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13 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group
Article created by: Saulė Tolstych
Do you remember that great old movie "Night at the Museum"? Where all the museum exhibits come to life at night and cause all sorts of outrage? In fact, perhaps, each institution in this world has its own dark closet where the most unsightly secrets are carefully hidden. And it turns out that sometimes they show up in the form of various scary stories told by different people.
In fact, the more people involved in any association or organization, the higher the likelihood that someone will take a negative experience from it. And where do people communicate with each other so much, dealing with different things and objects? That's right, in big retail stores!
Since Sam Walton opened his first small shop in 1945, Walmart has grown to approximately 10.5K stores and clubs and unites up to 2.3M employees worldwide. It is quite obvious that in such an enormous network, there will definitely be people who have some creepy stories from their work.
There is a popular thread in the AskReddit community whose Original Poster once asked: "Walmart employees, what's the worst thing you have seen inside your store?" Today the thread has over 3.2K comments and has amassed nearly 6.5K upvotes. And yes, in this thread, lots of strange and creepy secrets are revealed.
To make it easier for you to navigate through thousands of comments, Bored Panda has compiled a special selection of the most original, non-standard and mysterious tales told by the participants in the original thread. Therefore, please read to the very end of this list, mark the stories you like the most, and if you also once worked at Walmart and saw something strange, be sure to tell us about it straight in the comments!
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#1
Of A Creepy Old Guy On A Scooter
So I used to stock the crafts section on overnights. I'm kinda an awkward person so no human contact was great for me. This old guy on a scooter insisted upon sitting in my aisle for like, hours. Just staring at the needles.
Ok....whatever. I stocked everything I could. But finally I needed him to move...and honestly I was a little creeped out at this point.. I mentioned it to my manager on the way to lunch.
After lunch he was gone.
....turns out he had died there like 5 hours ago.
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#2
Of Naughty Kids, Spoiled Meat And Severe Retribution
A bunch of kids once ran thru the meat section and sliced open every package. They got caught and had to pay for all of it. Add up to a little over 500$
#3
Of Hamburglers, Maggots And A Misdoing Assistant Manager
my best friend/roomie worked Wal-Mart.
The worst story was about The Hamburgler - a person/persons who would put a packaging of raw hamburger in their cart and then "change their mind" and leave the hamburger in some random spot. Sometimes it would be a couple of days before the Hamburgler's deed was uncovered.
It was so bad that almost every employee started inspecting their area of responsibility and pretty soon, the Hamburgler's foul deed were being discovered very quickly - because no one wanted to deal with a leaky maggot mess.
then the assistant manager got caught leaving a package of hamburger in the shoe dept.
#4
Of Used Diapers Over Freshly Baked Cookies
Someone throwing there used children diaper on top of the freshly baked cookies I just put out :/ had to throw out 700 cookies
#5
Of Shopping Carts And People
I've only been working at a Walmart for two weeks, I've had three people lose their temper on me, one woman slam her cart into someone else's cart because she couldn't buy alcohol with an expired ID, and one guy try to walk away with a whole cart of groceries, in which a different customer walked after him and literally dragged him back inside.
Again, two weeks.
Edit: I'm getting asked this a lot, so I'll explain. Stores can't accept expired IDs because they're considered invalid. If Invalid IDs were accepted then it would create an aftermarket for those IDs, which would then make it easier for people under 21 to get ahold of something they could potentially use to illegally purchase alcohol.
#6
Of Sense Of Humor And A Paycheck
The worst thing a Walmart employee may ever see is obviously his or her paycheck.
#7
Of Cats, Bug Bombs And Car Owners
Worst EVER:
Some people signed up for an oil change, then threw one of those household bug bomb foggers into their car while they waited.
When the technician went out to pull the car in, it was full of white smoke from the insecticide and the interior was covered in thousands of roaches all trying to escape the fog.
We told them to leave.
Worst THIS WEEK:
Guy signs up for an oil change, and the technicians find 2 live cats in under the hood of the minivan.
The owner came out to deal with it, saying they were his.
#8
Of Puddles, Investigations And Urine
Mine actually happened yesterday. I was walking back to my area and saw one of my coworkers in front of a puddle. She said, “walk around.” I responded, “I don’t want to know.” Her immediate response was, “It is urine.” I lowered and shook my head and walked by.
#9
Of Jewels, Meltdowns And Rogue Managers
I’ve posted this in another Walmart thread, it’s still one of my favorite stories from my mom.
My mom worked at Walmart for about a year. She actually liked it as she was more active, but she decided to quit after the jewelry department manager had a meltdown and started throwing jewelry at customers. One old lady got pelted in the head with a heavy ring box and it was over.
Turns out the manager was selling the jewelry to friends and family, but would keep the boxes and stuff them with rocks and trash so inventory would stay the same. She had the meltdown before she was caught. They had to drag her out of the store that day.
#10
Of Cart Wranglers, Oil Changers And An Empty Cardboard Box
Mine's much more mild. Think of it as a palette cleanser for the rest of the horror stories in this thread.
I worked at a Wal-Mart for one summer during college. I was a Courtesy Associate according to my nametag, but I prefered the title of Cart Wrangler. My job was to recover shopping carts, help customers get big stuff into their cars/trucks, and keep the parking lot clean. As a result, I had a particular disdain for a class of customers I referred to as "oil changers." They'd run into the store to buy some automotive product, like engine oil or windshield washer fluid, use said product on their vehicle in the lot, and then leave a mess on their way out. My most memorable was a group of kids in their late teens/early twenties like myself at the time. Busted up little four banger sedan. I think it had no interior panels. They bought a trunk mounted subwoofer box, installed it in the lot, and left the empty cardboard box for me to clean up.
Yes, it was a minor annoyance, but when there are one or two garbage cans in between each and every lane on the lot and you can't be bothered to use one, I think my annoyance was justified.
#11
Of Mullets, Mullets... And Once More Mullets
Didn't work at Walmart, but once I saw an entire family (man, woman, and son) there who ALL had mullets. I thought that was pretty special...
#12
Of Stealing Money, Managers And Managers Stealing Money
Our store manager was fired and arrested for stealing money from the registers. Also a thief tried to stab a manager when confronted. Fun times.
#13
Of Costumes And Halloween
The costume isle during Halloween Definitely not as bad as some things here but as a 17-year-old having to zone that was a nightmare.
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