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(that didn't get you in trouble)

I needed to shred a sensitive card that was white and laminated. My override card looked very similar from behind. You can see where this went, lord knows I didn't.

They were just concerned that about it being lost and I'm like nope, I know where it is. In the shredder.

 

(something light as we head into the holidays. lordy. mega event, holidays, and occasional snow panic days. prayer circle y'all)



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(that didn't get you in trouble)

I needed to shred a sensitive card that was white and laminated. My override card looked very similar from behind. You can see where this went, lord knows I didn't.

They were just concerned that about it being lost and I'm like nope, I know where it is. In the shredder.

(something light as we head into the holidays. lordy. mega event, holidays, and occasional snow panic days. prayer circle y'all)


Well the good thing is they can just order you a new one. Also, in the meantime, someone who knows a thing or two about the computerized systems could have made you a barcode with the number on it while you wait for the new override to come in. Or, if you use it a lot like me, you could just memorize the # from the barcode in case you needed it but didn't have it on you.

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Luckily I haven't had anything that anybody else knew about happen to me. A ton of "REALLY?!" moments to myself, but nothing embarrassing.

However, my old grocery backup had one last year that would literally make me not want to come into work for a long time. He was hauling some water into the vestibule with the straddle stacker(against policy) during store hours(was around 8pm) When he exited the lobby, he forgot to lower it down and ran into the door full speed, literally tearing it apart. Customers and everyone were around. I still feel bad for him about that lol. They had to replace not only the door but the metal framework around it the next day.

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I'm getting a new override, they were just worried it was actually lost. Ours just have barcodes, no numbers, and unlike literally everyone else with one, I never made a copy of mine. So I'm just borrowing other customer service people's until the new one comes in.

 

We had two courtesy clerks break the exterior doors by bringing in like 20+ small carts at once, something they'd been told not to do. One was still on probation so he was fired. The other one was encouraged to quit or pay to get them fixed.

I've knocked the interior door off its track with the mop machine. I also hit the cigarette register with it one night and actually moved it to the point we couldn't get the door shut. Luckily both nights, someone else helped me and we got everything back in place.

The stupidest thing I've ever done that should have got me in real trouble - at like 2am, I told a horrible customer "well go to wal-mart" if you want a register open and she was like I will, you're so rude! then she called and spoke to the night manager. He's really nice but he had to tell the morning manager. The one that morning was one of the more harsh ones. Yeah nothing ever came of it. Except I never got scheduled overnight again. He never said a thing about it.



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I froze my tongue inside the freezer to the racks on a dare. After laughing their asses off my work buddies helped me get loose. Luckily it wasn't stuck long so no harm came of it.

And a buddy of mine stuck a stuffed chicken into our microwave at work

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We had two courtesy clerks break the doors by bringing in like 20+ small carts at once, something they'd been told not to do. One was still on probation so he was fired. The other one was encouraged to quit or pay to get them fixed.


 Whoa whoa whoa. What? Trying to get an employee to pay for that is illegal... They can fire him, sure, but not try and make him pay for it.



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We had two courtesy clerks break the doors by bringing in like 20+ small carts at once, something they'd been told not to do. One was still on probation so he was fired. The other one was encouraged to quit or pay to get them fixed.


 Whoa whoa whoa. What? Trying to get an employee to pay for that is illegal... They can fire him, sure, but not try and make him pay for it.



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We had two courtesy clerks break the doors by bringing in like 20+ small carts at once, something they'd been told not to do. One was still on probation so he was fired. The other one was encouraged to quit or pay to get them fixed.


 Whoa whoa whoa. What? Trying to get an employee to pay for that is illegal... They can fire him, sure, but not try and make him pay for it.


He was a minor, I just remember hearing things like that. They keep doing shady things to not fire people - someone broke the handheld while swinging it around (told not to do it) and they "encouraged him to quit" (his words) rather than firing him. I think the only person who got fired fired got high on his break and then came back and told the manager he was sick and had to go to the ER.

Saturday, the morning fuel center person called in for Sunday morning and we got her shift covered. The closing person Sunday night was like yeah I have a fever, but I'll be there. Well, he called in Monday night with the flu. The person who called in was working the midshift there and was told by the front end supervisor that she didn't have a choice, she had to close since she called in.

Pretty sure they can't punish you for calling in. But did she fight it? No.



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We also had a new floor guy this year, his first week he rammed the scrubber into one of the aisles. It created a huge U shape in the bottom 2 shelves and destroyed the product. This happened in the middle of the night obviously and had to have the shelves replaced. He's rammed lots of other things too, but none as severe as that lol

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Stupidest thing I ever done was a couple years ago, somehow when I was doing the dishes I got the giant cake tip that looks like this but bigger:
www.acup4mycake.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IMG_2047.jpg

Stuck on my finger. It was hiding there in the water and I reached right in and grabbed for it without knowing it was there.

That thing hurt like hell getting off my finger because I had to get my finger wet enough I could slip it off. I was freaking out thinking I was going to have to call for a manager to get the thing off.

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Thank goodness this wasn't me, but the biggest blunder someone pulled in the bakery department is they put the breakout cart of bread dough in the proofer instead of the retarder-- and then turned it on. 



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Stupid question of the day but what's a retarder?

We don't have that, we just have a proofer and an oven.

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Stupid question of the day but what's a retarder?



 at this point I would say every customer that shops at our store.



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Stupid question of the day but what's a retarder?

We don't have that, we just have a proofer and an oven.


 It's where you put the cart of frozen bread dough in to thaw overnight.    It retards (slows down) yeast fermentation so the dough doesn't start to proof before the baker comes in and bakes it.  Generally they're cooler than regular deli coolers and the refrigeration system is designed so the dough doesn't dry out as it defrosts.



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Dumbest thing #2:

Burped a good one after making an announcement over our voycall. Trouble is... The damned thing still on and everyone in the whole store heard me gargantuan burp.

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A rather large woman was sitting on one of our electric wheelchairs down an isle. I passed by and she stopped me demanding to know why it wouldn't go and I blurted out that the carts have a weight limit and kept on walking.
It just popped out of my mouth, no filters. I didn't get in trouble for it and I didn't even realize how it came out until later. It was one of those 'did I say that out loud?' moments....

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A rather large woman was sitting on one of our electric wheelchairs down an isle. I passed by and she stopped me demanding to know why it wouldn't go and I blurted out that the carts have a weight limit and kept on walking.
It just popped out of my mouth, no filters. I didn't get in trouble for it and I didn't even realize how it came out until later. It was one of those 'did I say that out loud?' moments....


 lol.

I was trying to finish up my shift and a regular starts talking to me.  She was telling me how great a certain product was and doesn't leave an icky aftertaste.  It was a v8 juice.  She said she needed it because she didn't eat enough veggies.  I blurted out, "That sounds too healthy to me."  I don't think she thought it was funny.  I would feel even worse if she was a health nut!

 
 


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A rather large woman was sitting on one of our electric wheelchairs down an isle. I passed by and she stopped me demanding to know why it wouldn't go and I blurted out that the carts have a weight limit and kept on walking.
It just popped out of my mouth, no filters. I didn't get in trouble for it and I didn't even realize how it came out until later. It was one of those 'did I say that out loud?' moments....


 The word is aisle.  An isle is a small island, as in "Here on Gilligan's isle."



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Went to pick up what I thought was a Milk Dud and it was.....well you know.



-- Edited by Kenny Powers on Wednesday 12th of November 2014 10:55:47 PM

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A rather large woman was sitting on one of our electric wheelchairs down an isle. I passed by and she stopped me demanding to know why it wouldn't go and I blurted out that the carts have a weight limit and kept on walking.
It just popped out of my mouth, no filters. I didn't get in trouble for it and I didn't even realize how it came out until later. It was one of those 'did I say that out loud?' moments....


 The word is aisle.  An isle is a small island, as in "Here on Gilligan's isle."


 Thanks. I'll remember the isle's aisle the next time I'm on the isle.



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4hourrush wrote:

Stupid question of the day but what's a retarder?

We don't have that, we just have a proofer and an oven.


 It's where you put the cart of frozen bread dough in to thaw overnight.    It retards (slows down) yeast fermentation so the dough doesn't start to proof before the baker comes in and bakes it.  Generally they're cooler than regular deli coolers and the refrigeration system is designed so the dough doesn't dry out as it defrosts.


 That's interesting. We just have a regular cooler room.

 
 
 
 
 


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Ours just have barcodes, no numbers, and unlike literally everyone else with one, I never made a copy of mine.


Ours don't print the # on the override either. Just scan it at the register to see the #'s encoded in the barcode. There's also a way to look it up in ACE.

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How strange, our store overrides are five digit numbers that are secret and special to you.  And you type the override in the register and turn a key when needed.



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in my store the override is 8 digit number.... and for some strange reason, it was made to scan for 2.00 with my name as the "product"... ha ha I know it was to prevent anyone other than me from knowing my override number.. but damn it kinda feels weird knowing that I'm priced at $2 lol

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The stupidest thing I can remember is actually caring lol!  When I first started working 3 years ago we had black plastic trash cans at some of the registers, the rest we used the boxes the plastic bags came in.  One day it was overflowing all over the floor so I picked everything up, stuffed it in the trashcan then stepped on it to compact it.  That cheap plastic trashcan cracked down the side.  Oh well.  I never mentioned it to anyone and it was replaced with a cardboard box.  



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in my store the override is 8 digit number.... and for some strange reason, it was made to scan for 2.00 with my name as the "product"... ha ha I know it was to prevent anyone other than me from knowing my override number.. but damn it kinda feels weird knowing that I'm priced at $2 lol


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A rather large woman was sitting on one of our electric wheelchairs down an isle. I passed by and she stopped me demanding to know why it wouldn't go and I blurted out that the carts have a weight limit and kept on walking.
It just popped out of my mouth, no filters. I didn't get in trouble for it and I didn't even realize how it came out until later. It was one of those 'did I say that out loud?' moments....


 Considering our scooters have a 500lb weight limit, that woman must have been something special.



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Stocked expired milk on the dairy rack.



It was my third week on the job, but first day in the dairy cooler.



And it wasn't just one or two facings, it was virtually all the shelf space of the 1% milk.



They weren't too happy about it, but all they had me do was get rid of them and put in the proper product.

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A rather large woman was sitting on one of our electric wheelchairs down an isle. I passed by and she stopped me demanding to know why it wouldn't go and I blurted out that the carts have a weight limit and kept on walking.
It just popped out of my mouth, no filters. I didn't get in trouble for it and I didn't even realize how it came out until later. It was one of those 'did I say that out loud?' moments....


Considering our scooters have a 500lb weight limit, that woman must have been something special.


Even better, here the limit is only 250 lbs.

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Applying for management? Seriously though...

I once was ordering candy for a display, and didn't pay attention to pack sizes, and ordered about a half pallet of fun size Butterfingers. Sat on those things for about 4 months til we got rid of them all.

One year at Valentines Day, we got 1.5 times our order. I had been keeping meticulous track of Floral orders for Valentines Day since our Floral shrink was out of control (and whose isn't?). So when the orders came in, I could verify what we ordered against what we got. Then the Produce coordinator shows up and starts to grill me about what was happening, why did we order so much, why wasn't I paying attention yadda yadda yadda. Basically trying to pin everything on me. I pulled out all of my documentation, laid it on the desk and said "I have my ass covered on this. Warehouse sent us too much, here is the proof. We didn't order this, I have verification of such, and I won't let you hang me on this when I or my floral head didn't do it. What are YOU going to do about it?" She did nothing of course, and we had double digit shrink. But no one ever said another word about it.

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I was stocking during one of those bumper-to-bumper shopping weekends (couple of months on the job); moved my U-boat out of one customer's way and it hit another customer smack in the face. Good thing he was a good sport about it and no one else saw. I would have been in deep doo-doo.

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About 30 minutes before my shift ends I was moving some of the pallets of milk so there would be room for truck. One of the pallets was half full. I get it on a jack and notice its leaning mean the weight is not even. Started to move it then POW! Milk when everywhere luckily is wasnt all the gallons of milk that busted. Got a mop and squeegee and was able to clean it all up just in time for my shift to end. 

 



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Stupidest thing I've done at work was coming on to this company in the first place.

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Stupidest thing I've done at work was coming on to this company in the first place.


 I was waiting for someone to post this. :)



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Stupidest thing I've done at work was coming on to this company in the first place.


 I was waiting for someone to post this. :)


 

You knew it would be me.
With my boss (FEM), you knew it would be me.



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FrontEndSlave wrote:

Lord_Uboat wrote:
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Stupidest thing I've done at work was coming on to this company in the first place.


I was waiting for someone to post this. :)


You knew it would be me.
With my boss (FEM), you knew it would be me.


Hate to burst you guys' bubbles, but some anon posted that 6 days ago lol

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I've smoked weed on shift before. I told a buddy to meet me behind the store and i 'took salvage out'. I love holding the back door keys, lol



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I told a customer she was rude because she was being hateful to me while I was shopping.

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