- Fsharka?
Shark, frsharka!
How do they...?
- Baby shark-a, what?
(men laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Tyler, I worked at IKEA for a year.
- And my name's Ellyse.
I worked at IKEA for about eight months.
Hey guys, my name is Denzel.
I've been at IKEA for two years.
My name is Jonathan, and I worked at IKEA for 11 months,
and we're gonna play Never Have I Ever.
- And you're watching BuzzFeed.
(man singing)
Oh yeah.
Nervous?
- I am.
- Me too, let's get started.
- I always forget, like, are you supposed to win or lose?
- I don't know, 'bout to find out right now though.
- Okay.
(men laughing)
I always forget.
- All right, question number one.
- Never have I ever gotten lost in the store.
(man laughing)
- All the time.
- No, I haven't.
Like I said, there's, you can like, read
up at the top, there's signs.
- I have not!
- Oh wow!
Okay, well yeah.
- 'Cause they have arrows on the ground, ya ding-dong!
- Yeah, there are arrows.
It took me about a month to learn about the arrows.
- Never have I ever slept on the furniture.
- I have not slept on the furniture!
- Neither have I!
- We're very good co-workers.
- Yeah.
- I have!
(man laughing)
Um, I would, oh, they actually have a video of me
in the back of, um, Home Delivery, and it was me and,
I'mma call her Tricia.
Me and Tricia were in the back, you know, fooling around,
and there's like a couch that somebody was returning,
and I don't know what I was doing.
I was just being nasty, but anywho, there was a dance
going at the time, a little, okay!
Moral of the story, I got to the freaking sofa
'cause it looked like it was super soft.
It looked super soft.
As soon as I hit this, I fell right, me and the
little couch fell right off together.
It was a blast.
- No, I, see, 'cause like, every, people touch it,
and there's like a lot of people that come through the store
every day, and I'm like, mmmmmm, I'm good.
- Yeah.
- Never have I ever not known where something was
but gave directions anyway.
(man laughing)
- Constantly!
(woman chuckling)
- Oh, the time!
When I first started, I didn't know where the hell
the damn bathroom was.
I sent people upstairs, to LP, that's upstairs,
to the parking lot!
- I remember like, when I started, like, because you're
wearing that uniform, so, it's like, people are gonna come
and ask you questions, and like, if you point in a
direction, like the store goes in a circle anyways,
so if you just keep going in the direction, you're
probably gonna get the product that you asked for.
- Never have I ever mispronounced a product...
(man laughing)
a product name.
(upbeat music)
- I probably have.
I honestly wouldn't know if I did or not,
but I probably have.
- Yeah, Swedish is a hard language!
- It is!
- And, it's, Swedish people speak English so well,
so it's very embarrassing as a native English speaker
that we can't adopt the language easily, but I--
- Well, they put dots over all their letters!
- I know, I don't understand their alphabet.
- There's all kinda like, symbols and signs and--
- Hemnes.
(man laughing)
- Fsharka.
Shark, frsharka!
How do they...?
- Baby shark-a, what?
(men laughing)
- The plant!
F-J-A-R-K-A!
- Oh, oh, (foreign word).
No, fejka!
- Oh, that too!
F-E-J-K-A!
- See, this is, and this is why I refer to items
by article number because I know how to pronounce
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
- Never have I ever been yelled at by a customer.
- Like, get, do we, do like.
How many more, do we have any more of these in the back?
- Gosh.
- We both work in the return section, and that's like,
guaranteed, like attitude.
- Hell!
(man laughing)
- Like, guaranteed attitude.
They can yell about anything, like,
it's our fault that they don't have their receipt.
I, what?
- I don't think so.
- I have been yelled at by a customer!
- Oh no.
- Quite a few customers.
It's mainly whenever I tell them
I can't sell them display items.
- Oh, never get a display item, so annoying!
- Never get a display item!
If it's not in a box, we cannot sell it.
- They're not for you, they're for display!
- Yeah, people get upset 'cause they have to go back
through the store, and the lines are long.
I let them know they don't have to wait in line again...
- That's really kind of you.
- But they do have to go through the store again.
- Yeah.
- Which is sometimes worse, so.
- I can understand why that would be frustrating
to, you think you're done, and the light of the outside
is just over the beacon, and then you find out
you have to go all the way back and out of the line,
I understand why that is frustrating, but also,
it's a display item.
- It's a display item!
- Sometimes at IKEA you're making people's dreams,
but sometimes you're breaking them.
- Never have I ever eaten the Swedish meatballs.
(wood hitting table)
- Them jokers are good.
- Bomb.
- I'm not messing with y'all.
- You know I have,
- and they're delicious.
- So yeah, Swedish meatballs, they got chicken meatballs,
they got veggie balls--
- The got new salmon balls.
- Whatever kinda balls you want, they got.
(man laughing)
- I'm so richer, oh my gosh.
Go getcha balls, baby, they bomb.
- Big fan of the meatballs.
I cannot stress this enough: sometimes, they have a deal.
Focus in, sometimes they have a deal
where it's $20 for three bags of meatballs.
- That is so many meatballs!
- That's pretty crazy.
- Please, get that deal.
- I never actually ate the food.
I heard that, um, that they don't actually make
a profit on the food sales, but customers knowing
IKEA as having, like, cheap food, um, gives like,
the brand recognition of being like, affordable.
So the food is actually, like, a marketing technique.
- Never have I ever injured myself at work.
(wood hitting table)
- You haven't?
- I do not play those games.
- That is a lie.
- That is the truth.
- I am baffled.
So when you returning all those little dressers,
you don't like at least, at least hit your shin?
- No.
- Not that I can remember.
- I would say no.
- Yeah.
- I've gotten close.
- And the carts!
The carts, they don't hit your shins at all?
- Oh, maybe once.
The cart maybe hit my shin once.
- Okay, I think you need to turn that, here.
- But I didn't get injured, it's just, like,
it's just like when you bump into a table.
- Did it hurt though?
- No.
I, no, I don't play.
Never have I ever goofed off in the store after hours.
(hand sliding on table)
- When it is time to go, it is time to go.
(man pushing chair back)
I'm not...
(man snickering)
I'm not, what?
- I'm out of there, yeah.
- We're just so, yeah, good employees.
- We're such good employees.
- Yeah.
- I am a victim of this.
(man laughing)
I am a victim!
Denzel is the one who is playing with the spare parts,
Denzel be up in the carts, all up and down the aisles.
Denzel be having fun, baby.
Denzel loves IKEA, okay!
I be on the counters, the, the music!
At night!
Have you heard the
(man mumbling)
- Oh, did you have the, you have a good playlist.
- So I be all up on the counter.
- Those carts are so fun to like, so fun to ride on though,
but like, that's, that's safe.
- Yeah, and we're honestly--
- Within reason.
- That's just doing work in a creative way.
- And faster, yeah.
- We're moving, we're moving the carts back.
- Exactly, and you're getting there faster.
- Yeah, it's efficient!
- I will have a concert, like, when a song comes on,
but, like, staying after hours, I don't play that.
Time to go.
- I consider after hours,
the customers gone and we still there.
- Even then, that's even more time to go.
Like, lemme cash out, lemme go home.
- But if you do it quick though,
you have time to fool around.
- No, you have time to go home.
So that's our game of Never Have I Ever!
Working at IKEA, it is a fun place to work.
It is still a job, so you know, you gotta do
what you gotta do to survive, make it out alive.
- Super fun job, had a great time, still go there a lot.
- Yeah, I still have fond memories, like working at IKEA
was probably, like, the highlight of my youth.
- Everybody should work at IKEA, IKEA is freaking cool
as hell, and, yes,
go get your coin and secure your bags, okay.
(upbeat music)