People Donated $30K To This Target Employee Because A Customer Tried To Shame Her Online

Everyone familiar with retail knows this kind of situation when a customer thinks they're right but they have absolutely no idea what they're on about

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• January 31, 2020

Working in retail is a demanding job, and most customers don’t have a clue how much. Some of them, thankfully a minority, think they can treat the retail workers as they please. "The customer is always right" seems to be their excuse for everything.

And they get away with it because the retail workers are afraid, they would lose their job, 27% of them say they would tell the customers to show them more respect if they thought they wouldn’t have negative consequences. 

This time a retail worker had public support when a customer tried to take his case to Twitter. The customer in question is verified by Twitter as a journalist, but we don’t know how, because his reading and understanding abilities are seriously questioned by his actions.

He saw a toothbrush, top of the line, and on a plastic display behind it, a sign that said Display 0.01. He mistook that for the price of the toothbrush, even though it was not the price of a product that costs around $100. 

The employee was not impressed by his attempt to be smart, quoting some laws he misinterpreted or contacting the police. He even snapped a picture of her and posted it online. Going online was a big mistake because he encountered nothing but judgment.

This is the dissatisfied customer.

And this is Tori, impressed by his complaint.

This is obviously not a price sticker.

The customer tried to quote some laws he doesn’t really know about.

He even called the police.

Not the 911 number, though.

The police officers agreed at first with the customer, but they didn’t have all the info.

He is persistent.

He will take the to the small claims court.

While some internet users speculated that it was an apparent misprint, others with retail understanding clarified that what he saw was a sticker placed on the plastic display to keep track of shelf space in the store’s electronic system.

Internet users disagree with the customer.

Totally.

This man is interpreting the law correctly.

Community is backing up the employee.

The Twitter community thought that the employee deserved an enjoyable vacation for having to put up with this customer, and someone started a GoFundMe campaign that amassed almost $30,000 over the weekend.

The Target employee and the person that started the campaign both confirmed that the account control had been transferred to her. Tori is very grateful but thinks she doesn’t deserve the money, so she is currently looking for a charity to donate the money.

This revolted user started a GoFundMe campaign.

And the people joined in.

The campaign is going well.

And the campaign starter transferred the usage rights to Tori.

They have amassed almost $30k

Tori responded.

If you work in retail and have similar experiences, please share them with us in the comments section.

Damjan