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If you are going to bring your kids to the grocery store, you need to keep a close eye on them the entire time.<\/p>\n
What would you do if you were the cashier when a parent was checking out, and she let her kids run wild the entire time? Even to the point that one of them pulled the pen back, which was held by a rubber band, and then when she let it go, it flew into your eye, causing a sever injury?<\/p>\n
That is what happened to the guy in this story<\/a>, so naturally he shouted in pain. His manager wasn\u2019t exact compassionate.<\/p>\n That parent should be banned from the store, and the manager should be fired. Read through this crazy story and see what you think.<\/p>\n Of my few jobs as a teenager, one of the better ones, was as a cashier at a regional grocery store known for excellent costumer service.<\/p>\n All in all it wasn\u2019t a terrible job.<\/p>\n My one manager was a religious nut job but was never around, and my coworkers were pretty cool and semi-hard working.<\/p>\n The customers were even decent 99% of the time. But wow, that 1% was awful.<\/p>\n Inconvenient, but this is part of the job.<\/p>\n One night, literally minutes before close, the final guest comes up with a cart loaded and piled over with food.<\/p>\n This itself isn\u2019t terrible.<\/p>\n What was terrible was that it was all WIC or almost-WIC-but-not-quite-WIC-approved.<\/p>\n Apparently, accepting this type of payment is annoying.<\/p>\n Now, WIC is a great service for women and men in need of supporting their children with healthy diets.<\/p>\n I have no problems with it.<\/p>\n But as any cashier will tell you, their checks suck.<\/p>\n This is going to take a while.<\/p>\n I believe they have since changed their system but at the time it was only paper checks and everything had to match the check EXACTLY.<\/p>\n To make matters worse, I soon saw why she had so many items in her cart.<\/p>\n 7-8 kids were swarming around her feet, with a bored teen texting away.<\/p>\n Wow, this is way longer than I thought.<\/p>\n So began the 40 minute long check out session.<\/p>\n The majority of the conversation went along these lines, with her spawn screeching in the background:<\/p>\n ME: I\u2019m sorry, ma\u2019am. This box of cereal isn\u2019t approved by WIC and the check won\u2019t take it off.<\/p>\n Go get it yourself, lady.<\/p>\n WIC: WHY NOT?!<\/p>\n ME: Because they only approve low- to no-sugar items\/unwrapped processed cheese\/non-flavored milk\/ect.<\/p>\n WIC: Then take it off and get me the right one.<\/p>\n Get those kids under control.<\/p>\n WICS KIDS: (Busy pulling candy off the shelf, screaming at each other)<\/p>\n But repeat by like, 100.<\/p>\n I\u2019m about 2\/3rds of the way done with her WIC items when I realize there are many non-WIC items there too.<\/p>\n She clearly doesn\u2019t know how this works.<\/p>\n I finish with the WIC, ring in all of the regular items and she whips out a food stamp card. More shouting from her children.<\/p>\n ME: Your remaining total is $26.70.<\/p>\n WIC: WHY?<\/p>\n Does she not know what she ordered?<\/p>\n ME: EBT doesn\u2019t cover hot or prepared food items.<\/p>\n WIC: What did I get that was hot?!<\/p>\n ME: Ma\u2019am, you have two fried chickens and a deli sub in your order.<\/p>\n WICS KIDS: (Start opening up soda they didn\u2019t put on the belt but at this point I don\u2019t care so I pretend to not notice)<\/p>\n What is she talking about?<\/p>\n WIC: I hope you are happy! Robbing me blind!<\/p>\n She then takes out her credit card and swipes to pay. Thank god. We\u2019re almost done. Right? Wrong.<\/p>\n The machine prints out a slip to sign. Typically, there is a pen on a stretchy cord on my till, next to the sign pad for guests to use.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t see it so I just handed her another one and in that moment thought nothing of it.<\/p>\n These kids are absolutely out of control.<\/p>\n Until I noticed the plastic cable holding the pen was moving. But not just moving, it was stretched out.<\/p>\n In what felt like slow motion but was probably a split second, my eyes traced the cord to one of the small demons this succubus had dragged in tow.<\/p>\n The child, a girl around 5, had pulled the pen to its near breaking point and was aiming it right at my face.<\/p>\n Before I had time to shout, she let it go and and it hit it\u2019s mark, my damn eyeball. I went temporarily blind and I felt hot liquid dripping down the side of my face.<\/p>\n Well, at least she is leaving.<\/p>\n I felt the pain immediately and couldn\u2019t help but scream, it hurt so bad.<\/p>\n The lady must have noticed, put two and two together and freaked.<\/p>\n Never Miss a Story<\/p>\n Sign up to get our BEST stories of the week straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n She bolted, screaming and dragging as much as she could before literally busting open our doors to get out.<\/p>\n This is a very serious injury.<\/p>\n Fast-forward to a week later.<\/p>\n I\u2019m on steroids for my eye, which is hidden behind a patch to protect it as it heals (Scratched cornea), and sporting a kicking slice to my upper eye-lid (which did the bleeding) when I get called into my managers office.<\/p>\n First he assures me that this isn\u2019t a write up (what?) but then goes on to chastise me for screaming last week.<\/p>\n I would be so mad that the managers tried to make me look bad for this.<\/p>\n Never mind that she was the only person in the store, never mind the injury she inflicted upon me to cause me to scream \u2013 it was very unprofessional.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to say I quit right then and there \u2013 but I didn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t sue and at the pleading of my management I stupidly didn\u2019t call the police.<\/p>\n The company was legally obligated to pay for the costs.<\/p>\n The manager took me to the ER and literally paid for everything out of pocket so I didn\u2019t think of it at the time.<\/p>\n Also, eye pain. Plus, the benefits at this place were awesome and I made great money, especially for a teen.<\/p>\n All that really changed was the day after the incident the store cut off all of the stretchy pens.<\/p>\n This is why parents need to actually watch their kids. That lady should be banned from the store forever.<\/p>\n Trending and Popular If you enjoyed this story, check out this post<\/a> about a hotel guest that made a scene in the middle of the night, then immediately wished they hadn\u2019t. Read The Drama\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Check out what the people in the comments on Reddit have to say about it.<\/p>\n Of course he got no worker\u2019s comp.<\/p>\n Her kids were literally stealing.<\/p>\n The manager\u2019s reaction is the worst.<\/p>\n Where does she get the nerve?<\/p>\n Not all parents are bad, but a lot of them are.<\/p>\n Bad parents always seem to think they are entitled to everything. This story is bad enough, but the way his manager reacted makes it so much worse.<\/p>\n I would have lost all respect for the manager in that one moment, if I didn\u2019t quit on the spot.<\/p>\n Trending and Popular If you enjoyed this story, check out this post<\/a> about a group of employees who walked out of a meeting after hearing about their company\u2019s new overtime policy. Read The Drama\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t
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