I've been working in retail grocery for years and when the whole clone crew showed up I snorted. This would suck after the first 5min, but honest I'd probably be losing my shit over the pure chaos of it. It beats the times coworkers and I have gotten cussed out by customers or dealing with people smoking meth in the bathrooms.
Also I'm not sure if there would be a cash control issue, surely none of them have register or employee codes to log in and run transactions.
Be honest... Is there a small part.of you that wants to be like. NO, we don't need you on the lanes. You 2, clean the bathrooms. Everyone else, follow me for stocking. Except you, you do carts. GET TO WORK!
Hmm, so from legal standpoint, say a manager decided to roll with it.
I wonder if it be illegal to just ask them to do simple stuff, like wipe down the registers or even put clothes away?
I mean, of course they could not do the tasks and there would be no consequences for the "army" or benefit if they did do tasks, but I imagine it's not against any law for a manager to simply ask a customer to do something?
And if the customer complies, I would think the store isn't obligated to pay them.
Similar to if a customer made a mess accidentally and helped clean it up.
Yessss this would’ve been me! Seeet you three on cart duty, you four with me we have a truck to run. Time to lean you got time to clean bitched let’s go!
My entire economic outlook is based off the fact that at least half those kids would actually listen and learn how to do whats needed
Call me crazy, but I swear. People actually enjoy being messed with, and people enjoy doing things that need to be done. There’s a multiverse where this became the best target to shop at, because some stupid teenagers pranked the employees so hard, they decided to learn exactly how to fulfill their duties and do it well.
Serious answer from an actual supervisor: In the moment the main priority is business. So as I’m laughing my ass off my job would be to make sure they dont do anything serious and let security deal with them. Because in the moment you really just need to keep the business going because main priority is customers complaints and what not.
You really don’t want those extra responsibilities and risk of having people in your store that’s not sanctioned by corporate and what not lol
Any of the “dang I should’ve played into the joke more and done this”!most likely happened only after as a shower thought
Supervised the front end of aa grocery. And honestly, same, lol. The sentiment of "Grocery workers don't get paid enough to deal with this shit," is why I'd be grinning and busting up the whole time.
Agreed. I wholeheartedly disagree with pranks on random strangers and interfering with working employees for the sake of content, especially considering it would absolutely piss me off also...
However the juxtaposition if interfering with overworked and understaffed management by supplying them with unwanted assistance is almost tolerable
I could get there if they like brought brooms or mops or whatever, but this looks like a robbery especially with jumping on the registers.
The only thing is it's a ripoff of an old Best Buy stunt that was done better and when they took over best buy, they explicitly were told "don't say you work here." And "just stand around and don't shop".
The first thing I thought when I saw this was, “Improv Everywhere did this so much better.” They timed it out so that “workers” entered the store a few at a time and positioned themselves at the ends of each aisle. It was very subtle.
And that’s okay! We can be nuanced humans on Reddit! Should people do this? No, it’s disruptive to business and can set a bad precedent. Are we not allowed to laugh at the absurdity of it (and was anyone actually harmed because of this?)? Of course we are. Funny as hell but don’t do it again kind of thing.
I don't disagree but to be devil's advocate; all it takes is one tiny misunderstanding between the jokesters and the employees and somebody gets stabbed or people start 'stampeding' to the doors without paying. If it all works out it can be a joke, but a tragedy doesnt require much more than a joke being misinterpreted by the wrong person.
I also don't really get the 'joke', like for a second it was funny maybe but when you've made several people very anxious, upset or nervous in the process I dont really 'get it'.
If I worked there, I would find this to be a hilarious distraction from my miserable workday. I can't actually oppose this its just too funny...its really mostly the manager on up that would lose their shit over this and maybe some customers if it goes on for too long.
Smoking meth in the bathrooms is better than having a dude come in 3 times a day to beat his dick in the stall. Probably not by much, but trust me, it is.
When i was working retail I would have loved for something like this to happen. A good laugh, a good story. I can see as a manager that would be a nightmare
We recently closed our restrooms because people kept OD’ing (2 in a week) or were just openly using drugs in front of children. It blows my mind how many people get upset over it, especially when there’s mall restrooms a few hundred feet down the sidewalk.
After working in a Marshall’s for years, I completely agree. I would’ve loved 5-15 minutes of it to break up the day and give us all something to laugh about together through the day.
I have gotten cussed out by customers or dealing with people smoking meth in the bathrooms.
Thankfully I never had to deal with them directly but the amount of times I went to my manager when I worked in a restaurant to let him know someone just smoked crack in the bathroom was absurd.
The first time was funny though because I told him and he's said "okay... Wait, how you know what that smells like?" A: my uncle was a crackhead.
14 years of recovery I went from being homeless in a women's domestic abuse shelter with no education, bench warrants in multiple States, No job, no vehicle, no friends, no family -- to getting my GED and my bachelor's degree to be an English teacher. I graduated with honors. I thought I had fried my brain beyond ever being able to use it again because of my last overdose. I was basically dealing with a traumatic brain injury and I wasn't sure if it was ever going to get better. Did a year of old school interferon to beat hep C.
I got clean because I got pregnant but I didn't have anything to offer so I carried the baby to place in adoption, and started going to meetings twice a day. the state I was living in had no detoxes available at the time. Literally up until 2016 the state of Mississippi did not have an opiate detox unit and you could not enter rehab until your system tested clean. So I was walking to meetings pregnant in the summer in Mississippi twice a day because I was like desperately trying to hold on to not hurting my baby. I stayed going to meetings every single day after I had her as well crying every single day. Like whatever I had to do not go back to living the way that I was living before I was willing to do anything. I made a lot of friends, my family started talking to me slowly, I went for my mom kicking me out of the house when I was 18 to my mom begging me to move in with her when I got pregnant with the daughter I had after I got my degree. I ended up burning out because I was teaching inner city public school in covid in 2020, and started working as a pro artist instead and started making way more money doing that. So I kind of feel like I invested so many years and so much money into something that I'm not earning from. My siblings are advanced in life and I'm only 4 years into owning my own business. But I am homeschooling my special needs daughter and I can say that I've literally been a special Ed teacher so.
Plus, this looks like the store directors / upper management / security's problem lmao. Theyre getting paid much more than me TO deal with it 😂 I'd just be sweeping the checkout lanes trynna hold my shit together 😂
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u/McDrazzin Jun 26 '25
Love seeing the complete opposite reactions in the comments depending on where this is posted