Retail Balls Award: Horrible Bitch Custy Gets Told

From RHUer LegendaryOdin. Despite loosing control, and saying things that in hindsight, shouldn't have been said, it's still a case of an RHUer standing up for what they believe is right, and not getting in trouble for it.

I have another golden one from the Mess-for-Less, if anyone cares. This one is going to be long because it still makes me tremble in fury so I apologize:

For anyone who has seen my previous posts they know I worked the fitting room at the Mess-for-Less and it should be considered its own special level of hell. Regardless, this was another evening shift during the holidays so we were open until eleven at night because CHRISTMAS > <

This young woman dressed inexplicably in booty shorts (inappropriately so) stalks her cart up to me with a small infant inside. Already, I am irked, because carts need to stay outside due to fire hazards and whatnot. Regardless, she comes up, and she has mood. Serious mood. Without a word she shoves her cart into my chest, baby and all, and goes into the fitting room. I call up to the front and let my managers know but they are moderately disinterested and just tell me to watch the kid for a bit.

Now, I am not child-friendly but I can fake it fairly well, so I entertain the little muffin for the period of some TWO. HOURS. ARGLGLSGLG. Yes, this woman who decided I was too much of lowly scum to talk to had left her child, while she shopped, for two goddamn hours!  And when she finally comes back after me paging multiple times, she is displeased.

Stupid bitch: WUT YO PROBLEM? I TOLD YOU WHERE I WUS GON BE!

I will admit, something snapped inside of me (it was probably my ovaries springing into a Hulk-like rage. Plus, for those of you who do not know, I volunteer with Guardian Ad Litem, a program that advocates for abused and neglected children).

Me: (and I do apologize for this language) You know what, lady, no you fucking did not. You decided that your child was not important enough to even offer me so much as a hello before you went off to go do whatever the fuck it was you were doing.

Stupid bitch: WUT, YOU CAN'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! YOU BEST GIMME MY CART BACK BEFORE I TAKE YOU OUT BACK-!

Me (apparently channeling Cthulu): I WELCOME THAT YOU FUCKING CUNT. I SINCERELY HOPE YOU TAKE ME OUT BACK BECAUSE I AM GOING TO SERIOUSLY LOSE MY SHIT! I AM CALLING SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE POLICE AND TELLING THEM ALL ABOUT YOU. *I flash my GAL badge, which I keep on my almost always just in case I witness something. In FL, you have to report anything that resembled abuse* (At this point, I lower my voice because she is gawking at me.) I sincerely suggest that you calm down and wait for the police.

At this point, my manager has rushed back and the woman jumps his shit, telling him I need to give her her kid who is just merrily sitting there, playing with the little toy I had given him to keep him occupied. I tell him what happened, frightened that I am going to black out at that point because I am shaking so hard. He just folded his arms and stood there silently while I called the cops. So what does mom of the year do? Rushes out, cursing us all as racist pigs. I was so shaken that I barely remember giving the police my side of the story or any of it. All I do know is that the kid ended up exclusively with his father, who is a very nice gentleman.

FML.

I just...I don't even...The fact that it happened at all just seems so surreal. I am fortunate I had a manager with balls of freaking steel that night because if she had taken a real swipe at me, I am the sort that does not fight, but I will punch someone in the throat without a second thought. T_T Sorry RHU, I just needed to get that one off my chest. It's probably not Retail Balls worthy but I still am glad that the kid at least was safe. Rarg.

-- LegendaryOdin.

You may not think it Retail Balls worthy, but despite loosing your cool, you ended up doing what was right for the kid. And THAT is worthy of a Retail Balls Award.

 

 

Comments

[MahiMahi713]

Well, I certainly think it's retail balls worthy. Now, sure some things should have been said, but mostly because there was a child to here the things. Otherwise, I just think about how we are human and sometimes we may lose our temper. Would it have been better if you were calmer? Yes.But it was a mistake and in all honesty she did deserve it. Bring the kid into the changing room with you or leave it with the baby daddy or with a sitter. I'm glad the kid was taken away, I just hope the father is a good parent. Also, I'd like to point out how the child was calm and okay when the altercation between you and the mother took place, I feel like it means he is very used to it. Did she run off without her child?

[MahiMahi713]

In the second sentence of my previous post I mean to say "Should not have been said."

[The Last Archimedean]

That woman deserved to lose custody, leaving her kid alone in a store for TWO HOURS.

You did EXACTLY the right thing.

I don't leave my kids alone in a store for two SECONDS. If I have to be in a store with them they are holding my hand.

[Pagemaster]

That woman abandoned her child for two hours.

Yes, that's abandonment. She discarded her child and left him/her alone.

She has NO IDEA what kind of person you where, if you had a criminal history or would have left the child alone yourself and someone untrustworthy could have harmed the baby. She literally had no possible understanding of what she did in leaving her child essentially unattended with a stranger, and it seems someone higher up felt she was not equip to handle the child if they gave the father sole custody.

[LegendaryOdin]

@MahiMahi713, Yes, she did run off without the child because the manager and I were playing fitting room Minotaur and would not let her have the child. In my volunteer work, I see a lot of this nonsense and usually can remain calm. The fact that she threatened me after doing something like that is what made me lose my cool. The kid was awesome, I mean he couldn't have been more than two and he just laughed at my acting like an idiot in front of him for two hours and telling him how much I loved Adventure Time ^_^ I still wish I hadn't said it but I feel if I hadn't exploded then, then I wouldn't have been able to stay calm in front of the police T_T

[trekkiebabe]

You did the right thing, that seriously peeves me off to see parents who can't be bothered to take care of their kids! Glad the father was a decent sort. :)

[Fluffernutter]

Oh holy mother of unspeakable r'lyeh aberrations. At first I thought this was going to be a story of changing room messages and tantrums... Legendary Odin, you done good. Mahi & Pagemaster are completely right, that was absolutely abandonment, and I'm with TL Archimedean on this one.

It's a big deal to lose custody, because it entails the parent in question being stripped of parental rights (although I'm sure you already know this, from the amazing volunteer work that you do).

Yeah, raising voices is never the best idea- but under the circumstances I might have exploded under that myself, and you definitely have some metaphorical retail balls to speak of!

Poor kid. :[

[Fluffernutter]

*messes! changing room messes!

gahh. this just blows my mind.

my son has a WONDERFUL temperament, but always gets crankypants and wants to go home after 45 minutes, maybe an hour & 20 running errands, tops. if a friend is holding him while I pop into a changing room really quick, he gets fussy and wonders where I am if I'm not back in 10.

the poor munchkin was probably sadly used to this treatment, and happy someone was actually starting a little dialogue with him.

go you! protecting all the peoples and burninating all the bad ones... *ahem*

[Code_geek]

RB Worthy in my book. Good job!

[The Last Archimedean]

I can't go more than an hour running errands with my kids. But there's no way I would ever leave them alone in a store!

This woman's brain apparently stopped working after she produced her kid.

[MahiMahi713]

You're an adventure time fan? Awesome, I am too. It did take some time, but I really love it.

[Fluffernutter]

Fun completely unrelated to this post fact: the voice actor John Dimaggio who does Jake the dog in Adventure Time, also does Bender the robot in Futurama.

:D

[CashierBtch]

You know, she probably needed to be talked to like that because she had never been disciplined in any way whatsoever it seems. She needed a harsh talking to.

[MahiMahi713]

I'd also like to point out how the mother clearly does not care for her child. A loving parent would 1: not pull a stunt like that and say they had one slip up like this, somehow, they would 2: STAY THERE WITH THE KID. The fact that the child showed no distress of being abandoned for 2 hours and no distress over the fact his mother ran off without him also says something.

[LegendaryOdin]

: D I had no clue! Sometimes, I can make references like Genkai from Yu Yu Hakusho being the same voice as Freeza from DBZ but I had no clue! Neat!

Yes, I am a huge geek T_T

[Minidoc]

LegendaryOdin, you did EXACTLY the right thing. Good for you, and I wish everyone who saw abandonment would do the same as you.

[MahiMahi713]

@Fluffernutter, yeah, I had watched atleast 10 episodes of AT when I suddenly was all IT'S BENDER! In regards to Jake.

[angie]

It makes me really sad when kids are treated like this. I know people who would make WONDERFUL parents and would really love their children but are unable to have any due to medical issues.

[Book Baby]

As a Grammar Nazi, I have GOT to point this out" it's LOSING, not LOOSING!

You deserve a RB award that is solid gold. This woman doesn't deserve to have her little one. There are people who would love and cherish this baby and can't have any,

When my kids were this age, I didn't go shopping often (still don't--I hate to shop!) but when I did, I GOT A SITTER. What.a.concept.

[photoslave]

I really wish Oklahoma had laws that supersede corporate rules when it comes to witnessing abuse. There are several people I would have turned in. I was in a position that gave me names, phone numbers, and addresses (portrait studio.) Unfortunately, I would end up fired and probably fined for breaking confidentiality. Thank FSM that I quit. Good on you for doing what was right!

[photoslave]

@TLA, I don't think her brain was functioning BEFORE the kid.

[Fluffernutter]

@RetailBallsGold LegendaryOdin & Mahi, yessss! Us nerds, we hide on corners of the internet to talk about ginger voice actors and dragonball z (yes, I know that acronym, missy)and ridiculous scifi! It's what we dooooo! (also, healthy escapism is totally normal)Um.

Seriously, though. You were kickass. You went above and beyond the call of retail slavery, and I bet that kid will vaguely remember you at some point in his life and nod knowingly.

Also... still mind-blown about leaving your kid with someone you've never even met for 2 hours while you SHOP?! Ugh. First time I had to leave my munchkin with a new sitter, I tested her out for a half hour, then 2, then 4, popping in randomly in-between errands to see how things were going after eyeballing the shitake out of her qualifications. And then my first 10-hour weekend shift back on the job I was checking my phone frantically every chance I got during the customer lull for emergency updates, half-poised to flee to the rescue...

Ugh. Some people just shouldn't ever be parents. Ever. Never ever.

[Humor_Me]

TWO HOURS!? You have WAY more patience than I do. When she didn't return after the 3rd page, I would have been on the phone to police then. Thank a deity that the kid didn't spend 2 hours crying.

When I worked for the infamous "pet store +", one of the cashiers used to drop her baby off at the front and then hunt up the ass manager so they could go "play". I was screwed while they were screwing because I couldn't do returns, etc. He actually ended up marrying her and she ended up cheating on him after she got pregnant by him. So much dysfunctional going on in there I finally had to get away. How am I supposed to babysit while waiting on customers?

[LegendaryOdin]

O_O ZOMG Humor_Me! That kind of dysfunction I thought only possible at the Coochi Beauty Academy!

[Queer Geek]

Damn! This by far goes on the list of bad custys (or bad parents) which ever makes it there first.

[Madscoutleader]

HO - - - - - LEE - - - - - FUUUUUUUH

Seriously, B****, you've got no business being with 10 blocks of a child.

Good for you, LegendaryOdin. I reckon you not only deserve a Retail Balls Award, it should be a special edition, cut from a giant diamond, set in platinum, and presented to you in a world-wide televised OScar-like ceremony. With bells on.

[The Last Archimedean]

Humor Me, that is.... OMG.

Why was the slut cashier bringing her infant to work in the first place?

[Hopea]

@ TLA
Duhh, she couldn't leave him/her home alone now could she? But she had to come to work so she could have her personal funtimes. And get her check so she could afford makeup and clothes.

[Nick]

IN a world where even a 15 year old can get kidnapped and molested, thinking that a store will babysit your kid means you have not one clue as to how to be a parent.

And meanwhile my sister, who desperately wants a child, can't have any.

[Jami]

Not only do you deserve the RB award, you deserve to have a statue made in your honor.

Besides child abandonment, I think the woman should be charged with assault for hitting you with the cart.

[MouseMastered]

Wow. If she lost her child custody in florida, she must have been a spectacularly shitty mom.

[LegendaryOdin]

@ MouseMastered, I know, I was plaintively surprised too. When I checked with my case supervisor, it turned out that 'mom' had a real drug problem and the DCF is pretty much like "Lol nope" when it comes to the hardcore stuff. Like I said, Manatee County has some of the worst child abuse rates in the whole country. Not sure what Magical world location you work at but if it is where I think it is, then I am shudder to think what you have witnessed T_T

[Humor_Me]

Hopea nailed it on the head TLA. She just couldn't leave the kid at home while the ass manager was at work and they wanted nookie. After I left, they would go screw on a stack of dog beds in the stock room. Think about a pet store stock room... rats, mice, crickets, and a couple of large tanks of feeder goldfish and "shiners". Not to mention pet food and other shit the loose mice liked to chew on. How they kept from ending up with some horrible infection is beyond me.

[Svantus, the Steelport Psychopath (formerly the Wage Slave Avenger)]

Back when I worked at Walmart (fuck them, I quit a few years ago, so no nicknames), I usually ended up being the one in electronics to babysit when some punkass parents would drop the kid off to play video games. Let's just say, though, that during my four years there, I got to hear some awesome stories of adventure from some of the little guys. I usually (just to be a jerk to the parents) imparted some of my more kid friendly knowledge of Deadpool.
Also, to add to the OP, I live in Florida....it is ridiculous, the level of stupid that this state possesses, especially when it comes to parenting. Retails Balls are well deserved, Legendary..

[Svantus, the Steelport Psychopath (formerly the Wage Slave Avenger)]

I have no idea why the ipad wanted to add an "s" to the end of "Retail". *beats it with a hammer*

[bellflowermoonfish]

I'd have beaten her senseless, so you handled it better than me. Negligent parents send me into such a rage. My parental units were abusive maniacs and even THEY wouldn't leave me alone in a store for 5 minutes (until I was over 12 and then I could only go to a specific department and wait for them).
*I still remember at Smendys, an OBVIOUSLY drunk ho-bag came through DT with a 3 month old in the backseat and everyone freaked out. I was on the phone with 911 before she even hit window 2 and my manager wanted to follow her to be sure the baby got somewhere safe. She was gone before the cops could get there but I hope they caught her further down the road.

[LegendaryOdin]

@ Svantus, dude, its cool. I just read your comment in Swisgar's voice : D "Dudes, it ams totally dildos that the ladies, um, yeah no squid, she should just dies." Also, I had no idea that such a thing as kid friendly Deadpool material existed XD Finding it is probably as difficult as finding kid friendly Lobo stuff!

@bellflowermoonfish, Don't feel bad, half of my family is drug addicted psychos and the other half is Southern would-be snobs that gossip about everyone else. To either side, I'm , "The weeeeeiiirdd girl" *cue banjos*" Part of my upbringing is what inspired me to volunteer with the GAL in the first place : /

[The Worst]

This may be the most retail balls-worthy story I've ever read. You really are Legendary!

[LegendaryOdin]

@ The Worst, Thank you : D but LegendaryOdin is just the gaming name I earned when I won the Super Smash Brothers Melee tournament in CyberJocks in NY. I was the only girl there, so I had a wall of guys behind me yelling 'legendary' while I fought the champ, me using Fox McCloud and him Samus. Before, I just played under Odin, hence the birth of LegendaryOdin XD

[Svantus, the Steelport Psychopath (formerly the Wage Slave Avenger)]

Yay, Swisgar! Oh, there is nothing about DP (take that how you will) that is kid friendly. It's alllllll in how you sell it.

Also, go look up the Deadpool game. Bouncy!

[LegendaryOdin]

: D Oh Deadpool, you keep me so entertained. I swear half of the jokes one of my more insane characters uses are inspired from him. If I ever get published, people will wonder how anyone can write a whole chapter with a Russian non-human creature and a British teenage goth can debating on how beans is the answer to everything XD

[Skittles]

On that day you absolutely earned the Legendary in front of Odin.