Well, that was a close call

[Trixie]

Right as I got on the clock a manager came up and said "I have a super project for you!" Yeah, those never end well. Seems that some of my lovely coworkers were doing a reset on our alcohol they messed up the spacing on the shelves so it was awkward to get some of the larger bottles off.

She and I were fighting with the shelves and finally get the two on the very top lined up. I proceed to put the alcohol on my side while she went to deal with something. I guess my shelf wasn't in very tight because after putting 20 bottles or so on it, the shelf slipped out of it's notch and just one bottle (of one of our more expensive whiskeys) fell to the floor just over my shoulder. I just stood there like I think I stood there just looking at the puddle at my feet for a good 20 seconds. I didn't get any on me, though I'm sure my shoes still smell like it.

I don't think I would've even had time to move out of the way because it happened so fast. The manager had come back just before the bottle fell and she said it just rolled off the shelf.

That's one of the craziest shit things that's ever happened to me. Besides that the rest of my evening was pretty boring.

[wolfie]

Sounds like the shelves were made by Thimbleguts Storage Systems - they can't hold their liquor.

[Teefies2]

Trixie

You and I work for the same company The "craziest shit thing" that happened to me was the day the top shelf of the milk gave way. This caused all the milk on that shelf to slide forward, which in turn forced the cooler door open. This then allowed all 15 gallons of milk to hit the floor, exploding. Thank the deities that the other 3 shelves didn't give way as well. No one was anywhere close to the cooler when this happened.

I heard the explosion, rounded the corner and went "oh s**t". I waded into the milk flood to try and save what I could. Seriously there was a flood of milk about 10 feet wide and 2 inches deep. I got the Spill Magic and a mop. And as I'm there, standing in this flood of milk, a female (can't call her a lady) walks up - just to the edge of the milk flood, of course, can't get HER shoes dirty! And screams (well maybe it was more like loud voice, but it sounded like screaming to me) "I NEED MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I looked at her, looked at the floor, looked back at her, back at the floor. I said "which of these empty containers of milk would you like?" LOL no I didn't really, but I wanted to!!!!! What I actually said was something to the effect of *we're having a problem with the milk right now, but I'll get it for you as soon as I can*.

Ugh.

[Trixie]

Eww, milk all over the place! What's funny is that after it was all cleaned up, there was still a smell, of course. I heard a woman yell "Somebody broke a bottle of whiskey!" Pretty sure the whole front of the store heard her.

Over Christmas my store manager had a freak accident with a bottle of wine. She was putting up candy canes in the next aisle over when one of them fell over and knocked one bottle of wine off the shelf. I guess we're really lucky that only one bottle of alcohol falls over at a time.

Wanted to add something.

Around the time I first started I was helping put up an endstand of shampoo and stuff. I don't remember now if one of the shelves gave way or something got knocked over but the whole shelf of shampoo fell on me. I was walking around for a while saying that the manager was trying to kill me but she didn't seem to like that. Besides I didn't think it sounded right to keep saying that.

[Nunavut Pants]

I would have started telling people that the manager really, really, really wanted my hair to be clean and shiny!