Retail workers of Reddit? What's your Black Friday horror story?

We had a lady call the police on our store because we sold out of a TV.

I really wish I was lying. They came too.

I worked at a store that had a service department.

They couldn't ring anything up at the service counter, but they had a computer which made it look like a register.

A guy was standing there patiently waiting

to be rung up. Finally, somebody notices him and asks what he needs. I'd like to pay. He says,

I'm sorry, this isn't a register, replies the service tech. The guy then proceeds to try and convince

the service tech to let him pay because the line for the main registers is three hours long.

Of course, the service tech couldn't

because he didn't have a register. He just had a computer for making appointments and such. So after

15 minutes of argument, the guy moves off to find the line. Here's the fun part. While he was arguing,

somebody else saw him standing by something that looked like a register, so got in line behind him.

Then, people saw the shorter line and got in behind them. With nobody to control it, the line to

nowhere grew quickly. 15 minutes was all it took for the not line to sneak all the way around

the department. So when the Dufus who started this whole fiasco went to find the right line,

he found the end of the

line that he had started.

Then the guy behind him heard that there wasn't a register, so he followed the first guy.

Then the next customer followed the second, and so on.

They walked around in a circle for an hour before somebody noticed them.

We almost had a riot when a manager had to tell a hundred people

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