Terah's Gas Station Hell 2-Fer: Nightmare Coworkers

We had a guy who used to work at the store who is off in some big city trying to become some famous Hip-Hop artist, I guess? I’m not in to the Hipping or the Hopping, but whatever. I’ll call him CM, because I can’t think of a name for him. I’d call him ‘Dumbass’ because of this story, but he’s my friend, so I won’t.

For some reason, CM gets the bright idea to down a full pack of Stackers Energy Pills. He follows those later on with Yellowjackets and washes them down with a Red Bull. Then he sends in a Noz to see what they’re all up to.

Long story short, he ODs hardcore at work, while in the Drive-thru. He is shaking so hard he’s damn near bouncing off the floor, and if he held the wall, I’m sure the store would have shook.

Now, this other girl and I were with him, and we didn’t realize he’d taken all that crap. We just knew about the Red Bull. At one point, the other girl decides to mess with him, and tries sticking tape to his butt, but he keeps having to turn around and we just giggle, thinking he’s gonna catch us. In his paranoid state, he thinks we’ve done something to him and begins looking for what we’ve done. He is quite literally running aroud like a dog chasing its tail trying to find out, and ended up in the employee bathroom to strip naked to see.

Towards the end of the night, he crashes bad and we get worried about him, so I call my mom. My mom has done a lot of stupid shit in her life and it makes her the perfect candidate to call when something happens to a co-worker. She advised I give him milk and then bread and to make sure he finishes every drop of it.

Terah: Anything else we need to do?

Mom: Yes. Hit him in the head as hard as you can and tell him to stop doing shit like that, or I’m going to hit him next time.

So I gave him the stuff and sat in the back with him until it was finished off. He felt much better afterwards.

Then I smacked him in the back of the head for being a dumbass.

--Terah

 

Here's another coworker story from Terah that mistakenly did not get posted:

‘Watch your back.’

That’s not a particularly pleasant thing to hear, is it?

We have a new worker, who I’ll call Rat. He transferred from another store from our chain, and the manager was warned that he was known to go over management’s heads and go straight El. First day he worked with us, he told us ‘That’s just a nasty rumor’ and he left that store because of it.

And then it turns out it’s NOT a rumor.

One Sunday, I had a massive itch on the side of my foot. There’s a dead spot right next to where it was, so when that area itches, it is HELL to scratch. I moved to the back, but I could still see the front, and pulled my shoe off to scratch it. That was when Shift Leader 1 walks around the corner. She’d seen me on camera while getting change. I explain the problem, she says ‘Oh, okay. Just be careful and stay back here until you’re done.’

That next day, Foofy and I had a man walk in. We waited on him and when his transaction finished, he asked if we were the ‘Ghost Girls’. (Side note- we have a little non-profit ‘business’ on the side of investigating claims of hauntings in the area, so we get a LOT of customers asking this. Manager’s cool with people setting up appointments with us, as long as no one is waiting in line while we do it.). We chat with him for a few minutes over it and when another customer comes in, he leaves so we can work.

About 30 minutes later, I’m called in the office by Shift Leader 2.

Shift Leader 2: Terah, a customer told me you were walking around without shoes or socks on.

Terah: …the hell? SL2, I haven’t had my shoes off. They only come off when I’m in the back on my lunch break, you know this.

Shift Leader 2: Well, this same customer also said you were standing around, talking, and making people wait until you were done to wait on them.

Terah: Now THAT is a lie! I’ve been here all of 90 minutes, you can ask Foofy! I’ve been ratted on one too many times for something like this to even THINK about pulling that shit!

Shift Leader 2: I’m supposed to write you up, but I’m just going to let you off with a warning. Don’t tell anyone.

Now that was my first clue. I knew it couldn’t be a ‘customer’, because she wouldn’t have cared if I told Foofy what was going on. I knew it had to be Rat, because he had worked with me the day before, and was with me that day, too.

The day after this, Tuesday, Shift Leader 2 came up to me and said ‘Terah, watch your back. I didn’t want to say anything, but someone is out to get you.’

I said ‘No, no. It’s cool. I’m just gonna talk to Manager.’

I explained to Shift Leader 1 about my suspicions and the next time I saw the manager, I told her what I’ve said here.

You know what? She flat out said ‘Yes, it was Rat. He came to me saying you needed to be fired. I told him he’s not a Shift Leader at this store, and even then only I have that power here. I felt like nothing was done wrong. You were spoken too over your itch, and I watched the cameras. You’re fine, Terah.’

He went to El, saying that I needed to be fired. And Foofy, and Stumpy, and both my Shift Leaders. Pretty much half of my shift.

El came to the store and spoke to him directly.

The woman who is the boss of my boss came to the store, IN PERSON, and told this little weasel that the next time he tries going over my manager’s head, HE will be the one without the job.

What do you think, RHU? Is this a victory?

--Terah

 

 

Comments

[The Last Archimedean]

On the second story, that's definitely a victory. He's been told by someone VERY high up to cut it out or be canned, so he'll have to keep his piehole shut from now on.

On the first story... as Bugs Bunny would say, what a maroon. Tell him if he wants to kill himself a gun is quicker and more reliable. I can think of no other explanation for his behavior -- no one could possibly be THAT stupid as to mix all those stimulants accidentally, right? If it was an accident, my faith in humanity's intelligence just hit a new all time low.

[CharlieWhiskyMike]

Do you rat's reasons for this intrigue. He working only a few days there.

[CharlieWhiskyMike]

Sorry mistake: Do you know rat's reasons?

[LadyBelle]

The reason he prob left his old store was the same crap. He either got warned it was transfer or be fired from the managers, or the entire staff warned him that one day in the parking lot he might not make it to his car.

[Framer-Fatal]

Big victory. Rat needs to chill out and quit thinking being a tattle-tale will get him more points than doing his job, which is probably lacking if he's watching you all so closely.

[Queer Geek]

Rat needs to mind his own damn business. No one likes a snitch! They get shanked in prison!

[Terah]

He got transferred back a couple weeks after I submitted this story. For some reason, his old store wanted him back, and we were happy to be rid of him.

Plus, the day El came in to speak to him, the Air was out, and she finally had to say 'Yes, you need a new air system', so after 3 years of NO air conditioning in temperatures above 110F we finally have new units, so something good came of it.

[NC Tony]

LadyBelle and Queer Geek's comments made me think of the old saying "Snitches get stiches". Sounds like he doesn't have to worry about that though, since he's already gone back to his old store. How long has he been with the company anyway? Even if he has been there longer than you, what makes him think he can march into a new store and try and get you fired? That'd be like me (or anyone else here for that matter) getting transferred to a new store in our chain and trying to get people fired for little to no reason.

[Nocturnesthesia]

You'd think that fucking idiot would have learned his lesson about snitching by now. That is what over-indulged, non-disciplined hellspawns end up like, if they don't get it beat out of them in high school or prison.

I didn't even know caffeine could do that to a person. Tell him not to waste his money on that energy shit, pretty much every effective stimulant other than caffeine has been banned in the US. He's better off just drinking coffee or taking basic caffeine pills if he must have his vice.

[Sales Agent Guy]

I call that a total victory over Rat. I mean, you said that you simply took your shoe off (note singular.) Meaning that you had your sock on still, and you had your shoe and sock on your other foot. But he claimed you were walking around barefoot. And then he claims that you're holding up customers. But what I don't get is how he was able to make SL2 think it was a customer complaining, unless he said that a customer had told him that.

Seriously, Terah, I hope Rat gets fired for doing that.

[Terah]

He straight up complained to SL2 that I was walking around barefoot and was holding up customers, and SL2 told me it was a customer.

My Shift Leaders know I'm not stupid by a long shot, but when at least trying to make an effort to protect the identity of the snitches, they'll say it was a customer complaint.

SL2 was aware by at least the next day that I knew who had ratted on me for that bogus shit.

[Humor_Me]

Goodbye and good riddance to Rat. Also, congrats on getting your air fixed! Enjoy it while you can.

[frozenterror]

@Nocturnesthesia

Caffeine in high doses can do some really, really weird stuff. (Mixed with other stimulants, it can actually kill you.) The two central issues with caffeine are dosage and tolerance. It's a drug, and it can have withdrawal symptoms like a a hard drug.

A few years back, at the place where I was working, a kid of about 12 years old decided that he'd try to drink 12 energy drinks. His friends each bought one, and he got to the 10th one before needing to stop. He ended up in the hospital with an extremely rapid pulse and was on the verge of cardiac arrest.

I found this out a couple days later, when his idiot mother decided to come in and yell at our manager, threatening to sue for selling to her equally idiotic kid (which no one had; his friends had bought and supplied them, and no more than 1 at a time).

[Sales Agent Guy]

Sorry, Terah, I got a bit confused. What I'd heard was you'd taken one shoe off while he claimed you took both shoes and socks off and walked around barefoot. Then again, when I replied, I'd just finished fooling around with my laptop trying to get it fixed after I thought I needed to get it serviced, so I was half out of it. But I digress.

The fact that they said it was a customer instead of an employee is not exactly what I would call a wise idea. Sure it could be protecting the snitch like you said, but if that were discovered by higher-ups/the law/etc. then that could result in major consequences. Granted, in this situation I can understand why they might have done that, but it's not something I'd generally advised.

Also, congratulations on the new air conditioner, Terah. Nobody should have to feel like a fried egg while they're working in a place like that!