I work at Walmart. Save your pity, because what I get paid for it makes it worth it. Especially when events like those that transpired today happen. The laughs I get from idiots makes it worth it.

So today, we have a wreck in the parking lot. Turns out some idiot parent let their ten year old drive around the parking lot. The kid crashed the car into another parked one. Now, I wasn't there at the time this happened, but I can just imagine how the whole situation turned out.

Also, slightly less funny, I found today in the soda cooler at my checkout lane a bunch of hamburger patties. Aparently, somebody didn't want them, but didn't know what to do with them. Instead of giving them to me so I could call for an employee in grocery to come and pick them up, this person places in a place where they consider it to be reasonable to put it. In the soda cooler.

I'm not even going to tell you about some of the other moronic things I see people do, some of which involve the dry ice and bare skin.

So, post what utterly silly things you've seen people do at your workplace.

They sell dry ice at Wal-Mart? What?

One time somebody defecated in a urinal at my school, but that's not the stupid part. The stupid part is that it was apparently necessary to close off the bathroom for A WEEK because of this.

Oh, and this.

Yeah, in blocks that are about 10 pounds, unless they've sublimated to a smaller size.

[Edit] It should be in a cooler in the front labeled "Dry Ice," but it's possible that not every Walmart carries it. Try a supercenter if you can't find it in a regular Walmart.

Oh god, don't get me started on Runescape... back when I worked in the local library, 99% of the computer users were little kids who would come and play it. They would get upset whenever someone else came in to use the computers, as if they had some sort of *ownership*... Also, they would continually complain about how slow it was, and my explanations of "It's five bloody computers sharing a bloody 56k connection!" meant absolutely nothing to them, and thus they would continue complaining...

It got bad enough that I eventually convinced my boss to let me kick them out whenever I wanted to.

Thankfully, none of my other jobs have actually involved working with people, so I am spared the stupidity that generally comes with such work.

EDIT: I must find where the dry ice is... I'd rather buy it at Wal-Mart than at the welding store

Were they all hooked up to one power strip? I'd love to have been there and just yanked the cord out at random intervals. "WTF MY GAME IS BROKEN" "Shut up and read more, punk."

Supercenters don't exist ANYWHERE in California save two places: Hemet and...uhh...El C--something. It's up in L.A. somewhere. I can't remember all the cities up there.

I cannot think of a stupid/silly person story right now. But, I do work at my school's help desk. So I've heard and seen my fair share of stupidity.

I think all the Walmarts in Phoenix are supercenters...

When I get a job, I'm sure I'll have something to say.

I was working in a small computer shop here in Britland a few years back. My boss was a great guy, always up for a laugh (as long as it wasn't the old "Hey, watch this" *BANG* one)

Anyway, one day this guy comes into the shop, walks up to the desk where my boss is sitting in his huge leather chair, and the guy asks if we sell computers.

A little shocked, my boss took a few seconds to look around at the stacks of computer hardware, the signs, and the various computer displays around the shop.

"No, sorry, we sell fish"

Without a word, the guy turned around and left.

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Hehehe... there are more from this particular storyline shuffled in the CAD archives. Quite fun.

No, but I did pull out the phone cord once or twice... took them a while to figure out that it wasn't working.

Them: "dude teh internet is broken!"
Me: "Well, let's see what I can do" *pulls up IE, sees the 404 error page* "Yep, looks like it's broken. Sorry."

*they leave*

Me and my boss: "WOOHOO!!!" *celebration*

Reminded me of this.

Ric_Olie, you should smuggle in a camera and set it up. Catch these idiots in the act, eh? If it's legal. Or just use the store security footage, if youre allowed to make copies. It's be like Just For Laughs: Gags!

Some lady - Excuse me sir is there seafood in the tuna salad?
Me - ....


This last Sunday a friend of mine were eating dinner out in the lobby of the restaurant I work at (we get break food at the end of our shifts) and this guy stumbles up the stairs into the restuarant and kind of grunts. We figure he is probably drunk or stoned but he leaves so it doesn't matter. Ten minutes later he comes back in and walks into the dining area where we can't see him. We just keep eating until we finally see him running out of the building with a salad plate FILLED from our salad bar and a fork. We follow him outside and he disappeared. Crazy people.

I got a few people who asked for cheeseburgers without cheese. The first time this happened, I asked, "Do you mean a hamburger?", and the woman said "NO! A cheeseburger without cheese!".

The next few times this happened I didn't even bother opening my mouth...

I would, but only Loss Prevention has access to the security monitors and tapes.

We got another bunch of kids today playing with the dry ice with bare hands. A father and his two teenage sons were picking out dry ice, and one of the sons grabs the ice, completely ignoring the convenient handle on the plastic bag that the ice is in. Not ten seconds later, he yelps and gives the ice to his dad, shaking his hands and complaining that they burn. It was all I could do to keep from laughing.

I once overheard a guy in a computer store trying to get someone to fix his hard drive... Apparently the motor was broken so the disk wouldn't spin. The guy's solution was to *open up the hard drive* and try to swap the disk into another chassis that worked properly. He was rather upset when the tech told him that you can't just expose the actual disk of a hard drive and expect it to work again.

We get idiots all the time in the cafe I work for.
Its like a fast food place, but you just order at a window and get the stuff. There's a bunch of tables, and a condiment table outside.
CLEARLY labeld cans are out there with "SUGAR" and "SALT" labels on them. Salt for the fries and stuff, sugar for the dough boys we make.
Get idiots all the time who want us to give them ANOTHER dough boy, free of charge, because they put salt on it instead.

And I got more. but I'll edit later

I used to work for Wendy's. People would walk right by the condiment stand and ask at the counter for ketchup, vinegar, utensils etc... straws, even. It was funny at first, but it saddens me when I think about it now.