MORE GROSS DEPARTMENT STORE HELL: STORE MANAGER ALLOWS MASTURBATUING CUSTY TO HANG OUT IN STORE
Hello all!
After listening to Red Rider's biohazard-filled story about customers mistaking the JCPenis fitting room/mesh bags for a bathroom, it gave me the courage to finally relive the grossest bodily function related story I had to deal with thus far at JCPenis.
This was back when we had my old store manager, a miserly older man who I only saw come out of "the cave" (management office) once. To sum him up, he was definately the type to throw a sacrificial lamb/retail slave under the bus in the name of "good customer service". Like, seriously. This guy let a customer slap my friend's ass and keep shoping, as she was crying in a fitting room stall. This guy allowed a customer to throw a heavy prom dress and a handful of jewelry at me and call me a b*tch and a c*nt and all of that fun stuff. He was a real tool.
But, I digress.
On this particular day, my supervisor (we'll call her MILF, cause even though she's a grandma, she still gets hit on all the time!) came running up to my counter. "Pennyslut!", she says, "Do NOT ring out a man wearing a blue baseball hat and a black hoodie. Just walk away if he comes over!"
Alarmed that I am being instructed to turn my back on the customer, whereas usually I am commanded to do everything short of giving them a happy ending, I have to ask her, "why"?
MILF then tells me that she had been putting things back from the fitting rooms (yeah, she's awesome and actually helps us out), and she looked over at a short man, hunched over next to a shelf. She asked him if he needed help, and he gave her a death glance, and quickly scurried away. Thinking nothing of it, she walks away, until she sees him AGAIN, hunched over next to a mannequin. Confused, she asks a nearby associate if she knows anything about this peculiar custy, to which she responds, "Oh, yeah, that's the guy who jacks off on the clothes."
I'll allow a brief pause to really allow that to sink in. A grown man, takes the bus (as we later found out) to his local JCPenis, comes in, and jerks off on the clothes in the women's plus-size maternity section. Splooges on the clothes and on the mannequins. That same night, he also stole a few pairs of women's clearance panties.
Why didn't we call the police, you may ask?
Oh, because our store manager decided that we "didn't want to upset a potential customer". Never mind the fact that he is a sexual predator, ruining our clothes and our mannequins, AND could very well transfer some disease to a customer or associate if they were unfortunate enough to pick up the wrong item at the wrong time.
It wasn't until a fellow customer, after having witnessed the act, threatened to call corporate if it wasn't taken care of. I was slightly relieved that she pulled the corporate card (first time that ever happened), although her tone was a bit insulting as well.....she yelled at MILF like it was HER fault some guy got a woodie from some clearance 4-XL women's top form 3 seasons ago.
This perv-atrator came back a few days later, and luckily, commited this act in another store in the mall, one who WASN'T afraid to call the cops. MILF saw security escorting this guy out, so she reported the earlier incident to them. She had to identify the perv, who kept asserting that he wasn't doing anything.
When they ran the report on this guy, they found out that he had a bunch of previous sexual offenses, and he is a listed sexual predator. He steals money from his mom to take the bus to the mall everyday, to go spread his man juice around.
Thankfully, we have a new store manager now, and she doesn't take ANY of that sh*t. Or, should I say, *insert joke here*.
NASTY!!! Ugh. I would have insisted on calling the police. Screw these assholes who don't do shit as managers.
Not that you didn't already know, that manager was a total moron, don't want to upset one potential customer?how about the hundred of paying customers that would have walked out? There is so much wrong in this I can't even count. Imagine if a kid had been in the aisle? Or a pregnant lady? ( since his fetish is clearly pregnant ladies ).
If the manager doesn't do anything until someone threaten the store I'd have asked a friend of mine to go throw a fit at the manager.
I would take my phone, walk up to the nastycusty, yell "HI! SMILE!", take a picture, tell him to fuck off and never come back, then print the picture with all the info needed to keep him out of the store, and give to all employees. I understand that people have very weird fetishes, but ruining clothes that are not yours (and being an annoying creep-perv) is not cool, bro. Stealing money from mom? Geez... loser.
Yeah, I woulda called the cops, hands down...who cares if the mgmt thinks he's a potential customer...potential rapist is more like it.
I taught preschool for 8 years. I've been pooped on, peed on, barfed and bled on more times than I can count.
...And I think this is the grossest thing I have ever read.
Oh my god, that is completely horrific. I would definitely have called the cops. That manager was an idiot for handling it the way he did.
Dude. No. Just... No. I'm not a prude, but I'm having a problem with the whole "leaving spooge in random places" thing. First off, EWWWW, that shit gets extremely funky in a very short period of time. Second, hey, that's a real good way to catch something gnarly like Hepatitis.
What if a custy has, like, an open wound on their hand, and they grab a "used" *gag* item of clothing, and the semen gets in the wound? What if Dude has HIV, HepB, HepC, some other bizarre blood-borne illness? Your store could potentially be held liable for it, because they refused to kick this guy out.
Honestly, I'm feeling violated just thinking about it. I need a hot shower.
HIV can't live outside the host for very long. The exposure to air will kill it (best thing I learned at the porn store.)
I guess because I worked at a pornstore, nothing shocks me. I would've walked straight up to him, said, "Excuse me! You gonna buy that lovely maternity dress you just jizzed on?"
@Dev,
That's true, hepatitis however can live outside the host for longer periods, sometimes even in dried bodily fluids. And even with the fact that HIV can't live outside a host for very long so the risk of transmission that way is very low, would you want to take the chance of grabbing that garment if you had a cut? What if you were unlucky enough to encounter it still fresh? It's a bioharzard pure and simple. Management was totally out of line for putting their employees and other customers in a position where they're at risk for handling that unprotected.
I'm with the others that said they would call the police even if management told me not to. I'm having trouble seeing how a guy who comes in (no pun intended) to choke the chicken is a "potential customer". He sounds to me like a potential rapist.
You and I know managers and owners aren't infallible, but it seems they don't know that.
Ever watch Kitchen Nightmares or Kitchen Impossible?Sometimes the owners and managers are so unbelievably clueless and oblivious. It's always a treat to see the workers get vindicated in front of them.
So what we need is a Retail Disasters show where Gordon Ramsay brings the smackdown on some of these store managers. That would be sweet.
@Hellbound Alleee,
If you like those shows try Tabatha's Salon Takeover. That happens on that show too sometimes, and Tabatha Coffey can bring the smackdown just as well as Gordon.
EWWW WTF. What a f-king creepy perv. That reminds me of a story I posted here way back when. It was Christmas Eve 2006, toward the end of the night and closing time. I was cleaning out the fitting rooms, and this was at the time before our store did a renovation, so the Junior's fitting rooms were in a small room by themselves with a narrow hallway, all the rooms lined next to each other. There were only 5 rooms, and the last was the biggest as it was the handicapped stall. I cleaned each one out one-by-one, and I finally got to the last one. There were only a tank top, pair of capris or pants, and women's underwear in the room. Not thinking anything, I picked them up, and immediately dropped them because they were wet... with a white substance. At first I thought someone broke a lotion bottle or something from the beauty dept., but needless to say there was no bottle. I ran out, called the cleaning crew (and apologized to the poor guy who came over) and managers, and immediately ran to the bathroom and washed my hands about 20 times.
I also heard a story from before I started working there, that a guy came in and was following a Juniors employee around the department and wouldn't leave her alone. He eventually masturbated into a rack of clothes too, and I believe he was arrested.
Aw man, I've seen some nasty and weird stuff in retail: vomit in wastebaskets. Pee on discarded cloths in the dressing room. Dog poo on the carpet. A bloody thong a customer left behind after stealing a replacement (I picked those up with my bare hands /shivers). Customers having sex in the fitting room. But this story made my jaw drop, that's absolutely appalling!
I do have to chime in about the ass slapping bit with a story of my own:
An elderly couple came into the intimates department, and the woman told me she needed help finding underwear. And then she slapped my ass hard and then grabbed my forearm and stroked it a bit as she said something like "come on honey, let's go!" I honestly don't recall exactly because I was so shocked. How do you react to that?! The husband found it amusing, he was chuckling. Sickos. I felt really weirded out, so I just pointed to the typical "granny panties" and excused myself.
After immediately telling this to the nearest coworkers and my supervisor, they were more amused then shocked. I felt legitimately violated! I was kind of scared to go back to my section. I wonder if the customer had been a young man, would my supervisor have made trouble for them instead of just laughing?
There is so much wrong in this I can't even count. Imagine if a kid had been in the aisle? Or a pregnant lady? ( since his fetish is clearly pregnant ladies ).
I understand that people have very weird fetishes, but ruining clothes that are not yours (and being an annoying creep-perv) is not cool, bro. Stealing money from mom? Geez... loser.
It's a bioharzard pure and simple. Management was totally out of line for putting their employees and other customers in a position where they're at risk for handling that unprotected.