The retail whore drama thread

[Six]

I suggest you press charges. Sexual harrassment knows no bounds.

No seriously. If he's as you say then others have been harrassed too. Talk to a lawyer and start some shit. It might make you some cash or at least get the shitface fired.

[Beefy Hits]

I quit my job tonight, OMG. I wasn't planning on quitting tonight, but because of the circumstances, I kind of had to do it.

This week is inventory prep, which officially happens on Sunday. We had the visual manager from another store in tonight (because we don't have one, yet). His name is Paul and he kind of looks like the fat guy that won the first season of Project Runway, and he is absolutely flaming gay. I was in the back moving shit around and straightening eeverything up, when he comes into the back to say goodbye... or so I thought. Instead, he hands me a card with his name, phone number and e-mail address on it and says "Call me, cutie, or I'll just get you fired," and walks away. I've worked with this guy before, so I knew he was dead serious (he has enough influence over my managers to be able to get me fired, too). I went to tell my manager on duty, Kelly, about this and she laughs and says "Are you joking? Paul would never say that!"

What the fuck. Why would anyone lie to their manager about another manager blackmailing them? I tried to convince her about it, and she got really serious and says, "Eirikur. Stop talking about this, you're just going to get yourself in trouble if you don't leave me alone right now."

So I said fuck off and told her I quit. I work with a bunch of idiots, but god damn.

This also happened just after we found two used condoms in the bathrooms. One in the mens and one in the womens. Who the hell does that, jesus.

Stir some shit up and get paid, I agree. You could get a million dollars from it.

[jonas]

Why don't you just call him anyways. He's probably a nice guy. Take him out for some cheeseburgers.

[Finch]

Actually, jonas might be right. Are there White Castles where you live?

[Razor Ramon]

i'm not sure i know how to take that comment

He probably means it's insanely gay.

[Beefy Hits]

We can't let this thread die! I know you guys have more stories.

Plus Interpol has to keep us updated on the Sexual Harrassment suit.

[Finch]

Once this girl grabbed my butt and i didn't appreciate it. Then another time a girl kept saying she was going to rape me, which wasn't as bad as this one manager i had who was twice my age who kept bumping into me and touching me... I didn't like that. And then... another girl walked behind the counter and told me to take my pants off. I cried, but they said the cops wouldn't believe me if i told them a girl was going to rape me.*

*I'm not lying, really! I was only halfway attracted to one, but then she turned all drug whore and i kind of don't care for that sort of thing. Actually... that happened to all of them. ;_; Oh, what torture... I'm dissappointed a guy never hit on me.

[Beefy Hits]

I had some drama today. First, the manager said he was having some pain in his back. After 30 minutes, it got alot worse - so much so that he had to call in another manager to work for him. This was @10:30 am. The shift this manager works is 8am-8pm. So he calls in the other manager to work for him. Thing is, the usual manager who works the 3rd shift is taking a vacation for a day, so not only did this manager have to work 11am-8pm, he also agreed to work 8pm-8am before. So my manager will have to work 21 STRAIGHT HOURS.

On top of that, the photo machine wasn't working right - it wouldn't do CDs or print stuff from the kiosk, so him and I had to deal with that drama too. Fortuneately for him, I was on the phone with the help desk guy for 1/2 hour beyond my shift. I didn't mind - I braced myself to stay longer.

Finally, the 2nd shift register girl called in sick. What a topper to an already nasty day for my manager. Even worse - I think he's on salary, so he didn't get paid any extra for working 2 shifts in a row. I'm glad I'm not a retail manager or on salary.

[Eirikur]

UPDATE!

The day after I quit, another manager of mine, Brian, called to ask me why I quit so fast. I told him everything and unlike Kelly, he actually was concerned. He called Paul right after calling me and asked him about it. Paul, of course, denied it and said that I was just trying to set him up. Brian called me back, questioned me again, and said he believed me (thank GOD). Brian had to go and said he would call me back the next day.

Fast forward to today when Brian calls me back and tells me that Paul has quit his job and is going to talk to me in person, in front of my managers, and apologize.

Oh, and he's giving me $1000 to not sue him. Should I still sue? The man has just lost his job and this information will most likely be made available if he applies to another job, so he's already kind of fucked. I'm glad he came out (hah) and apologized, because I really didn't feel like doing the whole lawsuit thing.

[flux=rad]

I think you only make millions of dollars from sexual harassment lawsuits by suing large companies. I don't think there'd be much money in suing an individual for sexual harassment. And I'm not sure you'd have much of a case if you sued the company. It was one incident and it looks like action was taken against him quickly, so I'm not sure they'd be liable. But fuck, what do I know? Might as well just sue them all and see what you can get.