A Walmart customer recorded a rampage at the chain’s employees sparked by layoffs that occurred just before the 2023 holiday season.
In a TikTok clip uploaded by a user named Skye (@skyej.withtheslay), the shopper claims the incident occurred in Huntersville, Conn., where many customers and other employees watched the employee’s angry workday as he felt disrespected by being fired. ing.
“POV: Employee fired before vacation (extended),” the text overlay in the clip reads as Skye walks through the store and approaches an aisle where a chain store employee stands on a shelf, picking and tossing items. It shows. On the floor.
“Oh my god, she’s fucked, she’s fucked, she’s fucked,” she said as she walked from aisle to aisle as workers threw merchandise on the ground. Skye showed the woman items strewn on her floor as she exclaimed that the woman was “absolutely insane”.
Stuffed animals, pillows, and containers of merchandise are scattered around the retail store’s premises, and bottles and containers containing food spilled onto the store floor as a result of repayments made by employees to the store. It seems so.
Sky added more context to the post’s caption, writing, “Extended version of the Walmart video. Back story: I think she got fired. She kept yelling, ‘I won’t stop until the police come.'”
Customers and employees alike can be seen watching the clip as the woman goes wild every time the product hits the floor. I hear screams in the distance and the sound of glass shattering.
“It’s not like she’ll never work anywhere again,” someone says off camera as Sky zooms in on the havoc wreaked on Walmart’s inventory. Now you have to navigate a huge jar of broken cherries on the floor where shoppers gather.
As she continues to record herself angrily knocking condiments off the shelves, someone can be heard speculating that the employee’s verbal abuse is a “mental health” issue.
“They’re not trying to touch her,” the same woman says off camera, commenting on how security guards tail employees around the store but don’t engage her. said.
“It’s crazy to throw that woman over her head,” the voiceover continues as they observe employees in yet another area of the store as part of her relentless onslaught. Now there are victims of her repayments to Walmart.
The clip ends with a woman in the produce aisle throwing more groceries off the shelf and onto the floor. The same security guard and another woman wearing a sweater and carrying a walkie-talkie in her back pocket (possibly another Walmart manager) watch her destroy the merchandise. store items.
Walmart writes online that it promises its employees: “Safe workplace” environmentshows the “fundamentals of”. [the store’s] Culture is a commitment to operating with integrity, and the chain “believes in”[s] It’s about treating each other with respect, including our employees, suppliers and customers. ”
As part of this safe working environment, retailers must create an atmosphere free of “inappropriate conduct, including obscene, profane, coarse, violent, discriminatory, bullying, or similarly offensive words, gestures, or conduct.” He says he wants to foster this.
@skyej.withtheslay Expanded version of Walmart video. Backstory: I think she got fired. She kept shouting, “I won’t stop until the police come.”Walmart in Huntersville/CLT #fipsi #fyp #Walmart #charit NC #charlotton #meltdown #viral ♬ Original song – Shion
TikTok viewers responded in a variety of ways, some of which seemed sympathetic to the workers’ abuse.
“As someone who used to work at Walmart, I get it,” one person wrote.
Another said: “My fiancée was recently laid off without pay at Walmart…around the holidays…I don’t know what you’re all going through. I hope she bounces back.”
Another said, “Okay, now you know Walmart is going to fire you at the beginning of your shift, make you work (possibly adding extra work), and then fire you at the end.” You will be there.”
Some people, like this TikToker, couldn’t understand why women would act the way they did. “But why would you do that? Now you have to pay them, and you are still fired,” they said.
One TikToker said Walmart made a big mistake by telling her she was being fired before she started work. “They should have let her work the entire shift and then told her she was fired,” they quipped.
One commenter wrote that while it may be dirty that management fired her during the holiday season, that still doesn’t excuse the damage she caused to the store.
“These comments. No matter what she is going through, there is no way to act on it,” they said.
The Daily Dot contacted Walmart via email and Skye via comment on TikTok.
*First published: December 8, 2023 at 1:00 PM CST
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Jack Alban is a freelance journalist for the Daily Dot, covering relationship trends and social media topics and how real people are reacting to them. He strives to create not-so-average viral posts by always incorporating evidence-based research, current events, and facts relevant to these stories.
