oo i remember a story to share

some elderly guy driving a red 80's acura integra thinks he's know it all about car audio.
so he comes in, talks to the sales person for so long asking all these questions.
finally, he buys an entry level (or 2nd to entry level) pair of component speakers and gets us to help him install it for him.
as i do a walk arnd before i take apart his doors, i spotted something weird in the rear hatch area.
get this, there was a pair of book shelf speakers velcroed onto the carpet.
so i'm like WTF and leave it and go about installing the new speakers he just bought intot he front doors.
about half way into installing the speakers, he comes in and asks for a special request.
he wants the woofer to be installed into the door, BUT!!! he wants the tweeter to be wired all the way into the trunk facing forward!
so i seriously go WTF, and get the sales guy to come and talk him out of it. ofcourse he thinks demands for awhile to get this done, but in the end, the sales guy talked him out of doing it and i finished up doing the install and sent him on his way.

where to start? all types of ppl shop at value village. from the poorest of the poor to rich folk who honestly have nothing better to do than buy the most expensive 2nd hand jewelry to make themselves feel good.

homeless guys + idiot donaters = ?

customers are NOT supposed to dump their god damn couches overnight. i found a homeless guy sleeping on the couch with an 80's porno mag (the pictures were really old) and his pants half way down. NO underwear.

homeless guys in general

again, customers are NOT supposed to leave donations overnight outside. homeless guys literally rummage thru everything for w/e theyre looking for and leave giant messes. on one day, we found the mess of clothing had been pissed on

homeless guy kept coming inside to sleep on our couches. was kicked out by me 3 times in the same day and all he could say is GOD I JUST WANT TO GET SOME SLEEP.

single public washroom horrors

there's only one unisex washroom available to the public at the VV i worked at. on the weekend, a customer came to tell me that the washroom was backed up. so i grudgingly went to check it out. not only was the toilet plugged, people KEPT GOING ON TOP OF IT TILL IT FILLED UP AND THEN SOME. the dirty toilet water was starting to spill OUT of the washroom and onto the sales floor. needless to say, I WAS OFF OF CARROTS FOR MONTHS.

eventually, we would just slap an out of order sign anytime there was a plug reported. and we told customers that there was no other washroom to use, which is a total lie but who cares?

mainland chinese tourists

a group of partially drunk mainlanders came to my till and wanted to pay for their items with Chinese money. when i told them they can't pay with that (in broken, horrible mandarin), they were completely confused and angered. WTF THIS ISN'T CHINA.

there's a restaurant next door and on many occasions i found them pissing in between our two buildings INSTEAD of using an actual washroom. wtf...

cops who don't really care

people steal shit all the time from us. we DO call the cops. as i was reporting the latest details of a stolen jacket, the female cop asked me "so how much was the jacket priced at?" and i said "$15". her reply "and what do you expect to happen?" me "uhhh... find him and charge him?"

racist and crazy white guy

so a bug-eyed dude comes up to me and says in a rushed voice, THAT GUY JUST STOLE A JACKET CALL THE COPS. and he runs out of the store seemingly in pursuit. i went to the office and checked out the recorded video. found no evidence of anyone walking out with a jacket. dude returns a few mins later and says to me "WHERE ARE THE COPS? I FOLLOWED THAT GUY FOR 3 BLOCKS" and i said something like "i didn't see anyone stealing a jacket on video". He mutters something to himself and starts to walk away. he stops, turns around and decides to say to me "YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY", my response "OHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH". he walked away after that lol...

just for fun

there was a lady who literally looked like jaba the hut. fat and same exact face except she had red dyed hair and lipstick. the resemblance was UNCANNY.

^ that VV wouldn't be on Granville St. in Richmond would it? Coz there's a restaurant next door to that as well.

you are correct sir.

Those are pretty good. :D

my exact thoughts :haha: question, why did you continue working there after all these horror stories :confused:

well... i worked there for 2 years? started when the store first opened. you kind of get detached to all the messed up crap you see. wasn't all negative though, some co-workers were great. if it wasn't for the thieving homeless people, retard mainlanders and rude/cheap ass customers, it would have been a great job.

I agree, a lot of times with a "shitty job" there are really only one or two things that really MAKE it shitty, and other things that make it a great place to work. And a we see here, sometimes the "thieving homeless people, retard mainlanders and rude/cheap ass customers" are a source of amusement in themselves. The thing with the "rude/cheap ass customers" in particular is, you only have to deal with them rarely and for short periods, and then they're gone, and you can go out later with your friends or coworkers and have a good laugh about them over a beer.

Now if you have idiot coworkers, a moron boss, or work lousy shifts and jobs for a dumbass company, that's a whole other matter....

actually the rude/cheap ass customers are usually repeat business. i've literally had someone as me if they could get a $0.50 discount on a $1.99 item. just for fun i said no. there's also the shoplifters that i caught there (at least 3 or 4 that i caught personally). what really made me quit there was the fucktard new store manager we had after our first left to go back to school.

I worked at Famous players for 2 1/2 years. I mostly worked floor doing closeing.

I was closeing the theatres and went into one that was closed to make sure no one was inside and I found too people fucking in front of the screen, I started laughing and asked if I could have seconds. Well lets just say they looked over and took off out the back door with clothes in hand.

Another late story from doing the washroom checks, people used to smear shit in the walls just shit on the ground fricken nasty. So I was makeing sure the stalls are clean and the end handicap stall I heard a weird noise. I was like WTF and said hello are you ok in there, I heard nothing then all of a suddon the door flew open and 2 guys ran out. Can you say nasty!!

Really, one of the dumbest questions that i get from customers is....

"Do you work here"

Psh, naw i just wear this stupid looking shirt with the logo of our company on it with khakis...
When they ask, you can usually see their eyes looking at the logo before and during and after they've asked the question.

Some asian lady came in and stole products with her 4 or 5 year old daughter!
The products came up to $91.00 before tax, that $1 came from a pack of gum she stole, she told her daughter to pick it from the shelf before the lady pockets the gum.

Should have sent her ass to jail, but oh well, hope she learns.

My friend who worked mcDonalds.

called to the restroom cuz someone shit in the urinal.

he wasnt pleased as he tried to mash the poop into the drain with a toilet plunger

my family owned a chinese restarant on Broadway. (now the Regal Beagle)

a lady comes in and tells me i forgot an item in her takeout order.

I tell her thats impossible. she says no it isnt and demands her item now.

I then have to explain that our restarant is still under construction and hasnt actually opened for buisness yet.

she quietly walked away with a stupid look on her face.

I don't get it. :confused:

:facepalm:

I think it's more frightening when customers recognize you from just the back of your head! Called by first name too..

one lady that i caught stealing clothing had shirts stuffed into the front of her skirt. she was an old, tanned, skinny immigrant. we called her crazy lady.

a guy i caught stealing was there with his wife and son. he stole a kitchen item priced at $0.99. :confused:


i'm quite sure my value village poop story is better than this :thumbsup:

i've had instances where people deliberately smeared their poo across the washroom floor.

I worked at a carwash when I was in highschool. have lots of memories from there. Unfortunatley not to many funny stories that I can remember like the ones above.

One time I was power washing someone truck and it had the 4x4 stickers on the side. I guess I got to close with the power washer and tore one of the stickers. Didn't want to get in shit so I proceeded to blast the whole sticker off then go to the other side and remove that one to. She left without noticing and I only worked weekends so dodged that bullet.

I learned to drive stick at this job. The first standard I ever drove was some unsuspecting ladies new Porche, good times.

oh god, i just remembered another poop story from VV.

i was working like normal up in the front of the store and my cashier told me, there's something by the change rooms you want to take a look at. so i went and looked. SOMEONE LITERALLY TOOK A CRAP ON THE FLOOR AND LEFT IT THERE.

i was disgusted obviously and really couldn't think of a way to get rid of it without touching it. after a few minutes, my cashier took a used hat we had for sale and wrapped it up. of course, she put to one side and i was forced to deal with it. NOW, my dilemma.... i can't flush a hat, what do i do?

we have a trash compactor in the back so i figured that was the quickest way to get rid of it. so i walked the crap-hat to the back and tossed it in, figuring it was over and done with. later on, i heard some complaining in the back and went to investigate. so i asked the recycler, whats up? they said something smells like shit and of course, i explained the whole situation. immediately he said "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? AWWWW"

what happened was, instead of getting crushed, the crap was smeared across the compactor part of the machine. it smelt pretty bad for a couple of days.

i laughed quite a few times while typing this hahahah....

My dad had an employee that ran one of our ride on lawn mowers at the time... He disabled the safety that stopped the blades when you were out of the seat for some reason. It was a long time ago, I guess he figured it saved time, or couldn't be bothered to put that back together when fixing something.

When training a new employee, for some reason he had the mower still running and when showing the trainee all the bits of the lawnmower, stuck his hand right under there!

Half his fingers, gone!

That is so epic. I pass by this place on the way home everyday almost. I've never dared to venture in there yet, maybe one day...:haha:

Wow... I saw exactly something like that in the entrance of the supermarket right beside Richmond Sushi.. :mad:

OH SHIT!!
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

can't stand the mainlander behaviour, but that's what it's like in Beijing when I went to visit last year. Everywhere we go, there's kids grabbing onto their crotch when they need to go, and then the parents encourage them to shit/pee right in full public view. And it's not over the edge of the sidewalk, it's all over and anywhere they feel is convenient. *sigh*

I also noticed that little infants and toddlers wearing clothes where there's no zipper or buttons on the bottom. So if they squat, the fabric instantly parts and they have free access to pee/poop.

the store itself isn't that bad... this stuff honestly isn't a regular occurance, but it sticks out in my memory of course.


yeah... i detest how mainlanders act in this country but eventually (hopefully) they will learn. even in hong kong some grandma sneezed a wet one onto the back of my neck while walking in a crowd.