So today, this happened. I stopped by ALDIs to pick up some milk, there was a man getting milk out of the case next to where I wanted to get to, he took the last half gallon in a box and took the box out of the refrigerator case and threw it down on the floor in front of. where I was trying to get to. I said to him " are you Fuc#ig kidding me?" His response was "there are people here to pick it up, they always go around, and please don't swear in front of my son". Wrong answer, I handed him back the box and told him there was a collection bin less than 5 feet away from him. He looked at me and dropped the box on the floor again. I looked at him and told him he was setting a great role model for his kid since he just demonstrated that it is OK to toss $hit on the floor, because someone will always be there to pick it up. I asked him if his wife allowed him to do this at their home. That's when he told me to mind my own business. I took the box and put it in the bin, so I guess he was right, there is always someone who will clean up after him. It just blew my mind that he thought this was perfectly acceptable behavior.
I just had a tiff with a nasty woman at my local grocery store. This store is near me, and I'm there often. There's a Starbucks in this store, & as I'm walking by after getting what I needed, this nasty woman started SCREAMING at the Starbucks guy, telling him "You better God dam remember I'M the customer, and the customer is always right! So just make it and STFU!". Something inside me just snapped. I worked retail thru college, & I can't stand how people talk to the person behind the counter these days. I walked over to her and said to stop screaming! She told me to mind my business, & I told her she was making it MY business by screaming so loud the whole store heard her! She told me to GTFO and leave her alone, she'll do what she wants. I said "Not in MY store you won't. So why not stop being such a BITCH and leave him alone? I'm SICK of bitches like YOU that throw adult tantrums and cuss out the very workers that kept us FED during the pandemic!" She replied "Oh, call me a bitch outside, why don't you?". I said bitch, I'm headed that way. Shall I wait for you? And I did. She RAN away, like the coward she is. I went back in & spoke to the manager & the Starbucks guy. The manager told me, off the record, that he LOVES it when his regulars stick up for his employees, and the Starbucks guy thanked me for intervening & said he'd pray for good luck for me. But I apologized if I created any trouble, and they ended up giving me a free cheesecake! Score! But the best part? She was around 40s, & I'm 64, with grey hair! I heard someone say on the way out, "Well, she just taught HER a lesson in manners. Good for her!". I have now done my good deed for the day😁
Managers should be stepping up to handle this stuff though. They often don't, which is why these folks are running around doing it without consequence everywhere. It's a bad situation once customers need to police each other just to have a pleasant experience!
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Am I the only one who collects empty boxes as I go so I don’t have buy a bunch of bags?
When i shopped at ALDI there was always a bin of boxes near the register, but yeah I'd grab a box from a shelf if there were empties or i could make a box empty by moving a few items.
I have literally emptied out an almost empty banana box just so I could use when I’m done.
Love banana boxes! When I was moving I asked for some at my local supermarket and they loaded my car with them. I discovered that some had a few bananas in them!
I'm too worried about the spiders that come in those boxes
I’m petrified of spiders. Never found one in a banana box, thank goodness.
They used to do that at No Frills up here in Canada, just have boxes available. they removed the box storage to put in the delivery fridges.. :/
Nope, you are not. The boxes at ALDIs are invaluable!!!
Shit , some people think I work there.
So, when someone trips over it and sues the store for negligence and his groceries go up due to the settlement and Oshah fines that the store has to pay out then it's still not his problem? Ugh. What a jerk. (His wife probably does pick up after him, the overgrown toddler!)
"So you think it's ok to behave like a pig in public in front of your son and then you complain when someone else does something that you don't want your son to see or hear? You'd better get used to your son hearing people tell you what they think of you. Shove your lazy entitlement and bad parenting "
Some things never change. Used to live in NYC. Was leaving my apt. building and a family was walking by. The father threw trash on the sidewalk not 3 feet from a trash can. I picked it up while they watched and threw it in the receptacle and said loudly to the father so the kids could hear that " people LIVE here." I was about 22 at the time. The teenage kids smiled at me and snickered. It was clear they were visiting from elsewhere...probably NJ. Good parenting can be done by anyone.
Jersey girl here. Most of us are not like that, thank you very much.
I'm sure you're not...and you probably don't litter, either. The man in question was a Silent Generation guy...and was so entitled...
I’m sure the assumption came from more than just shit being thrown on the ground, but fair point.
"IN FRONT OF WHERE I WAS GOING TO"...... That's the most important part right there: He knew that it was rude and wrong and he was pissy at something else and wanted to be a dick to someone while having a tiny bit of shitty plausible deniability..... He wanted you to say something. He got off on it.
I used to have a friend like that; didn't last long lol. She would get AROUSED w/ ADRENALINE and afterwards she would be flying and high as a kite. I understand the addiction of adrenaline; but she used and abused others to get it; and that's the part that's not cool.
“See that, Timmy? Your dad wants you to throw all your trash on the floor, just like he does. Even at home!”
It would of took everything in my power the 2nd time he dropped it to not throw the box at his head. People like that piss me off, okay sure you don't wanna deal with a empty box atleast leave it on the fucking shelf then don't just toss it in the floor where it becomes a hazard then. People act like this at my job (retail) and I get close to blowing a fuse. Only fact it's my place of work do I not explode but very sternly tell ppl when I see it to not fucking do it. When I see it at places that not my work I don't hold back and I'm normal a anti-social anxiety ridden shy person but ppl being rude and disrespectful like that makes my blood boil enough that I don't care to have a anxiety attack later if it means someone got told their being a gaint douche-canoe to workers.
I got suspended from AITA for using the word 'douche'. 🙄😋
This is the hyphenated douche-canoe so it is acceptable. 😉
I got banned 4 years ago for "inciting violence". 🤣
Well, we know where the 'asshole' part comes from. I was later suspended forever for saying a bride was a Bridezilla in an actual post about a mean, rude, and horrible bride. They must be kindergarteners over there.
If you have never been banned from AITA do you even reddit?
I got a warning from reddit for telling someone to ignore a squabble and to focus on themselves because "happiness is the best r*venge".
Mods are such a bunch of wet lettuce in that sub
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Trust me, the thought of doing that crossed my mind, but he was not worth engaging again. My only hope is that his kid dimes him out to his wife......
Be careful, though. This world is a scary place, and you don't want that guy waiting out in the parking lot ready to punch you out or worse.
He was an entitled asshole and you set a good example for his kid. He set 2 bad examples: throwing box and being snarky to you. I'm pretty sure all American kids have heard the F word by age 2. Hopefully, they don't understand it, though.
It would of took
Would've, or would have. It would've taken everything in my power.
I apologize, but it's:
It would have taken everything...
Only the fact it's my place of work keeps me from exploding, but...
...told they're being a giant...
That's it; have a Happy Canada Day!
I waiting to use the urinal, when a dad and son finished. The kid reached for the flush handle. His dad stopped him. "Dirty people touch those."
As they walked away I loudly said "Some dirty person didn't flush the urinal."
Person behind me "The dad looks pissed, the kid is embarrassed."
Dirty people touch those and then wash their hands. Same as clean people right? RIGHT!?
I was doing my business, so I couldn't see if they stopped at the sink on the way out.
Kinda similar, but I'm a cashier at my job. I have had customers set their baskets down on the floor BEHIND my feet. I never say anything because I'd get in trouble, but I give them an evil stare
People do this shit at my non-aldi work place too. Great, so now there's a tripping hazard on the floor and just a random empty space on the bottom shelf??? Just leave it on the shelf you dick ass.
There was a lady at my local Aldi the other day who just threw a box on the ground and drove off. I took it back not the store.
I know a kid, technically an adult, but way younger than I am, who does this at home. Food wrappers get thrown on the floor or just left laying around. His dad never addressed it... Just cleaned up after him.
I promise his kid learned something and probably not for the first time. Nor the last
I think I may have been tempted to follow him around the store putting it into his cart as he dropped it again, all the while calling him a litter lout. Then escalated it to the car park, putting it under his rear wiper.
I would have thrown the box at him the second he said there were people there to pick it up. I would have smacked him right in the face with it. There is no reason for somebody to do that.
"Oops. I picked it up wrong."
Good way to catch a half gallon of milk.
Bit annoying him throwing a box on the floor but you sound awful
Bit annoying him
Throwing a box on the floor
But you sound awful
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Good for you!
Hey Karen, get an f’ing life!
'You must have a sh!tty job that you feel the need to flex like this. Did your 18 year old manager make you work an extra f%$king shift at the g@dd@*ned McDonald's?'
YOu get that this was meant as dialogue that OOP could have said to the dad, right?
Sorry makes more sense, thanks for the clarification.
That’s literally the way they do things at every Aldi I’ve ever been to, you are the one being entitled.
Wow so you think it was ok to toss the box on the floor, right in front of another refrigerator case rather than toss it into a bin less than 5 ‘ away? Remind me not to shop where you do😎.
Don’t shop at Aldi, that’s the proper way there.
There are employees who will come by and pick it up. Not that big of a deal to me.
That makes you an entitled AH.
If you’re that frickin lazy, just leave it in the cooler. Don’t drop it on the floor.
Your negative karma on this post says most folks disagree. You’re the AH.
You sound quite entitled to me. Aldi employees regularly pick up boxes from around the store. That's the Aldi way.
Even if the guy could have set a good example for his child you still shouldn't have been swearing. YTA!
As an actual Aldi Employee, if we actively see someone throwing boxes on the floor where they are a trip hazard, we 100% think they are an asshole, we can’t be everywhere all at once, we have many other jobs to do on the shop floor, it’s not hard just to leave it on the shelf
I’d rather my kids hear swearing than me acting like a fucking entitled asshole.
Entitlement is thinking you can police other people’s language. She used the word fuck in context and it was completely appropriate to the situation.
Stop clutching those pearls.
Are you serious??
Entitlement is thinking "the help" is there to clean after your shit.
If some asshole throwing things on the floor tells me not to swear, I'm breaking out the special swearwords. The ones I use after, say, some idiot throws things on the floor in front of me and I trip and hurt myself.
The special customers get the special words.
Action speak louder than words. Ffs this guy was 200% in the wrong and you sound quite entitled to me.
So how would have you responded to him after he tossed the box not once but twice on the floor? Just curious. Sometimes it takes a strong word to break through. I thought I was pretty restrained and I am sure his kid has heard that swear word many times.
You did fine!
He did ask you not to swear..... maybe when you picked up the box to hand to him you should have said, "Please put the box away because you need to set a good example for your son."
Not condoning his behavior (he was an ass) but OP’s shouldn’t start swinging straight out of the gates either. Most people respond to anger and violence with the same negativity. If OP chose kindness she probably would have gotten a better response and set a good example.
Most likely. This is kinda a mind your own business situation, but The guy is a total ah though.
"Your actions made THIS my business."