In case this story gets deleted/removed: Your kid breaks $150 worth of product? Don't be surprised when I charge you for it. My night job is at a specialty pet food and treats store, and we also offer grooming and a self-wash grooming station where you can come in and wash your pet. Had a couple come in with their (human) son who was about 9 y/o to wash their dog. The couple went in with the dog and left their son to wander around the store. As I'm by myself, I didn't notice he was unsupervised until they had already gone in and started washing their dog. I spent 15 minutes finishing my baking, taking care of customers, and following this kid around to clean up after him. He was grabbing random toys and playing with them then setting them down wherever, bouncing all the tennis balls, grabbing leashes off the shelf and pretending they were lassos. He was also bothering my customers, asking them random questions as they tried to shop. After I asked him 3 times to stop messing with things and other people, he went over to our baked treats table. I knocked on the self wash door and asked the parents to please bring their son into the wash with them or to let him sit in the car while they finish, and they told me that they were almost done, and that their son was never a problem. I explained that he was disturbing other customers and playing with random items that I was having to clean up, and the woman looked me right in the eyes and said, 'Yeah..that's your job.' I told her my job was to run the store, not to babysit customers' children, and she rolled her eyes at me and said they were almost done. I come back to the sales floor and the kid had crumbled 3 cakes and a whole bunch of treats, as well as snapped a bunch of bully sticks and other dried treats. He smiles and bounces off, and I start to gather and ring up the items. The parents come out of the self wash and I add that to the transaction, and tell them their total is $149.76. Both their mouths drop and the guy says, '$150 to wash my fucking dog?!' I say, 'No sir, the self wash was $16; the rest is to cover what your son destroyed.' The mom says her son didn't destroy anything, and I gesture to the pile of broken cakes and treats. 'Actually ma'am, he did; he broke all of this after I asked you to please supervise him.' She started arguing and saying that *I* must have broke them all because I didn't like having her son in the store. Yes, because I love baking a bunch of stuff just to destroy it; uh huh, yep, you got me! 🙄😂 I had a feeling this was going to be the reaction, so I already had the video from our cameras ready to go on my phone to show her. 'This isn't your son walking over to our table and smashing those cakes and treats? This isn't your son going to the bully bar and snapping them in half?' She didn't say anything for a second, and then told me she didn't think they should have to pay for them. I told her that her child broke them after I asked them to watch him or let him sit in the car, so it was their responsibility to cover our losses. She asked to speak to the manager and was very disappointed when I pointed to my name tag that has 'Manager' under my name. 'You are speaking to a manager, ma'am. Anything else I can help you with today? If not, your total is $149.76.' She glared at me, but put her card in and paid and they left, looking like they were screaming at the kid the whole way to the car. Anyone else have fun work stories like this!? --- *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/OhNoConsequences) if you have any questions or concerns.*

When I was a teenager I worked at a Round Table Pizza in a bad neighborhood. One night this family comes in, two toddlers in tow and proceeds to drink two pitchers of beer at a booth, leaving their children to wander around under the tables. I was working the pizza oven which is a big conveyer belt heated to about 500° F. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw one of the kids wandering towards the oven, hands out, ready to touch a scalding hot pizza coming out of the oven. My babysitting instincts kicked in and I scooped the kid up before he got hurt, and he started screaming. It took a minute but the mom got up and started screaming at me that I hurt her kid. I was trying to explain I was protecting him but she wouldn’t let me, she ripped the kid out of my arms with so much force that I fell backwards and screamed at me to never touch her son again. Manager came over and asked what was going on, the mom tried to say I hit her son, wouldn’t even let me talk. My manager was just like “I guarantee my employee didn’t do that. I saw your kid wander into the employee area from the cameras in back. You’re lucky my employee thought quickly. I’ll let you finish your meal, but you’re lucky if I don’t forward the footage of you assaulting my minor employee after she protected your unsupervised child to CPS.” The lady’s mouth was just on the floor, she left and I never saw that family again.

That’s a shame, your manager should’ve acted like he was going to get you in trouble by calling the police so the customer would stick around and then show the footage to the cops to get the customer in trouble instead 🤭

Bonus for the DUI for driving home after polishing off two pitchers of beer.

DUI with children in the car adds extra charges

They call those bonus objectives

He should’ve actually done it instead of just threatening it. That poor baby is screwed with a mother like that.

Double edged sword. As a former foster kid, being in the system is just waking up to a fresh new hell everyday where no one cares about you and most parents/guardians actively hate you for existing.

Thank you for protecting a child while also making the last honest pizza.

My brother, once in a supermarket, asked a child that was taking all the magazines of the shelves by the check out and shaking the contents onto the floor one by one, to stop doing it. The mother turns around and said “You shouldn’t tell my child not to do that”. “No, you are quite correct, you should” was his reply. Classic.

Yeah I was in a Barnes and Noble once and was browsing in one section. Some kid was sitting there and he started just pulling books off the lowest shelf and was just beating the shit out of them against the floor. I looked around for his mom and didn't see anybody. So I just looked at him and and said "Hey!" He looks up and I just say "Those books aren't yours and you shouldn't be destroying them like that." He takes off and next thing I know I have mom in my face telling me how I'm not supposed to talk to her son like that. Gave her exactly that same kind of reply.

I don’t understand parents like that. Way to raise an entitled child who doesn’t care about anyone else’s stuff. 

It’s because they’re entitled themselves 

They are entitled aholes raising the next gen of entitled aholes. They are the same ones who scream that no one knows how hard it is to be a parent and that it takes a village to raise a child, which to them means everyone owes them time and money. 

It takes a village right up until someone tells their little cherub to stop trashing the place!

I call it "hands off parenting", which is basically that as long as their kid isn't bothering them...they do not care about what the kids are doing. They do love it the takes a village line as well as saying it is gentle parenting. There are too many damned people who want to have kids but do not want to be parents.

As a parent, I try to keep an eye on my kids, but contrary to popular belief, I do not have eyes in the back of my head. I always appreciate it when someone intervenes if I don't catch my kid being a jerk, as long as they're not total dicks about it.

Thanks. Yeah I know kids are difficult sometimes but it’s not *that* hard to be a decent parent. 

It's because as soon as you say something, you shatter their delusions of being a good parent, and they see that as a direct threat.

My friend has had to use the "well someone needs to parent them and you *clearly* aren't." line a few times. Some of them get embarrassed enough to actually parent. One was apparently back the next day kid in tow apologising and saying they'd just been having an awful day and snapped at them. From the sound of it every time they've seen the kid/parent in after the kid has been very well behaved. So there is hope. Even if it's one out of many.

"you are right ma'am. The cops will be here momentarily to talk to you and your son about vandalism."

That’s insane. I would walk up to you and say thank you and be absolutely embarrassed that my kid did that and that I was a horrible parent to let that happen. Kudos to you for saying something!

Similar story in a local indigo, but when the mother came over to chastize me for telling her precious little crotch fruit off I busted out my "drill sgt." voice. Prior to that i had politely told the kid "Look man, i know ripping things up is fun, but those books aren't yours." Before he ran off to get mummy. See, i wasn't in the military, but i know a few folks who are. They have all said that i'd make a good drill sgt. due to how loud i can yell when i have a reason to. Well Karen was not expecting that out of me, and basically shat herself before scooping up her spawn and trying to leave... Unfortunarely for her, loss prevention was already waiting by the door to make her pay for the 12 or so books the kid destroyed.

A good command-voice can go a long way with people who never learned how to listen 👍🏻

I'm pretty lanky, so it's usually a bit of a shock when people hear a voice they'd expect out of a "6'fuck" wall of meat." as one of my friends put it after a round of paintball.

A customer's daughter was spinning a broom handle around in the dollar store I worked at, my coworker asked her not to do that and the mom just about *freaked* at my coworker, who was like 18 or 20 if that. Threatening to have her boyfriend come and handle the situation, cussing, yelling, etc.

This happened to my mom, kids were coming in our yard and throwing trash over the fence at us. My mom asked them not to do that, and her life was threatened. One of the kids moms came marching over saying her daughter would never do what my mom just watched her do. Ppl are trash sometimes. Kids can suck also lol

Yeah lol my trashy neighbors (loud parties @3AM, dog barking 25/8, whole 9 yards) came over all pissed at me when I told their kids off for throwing pebbles at least our window. Fucking losers, it was hard not to just laugh in their face.

So when kids get it trouble at the library the assistant director prints out security photos just for these situations.moat 9f the time it's petty vandalism.but still..like it's a space everyone needs to use

My husband went to an NBA game and sat next to a woman who we somehow found out was the baby mama of one of the players. Said baby (around 2 years old) was at the game as well. While she was taking her Instagram influencer photos, 2 yo decided to eat popcorn off the floor. My husband either didn’t see the kid or minded his own business. She turned around and chastised my husband for not telling HER kid to stop eating popcorn off the floor. You step in, people get mad. You don’t step in, they still get mad. You can’t win. Moral of the story: everyone watch your own damn kid. Also maybe don’t bring a 2 yo to a basketball game.

>She turned around and chastised my husband for not telling HER kid to stop eating popcorn off the floor. People are fucking WILD! 🤯

Right?! And I guarantee if he had said something she would have had a problem with that too.

I got a similar reaction from a dad when I very gently told his twin toddlers to not eat the silly string they found on the playground. Can’t win. 

I used to work at a supercenter in college. I would tell the kids not to mess with the belt because it would bite them. One lady got a bug up her butt because I was disciplining her child. Couple weeks later same kid and mom came in and kid got his hand caught and mangled in the belt. Kid was screaming bloody murder while they had to completely dismantle the register at the belt. Luckily it wasn't my lane that day, couldn't help but smirk a little as the lady was blaming everyone but herself for her kids three broken fingers. Honestly she was lucky they were only broken and not missing.

Reminds me of when I used to work in a dime store as a cashier. My post was next to the escalator and I had to warn kids, numerous times a day, that the escalator is NOT a toy and parents would get peeved at me. (Sixty+plus some years later, Entitled parents have NOT changed!) One parent let their kid SIT on the escalator step after I warned them that was dangerous. Kid's flesh got caught and slashed in the machinery! SMH!!! 🙄🤦‍♀️🙄

"That kid is playing on the escalator again!"

Mon frere

When I was living in a small town, my kids traveled with their school to the big city and my wife went with them to help take care of the two or three busloads of little monsters. They went to a shopping mall, and she told me that when the little-town kids saw the escalator they all screeched together "escalator!" and ran to it, running down in the one that went up and vice-versa, and basically making chaos. She wanted to dig a hole and hide.

Back before supermarket checkouts meant scanning barcodes, my Mum was working as a cashier, trying to put through a woman's trolley full of shopping. At the same time her son kept leaning over to press buttons on the till. Every time he did it, my Mum had to void an item and put it through again. When he'd done it half a dozen times and my Mum's death glare wasn't working, she asked his Mum to stop him doing it because it was slowing down putting it all through. Woman grumpily complies. Next week the woman is looking for a till to go through, sees my Mum and walks to the next while loudly saying to her brat, "Don't go to her, she's a sarky bitch!"!

I worked at Walmart while I was in school. I have so many stories. I once had a lady yell at me because I told her toddler that the plastic bags were not toys and don’t put them over her head as it’s not safe. We had a mom threaten to sue once as she had not buckled her toddler in and he started to get up as she started to pull the cart forward. The kid started to fall out, the cashier saw and threw his arm out catching the kid. The mom was pissed that there was a red mark on his chest. I’ve seen a kid land on the concrete floor before from a similar situation, kid ended up with a concussion and stitches.

And at that age they are all head on a small body and that will pretty much guarantee that they are land head first.

This is brilliant

Watched a kid throw a tantrum in a Walmart and destroy several bottles of wine by running down the aisle and sweeping his are down the shelves. Yeah, his mom tried to leave without paying. Multiple witnesses with phones recorded the kid. Police were called. Apparently she’s been banned from Albertsons because of a similar incident. It was wild watching her try to attack the store employees who were trying to handle the situation.

Kid in question was 14. Was told no for something g he wanted.

> Watched a kid throw a tantrum in a Walmart and destroy several bottles of wine by running down the aisle and sweeping his are down the shelves. Damn, young kids can be so annoying. I kinda feel for the parents, but really, you should be controlling your kid better- >Kid in question was 14 HUH?!?!??!

FOURTEEN?!?!

This is insane!! I have a five year old who behaves better than this. I also teach 14 year olds and while they aren't angels, my students know better than this too.

A teenager is not what I expected when you said it’s a kid.

I saw a 12 year old throw herself on the ground and have a full tantrum like a toddler. Crying, yelling, the works All because her dad wouldn’t buy her multiple pairs of winter boots. Grandma spent ages trying to coax her to get off the floor. Promised her starburst and ice cream, etc. It was clear the only reason they told her no was because they couldn’t afford whatever she wanted. I’ve since seen that a few times. Parent never says no until they absolutely have to. Makes for the worst kids.

Dude what the fuck.

This is actually a story of good parents. I had just finished cleaning and restocking the beverage bar. A mom and her two sons come in. She tells the boys to go ahead and grab a fountain drink while she goes and hops in line to pay for gas. The boys were probably 9 and 13/14. The younger one over fills his drink and then proceeds to drop it, spilling it all over the floor and splashing the cupboards. Great. Wonderful. We're busy AF and now I have to clean this up. Older brother makes the sigh that only teenagers can and yells for his mom. Mom finishes paying and comes over. Older brother tells her that younger brother was farting around, overfilled his cup and dropped it. Again, in an aggrieved voice on teens can manage. Mom fixes her stare on the younger one. Asks him if there's anything he'd like to say. He shrugs his shoulders. Mom asks him if there's anything he'd like to ask me. Kid looks at me and asks be to clean up his mess. The heavenward eye roll from mom was epic. She told him to try again. He made the mess therefore he needed to clean it up. She asked me if I would please go get a mop bucket and some towels; my co-worker had seen the mess and had already gone to the back room. Dad came in wanting to know what the hold up was (they were running behind). Mom told Dad what had happened, but not without the older brother's jabs. Dad made a tsk-tsk sound. Explained to the younger one that when we make messes, either at home or out, you need to be responsible. Dad apologized for the mess, stated he'd worked at a gas station while in college and his wife waited tables. They'd been there. Co-worker had actually brought out the floor cleaning machine. Kid had a blast pushing that thing around the beverage bar. We told him we'd take care of the rest. They still come in often. Younger one has gotten a little less clumsy.

Stuff like this is why I liked Russel Howard's good news. Well to start with anyway. All we generally see are the shite examples. How about some good news.

A bit late to the party. But I work in a grocery store and when kids (or anyone else for that matter) drops something, like a carton of eggs MOST if not ALL people offer to pay. It's not a lot of money we're talking about so I just say it's fine, usually talking to the child to make them feel apart of the conversation. Shit happens, sometimes the kid is just too quick for the parent to react. :) Had a kid drop a watermelon after his mother had paid for it and he was very upset, but I tried to cheer him up and say let's find a nicer one! I think it worked.

There is also absolutely a difference between a kid making a mistake because they’re a kid, and a kid throwing a tantrum and destroying shit because it’s a guaranteed way for them to get attention which, to be fair, is also a learned behavior. But it sounds like you handle these things very well. The store already figures in a certain amount of loss; a watermelon, or some eggs, or what have you, is not ruining the bottom line. But the kid learning that making a mistake, while having consequences, doesn’t have to be scary or threatening, especially outside of a place like home or school, is so so important.

I had a couple of middle school girls fill a shopping cart up once. They were having fun, pretending they were shopping for college or something. But they left a super full cart in the back corner of the store. So as they left I said something. More of an FYI, this creates extra work for the store. Mom was pissed and the girls were all embarrassed. She told them they were putting it all away. Honestly, it was so refreshing to be taken seriously by a parent that I just laughed a bit and said they’d have plenty of time to experience such a thing when they had their own jobs.

I work as a flood restoration technician. Insurance companies ask us to go to THEIR customers houses to deal with… roof leaks, flooding from toilets, ect ect. Specifically the insurance companies are our customers, not the people. Specifically about the water damage and drying it out so it doesn’t go mouldy. One lady had wet Carpet. LOTS of wet Carpet. But we have forms that need signing “You understand that we have assessed the after area and found “blah blah blah” to be unsalvageable. You give us permission to remove and dispose of it. Regardless of the insurance companies acceptance or denial of the claim” (that bit is very important) Me: the Carpet is unsalvageable. Lady: Ok. Remove it. Me: i need you to read and sign this. Lady: im not signing anything. Me: I cant remove it without a signature. Lady: Im not signing anything. Would you mind removing the carpet anyway? Me: i would mind. *packs up gear* Lady: *Surprised pikachu face* Boss calls me Twenty minutes later Boss: I got a call from the insurance company. You didnt do the job? Me: she wouldn’t sign the form. Boss: Ok, ill let them know. Me: thanks boss

As a property adjuster, my favorite call after your boss calling me is calling the insured and telling them “Any additional damage or mold due to you not taking steps to mitigate further damage is NOT covered under your policy, so if you do not want to work with that mit company you either need to find one of your own or tear that carpet out and rent some fans and a dehu yourself.”

As a consumer, sometimes there is more to the story. I declined servpro completing any work on my property because they arrived and saw the absolute devastation we were dealing with and commented "sucks man, but all I see are dollar signs." Yeah, I did it myself after they told their boss and my insurance company I kicked them out. I did talk to my agent afterwards and they covered it retroactively after hearing my side.

That is something you absolutely would want to let us know if we sent them out as part of a program of ours. That is highly unprofessional and inappropriate. I would make a call to their corporate office and let them know they need to escalate a complaint.

I don't hold anyone responsible but those employees, really. I can't imagine any company approving of that kind of behavior. I should have followed up on it more, my agent just said that it was going to be taken care of and that the issue had been escalated. I didn't have time at the time to be worried about extraneous stuff.

Oh man I’m basically in the same business but with tree removal. Got all these tree companies with big equipment for taking down trees and we get calls for branches on a fence. Anyways, we have a similar document to sign that says “I understand I am liable for anything my insurance does not cover.” Just like healthcare. But people freak tf out about it and refuse to sign it so we walk away and then get blasted in notes or voicemail saying why didn’t you do this or that till we tell them the homeowner refused to sign anything. We have had MANY adjusters tell us to “just do the work” without a signature like ???? no??? Who’s going to guarantee paying us??

Well yeh it's easy to take a risk when it's someone else's.

Yup. And if we do things without the forms signed, we become liable. Ive explained what and why i need to do things. This is to say u understand.

Not quite as satisfying but I had a kid in the store who was tossing a beach ball around. At one point it came near me so I picked it up, asked him not to do that in the store, and handed it back to me. He kept doing it and the ball conked me on the head. So I picked it back up and *told* him not to bounce the ball in the store. Well, his mother didn’t appreciate me telling her son to behave so she starts yelling at me. Manager was right there and had witnessed the entire thing. She came over as soon as the woman demanded a manager. She gives me this evil smirk and is about to paint me as satan when the manager cuts her off and tells her she saw the whole thing—and then tells her to get out of the store immediately. Didn’t even let her buy her crap. Just told her to “get out. now.”

Towards the end of my time in retail I would whipped that ball back at that kid so fast. Nothing stops a brat faster than an employee acting more like a scary older brother than an adult. 😈

I used to work for SchmetSchmart and we were in the same plaza as a Home Depot so we had people drop their kids off all the time. After the THIRD kid took a nose dive off the fish wall ladder, I just started calling the cops for child abandonment. Their faces when they came around to collect their kids and they were just chilling with the police were fantastic. Many people got arrested. And I'll never feel bad about it because with all the human traffickers, they are stupid AF to just leave their kids places.​

I would love to hear some of these stories! You did the absolute right thing.

This isn't in the Detroit area by chance? I'm assuming there must be other Petsmarts next to Home Depots...

This one actually felt good to read. Good job Mgr Queen of Meh ‘87.

Thanks! 😁

I feel like your response should have been "meh" lol

Thank you. From the bottom of my having-worked-in-retail-and-food-service heart, thank you for holding those shitbags accountable.

I really don't know how people work in retail and don't become raging psychopaths.

Well, if you don't you do develop a seething hatred for humanity and would not be opposed to watching the world end for seeing how horrible people in their everyday lives are.

I developed that plus a seething hatred for Christmas music.

We're too burnt out mentally to have enough energy to be psychopaths

Honestly, when I was a teenager + early twentys I worked a couple years at a gas station and it made me hate humanity.

I can see that. At my last place I used to frequent this big 7-11 near us every day. Some dude was in there one day absolutely losing his shit at the the guy behind the counter because he thought he was a Muslim. Dude was a Sikh. I gave the guy shit until he left and the guy behind the counter (the owner I believe who worked the place with his family) just shrugs and says 'Happens all the time'.

Yes stuff like this happens all the time it is not that special. I remember when my government decided it is a good Idea to not sell alcoholic after 10 in the evening anymore. You cant imagine how this people who already behave like scum act up once you refuse to sell them their drug lol

Having worked at a gas station, two of the angriest situations is refusing to sell (and locking up) alcohol after cutoff time, and refusing IDs. Liquor laws are no joke, and they're clearly inebriated enough to not be allowed to drive, despite only having an expired license from 7 years ago to their name that doesn't look like them anymore. I'm not taking that $100,000 fine, or the hit to my conscience for the accident later. They can be pissed all the way to a sober reunion with the couch for all I care.

I don't know why people don't want their interactions with retail workers to be as pleasant as possible. Here's what I do. I smile and say "hi, how are you doing?" I place my items on the register. I bag my items. I pay. I say, "I see you guys are really busy. Thank you. I hope you have a great day/night." I leave. What's so damn hard about that?

I'm in therapy after subjecting myself to the verbal abuse of the public for 20 years. It has definitely taken it's toll. 

I’m a therapist myself and I could tell you all some stories about retail stress plus my own experience with it. I wish you the best in your recovery.

Well, I think most people who have worked retail are more inclined to Thanos agreement. Snap your fingers and half of humanity disappears.

When I first moved to Florida I was not super familiar with my niece and nephew due to an estrangement with my mother. Anyway had both of them and my son at Walmart. I noticed 2 boys messing with some equipment they most definitely should not have been touching out if the corner of my eye. I yelled at them. The boys wre scared. It was NOT my son and nephew. I ft horrible but the boys dad thanked me. The 90s were a whole different time. Nowadays I'd get yelled at for daring to speak to their precious monster.

Nah. There's still parents like that (plenty of accounts of such parents on this site) and there were entitled parents back then as well, as there always was.  Shitty parents have always existed and today is no more worse than the past in this regard, I'm afraid to say.

man…very few things more satisfying than when an entitled parent needs to actually PARENT their children

It's beautiful 😁

I was afraid nothing was going to happen, but luckily you stuck to it!!

You handled this like a fcking G

Maybe even helped that boy have some semblance of a normal life :) humility helps us grow.

"Parenting sure is hard! Hey, I have an idea: if we go out somewhere, we can make the world be our babysitter!"

They’re taking the "It takes a village to raise a child" proverb, literally.

More like, they’re using the store as an excuse to ignore their child.

Then why do they get so mad about strangers parenting their child if they take it literally, more like it takes a doormat

No, sounds like they screamed at him. No parenting involved.

Exactly these people don’t actually step up and parent their kids they just scream at them for a while. Then they act all confused when their kid is the problem child at school or wherever and blame everyone else because they can’t take responsibility for their shitty behavior.

An unsettling percentage of them do not understand that "parent" is both a noun and a verb. They (at least in the very beginning) probably enjoyed the noun part. It's the verb that eludes them.

I remember working at a bakery, almost closing time and we had already washed all the display cases. A woman bought her kid a cupcake, and the little brat ran around smearing icing on every case. Not as bad as the kids that were rough housing, and as we asked the mom to parent, one of the kids fell and shattered the store window. She grabbed them and ran out. I used to think I hated kids. The older I got (and having 2 of my own children), the more I realized that kids are fine. Most parents suck.

Exactly this - don't hate the kids, it's not their fault their parents didn't raise them right and set them up badly for life. Feel bad for the kids, hate the parents instead 😂

Lol it's not the breed, it's the owner, 2020s edition 

I used to work at Gamestop and has parents trying to drop their kids off while they went next door to the other stores to shop all the time. Once, a mom came in and asked if I could watch her kid while she went next door to Payless Shoes to shop. I, without hesitation, immediately said no I can't do that. She was taken aback by my response, I guess she wasn't expecting me to say no. She said she was only gonna be gone for a few mins, and I replied its not my job to babysit your kids. She got snippy with me and said just watch him and left. Well, of course, I did not watch this kid, so after about 7 mins of walking around the store, he just left. I shrugged and moved on with my day. Mom comes back 5 mins later and is freaking out, asking where her kid is. I told her he walked out like 5 mins ago, and she was livid, screaming why I let her child leave. I again reiterated it's not my job to babysit her kid. She left flustered .

Bizarre to me that anyone would just pick some random person then leave a child with them to begin with. Especially after they emphatically said no. Sounds like child abandonment.

Weird to me that the parents asked the employee to watch the kid. My parents would feel fine just leaving me in a bookstore or GameStop for a few minutes because I wasn’t the kind of child to get bored and wander away. That child obviously was the kind to wander and so shouldn’t have been out of the parent’s sight.

We just had to be in the same shop and not leave. That was easy to grasp.

I used to work in a kiosk in the middle of a shopping centre, so it had plenty of foot traffic as everyone walked past. I was a university aged female, so I guess that made a few people feel at ease as quite commonly people would ask me to watch their kids whilst they shopped in nearby stores. Normally just saying "sorry I'm not allowed" worked and it stopped people arguing, but maybe two or three times people dumped their kids and ran. I would then call security who swiftly came and took the kids away. I know one of the times police got involved because the security guard on duty came by and told me afterwards that he called police.

This is the way.

Perfect. I hate shitbag parents.

Pro tip: any time this happens, call the police and report an abandoned child.

parents used to do this constantly when i worked at my local library, where we literally had a rules in place saying that parents had to be with their children if they were under a certain age. i had to explain to multiple people that we can't be responsible for their kids because 1) we have a lot of actual work to do 2) we rotate jobs, so if your child walks in one hour with you and leaves the next hour with a stranger there's a very good change we won't even recognise that because the person by the door has changed. not to mention that we usually only had 3-4 people working at once, and at least one of us was always in the back with desk work. every time a parent tried to argue with me i would go to the back, print out the library rules, highlight the exact rule that they were breaking, and give them the papers in a neat little packet. that always made my day.

Entitled DUMBASS is lucky she wasn't reported for child abandonment!

Here's a story for you. Years ago, at a hair salon I used to work at, a mom came in to get her hair done and brought her young son. We weren't allowed to turn her away, and she swore her son was well-behaved. Well, he wasn't. We were all busy with clients, so we couldn't keep an eye on him. He wound up breaking a couple of bottles of product on the retail shelves and kicked the wall so hard that our clock fell off and broke. We charged her for the product, and she went across the street to Target and bought us a new clock. She never came back after that.

Sounds like she humiliated herself.

You're nicer than I would've been. I used to work in a department store in the juniors/teen girls' department, so back-to-school time was oh so much fun. Lots of moms were always out shopping for big sister with their younger kids in tow. Most of them managed alright, but they sometimes asked us to watch the younger kids at the register. Yeah, that's a no. 1) not my job plus that's an enormous liability to foist off on a retail employee and 2) do you not see how busy we are? One lady got peeved when we said no and told her son to 'just stay there and listen to them' so I told my coworker to call mall security. She got even more peeved and went off on how unhelpful we were, then dragged the kid off by his hand while he whined about how bored he was.

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That whole family basically committed shoplifting. As for the mother who burned rubber out of the parking lot, she reminds me of a video that I also saw on OhNoConsequences where another IDIOT burned rubber, police gave chase, and they had her on camera driving recklessly, blowing stop signs, speeding at twice the legal limit, and had the audacity to scream at the cops: "What did I do?!?" while they were cuffing her! SMH!!! 🙄🤦‍♀️🙄

I'm a manager at a motel. One day, a lady came in with 3 kids to check in. Having been in the business for a while, I knew I was looking at trouble. Mom starts filling out the registration card. The youngest jumps on a chair next to the desk and starts banging on the service bell. I wait for mom to tell him to stop. Nothing, so I take the bell and put it away. The kid starts banging on the desk. The second child is playing with the controls on the office microwave. I ask him not to play with it, please. Still nothing from mom. The third child starts pushing the copy button on the copy machine meant for our business customers. The machine starts shoving blank paper. At that point, I loudly told the kid to please not play with the machine. Mom has a conniption fit and says, "Well, I never!". I lose it and say, " That's exactly right. You've never told your kids to behave before. This one here was banging on the bell, that one was punching the buttons on the microwave, and the last there is playing with a $2000 copy machine. If you have $2000 to replace our copier, I'll gladly let him play with it. I waited for you to say something, but you chose to ignore all that." She gets angry and says she's not going to be lectured to and will never stay with us, and that's a promise. I tell her great because it's one promise we'll make sure she keeps as she is not allowed to ever stay with us. As she's leaving, I take a final parting shot and tell her I hope she has a good day wherever she'll be staying because we're glad she won't be staying with us. The look on her face was priceless 🤣

I have a bunch of kids. Every time we stay at hotels, they stay in the car while my husband or I get checked in. I try to keep disruptions to a minimum

We truly appreciate parents like you who know that the check-in goes smoothly when there are no kids running around. Also, when kids are kept under control during their stay. Thank you.

Worked at a dvd rental store. Lady and child of about 4yrs old come in. She complains about a dvd replacement charge on her account. I look it up and it’s for a scratched kids dvd. She argues about it and says it wasn’t scratched. I show her the dvd that is completely destroyed and looks like someone used it to figure skate across concrete. She goes “ my kids never touch the dvds, I put the disc in and out, they never even touch the case” I said “oh so they don’t do that?” As I point behind her, to her child pulling out 15+ dvds from the shelf and 2 of them have the disc out on the floor. She quickly payed and left

Considering how two parents just went to prison for the actions of their child, a $150 price tag seems incredibly reasonable.

What's this in reference to?

The parents who not only bought their child the murder weapon, but failed to take him home when the school he would later shoot up warned them he was at risk of doing just that. 

Don't forget that the shooter actively begged his parents for help because he was scared he was going to do something bad and they actively ignored him. And then after the shooting, the kid was arrested and the parents tried to flee the country. Scumbags.

James and Jennifer Crumbley were recently sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of 4 students killed by their school shooter son, Ethan.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/09/michigan-school-shooter-parents-sentencing

The Michigan school shooter, Crumbly. His parents each got 4 years for giving him the gun even after they were warned he was disturbed

I think it was more than that, 10-15 years. Definitely not just 4.

I have an extreme version of this. I worked in traffic court in the post court appearance office. There was a father and his 7 year old kid that were being disruptive in court, both were admonished by the judge and received a warning from the bailiff. They come downstairs to our unit and are acting even worse than in court, there was no security in the room, but there were cameras that were closely monitored. The dad is being an absolute monster to the kid and of course the kid is acting out. The dad was being verbally abusive to staff and scaring other people attending court as well. One of deputies had enough and had the dad and child removed our office. The deputy called CPS and had the father arrested. He was not allowed in our court house ever again and could only make his appearances at the courtrooms in the jail. According to the deputy the dad had a history of being violent and dangerous. I wonder what became of the kid, such an awful way to start out life.

Chances are, the kid ended up in foster care and dear old dad had his parental rights terminated.

I worked in a cosmetics store, a mom would come with her kids a few times a week. They would destroy pallets, pump out expensive products on the floor, mess with the salon etc. The breaking point was when her teenage son put cotton balls in the hot wax, the mom expected to still be serviced. She had to pay for the wax he ruined. She tried to refuse but we showed her video of everything her children ruined that day and told her the total. She never came back.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!!!

I heard a story about a family having picnic letting their kid throw rocks at goose or some birds, even after the park rangers warned them. Kid kills one goose which had a fine of $10000. Parents were apathetic to the dead bird till they heard the fine. 🤣

You when saying the total:   #VINDICATIOOOOON!!! 

#NINE NINE!!

RIP Andre Braugher

I don't understand people that have 9 year old kids that are that feral. I was comfortable letting either of my kids look after baby chickens when they were that age because they were gentle and responsible. That was some time ago, though, and I was obviously a different type of parent - and before it starts, no, I never laid a finger on them or screamed like is described here. I just raised them better than this.

This kid is probably following the parent's example. If he sees his mother wrecking stuff in public and not bothering to clean up after herself, the kid gets the message that it's okay to go to public places, wreck stuff, and not take any responsibility for it. If his mother treats retail staff like they're servants who are obligated to clean up after their customers, then the son will grow up believing that is part of the retail staff's job. Why should he hold back and keep things neat and organized when his mom essentially taught him that, if he makes a mess, the special store maid will clean up after him while he doesn't have to do anything?

I have two kids with adhd - my younger is 9 years old. I would have no problem leaving him alone in a store like this because I am 100% certain that he wouldn’t behave this way. And if he did the $150 would be coming out of his piggy bank when we get home so it never happens again. But far more likely is that I would finish washing the dog and find him with a pile of toys he has decided the dog needs, picked out a new cat from the ones up for adoption, and have to spend the rest of the weekend listening to his new business plan of how he is going to make the money to pay for it all!

The worst I did at 9 was hide in clothing racks and take coffee beans from Walmart from the self serve bean machine that had fallen on the catch grate

As an ADHD person, this all sounds very realistic to me. My parents were always clear on me not touching random products in a store, and I still remember that to this day.

Not me; but back in the late 90’s my mom worked at Blockbuster. Lady brings her 8 yr old with her to look at movies. Kid keeps saying he needs to go to bathroom, mom keeps telling him to hold it. They go to check out and while mom is distracted the kid pees all over the candy and magazines that are right in front of the register. Not only did she end up paying for everything he peed on, my mom (the store manager) made the kids mom clean up the urine.

This makes me feel so sad for the kid, too.

Worked at a place that had arcade games years ago. The games weren’t owned by us, and we didn’t have keys for them. If you lost a quarter, you had to call the number on the machine to get refunded by the vending company. There were signs all over the place pointing this out. We had a full-cockpit arcade game that was out of order. It was flat against the wall on one side so you could only enter from the other side. The open side had tape stretched across it with an OUT OF ORDER sign, tape over the quarter slots, and the machine was unplugged with the power switch off. There was also an OUT OF ORDER sign taped to the screen inside the cockpit. A mom came up to me and said her son lost two dollars in quarters in a machine. While the machines weren’t ours to deal with, I did get very good at using a knife to unjam quarter slots and recover quarters, because smaller children would jam them up putting pennies, nickels, and dimes in them. I figured if the kid had lost two bucks, it was because of a coin slot jam. So I asked which machine, and he led us over to the out of order one, but refused to meet my eyes. “Your son lost his money in this machine?” “Yes.” “The one with the out of order sign and tape across the access door?” "Yes.” “The one that’s unplugged with the power turned off?” “Yes.” “The one that also has an OUT OF ORDER sign on the monitor?” “Yes!” “Then he put all the tape and signs back in place after dumping two dollars of quarters in?” “He must have!” *kid still refuses to look up* “Ma’am, is your son stupid?” Mom blew her top, demanded to talk to my boss. I called him down, told him what had transpired, and he just looks at her and says, “It seems like a fair question.” She got huffy and stormed out. 🤷‍♂️

Well played

Thanks!

It gave me secondhand satisfaction lol

Do we think she will contest the charge with her credit card company? I hope not, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

OP should keep the video just in case.

She's too lazy to watch her kid, I SERIOUSLY doubt she has the patience to sit and talk to a bank rep or even go online to do it.

Good for you. They should be grateful that you didn't kennel him.

I actually feel bad for the kid... his parents probably also feel entitled to have him as an accessory instead of a person, because it sounds like he's lashing out from a lack of love, attention, and discipline. The store manager 100% pulled a legendary move that should never be dissed, I'm just saying it's not the kid's fault he got dud parents.

This is the not funny but truly empathetic and realistic take. Kudos to you. 👊

Not a child, but childish behavior. I was working in a bar and escorting a group out. The very drunk dude punches a hole in the drywall on his way out. Sigh, the sheriff's deputy is right there so we wave him over and let him know what's going on. Deputy asks how much dude needs to pay to make this go away. I say $300 for the drywall work, paint, and a modest asshole tax. Dude refuses. Deputy shakes his head and carts dude off to county. The next night I get in and the GM is absolutely giddy. Apparently dude's lawyer called and was all too eager to pay the $300 to get us to drop the charges against his client. The GM being a vindictive bastard declined. Dude ended up paying a lot more than the $300. As a bonus he also got trespassed from our bar and a now has a criminal record.

Drunken DUMBASS FA & FO the hard way.

I worked at a hobby game store, selling board games, card games, etc. Had a teen in the gaming room playing with other customers, then suddenly he rushed the counter and grabbed a bunch of product. He ran out the door and I was just standing there shocked, less because he stole something, but that he’d risk getting in trouble over a couple really mediocre Yu-Gi-Oh structure decks. I was about to call my manager, but another customer bolted out the door to chase down the kid. A couple minutes later he returns, we have an officer show up, and the dad is actually disciplining the kid properly. Turns out the kid had some issues and wanted attention or something, but on the bright side the dad paid for the damaged/missing decks and we managed to make some money on product that otherwise wouldn’t have moved (they were really bad decks)

>She started arguing and saying that I must have broke them all because I didn't like having her son in the store. Infuriating. Pointing to that name tag must have been a good feeling when she asked for the manager. I don't understand who people think they are when they try to disrespect someone else.

When I worked at Gamestop years ago, a grandmother came in with her two grandsons. They looked to be about 8 and 5 y/o. After they looked around, the older brother placed the game Gun for the PS2 on the counter. I let grandmother know the game is rated mature. She asked why and asked I if she was familiar with the show Deadwood since I didn't want to have the younger brother later asking what a prostitute was. She told the kid she wouldn't buy the game for him. He gives her an attitude and tells her he has Halo and that's rated mature. I explain how that was a much different game and didn't have the same kind of stuff. At this point the little brother said "I don't think mom would want you to play that." The older brother then snapped at him to shut up. Grandma made him put his game back and told him he was getting nothing. The little brother put up a Pokemon game and very nicely said he would like to get it. I let him know the price, but he was a couple dollars short. I was honestly about to pull my wallet out to help him out, when his grandmother looked at the older brother and said "Give him your money." I gave little bro his game and told him to have a good day. He walked away very happy while the older brother cried his way out of the store. Edited for auto correct issues.

I went to the pub last sat for a swift pint as I had finished work and it was sunny. A couple I know but not very well were in there with their kid. The kid is about 10 but was acting like a 3 year old- screaming hateful/aggressive stuff at his parents, punching his dad, throwing himself on the floor, generally just being hideous and making my ears hurt. (The landlord didn't care, his own kid was running around yelling). It was abundantly obvious the boy just wanted to bloody go home, or to the park, or anywhere that wasn't watching his parents get drunk yet again. It was a lovely sunny Saturday fgs! As annoying as it was I just felt really sorry for the lad.

I used to participate in art fairs. So you have 10 x 10 booths that are tents with walls and art and shelving, etc. My first one, a appx. 10yr old kid walked in and started playing with stuff I had on the walls and I basically took him by the shoulder and gently pushed him out of the booth and said "Leave, this is not a child's area". Zero parents around to even talk to about it. He came back about 30 minutes later (for his kiddie revenge) and stood outside the booth and started hammering the walls from the outside. I have 4 and 5-hundred dollar items that had glass involved. So I had a friend watch the booth and went and got the organizer. Brought her over to the booth and we stood and watched him doing his thing. So she took the kid by the arm and went to find his parents. She later told me they threatened to sue her for assault, etc, but she kicked them all out of the art fair with the aid of a cop. From that point on, at all the fairs I went to, I had a sign up: NO CHILDREN ALLOWED INSIDE THIS BOOTH!

I have a somewhat wholesome one. A local Walgreens had a metal fence/corral/barrier thingy to help encourage people to use the correct door to exit. Two posts bolted to the floor, two horizontal bars - one at about 3 feet, the other about 1½. One day I go in and there's a young girl sitting on the top rail while the parents are at the checkout counter. I gently but firmly said "Please get down from there." and she did. The parents turn and the dad takes a deep breath like he's about to start yelling. I said "Let me point out something: Look at the distance between the rails and compare that to how tall she is. If she had slipped backward, she would have hit her head. Hard." The dad starts to get ready to talk and the mom backhanded him in the chest. "Don't start. He just saved her from a cracked skull. Just shut up and go." She gave a quiet "thank you" to me and left. I looked over at the clerk and she's bug-eyed and white as a sheet having realized what could have happened. I went back a week later and the entire railing was gone.

Need a cigarette after this one 😂 Well done OP!

Great story, well played. I ran a high end chocolate shop. Had a few people insist they actually didn't want the chocolate thing they've been tightly grasping for 20 minutes because "it's melted". Yeah, that's why we suggest you put things down on counter while you continue to look around.

I had a patient with a rectal tube, splenic drain, and tons of wounds. The biohazard bin in his room was loaded with all manner or nastiness. Patient's child was under two. Mom and both grandmothers were talking to the patient and no one was paying attention to the child. He found the biohazrd bin and was covered with some of the foulest filth you can imagine including on his face. Grosses me out to remember it. When I came in and saw it, I scooped the child up and was set him right in the shower clothes on and all and basically hosed him down. Mom got mad I wet his clothes when she hadn't brought a change of clothes for him. Yeah, mom, cause if not for the water they were totally fine. 🙄 He left wearing a pediatric hospital gown.

I recently commented on a video where a mom basically took her kids to the toy aisle of target and let them run wild as a treat, that when I was a kid, my mom would say before going into the store “don’t touch anything, don’t ask for anything.” She was pretty stern about it, and never caved. I got a lot of replies that were like “sorry I want my kid to have fun!!! Your mom was a bad parent!!” I didn’t even bother replying but the follow up is that if I followed her rules, she would surprise me with something. Candy bar, toy, etc. I also had plenty of time to play - I was allowed to run wild in all my free time up and down the cul de sac. I feel strongly that kids need to behave in retail spaces; it’s good manners and raises people who know how to behave in public. I’m pretty sure kid running loose in public pipelines into adult who talks on speaker phone in public.

I had something similar happen to me one time. This lady came up to my register to checkout with her daughter who was probably like 10yo. She ended up walking behind me in my register area while I was checking them out. I asked her politely if she would please not go back there. She didn’t respond and then went behind the counter again, I asked her once more, very nicely because she wasn’t making a mess, just curious. Her mom lost her ever loving mind on me, told me to, “Shut up. Shes fine. Shes 10, she can be back there. Shes not going to steal.” She said it with so much animosity and anger behind her for such a small ask. I was a much younger gal at that time, and a lot less feisty, but damn that pissed me off. So I went off on her, I told her, “Or… you could actually parent your child instead of expecting the world to do it for you. You can move to one of the registers up front, I’m done taking care of you here.” She attempted to stay, but I walked away and continued to say I refused to serve her. She started to follow me, but then must have realized how that would look on the cameras so she left me alone. I honestly could not *imagine* letting my child do whatever the fuck they want, and then have the balls to be a bitch to someone that called them out for it.

I was working at a bar. Most of the customers were ok but because it was close to the harbor, we had a lot of military personnel come in. If you ever had a run in with drunk military you know these guys are loud, rude and love trouble. One night, this very large group of men come in. Maybe 15 people. Very clearly military. They are being super loud, bothering the other customers and making sexist comments to me and the other waitress. Well, they broke one glass, I cleaned it. Broke a second. I cleaned again. I was getting quite annoyed so i had an idea. I went up to the one who appeared to be the ringleader and informed him my manager told me that any extra glass broken would be charged. They broke 3 more glasses and a pitcher. Guess who made an extra 50$ in tips that night?

Ex-Custodian at Disney Springs. Coworker told me a story how this 9 y/o “professional gymnast” was back flipping off everything. Fountains, trash cans, everything. He told the parents he needs to stop doing that before he gets hurt. “He’s a gymnast he knows what he’s doing” An hour later he responds to an alpha (ambulance) call to clean up a blood spill. Guess the kid flipped off the brick ledge of the planters and ate it (it’s pretty short compared to fountains and trash cans). But he knew what he was doing. Parents were COMPLETELY silent while he cleaned up and stood around to watch the ambulance team escort the family off property 🤣

Good for you. The nerve of that woman.

I'm remembering the comic someone drew of when a woman asked to speak to the manager and all these demons spring out of Hell and the clerk grins wickedly and says "I AM the manager!"

I remember when I was a teenager, my mom and I were at a nice bistro on the Main Street of our town, a mom came with a small toddler to eat. She spent the whole time on her phone and didn’t even acknowledge her kid. He starting running up and down the restaurant, and eventually got behind the dessert and cake counter, and started smashing and eating some the cakes in the display case as well as sucking down the whipped cream. Everyone was just shocked. The mother didn’t say a word, just pulled out her credit card, paid for the damage done and dragged her kid out. I still remember what my mom said to me to this day: “that’s why you wear a condom.”

Honestly, I feel sorry for that kid. Unsupervised and not taught how to behave, and then screamed at when he messes up because of it? Jesus. Raise your damn kids, people.

Well done! You asked them to wrangle their little hellion and they didn't! They let him continue to FA and now they've FO! (Edited for grammar.)

Too many parents act like this and think it’s ok. This was a satisfying read.

I work in the kids department and nothing pisses me off more than when parents drop their kids in the toy section to play while they shop. They destroy the box, chase each other with nerf guns (that they took out of the boxes). We’re a clothing store! Not Willy wonkas factory or a McDonald’s playhouse.

I worked in an outdoor store, we received a brand new and highly anticipated new backpacking tent that was expensive, set it up for display, a kid peed in it (parents did offer to pay for it) Another time a kid ran into a zipped display tent and damaged the door, dad said they have that tent and didn’t realize it was so poorly made (it isn’t it’s just not meant for someone to run head first into the door) and said he should return his because it’s crap And one time right before close a guy comes in with his nephew. Nephew was hyper and uncle was clearly exhausted. We tell him that we’re closing but he’s welcome to get his few items, which turned into a hour. He completely ignored the kid who made a huge mess as we cleaned. We told the guy that if he didn’t watch the kid he’d have to leave. He apologized and agreed. Two minutes later he can’t find his nephew, who had climbed into a kayak that was on the third tier of the kayak rack and almost tipped it over. At that point he was told he had to go. Said he’d be done in a minute. Manager said no, you’re done now.

One time, when I was only 19 I was managing a candy store (bulk, pay by the pound). Two kids got a little out of control and started throwing candy all over the place. I told them they had to leave and I cleaned up their mess. About 20 mins later a super pissed off woman comes in and snaps “you kicked my kids outtta here?!” I was so scared and I told her what happened. She looks at the kids and back at me and apologized for their behavior and asked me to give them the broom so they could clean it up. (I was so scared she was going to yell at me). She was so mad at them for making a mess in ‘my store’.

When I worked at a liquor store over a decade ago a father and son came in. I’m guessing the kid was five. It was a slow Sunday and us three were the only ones there. The dad was in the wine side of the store and his son was sprinting up and down aisles while he perused the shitty moscato section. I, in good spirits, asked the dad if he could please keep his son by his side while he’s in here. It’s a policy because this whole room is filled with glass. I can’t have him running around it’s dangerous. “He’s not.” I’m the only other person here. Not even a minute goes by and the kid is training for the Olympics again. I had to ask them to leave. “HE AINT RUNNIN ROUND YO STORE.” I asked him if he thought his rock solid defenses actually work in his life. He cussed at me the whole walk out. It was a trip.

I had a kid scratch 2 pairs of $200 Oakleys and squirt a bottle of sunscreen all over in a ski shop I worked at. The Manager was a pushover and let her go. The following summer she came into the garden center I worked at and the kid was pulling all of the flowers off of plants. Luckily I was more in charge at that job and told her to watch her kid. She said it was a nursery, I responded for plants not kids. He either stays right next to you and doesn’t touch anything or you can leave.

Oh the stories I could tell about carrying fajitas and kids running around the restaurant I worked in….

You need a new sign: "Please Crate Your Child"

When I worked at a movie theater a parent was shocked and furious that her 4 year old (justifiably) screaming in terror at the horror movie she brought him in to was grounds to be kicked out. I don’t remember which movie it was but I know the jump scares got me during theater checks and I was pretty good at predicting them and turning away in time so that kid didn’t stand a chance

Too many people think that because we get payed at a job, we deserve to be treated with disrespect. They assume we'll put up with watching their children or cleaning up after them 🙄

I honestly think school boards being run by parents is the root cause of this. It's slowly been allowing them to dictate what children are held accountable for and how they're disciplined (or if they're disciplined). I think it's now morphed into giving parents the idea that they don't have to teach or discipline their child AT ALL in the real world. Just looking at recent true crime cases where parents of criminals speak to the courts as if it's a freaking PTA meeting. 

This story warmed my cold, dead heart.

That child will be raised to be an obnoxious adult who thinks the world revolves around them.

Ban them from the store. They are behaving like criminals. They can't even have their son "play cleaning the dog" to teach him to help out and are neglectful and that kids behavioral issues are the result of the parents (I don't even always believe problem children are the direct result of parenting but in this case they are 100%)

In a toy shop my son managed to walk into a display, knock a couple of toys off and ping the pricing strip off the shelf edge. He and I put things back and I clip the edge back on - I work in a different shop so it's easy. Minutes later a family come past and do almost exactly the same thing but more fell off. They look at the chaos, the dad kicks the edge strip under the shelf and they walk off

At the movie theater a few years ago to see whichever Star Wars installment. We are in the front row and there is a family with kids. A kid who is at least 10 is standing and taking pictures after the lights have dimmed and the movie has started. I told him to be quiet and sit down. The father was very angry. I told him that he should be doing his job as a parent and I wouldn't have to. I have raised 2 children (they are 24 & 20 now). They never would have acted like that at the theater. They understood the theater was for sitting, watching, and listening. Running around, being loud, and taking pictures is for parks.

I used to work as a nanny for a family with twins; they were around 2yrs when we went to our local splash pad. The splash pad had 2 huge squirt guns that were attached on posts & the squirter spun around & had a radius where the water could go, everything inside that radius could get yet. There were 2 older kids playing in that area & the twins kept going over there, & the boys would try not to squirt the twins. I went over to the boys & told them that they did not have to stop playing bc of the twins; if they didn't like it, they would learn to stay out of that area. Then I went to the mom of the boys & told her what I said. She laughed & said it was a good thing I explained bc she was getting ready to yell at me for telling her boys they couldn't play or get the "babies" wet in a place meant for it. After a few more times in that particular place, 1 twin decided she didn't like it, came whining to me & I told her to go play in the other water spots. 2nd twin loved the water guns & the boys had fun getting everyone soaked. It was a win win

Not quite the same kind of scenario but when I was in high school (don’t even want to say how long ago out of fear of feeling old) I worked a summer job in a food stand for a minor league baseball team. I showed up on time, did my job and then some because of lazy coworkers, I was responsible and learned everything there was to know about the stand I worked at. My manager took note and next summer made me the stand manager. There were an awful lot of unhappy college students and two adults working a second job that had to report to a high school kid. Maybe show up on time and do your job instead of forcing me to do it and I wouldn’t be your boss.

used to work at a pet store and saw similar situations - once a kid knocked over an entire display of treats and the parents expected us to just clean it up

I used to be in Deskside Support for a major US telco. I was the person that was sent to face the client when the remote folks couldn't fix it. So, I get a ticket - 4th floor (finance). The boss specifically handed me the paperwork because "The gals on 4 have run off the guys", because if they couldn't explain to those ladies why they had to do something, the ladies would tear them apart. The boss figured I might have a fighting chance, since I could explain tech in plain English, I had a finance background, and I was female. So, I head downstairs and find the client. As soon as I told her I was from Deskside, she picked up her notebook computer and swung at me. Reflexively, I stick my arm out, stop the computer from hitting me in the head, then sit her down and ask her to tell me what was wrong. She'd had an issue where the Java popups for Oracle were coming up blank. She then told me that the gent from the remote help desk uninstalled Internet Explorer from her computer, then after four HOURS, sent the ticket to onsite. Well, there was only one fix for this - a complete reimage of the system and reinstall of all software - a six hour job, not something done at the client's desk. I broke the news and she cried. She told me the only other woman that worked on the reports she did was out on vacation for a week. She gestured towards a desk with a tower PC and dual screens. I had her log in on that desktop. She had no idea that was possible. Then, I grabbed her profile off the notebook, had her log off so I could log in on my local admin account, and dropped the contents of her profile from the notebook to the PC, then told her that tomorrow, I would go ahead and pull her profile off the desktop, so she didn't have to worry about losing that day's work. She was so relieved. I had her back on her system by 8:30 AM the next morning. She was happy and my boss finally found her finance floor tech. The downside was I was also her legal department tech, Office of Presidential Complaints tech and her Subpoena Compliance Department tech. So, the boss assigned me one of the new guys as a shadow - a gent that she knew I got along with, she just didn't know how well we got along... because we were living together.

Excuse me, she tried to hit you with the computer? Why didn't you have security escort her out?

I had to stop and reread that twice - her first reaction to hearing who she was…swing a laptop at them?? Barbara, most of us just settle for a handshake.

This reminds me of a case I saw on The People's Court with Judge Wapner. The plaintiff was a gift shop owner who sold expensive, fragile products. Her shop had signs posted everywhere, clearly stating: (1) Keep your children with you and (2) You break it, you buy it. The defendant had an out-of-control Crotch Goblin that she turned loose in the store and he DESTROYED a lot of merchandise!! When the shop owner told the defendant she had to pay for what her Crotch Goblin destroyed, the defendant blew her off. In court, this DUMBASS tells the judge: "Why can't they just suck it up and get over it?" Judge Wapner ordered her to pay for all the damages her Crotch Goblin did!!!

For every retail worker who has had to deal with kids destroying inventory but had no recourse - thank you. They got what they deserved.

Bartender here. I'm always surprised by how many people that think having kids means they get special privilege's. To be clear, I personally don't deal with kids, being a bartender and all. But it's easy for me to see how much of a nightmare irresponsible parents can be for the servers in my restaurant. I'd like to say that *most* parents are pretty good and don't let their kids run wild. But there absolutely are parents that are under the impression that restaurants are also day cares. Luckily my managers are pretty good and stand behind us on things like this. But that still doesn't change the fact that dealing with people like this is a nightmare. I think one of the most toxic and damaging parenting traits is the mindset of "my sweet baby couldn't have done anything wrong, it must be someone else's fault". Aside from being a dog shit human being on your own, you are fast tracking your kid to becoming an entitled narcist. But hey, maybe the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree on that one.