Hilariously Weird Training Videos

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“What grade are you in at school?” “How old are you?” “Are you parents around?” “Do you have a boyfriend?” “Do you like older men?”

Julie isn't overconfident she's just flirting

I worked at Toys R Us back in 2012 and we had to watch a VHS training video from the 90's. It wasn't particularly weird, but they hammered in the point of making sure you don't stop someone shoplifting, in case they have a weapon and could kill you. It must have been at least 3 minutes long, telling us to NOT go after them or even talk to them. Let them take the item and call the cops, or you could get hurt. Later on a month or two later I was blamed for letting someone take an item instead of trying to stop them and was written up.

Fun fact: rats are a lot like cats with their cleanliness and self grooming as well as hate of dirtiness. Which sounds strange given the rat’s image

"Is this a return or an exchange?" "Yes" as a retail worker I feel this in my veins

So everyone’s ExpressVPN contract deadlines were today huh

The Walgreens anti-union video made it seem like unions were worse than shoplifters. Like union reps would loiter around the store like drug dealers peddling that higher wage, better benefits crap It was difficult not to laugh.

I worked at Chuck E Cheese in 2007-2009 and two things I wanted to bring up: that costume wasn't so much about worrying to pass out as it was not being able to scream for help when children attacked you. One of my coworkers was clobbered with a broom while just doing some rounds about the store. I got crowded by the stage picture machine and all the parents just laughed and continued filming their party. Secondly, the only thing I remember about the training video at the time is they used Beck's music. I don't remember what songs, but I distinctly remember this baffling me.

Why does the Wendy's training video look like something they'd put on cartoon network at 3 am on a school night. It literally feels like a faint memory

"one of the fun things people did in the 80s was, uh, cocaine" caught me so off guard

I was forced to watch a video where a man got onions on his sandwich after asking for no onions. He proceeded to be haunted by onions for weeks and this all culminated to him smelling onions in his bed, when he pulled the onion out of his pillowcase he screamed into the camera for an uncomfortable amount of time before the screen went black.

I worked at a SUPER COOL PLACE that had these ICONIC golden arches and after about a year of working the night shift there, I started to realize that my paychecks were inconsistent. Turns out my manager, Amanda(this is her real name because she's an awful person, a thief, and I don't work there anymore because of this so FU) stole money from me every single check. She would log into our system and clock us out for a while,just to make her numbers look good. I caught her in the middle of doing this and, suffice to say, I quit. I also told every other employee that I could before I left and,after checking their respective pay stubs and realizing the validity of my statements, several others also quit. Ha-ha, Amanda.

I used to work at panera and everyone always talks about the “no onions” modification training video. It’s supposed to teach about the importance of getting everyone’s order 100% correct. They compare order accuracy to newborn babies getting mixed up at the hospital. It was something like “98% accuracy sounds great. BUt 2% WoULd bE a LoT oF bABieS sEnT tO tHE wRoNG fAmiLy!!!” and it goes on to show an example where a guy orders a sandwich with no onions and the line accidentally leaves them on. so the guy proceeds to be haunted by onions for the rest of the week and it starts raining onions and he falls to his knees dramatically and cries “I SAIID NOO ONIOONNNSSS”. Do with this information what you will.

If I can’t trust the sweaty man to tell me his honest opinion on lasagna, who can I trust?

I worked briefly at Cinemark, and they had a "training" video that more just seemed like propaganda for the company. it was a walking-dead style skit thing where they were the "working dead" and all the employees were being turned into zombies. so the two last employees had to find a tape after cleaning up some trash. so it was like watching a tape within a tape, and they made fun of 80s slang. they said that the thing turning everyone into zombies is that "people weren't caring enough about their jobs" and that "it only takes one person to start the infection". the reason there was trash around was cause "only an employee who cared enough to clean would be able to find the tape and save the Cinemark" so anyway they brought everyone back with a disney-channel original level inspiring speech about how you should put all your effort into working there. i think what made that whole goofy training video better, is that immediately after they cut to this incredibly dry, serious slide show about fire safety and fire-related theatre disasters. i left after 2 weeks lol

You make the joke about if you need to pass out don’t do it in front of the kids, but that’s actually a serious rule in mascot jobs!!! I was a monkey at a soft play centre for years and even trained others to do it, we had a signal too. Once a girl almost passed out and we basically dragged / carried her back to our changing cupboard instead of taking the head off in the room with the kids hahah

imagine a sweaty man in his twenties going up to you like: “what grade are you in? what school do you go to? what’s your home address??”

"stop calling me andrew because that's not my name" I have a friend named Drew. It is not short for anything. His name is just Drew. So when I want to use FULL NAME I say "Drawing".

Yes Drew, I must conform. I worked as a G.M. for Wendy's in many locations. Dave Thomas was my friend and I married Wendy herself. So I can confirm that all of the beef Patty's are beautiful ladies that sing and say nice things until we cook them to death so that you could enjoy a burger. Thanks