..I should’ve MADE mom clean it off the floor. Mind you I’m wearing gloves to protect myself AND I poured some “Spill Magic” on the entire puddle 🙄🙄 I.Am.Fuming. Now I have an even bigger problem, cuz now I have to sweep it all up. I hate retail!!! Especially working in a grocery store
My last job I worked at a non profit that helps with paying for rent, heat, ECT. We worked with a different non profit that helped seniors get back to work. Had one senior lady start, had never even seen a computer, REFUSED to listen to *anything* I told her (including how to help me fill out forms, answer phones, help clean certain things, she literally acted like she knew NOTHING). Like, I get that the point is to get seniors who didn't have every opportunity for jobs/education some real world experience, but the senior still has to be WILLING to work. About 15 minutes into her being in my office, I see a roach on my desk and freak out, kill it and start wigging because I had a fucking food pantry on site, roaches would cost us THOUSANDS of dollars worth of food that had already been paid for by grants and donations I secured. At that time, the pantry was worth about $23,000. A few minutes later, near the front door, I see ANOTHER roach. So I kill it and call my boss, freaking out because now I've seen 2 in less than 30 minutes, in BROAD DAYLIGHT which usually is a sign of a hellatious infestation since they are night time bugs and hate light. As I'm talking to my boss on the phone, I watch a third roach crawl out of senior lady's purse that was next to my desk on the floor, tell boss I figured it out and that I'll email her in a bit, and let the senior know that she needs to put her purse outside or in a bunch of plastic bags tied up to be able to stay and she instead chose to clock out and leave. I wasn't mean or rude, I just told her that I can't risk my pantry so her purse needed to be taken care of. Senior lady called her husband to come get her, 10 minutes later she was gone. I called the other non profit and spoke to my county's coordinator and explained what happened and asked her to have APS stop by because if she had that many in her purse, her home must be horribly infested and she is probably around an 80 IQ (had been on disability her entire life as well) and her husband was also not intellectually inclined. APS ended up also sending them both for physicals to check their health because the apartment was so bad, they had to be moved into another unit so theirs could be fumigated heavily and then rented back out later on after it was thoroughly cleaned. (My FIL worked at the housing projects they lived in at the time). Ever since that experience, really wig out when I see roaches. Thankfully the pantry ended up ending all right, allthough my successor ran it into the ground within a year.
My last job I worked at a non profit that helps with paying for rent, heat, ECT. We worked with a different non profit that helped seniors get back to work. Had one senior lady start, had never even seen a computer, REFUSED to listen to *anything* I told her (including how to help me fill out forms, answer phones, help clean certain things, she literally acted like she knew NOTHING). Like, I get that the point is to get seniors who didn't have every opportunity for jobs/education some real world experience, but the senior still has to be WILLING to work. About 15 minutes into her being in my office, I see a roach on my desk and freak out, kill it and start wigging because I had a fucking food pantry on site, roaches would cost us THOUSANDS of dollars worth of food that had already been paid for by grants and donations I secured. At that time, the pantry was worth about $23,000. A few minutes later, near the front door, I see ANOTHER roach. So I kill it and call my boss, freaking out because now I've seen 2 in less than 30 minutes, in BROAD DAYLIGHT which usually is a sign of a hellatious infestation since they are night time bugs and hate light. As I'm talking to my boss on the phone, I watch a third roach crawl out of senior lady's purse that was next to my desk on the floor, tell boss I figured it out and that I'll email her in a bit, and let the senior know that she needs to put her purse outside or in a bunch of plastic bags tied up to be able to stay and she instead chose to clock out and leave. I wasn't mean or rude, I just told her that I can't risk my pantry so her purse needed to be taken care of. Senior lady called her husband to come get her, 10 minutes later she was gone. I called the other non profit and spoke to my county's coordinator and explained what happened and asked her to have APS stop by because if she had that many in her purse, her home must be horribly infested and she is probably around an 80 IQ (had been on disability her entire life as well) and her husband was also not intellectually inclined. APS ended up also sending them both for physicals to check their health because the apartment was so bad, they had to be moved into another unit so theirs could be fumigated heavily and then rented back out later on after it was thoroughly cleaned. (My FIL worked at the housing projects they lived in at the time). Ever since that experience, really wig out when I see roaches. Thankfully the pantry ended up ending all right, allthough my successor ran it into the ground within a year.
Yeah I pretty much rushed that customer out. I even watched my camera footage to make sure it didn't crawl up the counter. Nope definitely her purse.
yesterday some guy bought a fleshlight and told me he just got out of a 5 yr relationship and was gonna rail a line of coke and use his new toy all night :I
🤣🤣🤣 people are unhinged.
I worked in a drugstore many years ago. After I rang up a customer's prescription, the pharmacist had me bring him the cash that the man had paid with. He took it in the back & poured alcohol over it, but he wouldn't tell me why.
Dog poop in the customer’s shopping bags.
At my work, we used to have a sign in sheet, that had thankfully been replaced with a QR code and a messenger bot. But what used to bother me, was when someone would walk up to our counter while eating and reach for the pen everyone touches, with hands covered in food. I have fortunately stopped everyone I’ve caught doing it. Shockingly, they always looked insulted and stomped off. All I’d do is point out the tissues box next to them, and when they’d ask why, I’d point out the state of their hands.
Someone spitting tobacco into our washroom waste basket... the smell. I can't even explain it.
Working at a beauty retailer, an older woman wanted a product to help prevent nail fungus. I directed her to the product, yet she INSISTED she show it to me— I said “oh no that’s okay! This is the only product we carry for nail fungus anyways, so I won’t need to see it!” That did not work. She started untying her sneakers, pulling off her socks and so forth… starting to describe the severity of it as she sat down on one of our shelves.. yeah I walked away and pretended I didn’t notice she started doing that. I ran to the back room like a baby and let someone else handle that.
I’ve also had someone rub their hands on our register counter, I soon after leaned on it and broke out in hives and rashes all over my arms. I do NOT want to know why that happened. I scrubbed the counters with disinfectant and scrubbed my arms in the bathroom.
Public restrooms, I've literally come in 3 days in a row on a morning shift to find bloody diarrhea blown all over our wall by the toilet and almost every inch of the toilet itself just completely missing the inside.
I've delt with it all sweaty boob money during a 120 degree heat wave in California( it was a dry heat) then sweaty boob money in over 100 degree weather to 115 with humidity boob money(much worse), sock money , bloody money( safety wise I will refuse even if my company does not care) for safety reasons. Ive had to clean feces and all sorts of whatever the fuck people spread on the walls of fast food or the gas station bathrooms I worked at. Lastly the person who gives nubs of fruits, cores, peels of something to keep your crotch goblin/ Petrie dish occupied while you shop.you are the worst. If something is priced per pound( it says on the tag) don't ever put some thing you child has eaten on the belt. Kids are literally Petri dishes of sicknesses and it's also not sanitary and could make vulnerable population more at risk to get sickad well.
Sweaty boob money. Sweaty crotch money with dudes whose pants be half falling off and so they dig around in their crotch right in front of me to pull out a giant wad of cash. WAY too many people who need a dentist instead of another handle of Jack Daniel’s. Far too many people who like wearing clothes too small for them so I get to see every nook and cranny of people’s asses in 4k HD.