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I don't have a rude customer story (Im sure I do in my past), but at my job, my clients always like to blame me when they go to court for probation violations. As if it's my fault that they didn't follow through with their probation and now they have to go to court and pay fines, etc. Wahhh wahhh wahhhh, ya know what I say? Folllow probation then.

One time, one goes "This is all because of YOU telling my probation officer I wasn't coming".
I said, "Well maybe you should have kept your appointments with me and then I Wouldn't have had to tell your probation officer"


GOD it gets me so heated.

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I completely agree about disrespecting the property! I've seen so many groups of young kids defacing property or making a mess and then they get defensive if they're questioned about it?
Idgi, that shit was never cool among my friends..i don't know when that came into fashion as a sign of rebelling against authority...like "i'm gonna pay for some icecream with my own money and then waste it spreading all over a table"...ooh, very bad. lol

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I dont know whats wrong with people today!!

I worked retail for a while. When i worked at American Eagle, i found an icecream cone thrown on a table! If any of you shop there ofen you'd know that some of the table tops aren't perfectly flat, they're slotted, kinda like decking, so the ice cream got ALL in the slots. It had set and was a sticky disguting mess.
People spilled there coffee everywhere and didnt clean it up, or would just leave it on tables. In fact i was at mac this week and thw woman in front of mew left her empty smoothie glass onthe other side of the cash. How lazy are you??? just ask the SA at the cash if she can pitch it for you!!

One time at AE a woman let her dog poop in the store and then ran away.
When i worked at anotehr clothing store (Smart set) someone left there used sanitary pan in the changing room.


My best friend worked at a kids clothing store. One mother was letting her kids climb up the shelves on the walls, and before anyone could say otherwise they all came falling down. The mother grabbed the kid and ran for it. Another time a little girl pooped in a bathing suit she was trying on. They ran out of the dressing room and pitched it at the SA behind the cash.

People a messed up.

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Yesterday this girl paid for her stuff with a girft card and there was about $6.00 left on it so she gave me some gum and candy to ring in so she could use up the rest of the gift card. I told her she was up to $5.45 because I figured she just wanted to come as close as possible to spending the whole gift card without going over, but when she handed me some more candy and said "okay, keep going" I thought she must've wanted to use up the whole card and then just pay the difference. So once I scanned everything she passed to me and swiped the card I told her she owed around $4.00. She started flipping out calling me an idiot, saying stuff like "I told you I just wanted to spend what was left on the card!" I really had to bite my tongue to stop from saying "and you also told me to keep going after you reached $5.45!" I don't know what year she thinks this is if she expected to get two big bags of m&m's and a pack of gum for 55 cents.

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Haha, yeaaah.

I work in a... how to describe it... Well, we sell all sorts of stuff, from raincoats and gumboots to mattresses and foam and different kinds of rubber (we're a rubber/foam/pool store mainly, relatively large chain store here in NZ). I get so many rude people, who are just so cheap and ridiculous and will swear at me because the price of soandso has gone up so much since 19?? when they first started buying stuff from there! Seriously?!?!?! Omg!!!

Maybe if you were still getting paid $3 an hour like you were then I could see the issue, but you're not, so stfu. Good old retail. I quite like it usually, but every now and then... Thursdays are the worst, I'm glad I don't have any for three weeks.

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I was chatting with a friend of mine online and when she asked me if I still worked at "the zoo" I thought she was teasing me about my retail job. It turns out she had just mistaken me for another friend who really did work at a zoo. I told her yes anyways.

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these are actual situations from today...but they seem to happen everyday... i work in a retail pharmacy.

"i want to pick up my prescription" -did you call in a refill?
"no...but im out and my plane leaves in 2 hours and i need it" -there's no refills..
"you should have known to call the doctor and get it! why do i have to call you every month for a refill!"


"im here to pick up a prescription for Amy" -ok...what's the last name?
"uhh..i dont know. she just told me its here and to pick it up" -well you have to have this information in order for me to know who it is you're picking up for
"amy....tall girl with short brown hair...ummm..i dont know anything else..all i know is i cant leave without it or she'll be mad"


"20 minutes to fill my prescription?!?! omg i've never had to wait that long before!! hmmm....let me think....i dont know if i should wait......hmmmm....." -10 minutes later....
"ok - i think i'll wait for it! Why does it take so long???" -bc you just wasted 10 minutes of my time talking to me about the wait time!!! and not only that - you interrupted me every 2 minutes asking me if its ready when you see me helping the line of people that formed behind you!

*sigh* thanks for listening to my vent, that felt so much better.... =)

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Eh... I saw this little girl with ketchup packets, then she put the packets on the ground, and then she stomped on it and the ketchup squirted everywhere!! This was at a fast food burger place. Her mom obviously didnt care so i went up to the little girl and said, would you do that in your own house? i bet you wouldn't so why are you doing it here? She cried and went to her mom and the mom came to "lecture" me and i told her off.

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Alright, since it's right before Christmas, it sees the crazies come out to the mall on a more frequent basis. These are just situations I've dealt with in the past DAY:

- A lady wanted two hoodies for her son that were part of the Buy One Get One Free sale last weekend. This weekend, they're NOT a part of the sale but she wouldn't quit asking me if I could give her the promotion anyway on the two hoodies she wanted. After explaining for the fourth time that I couldn't give her the promotion, she leaned across the counter at me and yelled "YOU ARE A FUCKING C**T AND I HATE YOU" then left. My boss started laughing when he heard that, and I did too once she was gone.

- A man wanted me to void a transaction from two weeks ago where he received a gift card for the amount of money that we owed him from a return. The man used his credit card for the original purchase, but when he made the return, he didn't have the card with him. Per company policy, he got a gift card. Fast forward a few weeks, and he's upset with me that I can't do anything for him. After ten minutes back and forth he finally says "Well, the only reason you can't do it is because you're not even a manager. I want to speak with the manager." My response was "Sir, I AM the manager, and I do not appreciate being spoken down to. Would you like me to explain to you again why I CANNOT void that transaction for you?" His face went all red and he left.

- Three times yesterday, people tried climbing up our walls to get stuff done. Couldn't ask the employee who was five feet away if they could get it down, oh no, they had to CLIMB UP THE WALL themselves. Guess what happened? Yep, clothes everywhere. The only people who offered to help pick it up was the woman whose 8 year-old son tried climbing up the wall because he "wanted to help out Mommy."

I just have to keep telling myself, it's almost over. January 5th, all the kids are back in school.

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in my old job i basically had to approach people in the street and get them to sign up for a catalogue...kids where always a nightmare....

once there was this kid that kept screaming "MUMMY I DONT LIKE HER!!" "MUMMY I DONT LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE HEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!" then he grabbed the pram with his baby sister in it then ran down the road screaming "MUMMY I DONT LIKE HEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!" i was just gob smacked! ...i guess he didnt like me lol

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and you sound rude.

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well I've had customers who werent particularly tolerant of my deafness but luckily I've got awesome co-workers.

tell you what drives me mad is the pompous old man that comes in every day to buy one sandwich (prepackaged) and demands a bag. It's so fucking pointless demanding a bag for a sandwich that he's about to eat therefore throwing the bag away *grrr*

What also annoys me is that when im on the sit down till (im a cashier in a grocery store), people demand I bag the stuff, I'm happy to do it if they're not capable themselves but these are the people that can do it and just want to be entitled.

I really hate people like that so i do my best to avoid the sandwich guy because i feel like screaming at him. :|

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OH GOD, I used to work at Walgreens Pharmacy. WORST JOB EVER!! I hated this:

Me: This will take about 30 minutes to fill, did you want to wait or come back?
Them: I'LL WAIT, I GUESS I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE!!

Uh, your choice is to wait, or to NOT WAIT and come back later. Idiots!

And my favorite at my job now. I work at a hotel, in JAPAN.

People think they can call 1-800 numbers for free FROM JAPAN. That is a United States number. When you call it, it says a recording that it is not a free call outside of the United States.

Two people now have had a calling card with a 1-800 number on it to call to use the card. They call the 1-800 number from their room, then they put in the card info and the number they're trying to call. So not only do they end up with a $70 phone bill on their room, they use up their calling card.

They get mad at me because I didn't tell them they couldn't call 1-800 from the room, when they didn't ask me in the first place, and they ignored the warning recording about it not being free.

You aren't in the U.S. so why do you think it's free to call a U.S. number!?

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eeeewwwww

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I worked at baskin robbins as my first job, my worst stories are from there.

One time around Christmas, this woman came in with her 8-ish year old son. She was wearing this god awful knit christmas sweater and the boy accidentally got some of his sundae on her sweater. She dumped her entire sundae on him, and was like "how do you like that?" and stormed out. I had to clean up her mess and comfort and clean up her sweet kid who was all like "i don't know why she gets so mad at me." Her husband came back hours later to pick him up. I feel so bad for that kid to have such a psycho mother.

This other time, I had rubbed the tip of my nose (it was a weird habit I used to have) and this lady screamed at me, "oh my god, you just picked your nose!" in front of everyone in the store. I said " I did not!" and she looked at me and pointed to her kids, saying "these kids' father has cancer, are you trying to kill him!?!" The kids looked at me like I was evil so I washed my hands and I was so humiliated that when they left I went to the back and cried.

The worst I think is when people trash the place because they just assume it's part of your job to clean up but they don't realize that when they act like pigs, they make your already shitty ass job so much harder. It's just rude.

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He wouldn't have had to worry about picking the kid up.
I'd've called the police to get the child. Poor kid. He doesn't need to go home with parents like that.

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^ seriously.
you should need a license to breed/raise children. Poor kid. That will def. traumatize him.

So this isnt a stupid customer thing, but is a weird customer situation.
I work at a small bookstore/cafe in a small college town in montreal (actually, my last day was yesterday, woot!!) and i'm telling you, the locals are fucking crazy. Like, i ask other merchants and we cant figure it out, these are the weirdest people ever. I could start an entire thread about these people. ANYWAY, A lot of the male clientele like to hit on me or flirt with me. I kind of ignore it and go about my day. About a month ago this guy came in, Mr.Ginger beard (i;m also ginger). He introduced himself, and i introduced myself. Serve him coffee. Then he says " I really like you're hair." I said thank you and left it at that. Next day he comes back "You look really pretty today HEather." Again i say thank you. Since then he;s been coming in everyday... he's really quiet, and theres a tension about him thats kinda creepy. Anyway, Last week he blurts out "So, do you do any professional acting?" I found that question weird, cause ive never told him about my studies (i was an acting student about 3 years ago). I told him yes, i studied for a bit and did some extra work. He jumps at the response and goes on and on about all these actors like Gwenyth Paltrow and Jason Stateam (?).
Then, no segway "So i really hate my girlfriend right now"
me: uhhh
him: yea i know its bad. Things arent going well.
me: maybe you should nt be dating her if you hate her....
him: So you wanna do something tonight
me:uhh... i cant. i have shcool till midnight (which is true)
him: no, how about anytime! Dinner or something
me: i have a boyfriend
him: oh. a boyfriend eh. oh ok. You a... you look kinda red. you're blushing
me: no im not (im just embarassed at this point and want the convo to end)
him: oh maybe its cause i put you on the spot.



so awkward...

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I work in this convenience store near a high school and an elementary school. The kids there are unbelievable!
This one time, a girl came into the store and finds that she doesn't have enough money for one of the candy bars. Normal people would just put the candy bar down, but not for her. She threw the candy bar really hard like it's some kind of garbage..unbelievable! I ignored her the first few times, but recently she did the same thing to a candy cane and broke it in half. So I told her off. I basically said you can't just throw things there, you can easily break it and you don't own anything in this store, so show some respect. I know she's just a kid but didn't she learn to respect in school?
Also, some of the high school kids are just rude. And I was really hurt some of the times. So one day, the store was crowded with people, and to get them going, I basically said: keep moving guys, don't block the door please. And some of the high school kids said to me: go back to your country. I was shocked to hear that. First, I didn't do anything wrong here. Second, why are they saying these racist comments? I did nothing to them!
I grew kinda tired of them, so I just ignore them. But seriously, what is wrong with them? When I went to high school(about 2 years ago), all the people were really nice and open to all cultures. But what is going on now?

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this one from that site cracked me up...


Hoochie Grannies, Gotta Love ‘Em
COFFEE SHOP | VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA
(A little old lady is getting coffee. She is wearing thick blue eyeshadow, pink circles of blush, and bright red lipstick.)

Me: “Here’s your coffee. That’ll be $2.75.”

Little old lady: *gives me a $20* “Keep the change, dear.”

Me: “That’s very generous, thank you!”

Little old lady: “After work, go buy yourself some makeup. Just because you work at a coffee shop doesn’t mean you have to look like a slob!”

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Hun, I feel your pain!!! I was a Target intern for a little while and we actually would give people to the minute wait times. Like if they come in at 12:00 and it'll take 15 mins... you come back at 12:15! UGH!! I don't understand why some people just feel so damn entitled that they come before everyone else. One that stuck out in my mind was a man that dropped off his wife's prescription at 1:00 (we would close for lunch @1:30) and was told it'll take 20 minutes.. "WHY?!?! My wife is sick!" Yeah, her and everybody else in this damn pharmacy.. "I don't see anybody else waiting!" Sir... We have other people waiting as well. "Well, they aren't standing right here waiting!" Sir... I have given those people a time to come back as well... And for your information, Ms. Smith is standing right there and has been waiting very patiently thankyouverymuch... COME BACK AT 1:20!!! If ya come back later than that and it's 1:31, then it'll be 2:00!!! GEEZ!

Back in the Kaiser Permanente days before school... those were some crazies... This lady ran out of her blood pressure meds and apparently it was an emergency that she get them right freakin' now. Mam, your prescription is expired... it's only valid ONE YEAR from the date written... not one year from the date you decided to have it filled... damn. My crazy ass pharmacist that day is just intently staring at the bottle and glancing up and giving her confused as hell looks. She then told him "Well, I don't know what the big deal is, I take them everyday!" and he nonchalantly says "mam, are you aware that you don't just nibble at the tablets?" She went off! MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS HIGH YOU NEED TO HELP ME!!! Gee, wonder why it's high... Ok, I'll help you... there's the after hours clinic right there... next to us... go see the doctor. Bloody hell...

I hate retail... glad I'm not doing that anymore...

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Hey I work at the pharmacy at Wal-Mart, and there are some crazy bitches out there. Like this one time. Our pharmacy closes from 1:30 -2:00 on weekends because there's only one pharmacist on duty. So, much like every weekend, there is a line of people waiting outside of the pharmacy waiting for us to re-open. So I was helping my co-worker cut down that crazy line and we finally got to this man. I greeted him and he said "my god what in the hell is taking you all so long? I've been in line for 15 damn minutes!" (I promise he wasn't even waiting for that long). So, I reply with:" sir, we just opened back up from lunch and this is what happens I'm sorry." He continues to shake his head, throws up his arms and shit. So I ignore it and go on with helping him. I ask him for his date of birth (to verify the right prescription) he says it's for his mom. I said okay well what's your mothers date of birth? "I DON"T KNOW??" I said okay well can you verify an address for me? "123 bla bla bla, why do u need to know all this shit? Because it's company policy sir, by asking you those questions, I am making sure that i'm giving you the right prescriptions. "well give me my damn medicine and I need to go". At this point, i see that her insurance information is not in the system so it's showing that the total was going to be $1200 for all of his mom's meds. I ask him sir does your mom have insurance? YES SHE DOES JUST LET ME HAVE MY MEDS. I said okay well do you have her card with you, because we don't have it on file? he said NO I don't you should already have it. I said sir we don't have your card on file with us. Him: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME, I FILL HER SHIT HERE ALL THE TIME. I said sir, did you fill at our location? NO! BUT I GO TO THE OTHER WALMART!. "sir, even though you are filling your meds within walmart, your information doesn't always get transferred to every walmart that you go to." WELL JUST GIVE ME MY GODDAMN MEDS I GOT TO GO NOW!! Then I say, well do u want to pay $1200 dollars? "that shit costs 1200 dollars, wat the fuck is wrong with you, do u know what you're doing? Me: yes i do sir, this problem can be easily resolved if you have her insurance card with you? I ALREADY TOLD YOU I DON'T FUCKING HAVE IT!! "well then can you go get it?" DO I HAVE TO GET BACK IN LINE IF I DO? Yes sir you do. then he walks off mumbling some shit to him. I swear, some people are so ignorant. I just want to slap them.


and don't u just love it when you get those occasional meth addicts who come in looking for sudaffed 24 hour? lol