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[Futurama]

I've had too many. I've also had a few worst things customers have done. Story time!


So this lady comes into my store, she's always in there. She's a little on the coco side. Anyways, she asks to use the bathroom, I let her in as I'm supposed to when customers ask. I go back to stocking the daily stuff. About 30 minutes later I didn't hear/ see the door to the bathrooms open or close. I'm like...there's no way she's still in there. So I wait 5 more minutes, she finally comes out. About 5 minutes later my female manager comes out of the bathroom SCREAMING and I'm just standing there like what the fuck? I go and take a look...THERE'S SHIT EVERYWHERE. On the floor, mirror, walls, rim of the toilet. It's like the customer hit everything except the inside of the fucking toilet. We literally took 2 jugs of bleach and poured that shit EVERYWHERE. We all might have gotten high off the bleach, it's a possibility.


Now time for your stories!

[tri]

Well my mom works in retail and at another store they say there is a lady who says she has HIV or Hep and will walk out with unpaid clothing and has a needle and threatens to stab them if they don't let her go. Of course they let her go.

[Syntax]

Well my mom works in retail and at another store they say there is a lady who says she has HIV or Hep and will walk out with unpaid clothing and has a needle and threatens to stab them if they don't let her go. Of course they let her go.

lolwut. Can't they call the cops on her? I'm sure it's not legal.

I used to work as a barista, and I fucking hate people who change their orders after I make them. No one terrible stands out though.

[Futurama]

Well my mom works in retail and at another store they say there is a lady who says she has HIV or Hep and will walk out with unpaid clothing and has a needle and threatens to stab them if they don't let her go. Of course they let her go.

*facepalm* Anything people will do these days to try to steal.

[HappyAccident]

I've had too many. I've also had a few worst things customers have done. Story time!


So this lady comes into my store, she's always in there. She's a little on the coco side. Anyways, she asks to use the bathroom, I let her in as I'm supposed to when customers ask. I go back to stocking the daily stuff. About 30 minutes later I didn't hear/ see the door to the bathrooms open or close. I'm like...there's no way she's still in there. So I wait 5 more minutes, she finally comes out. About 5 minutes later my female manager comes out of the bathroom SCREAMING and I'm just standing there like what the fuck? I go and take a look...THERE'S SHIT EVERYWHERE. On the floor, mirror, walls, rim of the toilet. It's like the customer hit everything except the inside of the fucking toilet. We literally took 2 jugs of bleach and poured that shit EVERYWHERE. We all might have gotten high off the bleach, it's a possibility.


Now time for your stories!

That is fucking hilarious xD

[tri]

lolwut. Can't they call the cops on her? I'm sure it's not legal.

I used to work as a barista, and I fucking hate people who change their orders after I make them. No one terrible stands out though.

She is gone before they arrive.

[Futurama]

That is fucking hilarious xD

Every damn time I see you post I can't take it serious. I'm too busy laughing at your siggy. That's from Dance Mom's or w/e that stupid show is right? How is a whale like her teaching kids to dance when all she probably does is create a damn earthquake everytime she tries to dance.

[Nalah]

I work at a fast food place, so around half the people that go through are wack (not counting staff xD).

The worst would probably have to be two guys that always come into front counter, and make odd conversation with you; as in, asking weird questions (normally i get "how old are you", because I look waaaay younger than I am), or they tell you really strange things as well, regarding themselves, or what they did that day. xD I honestly don't know what it is about them though...maybe just because they are so geekish/odd/annoying, whenever they come in, noone wants to serve them

[Debbie]

Lol, there are so many that come into my work, it's unreal...

There's one man that comes in, and he insists on wearing his shirt with his button open. It's disgusting! He's fat and hairy... Bearing in mind I work in a supermarket, it's really not hygienic...

There's another one that comes in, and the only time I ever spoke to him, he felt the need to tell me that he was planning to get drunk as soon as he walked in the door because he found his neighbour dead in their house that morning... Is that really something you would tell someone that served you at a supermarket? No.

And there's this other lady, she comes in and asks everyone questions... "How old are you? Do you have a partner? Are you married? Do you live with your parents? What time do you finish? What are you doing when you finish? What else do you do other than work here? Do you enjoy it? ..." And she goes on and on and on... She doesn't even wait for you to answer her first question before she asks another one...

Some people are so funny...

I definitely think yours is the worst though, Futurama, I'd, like, die if someone did that in my supermarket... IF we had customer toilets, which we don't (good job )

[Maeghan]

Multiple times people will call us freaking out that their dog is dehydrated, that theyve come home, chugged some water and puked. We must not keep water out because their dog is on the brink of death.

We keep mutiple water bowls out at all times.
These are dogs, not children. We cant make your dog drink water.

Da fuq are we supposed to do?

[Mishatu]

Anyone who comes in, gets a bunch of crap, realizes AFTER I ring it all up that they don't have their card/money, go out to get it, and never come back.

Happens surprisingly often.

[HappyAccident]

Every damn time I see you post I can't take it serious. I'm too busy laughing at your siggy. That's from Dance Mom's or w/e that stupid show is right? How is a whale like her teaching kids to dance when all she probably does is create a damn earthquake everytime she tries to dance.

Mwahaha. Cyo actually showed it to me. Couldn't get enough of it xD

[KnitsFire]

A couple months ago we had a lady and her little kid (no more than two) come into our store. Apparently the kid soiled his diaper and she didn't want to walk to our customer bathroom, so she changed him in the middle of the store. Of course the kid peed everywhere as she changed him and she left the diaper. She then went and complained about our stores cleanliness to the manager and demanded that she be given 50$ in free stuff for her trouble.

Also there is a really racist guy who'll come in every week demanding that we fire all people of non-american status because they are not appealing to the eye...

[HappyAccident]

A couple months ago we had a lady and her little kid (no more than two) come into our store. Apparently the kid soiled his diaper and she didn't want to walk to our customer bathroom, so she changed him in the middle of the store. Of course the kid peed everywhere as she changed him and she left the diaper. She then went and complained about our stores cleanliness to the manager and demanded that she be given 50$ in free stuff for her trouble.

Also there is a really racist guy who'll come in every week demanding that we fire all people of non-american status because they are not appealing to the eye...

Holy shit where on earth do you work? xD

[KnitsFire]

Holy shit where on earth do you work? xD

Canadian Tire... the guy doesn't like canadians either so he pretty much wants our store closed...

[Nymh]

Contact lens patients. There are some specifics, but in general contact lens patients make me want to stab myself in the eye with my gel pen.

There is always the business traveler who is only in town for a few days, lost/ripped a contact and didn't bring their backup glasses or refuse to wear them ("I hate wearing glasses!"). They expect your office to magically know their prescription and give them free lenses for their misfortune.

A) That's what backup glasses are for. You should have brought them.
B) We don't have an unlimited supply of free samples. We are given them based off of how many of that lens we sell. Since you are not buying from us, you're diminishing our pool of samples that we can give to our paying customers.
3) We are legally obligated to look at the lens on your eye and check your vision with it on if we give you lenses we have never seen you in before. We can't just hand you a sample and send you on your merry way. So now we have to create a patient record for you and waste a good 20 minutes of OUR time taking care of YOU for something that you aren't even going to pay for.

Walking them through all of that is too much of a bother, so usually I would just say, "Sorry we don't carry that lens in stock."

Then there is the lady that wants to wear contacts but doesn't actually want to pay for them, so she will come back month after month wearing the free trials you've given her and say that they are just a liiiiiiittle off, they just don't feel quite right, I think I need to wear a different lens and see if it's any better. New lens, one more month goes by, and it's still not right and she needs another one. I say "she" because the people who do this are almost exclusively women. Women don't care to run into a doctor's office month after month and waste their time. Men usually just want you to give them their shit and GTFO so they don't have to see you again for another year (or two or three depending on how much they abuse their contacts).

Oooh oooh or the teenager/young adult that comes in with a red, painful eye. Contact lens wearer? Yep. Sleeps in contacts when they're not supposed to? Yep. Replaces them on time? Nope. Look at their cornea, big fat ulcer. Oooh, yummy. Guess what, you can't wear contacts for a while until this is healed. Here are some drops, oh you don't have any glasses? Of course you don't. We will grind you a pair today that you can wear until you get healed. Write prescriptions, give samples, hand them a pair of glasses with instructions to not wear contacts because it will only make the ulcer worse, schedule return appointment for 3-5 days. Patient never comes back.

I could do this all day.

[Jibrille]

Omfg! and I thought MY clients were weird.

I work at an expensive planned furniture store as a interior designer, but some clients can't see it's expensive and they are going to spend waaaay more than they are thinking. So they go there, say they want everything with leds, glass in the project and you need to do it, only to tell the price later and want to kill that person making you waste your time. You can't send the client home saying he is poor, so you really need to waste your time doing the project.. u_u

[kidbit]

Well my mom works in retail and at another store they say there is a lady who says she has HIV or Hep and will walk out with unpaid clothing and has a needle and threatens to stab them if they don't let her go. Of course they let her go.

I can't stop laughing at this omg


I used to work as a waitress at a gay bar/club. Once there was this big table with around 20 people celebrating someone's birthday. At some point they call me because they've found an underwear under the table. I go crazy and talk to my boss and he scolds me for letting this kind of thing happen so I'm forced to serve free drinks for everyone on the table.
Later my boss checked on the camera records and the clients themselves had put the underwear there so they could get free drinks.................

Also sometimes straight old guys would go there unaware it was a gay club so after they were drunk they would start hitting on me. Once I got "Oh, did you know you look like Lois Lane? I could be your Superman"

[Mishelle]

Ugh if I had a nickel.

So we have this gigantic sign that says "PIZZA DEAL, GET 2 SLICES OF CHEESE PIZZA AND A REGULAR DRINK FOR $5" with a clear picture of 2 slices of cheese pizza, in front of the cheese pizza. And we're consistently having dipshits come with whatever pizza they want and complaining that they don't get the deal. I will always repeat the price before I take money or slide their card because for a college campus, people seem to have a really hard time reading and always get their prices confused. So I tell this dude who didn't follow directions "$7.11?" and he goes "yeah" then I slide the card and everything goes through. Then he goes "Wait I thought it was $5" and I go "No, that was for the cheese pizza, you got surpreme" and he complains saying he doesn't have the money to pay $7 for pizza even though everything went through, if he didn't have money the card would've declined. But alas, I have to go all the way to the back, get my boss, do a return on the machine, he throws away the pizza then grabs 2 slices of cheese pizza to get the deal. I wanted to choke him.

And this other dumb bitch. She picks up her pizza and drops it on the ground. We have trash cans right next to the pizza station for people who do that. She goes "I dropped my pizza, I left it on the counter." And I go, "don't worry about it I'll take care of it". So I go and throw it away. And she goes "Why did you throw that away you could've sold it" and I just stared at her saying nothing until she walked away because I didn't have anything nice to say.

We also have a subway in our cafe. And when all the regular subs are $5 I get pissed the fuck off daily. The keyword is REGULAR. If anyone is familiar with Subway there are REGULAR and PREMIUM. Regular footlongs are $5, Premium footlongs are $8 and 6 inch premium subs are $5. So these people who seriously refuse to read the menu come to me with a footlong pastrami sub and pitch a fucking fit when I tell them it's $8. And they argue with me, the person who works there, that I'm wrong and that the menu says it's $5. So every single time without fail, I have to walk them to the menu and point out where it clearly says it's $8. They either apologize and pay, or they throw another hissy fit because they can't read and storm out.

Anyone who comes in, gets a bunch of crap, realizes AFTER I ring it all up that they don't have their card/money, go out to get it, and never come back.

Happens surprisingly often.

this too

Or people who's cards get declined and they throw a bitch fit at me because they're broke.

Edited by Mishelle, 01 August 2012 - 10:04 AM.

[HappyAccident]

Ugh if I had a nickel.

So we have this gigantic sign that says "PIZZA DEAL, GET 2 SLICES OF CHEESE PIZZA AND A REGULAR DRINK FOR $5" with a clear picture of 2 slices of cheese pizza, in front of the cheese pizza. And we're consistently having dipshits come with whatever pizza they want and complaining that they don't get the deal. I will always repeat the price before I take money or slide their card because for a college campus, people seem to have a really hard time reading and always get their prices confused. So I tell this dude who didn't follow directions "$7.11?" and he goes "yeah" then I slide the card and everything goes through. Then he goes "Wait I thought it was $5" and I go "No, that was for the cheese pizza, you got surpreme" and he complains saying he doesn't have the money to pay $7 for pizza even though everything went through, if he didn't have money the card would've declined. But alas, I have to go all the way to the back, get my boss, do a return on the machine, he throws away the pizza then grabs 2 slices of cheese pizza to get the deal. I wanted to choke him.

And this other dumb bitch. She picks up her pizza and drops it on the ground. We have trash cans right next to the pizza station for people who do that. She goes "I dropped my pizza, I left it on the counter." And I go, "don't worry about it I'll take care of it". So I go and throw it away. And she goes "Why did you throw that away you could've sold it" and I just stared at her saying nothing until she walked away because I didn't have anything nice to say.

We also have a subway in our cafe. And when all the regular subs are $5 I get pissed the fuck off daily. The keyword is REGULAR. If anyone is familiar with Subway there are REGULAR and PREMIUM. Regular footlongs are $5, Premium footlongs are $8 and 6 inch premium subs are $5. So these people who seriously refuse to read the menu come to me with a footlong pastrami sub and pitch a fucking fit when I tell them it's $8. And they argue with me, the person who works there, that I'm wrong and that the menu says it's $5. So every single time without fail, I have to walk them to the menu and point out where it clearly says it's $8. They either apologize and pay, or they throw another hissy fit because they can't read and storm out.




this too

I lol'd. Hard.

[Futurama]

How about the customers that come on the last day of the sale and go, "You have nothing that's on sale!!!" My answer always is, "You're here on the last day of the sale...a lot of people come within the first 2-3 days of the sale and our warehouse trucks are NOT coordinated with our sales. Your best bet is to come within' the first 2 days of the sale. Now, here's a rain check, truck will be here in 2 days." Their answer usually is, "What if I can't make it during the week only the weekend?" I wish I could just look at them and say stop being a lazy fuck, you don't work 24 hours a day.

[HannahElizabeth]

I worked for two years in Technical Support for customers who're setting up broadband for the first time. My colleague dealt with one customer who couldn't get his PC Monitor to come on. After much toing and froing it transpired that there was a power cut, but the customer thought his computer power was coming through the phone lines *headdesk repeatedly*

I personally have dealt with so many that one alone doesn't stand out. I had people harassing me because their gaming consoles don't work (we're a broadband provider, we have nothing to do with your effing games console). Or because some other completely unrelated product doesn't work (the TV FFS). I don't work in Tech Support any more, thank God. I'm in Web Design, and I never have to deal with Joe Public ever again!

Edited by HannahElizabeth, 01 August 2012 - 11:17 AM.

[ElBastardoVerde]

I worked at a bowling alley for around 6 months before it closed down, and I have a shit load of stories:

It was probably my 2nd month of being there, and my position was "Lane attendant". This means that I had to go to your lane when your dumb ass couldn't read the instructions that were literally on a plaque right above the keyboard and fix your stupid problem. One fine evening, a fairly large birthday party was being held one lane 32 (the most troublesome lane in the whole building), and I knew I was going to have my work cut out for me. Towards the end of my shift, which was at 12:30, the last of the party goers had left, many of them in a drunken state. The clean up was typical, pizza boxes every where, wrapping paper from presents, packets of Parmesan and crushed red pepper were scattered about, and there were at least 12 empty pitchers, 2 of which had napkins jammed into them. As I got down to the lane, however, I was shocked and couldn't help but laugh at the situation at hand. While this group was getting drunk, apparently they had let their children bowl, and there was chocolate frosting on every single bowling ball that sat on the ball return. As I was cleaning that up, I made the mistake of looking at the lane itself, and then I lost my shit. There was an extremely long streak of chocolate from the beginning of the lane, all the way to the point where the bowling ball hits the pins. I walked up the lane itself, and there was even chocolate icing on the fucking pins themselves. I wept.


Due to the close proximity of the military base, we always had a fairly large amount of soldiers in our bowling alley. They would come in, drink, and raise hell. One night, this group of marines came in and went straight to the bar. I didn't see them for another two hours, and when they did make their grand appearance, it was quite obvious that they were intoxicated and really wanted to bowl. My desk guy (who I think was legitimately retarded), gave them shoes and a lane. Lane 32. About 15 minutes after, I hear a metallic clang and several large bumps. We were reviewing the security footage, and this guy decided it would be a good idea to throw a 16 pound bowling ball with all of his might. The ball was going at least 25 miles per hour when it hit the rail (the thing that scoops the pins back into the machine after your turn) and it broke it in half, flew over to the right, which was just a path way to the back of the bowling alley, and went right through it. Yes, he threw a bowling ball through a wall.

I have tons more because people turn into fucktards when they come to bowling alleys apparently.

[Futurama]

I worked at a bowling alley for around 6 months before it closed down, and I have a shit load of stories:

It was probably my 2nd month of being there, and my position was "Lane attendant". This means that I had to go to your lane when your dumb ass couldn't read the instructions that were literally on a plaque right above the keyboard and fix your stupid problem. One fine evening, a fairly large birthday party was being held one lane 32 (the most troublesome lane in the whole building), and I knew I was going to have my work cut out for me. Towards the end of my shift, which was at 12:30, the last of the party goers had left, many of them in a drunken state. The clean up was typical, pizza boxes every where, wrapping paper from presents, packets of Parmesan and crushed red pepper were scattered about, and there were at least 12 empty pitchers, 2 of which had napkins jammed into them. As I got down to the lane, however, I was shocked and couldn't help but laugh at the situation at hand. While this group was getting drunk, apparently they had let their children bowl, and there was chocolate frosting on every single bowling ball that sat on the ball return. As I was cleaning that up, I made the mistake of looking at the lane itself, and then I lost my shit. There was an extremely long streak of chocolate from the beginning of the lane, all the way to the point where the bowling ball hits the pins. I walked up the lane itself, and there was even chocolate icing on the fucking pins themselves. I wept.


Due to the close proximity of the military base, we always had a fairly large amount of soldiers in our bowling alley. They would come in, drink, and raise hell. One night, this group of marines came in and went straight to the bar. I didn't see them for another two hours, and when they did make their grand appearance, it was quite obvious that they were intoxicated and really wanted to bowl. My desk guy (who I think was legitimately retarded), gave them shoes and a lane. Lane 32. About 15 minutes after, I hear a metallic clang and several large bumps. We were reviewing the security footage, and this guy decided it would be a good idea to throw a 16 pound bowling ball with all of his might. The ball was going at least 25 miles per hour when it hit the rail (the thing that scoops the pins back into the machine after your turn) and it broke it in half, flew over to the right, which was just a path way to the back of the bowling alley, and went right through it. Yes, he threw a bowling ball through a wall.

I have tons more because people turn into fucktards when they come to bowling alleys apparently.

I've seen so many stupid people at the bowling I bowl at. Apparently people think throwing more than 1 ball at the same time...at different speeds is a good idea.

[Mishelle]

For the most part my job is really chill. They're usually come in, pay for their food, then leave. The dipshits are a minority, and it's usually the same people pulling the same annoying shit over and over again. But the thing that really annoys me (and the rest of my coworkers) is the fact that our cafe works with student affairs and student affairs pays us to give students certain things free every month if they present their ID cards. I guess they want to give students more incentives to buy ID cards. When they buy their ID cards they get a piece of paper that will list EVERYTHING they get free for the entire semester. And if they loose it, they can just go upstairs and get another from the student affairs office. But that's too much work. They will come in and ask us "what do we get free?" every single time they walk through the door. So I have to repeat the same shit hundreds of times. There's this guy who asks every single time he comes in. Why do I have to repeat the same 3 things to you every day for a month for you to get it?

But it gets worse. They will complain about the shit they get free. Like if I say "this month you get a free small coffee and a free small soda" and they'll say "BUT I DON'T DRINK COFFEE" well bitch don't get coffee then! Or they'll complain that we're not giving out something free this month that we gave out last month. "What? No chips?" NO. NO CHIPS. YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO PAY THE $1 FOR CHIPS THIS MONTH. Or they'll come in "I forgot to get my free stuff for last month, can I get it this month?" No. And they always try to switch it out for other shit. There's this one smelly toothless guy who always comes in at the end of the day when we've sold most of our fruit and complain that there's no bananas. And we'll tell him sorry they're sold out you'll have to try earlier in the day. Then he'll complain that apples hurt his (nonexistant) teeth and, he only eats bananas try to get us to give him a free poptart or a free candybar in exchange for the free fruit or coffee because he doesn't drink coffee. Like how the fuck are people going to bitch about FREE stuff?