Employees Share Horrific & Bizarre Incidents That Nearly Made Them Quit

Tilesh Bo November 28, 2020

Anyone who's worked a bunch of jobs in their lifetime has likely experienced a volatile work environment at some point, but these stories from a recent r/AskReddit thread are seriously next level. I doubt many people have had to deal with the head of a rabies-infested javelina on their first day of work, or chase down some disembodied lobster tails running around a grocery store. Whether these tales of employment are totally shocking or all too familiar, anyone can relate to that moment where you think 'damn, I don't get paid enough for this shit.'  

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Text - r/AskReddit S u/indian_boy786 • 1d Top Awarded 111 102 83 S 73 74 1 What is your "I don't get paid enough for this shit" moment? 65.8k 17.6k 1 Share

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Text - chillypyo • 1d 1 Award Being told that a ruined a woman's christmas because the supermarket I worked at was out of brandy infused marmalade Reply 452

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Text - stickaforkimdone • 1d S12 Awards Fish monger in a grocery store. We got a large number of lobsters in, soft-shelled and already dieing. So my manager decided we could at least sell their tails. Apparently lobsters don't really have a central nervous system, so when you sever the tails and put their tails on ice they freaking run away. So I had to chase these tails down because they've escaped into the rest of the display case, onto the floor, and hidden under our prep tables. Never again.

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Text - Darth_Xenic• 1d 23 Awards I used to work at Old Country Buffet, and there were kids who would eat until they threw up- like alllII the time- This one case that is seared into my mind was when I was once fixing up the salad bar and I heard 'Billy Run!' screamed from an ignorant parent and then I see this 12ish year old boy running to the bathroom, only he didn't make it. An unholy amount of undigested red Jello-O came exploded out of him like a fucking volcano all over the Caesar Salad, th

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Text - Barflyerdammit · 1d 5 Awards First day at the health department, I'm left at the reception desk alone while literally everyone else in the office went out to a farewell lunch for the person I was replacing. As I was on 90 day probation, wasn't yet licensed and badged, my pay was $7.96/hr. I'm sitting at reception, and some redneck comes in with a leaking garbage bag and drops it on my desk. It contains a newly beheaded javelina head. His buddy had been bitten, and it needed to be tested f

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Text - Frgmn7669 · 1d A2 O 3 40 Awards Bagging groceries at a major supermarket. The manager came over to tell me that I needed to clean up the bathroom. An elderly gentleman fell off the toilet while pooping and it was a literal shitshow. Apparently I was the most qualified because I was 16. I was handed a broom and a dustpan. I shit you not (sorry had to.) My reward for going above and beyond the call of duty? Five dollars in store coupons. Sometimes dreams really do come true. Reply 17.5k

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Text - herpty_derpty • 1d 5 Awards Manager at a grocery store I worked in my teens refused to pay the waste management bill for several months. When they finally came and emptied the dumpster, there were still mounds of trash laying about around the area. He had me go out and clean all of it up alone. I didn't have any protective gear or supplies whatsoever, and was out in 100+ degree weather. I was only given a bunch of trash bags to put it into, and when I went in to ask for help, I was just g

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Text - From-the-Trailerpark • 1d O 28 Awards plumber Owner of a mobile home called and said they had a stinky yard. I could smell it when I pulled up. the mobile home was new and had only been set up for about 8 months. while setting it up, someone didn't tighten a no-hub band of the toilet in the kids bathroom. 8 months of flushed toilet was all over the ground, under the home and had just started being noticed outside. I told the homeowner to call the guys that set it up to come fix it. I wasn

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Text - Brancher • 23h 2 Awards Back when I did plumbing went out to a job that required us to crawl into the crawl space of about a 200 year old mill house. I opened up the crawl space and shined my light in there across the crawl space to see all the rafters and pipes just drapped in snake skins and some snakes slithering away into the darkness. Noped the fuck out of that one. I'd rather crawl though shit than snakes. 4.6k

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Text - Historical-Foot99 · 23h a A 2 O 21 Awards Grocery store cashier. The customer was angry because her cereal had rung up wrong. I called a price check and this lady berated me the whole time. I recall that she accused me of trying to steal from her. Said she was going to get me fired. I looked at her and said, "I make $7.25 per hour no matter how much you pay for this cereal, so I do not give a shit how this situation turns out." She stared at me in shock. The price check comes back saying

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Text - Foxnet93 · 1d 4 Awards I have an mildly irrational fear of spiders. I was asked to help clean out an old storage area/shed type building. It was covered in dust and a ton of these big black spiders but a big enough space that I felt fine. Until my supervisor handed me a leaf blower and asked me to go through a back hallway with it. Opened the door to the hallway and it was cramped, just tall enough to be a little over my height and just wide enough for me to walk through. Except there was

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Text - Skrivus • 1d 8 Awards I worked at circuit city when I was 17. Heard a noise of packaging being opened in the movie section, found a guy crouched down cutting open dvd boxes & stealing the discs. He looked at me, held his knife out and said "Got a problem?" I just replied "I don't get paid enough for this shit" & backed off. I went to the back room of the warehouse area to call a manager to tell them what happened. Never could get a hold of anyone so I just chilled in the warehouse area fo

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Text - thenletskeepdancing · 1d 48 Awards I'm a public librarian. I was helping someone in the computer room and turned to tell someone he needed to keep his exclamations at the video he was watching down. Just then, the woman I was helping leapt aside because the man I was shushing pissed himself. It ran down onto the jacket he had tied around his waist, down the chair, onto the ground. Turns out he'd snuck in alcohol and was totally black out drunk. I told him he had to leave. He put the piss

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Text - Think-Anywhere-7751 · 1d A 3 7 Awards I worked at a heating and air conditioning company doing bookkeeping. I was being trained by the companies accountant. If I made a mistake the owner would literally scream at me full voice. I overheard him talking to his brother and his brother had told him not to scream at me. The owner said, "you have to tear them down to build them up." I decided I wasn't going to take another day of his screaming after that. Reply 1 22.7k

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Text - shitvan • 1d 1 Award When my patient threatened to kill me and my family, then brought out a hand-made wooden knife from under his bed. Reply 865

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Text - juneauboe · 1d EA 3 2 Awards Barista Grabby customer grabs drink on the counter, tastes it, says, "This isn't mine. I ordered a vanilla latté. This is also iced." I proceed to tell her it's clearly not her drink she picked up then. Am currently making Grabby's drink, then have to double back to make the previous drink for the customer it was originally intended for. Again. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Customer service should definitely be paid more. Reply 1 4.3k ...

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Text - delaneyk19 · 1d 8 Awards I ran the entire company's financials and general management for $14/hr. I had a meeting with the owner telling him I need a raise and to hire an assistant, he told me I wasn't "business minded" and should be a stay at home mom. I quit the next day. Reply 19.8k

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Text - TKOism • 1d 5 Awards Worked at a retail store. Fiends would come in occasionally looking to steal shit and the worst we could do legally was ask them to leave but my boss insisted we get physical with them, to which I obviously told her fuck no. I watched her chase one out of the store one day and she screams at me since l'm standing by the door like "TACKLE HIM" and I'm like uh no Imao

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Text - TFAJubilee • 1d 2 3 28 Awards When I was doing 90% of my boss' job in hopes of a full time promotion that I had been promised for three years and he took all the credit and told me my promotion wasn't in the budget. Reply 26.1k suprememan20019 • 1d 2 Awards Bro fuck that 1 9.3k ...

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Text - jordanmlee · 1d S6 Awards When a thick stream of sweat drained out of this girls cell phone case. I had to explain to her that her phone had water damage and that she shouldn't work out with her phone in her bra, all the while trying to be professional and not gag while cleaning the mess. (I sold phones at Sprint). Reply 7.5k

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Text - ElleCBrown • 1d S 8 Awards I was a manager for a well known lingerie store. Our location was in a failing suburban mall. The store was giant and shaped oddly. There were dressing rooms in odd hidden corners and a few blind spots. The store was located at the end of the mall next to other stores no one really went to, so there wasn't much foot traffic. We were also always short staffed because no one wanted to work out there. All of those factors made us a prime location for thieves and we

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Text - CDC_ • 1d 3 5 Awards I worked at walmart for less than a month in 2009. I scanned a big box fan for a guy and it didn't ring up, so I said "I gotta do a price check on this, I apologize." The guy said "It's $24.99 you fucking idiot." I stared at him for a moment, then reached up and turned my little register light off, turned around, walked out to my car, and went home. Fuck that shit. Reply 1 12.2k ... pete1901 · 1d I hope he stood there for ages waiting for you to come back! 4.7k ... CD

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