11.
“I left a customer in the dressing room to change and checked back on her once or twice and didn’t hear anything. Forty-five minutes go by, and I knock and open the door to find no one in there. She left her personal items, her purse, cell phone, and official government documents all spread out on the ground and wall. There were so many papers there, some marked in red or blacked out, some laminated, but everything had a different government emblem on it. She also had a laptop that was on and open. I didn’t stay to see what she had on it and I closed and locked the door. She came back two hours later after shopping at other stores before collecting her stuff and buying a shirt from me.”
12.
“My first Christmas as a floor manager, I got a call from one of my associates that someone had had an accident in a fitting room. This happens all the time (Once I picked up a pile of clothes that had so much pee in it I thought someone had left an open bottle of water in the clothes). When I get there, someone had diarrhea’d all over the floor and left it there. We still have a stain on the carpet that looks like someone spilled an entire pot of coffee in the fitting room.”
13.
“I worked at Montgomery Wards. One evening, a woman came over and told us that she smelled smoke near the dressing rooms. I thought it was just someone smoking a cigarette, so I went back to kick out whoever it was. When I got to the dressing rooms, I noticed the smoke smelt different, not at all like cigarette smoke. I opened the door where the smoke was coming from, and found a woman sitting on the floor, hitting a bong. What’d I’d like to know is how did she manage to sneak an entire bong into the store.”
14.
“At a store I used to work at, this girl found her perfect prom dress. She, for some reason, decided not to get the dress that day. When she left, my coworker went into the fitting room and discovered that she had peed on the dress so nobody else would buy it.”
15.
“A lady once came in to do a return on a shirt she had bought. She smelled awful, but I couldn’t place the smell. Thirty minutes later my manager called me over to ask if I had made that return. I later learned why the lady and the returned shirt had smelled so bad — she had left her crack pipe in the shirt!”
16.
“I was the assistant manager of a trendy shoe store. We employed a few teenage girls. One night, dude came in and asked one of my girls to try on a pair since his gf was about the same size, so she put on the display but he wants to see them both on. Seemed normal enough. We go to the back to get these shoes. HE IS SMELLING THE ONE SHE JUST TRIED ON.”
17.
“I worked at Best Buy for a few years. A man came in who wanted a repair on his dishwasher. I pulled up his account info, and it was over 6 years old – out of warranty and past the 5 year protection plan. He wanted a brand new one to replace it because it was inconvenient that we sold him a dishwasher that broke. When I kept saying there wasn’t anything we can do besides offer a service visit, which I even offered to discount, he picked up the credit card scanner and threw it across the counter at me. It’s attached to a cord so basically it just fell down, and he got escorted out by security.”
18.
“I worked at a women’s clothing store that is no longer in business. Someone piled a bunch of clothes in the corner of a changing room and pissed on them.”
19.
“I was a front-end manager during Christmas and the store was closing in about an hour. We noticed a woman had walked into the back, took a flat (used to move furniture) and was shopping with it. We were able to get her to switch to a cart. She then stood OUTSIDE of the fitting room and started trying on clothes. Again we asked her to either go in the room or leave and she got angry. One of my cashiers was working on checking her out, when the lady smacked her with a hanger! I took over the transaction and during that time, the lady: 1) said I had a hideous face and would die alone, 2) said she was going to have me fired because I didn’t know who I was dealing with, 3) broke a piece of glass and threatened to cut me with it, and 4) nearly refused to leave the store without the cops coming.”
20.
“While cleaning up the store for I could smell something horrible. After searching for a while I finally found it. It was a bowl on the shelf full of throw up. Apparently someone was sick and used a bowl, which is nice. But seriously who puts it back on the shelf!”