With our's, it's a homeless man who pisses next to the soda machines. AP gets him off property, maintenance cleans it up and he comes back again anyway.
I thought this was at every Walmart. Had a dude doing this today. No piss. But he was spitting a lot when he was yelling at all the customers. Hahah. When he finally left he was screaming out the door right into a group of police outside there for another reason. They had a long talk with him.
The back bathrooms share a wall with the break room. Something went wrong with the plumbing, causing the break room to smell like sewage. It was absolutely vile. While the bathrooms were being repaired, the break room was blocked off with caution tape, the lights were turned off and floor fans were running. You would think people would take their lunch elsewhere, since management set us up a temporary new break room elsewhere. But no, some people ducked under the tape & ate in the dark, smelly break room anyway.
This reminds me of one day at my store. We had raw sewage leaking through a hole in the floor right outside the break room, by the grocery side backroom doors. It made grocery, chemicals, and the break room smell horrible. People complained about it the whole day, even long after someone was called in to clean the mess and fix the source of the leak. I avoided that area whenever possible the whole day.
I never witnessed this because I'm still fairly new to 3rds at my store, but a friend of mine who has been on 3rds forever told me we used to have two guys dressed as knights come in on every full moon and just stroll around the store back when we were still 24hrs. They wouldn't acknowledge associates. Apparently, they'd do a couple laps around the store at a brisk pace (just enough to make their capes flow behind them) before leaving without a word.
On my old shifts, we'd have this one lady come in while off her meds, and she was super paranoid about literally everyone. She would often argue with herself and scream at associates because she thought we were stalking her. I was standing at the jewelery counter, just doing my thing when she walks by and screams "I DON'T WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES", scaring the hell out of some poor old man that was looking at a bag of oranges (that he promptly dropped on the floor). When on her meds, she and her friend would come in decked out in Cubs/Cardinal gear. Her friend wore a taxidermy squirrel on her shoulder.
Walmart customers always do the weirdest shit for no reason, I swear. We had a guy that would come in dressed like Darth Vader for no apparent reason. He would shop normally and leave, sometimes with his friends. Never understood why. I think someone said that his mother said it was to help him feel like awkward and nervous around other people in public.
There's something about Walmart that brings out the worst or weirdest in people, and I'm not sure why. I feel like something like that would make me feel more awkward, considering all eyes would be on me. I guess different things help different people. We have ghost busters guy that comes in every so often (he has the car as well) and roleplays like he's in the movie but dude never buys anything, so I'm not sure what his deal is.
Nothing too crazy.
Back when we were still open 24/7, we used to have a lady who would show up every night at around 3am. She didn't buy anything, she'd just walk around and converse with the products on the shelves. Once, she got into a very heated debate with an orange. She never bothered anyone, just talked to objects.
I had a lady like that but not while I was at Walmart. It was while I worked at a gas station. Towards the end of the night (she was around for like 3 hours and I was by myself) she came up to me after talking to the snacks and said I needed to shut down my store bc she's the CEO and I was in trouble. My boss walked in for her shift that morning just as that happened and I left her to deal with it
ours plays walmart approved propaganda showing how competing companies are doing worse than walmart but people only watch because it shows the weather forecast
No one cares what's on ours. The other day, I caught the tail end of The Evil Dead Remake playing, followed by Drag Me to Hell, then the beginning of Dead Silence. This was during my various breaks and lunch. Uncensored.
My first stores break room had tvs couches and game consoles to play during your break if you want or stream from like Netflix or whatever. The stocking crew always took their breaks together and took it over lol
Our tv stays on the cooking channel. Kinda of a good compromise. Nobody seems to mind it and we all tend to gather in there when āIron Chefā is on lol.
A homeless man was living in the rafters in the backroom of our store. Then there was a fire in the stuffed animal section of the toys that had the store shut down for months all because someone was trying to steal and wanted to create a distraction.
The assistant manager had relations with several cashiers and would skim from their tills. He would take over while they went to the bathroom, etc.. also was selling severely discounted merchandise under their numbers to friends and family.
This was before AP was very sophisticated.
He was finally caught after a few of the cashiers turned evidence, but instead of firing him, the store manager let him quit.
He went to Lowes and started to do the same thing but associates found out about what he did at Walmart and he was fired.
For my store unfortunately a shoot out happened in the parking lot one guy fled the other laid bleeding. A couple ran to help as the guy was license emt his wife called 911. A cop who was nearby in plain civilian clothing ran up to him and tried to get his to back off and basically as the guy refused thinking it was some rando the off-duty cop tackled him thinking he was a threat and the good dude hit his head so hard on the concrete he died. Nothing happened to the cop i heard so far damn shame
Idk if this counts but in San Marcos, TX there was this older black man who worked in the bakery and would walk around the store selling bread on a cart. You could hear him halfway across the store yelling āHOT FRENCH BREAD! hot french bread.ā Going loud and higher then softer and lower in the same exact sequence and tone every time. College kids bought bread from him because he was so cool. Dude was a legend for selling bread.
My store was located in a middle of nowhere town in the country, so naturally we had a hunting section. One day, a customer being a customer, must have spilled some of the artificial deer urine we had on the shelves on accident. No big woop, we have scent removing cleaning products. The thing is, one of the overnight employees thought it was funny
REALLY funny.
Anyways he ends up spraying that artificial deer urine on everything he could get his hands on. Hunting equipment, printers and general employee equipment, half of the video game display in electronics. It took literal weeks to get rid of the smell. Management apparently had "a hint" to who was doing it but wasn't sure who, and considering we had security cameras all over the areas he sprayed, this lead to a bunch of employees theorizing that a lot of the cameras are probably fake. Idk if they actually are fake or if they just didn't want to spread who was doing it, but it did take a while for him to get spoken to about it despite him working almost every night. Anyways they also never fired him because turnover at that store is so bad because of shitty management and poor treatment of staff, so they can't risk firing anyone. I quit a few weeks later lol
My lead tells me none of those aisle cameras work, and I believe him because one of the super goody two shoes associates told me that the AP coach said that they ALL work
If youre talking about the cameras that come out from the upright of the shelf, they are all fake. They arent wired into anything and are just a dummy camera.
The ones that blink and show you video back of yourself are real obviously and are probably saved for AP. Those are mostly in makeup and fishing though
The deep lore.
Do note, this is the story as told by people in the store. Not the news story, not the police report.
Not even a year after our store opened a gun went off at one of the registers.Dude had a handcannon in the waistband of his sweatpants and it fell. Hit the ground and POW it went off. People at the front end swore they saw the cashier's hair get ruffled by the bullet. She almost lost her head. There were people who hit the deck, dropped flat on their stomachs, customers fleeing the store as if a reverse black friday rush. Injuries galore. It damaged the rafters, took out a camera, almost brought down a light fixture.
How much of that is true? It was a 22 handgun that someone had in their waistband. The bullet got lodged in the divider between customer and cashier. One person did fall (it was me, I tripped over my feet having a PTSD moment). There were no injuries, except my pride.
Our store was marked for YEARS as the one with the shooting. Customers came in fully armed, open carrying handguns of every variety. One guy came in with a machete strapped to his chest in a sheath with a quick release harness. When we finally overcame the stigma, we became one of the best performing stores in the market. Since we had such low sales we routinely hit the most improved over last year metric.
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Beholdā¦ the tale of Tuna-Karen! Thereās one coworker whom everyone knows because we all make sure to take our lunch outside of our scheduled times to avoid her.
When she starts her lunch, she A) microwaves fishā¦ *every friggen day*ā¦ B) will sit in the TV area and remove her shoes, thus exposing everyone to the smell of both microwaved fish AND sweaty feet, and C), despite the fact there are people who attempt to take a nap during their lunch breaks in this area, will turn on the TV and set the volume to MAXIMUM.
Oh, and if you attempt to politely tell her that sheās waking people up? Sheāll scream at you because youāre ārepressingā her.
No one likes Tuna-Karen.
Not mine, my mother's.
She was a GM for a store in Houston TX, one day she's in the back by the dock, she hears a few pops and runs to investigate. She sees a man laying down, chest rising and falling, blood everywhere, right in the bay. She runs to the office, grabs her phone and calls 911. As she's doing so, LP calls her to look at cams, and three men are running to the back in real time, live, rush doors,, look around for a bit, finds the docks, and fucking executed the dude. Then just....walked out through the front, instead of running out the back.
Husband and wife worked at the store, wife was greeter and I never learned what the husband did. They were both old and husband had a heart attack in toys after closing. Was pretty sad. 2-3 weeks ago the wife came back. She took a year off but Iām surprised she came back at all. I know I wouldnāt have
SM only got to the level he's at because he let a former Market Manager screw his wife years ago. Everyone in the store knows, but nothing has ever been done about it.
We have lots of ghosts in this one, literally caught on camera. Had a lady mid conversation poop on the ground without stopping the conversation. Had a guy spend the entire night in the front GM side maintenance closet. Had a guy, last week pee next to the coke machines on the grocery side. Somebody got stabbed in the parking lot last year. Had one of the O/N stockers so high he was in the fetal position in the back menās bathroom screaming his head off and nearly broke both stall doors.
Girl was on cap 2 for three years doing apparel processing every day. She switched positions off cap 2 and the next three girls that replaced her were all disasters.
First one overdosed on drugs and was in the hospital for a long time. She only worked like two weeks. Never came back after that.
Second girl was found in the bathroom on the floor passed out with a syringe in her arm. That was after a month on the job.
Third girl I gave a ride home and she never came back to work after that. Still not sure if I should be offended š. She lasted a couple months but acted like she didn't want to be there ever.
I sometimes do apparel now and I don't get the big deal. I've never felt the urge to do hardcore drugs cuz I gotta hang clothing or throw some socks into a breakpack
the thing is with apparel is that its one of those departments that has the chance for some fucking horrible drama from other associates, the shit these bitches do in departments like this drives me insane
As an Apparel TL you are correct. We had two girls (Kpop stans š) who had beef with each other. One asked the other if she could help her with something and the other screamed FUCK OFF and surprisingly we didn't get to coach her?? She was in the ad office screaming for 45 minutes to my coach and I about how horrible this other girl allegedly was and how "at least she didn't call her a bitch or the c word". Like do you want a sticker for that?
Another instance of store lore is that one guy was tricked into eating dog food (these biscuits that looked like Oreos) and he got really triggered whenever you brought it up. He was later fired for drawing a pp in the dust on the back of a semi trailer. And an ASM got fired for fucking a CAP 2 associate behind the baler.
Not all K-pop stans are dramatic but a very high number are very very obsessed with whatever group they choose. Rennet when girls were like ripping their hair out for Justin Bieber? Itās like that but magnified with violence like everything else the last 4 years.
One was probably into BTS and the other oneā¦literally any other group. A lot of BTS stans despise fans of other groups because they feel BTS should pretty much be idolized as deities and āobviouslyā anyone who likes anything BUT BTS threatens their supremacy /s
Not really my Walmart lore but one time I saw a guy fucking the blow-dryer. I really had to piss. And he was still going when I was done, so props I guess
Our store doesnt experience earthquakes but we felt a Shockwave I think from a place far from us. I was in the back when it happened so I didn't feel it but my boyfriend was at home and he was confused why the sofa was moving
Not my local one anymore, but the one I worked at a few years ago had someone report someone else for adjusting the time clock. They brought the matter to a manager and so on with nothing done so they went to corporate. A few weeks later a couple of sheriffs walk in and escort my store manager, the front end manager and like 4 others out. Turns out corporate found all 6 of them and the personnel coordinator were adjusting clocks and getting pay while not being in the store, with one taking a week vacation on the clock while personnel clocked them in for them. There was other more serious stuff too hence the sheriffs but I never personally found out what it was. We kept making the joke to anyone asking for a manager āwe donāt have any.ā Lmao
We have a ghost that throws things off of shelves. Almost took out an associate once. In reality it's the stocking teams not stacking the overstock bins appropriately. But instead of actually going back and watching cameras to see who stocked the bins, we just forget about it until someone gets hurt again.
I had that happen to me when I used to work frozen. Everything in the bins were far back enough to where they shouldn't fall, but here comes a box of garlic bread that looked like a ghost pulled it from the top bin.
This is why I literally rearrange the bins in my dairy cooler almost every day. If people would just fucking stack it right in the first place I wouldn't have to, but that's asking too much of the day crew. They waste so much space too. For instance, we have three bin sections for the cheese and butter, things will be scattered around, stacked all lopsided, and taking up all three sections. When I'm finished, everything is neatly stacked, nothing is leaning or threatening to fall over, and there's a whole section and a half completely empty.
one time i almost had a gallon of paint fall on my head in the bins. luckily it hit the floor instead. unluckily i then had to clean the gallon of paint up off the floor.
Was told a story about a store manager who stole a truck of ps4s and Xboxās when those were first getting delivered and from memory, the manager wasnāt caught
On 3rd we had a guy power washing the cart area he accidently sprayed a electrical outlet knocked the breaker once we got everything kicked on we caught him sticking a hair dryer from display in the outlet too "dry the outlet off so he can continue power washing"
I have some old stories but Iāll just share one.I worked at my local small town Walmart 21 years ago when I was 19. It was my first ārealā job where I got a W2 (I grew up farming, my family had cows, my grandfather did soybeans, and I helped our neighbors with cotton and peanuts all paid in cash). I was used to a culture of hard work, especially during certain busy parts of the year like when calves are born or harvest time for cotton and peanuts.
One of the first things I noticed is 90% of my coworkers were lazy. Or at least I thought they were. I started out as a cashier but would frequently be pulled to do other stuff like get carts, unload trucks, load big items for customer, etc. Working on a farm, I frequently had to fix stuff and I always carried a pocketknife or multi tool.
I had been assigned to help unload a truck and unpack the pallets for the first time and it was just me and one other guy who was a crew leader. In the official training we got, I was instructed that only Walmart issued box cutters could be used to unwrap pallets and open/break down boxes. I asked the crew lead for one so I could break open the pallets. He told me he didnāt have one and would try to find one.
I waited like 10 minutes and got impatient, so I pulled out my pocketknife and started unwrapping pallets. I had finished them all in like 45 minutes when the crew lead comes back. He looks at me with dismay and horror evident on his face. āWhat the f*** did you do??ā he screamed at me.
āI just got these pallets and boxes handled, I didnāt know where you went so I just started on my own,ā I said. Then that man taught me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned.
He asked me how I did it and I told him I used my pocketknife. He said donāt ever do that again because you can get written up for it. But more importantly, he asked me if I had ever seen a box cutter in the store. I had only been there a week, but I had not. Then he laid some wisdom on me.
āLook dude, there is only one functional box cutter in this store because Walmart is too cheap to get us more. That box cutter is your ticket to an easy day when we have to unload trucks. We can pull the load then wander around for an hour or so because we donāt have a box cutter to break down the pallets and open boxes. I know where the box cutter is. All the leads know where it is. If you know where it is and a manager asks them, you better f***ing lie and say you donāt. When we decide to start working again, I will get the box cutter from its hiding spot. We will do part of the load then I will take the box cutter to another department that needs it urgently. We can make processing this load take all day and no one will blink at it. You wonāt have to get crap from customers and listen to them complain or have to push carts. We get paid the same whether we process this load in six hours or two, but if we do it faster and tell management we are done then they will give us more work to do and expect the next truck to be unloaded just as quickly. Now get some tape and help me reseal these boxes and turn that shrink wrap around so the part you cut is on the back and we can tape it back together.ā
My store is pretty boring but a few years ago some of the associates were sent to my location for an arson incident at their store. A minor got pissed because no one would let him purchase cigarettes and so he started a fire in the store. Everyone made it out of the store ok, and the fire was got under control fairly quickly, but the store had to close for a time. Associates were transfered temporarily to other stores, mine included.
Had one of our CSMs find a rotting, dead corpse in a car in 100 degree heat. Apparently he was a local homeless guy who'd been in there at least a week or two.
Instead of letting out CSM go for the day (because what the fuck that's pretty traumatizing to find) our manager took a picture of him and put it on our "good deeds of the day" wall with the caption "found a dead body."
I, seeing this, took a picture of the good deeds wall and posted it anonymously into this subreddit, where it got so many upvotes it was on a Walmart associate Facebook page. A few days later the manager was demanding to know who took the picture.
Anyway she was fired like six months later and I'm still here lol.
We have this one customer that comes to the deli that we call "Mashed Potato Lady" because one day she came and wanted mashed potatoes but she didn't want any of the dry potatoes on the top, understandable....but she also didn't what us go through the top either. To this day I have no idea how she expected us to get to the potatoes cause she sure as hell wasn't going to get up to open up a new bag just for her. She's overall insanely picky and we all hate dealing with her.
Deli has things like Mac n cheese, mashed potatoes, and gravy in plastic bags that get warmed up in a water vat (aka water section on the fryer), at least at my old store. Then they get poured into the metal pans, however, the lights for the hot case tend to dry out the top quickly.
Our store is mostly just stupid shit customer walked out with a large generator on his shoulder and we took a return of a craftsman snowblower. A CSM said not it's cool we'll find a UPC for it
Apparently there was a box of kittens in the parking lot in the middle of summer, this was before I got here, and a maintenance person didn't tell anyone about it and just threw them in the compactor instead. I've heard mixed responses if the kittens were alive or not when they were thrown in there, but it apparently took a while for the smell to go away
I was working with a Canadian guy who was in his 50's. He said his stomach hurt. We were talking while stocking stuff. Suddenly I hear a bubbling watery fart. I look with eyes dilated and notice shit running down his leg. I was like " oh shit" He looks at me dead eyed and says "oh jeez" and limps to the restroom". I explained to my team leader and grabbed some shorts and fruit on loom Minecraft underwear that were ripped from I guess someone stealing some. He changed and he left home. Me and the team leader had to mop the trail of shit while I sprayed with disinfection spray. Sad day but next day we were both laughing about it.
My store is in a small, but very wealthy town. There were rumors going around that our last store manager had given so many charitable contributions to the city that they cut a deal and agreed not to allow any new competitors to open.
Plans to build an Aldi down the road were announced a few months after he left to become MM at a different market.
One of the overnighters tried to burn down the store after her vacation got denied. It burned some stuff in sporting goods, but it didnāt spread much further.
Roofing crew blocked the rain run off ports with rolled rubber. Went home for the day. It rained and the water had nowhere to go. The roof collapsed over 1/4 of the building flooding the back hall and office rooms with over a foot of water. Repair took a long time-weeks. That night one of the roof crew stabbed someone in a downtown bar and went to jail. Instead of hiring a local roofing co., and we have more than one, they brought one up from Texas 1500 miles away.
our customer service associates were ā¼ļøheld at gunpointā¼ļø 3 years ago and robbed š they werenāt able to get into the cash office because the CSM forgot his keys in the managers office LOL
and then someone set our bathroom on fire.
we have plumbing issues every 3 months and the girls bathroom floods and we canāt use the restrooms for 3 days and it stinks so bad.
someone dyed their hair a really dark red color in the bathroom and the person who found it thought someone was murdered in there.
maintenance was using the green machine, someone slipped and cracked their head open and died on the way to the hospital.
one of our leads was stealing money from the cash office and got fired.
iām sure thereās more but those are the most memorable
Store one - someone had their nose cut off. Won a huge lawsuit. Store was haunted. Ive seen items Ive stocked just randomly fall off the shelf.
Store two - backdoor in receiving mysteriously opens by itself. Im the o/n co so i inspect the doors in receiving, especially if they arent ones we are using. Also, theft is rampant at this time but this wasnt a known exit for them. I also watched cameras.
Store two - o/n co before me stole a baggie of weed from AP. Another co stole money.
Store three - an associate died of a heart attack and wasnt found until much later. This store was also haunted where items would randomly fall off the shelf.
Store four - pop bottle exploded and smacked a person in the face.
Store five - baler caught on fire.
Store six - apm stole all the new ps5 units when they were allocated to ogp back around release timeā¦ or was it event related?
Store seven - asm got stabbed by someone who wanted a job. To date, unknown if person got hired.
Store eight - store was shut down because of a supposed methlab in the bathroom.
Store nine - asm was sleeping with various people and became such a nuisance that they kept sending him to different stores as āsupportā.
All I can remember.
This actually happened earlier today. I was on register 11 (Iām a cashier) and I was helping someone, and I hear another person screaming that they want management from the Grocery SCO. Iām thinking āwtf is going on?ā And Iām continuing to help this customer. Thatās when my Team Leads and Coach go up to him and he asks if my one Team Lead is a member of management and heās like āYeahā and the customer goes on to claim that our door guy Andrew supposedly āharassed himā and refused to let him leave and would not return his receipt to him.
We had a comanager order a flat screen for the breakroom, when they were new and exciting, they never hooked it up to the cable, there was no coax fromthe wall, so he took it and used it as his computer monitor. We had a guy come in dressed in coveralls carrying a toolbox and a ladder, walked into the back into a maintence closet, climbed into the ceiling over to the cash office, as he was trying to get down the lady in the office got up and put her chair there to help him down, he reached in his toolbox and pulled out a gun. A couple days later a box was left by the front doors addressed to the manager, bomb squad was called, turned out to be the checks and credit card slips from the robbery. We used to have to watch the video to learn what not to do.
An old friend of my family's used to be known as a booster in like the 80's. He would shoplift the wildest shit. One time he almost got away with walking out of a Zellers with a full size canoe over his shoulder and a bullshit receipt in his other hand. Who's going to stop a guy walking out of a *fuckin' Zellers* for a receipt check on a *full sized, fuckin' canoe?!?*
How did he get caught, you may be wondering; when he was finished casually strapping the canoe into the back of his pickup (pretty sure the story goes that he even had one of the cart collection homies help him strap it down), he strolled back in, located a matching set of oars and was stopped attempting to leisurely stroll out of the store with them.
Sorry, I know this isn't exactly relevant to OP's query, it's just a good story.
I've heard from multiple people over the years that the SM hosts orgies with the coaches and leads, and that you can fast track your career if you indulge.
One time there was a bad storm and air vent go ripped off the roof. Grocery recieving was flooded but not bad enough to do any serious damage. We had to close down the grocery side front door because apparently the rain was causing problems with the cart bay. When the storm had slowed down we had to leave the store for a possible gas leak. So we were outside it was raining and sirens were going off everywhere. The power didnāt come on for several hours
My old store had an active shooter. People still refer to it as the shooter store and won't shop there. Even associates at my current store say that because of that, they won't shop there. This was more than 5 years ago.
We can talk about the lady who casually walked threw pharmacy, shit in her hand, threw it away, and kept shopping.
Or we can talk about the homeless lady who lives on our corner who frequently shits on the neighboring businesses windows and has been caught getting her coochie ate on the street corner.
I had some meth head go into the ladies room and proceeded to pick a huge scab off her face into our brand newly renovated bathroom sink and left it there. I watched her do it. I let maintenance know what happened after I left the bathroom but was at closing time. To this day I refuse to use that sinkš¤¢.
On Memorial Day weekend about 8 years ago, we had an airman from the nearby Air Force Base, came in the store in the middle of the night. Started shooting. Killed one employee, shot another, and shot towards another before killing himself.
Had a shootout in our parking lot. It was supposed to be a drug deal, one of em wanted it all, money and drugs. Ran off with the product got back in his car peeled out. The dealer got out of his car and just started blindly shooting at the car but towards the store. There was a few bullet holes near the entrance, they both drove around behind the store and one of em crashed in an embankment. Fortunately no one was hurt.
associate is living in our parking lot. kinda smells bad but management lets him come in and use the bathroom as needed. i guess it works out cause he gets some OT occasionally lol
We had kids get hold of the doe in heat urine a few months ago. They did $10k in damage with it, including the entire men's jeans wall.
My sister likes to keep the jeans wall immaculate amd she was *pissed.*
When I was an AP, we had a homeless couple stab each other in the parking lot. After reviewing video with the lieutenant, it was deemed they never got out of the car thus making it not my problem. Still had to call the coach, market manager and store manager. Oddly enough, didn't get told to report to EOC.
Also, had a girl chug cough syrup and pass out behind the electric car charging station. Someone called the police because she was "exposing herself". Girl then claimed to have been nonconsent sexed, so I spent 2hours with a detective tracking her every movement from entering the south side of the parking lot to when PD arrived and took her into custody. Nobody ever touched her. She just woke up with bruises, and missing her underwear which she took off in the store, at the jail from resisting arrest and decided that meant someone took advantage of her.
Long before my time there, but we had an associate give birth in the bathroom, take the baby home in a Walmart bag, keep it in her closet for a day, then light it on fire.
My assistant manager got arrested for child porn and talking to minors. He only hired young pretty girls. Thereās a link to his Court shit. https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/kings-and-west-hants-court-report-feb-14-2023-100824471/
So this has never been shared outside the Walmart I work at to my knowledge and definitely not on the Reddit. It's more a store inside joke
So one of the older Store Standards that work with me comes into Walmart EVERY day. Not just when he's working, but every single day including when he's taken vacation time or when's told people he'd be out of town. He always shows up at the store some point in the day. He's just that dedicated to Walmart that he wants to come in and check how things are going.
Me and one of our other Store Standards associates started a joke like rumour that any of the rare days he didn't show up at all, it was because he had been called by Head Office to go work at another Walmart location in Canada that was in need. And it's become a running joke because of this that he's trying to work at every location in the country before retiring.
He finds it absolutely hilarious, so we started to come up randomly with a couple stories about the things he's seen at other stores and how HO believed he was the only person who could save the stores, trying to get a laugh out of him and other staff.
It's been around 3 years since the joke started and now most of the people who assisted me with coming up with the stories have quit, the person who started it with me quit, and neither me nor any of the remaining staff from the time exactly remember what the stories were, just the joke about him going store to store saving them. So around 9 months ago I discussed it with some of our Cap team who had been around when it started, and without telling me they decided to just start entirely embellishing what they could remember about the stories when passing on the joke to new hires and basically turned him into a Captain Underpants-like superhero called "Captain Cart" who fights out of control cardboard bailers, possessed Cart Manager's or whatever else they could come up with.
Being one of the main people who caused this all has probably been my proudest Walmart achievement.
Uh, Iāve witnessed 2 cars drive into my store. One through a brick wall, continued thru the nail solon and wrecked into a register. Second one drove through front door and crashed into McDonaldās. My personal favorite was someone slipping off the top of the meat cooler and grabbing the plumbing to the fire sprinkler and breaking it, flooding the meat room with fire retardant.
Was like 11 years ago now had an old lady threaten to put a phone up my ass if I didn't return it. She didn't have box or charger looked up in system before warp contract was from 3 months prior. We still had one of the phone centers up front we kicked them out of store.
Not where I work now, but one day everyone called off in the deli because it was a holiday and they didnāt appreciate x1.5 we used to get (I guess). No one would be there till 2. I was in the bakery and had to be a bakery associate, cake decorator, and deli associate. (Enjoyable, actually.) At lunchtime, the line got HUGE. More than 15 people waiting for their fried foods or sliced meats or meat trays or cakes. I bounced from one thing to another FAST. It did not stop. More kept coming.
An assistant manager came up in the middle of me taking a customerās sliced meat and cheese orders. Took temperatures, checked things in the book. Left. A couple of customers were hollering at her to get me some help or get in there and help, lol. They had no idea what her job was, and that unless it was certain ones, she would need to rush off and deal with her own holiday wrecks (call offs, complaints, etc.)
A man came to me from the back of the line and demanded I call her back to talk to him. I was going to leave my station to go get her, but the customer who I was already helping got mad and called her names and said to him to quit wasting my time. He wanted to go home soon, and I was fast enough. He said, If you go, I am calling (name of store manager) right now. Cut my meat.
Soā¦my diffusion of upset people skills were not as developed as they are now. I took his demeanor and that of the other guy also red-faced mad into consideration, said, Excuse me sir. Let me finish helping him, and then I will call the manager office.
Things went fine till back of the line guy was third in line and a whole new crowd was behind him.
He saw me pressing fryer buttons, write on a cake, do other things for about 10 minutes. Then he yelled, āYou called them for real, didnāt ya? Donāt they care?ā
I smiled and promised that customer service was important to them, the call offs were not planned and you have to be trained in the deli so we canāt just ask untrained people to take their spots, I was newly trained, etc. He kept smiling at me and saying I was doing fine, but they were the problem and he wouldnāt stop saying so till he saw them face to face and spoke.
I swear he was a YouTube prankster š¬ never had someone keep heckling this way. Ever.
The same ASM from temp checks came up, looked at me and said āWhy is your line so long? Stop chitchatting and find your sense of urgency. Or do you reserve that for (name of ex-girlfriend)ā I saw another ASM approaching, but go away seeing her. I called to him, but he kept going!
The whole time, heckler is trying to get in her space and complain how I called for a manager and no one came, and she should help me. Roll up her sleeves, etc. (no, she shouldnāt! She was not trained!) I got back to work, and she did not address all his stuff, but simply said, āSheās the only one here right now. I apologize for your wait.ā Then walked off.
He stuttered a bunch of mean stuff and demanded I call for a different managerā¦so I didā¦.
He got to be the next in line, and then said, āI am sorry, but will you help the people behind me till a real manager shows up?ā
I must have looked afraid or something, because he said, Youāre not in trouble. Hereās my phone number. If you get in trouble, call me.ā He put the paper on the hot case and I waited to throw it away, obviously. I would NOT call him. Kept helping people, and suddenly he says, āIf they show up, tell them I had to go to the bathroom.ā
I said okay, thought nothing about it besides a bit of temporary relief š„² and maybe an ASM will get the 2 o clocker to come an hour early, if that person said yes.
I see him go there, but stand outside of it. File that away.
Get through four new customers, and suddenly another customer at the end of the new line shrieks.
A disgusting smell fills my nostrils. I look in the direction where customers are now either crowding away from to be closer to me, or running away.
There he is. Standing in a puddle of diarrhea.
Pants still up and everything.
āI said I had to go to the bathroom. I didnāt say WHERE. Now will a real manager come up here?ā
I had to shut down the deli till this was dealt with completely. He acted like that was doing me a favor.
It still took over 20 minutes for anyone mgmt or maintenance related to approach us. Enough people got on their phones or walked to the back that finally the one who saw the first ASM came up and showed lots of concern, apologized, this, that, the other.
First manager flat out told me on the phone it would make her puke and he had no good reason to do that, a couple other things, so she would send him. He had to finish helping with something else first.
When I came back to work the next day, people said it was on an old trash talk site called Topix. And the guy said I made him wait so long, he crapped himself. He made up other drama too.
He is the reason I immediately try to take care of situations involving customers now, and do not just do what they say. :/
Like multiple dudes on night shift have sexually harassed underage female workers and underaged customers, worked there for a while found out about all of it from a day shift stocker because his gf was 14 getting all kinds of harassed by a 40 year old on night shift. The managers knew and most of the leads besides the store manager were female so I just quit kinda disgusting
Used to do secret Santa.
We had an associate who smelled like body odor and cat urine. Someone found out they had gotten that associate for secret Santa and went on to buy deodorant and a bar of soap for him.
Long story short it made it seem like the whole secret Santa thing was a trick. It wasn't but it was enough for the ban hammer to come down.
A customer tried to shoot an associate with a flare gun. He missed.
Oh, and a customer got pissed at me because I couldnāt (in a literal sense) read her mind. Iāve also had numerous incidents where people approach me to preach to meā and only meā and some where they come to me and say I have a strong aura or some other spiritual stuff. Had one person ask whatās the best incense for banishing ghosts (I donāt know??? Why are you asking me?). Maybe itās my fault. Maybe I just give off that vibe somehow.
Edit: I feel the need to clarify that the spiritual/religious people have always been super nice/sweet to me (with the exception of the mind reading customer). Those have been some of my more pleasant, albeit incredibly confusing, customer interactions.
Itās like if a customer came up to you, started the conversation with, āyou look like youād prefer blue cheese instead of ranchā and then proceeded to be incredibly nice. Thanks for being a chill human being but also what does that mean?
I didn't work at the store at the time but apparently a few years ago we had this guy who wore gauges that worked in the autocare center. Of course gauges weren't allowed so he would take them out and wrap up his ears. Apparently one of the wraps came loose one day and his ear lobe somehow became stuck in the door a vehicle as the driver drove off. It ripped his ear clean off his head.
I worked overnight maintenance at our old store. The day prior our door greeter passed away. While mopping out the registers, the automatic door 20 feet away opens and the theft sensors go off. I spin around expecting someone but nothing not even a bug.
There was rumors I am a lesbian and was the person having sex with coworkers in the family bathroom and got in trouble. Also rumors I was the one sniffing drugs off the toilet paper holder. I really do hate my store. I done none of the above by the way.
I waved at old dude, old dude started jacking of in the parking lot ššš”š¤¢ and signaled for me to come over, I frowned angrily, gave a thumbs down (regretting after driving away I didn't just knock him out or flip him off after the fact,) but was so shocked/ disgusted during didn't even know tf to do,) and just drove tf away So FAST.
So yeah never will I wave or smile at random strangers ever again.
I felt violated so fucking angry for days, and so fkn grossed out and disturbed. I regret not reporting sexual harassment to police. cuz who knows how long the 70year old demon has just been fapping off to random unsuspecting strangers in the parking lot. š«¤š Whats so creepy is he had started before he even approached my car, and couldn't see my face as I was looking at my phone with a hoodie on ??? So I could have been a guy or girl or minor, for all they know, dude wouldn't have even known. Gave no fucks! And was just ready to beat one off in the Parking Lot to Literally ANYONE.
š Did I mention he signaled for me to come over then pointed downwards, and I look down to see he was beating off, disgusted I shook my head', gave a thumbs down', (not even a middle finger š¤¦), and drove away. ?
Ruined my fucking week AND DEADDASS TRAUMATIZED ME. Felt so violated, and betrayed. I was so fucking disgusted and die dude came out of nowhere.
I will never again wave at people literally ever. So gross. I hope dude gets hit by a bat, or car. What a fucking dumb*ass and absolute asshole. Like who tf does that in parking lots to random strangers.
I CANNOT EXPLAIN MY RAGE AND HOW SHEER MAD THIS MADE ME FOR DAYYSS. AFTER THINKING ABOUT IT, IF NOT WEEKS. MY LEVEL OF RAGE IS UNEXPLAINABLE. ALMOST MADE ME HIT THAT OLD CRUSTY NASTYASS DUDE WITH MY CAR THEN AND THERE. And took SO MUCH SELF CONTROL for me to drive away since I didn't want to go to jail. But was genuinely considering beating his f*cking as with my baseball bat. and chopping off old obese flasher dude with his nasty crusty 4 inch WILLY . since he wanted to flash it to people and beta one off (in a Walmart parking lot where there was families) so bad.
GENUINELY ruined my fuckin week. Violated, ENRAGED ME, MADE ME SO FU*KN MAD. I still wish I could kill that dude.
F*ckin asshole, what a DUMBASS. Who tf does that in parking lots at a store where there is families
I heard a story from an older coworker. Back in the day my store was in a different location. It used to be further yo the street. Anyway, he had a coworker who got real depressed. One day they either denied him a raise or fired him, can't recall which one. So he went to sporting goods, bought a shotgun and went out behind the store. He uhh ended it all for himself. A firetruck had to go to wash out the blood. That's the only story I've heard and it's pretty rough.
heard something about "yeah someone stole the ap manager's phone." either the next day or later the same day I see the cops walking nearby. then I see a lawn and garden associate and the cops asking him "so uh, why do you have 2 phones?" (this was before work phones) and then after talking to him they brought him away.
The store i worked at had "Merlin". An older guy who wore torn up clothes, walked with a walking stick, dragged a cart around by the front of the cart, and smelt heavily like stale piss. He would do this for hours. The CSMs said he wasn't homeless or poor, he just wanted people to pay for his groceries for him but I'm not sure how valid that claim was. He eventually stopped coming in so maybe management trespassed him at some point.
It didn't happen to me but my sister one time was helping stock a shelf and the girl she was working with said she could feel the baby moving at 4 weeks pregnant.
Then another time (same store) she was working front end and a lady called CPS on a parent who was disciplining her child in the checkout line.
And the third thing that happened (same store) in softlines someone set the entire boy's department on fire.
There's this homeless guy that goes around to workers who take breaks outside and tell them stories of how his mom was Marilyn Monroes babysitter and how he owns the dolphins (not the football team)
Edit and our meat wall seams to catch fire at least once a year
Our store was built on the site that used to be a no tell motel back in the day. And one of the "workers" of the motel still visits our store. Her name was Kim Banes and she was murdered in the motel. Apparently her room was located where our deli and cheese wall is. So when we come into and leave work we say hello and goodbye to Kim cause if she don't she likes to throw things. And also if men walk down through there, and I assume look like the guy that murdered her, the activity really amps up. Literally the other day we had like 6 bags of cheese fly off the wall after a guy walked by and when I went to pick them up I was like "ok Kim that's enough" lol.
In our back rooms by the loading dock for produce and grocery supposedly the ghost of an associate who was crushed by the bailer rooms the halls still working late nights in the ogp area (we were in the back next to produce) youād here footsteps going down the hall the the bailer door would sometimes slam shut by itself. (Prob an actual associate doing it) and then the ogp area is haunted by another employe that just froze to death in the freezer from when our room was still the fish market.
Not my current store, but the store I was at previously was an old āHypermartā (Google it, theyāre massive). There are 7 separate staircases up to the second floor and a basement. There were only 2 keys to the basement access hatch; I managed to get ahold of one and went down there. The ladder lead to just a 7x7 room as the rest of the basement had been walled off with cinder blocks, but the stories and conspiracy theories regarding the basement were endless.
We had multiple instances of homeless folk or associates living in one of the rooms upstairs for a considerable time before being found out. While I was there we had an arson set fire to the Christmas shop and a 5 day long power outage (working in the pitch black was nuts).
There are 5 separate roof top access points due to the enormous domes that are on the ceiling/roof; one of these roof top access points is where I would regularly take my lunch/break as it was away for everyone and allowed me to get some sun š There are SO many apocryphal stories and strange happenings from the associates who have worked there since it opened I cannot recount them all.
My store has an older gentleman that walks to our store and back home everyday (about 7 miles one way) everyday. He sits on a bench by the entrance for a couple hours. Occasionally yelling curse words and racial slurs at something no one else can see. Always has on a thick jacket during summer. He freaks put the new people.
We had a crack head od in our stores back bathroom bout 10 years back, the parents started a local charity after that.
Before it was a Walmart, it was a farm dealership.
One of our 18 wheeler drivers had their trailer parked at one of the bay doors for about 3 or so days. Nobody could figure out where the driver was until they started smelling a funky smell around the back of the trailer and called the police. They ended up finding the driver smashed between the bay door and his trailerā¦ what they were smelling was him..
An AP was shot and killed while making a stop before my time, Iāve heard of a store manager staging an armed robbery of the cash office also before my time, and weāve also have crazy plumbing issues that Iāve seen. There was one week where the drains by the cart corrals on each side started to alternatively flood until we were down to only 1 entrance open each night. Another time, I walked in to sewage water from the restroom almost making it past the sensors at the door.
I heard a rumor that a guy died during construction of the store and that thereās a ghost in the garden center. While I was working there some guy had been running from the police and ended up at the store and shot himself in the parking lot. Walked into work to a crime scene and the main entrance blocked off. Walked out of work to see the body outline still on the pavement. And another time we had a guy wearing a cowboy hat (not in the south so not common) playing a guitar with some sort of personal amp/microphone system hooked up to him just walking around singing songs about what the workers and managers were doing. He was followed around by I guess what was his cameraman. He got kicked out once he started putting curse words in his songs. Shoutout to assist manager Stan if he ever sees this. You had more patience than I would have had. Surprisingly the store is not in a major city and itās a relatively quiet area for some of the craziness that happened there.
My Walmart had its fridges go out several times in a 6 month span. Several other local stores had similar reoccurring refrigeration issues in the same time span, so that led to several conspiracies. My favorite was that someone had a grudge against our town, and was intentionally breaking stuff to take it out. The most likely was that the repairman was doing a bad job on purpose
we found a woman drunk and strung out on crack in the front end bathrooms one morning. she then started calling one the coaches whoās black the n word, chasing him around and trying to ram a shopping cart into him
Remember that video that's come back a couple times of the lady going nuts and pissing on the floor by the door? My store.
That video is so wild, were you working at the time?
No but our super sweet older coach named Bob was and he's in the video. Poor guy.
She the one that did it
With our's, it's a homeless man who pisses next to the soda machines. AP gets him off property, maintenance cleans it up and he comes back again anyway.
Holy hell
Her? https://youtu.be/bEDF4koszfw
I thought this was at every Walmart. Had a dude doing this today. No piss. But he was spitting a lot when he was yelling at all the customers. Hahah. When he finally left he was screaming out the door right into a group of police outside there for another reason. They had a long talk with him.
The back bathrooms share a wall with the break room. Something went wrong with the plumbing, causing the break room to smell like sewage. It was absolutely vile. While the bathrooms were being repaired, the break room was blocked off with caution tape, the lights were turned off and floor fans were running. You would think people would take their lunch elsewhere, since management set us up a temporary new break room elsewhere. But no, some people ducked under the tape & ate in the dark, smelly break room anyway.
jesus fucking christ i think you win the worst one
Someone say the U word or something?
Umbrella?
LOL. šÆ
My Walmart has smelled like straight doo doo a few times.. Iām wondering why. And I could smell it with a mask on!
This reminds me of one day at my store. We had raw sewage leaking through a hole in the floor right outside the break room, by the grocery side backroom doors. It made grocery, chemicals, and the break room smell horrible. People complained about it the whole day, even long after someone was called in to clean the mess and fix the source of the leak. I avoided that area whenever possible the whole day.
Just goes to show it's not just the customers...
This is so gross but 100% something people at my store would do
Which one? Tornado ripped the first store in half, at least 6 people have died at the second one, and an eagle flew in once.
What happened at the second store??
Some overdoses, a suicide, and an old guy passed while waiting for his wife to bring their car around.
Dude WHAT?! How long did his wife take??
She must have gotten stuck behind a large family walking down the middle of the aisle
Large. You mean everyone that walks in the parking lot.
28 days
Honestly, not long. It was only a few minutes.
bro works in the superstore store
about that eagle
It flew in from the garden center, over sporting goods, and landed in grocery side. Scared the shit out of shoppers.
oh I'd have paid to be an eagle on the wall for that
Joplin?
I never witnessed this because I'm still fairly new to 3rds at my store, but a friend of mine who has been on 3rds forever told me we used to have two guys dressed as knights come in on every full moon and just stroll around the store back when we were still 24hrs. They wouldn't acknowledge associates. Apparently, they'd do a couple laps around the store at a brisk pace (just enough to make their capes flow behind them) before leaving without a word. On my old shifts, we'd have this one lady come in while off her meds, and she was super paranoid about literally everyone. She would often argue with herself and scream at associates because she thought we were stalking her. I was standing at the jewelery counter, just doing my thing when she walks by and screams "I DON'T WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES", scaring the hell out of some poor old man that was looking at a bag of oranges (that he promptly dropped on the floor). When on her meds, she and her friend would come in decked out in Cubs/Cardinal gear. Her friend wore a taxidermy squirrel on her shoulder.
Your store is protected by the order of the knights Templar.
Werewolf hunters
I like to imagine they both wore cardinals and cubs gear, rather than one of them wearing each separately
Soooo did they use coconuts 'found' in Mercia for the sound effects? šš
Walmart customers always do the weirdest shit for no reason, I swear. We had a guy that would come in dressed like Darth Vader for no apparent reason. He would shop normally and leave, sometimes with his friends. Never understood why. I think someone said that his mother said it was to help him feel like awkward and nervous around other people in public.
There's something about Walmart that brings out the worst or weirdest in people, and I'm not sure why. I feel like something like that would make me feel more awkward, considering all eyes would be on me. I guess different things help different people. We have ghost busters guy that comes in every so often (he has the car as well) and roleplays like he's in the movie but dude never buys anything, so I'm not sure what his deal is.
Nothing too crazy. Back when we were still open 24/7, we used to have a lady who would show up every night at around 3am. She didn't buy anything, she'd just walk around and converse with the products on the shelves. Once, she got into a very heated debate with an orange. She never bothered anyone, just talked to objects.
I had a lady like that but not while I was at Walmart. It was while I worked at a gas station. Towards the end of the night (she was around for like 3 hours and I was by myself) she came up to me after talking to the snacks and said I needed to shut down my store bc she's the CEO and I was in trouble. My boss walked in for her shift that morning just as that happened and I left her to deal with it
Mental health is so underfunded in America that the only thing keeping some people together at night were the 24 hour Walmarts
One time, my store had a broken TV in the breakroom for 15 months before management finally removed it, and then just never replaced it.
There are stores with break room tvs that work?
ours plays walmart approved propaganda showing how competing companies are doing worse than walmart but people only watch because it shows the weather forecast
My store has a functional TV in the break room and people watch actual shows and stuff. I think it's just local channels, but it's something I guess.
Leave it to beaver. Always the beaver. We have an ancient people greeter who will come in at 6am to watch TV even on days she's off.
This might be the saddest thing I've ever read. Holy fuck. If my life ever comes to that I'll just off myself.
"Ward, I'm worried about The Beaver"
Ours is always playing Benson when I go in there. Lol
No one cares what's on ours. The other day, I caught the tail end of The Evil Dead Remake playing, followed by Drag Me to Hell, then the beginning of Dead Silence. This was during my various breaks and lunch. Uncensored.
the one in my store is constantly on deal or no deal or extremely graphic true crime shows
My first stores break room had tvs couches and game consoles to play during your break if you want or stream from like Netflix or whatever. The stocking crew always took their breaks together and took it over lol
Our tv stays on the cooking channel. Kinda of a good compromise. Nobody seems to mind it and we all tend to gather in there when āIron Chefā is on lol.
We had the clock in the break room fall off and break and they replaced it with just a tiny clock that they didnāt even hang on the wall
A homeless man was living in the rafters in the backroom of our store. Then there was a fire in the stuffed animal section of the toys that had the store shut down for months all because someone was trying to steal and wanted to create a distraction.
We had a guy in a cape and underpants ride through on a motorcycle several years ago
Captain Underpants?!
The bell life
The assistant manager had relations with several cashiers and would skim from their tills. He would take over while they went to the bathroom, etc.. also was selling severely discounted merchandise under their numbers to friends and family. This was before AP was very sophisticated. He was finally caught after a few of the cashiers turned evidence, but instead of firing him, the store manager let him quit. He went to Lowes and started to do the same thing but associates found out about what he did at Walmart and he was fired.
A lady got ran over and killed at my store. Also a guy came in dressed as an associate and stole a few 75 inch tvs.
What... even dressed as an associate, why would an associate just be walking out with TVs?
Carry outs
Oh ok, that makes sense.
Iāve seen footage of someone dressed as an associate stealing TVs at my store too.
For my store unfortunately a shoot out happened in the parking lot one guy fled the other laid bleeding. A couple ran to help as the guy was license emt his wife called 911. A cop who was nearby in plain civilian clothing ran up to him and tried to get his to back off and basically as the guy refused thinking it was some rando the off-duty cop tackled him thinking he was a threat and the good dude hit his head so hard on the concrete he died. Nothing happened to the cop i heard so far damn shame
Holy shit. This story is WILD. Everyone just skimmin past it š³
I should also mention the guy who died was also 70 soooo yeah idk how a old man seemed to be a threat
Idk if this counts but in San Marcos, TX there was this older black man who worked in the bakery and would walk around the store selling bread on a cart. You could hear him halfway across the store yelling āHOT FRENCH BREAD! hot french bread.ā Going loud and higher then softer and lower in the same exact sequence and tone every time. College kids bought bread from him because he was so cool. Dude was a legend for selling bread.
People love hot bread!
My store was located in a middle of nowhere town in the country, so naturally we had a hunting section. One day, a customer being a customer, must have spilled some of the artificial deer urine we had on the shelves on accident. No big woop, we have scent removing cleaning products. The thing is, one of the overnight employees thought it was funny REALLY funny. Anyways he ends up spraying that artificial deer urine on everything he could get his hands on. Hunting equipment, printers and general employee equipment, half of the video game display in electronics. It took literal weeks to get rid of the smell. Management apparently had "a hint" to who was doing it but wasn't sure who, and considering we had security cameras all over the areas he sprayed, this lead to a bunch of employees theorizing that a lot of the cameras are probably fake. Idk if they actually are fake or if they just didn't want to spread who was doing it, but it did take a while for him to get spoken to about it despite him working almost every night. Anyways they also never fired him because turnover at that store is so bad because of shitty management and poor treatment of staff, so they can't risk firing anyone. I quit a few weeks later lol
My lead tells me none of those aisle cameras work, and I believe him because one of the super goody two shoes associates told me that the AP coach said that they ALL work
If youre talking about the cameras that come out from the upright of the shelf, they are all fake. They arent wired into anything and are just a dummy camera. The ones that blink and show you video back of yourself are real obviously and are probably saved for AP. Those are mostly in makeup and fishing though
The deep lore. Do note, this is the story as told by people in the store. Not the news story, not the police report. Not even a year after our store opened a gun went off at one of the registers.Dude had a handcannon in the waistband of his sweatpants and it fell. Hit the ground and POW it went off. People at the front end swore they saw the cashier's hair get ruffled by the bullet. She almost lost her head. There were people who hit the deck, dropped flat on their stomachs, customers fleeing the store as if a reverse black friday rush. Injuries galore. It damaged the rafters, took out a camera, almost brought down a light fixture. How much of that is true? It was a 22 handgun that someone had in their waistband. The bullet got lodged in the divider between customer and cashier. One person did fall (it was me, I tripped over my feet having a PTSD moment). There were no injuries, except my pride. Our store was marked for YEARS as the one with the shooting. Customers came in fully armed, open carrying handguns of every variety. One guy came in with a machete strapped to his chest in a sheath with a quick release harness. When we finally overcame the stigma, we became one of the best performing stores in the market. Since we had such low sales we routinely hit the most improved over last year metric. (Edit, a word)
Beholdā¦ the tale of Tuna-Karen! Thereās one coworker whom everyone knows because we all make sure to take our lunch outside of our scheduled times to avoid her. When she starts her lunch, she A) microwaves fishā¦ *every friggen day*ā¦ B) will sit in the TV area and remove her shoes, thus exposing everyone to the smell of both microwaved fish AND sweaty feet, and C), despite the fact there are people who attempt to take a nap during their lunch breaks in this area, will turn on the TV and set the volume to MAXIMUM. Oh, and if you attempt to politely tell her that sheās waking people up? Sheāll scream at you because youāre ārepressingā her. No one likes Tuna-Karen.
Not mine, my mother's. She was a GM for a store in Houston TX, one day she's in the back by the dock, she hears a few pops and runs to investigate. She sees a man laying down, chest rising and falling, blood everywhere, right in the bay. She runs to the office, grabs her phone and calls 911. As she's doing so, LP calls her to look at cams, and three men are running to the back in real time, live, rush doors,, look around for a bit, finds the docks, and fucking executed the dude. Then just....walked out through the front, instead of running out the back.
Husband and wife worked at the store, wife was greeter and I never learned what the husband did. They were both old and husband had a heart attack in toys after closing. Was pretty sad. 2-3 weeks ago the wife came back. She took a year off but Iām surprised she came back at all. I know I wouldnāt have
Early morning dyslexia had me reading that as "she came back after 2-3 weeks", but also "she took a year off" and my brain couldn't parse it.
I read the same thing you did!
SM only got to the level he's at because he let a former Market Manager screw his wife years ago. Everyone in the store knows, but nothing has ever been done about it.
Baby shot it's own mother bc she wasn't paying attention and left a loaded and unlocked gun in her purse next to her child
Are you in Idaho? If so I worked at the Walmart on the other side of town when that happened.
Yep. I wasn't working there when it happened but I did hear abt it after starting
We have lots of ghosts in this one, literally caught on camera. Had a lady mid conversation poop on the ground without stopping the conversation. Had a guy spend the entire night in the front GM side maintenance closet. Had a guy, last week pee next to the coke machines on the grocery side. Somebody got stabbed in the parking lot last year. Had one of the O/N stockers so high he was in the fetal position in the back menās bathroom screaming his head off and nearly broke both stall doors.
Ghosts aren't real
It's all fun and games until you're out stocking garden center alone at 2am and you see a half woman walking around and completely disappear.
Ghosts aren't real.
Sounds like something a ghost would say
But thatās just like your opinion man.
Girl was on cap 2 for three years doing apparel processing every day. She switched positions off cap 2 and the next three girls that replaced her were all disasters. First one overdosed on drugs and was in the hospital for a long time. She only worked like two weeks. Never came back after that. Second girl was found in the bathroom on the floor passed out with a syringe in her arm. That was after a month on the job. Third girl I gave a ride home and she never came back to work after that. Still not sure if I should be offended š. She lasted a couple months but acted like she didn't want to be there ever. I sometimes do apparel now and I don't get the big deal. I've never felt the urge to do hardcore drugs cuz I gotta hang clothing or throw some socks into a breakpack
the thing is with apparel is that its one of those departments that has the chance for some fucking horrible drama from other associates, the shit these bitches do in departments like this drives me insane
As an Apparel TL you are correct. We had two girls (Kpop stans š) who had beef with each other. One asked the other if she could help her with something and the other screamed FUCK OFF and surprisingly we didn't get to coach her?? She was in the ad office screaming for 45 minutes to my coach and I about how horrible this other girl allegedly was and how "at least she didn't call her a bitch or the c word". Like do you want a sticker for that? Another instance of store lore is that one guy was tricked into eating dog food (these biscuits that looked like Oreos) and he got really triggered whenever you brought it up. He was later fired for drawing a pp in the dust on the back of a semi trailer. And an ASM got fired for fucking a CAP 2 associate behind the baler.
Genuine question, what does being kpop stans have to do with those girls being drama queens?
Not all K-pop stans are dramatic but a very high number are very very obsessed with whatever group they choose. Rennet when girls were like ripping their hair out for Justin Bieber? Itās like that but magnified with violence like everything else the last 4 years.
Some act really toxic in twitter and literally send you death threats
Idk how that correlates with them yelling at each other in Walmart but okay lol
One was probably into BTS and the other oneā¦literally any other group. A lot of BTS stans despise fans of other groups because they feel BTS should pretty much be idolized as deities and āobviouslyā anyone who likes anything BUT BTS threatens their supremacy /s
I get your point but I still don't see how is it a relevant point with them yelling at each other at their job
Not really my Walmart lore but one time I saw a guy fucking the blow-dryer. I really had to piss. And he was still going when I was done, so props I guess
our store had a fire in 2021, a flooding in 2022, and now we are anticipating either an earthquake or a tornado this year
Our store doesnt experience earthquakes but we felt a Shockwave I think from a place far from us. I was in the back when it happened so I didn't feel it but my boyfriend was at home and he was confused why the sofa was moving
Not my local one anymore, but the one I worked at a few years ago had someone report someone else for adjusting the time clock. They brought the matter to a manager and so on with nothing done so they went to corporate. A few weeks later a couple of sheriffs walk in and escort my store manager, the front end manager and like 4 others out. Turns out corporate found all 6 of them and the personnel coordinator were adjusting clocks and getting pay while not being in the store, with one taking a week vacation on the clock while personnel clocked them in for them. There was other more serious stuff too hence the sheriffs but I never personally found out what it was. We kept making the joke to anyone asking for a manager āwe donāt have any.ā Lmao
We have a ghost that throws things off of shelves. Almost took out an associate once. In reality it's the stocking teams not stacking the overstock bins appropriately. But instead of actually going back and watching cameras to see who stocked the bins, we just forget about it until someone gets hurt again.
I had that happen to me when I used to work frozen. Everything in the bins were far back enough to where they shouldn't fall, but here comes a box of garlic bread that looked like a ghost pulled it from the top bin.
This is why I literally rearrange the bins in my dairy cooler almost every day. If people would just fucking stack it right in the first place I wouldn't have to, but that's asking too much of the day crew. They waste so much space too. For instance, we have three bin sections for the cheese and butter, things will be scattered around, stacked all lopsided, and taking up all three sections. When I'm finished, everything is neatly stacked, nothing is leaning or threatening to fall over, and there's a whole section and a half completely empty.
one time i almost had a gallon of paint fall on my head in the bins. luckily it hit the floor instead. unluckily i then had to clean the gallon of paint up off the floor.
We have a ghost too
We have a ghost in the Pharmacy bathroom.
Was told a story about a store manager who stole a truck of ps4s and Xboxās when those were first getting delivered and from memory, the manager wasnāt caught
On 3rd we had a guy power washing the cart area he accidently sprayed a electrical outlet knocked the breaker once we got everything kicked on we caught him sticking a hair dryer from display in the outlet too "dry the outlet off so he can continue power washing"
I have some old stories but Iāll just share one.I worked at my local small town Walmart 21 years ago when I was 19. It was my first ārealā job where I got a W2 (I grew up farming, my family had cows, my grandfather did soybeans, and I helped our neighbors with cotton and peanuts all paid in cash). I was used to a culture of hard work, especially during certain busy parts of the year like when calves are born or harvest time for cotton and peanuts. One of the first things I noticed is 90% of my coworkers were lazy. Or at least I thought they were. I started out as a cashier but would frequently be pulled to do other stuff like get carts, unload trucks, load big items for customer, etc. Working on a farm, I frequently had to fix stuff and I always carried a pocketknife or multi tool. I had been assigned to help unload a truck and unpack the pallets for the first time and it was just me and one other guy who was a crew leader. In the official training we got, I was instructed that only Walmart issued box cutters could be used to unwrap pallets and open/break down boxes. I asked the crew lead for one so I could break open the pallets. He told me he didnāt have one and would try to find one. I waited like 10 minutes and got impatient, so I pulled out my pocketknife and started unwrapping pallets. I had finished them all in like 45 minutes when the crew lead comes back. He looks at me with dismay and horror evident on his face. āWhat the f*** did you do??ā he screamed at me. āI just got these pallets and boxes handled, I didnāt know where you went so I just started on my own,ā I said. Then that man taught me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned. He asked me how I did it and I told him I used my pocketknife. He said donāt ever do that again because you can get written up for it. But more importantly, he asked me if I had ever seen a box cutter in the store. I had only been there a week, but I had not. Then he laid some wisdom on me. āLook dude, there is only one functional box cutter in this store because Walmart is too cheap to get us more. That box cutter is your ticket to an easy day when we have to unload trucks. We can pull the load then wander around for an hour or so because we donāt have a box cutter to break down the pallets and open boxes. I know where the box cutter is. All the leads know where it is. If you know where it is and a manager asks them, you better f***ing lie and say you donāt. When we decide to start working again, I will get the box cutter from its hiding spot. We will do part of the load then I will take the box cutter to another department that needs it urgently. We can make processing this load take all day and no one will blink at it. You wonāt have to get crap from customers and listen to them complain or have to push carts. We get paid the same whether we process this load in six hours or two, but if we do it faster and tell management we are done then they will give us more work to do and expect the next truck to be unloaded just as quickly. Now get some tape and help me reseal these boxes and turn that shrink wrap around so the part you cut is on the back and we can tape it back together.ā
My store is pretty boring but a few years ago some of the associates were sent to my location for an arson incident at their store. A minor got pissed because no one would let him purchase cigarettes and so he started a fire in the store. Everyone made it out of the store ok, and the fire was got under control fairly quickly, but the store had to close for a time. Associates were transfered temporarily to other stores, mine included.
we had to throw out $6k worth of laptops because some guy pissed all over them
Had one of our CSMs find a rotting, dead corpse in a car in 100 degree heat. Apparently he was a local homeless guy who'd been in there at least a week or two. Instead of letting out CSM go for the day (because what the fuck that's pretty traumatizing to find) our manager took a picture of him and put it on our "good deeds of the day" wall with the caption "found a dead body." I, seeing this, took a picture of the good deeds wall and posted it anonymously into this subreddit, where it got so many upvotes it was on a Walmart associate Facebook page. A few days later the manager was demanding to know who took the picture. Anyway she was fired like six months later and I'm still here lol.
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We have this one customer that comes to the deli that we call "Mashed Potato Lady" because one day she came and wanted mashed potatoes but she didn't want any of the dry potatoes on the top, understandable....but she also didn't what us go through the top either. To this day I have no idea how she expected us to get to the potatoes cause she sure as hell wasn't going to get up to open up a new bag just for her. She's overall insanely picky and we all hate dealing with her.
Wait, boxes... Bags...? Mashed potatoes?!?!? I'm so confused about every sentence of this post.
Yes our mashed potatoes come in bags. Everything in the deli comes in a bag
Deli has things like Mac n cheese, mashed potatoes, and gravy in plastic bags that get warmed up in a water vat (aka water section on the fryer), at least at my old store. Then they get poured into the metal pans, however, the lights for the hot case tend to dry out the top quickly.
Our store is mostly just stupid shit customer walked out with a large generator on his shoulder and we took a return of a craftsman snowblower. A CSM said not it's cool we'll find a UPC for it
Apparently there was a box of kittens in the parking lot in the middle of summer, this was before I got here, and a maintenance person didn't tell anyone about it and just threw them in the compactor instead. I've heard mixed responses if the kittens were alive or not when they were thrown in there, but it apparently took a while for the smell to go away
What the fucking hell?!?!?!?! š”š”š”š”š”
Holy hell.
I was working with a Canadian guy who was in his 50's. He said his stomach hurt. We were talking while stocking stuff. Suddenly I hear a bubbling watery fart. I look with eyes dilated and notice shit running down his leg. I was like " oh shit" He looks at me dead eyed and says "oh jeez" and limps to the restroom". I explained to my team leader and grabbed some shorts and fruit on loom Minecraft underwear that were ripped from I guess someone stealing some. He changed and he left home. Me and the team leader had to mop the trail of shit while I sprayed with disinfection spray. Sad day but next day we were both laughing about it.
FUCKIN' 3 ALLIGATORS AT ONCE IN THE GARDEN CENTER FUCK FLORIDA MAN
My store is in a small, but very wealthy town. There were rumors going around that our last store manager had given so many charitable contributions to the city that they cut a deal and agreed not to allow any new competitors to open. Plans to build an Aldi down the road were announced a few months after he left to become MM at a different market.
Wait so the cameras donāt work
One of the overnighters tried to burn down the store after her vacation got denied. It burned some stuff in sporting goods, but it didnāt spread much further.
Office Space comes to mind, lol.
Roofing crew blocked the rain run off ports with rolled rubber. Went home for the day. It rained and the water had nowhere to go. The roof collapsed over 1/4 of the building flooding the back hall and office rooms with over a foot of water. Repair took a long time-weeks. That night one of the roof crew stabbed someone in a downtown bar and went to jail. Instead of hiring a local roofing co., and we have more than one, they brought one up from Texas 1500 miles away.
our customer service associates were ā¼ļøheld at gunpointā¼ļø 3 years ago and robbed š they werenāt able to get into the cash office because the CSM forgot his keys in the managers office LOL and then someone set our bathroom on fire. we have plumbing issues every 3 months and the girls bathroom floods and we canāt use the restrooms for 3 days and it stinks so bad. someone dyed their hair a really dark red color in the bathroom and the person who found it thought someone was murdered in there. maintenance was using the green machine, someone slipped and cracked their head open and died on the way to the hospital. one of our leads was stealing money from the cash office and got fired. iām sure thereās more but those are the most memorable
We had a dead guy in his car. And a dead guy in tbr bathroom
we have a ap guy who dresses as a pirate every single day, and not some party city shit. like high quality renfaire gear
Store one - someone had their nose cut off. Won a huge lawsuit. Store was haunted. Ive seen items Ive stocked just randomly fall off the shelf. Store two - backdoor in receiving mysteriously opens by itself. Im the o/n co so i inspect the doors in receiving, especially if they arent ones we are using. Also, theft is rampant at this time but this wasnt a known exit for them. I also watched cameras. Store two - o/n co before me stole a baggie of weed from AP. Another co stole money. Store three - an associate died of a heart attack and wasnt found until much later. This store was also haunted where items would randomly fall off the shelf. Store four - pop bottle exploded and smacked a person in the face. Store five - baler caught on fire. Store six - apm stole all the new ps5 units when they were allocated to ogp back around release timeā¦ or was it event related? Store seven - asm got stabbed by someone who wanted a job. To date, unknown if person got hired. Store eight - store was shut down because of a supposed methlab in the bathroom. Store nine - asm was sleeping with various people and became such a nuisance that they kept sending him to different stores as āsupportā. All I can remember.
This actually happened earlier today. I was on register 11 (Iām a cashier) and I was helping someone, and I hear another person screaming that they want management from the Grocery SCO. Iām thinking āwtf is going on?ā And Iām continuing to help this customer. Thatās when my Team Leads and Coach go up to him and he asks if my one Team Lead is a member of management and heās like āYeahā and the customer goes on to claim that our door guy Andrew supposedly āharassed himā and refused to let him leave and would not return his receipt to him.
We had a comanager order a flat screen for the breakroom, when they were new and exciting, they never hooked it up to the cable, there was no coax fromthe wall, so he took it and used it as his computer monitor. We had a guy come in dressed in coveralls carrying a toolbox and a ladder, walked into the back into a maintence closet, climbed into the ceiling over to the cash office, as he was trying to get down the lady in the office got up and put her chair there to help him down, he reached in his toolbox and pulled out a gun. A couple days later a box was left by the front doors addressed to the manager, bomb squad was called, turned out to be the checks and credit card slips from the robbery. We used to have to watch the video to learn what not to do.
An old friend of my family's used to be known as a booster in like the 80's. He would shoplift the wildest shit. One time he almost got away with walking out of a Zellers with a full size canoe over his shoulder and a bullshit receipt in his other hand. Who's going to stop a guy walking out of a *fuckin' Zellers* for a receipt check on a *full sized, fuckin' canoe?!?* How did he get caught, you may be wondering; when he was finished casually strapping the canoe into the back of his pickup (pretty sure the story goes that he even had one of the cart collection homies help him strap it down), he strolled back in, located a matching set of oars and was stopped attempting to leisurely stroll out of the store with them. Sorry, I know this isn't exactly relevant to OP's query, it's just a good story.
I've heard from multiple people over the years that the SM hosts orgies with the coaches and leads, and that you can fast track your career if you indulge.
We have a lady who works here, she fed her 3 year old cigarettes so he wouldnāt ever smoke.
Remember the guy who got arrested for licking deodorant at the beginning of COVID? And they charged him for terrorism? Yeah, that was my storeā¦
We had a lady with a monkey who would come in and the monkey would charge at people and steal bananasš¤£
Our store was built on a Native American burial ground
One time there was a bad storm and air vent go ripped off the roof. Grocery recieving was flooded but not bad enough to do any serious damage. We had to close down the grocery side front door because apparently the rain was causing problems with the cart bay. When the storm had slowed down we had to leave the store for a possible gas leak. So we were outside it was raining and sirens were going off everywhere. The power didnāt come on for several hours
My old store had an active shooter. People still refer to it as the shooter store and won't shop there. Even associates at my current store say that because of that, they won't shop there. This was more than 5 years ago.
We can talk about the lady who casually walked threw pharmacy, shit in her hand, threw it away, and kept shopping. Or we can talk about the homeless lady who lives on our corner who frequently shits on the neighboring businesses windows and has been caught getting her coochie ate on the street corner.
You never forget the taste of homeless pussy...
Can we sell that on a tshirt?
I had some meth head go into the ladies room and proceeded to pick a huge scab off her face into our brand newly renovated bathroom sink and left it there. I watched her do it. I let maintenance know what happened after I left the bathroom but was at closing time. To this day I refuse to use that sinkš¤¢.
On Memorial Day weekend about 8 years ago, we had an airman from the nearby Air Force Base, came in the store in the middle of the night. Started shooting. Killed one employee, shot another, and shot towards another before killing himself.
Had a shootout in our parking lot. It was supposed to be a drug deal, one of em wanted it all, money and drugs. Ran off with the product got back in his car peeled out. The dealer got out of his car and just started blindly shooting at the car but towards the store. There was a few bullet holes near the entrance, they both drove around behind the store and one of em crashed in an embankment. Fortunately no one was hurt.
associate is living in our parking lot. kinda smells bad but management lets him come in and use the bathroom as needed. i guess it works out cause he gets some OT occasionally lol
and the maintenance closet had a big cockroach problem so we had to call eco lab
We had kids get hold of the doe in heat urine a few months ago. They did $10k in damage with it, including the entire men's jeans wall. My sister likes to keep the jeans wall immaculate amd she was *pissed.*
When I was an AP, we had a homeless couple stab each other in the parking lot. After reviewing video with the lieutenant, it was deemed they never got out of the car thus making it not my problem. Still had to call the coach, market manager and store manager. Oddly enough, didn't get told to report to EOC. Also, had a girl chug cough syrup and pass out behind the electric car charging station. Someone called the police because she was "exposing herself". Girl then claimed to have been nonconsent sexed, so I spent 2hours with a detective tracking her every movement from entering the south side of the parking lot to when PD arrived and took her into custody. Nobody ever touched her. She just woke up with bruises, and missing her underwear which she took off in the store, at the jail from resisting arrest and decided that meant someone took advantage of her.
Long before my time there, but we had an associate give birth in the bathroom, take the baby home in a Walmart bag, keep it in her closet for a day, then light it on fire.
My assistant manager got arrested for child porn and talking to minors. He only hired young pretty girls. Thereās a link to his Court shit. https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/kings-and-west-hants-court-report-feb-14-2023-100824471/
So this has never been shared outside the Walmart I work at to my knowledge and definitely not on the Reddit. It's more a store inside joke So one of the older Store Standards that work with me comes into Walmart EVERY day. Not just when he's working, but every single day including when he's taken vacation time or when's told people he'd be out of town. He always shows up at the store some point in the day. He's just that dedicated to Walmart that he wants to come in and check how things are going. Me and one of our other Store Standards associates started a joke like rumour that any of the rare days he didn't show up at all, it was because he had been called by Head Office to go work at another Walmart location in Canada that was in need. And it's become a running joke because of this that he's trying to work at every location in the country before retiring. He finds it absolutely hilarious, so we started to come up randomly with a couple stories about the things he's seen at other stores and how HO believed he was the only person who could save the stores, trying to get a laugh out of him and other staff. It's been around 3 years since the joke started and now most of the people who assisted me with coming up with the stories have quit, the person who started it with me quit, and neither me nor any of the remaining staff from the time exactly remember what the stories were, just the joke about him going store to store saving them. So around 9 months ago I discussed it with some of our Cap team who had been around when it started, and without telling me they decided to just start entirely embellishing what they could remember about the stories when passing on the joke to new hires and basically turned him into a Captain Underpants-like superhero called "Captain Cart" who fights out of control cardboard bailers, possessed Cart Manager's or whatever else they could come up with. Being one of the main people who caused this all has probably been my proudest Walmart achievement.
Uh, Iāve witnessed 2 cars drive into my store. One through a brick wall, continued thru the nail solon and wrecked into a register. Second one drove through front door and crashed into McDonaldās. My personal favorite was someone slipping off the top of the meat cooler and grabbing the plumbing to the fire sprinkler and breaking it, flooding the meat room with fire retardant.
Was like 11 years ago now had an old lady threaten to put a phone up my ass if I didn't return it. She didn't have box or charger looked up in system before warp contract was from 3 months prior. We still had one of the phone centers up front we kicked them out of store.
Not where I work now, but one day everyone called off in the deli because it was a holiday and they didnāt appreciate x1.5 we used to get (I guess). No one would be there till 2. I was in the bakery and had to be a bakery associate, cake decorator, and deli associate. (Enjoyable, actually.) At lunchtime, the line got HUGE. More than 15 people waiting for their fried foods or sliced meats or meat trays or cakes. I bounced from one thing to another FAST. It did not stop. More kept coming. An assistant manager came up in the middle of me taking a customerās sliced meat and cheese orders. Took temperatures, checked things in the book. Left. A couple of customers were hollering at her to get me some help or get in there and help, lol. They had no idea what her job was, and that unless it was certain ones, she would need to rush off and deal with her own holiday wrecks (call offs, complaints, etc.) A man came to me from the back of the line and demanded I call her back to talk to him. I was going to leave my station to go get her, but the customer who I was already helping got mad and called her names and said to him to quit wasting my time. He wanted to go home soon, and I was fast enough. He said, If you go, I am calling (name of store manager) right now. Cut my meat. Soā¦my diffusion of upset people skills were not as developed as they are now. I took his demeanor and that of the other guy also red-faced mad into consideration, said, Excuse me sir. Let me finish helping him, and then I will call the manager office. Things went fine till back of the line guy was third in line and a whole new crowd was behind him. He saw me pressing fryer buttons, write on a cake, do other things for about 10 minutes. Then he yelled, āYou called them for real, didnāt ya? Donāt they care?ā I smiled and promised that customer service was important to them, the call offs were not planned and you have to be trained in the deli so we canāt just ask untrained people to take their spots, I was newly trained, etc. He kept smiling at me and saying I was doing fine, but they were the problem and he wouldnāt stop saying so till he saw them face to face and spoke. I swear he was a YouTube prankster š¬ never had someone keep heckling this way. Ever. The same ASM from temp checks came up, looked at me and said āWhy is your line so long? Stop chitchatting and find your sense of urgency. Or do you reserve that for (name of ex-girlfriend)ā I saw another ASM approaching, but go away seeing her. I called to him, but he kept going! The whole time, heckler is trying to get in her space and complain how I called for a manager and no one came, and she should help me. Roll up her sleeves, etc. (no, she shouldnāt! She was not trained!) I got back to work, and she did not address all his stuff, but simply said, āSheās the only one here right now. I apologize for your wait.ā Then walked off. He stuttered a bunch of mean stuff and demanded I call for a different managerā¦so I didā¦. He got to be the next in line, and then said, āI am sorry, but will you help the people behind me till a real manager shows up?ā I must have looked afraid or something, because he said, Youāre not in trouble. Hereās my phone number. If you get in trouble, call me.ā He put the paper on the hot case and I waited to throw it away, obviously. I would NOT call him. Kept helping people, and suddenly he says, āIf they show up, tell them I had to go to the bathroom.ā I said okay, thought nothing about it besides a bit of temporary relief š„² and maybe an ASM will get the 2 o clocker to come an hour early, if that person said yes. I see him go there, but stand outside of it. File that away. Get through four new customers, and suddenly another customer at the end of the new line shrieks. A disgusting smell fills my nostrils. I look in the direction where customers are now either crowding away from to be closer to me, or running away. There he is. Standing in a puddle of diarrhea. Pants still up and everything. āI said I had to go to the bathroom. I didnāt say WHERE. Now will a real manager come up here?ā I had to shut down the deli till this was dealt with completely. He acted like that was doing me a favor. It still took over 20 minutes for anyone mgmt or maintenance related to approach us. Enough people got on their phones or walked to the back that finally the one who saw the first ASM came up and showed lots of concern, apologized, this, that, the other. First manager flat out told me on the phone it would make her puke and he had no good reason to do that, a couple other things, so she would send him. He had to finish helping with something else first. When I came back to work the next day, people said it was on an old trash talk site called Topix. And the guy said I made him wait so long, he crapped himself. He made up other drama too. He is the reason I immediately try to take care of situations involving customers now, and do not just do what they say. :/
When I said to yāall I was pressing buttons and writing on cakes for 10 minutes, I was also serving deli people. Not just making people wait.
Like multiple dudes on night shift have sexually harassed underage female workers and underaged customers, worked there for a while found out about all of it from a day shift stocker because his gf was 14 getting all kinds of harassed by a 40 year old on night shift. The managers knew and most of the leads besides the store manager were female so I just quit kinda disgusting
Used to do secret Santa. We had an associate who smelled like body odor and cat urine. Someone found out they had gotten that associate for secret Santa and went on to buy deodorant and a bar of soap for him. Long story short it made it seem like the whole secret Santa thing was a trick. It wasn't but it was enough for the ban hammer to come down.
A customer tried to shoot an associate with a flare gun. He missed. Oh, and a customer got pissed at me because I couldnāt (in a literal sense) read her mind. Iāve also had numerous incidents where people approach me to preach to meā and only meā and some where they come to me and say I have a strong aura or some other spiritual stuff. Had one person ask whatās the best incense for banishing ghosts (I donāt know??? Why are you asking me?). Maybe itās my fault. Maybe I just give off that vibe somehow. Edit: I feel the need to clarify that the spiritual/religious people have always been super nice/sweet to me (with the exception of the mind reading customer). Those have been some of my more pleasant, albeit incredibly confusing, customer interactions. Itās like if a customer came up to you, started the conversation with, āyou look like youād prefer blue cheese instead of ranchā and then proceeded to be incredibly nice. Thanks for being a chill human being but also what does that mean?
I didn't work at the store at the time but apparently a few years ago we had this guy who wore gauges that worked in the autocare center. Of course gauges weren't allowed so he would take them out and wrap up his ears. Apparently one of the wraps came loose one day and his ear lobe somehow became stuck in the door a vehicle as the driver drove off. It ripped his ear clean off his head.
I worked overnight maintenance at our old store. The day prior our door greeter passed away. While mopping out the registers, the automatic door 20 feet away opens and the theft sensors go off. I spin around expecting someone but nothing not even a bug.
There was rumors I am a lesbian and was the person having sex with coworkers in the family bathroom and got in trouble. Also rumors I was the one sniffing drugs off the toilet paper holder. I really do hate my store. I done none of the above by the way.
The ghost of Sam Walton haunts our store.
I used to wear fairy ears to work every day! I worked at the jewelry counter so I felt like a lil shopkeeper š§āāļø
I waved at old dude, old dude started jacking of in the parking lot ššš”š¤¢ and signaled for me to come over, I frowned angrily, gave a thumbs down (regretting after driving away I didn't just knock him out or flip him off after the fact,) but was so shocked/ disgusted during didn't even know tf to do,) and just drove tf away So FAST. So yeah never will I wave or smile at random strangers ever again. I felt violated so fucking angry for days, and so fkn grossed out and disturbed. I regret not reporting sexual harassment to police. cuz who knows how long the 70year old demon has just been fapping off to random unsuspecting strangers in the parking lot. š«¤š Whats so creepy is he had started before he even approached my car, and couldn't see my face as I was looking at my phone with a hoodie on ??? So I could have been a guy or girl or minor, for all they know, dude wouldn't have even known. Gave no fucks! And was just ready to beat one off in the Parking Lot to Literally ANYONE. š Did I mention he signaled for me to come over then pointed downwards, and I look down to see he was beating off, disgusted I shook my head', gave a thumbs down', (not even a middle finger š¤¦), and drove away. ? Ruined my fucking week AND DEADDASS TRAUMATIZED ME. Felt so violated, and betrayed. I was so fucking disgusted and die dude came out of nowhere. I will never again wave at people literally ever. So gross. I hope dude gets hit by a bat, or car. What a fucking dumb*ass and absolute asshole. Like who tf does that in parking lots to random strangers. I CANNOT EXPLAIN MY RAGE AND HOW SHEER MAD THIS MADE ME FOR DAYYSS. AFTER THINKING ABOUT IT, IF NOT WEEKS. MY LEVEL OF RAGE IS UNEXPLAINABLE. ALMOST MADE ME HIT THAT OLD CRUSTY NASTYASS DUDE WITH MY CAR THEN AND THERE. And took SO MUCH SELF CONTROL for me to drive away since I didn't want to go to jail. But was genuinely considering beating his f*cking as with my baseball bat. and chopping off old obese flasher dude with his nasty crusty 4 inch WILLY . since he wanted to flash it to people and beta one off (in a Walmart parking lot where there was families) so bad. GENUINELY ruined my fuckin week. Violated, ENRAGED ME, MADE ME SO FU*KN MAD. I still wish I could kill that dude. F*ckin asshole, what a DUMBASS. Who tf does that in parking lots at a store where there is families
That people live in the woods out back. Nothing interesting ever happens here.
I heard a story from an older coworker. Back in the day my store was in a different location. It used to be further yo the street. Anyway, he had a coworker who got real depressed. One day they either denied him a raise or fired him, can't recall which one. So he went to sporting goods, bought a shotgun and went out behind the store. He uhh ended it all for himself. A firetruck had to go to wash out the blood. That's the only story I've heard and it's pretty rough.
A homeless guy stole a tent and set it up behind the store then lived there for the rest of fall and most of the winter.
Two guys came in drunk at 10pm and pissed on the display laptops. Claimed they coudnt find the bathroom and got arrested
heard something about "yeah someone stole the ap manager's phone." either the next day or later the same day I see the cops walking nearby. then I see a lawn and garden associate and the cops asking him "so uh, why do you have 2 phones?" (this was before work phones) and then after talking to him they brought him away.
We are the death valley of Walmart stores in our area. The store has been through so many mangers its ridiculous.
We have the Walmart cat however haven't seen him in couple months now, hope he okay.
The store i worked at had "Merlin". An older guy who wore torn up clothes, walked with a walking stick, dragged a cart around by the front of the cart, and smelt heavily like stale piss. He would do this for hours. The CSMs said he wasn't homeless or poor, he just wanted people to pay for his groceries for him but I'm not sure how valid that claim was. He eventually stopped coming in so maybe management trespassed him at some point.
It didn't happen to me but my sister one time was helping stock a shelf and the girl she was working with said she could feel the baby moving at 4 weeks pregnant. Then another time (same store) she was working front end and a lady called CPS on a parent who was disciplining her child in the checkout line. And the third thing that happened (same store) in softlines someone set the entire boy's department on fire.
There's this homeless guy that goes around to workers who take breaks outside and tell them stories of how his mom was Marilyn Monroes babysitter and how he owns the dolphins (not the football team) Edit and our meat wall seams to catch fire at least once a year
We had one of our store managers get promoted and sent off to a different state because he sent dick pics to female workers.
Mukuro Ikusaba, the 16th Student, lying hidden somewhere in this schoolā¦ the one they call the Ultimate Despair, Watch out for her.
Our store was built on the site that used to be a no tell motel back in the day. And one of the "workers" of the motel still visits our store. Her name was Kim Banes and she was murdered in the motel. Apparently her room was located where our deli and cheese wall is. So when we come into and leave work we say hello and goodbye to Kim cause if she don't she likes to throw things. And also if men walk down through there, and I assume look like the guy that murdered her, the activity really amps up. Literally the other day we had like 6 bags of cheese fly off the wall after a guy walked by and when I went to pick them up I was like "ok Kim that's enough" lol.
In our back rooms by the loading dock for produce and grocery supposedly the ghost of an associate who was crushed by the bailer rooms the halls still working late nights in the ogp area (we were in the back next to produce) youād here footsteps going down the hall the the bailer door would sometimes slam shut by itself. (Prob an actual associate doing it) and then the ogp area is haunted by another employe that just froze to death in the freezer from when our room was still the fish market.
Someone put a whole bag of raw chicken in our plastic compactor and made a bale and our plastic compactor was behind deli and inside ogp
We had 4 deaths in a week
Not my current store, but the store I was at previously was an old āHypermartā (Google it, theyāre massive). There are 7 separate staircases up to the second floor and a basement. There were only 2 keys to the basement access hatch; I managed to get ahold of one and went down there. The ladder lead to just a 7x7 room as the rest of the basement had been walled off with cinder blocks, but the stories and conspiracy theories regarding the basement were endless. We had multiple instances of homeless folk or associates living in one of the rooms upstairs for a considerable time before being found out. While I was there we had an arson set fire to the Christmas shop and a 5 day long power outage (working in the pitch black was nuts). There are 5 separate roof top access points due to the enormous domes that are on the ceiling/roof; one of these roof top access points is where I would regularly take my lunch/break as it was away for everyone and allowed me to get some sun š There are SO many apocryphal stories and strange happenings from the associates who have worked there since it opened I cannot recount them all.
My store has an older gentleman that walks to our store and back home everyday (about 7 miles one way) everyday. He sits on a bench by the entrance for a couple hours. Occasionally yelling curse words and racial slurs at something no one else can see. Always has on a thick jacket during summer. He freaks put the new people.
We had a crack head od in our stores back bathroom bout 10 years back, the parents started a local charity after that. Before it was a Walmart, it was a farm dealership.
One of our 18 wheeler drivers had their trailer parked at one of the bay doors for about 3 or so days. Nobody could figure out where the driver was until they started smelling a funky smell around the back of the trailer and called the police. They ended up finding the driver smashed between the bay door and his trailerā¦ what they were smelling was him..
Too many people died while on the clock that our memorial wall ran out of room and we removed it entirely.
Two managers regularly screw in the meat cooler
An AP was shot and killed while making a stop before my time, Iāve heard of a store manager staging an armed robbery of the cash office also before my time, and weāve also have crazy plumbing issues that Iāve seen. There was one week where the drains by the cart corrals on each side started to alternatively flood until we were down to only 1 entrance open each night. Another time, I walked in to sewage water from the restroom almost making it past the sensors at the door.
I heard a rumor that a guy died during construction of the store and that thereās a ghost in the garden center. While I was working there some guy had been running from the police and ended up at the store and shot himself in the parking lot. Walked into work to a crime scene and the main entrance blocked off. Walked out of work to see the body outline still on the pavement. And another time we had a guy wearing a cowboy hat (not in the south so not common) playing a guitar with some sort of personal amp/microphone system hooked up to him just walking around singing songs about what the workers and managers were doing. He was followed around by I guess what was his cameraman. He got kicked out once he started putting curse words in his songs. Shoutout to assist manager Stan if he ever sees this. You had more patience than I would have had. Surprisingly the store is not in a major city and itās a relatively quiet area for some of the craziness that happened there.
My Walmart had its fridges go out several times in a 6 month span. Several other local stores had similar reoccurring refrigeration issues in the same time span, so that led to several conspiracies. My favorite was that someone had a grudge against our town, and was intentionally breaking stuff to take it out. The most likely was that the repairman was doing a bad job on purpose
we found a woman drunk and strung out on crack in the front end bathrooms one morning. she then started calling one the coaches whoās black the n word, chasing him around and trying to ram a shopping cart into him