Supermarket Staff Confess Their Sins. If you've worked in a supermarket and have some crazy stories then reply to this comment. The world needs to know! I'm in Mackay with my live show this week too. TICKETS: www.friendlyjordies.com/live-show
Worked at a Food Basics here in Canada in like 2006. We were having a sale on flour and all the local Italians came to buy bags upon bags of flour. We went through a pallet every 15 minutes. Well I cost the store a pallet when I was dragging one out of the back of a trailer, hit a corner on the ramp that stuck out too far, and dumped the entire pallet on the ground. Flour everywhere, I was coated like a piece of chicken. Manager just walked by, said "don't wanna know" and walked away. Oh and I set a waxed cardboard box holding pumpkins on fire with a cigarette while working a midnight shelf stocker shift and got smoking banned on breaks. I was very popular after that 🤣
I was 17 years old- 10 minutes from clocking out. I see an old lady on a store mobility scooter with two thin pale green lines trailing behind her. I literally said out loud, to a different customer in the aisle- “What the shit.” While quickly getting people to vacate the store as the old lady continues defecating down the aisle. After evacuating the 3 aisles the trail followed, I stopped the old lady and discreetly told her about the issue. The old bat, being about as blind as the aforementioned animal, asked if there was a trail. I lied to her. I boldly lied to her as I signaled the front manager over to help clean the mess off the chair. I get a mop, fill a bucket with cleaning liquids, and start trying to mop. About 2 minutes later, the back manager runs up to me, grabs the mop, then FINALLY tells me that because I was under 18- IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR ME TO CLEAN. The next time I came in, my locker had 2 $20 gift cards to the store in exchange for not telling the Department of Labor since the business had just gotten through a period of getting fined for illegal practices.
Was working at Woolies and saw a guy shaking his leg. He was pissing in the aisle, manager grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, threw him up the escalator, and he kept rolling down in one spot, over and over until the manager stopped him with foot and he was on his back all the way up to the top. Another customer that came in ripped all the chips of the aisle, took off all of her clothes, told us she had razors in her vagina, and started spitting on everyone until the cops came. Another one was checking the toilets before closing time and finding someone who OD.
I have worked for coles for nearly 4 years and i have spent most of those years in nightfill and here's a story i'll always remember: This elderly gentleman comes in-regular customer, lovely guy-looking for prune juice. Fair enough. I lead him to the aisle, we have a nice little chat about fiber (as you do), and he grabs his bottle. But as we’re walking back to the counter, disaster strikes. The poor bloke lets out the loudest, most earth-shattering fart I have ever heard in my life. I swear, cans on the shelf rattled. At first, I thought a shelf had collapsed. But he just pauses, looks me dead in the eye, and says, ‘Well, I guess the prune juice worked early.’ He still came to the counter like nothing happened. Paid in cash. Didn't even flinch. Meanwhile, I’m trying to hold it together like I’m defusing a bomb.
When I worked in the bakery, I would put all of the pies that were about to be thrown out in a bag and pay for them with a 50 cent price tag. The best job for teenagers
Man, when I was 14 I went for an interview at Red Rooster. Got told I got the job and they'd call me. They never called so I got a job elsewhere. Like 2 months later a kid at school who worked there came up to me and said they'd been rostering me on that entire time despite me never going back after the interview or doing any sort of orientation.
@@gordonfreeman7187 I have no idea. Not a single phone call, not even to tell me if they removed me from their system or not. Maybe I'm still missing shifts 20 years later.
I will never forget that time in Midland where the Red Rooster near the train station was the only building on its side of the road from the lights to centrepoint that didn't have it's windows smashed out after, I guess, a rather rowdy night, and I mean systematically every window gone, even the car lot had smashed windows, all except the perfectly in tact Red Rooster. I went in for a feed and an aboriginal man waiting in line told me its because "noongars love red rooster, we would never destroy this place." It truly is an Australian institution.
I was one of the delivery drivers for Coles for a few years. My most memorable... delivery was when I was delivering to this lady in this unit complex. She was at the very end of the driveway of 8 units. She was watering the garden in nothing but a tank top and panties at around 6pm at night when the Sun was half down. She saw me coming and was all bashful and said oh sorry you saw me like this and tried to rush inside. It would have bee absolutely glorious if she was 29 not 79........
Worked In fresh produce at Coles and had a day where the AI ordering system royally screwed up and ordered just shy of 6 tons of watermelon; to get around this issue, the manager stacked 1 ton pallets of watermelons on top of each other, creating 3 ton stacks of melon Jenga. Anyway, around midday, I was slicing melon, when a coworker said “no balls, you won’t crawl inside the bottom pallet”. Important to note, the cardboard opening on the bottom pallet only had a single, small panel removed - about the size of a large watermelon wide, so it was a tight fit. Anyways, I obliged and crawled in, before promptly being shut in by another pallet closing the only exit. Stuck, beneath 2 and a bit tons of watermelon, on a 40° summer day, I enjoyed the last couple hours of my shift watching TH-cam, playing on my phone, and taking a nap amongst the watermelon.
I'm always amazed they send watermelons in the cardboard bins, when the CHEP blue produce bins are a thing that they send other bulk produce (like pumpkins) in
there’s a red rooster across the street from my first high school, everyone would go there after school because they’d give us a large chips for $2. the chips were so good. they would have dozens of them on the counter ready to go at three because they knew they were about to be flooded by hungry teenagers holding gold coins
At our school in primary school, you could chip in to a massive order they would do, hot and fresh fish and chips, wasn't the healthiest lunch, but Newzealand has some the worlds best fish.
Worked at safeway deli back in the day and had a co-worker that would take a roast chook home every Sunday but price it as half a chook with a discount on it (would've been dumped anyway). One day we had a new service manager start and noticed what he was doing and told loss prevention what happened and the second time it happened made sure loss prevention was there the following week. Co-worker confessed to doing this every Sunday for 5 years which equated to some charge like grand theft chicken and was escorted out by police and had to pay some fine/reimbursement.
I worked at an IGA doing nightfill restocking. Had one coworker who was constantly losing his licence and getting speeding tickets, he also had a debt to repay from damage he had caused to traffic lights when he rolled his car when he tried to drift his after he watched tokyo drift... Anyway, he was one of those guys that would only call you fuckhead, motherfucker etc. One night he was being exceptionally annoying, bragging about his car (which was a clapped out gold commodore) and i told him "you know what they say about guys who brag about their car, they are compensating for their tiny dick" He responded "who told you that" and looking annoyed he storms off. I finish refilling my aisle about 10 minutes later, so i go to chuck a piss. I go in, and he is standing in front of the mirrors, his pants around his ankles, while he is holding his shirt up so hes basically in his undies, staring at his crotch in the mirror. Exactly how butters from South Park takes a piss. We make eye contact and he rushes out of there. I never told any of my coworkers.
5:00 that isn't food poisoning, that is just "I ate food fried in plastic that causes a bunch of toxic chemicals to leak into my food" AKA chemical poisoning, it absolutely should have gotten everyone involved fired and arrested.
Currently still working in an IGA down in TAS, and I’ve got a few stories, but I’ll just pick my favourite. We had some drunk bloke from in town barge in through the front sliding door, as in, shoulder tackle it half a dozen times before he got in. He sprinted to the smokes cabinet and used his bolt cutters to break the padlocks, and he was to stupid to realise that there’s a small clip that held the door down, all you had to do was pull it out and the door would open. So he grabbed a handful of parcels from our post office and legged it. The cops found him the next day sleeping on the carpark near the craft shop not even 100 meters away
When I worked at Coca Cola Amatil I witnessed so many businesses just disintegrate over 5 years, Pie face completely ignoring a profit analysis we did for them and going into admin, Krispy Kreme management stealing money and also going into admin, Subway not even wanting to clean the drink machines of mold, Jetstar storing water next to fuel, so much insane shit.
Coca cola Amatil killing off their own owner driver network, firing blokes in supply chain that had been around for decades, you could smell them cost cutting and polishing it up for sale, I got out just as the shares started to slide, such a shame.
The biggest problem with Pie Face was their pies were crap. You would think if you're starting a pie franchise someone would have at least make sure they had decent pies first.
My first job was in the deli section of a small family owned supermarket chain in Perth. I have been waiting a long time and it’s finally my time. I have 4 stories. 1. It’s Christmas Eve, the middle of summer, after working about 12 hours me and the lads are tasked with cleaning the cold cabinets. The bottom was lined with heavy marble bricks we would lift out one by one and spray the underneath with hot water. Under the marble, in the meat section was a terrible scene. Flies. Everywhere. There must’ve been one dead fly per square centimetre. We decided to count them, and collected them in a container. After a couple of minutes, we had counted over 40 flies, movement came from the container. They weren’t dead! They were in cryostasis and all started waking up. We quickly put the marble back and decided it was best if they stay asleep. Safe to say we had to clean under there significantly more often after that. 2. When stuff like milk and cheese went out of date, the dairy section would give it to us and we would use it in deli meals. Me and a relatively new worker were cleaning the cool room out the back, which meant removing all the racks of food, spraying water and squeegeeing out all the gunk that had accumulated on the floor. He picked up a piece of Camembert cheese, unsealed, licked his lips and took a bite. I was horrified watching him swallow the months out of date, soggy, dirty floor cheese. I then dared him to drink from the drain on the floor and he happily obliged. God could not kill this man if he tried. 3. One time the boss literally strangled an employee for talking back to him. He would often yell at me in a mix of Italian and Russian so customers couldn’t understand what he was saying (neither could I tho lol) 4. A new guy took chickens out the oven and was splattered with boiling chicken juice/fat. The boss drove him to the hospital (can’t imagine what the convo was like in the car). He got 2nd degree burns, was back at work the next week.
I used to work at Woolies in a big shopping centre on the night shift. Lots of quick stories came to mind like the time a homeless man came in and pissed on multiple displays between the fruit and veg tables and the fish fridge which we were told to ignore while management cleaned it up and the guy was thrown out. We never closed at all for cleaning or anything so I'm not sure how thorough the cleaning actually was. I also remember during covid when we had to do crap smuggling operations by stashing toilet paper in out jackets and under our shirts to get rolls across the store from the loading dock into our staff toilets so we had some to use without the customers seeing it. This came after the girls staff toilets were clogged with paper towels and entire store stank like shit because the staff room was flooded with shit-water which stained the floor and skirting boards. The giant sewage pits in the loading dock etc had to opened for plumbers to unclog it all which took all night. These are about 6ft x 3ft very deep pits that dropped into poop sludge just left open for us to work around in the dock (yes we were still open that night and had no toilets to use. If we needed to go to the toilet we had to ask permission from the shift manager and go out the back door to the building and run halfway around the block to the KFC.) During covid times if we wanted to buy toilet paper we had to go to the back and cut out one barcode off tomorrows palette and secretly scan them along with other items on our lunch break at the self service checkout. Then we had to wait until the end of the night to smuggle the toilet paper out to our cars in garbage bags and cardboard boxes at midnight. We were even told "no employee has been caught with toilet paper yet and we won't let this store be the first. If you're caught it'll end up in the papers and you'll face the consequences." Also my shift manager gave all the good shifts to the fresh teenage girls who usually only lasted a few weeks and reportedly was dating an 18 year old and he was like 35 - but that probably isn't too surprising.
Now, woollies in NZ is called Countdown.... near Auckland airport just off the highway into the city where thousands of tourists traverse was the sign and the O after the C was out.... me and my wife pissed ourselves and the cabbie said it's been that way nearly a year.... lol
Red Rooster is so bleak, that their jingle should be replaced with that Alice in Chains song. However, in their defence, they have the best chips of all the major chains.
I used to work for a very famous deli meat company that stocks at Coles and Woolies, one night late during the shift near Christmas I went to a back area to take some expired meat to the skip bin there. The shift manager was there with a few of the lazy islander workers and the had a bottle of metho. They were scrubbing off the expiry dates from the hams and other meat in the skip bin and writing on new dates with black sharpie. The next day I told a manager who said she would "sort it out" later that day she gave everyone some packets of bacon that they couldn't sell as they were for an overseas market and had some packaging issues. The following shift I got fired for "stealing" the bacon. I was the only one. Enjoy your likely thawed out of date Coles and Woolies Christmas hams
I worked at Target (in America, not Australia), and would see some interesting things around closing time. In one instance a man walking with his wife two children stopped, snorted, and spat a loogie down the aisle onto the floor. I just stared at him as we walked past the trash bin at the end of the aisle. Why are people like this?
In highschool I used to be a cleaner at the local IGA/Woolies. A couple of days before christmas we were having the big rush, and as i was doing my rounds i noticed a trail of pink liquid trailing up and down through every isle, a customer had grabbed a frozen turkey as their first item and it was defrosting and dripping blood through the entire shop while they filled their cart. So im mopping this bloody trail through the shop and this lead to the discovery of several years worth of eggs that had been broken and kicked under the shelves to create a crust several inches thick. I figured if it had been there that long so no, no I did not tell anyone or clean it. Also when i was hungry Id occasionally dip into the cool rooms and eat the salads and cured meats from their tubs, with my bare hands. Why do we let teenagers do anything?
I worked at Coles for a few years. Here are some of my stories: - Working in the Online department picking an order in fresh produce. Suddenly a bag of Mamee noodle snacks sails past my head from behind and lands on the floor in front of me. I turn around to find a crackhead, who proceeds to yell 'I'm gonna kill ya, fuckin' dog!' before powerwalking over to the deli section and staring at the displays in a trance for around 10 minutes before being escorted out by the manager. Never saw him again. - Worked an overnight shift at a different store for a while. Thought I would fill the milk before the truck came in at 3AM. As I was pulling a full pallet of milk crates out from the fridge, one of the crates caught on the top of the fridge door and toppled the entire pallet over resulting in the spectacular explosion of around 80 bottles of milk. Spent the rest of the night emptying out the fridge and mopping up the great lake of milk with one mop and bucket. - One of the butchers was fired because he would find the most expensive meat we had out the back, put a reduced price sticker on it at the lowest possible price the sticker machine could do, and then pick it up and send it through the self-checkout when he clocked off. Apparently he got away with a couple thousand dollars worth of meat before being caught.
When I was going through uni, I worked at a little Foodworks in a small town in rural Queensland. One time an older male customer came in, with a big grin on his face. I was at the cash register, and I did my usual greeting "Hello, how are you today?" His grin widened, and he said to me. "Better than you are, mate." He then leaned over the counter while I'm scanning his stuff and packing the bags, and said. "Did you watch the Ashes? Your mob lost." I was confused. I hadn't actually watched it but I'd heard that Australia had won, so I was like. "Oh really, I thought Australia won?" He slapped his hand on the table like a judge delivering a verdict in court, and gave a resounding. "That's bloody right! Your mob bloody lost, mate!" I'm an Australian, raised on a farm near that town. If I became a farmer, I would be the 5th generation of my family to work that land. So I was a bit bewildered. I laughed and said. "Mate, I'm an Aussie, we're on the same side." But then things took a turn. The guy's grin turned into a scowl. "No you're fucking not." He said. I replied "Yeah... I am." His tone growing increasingly hostile, he said. "Well where're you fucking from then?" Probably sounding as confused as I was, I was like. "Down the road. About 15 minutes out of town. Been there my whole life." At this point he actually started to yell, accusing me of being a "fucking lying Pom," and demanding to know why I was "mocking him." when it was "your fucking mob who lost the fucking Ashes, not mine, WE WON!" It was a pretty small store so the manager heard what was going on took over the transaction and talked him down I guess - I got sent out the back. But yeah. That was the weirdest one since I'm an Aussie, and I've never been accused of being English before or since. About the only thing I can put it down to is that maybe my accent isn't quite as nasally as this particular guy's was? Craziest thing is I had never seen the man in the store before or since - it was a small town, you usually came to recognise the regulars. So maybe some big cricket fan just really felt like finding an Englishman to yell at that day and scoured that Darling Downs for an Englishman to yell at? I have no clue.
While it was still the least busy of the group of restaurants, Minto Red Rooster was the most poppin' one I've visited. Would go quite a lot when I lived there. It's now an Oporto RIP.
First job was at a Red Rooster which years later was closed by the health department.. The drainage for the kitchen was one pit at the back corner that filled up and a bilge style pump that removed the waste once it was literally overflowing. The pump would often stop working and I would have to fix it.. I can still remember what that smelled like and this was over 20 years ago. The horror.
Red Rooster isn't Australia's only fast food chain. Oporto, Ogalo (Portuguese chicken), Grill'd (burgers), Guzman y Gomez, Mad Mex (Mexican), Wendy's (ice cream), Donut King and Breadtop are all Australian.
I've got a couple stories from the Woolies I work at right now: We had a fire alarm go off maybe 2 years ago. Nobody had any idea what to do so We obviously keep serving. Eventually manager calls out to evacuate so I go from my comical "haha yeah what could go wrong" to "oh fuck we got to leave". After the fiasco we find out one of the Trolly Pushers had microwaved a meal with Onions in the breakroom and it had triggered every alarm in the shopping centre. Another story is once I was talking to one of the 4 security guards who worked in the centre while I was on shift and they told me about how he once got a call from a customer saying that someone had a gun in the store, specifically stating it was an M4. Closest thing to SWAT arrive and start working with Security to find the armed man. Turns out it was a guy with an umbrella on his back. Last one is sometimes after closing I sing the Woolworths theme on the microphone, except randomly I'l sing either the Mcdonalds or Weezer guitar Riff.
When I lived in Darwin back a few years I remember a bloke getting busted doing some of his own personal stuffing to the chooks in the Palmerston store. Tuesday half price chicken and chips those were the days.
I worked at an IGA in Townsville in one of the more dodgy areas. One night a customer comes up to the front counter and askes if anyone has seen his keys, no one had so we had a look around for a bit and we couldn't find them. It turned out after looking at security footage someone had pinched them the second he dropped them, ran out and stole his car. The person who stole his car had the balls to call us and ask for the owners number to ransom it back, they didn't say that on the phone to us but the owner later told us this. The owner told us he was going to get his mates together and ambush the thief. No idea if he ever did that or got his car back, can't remember if police got involved but its Townsville so they most likely told us they can't help. Gotta love Townsville jk help me
How about a wholesome story? When I worked in a Woolworths Deli, my favourite customer was a mute woman who the other staff often left for me to serve as I had no problems figuring out what she wanted pretty quickly 95% of the time, while everyone else often had to get a pen and paper for her. On the flip side of things, there's a lot of stuff that should be done in specific ways in departments like Meat and Deli but, due to lack of staff and time, a lot of shortcuts get taken. Back then, about 2010, I probably could have walked into any Woolworths and quickly found things that would have gotten a department like those shut down (at least for a day or so), and I imagine many other people could have done the same. Especially with the mincers in the meat departments, as the grinder in them is meant to be pulled out with each cleaning but certain mincer designs made it incredibly impractical to do so and thus rarely done. Thankfully a lot of the muck that gathers in some of the machinery doesn't make it into the food... unless you try to pull the part out and replace it without cleaning. I imagine though that most supermarket workers have mostly stories of small things, like finding a frozen dead scorpion in the freezer delivery, the many prawns that fall under counters and don't get fished out for days, and the fat from the chicken ovens being poured into bin bags and just thrown in the dumpster.
Also back in the 2000s the drive thru audio systems at HJs, Rooter, and KFC used analog radio on low VHF...being a radio temp with my trusty FM92 and a handheld, God me and my mates were such shits. It got so bad at one HJs they had a staff member standing at the speaker telling people to ignore the swearing and comments like 'nahh can't do that order as your too much of a fat c**t' Now it's all digital in the high 2ghz range.
Four square still exists over here in Kiwiland. In fact, I've had someone explain that it's a "real town" precisely because they'd got a woolies, not a 4square. Honestly, couldn’t find a fault in their logic.
I work at a Woolworths on the north side Brisbane. When I'm handing out orders at our click and collect bay, every now and then we'll get a driver enter the bay in the wrong direction (despite the signs and arrows on the road). Whenever this happens, I always tell the drivers that do this that there have been Police cars patrolling the carpark and have been handing out fines all day for not following road signage (they don't, and there's never any cop cars around anyway). These drivers freak out, and often times will perform a 3-10 point turn out of the collection bay. One time, a driver got so freaked out, literally shaking, saying "F***, I'm on a suspended license. I better get out of here!". He threw his groceries in the car and took off
I feel like you need to do a Bunnings Confess Your Sins. If it's in anyway similar to American hardware chain stores, you'll get more quality over quantity.
@@kaynejackson6344 I've caused a fire, I've had to battle off roaches while making peoples food and I called my boss's mum "dodgy" idk how I still work there
When I caused that fire my entire workplace had to have a meeting where we all watched the cam footage, I'm pretty sure every red rooster knows a little something about the fire guy
0:59 The chicken Barassi Line, with Red Rooster on one side, probably has Oporto on the other. I think Oporto is really hard to find west, compared to east anyway
The place I used to work for has the honour of being "The Busiest Supermarket in the UK" during the one week of the Boardmasters festival. Every day of the week was a repeating cycle of torment starting with the families prepping up for a beach trip in the morning; replete with screaming kids, theft, idiots who can't use self-checkout and Karens who will find any excuse to whine about the wait or anything they might be trying to buy. At midday the hangover crowd would eventually crawl out of their stupour to buy even more crates of beer and freshly cooked chicken. Things got more calm during the afternoon then in the evening the second round of "Pre-party Bev collection" would come in. At night (because we stayed open till midnight) it wasn't uncommon to see the same lot we served earlier coming back in for whatever supplies they needed for the afterparty. Probably my most vivid memory of that time (other than the day they left me in the outside garden centre in the rain and literally forgot I was there) was when these very wasted frat guys got onto the tannoy system. It was funny at first but they started getting a bit too vulgar, so since I was doing nothing I decided to get over there and tell they to stop. The fact a skinny runt like me scared this group of 4 blokes, who could beat the shit out of me, out of the store with just a shout left me laughing my arse off.
I used to work at Coles. There was this huge oven that loaded in at least 40 chickens to cook. You had to wheels them in on this atleast 6 foot tall tray. 8 x 8 kinda depth. One day I walk into the deli room ( I was the only person who regularly worked in there ). The chicken tower was on the floor and all these raw chickens and chicken juice was all over the floor. I walked out of the room and did something and didn’t tell anyone cos I was 15 and it was gross. I walked in about an hour later and there were two guys standing around it freaking out. My supervisor found me about 2 hours later and asked me if I did it and I said no. He made them clean it up Also they keep the raw chicken in crates in the cheese freezer and the juices go everywhere And one time I accidentally sprayed cleaning spray on the self serve dog food cos they were open and never told anyone. Sometimes I get worried I killed someone’s dog
Worked in a supermarket in South Australia in the bakery department. Not one of those ones that just lays out frozen bread, bakes it off and passes it off as their product (I'm looking at you Coles and Woolies), but an actual bakery that make fresh bread daily. One year, during the middle of the lead up to Easter, one of the bakers was on and they were doing another grueling hot cross bun production. If you live in SA, you may know where this is going. Anyway, on this particular day, one of the apprentices was helping to roll up the dough into balls to be placed on trays when he noticed something red in one of the pieces of dough, he approached the baker on the bench that day and he waved it off as some string from one of the flour bags we use. The next day there was a massive scandal as it turns out pieces of a calculator had been found throughout the days production of hot cross buns. For context, the mixing machine we used has a solid metal lid with four holes in close proximity used for watching the dough mix and a handle, and to be able to calculate the flour, water etc. that we needed for the dough production we used, you guessed it, a calculator. A little black one. With grey buttons, except for the ONE button that was red, the equal button. Turns out what had happened is old mate had somehow knocked the calculator in and, not wanting to do another 60 kilo mix of hot cross buns as we were doing over 150 kilo a day at that point, gone out and grabbed a calculator from the stationary aisle, threw flour on it, and moved on with his day. We knew this because the store cameras had caught him doing so. They called him up to the office that next day and before they could say anything, he quit on the spot. Apparently went on to work gardening for an old folks home. Moral of the story, they are always watching, always.
I used to work at a Woolies outside of Port Macquarie. One day, while covering a deli shift, I saw the resident suffer of Fetal Alcohol Syndrom came in, sloshed off his face, wearing one thong. Stumbles up to the roast chooks, put a hand in one of the bags, tears of like ⅓ of a country roast chook and starts munging on it. Didn't pay and just left. He was banned for 2 months
The first red rooster in Australia was in Perth just around the corner from me in the early 70s. It was like fine dining back then. The chicken roll had actual chicken in it back then. Now it's half stuffing.
I use to work in a Woolies in the loading dock. One of the semi-drivers went the wrong way into the dock (they're a one way thing), realised his error and attempted to turn around, and got his truck wedged in between a retaining wall and the shop wall. It took 3 recovery vehicles to unwedge him. I later found out that he wasn't fired, was given the better shifts and he ended up driving his truck off the road when he fell asleep. He still wasn't fired for that.
I worked at Safeway so long ago it was called Safeway. Once had an old lady tell me she had a carrot she would like to find in my pants. Turns out she thought I was someone else. She was mortified. I still don't know the context. Also once had a guy pick up a can of tomatoes next to me and beat it against the shelf over and over. He then turned to me and said this needs to be reduced for him as it is damaged. Regional NSW border town btw.
plz anonymous if used jordies ! i work at coles and we had a lady shit in one of the aisles. it sat there for probably an hour and a half before someone told one of the other workers about it. on the head set all i heard was ‘um apparently there’s like diarrhoea or something ?’ it sat there for like another hour before the cleaner guys took care of it. it was pretty busy and so i wasn’t paying attention to who i was serving until i heard ‘ i think im going to go again’ . i looked up and there was an older women holding her bum as if she very much would go again. it dawned on me that this was the culprit. the women’s husband told her that it was fine and instead of letting her go off and shit somewhere else, forced her to stay there until i finished serving her. every item she gave me had a little bit of shit on it and to make it worse, she payed in cash and i stg there was shit on it too. i have never used so much hand sanitiser in my life since that incident.
Im that dude that parties all night and then rocks up to woolies fully drunk to do a weekend shift. So drunk into work after a huge night I was pushing trolley at chrismas time (in the summer). Apparently equality wasn't a thing because my store manager at the time said there was a rise in abductions of people in the area and that was "manly" enough to handle it. She added that I was doing it because I wasn't "good looking enough to be abducted" so I spend the next 2 hours pushing trolleys. I got bored and put on the supplied cold freezer jacket and made a fort in the walkin milk fridge out of milk crates (so i could hide out) and had a nap for 4 hours of my shift because I was still drunk. Suprising I did not come out of that with no injury to self. No one bothered to check up on me because woolies. I woke up for the last 2 hours of my shift to be thanked by the the store manager for doing a good job that day. Till this day Im unsure if she knew or didn't care. Im still upset that she thought I was not attractive enough.
I worked in a rural supermarket for years. We had this one nutter lady that complained about everything and because I was head of front counters she would always pick me to complain to. One day she had a beef with the bananas, they were apparently the most disgraceful bananas she had ever seen. She proceeded to lecture me for nearly an hour, 15 minutes of that was past closing, but I couldn't actually get out of her what was actually wrong with the bananas. Were they too green, was there a spider (it happens), were they too ripe. Eventually it got to the point where I had to kick her out, and for a laugh I told her to write a letter of complaint to the board. 3 days later the board head approached me and my god was it a letter. 4 pages of handwritten, barely readable scrawl that was as incoherant and indistinct as the conversation, and again not once did she say what the actual problem was. After that she ended up sending so many letters like that in they banned her from the store.
(EDIT: I've been told Big Rooster and Red Rooster are different things.😅🥲 RIP Big Rooster) Im so old I remember when Red Rooster was called Big Rooster, and we lived opposite one on the Gold Coast. We ate there once a fortnight because my mum loved the pineapple fritters and said it was healthier than KFC (we were healthy eaters otherwise, on a pescatarian diet). I found a Big Rooster napkin packet in my mum's random kitchen draw and it gave me flashbacks to happy 90s times. If I had to choose, it would be Red Rooster over KFC. But we have none around.
NO STOP. Big Rooster and Red Rooster were TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. I know there was a Big Rooster at Punchbowl (opposite the Maccas on Canterbury Road) while at the same time there was a Red Rooster at Ashfield, corner Liverpool and Parramatta Roads.
@@whophd Okay, so are you saying that the Big Rooster I lived opposite was just bought out by Red Rooster??? Also, what yeah was that? So I can have an idea how long Big Rooster was kicking around for? How sad. I thought it was a glow up. Instead it was a buy out.
I worked at red rooster when I was in high school. It was one of the smaller red roosters in Sydney and our shop was located right below a rub n tug. There were a few times that we saw people running out of the stairwell naked, we figured out that if customers weren't paying, the ladies working there would refuse to give their clothes back. Also one time I was on shift with our store owner when he disappeared for about 30 minutes, when he returned he pinned a business card from the "massage parlour" up in the kitchen and said that all red rooster workers are entitled to a discount at their establishment. The job itself was pretty fun, I could cut a whole chicken into 8ths in 12 seconds.
I worked in a prep kitchen and we used to tape two big chef's knives together for parsley. It went wonky and cut halfway through my pointer finger. I pulled my hand back in a reflex and it was already pumping pretty good. Yanking back splattered blood across half the room before I could clamp my other hand over it. Everything contaminated was thrown out, about half a day's prep. They thought I did it on purpose, it was all across the ceiling and the km was mad af. The beginning of the end. *spellcheck is ruining me, apologies for three tries, edit doesn't work w/ this app.
My missus works at drakes and has a couple of stories 1. There was one customer that had a cockroach crawl out of their bag and they accused me of planting it like I’ve just got live roaches in my pockets 2. We had a guy in the freezer aisle who was threatening other customers with a knife and slitting his wrists. Lot of blood 3. If a customer touches me while they’re asking where something is I send them to the other side of the store
Worked in a only supermarket in town for 6 months in outback SA and I was on early mornings shifts unloading trucks for a few hours before I went to school. Store owner was grumpy old slimy **** who would constantly make me late to school lecturing me about how "back in my day we'd be given a good hiding if we weren't finished before 7:30am". Most shifts it was just me and one other person unloading 4-5 pallets while he would sit in his office drinking macchiato. Eventually had enough of his shit and knew we we're moving states in a week's time, so I thought it'd be funny to leave him with a parting gift of some fish shoved into the curtain rod in his office. Turns out he had left town for the week to visit some family in Adelaide, so it really got to "marinate" in the summer heat. Got a message from my mate who I had worked with that the day he got back he opened the door and almost vomited on the spot. They had to keep the store closed for the day until they managed to find the smell, felt bad for my mate cause he had to clean it. 10/10 would do it again
I worked at Cut Price Dddddeli! (That jingle went through my head all day when I worked in the cool room). I was 15 I’m now 49. Dropping the pre packed coleslaw on the cool room floor I scooped it up and put it back in the bowl for tomorrow’s customers. A few days later I told the boss I quit….he told me he was going to sack me anyway……”here’s to the store where your money buys more”…..they’ve since gone broke
For super market stories, years back had to do work for the dole at a supermarket, guy comes up to me yelling that we had put out salad packs on the shelf past their expiration date pointing out a date on several of the the packaging straps that had past a few days ago. Fighting the urge to just shrug and leave it at that I got my supervisor who was also yelled at for a full minute before pointing out that on salad bundles the number is when they were packaged at the farm and all of these were very fresh. The man simply said "well fine then" and walked off. Got off the dole that year got forklift certified now I work out the back of a supermarket/farmers market where all the REAL damage gets caused.
reminds me of my friends who worked at A&W in highschool. They used to prop the back door open against a bollard out back and use it to climb up on the roof to smoke weed. One night the wedge slipped out and the door closed, effectively trapping them all on the roof for 6 hours before their manager showed up and opened the door and let them climb down.
our local red rooster (La Rouge coq ) was selling ice though the drive through. the only people who go there to actually eat is lawn mower guys. pull up at lunch time and its like 5 jims mowing and never anyone else.
I worked in a run down Foodland in SA as a 17 year old. I was looking after the dairy section and walking past the freezers i noticed the smell of fish, alarmingly as i past the frozen fish section. Opened the freezer door and lo and behold the freezer felt like it was running at room temperature, the fish smell was from the defrosted fish. Found the store owner and he calls up the fridge guy who diagnoses the problem as the freezer being old as shit and needing to be defrosted with hot water everyday. Owner gets me a watering can from the shelves and gets me hot watering the freezer in front of customers. Worst part was i pointed out the fact that the fish was obviously unfrozen and not fit to be sold. The store owner goes "na its ok, it doesnt have bones in it so it can just refreeze and be fine". Im like na mate that stuff is fkd, youll kill someone selling it. He proceeded to scream at me, so i told him "get fucked, im not gonna be party to killing old people" and walked out. Far as i know he kept selling the fish cos he was to tight arse to throw stuff out.
I used to work at a Red Rooster in Sydney. Was generally a funny experience. One time this manager who was quite creepy/borderline pedo who we always used to just laugh at because he was harmless was ordering around one of the staff who resembled the typical skinny, ratty teenager stereotype. During clean up he order the rat boy to clean under the sink with comments like "make sure you get right in there" followed by a "hur hur hur" type smug laugh while occasionally spraying the kid with the hose. The water was hot enough to be steamy. We used to also time the same manager because we started to notice he would go to the bathroom often but only ever for 3 seconds at a time. It was really weird but amusing. The highlight of my Red Rooster career was forming a little secret society with 2 other colleagues. We used to do the close shift, but then return 30 minutes after the manager left and egg the store when we knew a separate shitty manager was working the day after. We would always drive past the morning after to see them cleaning the outside of the store. The other workers caught on and we turned out to be the secret bandits of Red Rooster. But we always used to do the best clean and store close though.
I did two weeks work experience at a woolies in south suburban adelaide, on my first shift I was being shown around the back end of the store while some girl was loading the box crushing machine. I think her ring came off or something but she was fiddling around with the boxes on the top of the stack WHILE SHE HAD HER OTHER HAND ON THE CRUSHING BUTTON. I watched as the machine slowly pushed her hand into the boxes of various angles, it took cutting up her hand and luckily not crushing it in to a fine paste for her to take her hand off the crushing button. Talk about a bad paper cut. (Sadly i did not get a job out of it)
I had my head cut open by a massive piece of sharp wire sticking out of a swing on the playground at Red Rooster when I was 4 years old. I vividly remember lying on the ground near the door with blood dripping down my face while customers stepped over me to get in and out, not knowing how I got there or what was happening. My sister said you could fit a 50 cent coin in the hole, it was that big and deep. A doctor told me years later it may have damaged my frontal lobe due to symptoms I have to this day like poor impulse control, emotional control, etc. I still remember the profoundly bizarre dreams I had after the incident, feeling tremendous pressure in my head as I clung to this cliff like thing surrounded by something that resembled analogue TV snow. This was in 1987, and my mum never tried to sue them for some reason. I still have a big scar on my forehead.
Back in '05, I used to work for a local grocery chain in their frozen/dairy section. Back in the stock room, by the cooler & freezer doors, there were a few dozen big tanks of different gasses, including freon. I was in quite an experimental phase at the time, and I learned that freon had some utility, so I was regularly liberating lung-fulls while on the clock. Until one day, after about two weeks of this, I lost consciousness after a toke, and woke up face up, on the floor, with a small pool of blood around my head. The only other co-worker on the clock at the time found me in that pool of blood, and all I could do was ask him for a mop, and to maybe please don't say anything about it. Shout out to homie (whose name I do not remember), he totally brought me that mop and didn't say a word about it to the boss.
When I worked at iga when I was a kid with my sister. My sister who worked in the deli accidentally put on the oven wash function with 10 roast chooks inside instead of pressing the cook button. No one realised until a customer pointed it out. At this same iga someone got their foot run over by a forklift.
I was a manager at Red rooster back in 2010 . I was helping my minion take out rubbish to the dumpster outside when our rival hungry jacks across the road employee came outside and shouted at us that our food sucked . Before I could respond my minion started reaching into the bin bag and started to throw food waste at the hungry jacks employee and shop . At that point all hell broke loose and all the hungry jacks employees came out and started to throw their food waste at us . Before we knew it we had started the food wars of 2010 . It only stopped when the regional manager car started pulling into the carpark and we all scuttled away like bugs . It was the best reprimand I have ever been given . The only Victor's to our food war was the fat seagulls that had a feast to gorge on
I worked at an Aldi in Melbourne with its own multi story car park. One day whilst working away an old Italian man came up to me and in a thick accent was telli8ng me to "follow to car, follow to car" I went up to the carpark with him thinking maybe some trolleys needed collecting or something. He takes me to his car and points to the wall its parked against. I look up and see the wall just completely smeared in shit, what looks relatively fresh. The man then just waves his hand at it, hops in his car and drives off without saying another word. To this day I Don't know if he shit all over the wall and wanted to show me of if he just wanted me to clean it up.
9:59 betting it was Orange, our red rooster and maccas are literallt next to each other, like not even a road between them and they use the same exit (technically they don't, but a lot of people drive through the carpark instead of using the actual drive thru exit at red rooster dor some reason) Also a famously poor town, they are literally both in Glenroi lul most people i know who work in the orange maccas live in or around Glenroi, while everyone else works at rhe north orange maccas.
Worked at woolies, night shift - staking shelves with other gremlins. 6am arrives and some Asian lady starts barking at me to use my trolly-I told her to get one from the front of the store- she pointed at the frozen chicken in her basket, suggesting she needed my trolly - just as confused as her at this stage -THIS IS MY TROLLY! I said. She pulled her pants down to show me a massive lump which she just had surgery for - it was covered in brown betadine antiseptic… it was like a football sized lump. ‘Chicken chicken’ she kept saying - I told her to ‘take the trolly and pull your pants up’ … she took the trolly but it took a few seconds to pull her pants up.
Had never actually walked into a Red Rooster and went to one recently. Honestly the nicest staff I've seen at a fast food place. Greeted us and everything. Guess they get excited when someone walks through the door and want to leave an impression so you come back 'cause we were the only customers there 🤣
I worked at Woolworths in the produce (fruit and veg) department when I was 16. My boss had a punch on with the store manager, we later found out it was over an affair. The store manager approached me after the scuffle and said I will need to fill in as department lead until a suitable replacement is found, before quipping 'or unless you can't handle the pressure'. My first inherrited task was to complete the weekly fruit and vegetable order which I had never done before. After telling multiple people I had no idea what I was doing and being met with apathetic shrugs, I decided to have at it. Somewhere along the way I fucked up and ordered 1000 boxes of mangoes instead of 10. I used more than the entire weeks fruit and veg budget on mangos. Usually these errors are spotted by the store manager, who I can only assume left to chase down the married woman he was sleeping with. My ridiculous order was auto-approved. I quit over the phone the following day citing that I couldn't handle the pressure.
I had one of my night shifts back in the day when the previous night's manager left the oil hopper open. This particular night, while changing out the oil, I noticed pieces of frogs blended in with the new oil. Needless to say, it was a busy night of washing and scrubbing.
Jordie Bro. Currently, Red Rooster doesn't operate outside of Australia. (According to the Wikipedia page, they've had some recent financial difficulties. (They closed their New Zealand stores in 2014, and closed several stores in Queensland in 2019)
When I worked overnights at Macas, I would give a metric s#@t ton of food at 11:30 and then turn all the equipment off. Oh you want a cheeseburger at 5am? Enjoy 7-hour-old patties that are refreshed with a spray bottle of water. There were multiple instances of burgers, especially fillet-o-fish falling on the floor and me and my manager looking at each other, nodding, then throwing it back in the fryer. Honestly, if your ordering fillet-o-fish after 12am you deserve what's coming to you.
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Supermarket Staff Confess Their Sins. If you've worked in a supermarket and have some crazy stories then reply to this comment. The world needs to know!
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Worked at a Food Basics here in Canada in like 2006. We were having a sale on flour and all the local Italians came to buy bags upon bags of flour. We went through a pallet every 15 minutes. Well I cost the store a pallet when I was dragging one out of the back of a trailer, hit a corner on the ramp that stuck out too far, and dumped the entire pallet on the ground. Flour everywhere, I was coated like a piece of chicken. Manager just walked by, said "don't wanna know" and walked away. Oh and I set a waxed cardboard box holding pumpkins on fire with a cigarette while working a midnight shelf stocker shift and got smoking banned on breaks. I was very popular after that 🤣
I was 17 years old- 10 minutes from clocking out. I see an old lady on a store mobility scooter with two thin pale green lines trailing behind her. I literally said out loud, to a different customer in the aisle- “What the shit.” While quickly getting people to vacate the store as the old lady continues defecating down the aisle. After evacuating the 3 aisles the trail followed, I stopped the old lady and discreetly told her about the issue. The old bat, being about as blind as the aforementioned animal, asked if there was a trail.
I lied to her. I boldly lied to her as I signaled the front manager over to help clean the mess off the chair.
I get a mop, fill a bucket with cleaning liquids, and start trying to mop. About 2 minutes later, the back manager runs up to me, grabs the mop, then FINALLY tells me that because I was under 18- IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR ME TO CLEAN. The next time I came in, my locker had 2 $20 gift cards to the store in exchange for not telling the Department of Labor since the business had just gotten through a period of getting fined for illegal practices.
Was working at Woolies and saw a guy shaking his leg. He was pissing in the aisle, manager grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, threw him up the escalator, and he kept rolling down in one spot, over and over until the manager stopped him with foot and he was on his back all the way up to the top. Another customer that came in ripped all the chips of the aisle, took off all of her clothes, told us she had razors in her vagina, and started spitting on everyone until the cops came. Another one was checking the toilets before closing time and finding someone who OD.
I have worked for coles for nearly 4 years and i have spent most of those years in nightfill and here's a story i'll always remember:
This elderly gentleman comes in-regular customer, lovely guy-looking for prune juice. Fair enough. I lead him to the aisle, we have a nice little chat about fiber (as you do), and he grabs his bottle. But as we’re walking back to the counter, disaster strikes.
The poor bloke lets out the loudest, most earth-shattering fart I have ever heard in my life. I swear, cans on the shelf rattled. At first, I thought a shelf had collapsed. But he just pauses, looks me dead in the eye, and says, ‘Well, I guess the prune juice worked early.’
He still came to the counter like nothing happened. Paid in cash. Didn't even flinch. Meanwhile, I’m trying to hold it together like I’m defusing a bomb.
When I worked in the bakery, I would put all of the pies that were about to be thrown out in a bag and pay for them with a 50 cent price tag. The best job for teenagers
Man, when I was 14 I went for an interview at Red Rooster. Got told I got the job and they'd call me. They never called so I got a job elsewhere. Like 2 months later a kid at school who worked there came up to me and said they'd been rostering me on that entire time despite me never going back after the interview or doing any sort of orientation.
How tf do they just forget you? Are they really this lazy?
@@gordonfreeman7187 I have no idea. Not a single phone call, not even to tell me if they removed me from their system or not. Maybe I'm still missing shifts 20 years later.
Did you ask for back pay? Seriously they would have processed it
That is probably the best way to tell someone from overseas what red rooster is...
You'd be surprised how many organizations hire people without telling the people they hired.
I will never forget that time in Midland where the Red Rooster near the train station was the only building on its side of the road from the lights to centrepoint that didn't have it's windows smashed out after, I guess, a rather rowdy night, and I mean systematically every window gone, even the car lot had smashed windows, all except the perfectly in tact Red Rooster.
I went in for a feed and an aboriginal man waiting in line told me its because "noongars love red rooster, we would never destroy this place." It truly is an Australian institution.
Worked there in the 80's!
That place is dangerous around night time lol
@@Tommygunnaxtx Was then too!
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 probably much worse back in the 80s could imagine.
Red rooster is where you’d see Dave’s dinnerz eating on his lunch break
We need Dave's dinners back
gregs kitchen?
ik dave but not red rooster
We need Dave to step up and visit some different Red Roosters to show us the truth behind these stories!
@@samsam21ambyes we most certainly do
I was one of the delivery drivers for Coles for a few years.
My most memorable... delivery was when I was delivering to this lady in this unit complex. She was at the very end of the driveway of 8 units. She was watering the garden in nothing but a tank top and panties at around 6pm at night when the Sun was half down. She saw me coming and was all bashful and said oh sorry you saw me like this and tried to rush inside.
It would have bee absolutely glorious if she was 29 not 79........
She was 29 years too young I'd say
watching this while eating red rooster is probably gonna be a bad idea, but ah fuck it
How'd it go for your appetite?
@gungle2595 ate the whole meal
I did this for the KFC episode
RED ROOTA
The amount of times people in country towns have stolen the S from the sign is hilarious. I have a mate who stole the S from Cowra's Red Rooster sign.
I love that your comment is giving me the option to "Translate to English"
They say it like that because they have no teeth
Logo is literally a cock, Fair enough.
Trick'n Cheat!
Worked In fresh produce at Coles and had a day where the AI ordering system royally screwed up and ordered just shy of 6 tons of watermelon; to get around this issue, the manager stacked 1 ton pallets of watermelons on top of each other, creating 3 ton stacks of melon Jenga. Anyway, around midday, I was slicing melon, when a coworker said “no balls, you won’t crawl inside the bottom pallet”. Important to note, the cardboard opening on the bottom pallet only had a single, small panel removed - about the size of a large watermelon wide, so it was a tight fit. Anyways, I obliged and crawled in, before promptly being shut in by another pallet closing the only exit. Stuck, beneath 2 and a bit tons of watermelon, on a 40° summer day, I enjoyed the last couple hours of my shift watching TH-cam, playing on my phone, and taking a nap amongst the watermelon.
That was by far the best case scenario… You gotta be thankful for how rigid that cardboard is, otherwise you’dve become a watermelon cocktail.
That coworker was probably pissed they didn't get to have watermelon enrichment time
@@gungle2595 he was more annoyed when I messaged him, reminding him to let me out.
I'm always amazed they send watermelons in the cardboard bins, when the CHEP blue produce bins are a thing that they send other bulk produce (like pumpkins) in
@@smalltime0everything we got was cardboard.
never worked at a red rooster but i do remember going there twice when i arrived in australia over twenty years ago and both times it was shit
The red rooster in Gladstone burnt down like almost a year ago and its corpse is still just sitting there next to Supercheap auto
eyo fellow gladstonite 💀
I work all over Australia welding and it's not a town unless it has a Red rooster and/or Chicken treat if you're in WA.
Can confirm WA regional towns only has chicken treat as a fast food option for some reason, and is better than any metro fast food place
@@lukesmithreborn3023 It's actually the same company.
spot on, worked rural WA for years :), and chicken treat is great
Chicken treat sounds pretty pov
there’s a red rooster across the street from my first high school, everyone would go there after school because they’d give us a large chips for $2. the chips were so good. they would have dozens of them on the counter ready to go at three because they knew they were about to be flooded by hungry teenagers holding gold coins
The chips are the best
At our school in primary school, you could chip in to a massive order they would do, hot and fresh fish and chips, wasn't the healthiest lunch, but Newzealand has some the worlds best fish.
Worked at safeway deli back in the day and had a co-worker that would take a roast chook home every Sunday but price it as half a chook with a discount on it (would've been dumped anyway). One day we had a new service manager start and noticed what he was doing and told loss prevention what happened and the second time it happened made sure loss prevention was there the following week.
Co-worker confessed to doing this every Sunday for 5 years which equated to some charge like grand theft chicken and was escorted out by police and had to pay some fine/reimbursement.
They were going to throw it away for $0, he PAID them for it.... HE should be reimbursed lol
I worked at an IGA doing nightfill restocking.
Had one coworker who was constantly losing his licence and getting speeding tickets, he also had a debt to repay from damage he had caused to traffic lights when he rolled his car when he tried to drift his after he watched tokyo drift...
Anyway, he was one of those guys that would only call you fuckhead, motherfucker etc. One night he was being exceptionally annoying, bragging about his car (which was a clapped out gold commodore) and i told him "you know what they say about guys who brag about their car, they are compensating for their tiny dick"
He responded "who told you that" and looking annoyed he storms off. I finish refilling my aisle about 10 minutes later, so i go to chuck a piss.
I go in, and he is standing in front of the mirrors, his pants around his ankles, while he is holding his shirt up so hes basically in his undies, staring at his crotch in the mirror. Exactly how butters from South Park takes a piss.
We make eye contact and he rushes out of there. I never told any of my coworkers.
5:00 that isn't food poisoning, that is just "I ate food fried in plastic that causes a bunch of toxic chemicals to leak into my food" AKA chemical poisoning, it absolutely should have gotten everyone involved fired and arrested.
Currently still working in an IGA down in TAS, and I’ve got a few stories, but I’ll just pick my favourite. We had some drunk bloke from in town barge in through the front sliding door, as in, shoulder tackle it half a dozen times before he got in. He sprinted to the smokes cabinet and used his bolt cutters to break the padlocks, and he was to stupid to realise that there’s a small clip that held the door down, all you had to do was pull it out and the door would open. So he grabbed a handful of parcels from our post office and legged it.
The cops found him the next day sleeping on the carpark near the craft shop not even 100 meters away
Most law-abiding Tasmanian
Such a great watch (I’m 0:11 in)
i’m 0:11 seconds into an ad, so therefore i agree
And I’m 3 inches in. Almost all the way…
When I worked at Coca Cola Amatil I witnessed so many businesses just disintegrate over 5 years, Pie face completely ignoring a profit analysis we did for them and going into admin, Krispy Kreme management stealing money and also going into admin, Subway not even wanting to clean the drink machines of mold, Jetstar storing water next to fuel, so much insane shit.
Coca cola Amatil killing off their own owner driver network, firing blokes in supply chain that had been around for decades, you could smell them cost cutting and polishing it up for sale, I got out just as the shares started to slide, such a shame.
The biggest problem with Pie Face was their pies were crap. You would think if you're starting a pie franchise someone would have at least make sure they had decent pies first.
Il like trains!!!, probly more relevant to the vid than your comment haha
@@ibanezlaney I only had them once and it was really very bad. Like Mrs Mac's servo pie but hasn't been aged for 3 days sitting in the oven
@@ibanezlaneyGet a Kiwi baker to sort out Pie Face, you'd have quality pies, and a turn around on the profits soon enough.
My first job was in the deli section of a small family owned supermarket chain in Perth. I have been waiting a long time and it’s finally my time. I have 4 stories.
1. It’s Christmas Eve, the middle of summer, after working about 12 hours me and the lads are tasked with cleaning the cold cabinets. The bottom was lined with heavy marble bricks we would lift out one by one and spray the underneath with hot water. Under the marble, in the meat section was a terrible scene. Flies. Everywhere. There must’ve been one dead fly per square centimetre. We decided to count them, and collected them in a container. After a couple of minutes, we had counted over 40 flies, movement came from the container. They weren’t dead! They were in cryostasis and all started waking up. We quickly put the marble back and decided it was best if they stay asleep. Safe to say we had to clean under there significantly more often after that.
2. When stuff like milk and cheese went out of date, the dairy section would give it to us and we would use it in deli meals. Me and a relatively new worker were cleaning the cool room out the back, which meant removing all the racks of food, spraying water and squeegeeing out all the gunk that had accumulated on the floor. He picked up a piece of Camembert cheese, unsealed, licked his lips and took a bite. I was horrified watching him swallow the months out of date, soggy, dirty floor cheese. I then dared him to drink from the drain on the floor and he happily obliged. God could not kill this man if he tried.
3. One time the boss literally strangled an employee for talking back to him. He would often yell at me in a mix of Italian and Russian so customers couldn’t understand what he was saying (neither could I tho lol)
4. A new guy took chickens out the oven and was splattered with boiling chicken juice/fat. The boss drove him to the hospital (can’t imagine what the convo was like in the car). He got 2nd degree burns, was back at work the next week.
I used to work at Woolies in a big shopping centre on the night shift. Lots of quick stories came to mind like the time a homeless man came in and pissed on multiple displays between the fruit and veg tables and the fish fridge which we were told to ignore while management cleaned it up and the guy was thrown out. We never closed at all for cleaning or anything so I'm not sure how thorough the cleaning actually was.
I also remember during covid when we had to do crap smuggling operations by stashing toilet paper in out jackets and under our shirts to get rolls across the store from the loading dock into our staff toilets so we had some to use without the customers seeing it. This came after the girls staff toilets were clogged with paper towels and entire store stank like shit because the staff room was flooded with shit-water which stained the floor and skirting boards. The giant sewage pits in the loading dock etc had to opened for plumbers to unclog it all which took all night. These are about 6ft x 3ft very deep pits that dropped into poop sludge just left open for us to work around in the dock (yes we were still open that night and had no toilets to use. If we needed to go to the toilet we had to ask permission from the shift manager and go out the back door to the building and run halfway around the block to the KFC.)
During covid times if we wanted to buy toilet paper we had to go to the back and cut out one barcode off tomorrows palette and secretly scan them along with other items on our lunch break at the self service checkout. Then we had to wait until the end of the night to smuggle the toilet paper out to our cars in garbage bags and cardboard boxes at midnight. We were even told "no employee has been caught with toilet paper yet and we won't let this store be the first. If you're caught it'll end up in the papers and you'll face the consequences."
Also my shift manager gave all the good shifts to the fresh teenage girls who usually only lasted a few weeks and reportedly was dating an 18 year old and he was like 35 - but that probably isn't too surprising.
Now, woollies in NZ is called Countdown.... near Auckland airport just off the highway into the city where thousands of tourists traverse was the sign and the O after the C was out.... me and my wife pissed ourselves and the cabbie said it's been that way nearly a year.... lol
Not anymore, it's back to woollies now...
They finally changed it back to avoid any association with low prices
Clearly not been in the zealand in a while, we rock woolies here now too, been that way about a year.
And now they're all called Woolworths 😢
Red Rooster is so bleak, that their jingle should be replaced with that Alice in Chains song.
However, in their defence, they have the best chips of all the major chains.
and the best herb mayo in the rolls
Deep fryers truly are magic food decontamination baths.
Except when you drop toxic chemicals / plastic in there
I used to work for a very famous deli meat company that stocks at Coles and Woolies, one night late during the shift near Christmas I went to a back area to take some expired meat to the skip bin there. The shift manager was there with a few of the lazy islander workers and the had a bottle of metho. They were scrubbing off the expiry dates from the hams and other meat in the skip bin and writing on new dates with black sharpie.
The next day I told a manager who said she would "sort it out" later that day she gave everyone some packets of bacon that they couldn't sell as they were for an overseas market and had some packaging issues.
The following shift I got fired for "stealing" the bacon. I was the only one.
Enjoy your likely thawed out of date Coles and Woolies Christmas hams
I worked at Target (in America, not Australia), and would see some interesting things around closing time. In one instance a man walking with his wife two children stopped, snorted, and spat a loogie down the aisle onto the floor. I just stared at him as we walked past the trash bin at the end of the aisle.
Why are people like this?
Because they're American, mainly.
@@tigerpjm I had a customer come into a Woolies in s.e Victoria and just drop a dookie down Isle 9, so I assure you it's universal
@@jjtime_
Pretty sure Dookie Lobbing is NOT universal.
I just moved to WA from the long island and Chicken Treat is fuckin bangin.
I had Chicken Treat a few times when I visited Western Australia. Great little chain. Wish we had that in NSW.
So goood, way better than red rooter
@@michaelc3656 theres one in eastern creek
I live is Washington State US, also abbreviated WA…thanks for getting my hopes up on a good chicken place 😂
What’s the Long Island
Used to work in the bakery, would jam all the pies destined for the trash in a bag, with a 50 cent price tag, paid for them. Best teenage job
In highschool I used to be a cleaner at the local IGA/Woolies. A couple of days before christmas we were having the big rush, and as i was doing my rounds i noticed a trail of pink liquid trailing up and down through every isle, a customer had grabbed a frozen turkey as their first item and it was defrosting and dripping blood through the entire shop while they filled their cart. So im mopping this bloody trail through the shop and this lead to the discovery of several years worth of eggs that had been broken and kicked under the shelves to create a crust several inches thick. I figured if it had been there that long so no, no I did not tell anyone or clean it.
Also when i was hungry Id occasionally dip into the cool rooms and eat the salads and cured meats from their tubs, with my bare hands.
Why do we let teenagers do anything?
I worked at Coles for a few years. Here are some of my stories:
- Working in the Online department picking an order in fresh produce. Suddenly a bag of Mamee noodle snacks sails past my head from behind and lands on the floor in front of me. I turn around to find a crackhead, who proceeds to yell 'I'm gonna kill ya, fuckin' dog!' before powerwalking over to the deli section and staring at the displays in a trance for around 10 minutes before being escorted out by the manager. Never saw him again.
- Worked an overnight shift at a different store for a while. Thought I would fill the milk before the truck came in at 3AM. As I was pulling a full pallet of milk crates out from the fridge, one of the crates caught on the top of the fridge door and toppled the entire pallet over resulting in the spectacular explosion of around 80 bottles of milk. Spent the rest of the night emptying out the fridge and mopping up the great lake of milk with one mop and bucket.
- One of the butchers was fired because he would find the most expensive meat we had out the back, put a reduced price sticker on it at the lowest possible price the sticker machine could do, and then pick it up and send it through the self-checkout when he clocked off. Apparently he got away with a couple thousand dollars worth of meat before being caught.
what a champ, would have been the best cuts too :):):)
When I was going through uni, I worked at a little Foodworks in a small town in rural Queensland. One time an older male customer came in, with a big grin on his face. I was at the cash register, and I did my usual greeting "Hello, how are you today?"
His grin widened, and he said to me. "Better than you are, mate." He then leaned over the counter while I'm scanning his stuff and packing the bags, and said. "Did you watch the Ashes? Your mob lost."
I was confused. I hadn't actually watched it but I'd heard that Australia had won, so I was like. "Oh really, I thought Australia won?"
He slapped his hand on the table like a judge delivering a verdict in court, and gave a resounding. "That's bloody right! Your mob bloody lost, mate!"
I'm an Australian, raised on a farm near that town. If I became a farmer, I would be the 5th generation of my family to work that land. So I was a bit bewildered. I laughed and said. "Mate, I'm an Aussie, we're on the same side." But then things took a turn.
The guy's grin turned into a scowl. "No you're fucking not." He said.
I replied "Yeah... I am."
His tone growing increasingly hostile, he said. "Well where're you fucking from then?"
Probably sounding as confused as I was, I was like. "Down the road. About 15 minutes out of town. Been there my whole life."
At this point he actually started to yell, accusing me of being a "fucking lying Pom," and demanding to know why I was "mocking him." when it was "your fucking mob who lost the fucking Ashes, not mine, WE WON!"
It was a pretty small store so the manager heard what was going on took over the transaction and talked him down I guess - I got sent out the back. But yeah. That was the weirdest one since I'm an Aussie, and I've never been accused of being English before or since. About the only thing I can put it down to is that maybe my accent isn't quite as nasally as this particular guy's was?
Craziest thing is I had never seen the man in the store before or since - it was a small town, you usually came to recognise the regulars. So maybe some big cricket fan just really felt like finding an Englishman to yell at that day and scoured that Darling Downs for an Englishman to yell at? I have no clue.
The Red Rooster in my town closed down and was eventually replaced with a Hungry Jacks. I’m sure that’s an improvement.
While it was still the least busy of the group of restaurants, Minto Red Rooster was the most poppin' one I've visited. Would go quite a lot when I lived there. It's now an Oporto RIP.
First job was at a Red Rooster which years later was closed by the health department..
The drainage for the kitchen was one pit at the back corner that filled up and a bilge style pump that removed the waste once it was literally overflowing.
The pump would often stop working and I would have to fix it..
I can still remember what that smelled like and this was over 20 years ago. The horror.
Red Rooster isn't Australia's only fast food chain. Oporto, Ogalo (Portuguese chicken), Grill'd (burgers), Guzman y Gomez, Mad Mex (Mexican), Wendy's (ice cream), Donut King and Breadtop are all Australian.
Guzman y Gomez are fckn great !!
I've got a couple stories from the Woolies I work at right now:
We had a fire alarm go off maybe 2 years ago. Nobody had any idea what to do so We obviously keep serving. Eventually manager calls out to evacuate so I go from my comical "haha yeah what could go wrong" to "oh fuck we got to leave". After the fiasco we find out one of the Trolly Pushers had microwaved a meal with Onions in the breakroom and it had triggered every alarm in the shopping centre.
Another story is once I was talking to one of the 4 security guards who worked in the centre while I was on shift and they told me about how he once got a call from a customer saying that someone had a gun in the store, specifically stating it was an M4. Closest thing to SWAT arrive and start working with Security to find the armed man. Turns out it was a guy with an umbrella on his back.
Last one is sometimes after closing I sing the Woolworths theme on the microphone, except randomly I'l sing either the Mcdonalds or Weezer guitar Riff.
When I lived in Darwin back a few years I remember a bloke getting busted doing some of his own personal stuffing to the chooks in the Palmerston store. Tuesday half price chicken and chips those were the days.
I worked at an IGA in Townsville in one of the more dodgy areas. One night a customer comes up to the front counter and askes if anyone has seen his keys, no one had so we had a look around for a bit and we couldn't find them. It turned out after looking at security footage someone had pinched them the second he dropped them, ran out and stole his car. The person who stole his car had the balls to call us and ask for the owners number to ransom it back, they didn't say that on the phone to us but the owner later told us this. The owner told us he was going to get his mates together and ambush the thief. No idea if he ever did that or got his car back, can't remember if police got involved but its Townsville so they most likely told us they can't help. Gotta love Townsville jk help me
How about a wholesome story? When I worked in a Woolworths Deli, my favourite customer was a mute woman who the other staff often left for me to serve as I had no problems figuring out what she wanted pretty quickly 95% of the time, while everyone else often had to get a pen and paper for her.
On the flip side of things, there's a lot of stuff that should be done in specific ways in departments like Meat and Deli but, due to lack of staff and time, a lot of shortcuts get taken. Back then, about 2010, I probably could have walked into any Woolworths and quickly found things that would have gotten a department like those shut down (at least for a day or so), and I imagine many other people could have done the same. Especially with the mincers in the meat departments, as the grinder in them is meant to be pulled out with each cleaning but certain mincer designs made it incredibly impractical to do so and thus rarely done. Thankfully a lot of the muck that gathers in some of the machinery doesn't make it into the food... unless you try to pull the part out and replace it without cleaning.
I imagine though that most supermarket workers have mostly stories of small things, like finding a frozen dead scorpion in the freezer delivery, the many prawns that fall under counters and don't get fished out for days, and the fat from the chicken ovens being poured into bin bags and just thrown in the dumpster.
Also back in the 2000s the drive thru audio systems at HJs, Rooter, and KFC used analog radio on low VHF...being a radio temp with my trusty FM92 and a handheld, God me and my mates were such shits. It got so bad at one HJs they had a staff member standing at the speaker telling people to ignore the swearing and comments like 'nahh can't do that order as your too much of a fat c**t'
Now it's all digital in the high 2ghz range.
fckn gold ya legends :)
Four square still exists over here in Kiwiland.
In fact, I've had someone explain that it's a "real town" precisely because they'd got a woolies, not a 4square.
Honestly, couldn’t find a fault in their logic.
Don’t forget Chicken Treat only in WA or Oportos that are both owned by the same company of red rooster.
I love the red dirty bird... sadly my nearest one is ages away for me
my local red rooster actually shut its doors last week, i was so gutted, best chicken out there to buy
I work at a Woolworths on the north side Brisbane. When I'm handing out orders at our click and collect bay, every now and then we'll get a driver enter the bay in the wrong direction (despite the signs and arrows on the road). Whenever this happens, I always tell the drivers that do this that there have been Police cars patrolling the carpark and have been handing out fines all day for not following road signage (they don't, and there's never any cop cars around anyway). These drivers freak out, and often times will perform a 3-10 point turn out of the collection bay. One time, a driver got so freaked out, literally shaking, saying "F***, I'm on a suspended license. I better get out of here!". He threw his groceries in the car and took off
I feel like you need to do a Bunnings Confess Your Sins. If it's in anyway similar to American hardware chain stores, you'll get more quality over quantity.
I work at red rooster
Epic
@@justinsingh936 well go on, Share your story’s with the classroom
@@kaynejackson6344 I've caused a fire, I've had to battle off roaches while making peoples food and I called my boss's mum "dodgy" idk how I still work there
When I caused that fire my entire workplace had to have a meeting where we all watched the cam footage, I'm pretty sure every red rooster knows a little something about the fire guy
Do you have red hair?
Do you root?
0:59 The chicken Barassi Line, with Red Rooster on one side, probably has Oporto on the other. I think Oporto is really hard to find west, compared to east anyway
I had Red Rooster last week! It tastes better than KFC in my option!
The place I used to work for has the honour of being "The Busiest Supermarket in the UK" during the one week of the Boardmasters festival. Every day of the week was a repeating cycle of torment starting with the families prepping up for a beach trip in the morning; replete with screaming kids, theft, idiots who can't use self-checkout and Karens who will find any excuse to whine about the wait or anything they might be trying to buy. At midday the hangover crowd would eventually crawl out of their stupour to buy even more crates of beer and freshly cooked chicken. Things got more calm during the afternoon then in the evening the second round of "Pre-party Bev collection" would come in. At night (because we stayed open till midnight) it wasn't uncommon to see the same lot we served earlier coming back in for whatever supplies they needed for the afterparty.
Probably my most vivid memory of that time (other than the day they left me in the outside garden centre in the rain and literally forgot I was there) was when these very wasted frat guys got onto the tannoy system. It was funny at first but they started getting a bit too vulgar, so since I was doing nothing I decided to get over there and tell they to stop. The fact a skinny runt like me scared this group of 4 blokes, who could beat the shit out of me, out of the store with just a shout left me laughing my arse off.
Red Rooster is far superior to KFC.
Hot honey chicken, incredible
I used to work at Coles. There was this huge oven that loaded in at least 40 chickens to cook. You had to wheels them in on this atleast 6 foot tall tray. 8 x 8 kinda depth.
One day I walk into the deli room ( I was the only person who regularly worked in there ). The chicken tower was on the floor and all these raw chickens and chicken juice was all over the floor. I walked out of the room and did something and didn’t tell anyone cos I was 15 and it was gross.
I walked in about an hour later and there were two guys standing around it freaking out.
My supervisor found me about 2 hours later and asked me if I did it and I said no. He made them clean it up
Also they keep the raw chicken in crates in the cheese freezer and the juices go everywhere
And one time I accidentally sprayed cleaning spray on the self serve dog food cos they were open and never told anyone. Sometimes I get worried I killed someone’s dog
find Australias best red rooster.
Worked in a supermarket in South Australia in the bakery department. Not one of those ones that just lays out frozen bread, bakes it off and passes it off as their product (I'm looking at you Coles and Woolies), but an actual bakery that make fresh bread daily. One year, during the middle of the lead up to Easter, one of the bakers was on and they were doing another grueling hot cross bun production. If you live in SA, you may know where this is going.
Anyway, on this particular day, one of the apprentices was helping to roll up the dough into balls to be placed on trays when he noticed something red in one of the pieces of dough, he approached the baker on the bench that day and he waved it off as some string from one of the flour bags we use. The next day there was a massive scandal as it turns out pieces of a calculator had been found throughout the days production of hot cross buns.
For context, the mixing machine we used has a solid metal lid with four holes in close proximity used for watching the dough mix and a handle, and to be able to calculate the flour, water etc. that we needed for the dough production we used, you guessed it, a calculator. A little black one. With grey buttons, except for the ONE button that was red, the equal button.
Turns out what had happened is old mate had somehow knocked the calculator in and, not wanting to do another 60 kilo mix of hot cross buns as we were doing over 150 kilo a day at that point, gone out and grabbed a calculator from the stationary aisle, threw flour on it, and moved on with his day. We knew this because the store cameras had caught him doing so.
They called him up to the office that next day and before they could say anything, he quit on the spot. Apparently went on to work gardening for an old folks home.
Moral of the story, they are always watching, always.
9:01 "backup generator" no, its the "new and improved" model generator, with quantum drift drive built in
I used to work at a Woolies outside of Port Macquarie. One day, while covering a deli shift, I saw the resident suffer of Fetal Alcohol Syndrom came in, sloshed off his face, wearing one thong. Stumbles up to the roast chooks, put a hand in one of the bags, tears of like ⅓ of a country roast chook and starts munging on it.
Didn't pay and just left.
He was banned for 2 months
Realised i didn't comment this on he request comment.
. . . I' not the brightest
fuck yea love me red roosters
The first red rooster in Australia was in Perth just around the corner from me in the early 70s. It was like fine dining back then. The chicken roll had actual chicken in it back then. Now it's half stuffing.
Red rooster employees probably have it worse than chemist warehouse immigrants at this point.
I use to work in a Woolies in the loading dock. One of the semi-drivers went the wrong way into the dock (they're a one way thing), realised his error and attempted to turn around, and got his truck wedged in between a retaining wall and the shop wall.
It took 3 recovery vehicles to unwedge him. I later found out that he wasn't fired, was given the better shifts and he ended up driving his truck off the road when he fell asleep. He still wasn't fired for that.
Can someone from WA explain to me what the fck “chicken treat” is?
@@Fl00fN00dle it's like KFC but better.
Another place qsr holdings bought and ran into the ground, also rip chooks fresh n tasty
basically the same as red rooster. just a local chain that also has no customers
Its Red Rooster but the chicken actually has moisture in it and isnt as dry as my humor.
I worked at Safeway so long ago it was called Safeway.
Once had an old lady tell me she had a carrot she would like to find in my pants. Turns out she thought I was someone else. She was mortified. I still don't know the context.
Also once had a guy pick up a can of tomatoes next to me and beat it against the shelf over and over. He then turned to me and said this needs to be reduced for him as it is damaged.
Regional NSW border town btw.
Can you buy me a red rooster?
Some might say they're alcoholics but I say they're fucken good customers
plz anonymous if used jordies !
i work at coles and we had a lady shit in one of the aisles.
it sat there for probably an hour and a half before someone told one of the other workers about it. on the head set all i heard was ‘um apparently there’s like diarrhoea or something ?’
it sat there for like another hour before the cleaner guys took care of it.
it was pretty busy and so i wasn’t paying attention to who i was serving until i heard ‘ i think im going to go again’ . i looked up and there was an older women holding her bum as if she very much would go again. it dawned on me that this was the culprit. the women’s husband told her that it was fine and instead of letting her go off and shit somewhere else, forced her to stay there until i finished serving her. every item she gave me had a little bit of shit on it and to make it worse, she payed in cash and i stg there was shit on it too. i have never used so much hand sanitiser in my life since that incident.
"Australia's Only Fast Food Chain"
*Oporto Enters The Chat*
Do a part 2 of this as Oporto workers confess their sins.
Im that dude that parties all night and then rocks up to woolies fully drunk to do a weekend shift. So drunk into work after a huge night I was pushing trolley at chrismas time (in the summer). Apparently equality wasn't a thing because my store manager at the time said there was a rise in abductions of people in the area and that was "manly" enough to handle it. She added that I was doing it because I wasn't "good looking enough to be abducted" so I spend the next 2 hours pushing trolleys. I got bored and put on the supplied cold freezer jacket and made a fort in the walkin milk fridge out of milk crates (so i could hide out) and had a nap for 4 hours of my shift because I was still drunk. Suprising I did not come out of that with no injury to self. No one bothered to check up on me because woolies. I woke up for the last 2 hours of my shift to be thanked by the the store manager for doing a good job that day. Till this day Im unsure if she knew or didn't care. Im still upset that she thought I was not attractive enough.
I worked in a rural supermarket for years. We had this one nutter lady that complained about everything and because I was head of front counters she would always pick me to complain to. One day she had a beef with the bananas, they were apparently the most disgraceful bananas she had ever seen. She proceeded to lecture me for nearly an hour, 15 minutes of that was past closing, but I couldn't actually get out of her what was actually wrong with the bananas. Were they too green, was there a spider (it happens), were they too ripe. Eventually it got to the point where I had to kick her out, and for a laugh I told her to write a letter of complaint to the board. 3 days later the board head approached me and my god was it a letter. 4 pages of handwritten, barely readable scrawl that was as incoherant and indistinct as the conversation, and again not once did she say what the actual problem was. After that she ended up sending so many letters like that in they banned her from the store.
(EDIT: I've been told Big Rooster and Red Rooster are different things.😅🥲 RIP Big Rooster)
Im so old I remember when Red Rooster was called Big Rooster, and we lived opposite one on the Gold Coast. We ate there once a fortnight because my mum loved the pineapple fritters and said it was healthier than KFC (we were healthy eaters otherwise, on a pescatarian diet).
I found a Big Rooster napkin packet in my mum's random kitchen draw and it gave me flashbacks to happy 90s times.
If I had to choose, it would be Red Rooster over KFC. But we have none around.
NO STOP. Big Rooster and Red Rooster were TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. I know there was a Big Rooster at Punchbowl (opposite the Maccas on Canterbury Road) while at the same time there was a Red Rooster at Ashfield, corner Liverpool and Parramatta Roads.
@@whophd Okay, so are you saying that the Big Rooster I lived opposite was just bought out by Red Rooster???
Also, what yeah was that? So I can have an idea how long Big Rooster was kicking around for?
How sad. I thought it was a glow up. Instead it was a buy out.
Ok, apparently still exists in PNG, ROFL
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rooster
@@watcherinmaze That's fantastic. Im packing my bags. hahaha.
Oh! It even says it started in Queensland too! That's were I was from 89 as a kid
I worked at red rooster when I was in high school. It was one of the smaller red roosters in Sydney and our shop was located right below a rub n tug. There were a few times that we saw people running out of the stairwell naked, we figured out that if customers weren't paying, the ladies working there would refuse to give their clothes back. Also one time I was on shift with our store owner when he disappeared for about 30 minutes, when he returned he pinned a business card from the "massage parlour" up in the kitchen and said that all red rooster workers are entitled to a discount at their establishment.
The job itself was pretty fun, I could cut a whole chicken into 8ths in 12 seconds.
I worked in a prep kitchen and we used to tape two big chef's knives together for parsley. It went wonky and cut halfway through my pointer finger. I pulled my hand back in a reflex and it was already pumping pretty good. Yanking back splattered blood across half the room before I could clamp my other hand over it. Everything contaminated was thrown out, about half a day's prep.
They thought I did it on purpose, it was all across the ceiling and the km was mad af. The beginning of the end.
*spellcheck is ruining me, apologies for three tries, edit doesn't work w/ this app.
what about LEGS N BREASTS? That's only Aussie isn't it?
From working at one, no one goes inside. Mainly uber and drive through
My missus works at drakes and has a couple of stories
1. There was one customer that had a cockroach crawl out of their bag and they accused me of planting it like I’ve just got live roaches in my pockets
2. We had a guy in the freezer aisle who was threatening other customers with a knife and slitting his wrists. Lot of blood
3. If a customer touches me while they’re asking where something is I send them to the other side of the store
not even started the video yet, LOVE red rooster, honey hot chicken SLAPS!
Worked in a only supermarket in town for 6 months in outback SA and I was on early mornings shifts unloading trucks for a few hours before I went to school. Store owner was grumpy old slimy **** who would constantly make me late to school lecturing me about how "back in my day we'd be given a good hiding if we weren't finished before 7:30am". Most shifts it was just me and one other person unloading 4-5 pallets while he would sit in his office drinking macchiato. Eventually had enough of his shit and knew we we're moving states in a week's time, so I thought it'd be funny to leave him with a parting gift of some fish shoved into the curtain rod in his office. Turns out he had left town for the week to visit some family in Adelaide, so it really got to "marinate" in the summer heat. Got a message from my mate who I had worked with that the day he got back he opened the door and almost vomited on the spot. They had to keep the store closed for the day until they managed to find the smell, felt bad for my mate cause he had to clean it. 10/10 would do it again
Oh man, I'm looking forward to the IGA stories next vid, I never worked in one but I know people who have and I've heard some SHIT
I worked at Cut Price Dddddeli! (That jingle went through my head all day when I worked in the cool room). I was 15 I’m now 49. Dropping the pre packed coleslaw on the cool room floor I scooped it up and put it back in the bowl for tomorrow’s customers. A few days later I told the boss I quit….he told me he was going to sack me anyway……”here’s to the store where your money buys more”…..they’ve since gone broke
For super market stories, years back had to do work for the dole at a supermarket, guy comes up to me yelling that we had put out salad packs on the shelf past their expiration date pointing out a date on several of the the packaging straps that had past a few days ago. Fighting the urge to just shrug and leave it at that I got my supervisor who was also yelled at for a full minute before pointing out that on salad bundles the number is when they were packaged at the farm and all of these were very fresh. The man simply said "well fine then" and walked off.
Got off the dole that year got forklift certified now I work out the back of a supermarket/farmers market where all the REAL damage gets caused.
4:44 I wasn't expecting the standard galactic alphabet in a Jordies video. I should replay Commander Keen.
💯
reminds me of my friends who worked at A&W in highschool. They used to prop the back door open against a bollard out back and use it to climb up on the roof to smoke weed. One night the wedge slipped out and the door closed, effectively trapping them all on the roof for 6 hours before their manager showed up and opened the door and let them climb down.
our local red rooster (La Rouge coq ) was selling ice though the drive through. the only people who go there to actually eat is lawn mower guys. pull up at lunch time and its like 5 jims mowing and never anyone else.
I worked in a run down Foodland in SA as a 17 year old. I was looking after the dairy section and walking past the freezers i noticed the smell of fish, alarmingly as i past the frozen fish section. Opened the freezer door and lo and behold the freezer felt like it was running at room temperature, the fish smell was from the defrosted fish.
Found the store owner and he calls up the fridge guy who diagnoses the problem as the freezer being old as shit and needing to be defrosted with hot water everyday. Owner gets me a watering can from the shelves and gets me hot watering the freezer in front of customers.
Worst part was i pointed out the fact that the fish was obviously unfrozen and not fit to be sold. The store owner goes "na its ok, it doesnt have bones in it so it can just refreeze and be fine". Im like na mate that stuff is fkd, youll kill someone selling it. He proceeded to scream at me, so i told him "get fucked, im not gonna be party to killing old people" and walked out.
Far as i know he kept selling the fish cos he was to tight arse to throw stuff out.
I used to work at a Red Rooster in Sydney. Was generally a funny experience. One time this manager who was quite creepy/borderline pedo who we always used to just laugh at because he was harmless was ordering around one of the staff who resembled the typical skinny, ratty teenager stereotype. During clean up he order the rat boy to clean under the sink with comments like "make sure you get right in there" followed by a "hur hur hur" type smug laugh while occasionally spraying the kid with the hose. The water was hot enough to be steamy.
We used to also time the same manager because we started to notice he would go to the bathroom often but only ever for 3 seconds at a time. It was really weird but amusing.
The highlight of my Red Rooster career was forming a little secret society with 2 other colleagues.
We used to do the close shift, but then return 30 minutes after the manager left and egg the store when we knew a separate shitty manager was working the day after. We would always drive past the morning after to see them cleaning the outside of the store. The other workers caught on and we turned out to be the secret bandits of Red Rooster.
But we always used to do the best clean and store close though.
I did two weeks work experience at a woolies in south suburban adelaide, on my first shift I was being shown around the back end of the store while some girl was loading the box crushing machine.
I think her ring came off or something but she was fiddling around with the boxes on the top of the stack WHILE SHE HAD HER OTHER HAND ON THE CRUSHING BUTTON.
I watched as the machine slowly pushed her hand into the boxes of various angles, it took cutting up her hand and luckily not crushing it in to a fine paste for her to take her hand off the crushing button.
Talk about a bad paper cut.
(Sadly i did not get a job out of it)
I had my head cut open by a massive piece of sharp wire sticking out of a swing on the playground at Red Rooster when I was 4 years old. I vividly remember lying on the ground near the door with blood dripping down my face while customers stepped over me to get in and out, not knowing how I got there or what was happening. My sister said you could fit a 50 cent coin in the hole, it was that big and deep.
A doctor told me years later it may have damaged my frontal lobe due to symptoms I have to this day like poor impulse control, emotional control, etc. I still remember the profoundly bizarre dreams I had after the incident, feeling tremendous pressure in my head as I clung to this cliff like thing surrounded by something that resembled analogue TV snow.
This was in 1987, and my mum never tried to sue them for some reason. I still have a big scar on my forehead.
Back in '05, I used to work for a local grocery chain in their frozen/dairy section. Back in the stock room, by the cooler & freezer doors, there were a few dozen big tanks of different gasses, including freon. I was in quite an experimental phase at the time, and I learned that freon had some utility, so I was regularly liberating lung-fulls while on the clock. Until one day, after about two weeks of this, I lost consciousness after a toke, and woke up face up, on the floor, with a small pool of blood around my head. The only other co-worker on the clock at the time found me in that pool of blood, and all I could do was ask him for a mop, and to maybe please don't say anything about it. Shout out to homie (whose name I do not remember), he totally brought me that mop and didn't say a word about it to the boss.
When I worked at iga when I was a kid with my sister. My sister who worked in the deli accidentally put on the oven wash function with 10 roast chooks inside instead of pressing the cook button.
No one realised until a customer pointed it out.
At this same iga someone got their foot run over by a forklift.
I was a manager at Red rooster back in 2010 . I was helping my minion take out rubbish to the dumpster outside when our rival hungry jacks across the road employee came outside and shouted at us that our food sucked . Before I could respond my minion started reaching into the bin bag and started to throw food waste at the hungry jacks employee and shop . At that point all hell broke loose and all the hungry jacks employees came out and started to throw their food waste at us . Before we knew it we had started the food wars of 2010 . It only stopped when the regional manager car started pulling into the carpark and we all scuttled away like bugs . It was the best reprimand I have ever been given . The only Victor's to our food war was the fat seagulls that had a feast to gorge on
I worked at an Aldi in Melbourne with its own multi story car park. One day whilst working away an old Italian man came up to me and in a thick accent was telli8ng me to "follow to car, follow to car"
I went up to the carpark with him thinking maybe some trolleys needed collecting or something.
He takes me to his car and points to the wall its parked against.
I look up and see the wall just completely smeared in shit, what looks relatively fresh.
The man then just waves his hand at it, hops in his car and drives off without saying another word.
To this day I Don't know if he shit all over the wall and wanted to show me of if he just wanted me to clean it up.
9:59 betting it was Orange, our red rooster and maccas are literallt next to each other, like not even a road between them and they use the same exit (technically they don't, but a lot of people drive through the carpark instead of using the actual drive thru exit at red rooster dor some reason)
Also a famously poor town, they are literally both in Glenroi lul most people i know who work in the orange maccas live in or around Glenroi, while everyone else works at rhe north orange maccas.
Worked at woolies, night shift - staking shelves with other gremlins. 6am arrives and some Asian lady starts barking at me to use my trolly-I told her to get one from the front of the store- she pointed at the frozen chicken in her basket, suggesting she needed my trolly - just as confused as her at this stage -THIS IS MY TROLLY! I said. She pulled her pants down to show me a massive lump which she just
had surgery for - it was covered in brown betadine antiseptic… it was like a football sized lump. ‘Chicken chicken’ she kept saying - I told her to ‘take the trolly and pull your pants up’ … she took the trolly but it took a few seconds to pull her pants up.
Had never actually walked into a Red Rooster and went to one recently. Honestly the nicest staff I've seen at a fast food place. Greeted us and everything. Guess they get excited when someone walks through the door and want to leave an impression so you come back 'cause we were the only customers there 🤣
red rooster was invented here in armadale, wa :D
more specifically, kelmscott
I worked at Woolworths in the produce (fruit and veg) department when I was 16. My boss had a punch on with the store manager, we later found out it was over an affair. The store manager approached me after the scuffle and said I will need to fill in as department lead until a suitable replacement is found, before quipping 'or unless you can't handle the pressure'. My first inherrited task was to complete the weekly fruit and vegetable order which I had never done before. After telling multiple people I had no idea what I was doing and being met with apathetic shrugs, I decided to have at it. Somewhere along the way I fucked up and ordered 1000 boxes of mangoes instead of 10. I used more than the entire weeks fruit and veg budget on mangos. Usually these errors are spotted by the store manager, who I can only assume left to chase down the married woman he was sleeping with. My ridiculous order was auto-approved. I quit over the phone the following day citing that I couldn't handle the pressure.
I had one of my night shifts back in the day when the previous night's manager left the oil hopper open. This particular night, while changing out the oil, I noticed pieces of frogs blended in with the new oil. Needless to say, it was a busy night of washing and scrubbing.
moved to Tamworth a year ago, and I'm happy to report both our Red Roosters are going hard
Jordie Bro. Currently, Red Rooster doesn't operate outside of Australia. (According to the Wikipedia page, they've had some recent financial difficulties. (They closed their New Zealand stores in 2014, and closed several stores in Queensland in 2019)
Please make these longer or do more of them
idk whats worse the shit people do in these fast food chains or the fact that i order food after every one of these videos lmfao
When I worked overnights at Macas, I would give a metric s#@t ton of food at 11:30 and then turn all the equipment off.
Oh you want a cheeseburger at 5am? Enjoy 7-hour-old patties that are refreshed with a spray bottle of water.
There were multiple instances of burgers, especially fillet-o-fish falling on the floor and me and my manager looking at each other, nodding, then throwing it back in the fryer.
Honestly, if your ordering fillet-o-fish after 12am you deserve what's coming to you.