Why someone started a Rumor... About me?!

Okay children, gather round. I am about to tell you the story of when I worked in Retail and someone started a rumor about me!

This happened in 2014. There was this one guy that started working at the store 5 months after my arrival. He was cool at first, I didn't have much in common with him, so we didn't really talk at all, but I never had a problem with him prior to this event. The closest sort of relationship I had with him, was him calling me "Prom Date", which was a running joke he started between us. (I don't remember what caused this)

Let's call him Lint, because that's just so humiliating.

It was weird to hear that he decided to start a rumor about me, even though I didn't even talk to him! 

Apparently he decided to tell the Store manager that I was goofing off the whole day to talk to my friend Rebecca that worked in a department on the opposite end of the store. 

I told my friend Rebecca about this rumor and she was like "What?! I haven't seen you all day!".

At first I was skeptical, maybe it was someone else he was talking about?

 

The next day I told the store manager about this, and she said I had nothing to worry about, because this guy has done this plenty of times before and he is on thin ice! She made a comment saying, why is my Cashier watching what other people are doing? Which also made it sound like she actually believed what he was saying about me.

I told the manager, that if I did goof off, I wouldn't have a problem saying that I did. I was telling her there was another time where I was talking to another friend in another department for a while. I usually do work and only chat for a minute or so, but there have been very few times where I was talking to someone for a long period of time. But, I had not done that recently. The point is, If I had done that, I would have no problem saying I did what the guy said.. but I didn't.

The next day, Rebecca had talked to the guy... they're friends and definitely more friends than I was with the guy.
He told her that he did not start that rumor, and that even if he did, he wouldn't care if I found out.
The day afterwards, I was talking to my friend and she was talking about this crazy guy she knows and Lint comes into the room, and starts talking to her.. I kind of felt like he stole the spotlight from me. It sounds weird but it's almost like he didn't want me to talk to her.

While he was talking to her, he had mentioned that he lies all of the time and that it is not very hard. It's funny because the next day she was talking about that, and I told her that I noticed when he said that too.

The next day, my friend finds out something interesting. For starters, Lint doesn't really like me.. no idea why.. "obviously I am too sexy for him to handle!", my friend was like "How can he not like you, you're awesome!!". So, that could be why he had no problem starting a rumor about me. 

Although, it could be that he didn't like me because I told one of the girls he should get neutered, after he was drooling over one of the new girls. He would be cute with me and guys don't get cute with me because they're always straight, so I liked the attention he was giving me and got a little jealous. (This guy was straight? Also, We'll get into that. But for Clarification, I didn't like this guy in any way, I just liked the attention lol.)

This dude is a horn dog! This guy has pretty much hounded every female associate that is between the ages of 18-25, he just wants to have sex with them all!

But you see, most of the girls do not like him like that, so when he gets rejected by them, he makes their lives at work miserable!

 

The plot thickens!

The next day or so on a Friday, I was talking to Rebecca and I told her that months ago, I remember Lint said that she was his perfect girl. At the time, Rebecca was only attracted to asian guys, and this dude is a white boy. Oddly enough, people do sometimes think he's asian, but let's not get too off track.

Rebecca then tells me that he was telling her about the last time he had sex, he said to her, I would prefer this blog to be PG 13, but basically said that he likes to "go on a girls face" and told her "Just so you know, if we ever have sex", in a way to warn her if they did sleep together.
This was something that stuck in her mind

Reasons why this was weird

1. At the time, she had a boyfriend
2. She was only into Asian dudes at the time.
3. She only likes him as a friend.
4. This sexual harassment is just unwanted and undeeded.

With that being said, why would he say any of these weird sexual things to her??

So now, we're both thinking that Lint is jealous of me and Rebecca's friendship. He probably doesn't like that we talk all of the time, and really just wants bone her. He may also dislike me for the fact that I am a decent human being and I actually work and I don't lie about things... but who knows. 

You know what they say. "You're not doing it right until you get a hater!"

But, after finding all of this out. I've realized that he is just a lying creeper and the scuzzball.

Update from 2021: This dude got fired in 2015 for giving customers blank store credit cards, while taking the store credit card that had money on it and using it to buy stuff for himself. 

Like the dude got fired for stealing!

 

• Maybe this is why one time, we had this lady yelling at us, saying we were robbing her because there was no money on her store credit card. We explained to her, that she needed to call the number on the card to see what happened to the money on it and then she could proceed with whatever action she needed to take.

Oh, but that's not all! It gets worse!

One of the guys I became friends with was his childhood friend. They are no longer friends, but I am still friends with his Childhood friend.

• First off, he told me that this dude thought I had a thing for him. He thought that me adjusting my vest was me "flirting" with him. What?! I wouldn't date him even if he was the last man on earth!

• He always had bisexual tendencies, so it makes me wonder if he actually had a thing for me too, could be why he was so jealous of my friendship with Rebecca. 

• He has a connection to two guys I've had big crushes on, the first one we worked with. I think the guy distanced himself from Lint because Lint was coming off kind of flirty with him and Lint even made a comment that he didn't get the hype on the guy. He probably got "blown off" (That isn't meant to sound dirty) by the guy and was just made he wasn't being paid any attention lol.

The second one was, he's friends with a guy, that works at my last job, who was friends with the guy I liked there as well.

Here's where it gets serious...

My friend told me that this dude, as a 20 something year old, slept with a 15 year old girl!! The parents didn't press charges because it was consent... like this dude is literally a pedo, it's disgusting.

Keywords: Retail Industry, Retail Sector, Retail Times, Retail Workers.