I'll add one of my first stories, one of many from Target.
Picture this, the night before Thanksgiving, 2017ish, my work area during my time with the company was Pfresh (Produce)/ Dairy/ Frozen, it was fricking packed. I was all alone as a closer constantly having to fill milk, cream, turkey and whatever other thanksgiving foods people were panicking to get after putting it off for weeks on end. I had a pile of empty turkey cases stacked to the ceiling, about 30 of them in total. Far too many for my cardboard cage, which was full from all the other things I was stocking, leaving me to have to fill a flatbed (if you've seen Target workers stocking aisles before, you'll likely know what these are). I managed to get one with little issue, then as I round the final corner to my stock room, this little jive jumps on it.
The store is busy as hell, I am alone in my department as the closer and this dickhead kid jumps on my saving grace! I'll be honest, I wasn't even phased at that point, I just wanted it to be done so I could get back to panicking. The kid had to be 14/15 years old, he was with a friend and some girl they were probably trying to "impress", he then asks me to drive them around the store and waves a $5, I laughed it off and said "my job isn't worth $5". Reminder, at the time I was making like $12, $13 an hour, very good money for a part time high school job in my area. I was resting my left hand on my walkie, and my right on my box cutter, as I normally do, when the friend noticed my hand gripping my walkie, he then shouts out that "He's gonna call security!" I was trying to think of a way out of this so I just went along with it. I grabbed my walkie and blabbed some BS into it (our security was off for the night) and they bought it!
These kids Usain Bolted, I swear to God olympic grade sprinters couldn't out run these guys! The friend who gave me my diabolical idea then started to spout out this kids personal information, I'm not kidding, he was rambling off this guys home address, phone number, car make and model and license plate! The girl they were with slowly walked off in the other direction, trying to ignore their existence. At the time I was rather annoyed, I was tired, overburdened, alone and I had a pallet of turkeys that needed to be stocked, but I love telling this story anyway because I always get a laugh out of it.
I've got tons from Target, I don't know what my next post will be, I'll leave it up to the allspark. Stolen Condoms or Arrested in the parking lot?
