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By RetailRage - 10/08/2015 12:23 - United States - San Francisco

Today, at my job working retail, I had just finished cleaning and straightening a whole aisle. This kid watched me do the whole thing. When I was done, he stuck his arm out, and ran it down the whole shelf, knocking everything off it. His mother just grabbed his hand and walked away. FML

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By tired of my job - 29/10/2015 08:33 - Canada - Surrey

Today, I was at work, stocking shelves. A customer got mad because I was in the way of her "shopping time" and knocked down all the work I had done. FML

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By NoRespect - 22/05/2011 19:50 - United States

Today, I spent an hour setting up a delicate display stand at work. Not five minutes later, a woman barged in with her little kid, who immediately went up to the display and tipped the whole thing over. When I called attention to the mother, she just scoffed, "Isn't this your job?" and left. FML

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By notapedobear - 13/01/2011 08:21

Today, I was in a shopping centre when a little girl was running up and down the aisles. She started to fall over so I put my hand out to catch her. Her mother then ran up to me and screamed about me 'touching her child' so loud that everyone could hear. FML

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By hannaslifesucks - 24/06/2012 18:41 - Norway - Kleppe

Today, a kid got his hand stuck inside my store's giant gumball machine. He started crying, and his negligent trainwreck of a mom bitched me out for being "unobservant." I'd been mopping up the mess she'd made after she'd spilled an open can of beer all over the floor. FML

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By iwillcutyou - 06/12/2018 07:30 - United States - Port Saint Lucie

Today, as I was working in retail, this guy shoved me into the shelves for asking if he needed help with anything, screaming at me that I need to leave him alone. FML

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By lions214 - 11/01/2012 01:40 - United States

Today, at work at a store, I was sitting on the floor stocking a bottom shelf. A woman in a motorized cart did not see me, and ran over my hand. When I alerted her about what she had done she laughed. FML

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By justwantingtohelp - 16/08/2013 05:02 - United States - Highland

Today, a child was choking in the store I work at. He was alone in the aisle, so I started the Heimlich without his parents' permission. After dislodging what was caught, his mother turned the corner and went screaming to my manager for touching her kid. I got a write up. FML

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By bitch i'm a gerontophile - 29/11/2012 18:08 - Taiwan

Today, while working at my local supermarket, I found a boy lost and wandering about, so I took him to the front desk. My reward from his mother was a slap around the face and harsh words for supposedly having kidnapped him. FML

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By Anonymous - 31/08/2011 17:06 - Canada

Today, I noticed a young child wandering out onto a busy street. I managed to grab his arm just as he stepped off the sidewalk and yank him away from almost certain death. My reward was his mother, who was on her cell phone the whole time, screaming at me for touching her child. FML

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No touching!

By Noname - 27/01/2009 19:36 - United States

Today, at the mall my brother and I went to look at a vendor's items when my mom said not to touch anything. Thinking my brother was standing next to me, I saw him touching stuff so I smacked him in the arm and told him to stop. I turn to see that the old lady to my side was giving me a mean look. FML

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Monday 10 August 2015 17:52

"Don't worry honey, it's their job to clean it up" -Asshole parents everywhere.

1dvs_bstd 41

Monday 10 August 2015 17:58

Bob Barker always said spay and neuter your pets.. some people need need to get their tubes tied or get a vasectomy.

Comments

scarlett3diaz 24

Monday 10 August 2015 18:56

Some mothers man..

lunaangel 14

Monday 10 August 2015 19:17

when mom's do that it means you will be in deep shit when we get home but I'm too embarrassed to make you help clean it up

faeryfyre 3

Monday 10 August 2015 20:32

Being embarrassed is all part of being a parent. So is teaching your child accountability and basic human decency. She failed her child and society by walking away, no matter what happened when she got home.

PANDORUM89 21

Monday 10 August 2015 21:18

I'm pro spanking, def would've spanked my kid right then and there. made him walk over and sincerely apologize and pick up every single item.

lovelockdown23 23

Monday 10 August 2015 22:02

^^^ I agree. I wouldve done the same. My son would have put them back the right way and he would have apologized right then and there. That woman should be ashamed of herself. She seriously failed at using the opportunity to teach a valuable lesson on accountability.

DoomedGemini 37

Tuesday 11 August 2015 5:04

Sadly, even a swat on the butt gets CPS called now. Or hell, the FML about their baby screaming in joy at night got CPS called. It's sad, people are getting to where they can't tell the difference between abuse and punishment anymore.

starlandmarie 22

Monday 10 August 2015 19:34

Working retail allows you to see just how lousy some people are at parenting. I feel your pain OP, people let their heathen children do the same thing at my work.

Omniprism 14

Monday 10 August 2015 19:44

I would have stopped him and told him not to do that. If a parent isn't going to teach their child in a public place it sure as hell won't stop me.

Ace4Of4Spades4 11

Monday 10 August 2015 19:46

You should hold your arm out and run a key down the side of their car :)

Thundaar25 11

Monday 10 August 2015 19:48

There is our future. Sad.

truckers_wife 23

Monday 10 August 2015 19:49

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I wonder if maybe she felt really bad about it but was too shy and embarrassed to even apologize. I'm not making excuses or anything because she should have corrected her son, but there is a chance that she has good morals but doesn't have the balls to teach them. Hopefully she at least did something to punish him at home, even though it wouldn't have as great of an impact.