February 2012
28 posts
Stapler guy strikes again.
myfishpajamas:
Do you remember this guy?
Well he came back for Round 2 tonight.
Patron: Hi, I was wondering if you have any information about the alumni codes? Me: I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Patron: Carlton gave me the alumni code, but he said sometimes it changes. Me: What do you mean by alumni code? [Patron walks to the desk and points to behind the counter] Patron: You have...
katersann:
Anya: [to a customer who just finished her purchase] Please go.
Xander: Anya, the Shopkeepers Union of America called. They want me to tell you that, “Please go” just got replaced with, “Have a nice day.”
Anya: But I have their money. Who cares what kind of day they have?
Xander: No one. It’s just a long cultural tradition of raging insincerity. Embrace it
Buffy the Vampire...
Perspective
forevverodd:
This customer I had recently had his family’s home burn down. We’re restoring their family photographs (the cost of which is, thankfully, covered by insurance). Him and his family pretty well lost everything and are currently living in a hotel. But still, he smiled at me, stopped and asked how my day was going and how I like my job, etc.
It’s people like him that have brought me to...
Retail and Customer
theretailmanifesto:
We are the voice of all retail employees.
We make your coffee.
We sell you books.
We tell you what aisle cereal is on.
We sell you Bud Light.
We tell you what size jeans you need.
We sell you everything you buy.
You are the customer.
You leave trash on the floor.
You yell at us for policies we don’t control.
You are incapable of reading a sales sign.
You are...
stevesies:
I had a lady come up to me earlier and give me a lot of very specific information about the book she was looking for while still managing to be really vague.
Customer: I’m looking for this book, called “Eating Mores.” It’s a sci-fi kind of one. For 11-year olds or maybe a bit older? It’s kind of like sci-fi. Like science fiction. It’s going to be a movie.
Me: Um. I have never heard...
Every DAMN Day
Customer Service Rep: Before I can assist you I need to verify some information. Can you provide me with your company number?
Caller: z123
Customer Service Rep: (looks at number and see it is xyz123) No, I'm sorry that's not what I have here.
Caller: Its z123 (now upset)
Customer Service Rep: Maybe I'm not hearing correctly, can you repeat it for me once more?
Caller: Z123!!!
Customer Service Rep: I'm sorry, I have something different listed. Let me try to verify something else. Can I get your address?
Caller: That's my code. I used it every day. Its z123!
Customer Service Rep: I'm sorry, I've checked and that isn't the code we have for you. I can look into it further if you can verify your address for me.
Caller: Fine! (Gives address)
Customer Service Rep: Thank you so much! I have your customer number listed as XYZ123.
Caller: That's what I said! Z123!!!!
Customer Service Rep: (bangs head over and over on desk)
Hey, you...asshole with the face.
ipanderr:
It’s 20 items or less.
That means take your 53 items to another line that isn’t marked “express.”
Everyone is a compete fuck face asshat today.
Idiots, as usual…
The lord is testing me.
Ol' Mrs. Racist Pants
frankles:
I talk to a lot of people everyday. I should, it’s my job, and I work in a call center taking between 30-70 calls per day and have been for about three and a half years now. Most of the people I speak with are reasonable, especially since I work in tech support and the only reason they’re calling me is because they’ve given up. We get people all over the happy-angry spectrum as...
8 Profiles of Customers that Come into Movie...
smorgasbordlists:
So I recently began working part-time at a nearby movie theater, and I’ve discovered two major things about myself: 1) I like people, and 2) I hate customers. You might be a bit perplexed as to this seemingly paradoxical statement, but here is my explanation: I simply refuse to believe that these greasy, rude, money-hungry beasts called “customers” (or, my favorite, the...
So, I do hate my job, just so we're clear.
ihatedeer:
Me: Hello, how can I help you today.
Lady in fur: I’m looking to talk to someone about an order that was supposed to have been done an hour ago.
Me: Oh, I’m sorry to hear perhaps I can help you. What was the name of the order?
Lady in fur: What?! You don’t know who I am, talk about service. It’s under [blanked for security].
Me: Ma’am I see on average fifty to one hundred people...
I'm "unamerican'
Me: Hi! Did you find everything you needed today?
Customer: Yes, thanks. So who are you betting on for tonight's game?
Me: I don't watch sports. Sorry.
Customer: Oh okay me either. But football isn't a sport, it's an american past time.
Me: I'm sorry I don't really take part in it.
Customer: How can you call yourself american?
Me: ......
Customer: It's just unamerican to not watch the Superbowl!
fuckyeahdumbcustomers:
The Cure for the typical drive through customer: TASERS!
North Carolina Police Deputies “Deserve a Break Today” after dealing with an unruly customer at a McDonalds drive-thru over the weekend. The deputies say they used a Taser on a woman in front of her 3-year-old daughter after she cut the McDonalds drive-thru line and refused to move when she was denied service.
...
I'm sorry, does this look like a drive thru to...
fuckyeahdumbcustomers:
Dear Guests,
Just because I work at a Starbucks in a Target and I don’t remember your drink doesn’t mean you have to right to yell at me. I have a hundred other guests, so that into consideration.
Does your total seem a little higher than usual? Good, that means I’m doing my job right, all that extra Caramel and those extra shots cost money. I only do it so I don’t get...
I got cart jacked at work today.
sanityhazard:
And I say *work* because I signed this stupid media policy and am no longer allowed to mention my work’s name without a disclaimer. :| ANYWAY. Some bitch jacked my cart I was using. It had some plates and other little things in it that I was going to put away. I walked away from it for God knows what reason, and when I came back IT WAS GONE. The bitch took everything that was in it...
encore11:
Sir, I hope you realize that all the yelling and swearing at me you just did does not in any way make me want to help you.
If anything, it just makes me want to put you on hold longer.
I don’t care if your carpets aren’t perfectly clean, and I don’t think you care too much either or else you wouldn’t have gone ten years without cleaning them. Which is why we couldn’t make them look...
The Customer's Always an A**hole: Douche of the... →
selkiegal:
keetah-spacecat:
I just.
Today.
I cried at work a little.
This guy asked to come into my lane. I was working express lane and he obviously had over 12 items.
Since we were hella busy I told him he could come in my lane if he helped me back. The express counters are not made to process a…
What a dick. I wish I’d been behind him in line. You might have to sit there and take it,...
work.
customer: do you guys sell biscuits and gravy?
me: no sir, we only sell crepes and paninis here. im sorry!
customer: okay, well can i have an omelet?
me: oh, im sorry. we actually stop selling breakfast at 11! (it's 1:30)
customer:
me:
customer:
me:
customer: well, can i have an omelet?
customer's daughter: dad, they stop selling breakfast at 11.
customer: well im some countries, an omelet is considered lunch, and in others, it's a dinner!
me: sir, i'm sorry but we can't do eggs after 11.
customer: okay, well can i have a coffee then?
me: sure, can i get your name?
customer: disappointed.
me: alllllllright, can i get you anything else today?
customer: yeah, i hope you can redeem yourself next time. HA HA.
Listen the first time.
chilimares:
I approach a table of customers. There are three men and three women. I ask the first woman what she wants…this is the ensuing exchange.
Woman 1: What do you have on tap?
Me: Bud Light, Coors Light, Fat Tire, Blue Moon, Sam Adams, and Devil’s Ale.
Woman 1: Coors Light.
I look to the next person.
Me: What are you having, sir?
Man 1: What do you have on tap?
Me: Bud...
Quotable moment at work earlier in the night.
sean-smack:
Me: What happened? Employee: The weight is messed up because the box fell over! Me: …
Wait a second….
The mass doesn’t change…
Reuters: The retail price of America’s income...
rwdsu:
Retail is considered one of the bright spots in the American economy, one of only six job categories projected to grow nationally through 2018. But a survey released this week makes clear that many of these are jobs in name only, offering poverty-level wages, highly restricted access to benefits, part-time work when full-time is desired, and a workforce so cowed that it routinely...
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Douche of the year
keetah-spacecat:
I just.
Today.
I cried at work a little.
This guy asked to come into my lane. I was working express lane and he obviously had over 12 items.
Since we were hella busy I told him he could come in my lane if he helped me back. The express counters are not made to process a lot of items, so they are really small and it’s hard to bag if you’re one person. He says yes so I ring...
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January 2012
65 posts
haha
bestbuybluebird:
“customer says the tag read a lower price” “prepare for battle”
I get incredibly defensive when people say it’s a lower price. The worst is when they’re offered geek squad and they’re like, “It’s cheap anyway, I don’t need it protected, yet may the heavens fall if they spend an extra dollar they weren’t supposed to!
Customer of the Night
lavenderinduceddreams:
Well tonight was fine and dandy I got through most of it without many problems. but the customer that takes the cake tonight just floors me.
Backstory: I had to call the police tonight after we closed because there was a really creepy freaking van just sitting right outside our store, after several mins when they didn’t leave and no one got out of the car I called the...
maozedung:
Customers who think I can actually talk to corporate and make changes to the entire fucking company all in the name of saving them $2.50.
Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha I hope you fall in a puddle
Unemployed for the wrong reasons
atrociouswhat:
If people are unemployed then why not just collect unemployment and everything will be honky dory? I tell of my story of working for the large clothing retailer Macy’s and how my ending of work there would make it realistically IMPOSSIBLE to collect unemployment.
I began working for Macy’s in May of 2010 as a sales associate for the men’s department in one of their large signature...
Wage Slaves: How Americans are Paid Less than Ever
rwdsu:
There is a hidden cost to the everyday goods Americans purchase and consume. That hidden cost is paid in taxes that fund anti-poverty programs such as Welfare and Medicaid which are used by companies to subsidize their payrolls.
It’s no wonder today’s generation is having such a difficult time affording basic necessities such as housing and food when wages are almost a third less than...
No matter how many times you say it, calling your...
fuckno-retail:
Just stop.
Co-Worker Asshole from some years ago :)
fake-money:
When I worked at Walgreens some years ago, This kid who worked there was wild as hell, cussin out customers in front of the boss, tellin customers they were stupid, clockin in from break late as he wanted etc. etc… The funniest shit he did on the regular was - he would answer the phone using the managers name and talk shit to the people on the other line, well eventually the people...
Don't wander away from my till while I'm trying to...
fuckno-retail:
It’s rude, both to me and to other customer who have to wait while you browse a trashy magazine 3 tills down as I’m trying to get your attention to make you pay for your stuff.
Pall Mall Cigarettes
talesofawalgreensworker:
This situation has been happening wayyy too much lately. Prime example:
Customer: Two boxes of Pall Mall. Me: What color? Customer: What do you mean what color? Me: Um, there’s four different kinds. Customer: -in annoyed voice- Orange of course, what else?
How. The hell. Am I supposed to know?!
The only one I know for sure is the green, it’s menthol, because it...
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just because i'm behind a counter, doesn't mean...
jhwaholmquist:
i find it funny that parents teach their kids to use words to communicate what they want.. yet, they seem to find it difficult to produce the same words for themselves…
customer “these are gifts”
me “ok… (long pause) did.. you want a gift receipt?”
customer “yeah. and wrapped..” (snooty look)
i can’t read your mind, mmk? oh, and way to use “please” and “thank you”.. yay to...
no its cool. I insist you pretend i dont exist..
cashiercomplaints:
I mid-as-well make my first actual post about …
Greetings
· When we say “hi! How are you?” We are addressing you. You are an adult and you should be able to respond properly.
We are not asking you to be our best friend, or to have an amazing 10 minute conversation with us (we actually prefer you don’t). However my 6 year old cousin has enough manners, common...
alexheisler:
A lot of times at work, I’ll say the wrong total for a customer and every time, I catch myself and apologize. From time to time, I can’t for the life of me say it right, so I apologize and blame the fact that I’m dyslexic. Most customers are really nice about it, but once in a while, I’ll get one who says something really rude. For example:
“And they let you operate a register?”
...
Restaurant Tips
waitingonthesilentshelf:
Here are things you should keep in mind at a restaurant:
Muzzle your motherfucking children. It is not cute when they throw shit everywhere. It is not cute when you ignore this and instead drink and play with your phone. I don’t care how cute your kid is, fucking watch them. If they’re being a brat and you’re HONEST TO GOD trying to keep them in line, okay, that’s fine....
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