What is your "People of Wal-Mart" Story? - Reddit Podcast

store workers and customers what's your people of Walmart story I worked at a Walmart for about 2 months the weirdest thing I saw was an obese lady on a scooter run over a fat kid in the candy aisle and then threaten him because he almost tipped her security was called and she demanded to receive her items for free eventually we just let her take the stuff because it was only like $5 worth of Skittles what she really needed was tip assist and some really good oldfashioned Sky wrestling uh this is why some crap people continue to be crap people you mother freckers gave them free Skittles when they caused a gosh darn scene just like my spineless corporate slave of a manager when I worked retail I worked at Walmart last year as a cashier and a woman came up to my register with nothing but a pineapple and a damaged one at that it was 10 p.m. on a Tuesday so it was a slow night and she demanded I give her this pineapple for 25 cents because it was damaged I didn't see any damage so I asked her to show me the damage she promptly ripped ripped the top greens off the pineapple and said see it now I called my manager over and he said he can't sell it to her for a discount and he's sorry but she can get another one she cursed threw the pineapple at me and walked out mumbling about needing a cigarette she was a prime example of trailer trash but damn she threw that pineapple hard fun fact if you can pluck out the greens easily it's a ripe pineapple usually the best metric I find is to smell it and see if it actually smells like pineapple a lot of yellow is also a good indicator you're correct the most yellow while not having mold on the bottom is the best metric properly ripened pineapples are completely yellow but they're never picked that way commercially and do not ripen off the plant because they don't ship well when ripened here I am talking about a nightmare from my old job and suddenly I know how to pick out the perfect pineapple so last year I worked at a Walmart Super Center as a cart Pusher you tend to see a lot of strange stuff in the parking lot so all the weird crap doesn't even get your attention after a while part of the cart pushes job is to bring back the store scooters after people leave them in the parking lot one day I see an old woman outside the store just sitting on a scooter this lady must have sat there for a good 2 hours before finally getting up to reveal a gigantic brown stain all over the lower back of her hoodie running up and down her pants this obese lady who saw the whole thing comes sprinting up to the scooter and sits down on it before I could even clean it she looked at me and said I don't care hun it was the last one left and my legs is killing me when someone is so large that they'd rather sit in a person's waist than walk you know that they have a serious freaking problem I feel like there's going to be an awful lot of humanity in this group of stories maybe I should attempt to resist the urge to make judgmental comments for once my privileged and ailment free but doesn't get to cast stones at people who have trouble walking and controlling their bowels this was back in the late '90s I was working at Walmart as my first job as a teenager I was floated to the garden department one day and there was a guy looking at at lawn fertilizer I walked over and asked if he needs help he said not now just looking at the different kinds you have pretty standard reply from the guy so I said okay let me know I walked away and then Swang back in about 5 minutes the same guy has proceeded to rip open about 10 different kinds of fertilizer all over the ground and is rolling around in the stuff he's also taste sampling the stuff I call my manager because I don't want to deal with it security escorted the guy out of the store and called an ambulance in case the ingestion of the fertilizer hurt him I was expecting the story to end with and the guy tried to buy all we had and then the feds showed up instead crap osmosis saw an old man take a dump on the floor of the bread aisle once I worked at Whole Foods and on shift a person in Dairy dropped a load right in the middle of the aisle they must have been extremely lactose intolerant what is that milk gold no Mother's Day 2013 I was CSM and handling the day as best as could be expected on a Sunday holiday where the employees were mostly female mothers we had 13 callouts and five no call no shows I had five poor women to handle the whole Sunday lines were long I knew it I didn't have anyone in the store coming into help management couldn't spare anyone they understaffed on purpose so I hear a call over the radio that someone has busted an aerosol can and they needed one of the maintenance Associates on shift to deal with it apparently some jerk teenagers thought it would be funny to pop about five air freshener spray cans and let them Spin and spit IC singing chemicals I'm getting yelled at by a blue-haired old woman about the lines when I get the call that made me regret waking up that day and coming to work Sharon you see that kid in the iron shoes to your left stop him okay why he messed himself in his tracking feces all over I'm trying to find his mother on the cameras right now oh great now I have a feces covered 5-year-old to look after on top of everything did you find the mom yet yep she was in the parking lot doing smack cops came I had to mop up the feces mom went to jail for possession with intent neglect and other felonious activities the kid got cleaned up I bought him new underwear and pants and socks and I hosed off his shoes he went with a social worker I wanted to quit after that day someday that kid will post on future Reddit about an awful time he had as a child and the only highlight is the kind Walmart employees that got him clean underwear pants and socks he won't remember who it was but he'll wish that he could thank you for your kindness ah thank you for your kind words I only did what any compassionate human being would have done it's amazing how many people bring their non-service animals into the store I don't have a problem with dogs and such but when I see the small dog you're carrying scratch and dander falls into the vegetables you're looking over we've got a problem once a woman bought a bird into a fast casual dining establishment at which I was employed at that time I told her she could order and pay but she needed to wait outside because animals weren't allowed she pointed Ed to a service dog and demands to know why that dog can be in the store and not her bird I informed her that this dog was a registered service and support animal that had been certified in its role and is probably vital to its owner's daily life she starts screaming and I mean screaming he's a healing bird I love him he helps me now Birds you may know don't really appreciate loud noises accompanied by sudden movements of the arms she's also flailing her arms and it takes off flying around the store chaos and sues people are mad and I no longer have to try to handle this lady because her friend has caught the bird and is literally dragging her out the dog was fine though my town has a bird guy an older gentleman whose budgie rides around on the bill of his hat he takes the thing everywhere nobody seems to mind because it always appears to be totally under control I once saw him in Walmart with a little perch in the shopping cart for his bird to ride on not a worker but standing in line one night a lady seemed to be having a hard time being a parent to her three-year-old daughter at one point the kid kid asks if she can have a candy bar that was next to the register The Exchange went like this mommy can I have a Snickers I don't give a damn kid tries to reach up for candy I can't reach it can you help me you want me to help you get the candy you need to get a freaking job sounds about as classy as my cousin she was potty training her four-year-old and the little girl says Mommy I have to poop only for my crap heap of a cousin to yell I put you in a freaking diaper use it well I thought this would mostly be a mildly amusing series of cutaway way like from the excellent TV show Superstore little did I know how sad it would get I worked at Walmart in the toy department 10 years ago right out of high school for extra money the amount of parents who would drop their children off in the toy department like I was a babysitter was out of this world by the time they'd left it it would be a disaster area on more than one occasion I'd see them running down the aisle with their arms outstretched just knocking crap on the floor when the parents would come back there was no hey let's pick all this up they'd just leave I only only lasted a few months I actually quit a week before Black Friday because we had an instance at our morning meeting where some of the veteran employees were telling us what to expect on Black Friday from customers examples include being spat on pulled by the arms knocked over shoved tripped screamed at hair pulled threatened Etc I went on break and didn't come back not worth minimum wage ah that sucks I can sympathize I lifeguarded at a public school for several years in high school and people did this all the time more often than not the kids under the age of 10 I yanked them out of the deepend and they didn't have any parents or Guardians with them unbelievably frustrating in both scenarios you're the person who brought this child into the world which means you're responsible for him or her the worst part is that these people are the ones to raise lawsuits if their kid gets hurt while under your watch I spent many of my summers at the local pool but in my case I was old enough to bring myself there and it wasn't my parents just dropping me off and older than their posted 13 and under must be with an adult sign that that pool actually did pull unattended children out when they noticed them and get the police involved in returning them to their parents since nobody involved ended up amused by this it didn't usually happen repeatedly the one that sticks out in my mind is this couple of really overweight folks that in itself is not such an issue but it's the smell I remember it hit me before I saw them the very distinct smell of festering unwashed body and naturally they came straight to me to ask for things GH I have a few of those where I work and the two of them have no sense of personal space I've taken to holding a large item in front of me as a spacer whenever I see them come in you can submit your own stories to be featured here on the channel the story submission link is in the description below and if you want to listen to some viby music in the background check out easy mode also linked below and subscribe oh I have so many people but actually why don't I introduce you to another worker meet Gary Gary is 81 years old he also fought in the Vietnam War Gary is a short little cute old man however Gary is also freaking crazy let's go through everything Gary told me before I left for school the kennedies committed the atrocities of September 11th yep the entire gang was in on it JFK RFK Ted Ed and John why else do you think JFK and RFK were assassinated agent orange is for wimps Obama gave two statements after Charleston one to the country and another to his cabinet that said they were going to take all the guns that school shooting was fake because Joe Biden actually adopted all the fake victims so he would never see them again he owned a bunch of real estate in California and owned adult video stores he actively went to adult flick conventions and said that he was in the committee to determine if someone could be a adult flick Superstar so that meant he got to do the deed with a bunch of girls blacks by law can't be police officers if you want to woo yes he said it like Ric Flair a female you just got to ask me for some tips all right thanks Gary I have a girlfriend though my girlfriends got a tight hooa okay Gary wasn't just delusional Gary also didn't have a filter woman with a large chest walks past him did you see the bosom on her and she heard him John if you don't go on break I'm going to tie your braces to the back of my car and tear them off I did the deed with my girlfriend last night oh okay okay I was pounding it from behind Gary aren't you like 80 oh don't worry I took a pill before I did it Gary wasn't just delusional and obnoxious he was defiant from day one to my last day he had a theory that the boss was out to get him and that the boss always got upset over Petty things he used to say Frick that Wang sucker Dave but our boss didn't get upset over Petty things and his name was actually bill I miss Gary's crazy butt Gary sounds awesome in small doses when I worked in another department I loved Gary because he was like that old man who sits on a porch he would wave every time he passed because he was insistent that there needed to be someone at the cash register 24/7 there didn't need to be when we started working together in the same Department we became enemies I was being groomed to take over the department when the department manager was going to retire later that year odds started in April and they made the announcement in June Gary had been there since 2011 I was 18 and he was 81 he didn't like it in the slightest so he started butting heads constantly and he would threaten me with ridiculous things like tying my braces to his car so then I responded right back I got a wireless speaker put it in the cash register place and played high-pitch noises until he yelled what the freak is going on and he would make ridiculous claims like that I'd set up a wire trap with a shotgun so when I came in today I would get shot but luckily I saw the wire I own a business in front of a super centor this morning I came in and noticed my dumpster was stuffed full with Walmart's garbage I reviewed my HD camera and saw their contracted parking lot sweepers throwing over 20 bags of garbage away at 5:15 in the morning I got in that gosh darn dumpster pulled all those bags out and filled six Walmart carts up I rolled them right on in front of the store and then I went back to my office called the manager and told him that the next time I would call the cops for illegal dumping being in front of a Walmart sucks sometimes there's a huge dumped cat colony and the place is a bum magnet thanks for reading I just had to get that off my chest ah that sucks I think I would have called the manager first and had them send someone to get their garbage out of your dumpster no point in you getting filthy because of their stuff up oh I imagine there was a fair bit of catharus and cleaning that stuff out and airing out all of their literal garbage in front of the store maybe not the most adult reaction but I get it so a couple of years ago I was in between jobs I needed loot to pay the bills so I figured that I'd take a job at Walmart until something better came along I ended up working in the lawn and garden section which is actually fun when you get to play with the plants all day long however I wasn't aware that lawn and garden also does all of the holiday setup and placing said product on the floor fast forward a week before the public school systems were in session I had a cart full of notebook paper pencils Trapper Keepers Etc that I was trying to put on the shelves when a sound ripped through my eardrums that was similar to the ones that are typically only heard on the Discovery Channel several decibels too loud the best I can describe it is cats being lit on fire by their tails and being chased by Rabbid wolves I looked around to figure out who in the crap was being murdered in the store when I saw him it was a kid about 8 years old who looked as if he was desperately trying to become jabber the Hut and said kid was succeeding now I have no problem with fat kids I typically even think that they're pretty freaking cute however this kid was not due mainly to the alligator tears that were rolling down his cheeks the beat red color on his face and the sounds coming out from his throat hole it took me a minute to figure out what in the heck was going on in my aisle until I realized that this kid was throwing a fit because his parents wouldn't buy him three different Trapper Keepers one of which was Hello Kitty normally I'd just shrug and say typical Saturday in Walmart but oh no this little b word realized that his dad wasn't paying attention to him and was instead focused on the others kids that I'm only assuming share some form of genetic makeup with this whiny Beast of Burden this tees off the kid even more since he howls with rage and here's where it gets insane k his what looked like 8-month pregnant mother in the stomach to her credit this lady didn't WP the spoiled little monster's butt right in the aisle no she instead collapsed on the darn floor and had to be taken away by paramedics and that little b word took that as a sign that he could have all the Trapper Keepers he wanted I watched this whole thing go down and as the dad watched his wife get loaded into the ambulance not one iota of you're going to get it later came from him instead the crap stain that kicked his mom started crying about being hungry and wanting chicken nuggets which the dad then took him to get this is why I hate people I stopped shopping at Walmart when I went to college the local Walmart was notoriously bad three times in a row I went there and walked down an aisle just in time to see a kid peeing themselves in the aisle and no parent was in sight the city made big news when the Walmart men's restroom was found to have a makeshift Crystal lab in one of the Stalls our area was predicted for a moderate snowstorm but the weather forecast gave it ridiculous numbers like they claimed we'd have 6 in of ice and 2 ft of snow in one night us rational people knew and were right that we'd probably get 4 in of snow but many people swarmed the Walmart and a few people made a Facebook page showing how devastated the store was in preparation for snowpocalypse 2011 the Facebook page showed pictures as the store was swept clean within a couple of hours of ramen wine milk and cheese my favorite picture that someone put up was the 40-year-old man who had a shopping cart with 37 gallons of milk in it nothing else just a crap ton of milk that man sounds like the guy from your Elementary School math problems okay so I was leaving Walmart with my purchases as I walked down to my car in the parking lot I saw a pair of adults sweatpants sitting in a sort of pile they do when someone steps out of them with a massive messy crap on top of them I had so many questions where did the person go after detonating these pants into the store just bottomless into their car with crappy butt cheeks amazing I don't work at Walmart but when I was halfway across the country visiting some friends the Walmart in their Town had a crystal lab bust in the men's restroom oh good old myy Indiana I used to attend college in that town I just graduated high school and took a job at Wally World since they always paid above minimum wage up here on the most part Canadian Walmart is completely different from the what the freck Mecca that is the American one I guess the main thing that stuck was during the summer I was working as a truck unloader in the back and had to to bring out a skid of diapers and such to the infant section as I approached I noticed a smell at first I thought it was that gosh darn bird that always flew around I figure I hadn't seen it in days so maybe it had died somewhere around there and was stinking up the place I dropped the skid off and went past the women's changing rooms that's where all the girls who worked in clothing hung out I was hoping to say hi to everyone but I noticed that they delt a split from that location reason they moved it was the epicenter of the smell to this day I have never smelled anything quite like it I've worked in a microbiology lab growing mold and fungi I've worked in hospitals and smelled all sorts of nasty I put in sometime in pathology Labs needless to say I've smelled a whole bunch of horrible things in my life but nothing compares to that Walmart scent what was it you ask well it turns out that an elderly lady had gone into the changing room and taken a giant Coke can width grayc colored crap with flex of black in it and a bit of blood coating some of it all over the floor the whole thing must have weighed 2 easy she wrote a little letter and left it in the room with the clothes she was trying on all the letter said was I am so sorry needless to say I think granny had something horribly wrong with her because crap doesn't smell like that to this day I assumed the black in the crap was dried blood from some internal issue and I figured she tore her butthole pushing that monster out the smell though G it's like if you Huff an abscess while smearing yourself with jewry and fruit while taking a dump it was easily the worst smelling thing I've ever experienced in conclusion some Grandma took a horribly thick crap on the floor which had blood in it I feel like at least once a week I have to do one story that makes me gag and ladies and gentlemen that was it congratulations everyone I'll see you on the next one just last week I was unloading a truck in the back and this morbidly obese woman hobbles up through the big Associates only doors bends over and drops a load on the floor pulls her pants back up and walks out I got written up for yelling what the actual freck but after the the managers looked at the camera they thought it was justified for me to yell that and let me off with a warning I don't know what happened to her but the maintenance guys were teed off I feel like Walmart is one of the few things where all of the stereotypes and stories you hear are actually super accurate my experience though a very overweight woman with a walker strapped to the back of her electric wheelchair was drinking half and half straight from a curtain while she threw loose pairs of sandals all over the floor I have a friend who hasn't been to a war Walmart in 15 years he Flatout refuses to go in for any reason he's a pretty down toe guy not the type who thinks he's better than anyone else but he avoids Walmart specifically because of the people who shop there his reasons usually center around crying babies overweight Isle cloggers and the few weird old men who sit by the entrance or exit gawking at the college girls one day my friend and I were looking for a certain product before leaving town on a trip we had just been to a few stores around town and I kept telling him I know that this is in Walmart we should just go there finally he agrees to go visiting big box land but he will go into the Home Depot next door to look for a product while I go into Walmart as soon as I step inside the door I see a massive woman on a motorized shopping cart with her massive 12-year-old son standing on the back of it she's screaming at him saying now you get off of there boy or something like that his retort freck you Mama you ain't even handicapped I got the product we need that day but now I do my best to avoid Walmart as well I saw this lady start screaming about a golden lab service dog being too close to her child the child was sitting in a cart in the checkout line and the dog was calmly sitting on the floor behind her the dog doesn't even bark lick or move nothing and the woman gets ghetto and starts shouting at everyone in sight she had to be escorted from the store and never got to buy her stuff at least Walmart protected the real victim in this situation people who don't believe that this stuff actually happens must have never worked in retail I can assure you that this is an everyday occurrence around Atlanta when you subscribe make sure to hit the Bell to turn on notifications 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