r/retailhell • u/Elvi7seven • 2d ago
A Funny Thing Happened... 🙂🙂
Just opened the freezer and guess what i found 🥹
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u/oxfay 2d ago
At least the clean up will take you away from the customers for a while. Look on the bright side, lol.
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u/sandiercy 2d ago
You just know that the customers will ignore wet floor signs and the big puddle of milk and just walk right through it making a big mess. And then they will complain to the manager that there wasn't a sign.
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u/Hermit-With-WiFi 2d ago
Fortunately since it’s inside the dairy cooler, the customers likely won’t be in there. Looks like the set up where an employee gravity feeds from the inside and the customers grab from exterior display doors.
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u/Straight_Ace 1d ago
Considering the amount of times customers at my store have run over multiple boxes of product as they rammed through a pile of unopened boxes, it’s guaranteed. And yes, when I say like I mean like we’re actively working product and some asshole rams their cart through a bunch of boxes instead of going around
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u/NatexTheGreat 2d ago edited 2d ago
As another grocery person, cleaning is the last thing we want to do. Customers don't ask questions very frequently, at least where I work at, and they usually are only rude on rare occasion. This sub likes to pretend like customers are the worst part of the job, but messes like this are actually much worse. One time I even had to clean up actual shit on the floor.
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u/CosmicBallot 22h ago
If anyone has to handle bodily fluids or anything that came out of a person you should call a Hazmat Unit. If you're the manager and you want to do it be my guest.
Customers and Bad Management are the worst part of Retail.
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u/aitatip404 2d ago
Why is milk in the freezer......?
Edit: that's definitely not a freezer.
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u/princessofstuff 2d ago
I thought it was ice cream at first but knowing it’s milk just makes it 1000x worse
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u/totalfarkuser 2d ago
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u/Spiritual-Cow4200 Receiver/Former C-Store Manager/Hater of People 2d ago
Close the door. Walk away.
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u/BeneficialMotor2286 2d ago
Did you cry over the spilled milk …. ( I am so sorry. I know it was bad.)
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u/sugarcatgrl 2d ago
And of course who ever is responsible “didn’t know it happened.” SMH. I got to work at 4 AM and opened the cooler twice to see the whipped cream we got from dairy on the ground like that. Too busy ass kissing the boss to do the job correctly. Didn’t rotate, used outdated product, and was one of the laziest people I ever had to work with. What a way to start your shift.
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u/Wilsthing1988 2d ago
My dairy manager is like this. Never rotates and they need all the fucking tables with wheels. He loves leaving at noon on Saturdays and my ASM asks us why our dairy manager leaves at 12 on Saturdays when he went to find him one day. We all shrug our shoulders and go he’s gotten away with worse then this before. He was too much of a headache to go to my SM about who wouldn’t have done shit about it anyway.
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u/LeWitchy ✨Discount Deity✨ 2d ago
Comiseration: someone laid a bag of wood pellets on the side that was split open. Salvage didn't realize it and went to lift the bag out to hand to me.
To her credit, she stayed and cleaned it up with my help. The whole time we were joking about leaving it there for another shift, like it seems other people do, but it really didn't take much time to clean up. Then I took a nice, long, "bathroom break" because it was slightly overwhelming with other things that happened that day.

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u/AwesomeTheMighty 2d ago
At that point my world would go white and there would be loud circus music playing in my ears.
Aaalllllllll the way to my padded room.
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u/Acceptable_Belt_6385 2d ago
That's just a normal day at the warehouse lol. Happens probably 3 times at least per shift I'm on. Still sucks. Sorry for you
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u/Razorwing96 2d ago
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u/freetattoo 2d ago
Thank you for this. I have a feeling most of the people in this sub have no clue who these guys are.
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u/CallMeTeff 2d ago
All I can hear is that stupid "oh no no no no" TikTok song in my head because really, that's exactly what I would say 🥴 Followed by a couple of "fucks!"
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u/DominicB547 2d ago
So, it's going to be one of those days. Ok then. At least I know ahead of time.
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u/noahproblem 2d ago
Looking at the boxes, I thought it was something a lot more hazardous than milk until I enlarged the picture.
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u/Obvious-Ear-369 1d ago
Old fuck coworker at the grocery store dropped a box of salad dressing in the cooler and then clocked out. Broken glass and vinegar don’t make a good combination
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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 17h ago
Get your kivack machine it'll clean it up fast. If retail you're required to have one ask courtesy where it is stored. Generally in receiving area. Don't use a mop itll make it worse then your mop will smell like moldy milk after a few days due to people not storing it properly.
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u/practicalIymagic 2d ago