Miscellaneous: Today, I was working at my retail job. A customer stopped me...

By kilo1_13 - 04/06/2009 01:35 - United States

Today, I was working at my retail job. A customer stopped me on my way to break saying "someone" had broken a snow globe. She showed me where it was and I cleaned it up with her circling me. I finished and put the cleaning supplies away when I heard a 'crash' as the same woman dropped another snow globe. 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 Olerbia - 28/05/2013 07:11 - United States

Today, while working at Walmart, I was walking the sales floor and passed the end of an aisle. I saw a customer coming at me from the corner of my eye, so I jumped backwards. I hit a display case, and watched it topple over before turning to apologize to the customer. It was a ladder. FML

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By KatieElizabeth - 27/10/2013 04:57 - United States - San Francisco

Today, at work, I had a customer accuse me of taking the giftcard I had issued her for her return, after spending 15 minutes trying to fix her screwed up transaction. She began to yell, and follow me around the store. Security had to intervene and I had to be locked in an office until she left. FML

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By hushnow - 07/02/2011 18:04 - United States

Today, I had no choice but to shake the hand of a customer, who just moments before, had the aforementioned hand down the front of his pants, scratching his snowglobes. 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 kernewek - 26/05/2011 21:26 - United Kingdom

Today, I was at work, nonchalantly spinning my keys around my finger when they flew off and hit a glass cabinet. Broken glass showered passing customers. I don't think I'll have a job to go to tomorrow. FML

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Chuds

By Anonymous - 08/12/2020 13:58

Today, at my retail job, I was trying to get a large amount of cardboard to the trash and had a short path to maneuver through displays and customers. As I'm coming down the aisle, a customer sees me and stops to look at a coffee cup display, directly in my path. FML

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FREAKOUT!

By peachesthepigeon - 19/01/2011 18:54 - United States

Today, at work, I helped out an employee who was having trouble. I even bought her a bottle of water. After the production manager decided to fire her on the spot, she went out in the parking lot and broke into several cars, including mine. FML

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Classic non-ironical Ironic

By Karen - 21/11/2022 18:00

Today, I had a shift at my job at a grocery store that was full of rude and impatient customers. Someone dropped a bottle of wine and it shattered next to me. I found a half-eaten packet of sushi behind some magazines. The scale on another register broke. "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette played on the store radio at the end. FML

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By forgetable - 28/04/2019 02:00

Today, I offered to stay late at my delivery job because it was snowing and several people called out. An hour later I got rear ended. FML

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noshitsherlock 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 9:08

That sucks. I HATED working retail (part time). RUDE, STUPID people, and you don't even get tipped. Or morons who can't read, "But the sign says..." NO, it DOESN'T, go learn how to read. Geez, the general public is so stupid.

eightroses 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 9:07

Wow. I hope she was made to pay for the ones she broke. :/

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martymcfly12 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 17:32

Fyl knock one over her head

ChasinParkedCars 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 17:51

did you check to see it wasn't your ex..?

DarkMirror 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 18:03

A lot of things need the label "WARNING: Do not handle if stupid" on them. I'll add snowglobes to the list.

kellster 2

Thursday 4 June 2009 18:31

I hope you/your manager made her pay for them both!!!! I hate retail for this very reason! FYL indeed! :(

NoMercy_fml 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 19:07

Tell the woman to get the **** out of the store!

4690flowerz 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 19:12

Ouch. I hope she paid for them!

patray_angel 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 19:52

I think I sometimes give too many people the benefit of the doubt. I wonder if it is possible the first one she really didn't break, she did afterall come and tell you that one of them was broke. I would most people wouldn't bother to say anything and just leave the store had they broke something. If she did actually break them both, part of me wonders if she did it on purpose, but if that were the case, I doubt she would break the 2nd one in front of you. As far as you heading to break, I doubt she knew you were on break. Most stores have a "you break it, you buy it policy" so if anything, you can at least make her pay for the 2nd one, unless you have proof she broke the first one, ie an eye witness or she was caught on camera...

etar 0

Thursday 4 June 2009 20:05

I also work in retail and it really makes you hate people. You would think that after the first snow globe fell she would have an eye for the next one. Even if she didn't break it she was aware of its possibility and she should be more careful. Ohh, the things i bet you would've liked to have said to her!