30 Savage Burns By Employees Who Are Tired Of Clueless, Dumb And Frustrating Things Customers Say

Yep, one Christmas Eve a woman physically assaulted a security guard trying to break into the supermarket an hour after closing...points to a staff member walking to their car "why can't they open a checkout for me?"

I used to get this all the time when I worked in a bakery. We would open the glass cabinet to clean it at the end of the day and put signs round so no one would walk into to. They of course ignored the signs and did then got angry when they walked into the glass

I work at a carwash that is in the middle of a refit right now. Our open sign is offered, there's a small backhoe and a forklift blocking the exit, I put the "temporarily closed for maintenance " sign so that it's almost blocking the entrance and I STILL had a guy pull into the bay (littered with tools and the an obviously open pit). When I finally caught up to him, he was in the perfect position to read the sign about the dates we would be shut down for. He got angry and told me that 'there wasn't any sign'. The owner is awesome and has no interest in abusive customers so I simply told him 'There's a sign out front saying we're closed and this sign (point to sign directly next to his front bumper) has been here for a week.' Drove off without a word, pissy look still I place.

Walmart customers. What do you expect?

Uh, yeah, we are!

Oh yes! Also the ones that ask for a product we don't stock, have never stocked and never will stock, but still insist that they bought it here last week. No, Madam, you didn't, you really didn't.!

Yep, then shout at you like it's your fault!

Sign on door say cash only debit credit card machine not working. Come to pay by card tell them cash only get mad say well you should put a sign up then. I proceed to point to the door where there is a huge sign on each door.

Working as a teacher already taught me that!

At my workplace, we have a Pay and Collect service where the customer buys online then picks up in store, they get an email confirmation to say that it has arrived and that they have 28 days maximum to collect. All they have to do is follow the instructions on what to do when in store as it's 'Contactless" now. We had a customer who literally printed out the "Collect In Store"" button on a piece of A4 sized paper and handed it over to a colleague, who then had to show them what to do on their phone to collect it. this happens on a regular basis, and we get insulted for working for that particular company !!

Wasn't paying attention in Maths class. For years.

I'll slide this one in here. Once I was in a dollar store. The name was literally "Everything's $1". Signage on every shelf, on the floor, hanging from the ceiling, etc. Old woman calls out to an employee who is clearly rushing down the aisle and asks "How much does this cost?". The employee did not even stop, let alone slow down. He just shouted "EVERYTHING'S A DOLLAR!!!" and kept right on going.

ask her if you can go get crayons and paper really quickly.

Apparently, the customer hadn't mastered their fractions yet. 🤦🏻

many many years ago charged a customer .13 for her radishes, .26 for her green onions. She angrily told me they were 3/39. When I explained that I had to split because they were not the same item but that it was still the same cost to her, she complained to my manager about my attitude. I'm afraid, at 16, I was not so polite, when she said I'd never succeed in business with my attitude. I said, Lady, with customers like you, I don't want to be in business... oops! My bad.

Ok but self checkout stations are now an invasive species. I don't mind doing it myself if I'm in a hurry or have only a few purchases. But when the only lines open are self checkout it's very frustrating. I don't get paid to work at those establishments, I didn't get trained for it, and really if they don't want to hire/pay cashiers and punt that cost and responsibility onto their customers, their products should be far less expensive.

Yep - this happened to me at Walmart, but because it was during the pandemic & humans are trash, I have no f***s to give so my response would always be dripping with pure sarcasm. They'd threaten to call Corporate and I'd tell them not to do me any favors.

Reminds me of the time, I was working for a live theatre house. The theatre was built in 1993, and its sister theatre down the street was built in 1907. I had someone come in, ask me about the theatre's history, and then proceed to yell at me because I was wrong...I asked if she was thinking of the theatre down the street...she told me I was lying and stormed out. I have never been so confused...

My local supermarket installed two self checkouts, which are rarely used. I shop very early on Sunday mornings, and there was only one regular checkout line open. The cashier at the self checkout had to start pulling customers over and checking out their stuff himself.

I get the opposite of this. I go past all the regular checkouts to select the self service because I like it. Because I'm visibly disabled, someone instantly appears and wants to help me with my stuff

The worst are the people that stand in line for 10 minutes, then don't bother looking at the menu until they get to the cash.

How about the person (always an older #karen) that waits until told the total before taking out her checkbook and proceeds to start filling out the check and logging it in the check register? Hey, #karen! Why can't you prefill what you can while waiting?

Sometimes there is no win! And sometimes the 'nice gene' has been beaten out of you by lunchtime.

I love it when people don't understand the amount payable and ask the cashier, maybe ask again instead of just looking at the friggin register.

Idiots!!!

Or when you're leaving and locking up. "Oh, are you closed?"

I worked at a shopping center bookstore for a while. The door was actually a grate that slid down and could only be operated from the outside. At closing we used to lower it 2/3 of the way, then go back inside to finish up. The number of clients who would still come in, and despite the fact they had practically had to crawl to do so, still asked if we were open was troubling.

lol this used to happen to me a lot when I worked at a gas station. I'm not sure what you think knocking on a closed door (with the freaking hours right on it) and staring at me is going to do. The lights are off. The registers are closed. Do you think the power of your knocking and staring will get me to reopen a closed system so you can come and get lottery tickets?

Nope, we're open, come in. Warning: The door opens only for the worthy.

Well, denial is the first step of the grieving process.