I would actually love to hear more details about how they treated you as a customer [seriously] because of this.

Meg, is that photo supposed to represent what the associates saw going on outside their store, even if nobody else did?

"Radio Shack: You have cannibis? We have ganja."

This is a worthwhile story, and I hate Radio Shack as much as you do. But this is probably on the manager, not the corporation.

This would expalin a lot of RS employees I have seen in my experiences there. It could be company policy.

I wonder how much merchandise walked out of the store while they were in the back getting high.

"You know what I could totally use right now?"
"What?"
"A Radio SNACK"
"DuUuUuUde!"

Where was this store? I'm running a little low.

On, uh, batteries. Yeah. Batteries. Running low on batteries.

@Dooley: That's true. Even if they caught you, it's not like they could really call the cops. If I were a shoplifter, I would target this store at that particular hour of the day.

and they fired my brother for not gretting a customer within 2 minutes of them being in the store..

i love screwing with high people.

It is sad some people in this country still think using drugs or being high is funny, it's not. I hope you went to whatever Radio Shack's main website is and contacted corporate headquarters to let them know what their employees are up to? I sure would have.

Come on!
Give us the store address!
At least the city!

@SkyeBlue: Fortunately using alcohol or being drunk is still funny and socially acceptable to the vast majority of Americans. Though not so much at work anymore.

First mistake was to walk into RS..haha jk!

@92BuickLeSabre: AWESOME

@SkyeBlue: You're mistaken. It's not funny; it's COOL.

I'm cracking up right now because as I'm reading this story about stoners at work my iTunes randomly select "D'Yer Mak'er," a.k.a. Led Zeppelin's experimentation with ska. Appropriate soundtrack, especially since I've been picture this as being similar to the photo hut on That 70's Show.

@SkyeBlue: give me a break McGruff.

Let us burn one
from end to end
and pass it over
to me my friend
burn it long, we'll burn it slow
to light me up before I go
if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down
my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to bo
and if you're causin' no harm
then you're alright with me
if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down
herb the gift from the earth
and what's from the earth
is of the greatest worth
so before you knock it try it first
you'll see it's a blessing
and not a curse
if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

- Ben Harper "I'm gonna burn one down"

@SkyeBlue:

I hope you went to whatever Radio Shack's main website is...

serious question: are you high??

In my experience, I've gotten more accurate advice from Radio Shack staff than Home Depot Staff.

where did this happen? any context? or is this just consumerist trying to get more eyeballs?

Did they offer to share some with you if you bought a cell phone?

I know this didn't happen at the RS down the street from me: the associate I've dealt with there the last two times has a grimace of death permanently frozen on her face. She maybe should learn from these guys.

Oh, god. I love stoners! They make shopping at horrible places that much more interesting. Working customer service with stoners, however, is a pain in the ass. When you have to depend on them, that's when it turns into a problem.

New motto:

Radio Shack, It's all good! :p

Serves him right for going in at 4:20.

/blaming consumer never gets old

@mac-phisto:

I guess my poorly worded comment shows in a way how UNFUNNY I have found ANY drug use since going to my best friends 16 year old sons funeral back in January. He started off with pot and seemed to think it was so cool, well until he moved on to meth then worked his way up to prescription drugs and OD'd on Zanax and Methadone. Drugs, so harmless, so funny.

i used to work at RS
I'm visuily impard and my maniger kept moving all the small (under the counter) items around wich ment everytime i sold one i had to ask Where is (insert product name) and find the item or spend 10 minuts on the floor behind the counter sorting through the small items. (same on shelvs)

since i live on memory of where stuff is this happend alot.

mind you the store has a plan-O-gram wich he never followd

well one day i find im being suspended for a week becos i was being ritten up 3 times a day for asking where things are and anoying custimers by talking to them (if you call talkig to them finding out what there looking for assesing if the part there looking for is the part they need croschecking the part and pointing them in the right direction)

allso wrote me up for asking where item x is all the time and then writing down that i refused to sign the complaint.

mind you this suspenshion was the first time i heard of any complaints.

so i quit.

Alternitvly the one time i got sent to a difrent store.
totaly difrent experince.

1. Everything was where it was suposed to be
2. the maniger was nice and complemented my memory skills having memorised the stors layout in about 2 hrs
3. liked my speed in assisting people and my speed at handling cellphone signup's

Yes i did sell extended service polices on anything/everything i could.
hay i made alot of money on those.

and i to myself buy ESP on things i own that i dont like fixing myself.

the main difrince being i know how to navagate the system whe n i do need somthing repaird :p for most places anyway.

@SkyeBlue: You need to mellow out. I know just the thing...

@SkyeBlue: NARC! Have fun at the Nerdry, Urkel.

@SkyeBlue: guaranteed for a fact that people get high at work because of customers like you.

its also funny that people find this incident "unique". After working at different part time retail jobs, all of them had workers who were stoned at work to pass the time. When you receive great customer service even though you're being an ass, most likely the representative or the employee you're talking to is stoned out of their mind.

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: "Serves him right for going in at 4:20." I lol'd.

@SkyeBlue: My sympathies go out to you and the family of your friend. However please consider the following:

I had a friend who started off playing Super Mario Brothers. Well he kept playing games and started trying new games and eventually he found World of Warcraft. He has now lost his girlfriend, dropped out of school, and is about to lose his job.

Moral of the story? Don't play video games.

er wait... maybe the moral is more like this: Addiction can strike anyone over anything. Drugs are a symptom and not a cause.

Man, thats some great trolling.

I'm sorry your friends son decided to go to harder and harder drugs. However, that's hardly a valid argument against recreational pot use. People with addictive personalities will always find a way to escalate their addictions untill something snaps - projecting their behavior on the vast majority of recreational pot users who get high to pass the time (just like recreational drinkers) shows ignorance and makes people less receptive to your point.

Now where did I put my bong?

@Greasy Thumb Guzik:

If it was in California, he may have had a prescription.

Of course, at work???? Come on!

Classic stoner move, forgot to lock the door.
@m4ximusprim3: yup

Customer: What other features does this CB Radio have?
RS employee: You can put your weed in here....

@SkyeBlue: Hate to break the news to you but at least in Canada if you go somewhere that the kids are getting paid minimum, or close to minimum wage at a shitty job, Im betting around 80% get high before after or during the job. Every job I worked at as a teen people were getting high, now Im almost 23 and from what I see, its only a growing trend. I don't blame them, you give your 8 hours a day and get treated like crap, talked down to, pressured to preform. Go smoke a joint and all those annoyences go away, and its not harming anyone boo-hoo, maybe if you lit one up you wouldn't be on here bitching.

Btw. +1 Mac phisto. Funny stuff.

RadioShack: "You've got questions. We've got blank stares."

If Radioshack were more like Home Depot with a bunch of things like PVC piping, wire, plumbing parts, I'd think they were being McGyver stoners.

@Jericho114:

from what I see, its only a growing trend.

Sorry, I just had to say it, getting high at work was a "growing trend" 35 years ago when I was a teenager working in fast food. Today, from what I've seen, it's way beyond a growing trend.

@SkyeBlue: Sorry but your tear-jerking "I just went to the funeral of a friend" comment doesn't pull it with me, and I've been to plenty of funerals of friends. It's sad, it's needless, and it has nothing to do with this story and why it's funny.

i've gotta say, this made my day better. the idea of a radio shack being run by stoned employees pleases me for some inexplicable reason.

@SkyeBlue: John Walters and Tom Harkin agree!

@SkyeBlue: Weed as a gateway drug is bullshit. People with addictive personalities on the other hand.

I believe the "buzz" of this thread has been officially "harshed." Not to rip on anyone in particular, but I think it says something when I'm not the one in the crime-related [technically] thread who sound's the most like a uptight, throw-the-book-at-'em Jack Webb impression, given my posting history on this thread.

hell if i worked at radioshack i'd be smoking j's like no other.

The OP is clearly just a big fat narc, SHAME ON YOU SIR!

@Bootyology: You obviously haven't met enough of their managers. And the quality of the managers is *definitely* indicative of the quality of the corporation (see Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.)