Managers Asked To Share The Weirdest Complaints About Employees, Here’s 30 That Didn’t Disappoint

"It's our job as customers to let you know every thing that's wrong." (pause) "Thank you for explaining your understanding of your job description as 'customer'. You are fired with immediate effect. Collect your belongings, and you will be escorted from the premises."

Everytime I've had a customer throw something at me I've called the cops, 9 times out of 10 they get arrested for assault. I've had management go off on me for it but have never been fired because I threaten to sue them if they threaten to fire me.

One time I had a six pack of Pepsi thrown at me by a woman at my register when I worked at Target. Then she went screaming to guest service. I made her enraged by smiling and being suuuuper nice when she started yelling at me from the get. That's all I had to do and it escalated REALLY fast.

As which point she should have been escorted outside, as horses are not allowed in the restaurant.

You actually could’ve gotten her arrested for assault. It has happened before.

If I see someone that I know is an employee of some store I frequent, and they're not in uniform (as most stores in the US have some kind of uniform, even if it's just a vest over regular clothes), I'll 99% of the time leave them alone. However, if I don't see a uniformed employee, and the off employee is taller than me (I'm only 5'3", or 1.53 meters), I'll ask them nicely for help reaching something before I'll ask some random person. Usually (nowhere near always), they'll help because I asked nicely. However, I've seen those same employees while they're on the clock completely ignore entitled customers demanding that the employee help them if they see someone else struggling in silence with something that's too high, too big, or too heavy for the silent customer to get on their own. When the entitled customer got the manager, the employee usually had some relevant safety infraction that he just saved the store hundreds of thousands of dollars by helping the other customer.

Apparently, this customer was convinced that retail employees work 24/7 and never, EVER get a day off. Because, you know, their not exactly *people*. /s.

I wont go within 5 miles of my work place on my days off!

This seems to happen a lot.

I had a customer complain about the same thing....and I wasn't even in the store I worked at, I was buying groceries...somepeople have no hope of surviving....idiots

My manager told me I was 'standing too straight'. Apparently it made me look aloof and proud. Well, sorry for having good posture I guess.

The lift one is so weird, cause where I live whoever's nearest the number buttons usually asks people what they want to save everyone having to crowd around the button panel.

TBF to the lift one. As a wheelchair user, i bet she could reach the button, unless it was super high up that even standing folk would struggle to press it, we would be fine. I'm the same height sat in my chair as someone who is 5'2", there are many adults in the world that height. Even if the woman had no hands/ shorter hands, if she was on her own she would likely have a way to press the lift button. Just because we may do things a slightly different way, doesn't mean our way is bad or we need help. So yes, I would get frustrated and say something to management too. Not to complain and be a pain, but to educate them that we don't need being being overly helpful to us, unless we ask. It happens so so much to us (I even have people hold automatic doors open for us!?!?) that we start to get frustrated and people won't learn unless we explain that we don't need help when we haven't asked!

The wheelchair lady I can totally understand. From what I have learned, people in wheelchairs, or needing any sort of aiding device, often don't like unsolicited help as they prefer to do things they know they are capable to doing since they're experiencing the many other limitations they have with their disability. Always ask. Never assume.

"Then sir, let me charge you for two hours while I'm on a extended lunch break for the rest of the time!"

This is the chaos I live for. It shows some people still know having a favorite absurd character is just as normal as the chaos we call reality.

Teletubbies - fine. But ask me who my favorite Kardashian is, and I will give you such a look!

Tinky Winky - he freaked out televangelist Jerry Falwell.

Eh-oh!

What??? Some people have some gall.

And the vaccine was developed to quickly, the earth is flat, and space is fake???

I guess she never realized that she was the one haunting you?

You were haunted by the feeling that she was nuts.

Some people shouldn't be allowed out.

Time to slip some anti psychotic meds into her corona fish!

"I understand, ma'am. Next time you visit our store please request a complimentary blindfold for him at the service desk."

It's too early in the morning – for a few seconds, I was genuinely wondering why only one of her giant breasts were distracting and not both of them.

"Maam, his own hand is just as distracting."

People being distracted by (・人・) is a fact of life, and it’s their problem, not ours (the (・人・) havers). If you’re distracted by ‘em, then solve the problem: either get blinders or GROW THE EFF UP.

It is NOT the cashier’s responsibility to control the behavior of Karen’s son. A man’s (or boy’s) pervy, creepy, bad behavior is NOT the responsibility of any women. The responsibility for it lies between the man or boy and his parents. You can throw society into that mix, because of the millennia of passes men have been given for it, and the blame being shifted away from them, the perpetrators, and dumped onto women, their victims whose right of consent was ignored.