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!

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

batterymassacre , Random Retail Report

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207points

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Bonesko 2 years ago

Well that took a darker turn than I was expecting

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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$

tanman877 , Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos Report

Final score:

154points

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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.

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

tcusisb32t , F. D. Richards Report

Final score:

142points

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BeardedVulture 2 years ago

Is America even real?

81points

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

ejaiejaiejai , . . Report

Final score:

120points

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Eric C. 2 years ago

My concern is that the abandoned pack of meat had maggots. That means that the meat had flies land on it BEFORE it was wrapped in cling film. That is worse (to me) than some a*****e abandoning the package. 🤮

52points

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group Someone throwing there used children diaper on top of the freshly baked cookies I just put out :/ had to throw out 700 cookies

dionyxes , Vivid Image Report

Final score:

116points

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Jessica Ehle 2 years ago

NOT THE COOKIES

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

Acevolts , Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos Report

Final score:

111points

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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?

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group The worst thing a Walmart employee may ever see is obviously his or her paycheck.

u-boot_96 , frankieleon Report

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98points

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Kady LaHaie 2 years ago

In the early 2000s I made 5 dollars an hour. It was better than Kmart, where I made 4.

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

Its_In_Belgium , Ecin Krispie Report

Final score:

95points

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Bonesko 2 years ago

Why not bug bomb the car before?! Actually, I work in customer service... I know there are no explanations for some people 😮‍💨

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

ShadowTheFallen , Paul Swansen Report

Final score:

88points

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Desert Panda 2 years ago

LOL That coworker is the real MVP.

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.

socksandpoptarts , Clean Wal-Mart Report

Final score:

86points

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Kady LaHaie 2 years ago

Department manager at Walmart isn't a manager. It means you get 1.00 more an hour.

21points

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19 Of The Worst Things Walmart Employees Have Ever Witnessed, As Shared In This Online Group 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.