Today, as I was bagging groceries, I looked down to see a 6-year-old urinating on my shoes and the floor next to me. I told his mother that he should take her kid to the restroom, only to be told to "mind my own goddamn business." I was later fired for arguing with the customer. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was ringing a lady up at the register. I noticed her son was doing the peepee dance, so I rushed the payment process up and handed her the receipt. The little boy said "Mommy" and the mom looked down, then back up at me saying, "Your problem now" and walked out. The boy had pissed on the floor. FML
Today, while I was working in a grocery store, a costumer decide to take a dump on the ground after I told him he couldn’t access to restrooms because my boss closed them due to COVID restrictions. FML
Today, I got sent home from work after a customer's daughter kicked me in the balls because her order was wrong. She was 6 years-old. FML
Today, I slipped on a crayon a little girl threw on the floor, causing me to drop the tray of water I was carrying, making me spill it all over her. After getting cussed out by her mom, I was fired for making a customer unhappy. FML
Today, I was in a department store with my three year old daughter to buy some new jeans. I took her into the dressing room with me and as I began to take off my pants she yells, "Mommy, you can't go peepee in here!!" I am no longer welcome in that particular store. FML
Today, a customer asked a question I couldn’t answer. I asked if she would wait while I consulted someone else, but she spat in my face and stormed off. My manager saw, wrote me up for refusing to help, and gave the woman a gift card for her troubles. FML
Today, a customer yelled at me so furiously that she sprayed my face with spittle. I had to stand there, smiling and politely explaining that I needed to see a receipt before I could give her a refund. When she finally gave up and left, my boss bitched me out for "provoking the customer". FML
Today, I helped a 6 year-old boy who was left alone at a store to get back home. The kid's parents were grateful, but my mother cussed me out and called me stupid for helping the kid. No good dead goes unpunished. FML
Today, a kid got his hand stuck inside my store's giant gumball machine. He started crying, and his negligent trainwreck of a mom bitched me out for being "unobservant." I'd been mopping up the mess she'd made after she'd spilled an open can of beer all over the floor. FML
Today, I was fired because a 10-year-old shat his pants and couldn't follow directions. FML
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Bardock 0
Take them to court. I'm sure a jury can see the logic and misjustice in firing someone for not wanting piss on their shoes.
d101_fml 0
I am from Europe and I keep reading about crazy FML stories of people getting fired because of stupid customers. Is this quite common in America? Is the customer really always right regardless of what happens??? I am quite shocked. Many time have I told customers to f-off, with the support of my managers, simply because we get paid doesn't mean we're prostitutes who can get peed on - with a smile -
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wolfy_fml 5
#21 Though I don't agree with hitting your kids too much... I was hit a lot as a kid and teenager and I turned out just fine. I feared getting hit, so I tried to do nothing wrong. ... Though my sister was the complete opposite. XD Sometimes a kid needs a smack on the bum.
Emrysa 1
To those of you who were saying he wasn't pleasant to her. Her son just peed on his shoes. You don't know how much they cost him. If he's not potty trained he should be wearing a diaper or staying at home. Sometimes people forget, the customer may always be right (not) but 9/10 the employee is also a customer, and usually a really good one.
khaldun 0
Aww... #10 beat me to it. #6, go to that website (notalwaysright.com) and read through a few of those. You'll see how American customers (not to mention most Americans in general) are absolute idiots and people working service for them usually have to just deal with it. "The customer is always right" is a policy that is preached way too often here, and people have started to just take that as a mandate without reason.
taradeborde87 3
American customers and Americans in general are absolute idiots?! You're kidding, right? And you base this on... There are stupid people all over the world, and I believe you're one of them. I base this on your ignorant comment. Way to make yourself look like an idiot. :)
jSOPURE 3
I was also hit when I was a kid. I turned out fine. BTW, golden showers FTL. :)
JuJuBeeSunshine 0
She should have tore his ass out the frame! I NEVER even thought of doing something that because my grandmother raised me right....and I knew she would get my ass good. She's from the old school and didn't put up with that shit. What a prick of a boss you had. File for unemployment! Make that bastard wish he never met you. Depending on where you live, you can/could file a police report. That could be deemed assault and/or battery, and mom could be held responsible. What a ****! I am so sick of parents not taking control of their kids. I used to work in the service industry and people would come in with their feral kids and let them run wild. I always hoped that someone would drop a hot/heavy tray/plate on them. I got my ass tore up a few times, and not as much as I should have. I turned out okay. Do NOT spare the rod.
sammie2 0
**** THAT! let the company's Human Resources dept know exactly what happened so they can talk to the manager for you. as well, report this unjust firing to the labor board in your state-- even if you don't care about getting this job back, don't let such stupid things happen in the workforce YOU and I are all in. put everything in writing. that shit company will have a mark on them for this ridiculous mistake.
RawrToast 0
That just sounds fake to me
lynx_fml 0
#17, it's not that easy to find a job anymore. I applied at five places this semester (and walked into three others that said they weren't hiring) and I didn't get an offer at any of them. It's hard.
ohfrick 0
I feel like this should be on notalwaysright.com too :P and I agree with #31. :/ It's very difficult. Not even fast food places are hiring here.
OuttaMind 0
The nerve of some people! Seeing as you were fired anyway, you should've beaten the snot out of that kid!