Little Pet Shop of Horrors
Co-worker pulled a no-call, no-show on New Year’s Eve. This left the manager-on-duty and me to run the store completely on our own from 2 p.m. until we closed at 7. You wouldn’t think that a pet store would be super busy on New Year’s, but we were.
And it seemed like every other person who came in needed a fish or some kind of assistance–I had so many customers get mad at me because they needed help in one department and it took forever for someone to come over, because there were literally TWO employees in the entire store and one of them (me) couldn’t leave the register.
At one point, a customer’s dog peed in the middle of an aisle and she didn’t clean up after it. All we could do for about an hour was set up a “wet floor” sign up next to the puddle, because neither of us had a spare few minutes to mop and disinfect the floor.
This same co-worker had already pulled a no-call, no-show in the past and had gotten sent home once or twice for copping an attitude with the managers. I thought for SURE that this last incident would be the final straw, but no.
I had the next couple days off, and the next time I came in, the idiot was standing behind the register, reading a magazine because there was nobody waiting to check out in that moment and God forbid he find SOMETHING constructive to do.
He ended up quitting a week later, not bothering to give two weeks notice. We were happy to see him go. Story credit: Reddit / christinequizmachine