You Break it, You Bought it - NOT!

[emt_cookies]

I hate it more when people drop lightbulbs and don't tell people. Or the fish decorative things.

[cashierbex]

Shit. I've broken a number of things at my job. Including a bottle of nail polish and a few weeks ago a picture frame.
Once last spring or summer a former coworker and I were playing with some batons (swinging them around, just generally goofing off) when not helping customers. He broke the one he was playing with.
Mostly the items get damaged out. Management knows that shit will get broken. Sometimes we'll receive merchandise that's been broken during transit. Detergent, body wash, and lotion are fun when busted. Not.

Don't remind me. I once walked out of work looking like I had been swimming in nail polish the whole day. Pink never looked so good on me.

Some people mistakingly drop something, but they tell us. But I'm the one that mostly breaks stuff. And its not merchandise, either. I'm glad I didn't have to pay for a new Telxon

[Seshat]

Several times when I've broken things and apologised/offered to pay, the manager has assured me that it's insured.

[dragon_wings]

Don't remind me. I once walked out of work looking like I had been swimming in nail polish the whole day. Pink never looked so good on me.

Some people mistakingly drop something, but they tell us. But I'm the one that mostly breaks stuff. And its not merchandise, either. I'm glad I didn't have to pay for a new Telxon

Oh shit! A telxon?
Lol. None of ours work right anyways. They all have issues. If one actually broke maybe we'd be able to get a new one... Nah. We'd just get one that work marginally better but still a piece of yay?

[simplyanother]

I think the telxons actually work better once you drop them a few times...

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Several times when I've broken things and apologised/offered to pay, the manager has assured me that it's insured.

Similar story here. I remember breaking a relatively small item in a gift shop quite a few years back - I didn't realize it was two pieces (the lid was not connected to the base) and when I picked it up part of it fell on the floor. I did my best to get them to take my money but they said it was OK...probably because IIRC they are a national chain so they can afford the occasional small loss.

The more recent time was at the liquor store. I think I was carrying a basket and as I was going through a narrow aisle and crouching to look at/pick up something my basket scraped the bottom shelf and broke a bottle of cheap tequila I was actually more worried that someone would get hurt on the broken glass or slip in the liquid than I was about paying, though I would have...as it was it took forever for a clerk to come and mop up because they were so busy, and they actually apologized for my wait and thanked me for making sure people knew the mess was there. They still wouldn't let me pay, though. I thank them by shopping there regularly and USUALLY not breaking anything!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

In a similar vein are the people who open up our makeup to try it out, get told to stop doing that and we now have to throw out the makeup they opened, and then post a nasty review about us because "it's not my fault they don't have testers!!!!!!"

You want to try out the makeup before you buy it? Go to Macys.

[foodservicesucks]

Shit. I've broken a number of things at my job. Including a bottle of nail polish and a few weeks ago a picture frame.
Once last spring or summer a former coworker and I were playing with some batons (swinging them around, just generally goofing off) when not helping customers. He broke the one he was playing with.
Mostly the items get damaged out. Management knows that shit will get broken. Sometimes we'll receive merchandise that's been broken during transit. Detergent, body wash, and lotion are fun when busted. Not.

I once broke an entire register. Apparently, they cost more than $500. I was told to clean underneath it, so I picked it up and the clips that hold it together broke and... yeah, it wasn't pretty. Cheap piece of crap. Over a year later, when I quit, they still hadn't fixed it yet.

[Dreamstalker]

Broken bottles/air fresheners of Febreeze are always fun x_x We have a Passover seasonal aisle, and last week someone dropped a jar of gefilte fish in jelly. That was bad enough, then when I'm on my knees in another aisle blocking the cookies I find that someone tracked it through the store.

The other day I found a trail of cheez-puffs winding through the entire store. Never found the bag.

There are one or two registers that everyone in the store has 'broken' at least once and percussive maintenance doesn't even work anymore. I don't think there's a single register where both the flat and hand scanners are both working properly at any given time.

[Gizmo]

I was looking at a pasta pot in the chilled aisle a few months ago and dropped it - it broke and went everywhere! The store hadn't long opened.

The clerk had customers so I stood there until he'd finished (and therefore stopped anyone treading it through the rest of the store) and then went and asked him for some paper towels to clear up and said I would pay for it with the stuff I was buying. He looked shocked and wouldn't let me do either.

However he's always nice when I go in there now. It honestly didn't occur to me not to offer to clear it up and pay for it.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Worst mess ever in the supermarket was when this guy dropped two giant jars of vinegar. X_x Oh god, the smell.

[DerangedHermit]

Worst mess ever in the supermarket was when this guy dropped two giant jars of vinegar. X_x Oh god, the smell.

Someone broke a spray can of Raid. Did you know that in addition to it being smelly, it is incredibly hard to clean up?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Worst mess ever in the supermarket was when this guy dropped two giant jars of vinegar. X_x Oh god, the smell.

Was it...malt vinegar?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Pickling vinegar, can't remember what kind but it stank the whole place out.

[rose_metal_nz]

At our [work] building's cafe, at least twice I've got within about 6 feet away of the register & my food's fallen - splatted! - everywhere because of their poor wrapping skills ... Worse part, I offered half-heartedly to pay for it & they did make me pay for the replacement! As in, buy wedges with sour cream, they dump it all in a paper bag - the sour cream seeps into the paper (this is within moments) and the paper just disintegrates; meaning I get covered in splatter, the floor gets covered in splatter - everything around get covered in splatter! Too many times the same thing happening & I no longer go there. Why pay twice for lunch when it wasn't even my fault I "lost" it?!