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Employees Are Sharing Their Dumbest Customer Encounters, And It’s Hilarious But Also Painful To Read (40 Pics)
Welcome to Bored Panda, how may I help you? Ah, I see. So, you Pandas work in the food, retail, and services industries and started the week off dealing with some incredibly dense customers. Denser than the core of Planet Earth, you say? Well, don’t worry about it, plenty of us have been there.
In fact, our team has collected a whole bunch of examples of the dumbest things that customers have said and done, to make you feel better. Trust us, you’re not alone in this. Of course, this isn’t to say that all customers are dumb: most are polite and decent. However, a small proportion of them are nightmare material and don’t even know what chicken wings are. And here’s the proof. Grab a soul-healing cup of tea, scroll down, upvote the situations that made you laugh, and share your own retail nightmare scenarios in the comments.
Bored Panda reached out to Save the Student, a British project that advises students on how to make their money go further, about how the pandemic affected the job market and what to do if you feel like you're stuck at a job where you feel demeaned. Jake Butler from Save the Student said: "It does depend on location and other factors, but finding a job during the pandemic, specifically lockdown, has been extremely difficult for students. It's true that some businesses, such as supermarkets and delivery companies, have increased recruitment, but large student employing sectors such as retail and hospitality have really stuttered due to being closed for many months."
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Michele Ferretto 5 years ago
Staff are slaves to that kind of lady. So "no people" in her mind.
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Mihai Mara 5 years ago
The rule "an eye for an eye" should have been applied: "here's your HOT latte!" *splash*
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
I remember replying something about how if nobody came in to shop, they wouldn't open, and the customer continued to sympathize and wonder why they opened on a holiday
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Michele Ferretto 5 years ago
This is not the first time I hear a pregnant lady be called fat by other woman. For the love of God, what's in their mind!?!?
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Michele Ferretto 5 years ago
Since you were there you could make him notice the size of the chip, so it could very hardly be injected with any vaccine (I bet he believes that too).
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Mihai Mara 5 years ago
Make sure you never run out of blinker fluid. It's very important in traffic!!
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Mihai Mara 5 years ago
Now I am curious how you explained it and what the customer finally understood.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
It's the entitlement of "I orderded a cheeseburger without cheese and that's what I'm getting and paying for. You do not chance my order without my divine consent, you underpaid wage slave."
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RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
The guy's an idiot, of course, but who ever cuts anything in quarters at Subway? Sure, if someone asked, but they don't normally do that do they?
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 5 years ago
Let me guess, she also wanted her money back or a replacement...
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Lily Mae Kitty 5 years ago
I run estate sales and they do this constantly. We open at 8 and at 8:05 someone will ask if we're discounting yet or if they can have it for half price. They also take prices off to see if you'll make it cheaper. I had a lady who took the prices off 4 items and left them on 3 inexpensive items. I made them $2 more than they originally were and she couldn't say s**t b/c then it would be obvious who took the prices off. She decides she doesn't want two of them but she had to pay extra for the 2 she really wanted. Hope she learned her lesson.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
It's like that guy who ordered a 5 meter high flagpole. When it got delivered he refused it because it was 5 meters long but not 5 meters high.
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PhoenixplaysX 5 years ago
We used to tell people the registers automatically shut off at closing time.
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David Wong 5 years ago
I had a table of 3 customers their dishes served nice and hot. But they keep chatting for somewhat over 30 minutes without eating. Then complained over the cold foods.
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Downunderdude 5 years ago
Not on the customer's side, but could she not use a tray? Would have saved a trip, too.
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Mihai Mara 5 years ago
Maybe he had no idea how to use imperial units, didn't know what ozes were, only milliliters.
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Thomas brennan 5 years ago
I once worked on a customer service line for passport complaints. The list of dumbasserry is long, but among my favourties was a guy at the airport angry that he needed to show a passport for his flight, he was adamant you "don't need a passport for spain". Next one was a family flying london to Florida. The guy was furious that the airport wouldn't let his kids through without a passport. When I told him all kids needed passports to fly internationally, he freaked out and told his kids "this man won't let you see Mickey Mouse this year". They start crying and he demands I tell them why they won't be able to go to Disneyland. I oblige by telling them their dad is a deadbeat and hang up
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
As a student I worked at a theme park in one of the souvenir shops. It was common for guests to ask for directions to rides and we always gladly gave them. Background info: we had a white-water ride, but no log-flume. One day a lady asked me the way to the log-flume. I told her we didn't have that ride, but I'd happily direct her to the other water ride. Nope, she was adamant, she'd been on the log-flume last year, why had we removed it, this was ridiculous yadda yadda. After several futile attempts I sighed and gave her directions to the nearest log-flume > in another theme park on the other side of the country (including bus numbers and trains to take). She looked at me slightly stunned, so I just said, 'Or would you rather go to [white-water ride]?' She would.
Thomas brennan 5 years ago
I once worked on a customer service line for passport complaints. The list of dumbasserry is long, but among my favourties was a guy at the airport angry that he needed to show a passport for his flight, he was adamant you "don't need a passport for spain". Next one was a family flying london to Florida. The guy was furious that the airport wouldn't let his kids through without a passport. When I told him all kids needed passports to fly internationally, he freaked out and told his kids "this man won't let you see Mickey Mouse this year". They start crying and he demands I tell them why they won't be able to go to Disneyland. I oblige by telling them their dad is a deadbeat and hang up
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
As a student I worked at a theme park in one of the souvenir shops. It was common for guests to ask for directions to rides and we always gladly gave them. Background info: we had a white-water ride, but no log-flume. One day a lady asked me the way to the log-flume. I told her we didn't have that ride, but I'd happily direct her to the other water ride. Nope, she was adamant, she'd been on the log-flume last year, why had we removed it, this was ridiculous yadda yadda. After several futile attempts I sighed and gave her directions to the nearest log-flume > in another theme park on the other side of the country (including bus numbers and trains to take). She looked at me slightly stunned, so I just said, 'Or would you rather go to [white-water ride]?' She would.
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