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You Think Your Job Sucks? Then Take A Look At These 40 Employee Conversations With Clients From Hell (New Pics)
Everyone who has worked in retail knows that for every good customer, you get 2 horrible ones pulling up in the parking lot. It's a law. Like gravity.
But some people are so rude, so annoying, and so malicious, it's like they're on a quest to make as many workers miserable as possible. And sometimes they succeed.
When someone like that ruins your day, there's only one thing you can do. Vent online. I mean, you can't punch the jerk or anything—you're still in uniform. Pull off a stunt that damages the reputation of the company you're working for and you're out the door.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of these stories to show you that people in retail really deserve our respect; they go through these situations every day. For more similar experiences, check out our older pieces here and here.
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pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
Ohhhh I've been there. I really have. There is genetic variation within every race... You can't say "you're not caucasian, because your nose is too big". I don't appreciate idiots who think they know your race better than you
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pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
It's so sad... Even if you don't like lgbt, you could at least be civil enough. Surely there is some area between best buddies and worst enemies. I know this because I met people who believe i am going to hell, but they're still my friends :)
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Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Wait, I'm confused... She wants this employee to mix two different paint colors so she can paint stripes with the two colors individually, but she asked that they get mixed so she doesn't have to pay for two separate gallons? But she thinks that somehow the two colors will still be individual? Am I getting this right??
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Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago
Wait...they BUY (as in "pay for") books in order to burn them? I see great profit opportunities here
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Lunar Bicycle 5 years ago
When I worked in a garden center, a really friendly customer laughed and told me he had just embarrassed himself at another garden center by asking employees there, “Do you have chlamydia?” He said they just stared at him for a moment, so he followed up with, “Do you know where I can find chlamydia?” He then realized that he meant to say “clematis” and immediately turned around and left. I helped him find our clematis, and, as he was leaving, said, “At least you didn’t say you were having trouble finding the clitoris!”
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Ok, we'll rename this fee to education-fee and raise it by 50%. The lesson you've learned is that you don't pretend to be rich when you haven't got a dime to spare.
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Steve Barnett 5 years ago
I'll try that with HMRC (UK's equivalent to the IRS). They’re sure to see the funny side.
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Darky_Shadows 5 years ago
Surely that’ll pass no way he could go broke Definitely going to pay you back Yep. 9th times the charm!
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Ooooh, so you can't handle things on your own. Need to the help from your solicitor, do you? Well, I have a solicitor too and she's better than yours.... See you in court!!!
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littlesaresare 5 years ago
And then the blood clapped. And then the OP gets given a nobel peace prize.
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Steve Barnett 5 years ago
Oh, and peacock feathers, but not too many; i don't want them to exceed the number of cherubs.
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Not Proud British 5 years ago
To be fair, the customer gets my vote with this one. I am tired of going into a certain stationery shop here in the UK to buy a newspaper, maybe you know, other bits of stationery and have the cashier ask me if I want to buy 2 massive bars of chocolate for a reduced price. I saw the bars, I had to walk past them in order to get to the till. If I had wanted them I would have picked them up. So please do not push us to buy what we did not come in to buy.
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Roxy Eastland 5 years ago
Perhaps you need to start stating up front that locked PDFs will be sent straight back as you can't work with them, and start doing that?
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Steve Barnett 5 years ago
Sorry, but the initial question by the client seemed like a reasonable request? And the reply comes across as patronizing. Am I missing something?
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Neale Coleman 5 years ago
Are any of these real? What is the point of this thread? (I've only read the first few so far...)
JessG 5 years ago
Me too, I had to stop because it's difficult to believe these are real, however, when you think about it, people can be pretty stupid, so who knows? (I read about four, and yeah, they just get worse and even more difficult to believe that some people are THAT stupid)
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Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 5 years ago
Customers can suck. My mother received a call from an African American lady, a person she made a cake for. The cake was said to be cut on a Saturday. She received the cake on a Friday. She called again to say the cake was uncooked and that's why they wanted her to keep it in the fridge, now she wants a refund. What actually happened was she ate a slice of the cake. It was totally fine, and then she took a 4 day trip to Vegas without putting it in the fridge as suggested. Since the cake contains butter, when she came back, the cake was collapsing. My mom tried to tell her this, The lady called my mother a fraud and that the "real" restaurant was owned by a white man.
Neale Coleman 5 years ago
Are any of these real? What is the point of this thread? (I've only read the first few so far...)
JessG 5 years ago
Me too, I had to stop because it's difficult to believe these are real, however, when you think about it, people can be pretty stupid, so who knows? (I read about four, and yeah, they just get worse and even more difficult to believe that some people are THAT stupid)
Load More Replies... Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 5 years ago
Customers can suck. My mother received a call from an African American lady, a person she made a cake for. The cake was said to be cut on a Saturday. She received the cake on a Friday. She called again to say the cake was uncooked and that's why they wanted her to keep it in the fridge, now she wants a refund. What actually happened was she ate a slice of the cake. It was totally fine, and then she took a 4 day trip to Vegas without putting it in the fridge as suggested. Since the cake contains butter, when she came back, the cake was collapsing. My mom tried to tell her this, The lady called my mother a fraud and that the "real" restaurant was owned by a white man.
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