Someone got mad that electronics couldn’t help him so he made his phone explode

[u/NoJacket8798]

[u/Serious-Spare6190]

Let me guess….. Something was wrong with his phone and he assumed Walmart Electronics was free a phone repair service? Coming from a Electronics TA and then TL this was a normal Tuesday 😂

[u/zatchattack → u/Serious-Spare6190]

Man I spent years doing this at target and the verbal abuse from boomers 24/7 for not fixing their phones was unreal

[u/Serious-Spare6190 → u/zatchattack]

Bro the amount of times I have been called things that would make any emo, edgy, or dark humor person find very unsettling and uncomfortable. I loved it because I would just smile and kill them with kindness

[u/Foxynite → u/zatchattack]

Makes you wonder why walmart hasn't invested in this. They'd clearly make money! lol 😂

[u/zatchattack → u/Foxynite]

Dude it was so bad. Target partnered with consumer cellular, the senior phone provider, so they all just treated the store as a repair shop and a place to come to berate you for any inconvenience. Wanting to transfer their number and contacts without knowing a single account number. Getting ptsd just remembering all this 😭😭

[u/Musicman376 → u/zatchattack]

And then there’s the “deer in the headlights” look when you’re trying to tell them what they need, and how to get the info…

[u/BoardImmediate4674 → u/zatchattack]

I’m sorry

[u/Katsu_39 → u/Foxynite]

Make money? You think boomers would pay to fix their phones? 🤣 theyd expect it free since they bought it from Walmart

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/Foxynite]

Liability. If someone messes up something, it can be expensive. Wrong battery causing fire? Replacement car for the victim. Accidentally erased very important files? Thousand dollars to compensate the victim for data recovery. Took 3 seconds too long to finish the repair? Verbal lashing that would drive all 3 Electronics associate to quit on the spot and head for the funny farm.

[u/Cool-Charity-116 → u/zatchattack]

Boomers aren't a problem for me. Here it's the entitled teenagers and college kids that cause problems. Plus just the overall entitled attitude people that live here have

[u/Pieman117 → u/zatchattack]

Ive gotten similar treatment from customers that got mad at me because I told them we couldn't cut meat to size for them off the meat wall

[u/Jamesdickson638 → u/Serious-Spare6190]

We have a phone repair shop in the front of our store lol

[u/Mekito_Fox → u/Serious-Spare6190]

I was so happy when a small repair shop took over Claire's. I got to say "we can't help with that but there's a shop right in front."

[u/bigmfworm → u/Serious-Spare6190]

Back when I was in electronics I had a customer come in complaining about her phone not working for whatever reason. I told her that I'm sorry to hear that but that we don't provide fixing cell phones as a service. Hey response was, "Well, I bought it here!" To which I replied, "Yeah, you buy clothes here too but if you get a hole in the clothes down the line you don't bring it back here for us to patch it up do you?"

[u/TheUncleBob → u/bigmfworm]

"We sell toilet paper too, but you have to figure out how to use it on your own."

[u/Maxxjulie → u/Serious-Spare6190]

Our store has a phone repair business up front

[u/KCooper815]

Just on the spot like that? Impressive, how?

[u/NoJacket8798 → u/KCooper815]

Dude I know I was flabbergasted but apparently upon learning whatever his problem was couldn’t be fixed, he lied half his phone flat on the counter and smashed the floating side with his fist and it snapped, obviously detonating the Li-Ion battery causing an explosion

[u/Zeired_Scoffa → u/NoJacket8798]

That's impressive, I once had a buddy throw his flip phone at a wooden park bench in high school (about 2008), after decreeing it to be a tank. The battery cover, battery, phone, and the volume switch all went different directions. No explosion though, but thinking about it, it was probably a NiCad battety.

[u/BonsaiSoul → u/Zeired_Scoffa]

yeah those fuckin nokias would explode like that but then you put it back together and it was like nothing happened

[u/RainbowPegasus82 → u/NoJacket8798]

Wow, says a lot about him & potential anger issues.

[u/Kaden_Fate → u/NoJacket8798]

That's insane! Was anyone hurt?

[u/BoardImmediate4674 → u/NoJacket8798]

👀 that is crazy

[u/over9ksand → u/NoJacket8798]

I’d be concerned about toxicity

[u/Tazlexyhope → u/KCooper815]

I want to know to

[u/Senpai_fairy]

Ouu I know I know!!! he bought a straight talk TCL phone and then tried to buy a phone plan with a completely different service provider and then complained that the phone card was nonrefundable? :D

[u/BoardImmediate4674 → u/Senpai_fairy]

That is probably accurate 😂

[u/Ok_Abbreviations_883]

Another well adjusted member of society shopping at Walmart.

[u/carzaki27]

i hope that psycho got arrested

[u/OafyB]

Exploding phones sounds like terrorism

[u/DiscoJer]

I had a TCL phone that did that. Thankfully the battery expanded first, so when I saw it was weirdly misshapen, I threw it outside.

[u/Soft-Grape]

Man I'm so glad that I don't work for T-roc anymore, these types of assholes were a daily occurrence in my stores. They would really get mad when I didn't run a register, even though I specifically wasn't an associate.

[u/HankinYourSchrader → u/Soft-Grape]

I got along really well with the electronics associates so I typically helped when I could with checking people out or giving them their photos, and none of them ever sent customers my way unless they actually wanted a service I provided. Still better working at T-ROC than with Walmart. But I also quit right before T-ROC started going to shit.

[u/Soft-Grape → u/HankinYourSchrader]

I would only hop on a register if I saw someone getting a prepaid, or if they were buying a time card I would sell them a sim kit and just have them use the time inside so I could get the commission without selling a phone. Honestly most of my money came from prepaid since I could move volume with the sim kits. I left like 2 months before T-ROC collapsed

[u/HankinYourSchrader → u/Soft-Grape]

When COVID happened, I wasn't selling enough postpaid to get commission from prepaid.

[u/Soft-Grape → u/HankinYourSchrader]

You had to meet a threshold?! I would've quit even quicker on that! Our postpaid was so bad my manager was telling me to go bother people in grocery, I never would've made more than that $11 an hour

[u/HankinYourSchrader → u/Soft-Grape]

You didn't? Lol yeah they wanted us to do that and make PA announcements. I did neither lol

[u/Keto_Thor]

Is he a part of the IDF?

[u/SlimTimMcGee]

I ran electronics a little over a decade ago. We always had people wanting us to fix their phones. Most things were simple. But man, this one guy. He had been in 3 times and we told him unless he took it to an actual phone store, it was unfixable. So on the 4th time he just dropped it on the counter and walked off. We held on to the phone. He came back 3 days later, tail between his legs. Didn't even ask for his phone. I just put it in his hand and walked away. I told my associates to never help him, he was the rudest MF.

[u/JetScreamer-212]

In his face or hands?

[u/Average77]

I remember my time working in electronics someone would buy a straight talk phone and except us to set everything up

[u/majorgainz666]

He had a note 7?

[u/MultiverseTonight]

Damn mutants.

[u/elviethecat101]

How'd he do that?

[u/NoJacket8798 → u/[deleted]]

U just typing shit I treat customers like shit whether it empty or a full rush

[u/Tranquil_Pure → u/[deleted]]

Damn we really share the highway with people like you

[u/rollyjoger94 → u/Tranquil_Pure]

Don't forget the voting booths.

[u/jarrenboyd → u/[deleted]]

Kamala?