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we need a union called W.A.C.K. or Workers Against Careless Karens, that focuses on workers rights against customers
that’s wack! I’m down
YES YES YES
I require we find a Y
To make W.A.C.K.Y stuff
their flag would be the *union W.A.C.K*
Canada already has tons of unions and laws to protect workers.
I'm so glad there were so many positive ones today, especially for Robin's sake lmao. He deserves a break from the angy
Break from the angy
No breaks from the angy.. the angy is justified
@@redbirddesigns_6610sure it’s justified, but it’s probably not a good idea to be permanently angy
I very angy at you!
I was honestly (pleasantly) shocked there were so many positive ones. Hopefully more people behave with grace
8:08
Arstotzka is a fictional country from the game Papers Please. The game is centered around the player having to survive in Arstotzka, Soviet-inspired country, at a security checkpoint. The player has to inspect passports and accept/reject them based on ever-changing conditions at extremely low wage.
Glory to Arstotzka!!!
Cobrastan!!!!
@@xhasemcdonald5255 Cause no trouble.
[Jacksepticeye voice] F*** outta my line!!! 😂
@@dh0713was that not the point of that person’s joke?
“CAN YOUR SON EVEN READ?!” Is absolutely hilarious
I didn't start to read until I was 3 and wasn't reading on my own until 5, and I was very advanced as a kid. When someone told me the national reading average is 3rd grade, I legit could tell them I hadn't read at that level since I was in the first grade. Anyone reading at two-years-old is probably a Candarian Demon.
I've had friends that deal with seizures. It is *so fucking terrifying* . I've done exactly what she said, put them on their side, hold their head in my lap and wait. Just hearing that experience makes me tear up. If I saw *anyone* having a seizure, I'd be running to them. So awful how some people seem to have no humanity left.
I'm a manger at a grocery store. A few years ago, I had a cashier who worked in my store that had seizures. One day they had a gran mal. The other cashier vaulted over the checkstand to catch them before they hit the ground. These are the old checkstands from the early 1980's. The big orange ones. I've never seen anyone move so fast.
i hope this is the top comment because i didnt know this
I know enough about seizures to deal with them as long as it takes for professional help to arrive, but many don't. Last thing someone in the middle of a medical emergency needs is someone with their heart in the right place but their head up their ass trying to help. I once saw someone needing to be taken to the hospital after someone like that broke five ribs trying to give them the Heimlich maneuver. They didn't even get the choking hazard out.
I was in the room when someone had a seizure and I did nothing. But in my case I was literally in a room full of medical personnel and was absolutely the least qualified person there to help. So I just tried to stay out of the professionals' way.
There's a Logical Fallacy called the Bystander Effect. In places with lots of people, like the store, mall, park, etc, if something starts to happen, people tend to either freeze and watch or ignore the situation, believing someone else will step in. The larger the crowd, the more people end up becoming bystanders.
I worked at Target for about a year back in 2016-2017. A lady complained to me that two other employees were openly discussing where they planned to go to lunch while stocking the shelves. How. Dare. They.
How dare they have casual conversations and be humans!/sarcastic
Humans acting like humans? Not on my watch!
I can see complaining if they're making you wait or blocking the aisle, but not while being actually productive and not interfering with you in the slightest.
@@Craxin01 seriously. She wanted me to tell a manager because it was "unprofessional." I was like sure, I'll do that, and of course just went about my day.
@@nerdypenguin9164 Good on you!
I used to go to the local corner stores on valentines day, tell the person at the register that I wanted to buy a piece of candy for someone, but I couldn't decide which one, and then ask them what their favorite was. Then I'd buy that, and give it to them with a "happy valentines day!"
The most important part is that I'd them immediately leave before they could either turn it down or get creeped out. I was a pretty young man, but no one is too pretty to be creepy lol
That's not creepy at all. That's just sweet.
@@AIHumanEquality aww, thanks!
As someone ON disabilities( On the spectrum and as an adult) I can say that it very much is true... And it's admittedly terrifying to know that if I go above, even a bit. It's all gone in a blink of an eye.
( In reference to robin's quote at 20:20 )
Sad thing is, even without means testing, it's FAR cheaper for the state to just cover your disability than it is to try to Big Brother everyone on disability. It's just cheaper to be good.
They cheated my aunt out of her benefits by waiting to send her one month's deposit till the last day then giving her the next month's on the first day, thus pushing her account over the limit.
They cancelled her immediately and it took half a year for her to get tem back. Six months with no means to pay bills, buy groceries and no health insurance.
Those people are dicks.
Same
Even just EBT (Food Stamps), is a fight to keep. It feels like as soon as you're able to make enough money for one meal a day by yourself, they stop it. It makes trying to get a better job or higher pay feel more like a punishment.
I hate how some jerks fear of people just taking the money to be lazy has literally created a system where people can't afford to take the first steps into becoming more self sufficient.
The story with the preteens learning money value makes me happy.
I use to be the manager of a children’s department in a bookstore. My favorite customers were small children who would come in and read quietly. Figure out what books they wanted then ask me or one of my cashiers so politely if they could buy their books. I made sure we had the coolest stickers and bookmarks because of those kids.
I’m dyslexic, sometimes I would get the numbers wrong while I was working the front register, so say that their total was 38.96, they only got like five things, and I read out “Thank you sir/maam/gender neutral friend, your total will be 83.96…….WAIT NO” this happened allot and pissed people off
people make mistakes, theres a little screen usually that shows the total to the customer, they can nicely point it out. Or, companies should make the font they use more dyslexic friendly.
Imma be honest, if you did that in front of me I'd just start laughing. Not AT you, mind you, but at the fact that I don't do much better with my Autism, there's a reason I'm not allowed to run the register 😅
@@pokegirl1799 tbh people assumed I was trying to scam them a good amount of the time
If a cashier did that I'd have a good laugh, pay the right amount, go back home and brag about how I got 50 percent off this apple
1) My grandfather was dyslexic, so I get it. 2) There is always a customer facing screen, even if it's just one of those tiny calculator screens, that shows the price. If they can't read, that's on them.
if only the positive stories were the norm, more people would willingly want to work retail
But it must be boring af when people think story's like this are worth sharing💤💤💤
@@tomwobus1482You are the reason the news is so depressing 🙄
@@tomwobus1482 I'd take a boring, predictable job over something that is chaotic and stressful everyday.
Well I do think there should be some negative stories as well to let people see the negative sides of working retail
20:21 I'm on disability. This is definitely how it feels (though exaggerated). To put it briefly, "I'm too poor to get a job" is a reasonable description of my finances. I lose $1in care for every $2 I make myself. A full time job at minimum wage would risk setting off an investigation into if I'm still disabled while also not fully paying my expenses.
Edit: oh yeah the best part. If they suspect I've been faking, they might demand I return money I previously received.
Disclaimer: I am not the one who directly handles this, but my family does keep informed on what's happening.
As someone currently living on disability I can confirm, it's a living nightmare. The maximum amount I can have in my account is $2,000 before they start lowering the monthly amount (at least where I live atm). Minimum monthly rent for what is basically a bare bones apartment is about 45-60% of that. So yes, Robin...disability income is both a blessing and a curse.
Lucky, every apartment around me is over $2,000 so I have to live with mom. There’s no way I’ll be able to live on my own and will have to live with mom forever unless I Mary someone and they buy or rent the apartment
8:10
Arstotzka is a fictional country from the game Papers, Please. Said game is about verifying passports/IDs to let people into Arstotzka. "Glory to Arstotzka" is said many times throughout the game and its many endings.
*Banishes you to an endless void of torture and torment with nothing to keep you company except the screaming of the damned (cutely)*
I always love the customer who claims you sold something you never did. I’ve worked at the same place 11 1/2 years, and people still don’t believe me when I mentioned we’ve never sold it in all time I’ve been there.
I have been in your store once so clearly I know better than an employee who works here every day for 12 years!
Relatable. I work at a pizza place and used to regularly get people insisting we sell burgers and fries there. I've worked there for 8 years, we have never sold burgers and fries at a pizza place.
The reverse is annoying though. There's a café downtown where my parents live that is far too expensive to go to regularly but had coffee that my dad really liked. For Christmas every year I'd give them a call on my way into town, ask if I could come by and buy a pound of coffee beans, then pick some up for my coffee addicted parents to enjoy over the holiday after they gave me the okay. My dad passed away several years ago but I kept doing that because mum enjoyed the memories that coffee brought back except for last year. Last year, I was told when I called them that they don't sell coffee beans, have never sold coffee beans in the past, and to not ask again about coffee unless I wanted a cup of coffee that they brewed. The heck you haven't, I bought beans from them ever Christmas for over a decade by that point, I know that is a bold faced lie but if you don't want my money I can't really force the issue.
When I worked retail, I would avoid this argument by saying "We no longer stock that item." That way they usually don't get pissy about being wrong.
My brother is a department manager at one of the local Walmarts (we have 3 in town, 5 if you include the Neighborhood Market grocery only stores) and a woman tried to return a bicycle they NEVER sold there. She got so mad at him telling her they didn't sell that bicycle she picked it up and threw it at him. He had to duck or get brained by it.
Re: the story of the couple who said “oh they’re closed we’ll come back tomorrow.” I went to my pharmacy, which is part of the big retail supermarket by me. When I got there the lights were off, the security gate partially pulled down, but the two techs were still inside talking. I looked at the hours and missed it by a minute. I remarked “oh, I guess I missed it”, ready to leave and come back the next day. Both of them smiled and said “No problem”. They gave me my scripts and rang me up. I thanked them and wished them a good night. I left with a big smile because they helped me even though they should have continued closing for the night. It pays to be nice.
I was just as shocked as Robin that he got a lot of more positive stories. So many relieved sighs today, and it was fun to hear him be pleasantly surprised too!
I worked in retail for about 2 months before I got fed up and quit. I was lucky to have that ability cause I know some, especially in America, don't have the luxury of being able to quit jobs but having to do it for even 2 months gave me an appreciation for the hell retail employees deal with.
Angry upvote
I feel like everyone, regardless of status, should spend 1 month working retail or some sort of job that some would say aren't "real jobs"
Might cut down on such behavior and thinking, though I'm not so foolish as to believe it would eliminate it. The "I put up with it, so can they" mentality would very much still exist, but as time goes on, I think it could decrease until maybe, just maybe, it disappears. That'd take several generations, though, for sure.
A new girl started working a week ago and on her first day she said "I'm glad my contract is only 1 month, I already hate it here and I've worked 12 years In a mental hospital " 😭
Did it for 5 years before getting promoted to customer. Four and a half years later I'm about to go back into it again only because I need a fucking paycheck. _sigh_
the best part about the last story with the three kids, is he knew that his $3 was well spent on some good kids and by helping them out he was helping out some good kids who deserved the kindness and appreciated it.
In the grand scheme of things it's really petty but one thing that I encounter often is...I will walk through the store where I work, wearing a shirt with the stores logo and a name tag with the name of the store along side my name and people will look at me and still ask if I work there. Happens nearly every day and it still dumbfounds me.
If they only see you from behind, it's an honest mistake. When I worked at a grocery store, they made us wear plain white dress shirts and issued us green vests, which made it impossible to mistake us for a regular shopper.
@@Craxin01 nope people will walk straight up to me look at my shirt and name tag and still ask that question.
@@tanyapoe5490Say what? "Here's your sign..."
You might work at a different branch of the same store and just be there to pick up some stock. Happened to one of my brother's friends.
I like how there's nice stories too. Working retail is hard, but there are definitely good interactions.
From my experience there's more good than bad, but the bad ones make better stories. "Bob was in here the other day, he was having issues but I fixed it and he was really grateful" just doesn't have the same ring as "a woman handed be a pee soaked paper today". Both of these are true things that happened to me last month.
I get the feeling she was angry about the cake because she couldn't read it.
I 100% get the balloons thing. I work at the dollar tree and there was this lady that came in with a really fancy balloon. It popped while being inflated and she sued the store for thousands of dollars. Lucky me I still have my job but that shit sucks man. No outside balloons. Its policy.
8:08
Glory to Arstotzka!
I often wondered if customers thought our handheld devices we used were our phones and they thought we were all unprofessional.
I actually wanted to collect all the state quarters too and I did it! My parents had gotten me this special coin collecting map of the US where I could put each coin at its correct state/territory. That felt like one of my greatest accomplishments at the time.
Do you have Philadelphia or Denver mint coins?
@hazelmarigold1225 same here! My thing is on a giant poster board and it’s still up in my room. I’ve had it for years and still remember trying to get them all. It was very enjoyable.
@@sandeman1776I did, but I sadly don’t have them anymore. They were my pride and joy as a kid.
@@awesomemaker0357I wish I still had mine 😢
19:45 Care Credit is such a good card. It helped me when I had to take my 19 year old cat to Urgent Vet Care for bad constipation, and then to Cornell for not eating (and a few tests because Cornell found she has a floating thyroid and a heart murmur (and gallop)). Knowing it can be used for some other medical things (like eye tests) makes me recommend it to those who are able to apply for it.
Hey thanks for this. My dog has been really sick for a few months now and It’s hard to afford anything. Imma look into care credit now! Thanks again for the info
@@A.The.H.They have a really high predatory interest rate that isn't good if you can't afford to pay it off quickly. You have been warned
I got one for my dog. He ate a Hershey kiss and the foil was stuck in his digestion tract. It has 6 months no interest. I got 2500 in credit, i only used 400 for the x-rays and a nail clipping. My credit score dropped 60 points and when I paid it off the next month it went up by 10 points. I was so mad 😂😂
On disability in the US: Yes, SSI heavily restricts the amount of money a person can have. The amount they pay monthly is criminally low, around $700, which has to cover EVERYTHING. SSDI, which you only get if you've worked enough, doesn't really care. They go through different agencies. I'm lucky enough to be on SSDI, but I have a number of friends on SSI. It's a struggle for me, but so much more of one for them.
i think its hilarious how robin’s youtube channel is called “itsboobin”
i love this guy, he’s great. never stop funny man
I love how many of the narrators here are autistic. It feels like extra validation when I enjoy your personalities and relate to your stories. Especially you Robin
I love these positive stories as Robin will get to have a bit of his sanity and more wholesome moments across the channel
I have to agree with robin. I thought 90% would be retail horror stories!😂
I once asked a regular customer how his wife and baby were and he totally unloaded on me about how they were now expecting another one and it was a surprise and they were going to have 2 under the age of one and he was very stressed out.
Also had a customer call the police because another man told him "You can shove that money up your a$$" and then dared him to call the police.
Then there was that one time i helped a woman to her car and she asked me my life story and as i turned to leave she shoved $40 into my hand. We arent allowed to take tips so i said "sorry i csnt take this" and she absolutely refused to take it back. What else am i supposed to do but thank her and walk away with $40 at that point?
Had a customer have a seizure at my work a few years ago, I didn't realise he had one till later one, I heard a loud crash, went to go look and this teenager had collapsed and his mother was helping him up, she was apologising and saying she'd pay for the damages etc, I said it's ok, he had fallen backwards onto a large plastic tub of hair bands, my priority was to make sure he was alright etc as I thought he had tripped etc as he seemed alright, later that day after work on Facebook, I saw a post on my local areas page about it for the woman wanting to say thank you to the staff of my workplace, I commented its ok it was only a plastic tub etc, was the son ok, she explained he had a mini seizure and had collapsed into the container and had just came out of it as I walked up to check on them, I didn't know what to say as I had no clue prior that had happened I simply thought tripped or slipped over and wanted to make sure he didn't injure himself, my boss and myself don't care if product gets damaged if a customer hurts themselves etc, although had some try to take advantage of it but cameras exist, or hell we had some push their luck by ignoring wet floor signs that they later complained about blocking their path and their shoes were wet, we informed them they were lucky they didn't slip over and crack their skulls open, but yeah I thankfully the kid who seizured was alright
The person having a seizure reminded me of a crazy story that happened in Italy not long ago this summer. One evening a teen and his gf go to a bar to have a drink I guess. The teen ends up getting really sick and eventually died right outside the bar. Now the crazy part is that the bar did absolutely anything they could to save the teen. But one person wasn't happy about how all of this was handled. The teen's father. He showed up a few days later (if not the day after the incident) with a can of gas wanting to set the entire bar on fire for letting his son die. The bar's owner and the father get into a heated argument. At one point the bar's owner stabbed the father three times killing him. At first I was shocked hearing this. I thought the father was crazy for wanting to set something on fire. But that the owner wasn't that sane too because they could've toatally talked it out. But it turns out they absolutely did talk it out and the father was stabbed in self defense as this guy was clearly going insane and getting really aggressive. Now the laws on self defense in Italy are a bit wishy washy. Basically it's an eye for eye type situation. If one person slaps you, you can slap back in self defense. But you can't hurt someone under the guise of feeling threatened. You have to be hurt first and you can only inflict the same amount of damage.
There were so many positive stories which made me quite happy
Actually, soda is a very high profit margin. What you meant was low cost, it won't cost any significant amount of money to give you the soda but it would cost them a pretty penny of profit. (But, retail workers rarely care about that genuinely as they receive next to none of the profit of their labor lol)
6:40 as someone who used to work in fast food in the kitchen (now retail stocking and cashier), we absolutely will give you a free drink if you come in during rushes because it’s such a huge “phew” moment. It’s like a huge weight is lifted when you hear the buzzer that alerts you for a new order and then you only see “MED Coke” on the menu. Legitimately told to do so by my overseeing manager (not general tho ofc lol) if it was only one person ordering the drink because of how easy it was and how cheap soda is for the company. I can’t guarantee this’ll work for you every time, but more often than not and if you live in an easy going place, we will 100% do this when we’re swamped lol.
*Edit: Also, yes, Robin you are correct. You have to make a certain amount if you’re receiving disability or it’s gone. I’m currently on disability and can only make a certain amount or I’ll lose my medical and income check, which without I’d be literally dead due to my health conditions. The sad part is that normally if you’re on disability you can’t get food stamps unless of a very specific reason, so every little bit counts where you can save. The person who did that for the gentleman almost made me tear up. People don’t understand just how grateful you truly are to people that try to help out in any shape or form. It legitimately feels like you would drop to the ground and bow at their feet for their act of kindness, small or large. I can’t explain it, I guess feeling like a burden all the time to society makes you that much grateful when someone chooses to help out from the kindness of their soul because they see you as a human 🥲!
So I've worked in retail for a little over 3 months and luckily haven't had too many rude customers. Well there's this guy who comes in like 5 times a day just caz he forgot something or another. He's really sweet and is always polite. Well, one day he came in to get some beer and was like 25 cents off. He asked if i could pay it and him come back in the following day to pay me back. So I told him that I can't pay for it as I'm not 21 yet but I'll still push it through and my till would just be 25 cents off. He started apologizing left and right and said he'd go back home and bring me it that day so I wouldn't get in trouble. Tbh I would have been okay if I was a little bit off but it's still nice that he cared so much :)
I was gonna say, why would you be upset about cursive on a two year old's cake lol. It's not like they can read print either XD
On the disability thing (as someone on disability) ...yes. if i have over a certain amount of money at the end of the month, its gone. if I ear a certain amount of money, its gone. no saving money allowed. they want people under the poverty line. and man I'm sick of people going "Well people take advantage of it" yeah well i need it to survive and so do so many other people so shhh
That's the case here in Ontario but the cap is something like thousands of dollars just sitting in your account (which in Canada is a huge amount of money). They don't immediately cut you off though they'll call to ask why you have it. Also things like savings bonds or investments are exempt from the cap total.
@@AIHumanEquality not the case here unfortunately, in the US. The cap is very low, esp if you have SSI vs SSDI. And I'm not allowed to have bonds and investments. I've never been given a clear answer about a credit card, but I'm just keeping away from that for now. I'm assuming no lol And the amount I get per months wouldn't even cover basic rent where I live. I'm EXTREMELY fortunate that I have family helping me out
@@BumbleTus My rent is paid for through disability and a housing benefit but there's also a lot of tenant protections in place. In Ontario we have the Landlord Tenant Board which a landlord has to go through to evict someone. Unlike many places in the US a landlord can't just spontaneously take away your housing.
As a Texan, 60f outside would be a godsend in the summer. Did you see how many records we broke this year?
at least y'all aren't getting drowned in humidity, I live in Virginia and sometimes I swear the humidity levels are high enough for FISH to breathe
I wore a tank top and short ass shorts yesterday because anything else was a human steamer. Today I couldn't go out without three hoodies and two pants. Earth is pretty weird nowadays
Oklahoma here. It's bad in the south, and it's going to get worse because Exon/Mobil needs another ten trillion dollars!
As someone who lives in Southern Arizona... I get that. It's a dry heat, yes, but then the flipping cold that goes with that... YEESH!
I work in retail. I have some bad days, but mostly I like talking to people. That story with the Beatrix Potter coins was adorable! I kept assuming something was going to go bad, but it was so sweet.
Arstotzka is a fictional country in the game "Papers Please"
Had to convert it because I wasn't sure but 60°F is cold af for me. Our coldest recorded temperature is 61 😂
The story about the man on disability with the dogs, really hit home. We don’t have pets but my mom and I are struggling to get by and it’s almost impossible we barely have enough money for food, and I have a full time job. And she’s working two days a week, because that’s all she can work due to her health. She’s supposed to be getting early retirement in February but we need money now. They said she’s made too much for her benefits to kick in this year. The government is a joke in America they really don’t care about their citizens. 😢
The soda thing is so true. At a store I used to work at if a customer was having a bad time we were told to offer them a fountain drink. They cost like $0.20 to make and can seriously flip some people's mood.
33:18 When I was in the army, I walked into a gas stationn in uniform and this itty bitty babyy maybe 2 yo run up and hugged me. His mother said he thought I was his dad that was overseas. Tugged my heart.
1:50 bet you those three bags were together lighter than a single German shopping bag. We also have to pack it ourselves.
Don't you also have to pay to use the shopping carts and pay for the bags?
@Craxin01 the shopping cart thing is like at aldi, put a coin in the shopping cart and you get it back when you put it away.
and paying for your own bags is to encourage people to use reusable bags, or less bags.
@@Reverend_Salem Sensible either way. Also, was pretty sure Aldi was a German company.
@Craxin01 they are. aldi is also in america, and for many americans, it's going to be the only store that has the cart deposit and needing to buy bags.
Dang this is just a whole lot of wholesome. Thank you!
The first story is so sweet
The Beatrix Potter 50p one was so wholesome and refreshing... Back when I worked retail it was the best feeling to have gone above and beyond for someone and they leave super happy. Making people smile and laugh gives me so much joy. For how soul-sucking and back-breaking retail can be, those moments made it bearable.
I absolutely love these more positive posts, they make me feel alot more positive when I'm down
In a store I use to work in at the end of the night we would call out to the floor staff "is there any LMCs in?" If there where people in the shop. If people were in and asked what that ment it stood for "Ladies, men ir childern". In reality though it stood for last minute Cnut.
Also I have the Peter rabbit coin, a bunch of olympic coins, some Paddington coins and wind and the wind in the willows coins.
I work retail and people will ask for stuff that we don't have quite often. If they insist we do, I'll say, "Let me check in the back." and walk off. I know we don't but I just go to the back and screw around. Sometimes they'll get mad and say i didn't look hard enough or whatever so I'll say, "You know, maybe someone moved it, hold on." Then I'll go take a dump or break or something. By the time I come back, they usually give up.
I said it before, but I work for Walmart for a year. I've had my fair share of "WTF, REALLY" customers. Just ironically today while covering a guy for his fuel shift, for his lunch break, and had an old lady walk in and ask for $40 on pump 5. Got it ready for her and somehow she never got the gas in her car. She had the receipt from when I asked her she wanted one prior to it, or she found another one, not entirely sure. All I know is yes, the gas never reached her tank as she was still empty. She insists there was something wrong with the pump and demanded to know the reason why. We have a policy where if fuel never leaves the pump within 10 mins or so after payment was successful, it'll automatically shuts off. I told her if it never left the pump, it got refunded most likely. If paid inside with a card, it automatically refunds the amount on the card regardless of left over change or not. The lady didn't believe me, trying to explain it wasn't pumping, so I told her we can try another pump and you come back inside to pay for that. She moves to the one behind her on Pump 11 to see if it was just Pump 5 having issues, and goes to just start pumping without paying (As of course, its not active). I noticed this after fulfilling another transaction and went to tell her she still needs to pay for this one for gas to be pumped. She started to raise her voice asking why does she have to pay for more if she paid $40 already. I told her it most likely refunded it back on her card, I just need her to pay. She tried giving me her card "for me to do it for her" and I told her I cannot do that, as I can get fired for it, and she needs to come inside to pay for the amount. She proceeds to yell and said "I'm VERY tired of F**king walking back and forth. I'm about this close to kicking your a$$". I told her I'm sorry, its my job, I cannot do it for her if she's not there inside. Just in time for my associate to return from lunch and went to help her with what was happening as I help the other customers. I then started to hear her argue with him, and he tries his best to explain to her it most likely got put back onto her card, and she keeps insisting she was charged regardless if it went in or not, saying she was pumping, and that "she did not pay about $50, that was the previous person". By the time I went back inside to clock out, I have no idea how that encounter ended. I'm just glad it wasn't my fault.
The grocery aisle is actually a thing. Most other aisles have their own name. The grocery aisle is like a miscellaneous aisle. But yeah, that is what it's called. And it's mostly so that it is distinct from a miscellaneous aisle that carries non-food items.
"Glory to Arstotzka!" is a phrase the character in "Papers, Please!" is saying to greet any person that wants to enter Arstotzka (You playing a person forced to work at the border checking passports each day, with (almost) each day becoming more complicated...)
Yeah we tried saving them too when I was a kid. I took The Map We Had and what quarters I Did Have with me When I got married, the guy I married slowly took them... he spent them... A little infuriating since it was a bit of my childhood. He also took anything gold and silver I had gotten from parents and stuff(mostly from my dad) as a child. It ah, was a Fun marriage.
glad to see you said "was" cuz that means I'm free to say f°°° that guy. Who tf takes their SO's gold & silver stuff without permission? I'm assuming he sold it too, which is bulls°°°, that's not ok with ANY gift or family heirloom
Ok that first story is relatable because 7 year old me and 5 year old little sister did this. We were both taken to a toy store with a parent to Christmas shop for each other. Well I saw a cat plush I fell in love with so I got it for my sister. My sister did the same 😂
I apparently got a complaint from a customer because I wouldn't assist them. The reason for that? I was in the middle of unloading a truck.
This was 700+ cases, just me and one other person unloading, and we were the last stop of the day so we had to take everything left in the truck. I had come in on what was supposed to be my day off for this and this alone. And the driver had been particularly slow getting set up, so we started an hour later than we should have.
Could I have responded better? Sure, but there is always a cashier that is free to help out customers and not very obviously hefting around heavy boxes.
It kind of amazes me that store workers are treated as less than human, or at least just differently from people that these kinds of people know. Like, as a child you probably learn to leave your parents alone if they say they're busy. Your friends, too.
Yes, helping customers is a part of my job, but it is not the ONLY part of my job. I'm usually very happy to help people find things, but when I'm in the middle of manual labor, it's just not a good time to ask. Sorry.
this was surprisingly wholesome, bless you wholesome customers.
I’ve had grand mal seizures before, and it’s super similar to what that one story is describing! A lot of the time, I could kind of feel it coming on, but my first time, I didn’t know what happened. I was brushing my hair and the next thing I know, my dad’s getting me up from bed saying we’re almost late to a hair appointment.
It was only when I got into the car that I noticed the massive lump on the back of my head.
The dude was definitely lying, he didn't forget his wallet, he purposefully left it.
TH-cam didn't like me saying rich people should be forced to work an average joe job.
The collectable coins post was very wholesome
6:25 one time, i went to the donut shop across the street from my house. The lady asked me if i wanted one or two donuts (she’d memorized my order because of how often I go) i told her only one, because my mom only gave me enough money for one. She gave me two anyways.
And when they don’t have the sprinkle donuts, she’ll melt some chocolate and add sprinkles. I love that store so much
1:25 Used to work at a small/independent grocery store that was known for having really strong paper bags (and craptastic plastic ones that would, on occasion, rupture from the overwhelming weight of a loaf of bread all by itself). We got people asking us to pack them heavy/full all the time. Sadly, we never really got a story to go along with the requests :)
I will never understand the corporate mindset when it comes to cheaping out on grocery bags! Do most of our grocery shopping at Walmart, terribly flimsy bags. They double bag most items. Are you really saving money by buying extra thin plastic bags only then to need to use twice as many? Make the bags like 50% thicker, that'll sort out most of the structural issues and your employees can get by with single bags most of the time AND you'll be saving 25% overall!
I used to collect coins. Then someone from my family (probably older brother) saw the place I put them in and used them. Felt defeated and never tried it again. Looking back, I should have hidden my collection better.
I wish we could have more stories like the first one, that warmed my heart
Those stories are so great. It's so nice hearing about wonderful customers and staff.
I'm shocked Robin hasn't played Papers, Please. Such an insult to the glorious Arstotzka!
20:45 At least in Texas, Robin, a person on disability is allowed to work up to 25 hours a week. But I do know of 1 instance where a mutual friend of me and my brother was working 25h/w, but lost his disability due to his part-time paycheck eventually equalling out to a full-time paycheck.
Note: In case of need to rephrase, even though the mutual friend was only working 25 hours a week, he was earning equal to 40 hours a week.
I love these videos so much! Seeing these every afternoon brightens my day. Thank y’all!
It's true, retail and fast food workers get major heat 60 to 70% of their work day and it sucks. A little courtesy and some positive feedback goes a long way, and if you play your cards right, you may find a couple onion rings in your medium fries. 😀
the whole disability being taken if you make money is entirely true from what i have heard. it can definitely mess up people who have mental disabilities such as autism
I honestly thought i'd be raging at the end of this video but it was actually calmer then I thought it would be and made my day better thank you
I work in a McDonald's drive thru and one of my regulars has a nephew that does poultry farming. He was complaining about some of his turkeys that needed to go. So guess who got 2 turkeys for their mom on Mother's Day? Me. Mom loves her new boys. Picking up two turkey hens from him in the next week.
I remember a time when my caffeinated sibling and I were working a local sandwich chain. we were out of particular stock for a few months for some fucking reason, sibling was hyper-caffeinated, and I was loudly singing to Life Could be a Dream on the radio. customer walks in as I’m singing, he gives a snide remark that I don’t quite catch. sibling’s at the counter, loudly welcomes the customer, and he asks for an Italian sub. sibling barely manages a “Sorry we have no salami!” before the customer slams his hand on top of the counter and storms out. he never came back. we were both too jovial to understand that he wasn’t coming back.
as much as I realize the times I’ve been gaslit at that job, I miss the location I worked at. it was a student’s-first-job deal and was pretty chill, save for the couple of oddballs I’ve seen. now it’s sadly been shut down.
Why... how... How come are there so many stories with good examples and nice people?! I thought this was going to be a snapshot of hell!
I have a friend who collects coins. I can never remember the term collectors use to refer to themselves though he'd told me before. This exchange happened several years ago.
Him: talking about his coin collection.
Me: "Was was a coin collector called again?"
Him: "Oh! It's-"
Me: "A virgin, right?"
He still doesn't think this joke is as funny as it objectively is, no matter how many people I tell about it in front of him
16:59 i worked at trader joes and this is the terminology we use! since most stores are rather small and have < 6 aisles + displays around the walls of the store, they’re named after what they hold - haba (health and beauty aisle), beverage, beer/alcohol, dairy, wet produce (any refrigerated produce), dry produce, fresh (grab and go sandwiches, wraps, etc), meat, bread, flowers, and lastly grocery (any dry or canned goods, including spices, soups, baking needs, pastas, etc)
Job searching really is a nightmare. It took me like 4 months to find a full time job that would hire me. Thankfully, my boss is nice, and the job is fun for me :D
Talking about those state quarters...
One of my lucky keepsakes I have is a collectible holder for all 50 state quarters, that my grandpa gave me and gave me half of the quarters to start. He gave me the hardest ones to find in our state (so coins like Washington, Oregon, California, etc), and told me he wanted to see the collection finished before he passed away. Sadly I didn't quite make it in time, but that was one of those situations where I could feel my grandpa's ghost smile a little. They mean something to me because the 50 state quarters were first launched on the year I was born, 1999, and grandpa filled the first half with all original '99 coins. So me being the perfectionist I am, I had to get all the rest the same dates as well. They are worth a decent bit depending on the coin in particular, but to me all the value is the sentiment of it being from a man I loved with all my heart, who took something I found boring and made me interested in it for several years. I miss you grandpa Ron. I hope you're happy on the otherside.
22:30 can confirm. This is just about exactly how that goes.
"What are you talking about? I'm fine!" *bleeding from the back of my head*
That smoking story reminds me of when I worked at Plato’s closet and they told me I was texting on the cameras even though I had just been talked to about it (which I wasn’t, I was only told I worked slow that’s literally all they said) in reality I was setting a timer to help me learn to work faster. They told me I pulled my phone out right in front of the customer - because she asked me a question about a sale that I was barely given info about except for a text, and as the helpful person I am I was looking it up for her. The one time I WAS texting was because my friend was picking me up after work that day since it was a two hour walk and we were supposed to hang out and my coworkers aren’t allowed to leave after dark without making sure everyone has a ride home. Usually they get frustrated when they have to wait on me, so I was trying to work out a time to get picked up on time. Which unfortunately meant checking in because depending on cleanup and whether or not people are left in the store, we pretty much never left exactly on time. So I ended up fired for texting, even though it was never mentioned as a problem, and when I asked what they were talking about they kept giving me different reasons that were literally never brought up to me until that day. I really think they just didn’t like me in general.
The was a collection of some of the best stories I've heard all day.
After every one I was expecting one of the people to become incredibly rude or entitled. I kept getting surprised by all the positive endings.
God I remember when I worked at a Kroger store. A lady insisted that we go into our cash machine to give her the exact bills she wanted. The manager on duty got so pissed that she stormed over from where she was and told her to take her goddamn change and leave, we aren't a bank.
Why did the lady want specific bills? "MY BANK WON'T TAKE ANYTHING OTHER THAN TWENTIES!!!!" Yes, she thinks her BANK cannot take money other than twenty dollar bills
Also yes, disability can be taken away, even sometimes without a reason. It sucks, and I'd try to get on it if not for the fact that even if I have multiple disabilities, I'd be denied for being able to do tasks around my house, even with lots of issues
This was actually mostly wholesome... which does happen in retail sometimes, but also sometimes people win the lottery... so, you know...
Editor is doing the lords work I laughed out loud so many times it was beautiful and blessed
so happy to see emkay incorporating more reading-centric subreddits :D
I work in a grocery store and as an employee we all reference sections of the store by department. Something thats in Dairy isnt technically referenced as the grocery section; neither is produce, bakery, deli, seafood. ect. Grocery is anything not in the main corners of the store.
ok the one with the lady and kid that had just lost their husband and dad made me want to cry
I think it's interesting what the story about the guy who was expecting to get sodas bought for him that there was a person replying about their autism and being "dedicated to a certain location" and referencing that is weird.
The reality of it is... and this is something I happen to learn in passing when watching the show "Intervention" (or something similar)... The dedication to specific locations, stores, etc. is a form of agoraphobia and depending on that person's reaction to things like being unable to go to their preferred location, it could warrant adjustments to their therapy with the psychologist and social skills building. I am not trying to say that it is always pathological, but more so saying that it could have nothing to do with your autism and be far more and extension of reactionary social anxiety particularly as a response to navigating unfamiliar spaces or interacting with strangers. It had never dawned on me that agoraphobia would be anything other than being terrified of leaving one's house, so I looked into it further and I think the condition has been very misrepresented in pop culture at this point all things considered.
Obviously it's not something you necessarily have to have treatment changes for, it's perfectly okay to have favorites and to experience comfort with familiarity, especially when you're dealing with the various alternative issues that can come up for a person who is on spectrum... There are times where that familiarity or recognizable faces just alleviate the incessant need to mask and hide what you know is recognizably odd to the average person... But if you experience anxiety events at the idea of going to a different location, it's worth looking into.
What I mean is, for example, how I recognized it in my life? During sort of the peak of my theoretically uncontrollable symptom issues, I became acutely aware of the fact that I had to specific grocery store I would go to, a specific Walgreens location I'd go to if I need a Walgreens, even specific fast food restaurants and other retail spaces, concert venues, roads, sometimes even specific levels within things like parking garages, and I would literally drive 15 minutes out of my necessary path just to go to the location I preferred if necessary, and I never thought much of it and simply put it in the bucket of social anxiety if I put it in any bucket at all... But I recognized it was a problem when it would just so happen that I'm on the other side of town and it's prohibitively impractical for me to go to my preferred location so would be compelled to find a closer option, and there were definitely times that I quite literally couldn't work with it. I couldn't walk into a different grocery store than that favorite, I would experience genuine panic at the concept of going to unfamiliar concert venues specifically because I didn't know them and would forego attending events unless I had a safety person with me specifically because I had genuine fear going to places on my own where I'd never been before. It's this specific panic and terror feeling that led to recognizing it as agoraphobia and not just the quirkiness of being on spectrum and having social issues.
I guess my point being, it's a far more common thing to have happen than people think, people are inclined to go to familiar places and see if familiar faces and there's not anything necessarily weird about that... There *is* something concerning about driving well out of your way because you're terrified of going to a different option, when you actively choose to inconvenience yourself or structure your life around being able to access these things to do certain tasks so that you would be able to avoid the potency of that panic response. It's important to be honest about the logic underneath it all and to understand that having favorites is common, having social limitations that lead to preferences that are easier for you to navigate as common with ASD individuals, but there is a point just like many other aspects of being on spectrum where it goes from being a relatively normal and common experience in the population to a potentially problematic symptom that should be addressed through therapy and discussion with your psychologist and things like that.
Part of why I'm talking about it is because I spent a long time thinking that that was just how it is and being acutely aware but such things didn't bother other people... But it began to bother me because I was losing out on experiences and opportunities that I desperately had interest in but was incapable of experiencing, or so I thought, because of how severe that panic response was. Once I recognized it as a specific form of anxiety and fear, it gave me a pathway to do the right kind of exposure therapy in order to make a change that would be positive.
I can happily state that at this point, while I still get anxious on occasion, I have pushed myself through various levels of exposure therapy to the point where now I'm not paranoid about being noticed or recognized, I'm not forgoing experiences I really want to have simply because there's no safe person willing to walk there with me, and have even gotten to the point where I find a modest amount of exploring places I've never been before all by myself as a potentially exciting thing that intrigues the part of me that likes having new experiences... Those experiences used to be gate kept by my own brain and my insistence that I needed someone to share it with, that I wasn't strong enough to face inquiring minds... And things are a lot easier now because of it. A lot of it had to do with me being in a state of low trust with myself and my ability to decipher navigate new situations. That process was at least part of how I recognize that the issue I was having was far more about feeling insecure and unwelcome to represent who I was as a person aka lacking confidence in myself, feeling that I brought no substantial worth to my interactions... It was never really about how other people were actually treating me but rather about how I anticipated people responding to me might go. It was overly protective and part of my making decisions for other people before them having the opportunity to gain information and decide for themselves as to whether or not I was worth interacting with.
It took me a long time to come to this realization and to start practicing confidence, to start really working on loving myself as I am instead of trying to carve off the presume defensive bits with me so that I could fit in a variety of social situations. I've found that being intentional regarding the development of actual confidence and not performative confidence has led to far more successful new experiences and social interactions with strangers, not because anything about me has necessarily changed when it comes to how I interact with people but rather my attitude about what I'm bringing to the table has changed. People respond more positively to a genuine representation of yourself than they do to the version you created based on presumption and overall social standard. It's an ever-going process but there's definitely a certain amount of relief that comes with successfully conquering something like agoraphobia of this type.
Have your favorites if you like, I'll reiterate the fact that I'm not saying it favorites are a bad thing or what have you... I am simply speaking to being honest about what favorites mean within this context. If it's just about the kind of familiarity we build up when we move into a new apartment, where the consistency of exposure and familiarity turns the apartment into a home, but you can say, stay in a hotel without being agitated about the unfamiliarity, you're good... But if you're using the term favorites as a way to mask the negative experiences you have going and doing things outside of those favorites, we are definitely talking more about agoraphobia in that sense and you can bring far less stress into your life by your dressing it.
I mean not necessarily. I had crippling agoraphobia for many years. I can go to pharmacies, gas stations, grocery stores, etc. without any of that fear now after spending a long time working on overcoming it. But what I did realize when I moved out of my hometown and started shopping at different stores is that when you shop at the same grocery store for 15 years, you get used to layout and brightness of the lights, get comfortable the layout, devise a system to shop most efficiently (i could collect a weeks worth of groceries in 10 minutes) know when the quietest hours are, know how everything works, know what brands are on the shelf & how they taste, which employees are likely working, etc. Things become second nature and you dont have to think about them very much, which makes the shopping experience more comfortable as an autistic.
When I shop at an unfamiliar grocery store, I find my brain moving on rapid fire, constantly trying to absorb new information. I'm actually totally calm. Not panicked or scared. But it takes me twice as kong to complete my shopping because my brain is too fried from all the unfamiliar stimuli for me to realize I walked past the item I was looking for 3 times.
I agree its necessary to recognize the difference but i feel like its absolutely worth clarifying that there are far more reasons autistic people may not shop at a new store other than social anxiety. I really dont want to see uneducated caretakers and friends of autistic people triggering sensory overload because "there's no need to be anxious."
28:37 Yay Robing rant :D! I love it when he goes on like this, I like when people rant about things they’re passionate about.
This is going to be good! Happy Sunday EmKay🎉❤
I can’t tell ya how many times I’ve gotten a coffee from a convenience store, and the employee pretty much going “is that all you’re getting?” And giving it to me for free. it’s happened so many times, often when I’m the last in their line.
In the short time that I (then 20-21M) worked at Walmart (pre pandemic) I had a doozy of a story. The position I was in is known as CAP2, basically you take the stuff out of the trucks and stock the shelves in whatever section you were assigned. My first assigned section was the pet food, which wasn't that bad with the exceptions of the canned food (long story short it is next to impossible to tell the types and brands apart 99% of the time by sight alone).
So I was putting the bagged food in its place when a Native American looking guy maybe in his late 50s early 60s rolls up on an Amigo. He asks me how much the dog food in the main aisle display is (BIG bags of food). I told him the price and was about to head back to stocking the shelves when he asks "If this was enough", he reached into his pockets and pulled out a handful of loose change and dumped it into my hands, and I thought "This isn't really my job but he's being nice enough so, why not?" and began to count the change. I had just moved the second quarter when I noticed he had included mouse poop with the change. I internally cringed and finished counting out his change and informed him that he was short by X amount and handed it back to him. He said he would look around and find some more change and that he would be back, and as he drove off I just started long stepping it back to the bathrooms. I washed my hands three times and went back to stocking (not to brag but I unloaded three double stacked pallets in less than 20 min), and it wasn't long before he rolled back up and held out his change, asking once again if what he had was enough. I reluctantly took it again and counted it, I told him he had a little bit more than he needed, loaded a bag into the basket, and once again went to wash my hands.
In all actuality I didn't quit until two days later when I was emotionally done because of the electric shocks from all of the static I was generating, that and my feet were on the verge of bleeding.
In the UK a customers worst nightmare is an ‘attentive’ sales assistant. If I need help I’ll come to you lol. A polite hello if you catch their eye as they come in, then leave them to it. If I see a ‘greeter’ in the doorway I won’t enter the shop.
It was a mare when I visited the US. I felt like screaming “leave me alone to browse!”. I hated going into shops over there lol.