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@@LiamDowling69 It actually gave me a little bit of anxiety, it was so accurate. Only someone who has been on the receiving end of those stories could act them so well. Liam, you have my sympathies. If I was ever having a day where I was a bit down on myself, I only had to hear one of these stories to think "Ok James, maybe you aren't quite as bad as you thought"!! LOL
As somebody who works in the shoes department at Rebel. The amount of times a mum has given me a outline of their kids foot is making me question existence
Horrifyingly relatable. Working at dymocks we got guys who came in carrying rare second hand books to flex and try to pick up girls (who were often underage). Which meant we would suss out their bullshit then have to change the staff layout so the girls could escape the creepy dudes and we would just stand around looking mad at them till they fucked off. I did end up teaching a lot of old ladies how to pirate movies on our free wifi for a bit though. That was fun.
I’m just a young mexican stoner that smokes weed on my TH-cam channel, tryna me it out the hood One Day👌 When i look at the top where all the successful people are… there isn’t NO mexicans bro!!
Been working in retail for 6 years since I was 16, made lots of friends. Lots of people have also blown me away with their stupidity. This video from the customers side happens at least twice a week for all the scenarios
I can feel liams rage when the customer wanted to come in one minute before closing in my SOUL. I worked in a Pak n Save as a checkout person, and the amount of times we'd have to serve BIG TROLLIES right before and after 9pm was infuriating.
Bruh. I worked at jaycar for 3 years. This has given me PTSD lol. Im having flashbacks as literally most of this happened to me, except some were more violent and stupid. Tech and retail do not mix. Especially in Darwin. Some people coming in, asking for a product that isnt in stock. But still asking us to check the backroom, then call up the other branches, then call the warehouse. Then they get pissed off at me and start shouting when i literally made like 10 phone calls to get their 30 year old answering machine that was sold in the 90s. Or some people try to show me up thinking they are smarter, when they are dumb as nails and still try to act like they are right. "Aw. I heard you can push the switch above 15 Amps no probs. My mum is on life support and needed to fix the machine" Me: "Uh No. That switch is rated for 5 Amps, it has a fuse that blows at 10 Amps. And we cannot sell you that as its a dangerous risk" "Aw cmon man. Just give it to me, i now my stuff. You are just a kid. Switches are just Switches, they are all the same" Me: *dies a little* "No, also do you even know how to fix the machine, what is the 'machine'?" "Uh it goes Beeep Beep every few seconds, i dunno the name. Look just gimme the f**king switch or i start getting angry" Me: "Im not selling it, this is a DC 12V switch meant for cars, yet you are trying to use it in a heart monitor as a 240VAC on switch. No" "f***K you idiot." Me: *stands back as manager steps in and huge argument ensures. Customer leaves shortly afterwards and makes several complaints to head office*
Or the infamous Karen. Buying a product but thinking its broken since they didnt put the batteries in it. Or forgot to charge it. "This camera doesnt work. *scoff*" Me: *plugs it in, the blue LED lights up and the camera turns on shortly afterwards* "WHAT You had to plug it in??? I thought it was solar. Give me a refund" Me: *Looks at the bullet camera that is solid white, how TF did she think it was solar?* "No sorry, you bought it a couple of months ago, way past our return date. Im sorry but we cant refund the 40 dollar wifi cam" "NONSENSE WHERE IS THE MANAGER?! YOU HAEV STOLEN MY MONEY AND ARE TRYING TO ACT SMART" Me: *dies more and just waits for the manager to step in and sort this mess. 6 more hours of my shit to go*
Me: *standing at register with mask on since Covid. There is hand sanitiser behind the monitors and POS machines, basically hidden away, that is only meant for the staff. At the front door there is a big yellow sign saying "USE HAND SANITISER HERE" with an arrow pointing to a jumbo bottle of sanitiser* "Uh oh, Karen 4 O'clock" *Everyone sighs as the 'usual' walks in, walking straight past the sanitiser and no mask on* Me: "Ma'am. You need to wear a mask or we are not allowed to serve you" *she looks at me with a stern look and fumbles in her handbag and produces a shaggy mask that looks like it is crumpeld paper and wears it* Me: "Thank you-" *She walks straight through the counters, right in the staff area* Me: "ma'am you cant-" *she snakes her arm around the monitor and squirts 5 pumps of the sanitiser and walks off without saying a word* *Then 5 other customers walk through the door adn they all go for the staff sanitiser, completely ignoring the huge yellow sign at teh entrance telling them to use that one. By 10AM no staff has sanitiser so we all have to wear gloves for the rest of the day and not allowed to eat*
*is sealing clip bags as the door opens to the store* Me: "G'day mate. How can i help you?" *There is a large man and women shifting through the door. The man is so overweight, his gut is nearly toching the floor and is stained with urine and feaces. His wife is heaving, breathless just trying to fit through the door* Me: "uhh..H-how may i help you sir?" *The man is wheezing, face is red and his shirt is brown with marks. He stinks like he hasnt showered in weeks and clearly has just soiled himself* "Mmmrr? Urhm. Laptop charger" *slurps up saliva and wheezes just by the speech* *The employees around me try not to look as the man turns around and stumbles to the charger section. His pants have bulges where it looks liek he literally has a bucket between his legs and behind him.* Me: *turns to my manager* "Sir. Um-" "Just uh, make sure he is ok while here. Erm, go with some sanitiser and cleanex with whatever he touches. He doesnt use toilet paper it seems" Me: *looks back at the man, struggling to reach up to his head height to grab a 90W charger* "s-sure.." *clears throat and walks to the back room to get away from the sweaty, fecal smell that those two have made* This was the most unpleasant day. The store smelt horrible afterwards and some customers left because of it. These people were grossly huge, like, not dad bod. Like, impossibly big. The man had grey and sweat pants that were dark silver. Those were soaked with sweat and bulging. They barely it through the door and looked like they were about to both pass out from just walking 5 meters from tthe shelf to the counter.
You forgot the customer that gets mistakenly overcharged 5 bucks on an item/sale and only realities it when the get home to see the receipt. They come in the next day to see a completely unrelated worker and screams bloody murder at them, like that worker on minimum wage is directly ripping food from their child's starving mouth. Great times.....
so fucking accurate especially with the guy that keeps gambling on about his life story then leaves and ends up coming back the net day with another story
One night at the pizza shop I work at, there were two people in line holding their pizzas they just picked up about 2 minutes ago. First Lady complains hers is too hot, second lady complains hers was cold… they both came off the oven at the same time, and were fine. Idk if people are just stupid or entitled, or both?
Customer facing jobs are so unhinged. There’s a regular who comes in and always tells me about how he used to have a “luxurious life” and would drive expensive cars in different countries and now he’s depressed and keeps telling me that violence calms him down. Another roped me into praying with them.
The quickie: comes in, selects item, leaves, sometimes a polite nod is exchanged The rambler: goes on for a while sometimes changes tangents often confused with method man The clinger: (buys something but hangs around... weird just hang around first THEN buy and go! The method man: very quick furtive glances, story is often told often uninvited about bloody traffic or weather but can quickly escalate to slightly racist or sexual remark very easy to spot because of jittery nature often confused for shoplifter Shoplifter: may make several "visits" to asses item usually most expensive item in shop Brancher: most annoying. Comes in with story of how same store is selling same stocked item for less.. like why didnt you buy it then idiot
Most accurate part is the old man in the flanno or a crackhead coming up to you and telling you their whole life story for no reason. You could literally be doing anything just sitting at the traino minding your own business and you see this bloke walk up to you and you just know you’re in for a story.
i've literally had kids come in with school id's showing their 18th birthday is like 6months away and they think that somehow it counts as being 18. like 18 this year is somehow 18 when theyre 17 for 6 more months
Can u pin I watch all ur vids it would mean a lot. Keep it up
"can you pin me aswell please liam downling i watch all your videos every single night and i love your mullet and it would mean alot"** 😳😍😍👀👀✨✨✨✨
@@potater6163 tbh he has a good mullet compared to other aussies
My mullets better
@@liamhutchison1882 debatable
Hello my friend
I am now convinced that every suburb has a self-appointed rambly old man who turns minimum wage teenagers into their therapists
definitely saves a buck aye
actually can't believe how bloody accurate the old man rambling on and then just leaving, fuqin laughing my ass off!
Always coming in for a bloody chat
@@LiamDowling69 It actually gave me a little bit of anxiety, it was so accurate. Only someone who has been on the receiving end of those stories could act them so well. Liam, you have my sympathies. If I was ever having a day where I was a bit down on myself, I only had to hear one of these stories to think "Ok James, maybe you aren't quite as bad as you thought"!! LOL
Hello my friend
@@jameswalker68 hii sir
The guy rambling on about his life story and not buying anything is beyond accurate
As someone who works at a petrol station I can confirm.
Tell me about it, I worked at Target for 5yrs🤦🏻♂️
Sounds like my dad
@@crypticutopia7228 the amount of people that come in for fuel and end up chatting to you for a good 10 minutes is insane
@@Plututo Facts my guy.
So accurate, working with ‘the public’ does your head in.
Hii friend
As somebody who works in the shoes department at Rebel. The amount of times a mum has given me a outline of their kids foot is making me question existence
happened to me the other day, like fmd just get a size
You mean this is an actual thing?
@@richiesworld1 unfortunately
Horrifyingly relatable. Working at dymocks we got guys who came in carrying rare second hand books to flex and try to pick up girls (who were often underage). Which meant we would suss out their bullshit then have to change the staff layout so the girls could escape the creepy dudes and we would just stand around looking mad at them till they fucked off. I did end up teaching a lot of old ladies how to pirate movies on our free wifi for a bit though. That was fun.
Wtf hahahhah
I never imagined Dymocks stores could get so devious
I used to work at toyworld and had a man come in one day and asked if we sold cigarettes. He was confused when I said no 🤦🏼♀️
I am Australian.
I work in Retail.
I laughed.
I am Brazilian
I live in favela
I died
@@asterion4727 TANGO SUKA
I’m just a young mexican stoner that smokes weed on my TH-cam channel, tryna me it out the hood One Day👌 When i look at the top where all the successful people are… there isn’t NO mexicans bro!!
@@SevenHunnid 😉👍👍
The guy ranting about his life was way too true, I was actually struggling to watch it because it’s so accurate and it’s my biggest pet peeve
As a retail worker who has worked in Retail for 2 years this is accurate. The amount of dumb witted people that come in my store is amazing 😂
Wow you are a real veteran of the work force
@@chickenjoe9832 Thankyou.
As someone who worked at rebel for a year, this way TOO accurate
Been working in retail for 6 years since I was 16, made lots of friends. Lots of people have also blown me away with their stupidity. This video from the customers side happens at least twice a week for all the scenarios
Hii friend 😉💓
And the “do you work here”whilst in the company shirt a big fucking name badge and stacking shelves
Hahahaha
I can feel liams rage when the customer wanted to come in one minute before closing in my SOUL. I worked in a Pak n Save as a checkout person, and the amount of times we'd have to serve BIG TROLLIES right before and after 9pm was infuriating.
As an Australian I can confirm, retail workers exist.
Bruh. I worked at jaycar for 3 years. This has given me PTSD lol. Im having flashbacks as literally most of this happened to me, except some were more violent and stupid.
Tech and retail do not mix. Especially in Darwin.
Some people coming in, asking for a product that isnt in stock. But still asking us to check the backroom, then call up the other branches, then call the warehouse. Then they get pissed off at me and start shouting when i literally made like 10 phone calls to get their 30 year old answering machine that was sold in the 90s.
Or some people try to show me up thinking they are smarter, when they are dumb as nails and still try to act like they are right.
"Aw. I heard you can push the switch above 15 Amps no probs. My mum is on life support and needed to fix the machine"
Me: "Uh No. That switch is rated for 5 Amps, it has a fuse that blows at 10 Amps. And we cannot sell you that as its a dangerous risk"
"Aw cmon man. Just give it to me, i now my stuff. You are just a kid. Switches are just Switches, they are all the same"
Me: *dies a little* "No, also do you even know how to fix the machine, what is the 'machine'?"
"Uh it goes Beeep Beep every few seconds, i dunno the name. Look just gimme the f**king switch or i start getting angry"
Me: "Im not selling it, this is a DC 12V switch meant for cars, yet you are trying to use it in a heart monitor as a 240VAC on switch. No"
"f***K you idiot."
Me: *stands back as manager steps in and huge argument ensures. Customer leaves shortly afterwards and makes several complaints to head office*
Or the infamous Karen. Buying a product but thinking its broken since they didnt put the batteries in it. Or forgot to charge it.
"This camera doesnt work. *scoff*"
Me: *plugs it in, the blue LED lights up and the camera turns on shortly afterwards*
"WHAT You had to plug it in??? I thought it was solar. Give me a refund"
Me: *Looks at the bullet camera that is solid white, how TF did she think it was solar?* "No sorry, you bought it a couple of months ago, way past our return date. Im sorry but we cant refund the 40 dollar wifi cam"
"NONSENSE WHERE IS THE MANAGER?! YOU HAEV STOLEN MY MONEY AND ARE TRYING TO ACT SMART"
Me: *dies more and just waits for the manager to step in and sort this mess. 6 more hours of my shit to go*
Me: *standing at register with mask on since Covid. There is hand sanitiser behind the monitors and POS machines, basically hidden away, that is only meant for the staff. At the front door there is a big yellow sign saying "USE HAND SANITISER HERE" with an arrow pointing to a jumbo bottle of sanitiser* "Uh oh, Karen 4 O'clock"
*Everyone sighs as the 'usual' walks in, walking straight past the sanitiser and no mask on*
Me: "Ma'am. You need to wear a mask or we are not allowed to serve you"
*she looks at me with a stern look and fumbles in her handbag and produces a shaggy mask that looks like it is crumpeld paper and wears it*
Me: "Thank you-"
*She walks straight through the counters, right in the staff area*
Me: "ma'am you cant-"
*she snakes her arm around the monitor and squirts 5 pumps of the sanitiser and walks off without saying a word*
*Then 5 other customers walk through the door adn they all go for the staff sanitiser, completely ignoring the huge yellow sign at teh entrance telling them to use that one. By 10AM no staff has sanitiser so we all have to wear gloves for the rest of the day and not allowed to eat*
Honestly, if you want depression. Work retail.
Some of the people you meet in retail make you loose faith in humanity.
*is sealing clip bags as the door opens to the store*
Me: "G'day mate. How can i help you?"
*There is a large man and women shifting through the door. The man is so overweight, his gut is nearly toching the floor and is stained with urine and feaces. His wife is heaving, breathless just trying to fit through the door*
Me: "uhh..H-how may i help you sir?"
*The man is wheezing, face is red and his shirt is brown with marks. He stinks like he hasnt showered in weeks and clearly has just soiled himself*
"Mmmrr? Urhm. Laptop charger" *slurps up saliva and wheezes just by the speech*
*The employees around me try not to look as the man turns around and stumbles to the charger section. His pants have bulges where it looks liek he literally has a bucket between his legs and behind him.*
Me: *turns to my manager* "Sir. Um-"
"Just uh, make sure he is ok while here. Erm, go with some sanitiser and cleanex with whatever he touches. He doesnt use toilet paper it seems"
Me: *looks back at the man, struggling to reach up to his head height to grab a 90W charger* "s-sure.." *clears throat and walks to the back room to get away from the sweaty, fecal smell that those two have made*
This was the most unpleasant day. The store smelt horrible afterwards and some customers left because of it. These people were grossly huge, like, not dad bod. Like, impossibly big. The man had grey and sweat pants that were dark silver. Those were soaked with sweat and bulging. They barely it through the door and looked like they were about to both pass out from just walking 5 meters from tthe shelf to the counter.
You forgot the customer that gets mistakenly overcharged 5 bucks on an item/sale and only realities it when the get home to see the receipt.
They come in the next day to see a completely unrelated worker and screams bloody murder at them, like that worker on minimum wage is directly ripping food from their child's starving mouth.
Great times.....
Bro the eshay was so accurate lol
Good vid 👍 keep it up
so fucking accurate
especially with the guy that keeps gambling on about his life story then leaves and ends up coming back the net day with another story
Worked at rebel for 3 years, can confirm this is spot on
One night at the pizza shop I work at, there were two people in line holding their pizzas they just picked up about 2 minutes ago. First Lady complains hers is too hot, second lady complains hers was cold… they both came off the oven at the same time, and were fine. Idk if people are just stupid or entitled, or both?
stop making excuses next time just swap the damn pizzas!
@@gazzarafalemozzy4766 they were both Karens with their custom made gluten free pizzas, which is annoyingly common
Customer facing jobs are so unhinged. There’s a regular who comes in and always tells me about how he used to have a “luxurious life” and would drive expensive cars in different countries and now he’s depressed and keeps telling me that violence calms him down. Another roped me into praying with them.
The traced foot was hilarious. I died 💀💀💀💀
he summed Australian retail up pretty good
you are honestly my favourite yt of all time, keep up the great work
Bro the shoe one is so relatable
holy shit this is so accurate. keep up the good work mate!
It's good to know that working retail in Australia isnt much different from working retail in America
The "How much is this" without them even attempting to look for the tag really gets me haha
This is gold… reminds me of Chris Lilley, reckon Liam will go far!
Classic!!! Absolute gold Dowlo.
😉😉😉
Not old men coming into give you their life story 💀💀
Cheers for the video geezer. Hope everyone has a mad week. Bless 🦓
Bless lee
Liam Dowling + Fairbairn Films = Masterpiece
The amount of times you have to clarify that you’re working at Rebel Sport is hilarious and dead on 😂
Haha love this guy
How much for this one it literally says it on the shirt LMFAO
💓💓
@@sachiyo9102 k
@@nathansoutbackfishing thnks
@@sachiyo9102 😁
eshay impersonation on point
Dude asking for socks is the same dude who sold me steaks down the local butcher.
Asked for steaks not an hour back story on his family
I work at rebel sport nz, and last week I dead ass had someone give me a traced foot to find the fkn size
The quickie: comes in, selects item, leaves, sometimes a polite nod is exchanged
The rambler: goes on for a while sometimes changes tangents often confused with method man
The clinger: (buys something but hangs around... weird just hang around first THEN buy and go!
The method man: very quick furtive glances, story is often told often uninvited about bloody traffic or weather but can quickly escalate to slightly racist or sexual remark very easy to spot because of jittery nature often confused for shoplifter
Shoplifter: may make several "visits" to asses item usually most expensive item in shop
Brancher: most annoying. Comes in with story of how same store is selling same stocked item for less.. like why didnt you buy it then idiot
*Store Closes*
"Hey are you guys still open? I only need a few things, I'll be really quick..."
looking forward to see you in hollywood comedy films haha
oml these videos are the funniest shit ever keep em going mate
I work at footlocker, this is accurate
Why is this so accurate
Bro got rebel t shirt and the plus fitness lanyard
😂
Most accurate part is the old man in the flanno or a crackhead coming up to you and telling you their whole life story for no reason. You could literally be doing anything just sitting at the traino minding your own business and you see this bloke walk up to you and you just know you’re in for a story.
Hii my friend
Yep that's my life as a retail worker.
hospitality has to be worse for sure
Bruh this is too real
Ur not wrong this is exactly what Aussie retail is
First video of yours I’ve seen. Not bad, keep at it mate!
Ok but yeezys kid is LITERALLY my younger brother
Why’s it so true
Very true
try working at bunnings where it is only oldies and veggies
This is actual facts
Melbourne gang 🇦🇺
The first guy sounds like Clarence from The Big Lez Show
this is so funny you should be a famous comedian
I do not know if this is serious hahaha
@@LiamDowling69 do you do work outside TH-cam?
God I hate when a customer gives you their whole life story
🤣🤣 The oversharer
Funny as always.
Amazing
office works employees represent
So true
This do be hella accurate tho
Wow this is way too accurate 😳
best acting yet i reckon
New video let's go Dowlo
i've literally had kids come in with school id's showing their 18th birthday is like 6months away and they think that somehow it counts as being 18. like 18 this year is somehow 18 when theyre 17 for 6 more months
Sweet mullet bro
Wish I could make skits like yours. Put the Viagra back into my day, sick with covid.
You can make vids like me, just start writting now :)
I knew that there would be essays asoon as I saw the title
First yayy
Edit: the eshay bit is so true broo
I had a guy come into Repco named magic Mike (he showed me his credit card) and he said he was Billy Joel’s keyboard player.
Been there done that. Epic vid
Is that like your sisters or Mothers black rebel shirt
I frequently want to crash tackle customers over the counter after they do/say some dumb shit
is that normal?
Australia in nutshell
Fucking hell this is relatable
Bruh I work at liquorland and all i get is people like old mate rambling on
this is fucking gold mate
Can relate to all of this 🤣
you work at rebel its gonna be more than $5 for a top
Its not even eshays that pop up to the stores i work at anymore its just old middle aged blokes who asks about tech products at a sports shop
i rate this video a 6 out of 9
10/10*
Thank you I rate your comment a 4/20
@@LiamDowling69 LMAO
that’s why u work at bunnings 😮💨😮💨
True everyone knows what they need hahaha
Work in retail in Aus. Pretty much none of this video is an exaggeration.
waiting for S2 E3
Bra I work at bcf and this is what it’s like every day 😂
If I had a dollar everytime a mum had a drawing of her kids foot id have like 8 bucks, which is still far to much. seriously pull your head in mums
lol i work at the rebel that is in the thumbnail
bruh he looks like bogan john krasinski
ok
the eshay guy looked like a golfer hah
This is far too accurate.
God Vid
i guess youve just got to take it in your stride..it dosnt seem that bad tbh