Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
58Kviews
19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group
Do you remember that great old movie "Night at the Museum"? Where all the museum exhibits come to life at night and cause all sorts of outrage? In fact, perhaps, each institution in this world has its own dark closet where the most unsightly secrets are carefully hidden. And it turns out that sometimes they show up in the form of various scary stories told by different people.
In fact, the more people involved in any association or organization, the higher the likelihood that someone will take a negative experience from it. And where do people communicate with each other so much, dealing with different things and objects? That's right, in big retail stores!
Since Sam Walton opened his first small shop in 1945, Walmart has grown to approximately 10.5K stores and clubs and unites up to 2.3M employees worldwide. It is quite obvious that in such an enormous network, there will definitely be people who have some creepy stories from their work.
There is a popular thread in the AskReddit community whose Original Poster once asked: "Walmart employees, what's the worst thing you have seen inside your store?" Today the thread has over 3.2K comments and has amassed nearly 6.5K upvotes. And yes, in this thread, lots of strange and creepy secrets are revealed.
To make it easier for you to navigate through thousands of comments, Bored Panda has compiled a special selection of the most original, non-standard and mysterious tales told by the participants in the original thread. Therefore, please read to the very end of this list, mark the stories you like the most, and if you also once worked at Walmart and saw something strange, be sure to tell us about it straight in the comments!
More info: Reddit
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
So I used to stock the crafts section on overnights. I'm kinda an awkward person so no human contact was great for me. This old guy on a scooter insisted upon sitting in my aisle for like, hours. Just staring at the needles.
Ok....whatever. I stocked everything I could. But finally I needed him to move...and honestly I was a little creeped out at this point.. I mentioned it to my manager on the way to lunch.
After lunch he was gone.
....turns out he had died there like 5 hours ago.
RELATED:
#2
A bunch of kids once ran thru the meat section and sliced open every package. They got caught and had to pay for all of it. Add up to a little over 500$
GirlFriday 2 years ago
Good. I am glad they were made to pay for it. I saw children in the grocery store poking their fingers in the meat packs. All of that meat had to be disposed of.
#3
Not an employee but off duty police officer. Two homeless people dug out a hole into the paper towel section and were living in it. They finally found them when someone complained about “two people having sex in the toilet paper isle”.
Those employees do not get paid enough.
#4
my best friend/roomie worked Wal-Mart.
The worst story was about The Hamburgler - a person/persons who would put a packaging of raw hamburger in their cart and then "change their mind" and leave the hamburger in some random spot. Sometimes it would be a couple of days before the Hamburgler's deed was uncovered.
It was so bad that almost every employee started inspecting their area of responsibility and pretty soon, the Hamburgler's foul deed were being discovered very quickly - because no one wanted to deal with a leaky maggot mess.
then the assistant manager got caught leaving a package of hamburger in the shoe dept.
#5
Someone throwing there used children diaper on top of the freshly baked cookies I just put out :/ had to throw out 700 cookies
#6
I've only been working at a Walmart for two weeks, I've had three people lose their temper on me, one woman slam her cart into someone else's cart because she couldn't buy alcohol with an expired ID, and one guy try to walk away with a whole cart of groceries, in which a different customer walked after him and literally dragged him back inside.
Again, two weeks.
Edit: I'm getting asked this a lot, so I'll explain. Stores can't accept expired IDs because they're considered invalid. If Invalid IDs were accepted then it would create an aftermarket for those IDs, which would then make it easier for people under 21 to get ahold of something they could potentially use to illegally purchase alcohol.
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
Kinda disturbing that so many people didn't understand why an expired ID would be a problem that they needed to edit the post. Why did they think IDs have an expiration date in the first place?
#7
The worst thing a Walmart employee may ever see is obviously his or her paycheck.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
In the early 2000s I made 5 dollars an hour. It was better than Kmart, where I made 4.
#8
Worst EVER:
Some people signed up for an oil change, then threw one of those household bug bomb foggers into their car while they waited.
When the technician went out to pull the car in, it was full of white smoke from the insecticide and the interior was covered in thousands of roaches all trying to escape the fog.
We told them to leave.
Worst THIS WEEK:
Guy signs up for an oil change, and the technicians find 2 live cats in under the hood of the minivan.
The owner came out to deal with it, saying they were his.
#9
Mine actually happened yesterday. I was walking back to my area and saw one of my coworkers in front of a puddle. She said, “walk around.” I responded, “I don’t want to know.” Her immediate response was, “It is urine.” I lowered and shook my head and walked by.
#10
I’ve posted this in another Walmart thread, it’s still one of my favorite stories from my mom.
My mom worked at Walmart for about a year. She actually liked it as she was more active, but she decided to quit after the jewelry department manager had a meltdown and started throwing jewelry at customers. One old lady got pelted in the head with a heavy ring box and it was over.
Turns out the manager was selling the jewelry to friends and family, but would keep the boxes and stuff them with rocks and trash so inventory would stay the same. She had the meltdown before she was caught. They had to drag her out of the store that day.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
Department manager at Walmart isn't a manager. It means you get 1.00 more an hour.
#11
Mine's much more mild. Think of it as a palette cleanser for the rest of the horror stories in this thread.
I worked at a Wal-Mart for one summer during college. I was a Courtesy Associate according to my nametag, but I prefered the title of Cart Wrangler. My job was to recover shopping carts, help customers get big stuff into their cars/trucks, and keep the parking lot clean. As a result, I had a particular disdain for a class of customers I referred to as "oil changers." They'd run into the store to buy some automotive product, like engine oil or windshield washer fluid, use said product on their vehicle in the lot, and then leave a mess on their way out. My most memorable was a group of kids in their late teens/early twenties like myself at the time. Busted up little four banger sedan. I think it had no interior panels. They bought a trunk mounted subwoofer box, installed it in the lot, and left the empty cardboard box for me to clean up.
Yes, it was a minor annoyance, but when there are one or two garbage cans in between each and every lane on the lot and you can't be bothered to use one, I think my annoyance was justified.
#12
My 2 favorite oh s**t moments.
1. Code adam(missing kid) wandering the store looking for a little boy and we see him flying down the main isle on a bike. He clipped the edge of a end display and went flying into a shelf and got banged up.
2. This is the worst one. Again young kid, maybe 7ish, laying on the bottom part of the cart. He was looking up through the cart and his head was at the front. Mom hit a bump, kid slid forward, head bent back and went under the cart while he was still on it. That one was disturbing but he didnt have any issues other then screaming for the first minute or two after.
#13
Didn't work at Walmart, but once I saw an entire family (man, woman, and son) there who ALL had mullets. I thought that was pretty special...
#14
Let's see...
I've seen a guy walk in on 10ft stilts.
A lady pull her pants down to adjust her panties.
A guy pass out from huffing an aerosol can.
A chick passed out on the ground. (Low blood sugar)
A car catch on fire.
an employee die in his car in a parking lot. (Old)
And lots of fights.
Im sure there's more, but I can't remember. No, I personally didn't see some of these, but I'm friends with employees. There's nothing to do in this town so when something happens, I hear the stories a few times.
Edit- a yes. A guy whipped out his d**k and started peeing in front of my sister in law.
#15
The bathrooms, especially the ladies. They just don’t care about keeping it clean or hygienic. Disgusting is all I have to say.
#16
Not an employee, but I felt really bad for one. My brother was at Walmart with my friend and I. We were looking through pet stuff and there was an aisle with plungers at the end. Being the thirteen year old he was, my brother could not resist the temptation of picking one up and sticking it to the floor. We laugh a little. After he does this, he goes to put it back, and the whole rack falls down. He’s frantically trying to place all the plungers back as my friend and I are running away and cackling.
Then, an employee walks up and starts to help him. Apparently the whole shelf (three racks of plungers) was unstable, and as they were putting the last few on, the racks above clatter to the ground and now there are probably fifty plungers rolling around on the floor. My friend and I are f*****g dying watching from the clothing section. The employee just puts his head down, sighs, and tells my brother he can just leave. We didn’t get in trouble or kicked out but I’m so sorry for that poor employee. It was funny as hell, though.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
But the unstable rack was found and stabilized before people got hurt.
#17
At one point when I worked in the meat department we had it to where our distribution center sent us a box it expired over two years previously of "fresh" chicken breasts
#18
Our store manager was fired and arrested for stealing money from the registers. Also a thief tried to stab a manager when confronted. Fun times.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
A manager I once had at a grocery store quit suddenly and moved from New York to Florida. He was caught with child pornography and arrested in Florida where he had started working for Walmart.
#19
The costume isle during Halloween
Definitely not as bad as some things here but as a 17-year-old having to zone that was a nightmare.
Kady LaHaie 2 years ago
I'm surprised Black Friday isn't on here. You had to zone the entire world
What do you think ?
Meilin Kai 2 years ago
Why do I read these? I was happy until this reminded me why I prefer pets to humans.
Nothing_To_See_Here_Folks 2 years ago
I kinda like how the titles all sound like an episode name in a series
Meilin Kai 2 years ago
Why do I read these? I was happy until this reminded me why I prefer pets to humans.
Nothing_To_See_Here_Folks 2 years ago
I kinda like how the titles all sound like an episode name in a series
You May Like “What’s One Thing You Secretly Judge People For?” (30 Answers) 24 Conspiracy Theories People Online Think Are Spine-Chilling 30 People Get Raw And Honest About The Scariest Things About Their Countries
Justinas Keturka
Rūta Zumbrickaitė
Mindaugas Balčiauskas
Related on Bored Panda
