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Retail work has a way of exposing exactly how strange customers can be when nobody’s watching too closely.

One employee, doing routine rounds at a dollar store, discovered a bag of raw chicken tucked inside the soda fridge and quickly realized someone had been using it as personal cold storage during their shopping trip.

When staff started removing it, the owner showed up angry, insisting she just wanted to keep her meat cold while she browsed the aisles.

That same shift, another customer was caught testing hairbrushes directly on her own hair, then calmly placing them back on the shelf for someone else to eventually buy.

The following story is an inside look at the true trials retail workers are forced to face every day.

No lady, you cannot put your raw meat there

Used to work in a store that sells everything for a dollar.

One day, the employee noticed something unusual — and quite gross.

Was doing my usual rounds around the store putting things back where they belong when I noticed a bag in our soda fridge.

Upon closer inspection it was literal raw chicken from the grocery store over.

Of course, a clueless customer was to blame.

The lady who put it there came to claim her meat as we were taking it out of the fridge, angry we were about to throw it out.

She said she wanted to keep it cold while she was shopping. She didn’t understand why that was a problem.

She had wrecked havoc on other parts of the store too.

mThat same day, had someone testing out our hairbrushes and simply putting them back when she was done brushing her hair.

This employee could hardly believe their eyes.

WHY PEOPLE, why would you think that’s okay?!

Absolute absurdity.

Somehow an entitled customer is always at the scene of the crime.

What did Reddit have to say?

People this clueless are a danger to society.

This user takes the chicken’s side.

Employees in this line of work truly deserve a trophy — or a big, fat raise.

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Normal people don’t behave this way.

The audacity to get caught mid-chicken-hiding and get mad at the employee calling it out is an impressive level of confidence befitting for a sociopath.

Neither of these interactions caused serious harm, but they were audacious enough to make the worker question a few things.

If nothing else, this employee will have an interesting story to tell their friends.