Today, a customer at work said his table was dirty. I asked which one he was sitting at so I could clean it for him. For some bizarre reason he got pissed and called my manager over. He ended up reporting us to corporate, and my manager got written up. He's blaming me for everything. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at work, we had an extremely rude customer who started cussing at us, and my coworker started cussing back. I jumped on the register to quickly bring down the line, and apologized to everyone for the scene. A secret shopper was in the line and claimed that I was rude. I got written up. FML
Today, a customer was rude to me, and I was rude back. He then asked for my manager, and I told him I was the store manager. He then identified himself as the corporate owner. FML
Today, I was working when I delivered the standard "Hello, how are you?" to a customer. He took the opportunity to tell me about his deceased wife, his estranged children, and his anal tearing. After a while, I tried to help someone else, and he complained to my manager. I was written up. FML
Today, my manager cussed me out for being unable to keep a customer happy. That "customer" was a senile old twit who had wandered away from his carer, thought our shop was his living room, and demanded to know who replaced all his furniture. FML
Today, at my new job, a coworker offered to help me mop the floors since she wasn't busy. I ended up getting written up by my boss for supposedly being too lazy and making other people finish my work. FML
Today, a customer asked for my manager's number, my bosses number, corporate's number and filled out a complaint form, all because we kindly asked him not to sit his kid on the counter due to safety concerns. FML
Today, a random customer at work admonished my coworker for being on her phone. During our lunch break. As he walked away, my coworker muttered, "What the fuck is his problem?" I nodded in agreement. He heard her and saw me nodding. As did our boss. Time to get written up. FML
Today, I got written up for insulting a customer last week, who then rang up to complain about my bad attitude. I was on vacation all last week. My boss doesn't believe me. FML
Today, I went to deliver some reports to my boss in his office. He was facing away from me and ranting about his "useless employees", so I slipped in and waited for him to put the phone down. Turns out he was talking to himself. When he noticed me, he bitched me out and threatened to fire me. FML
Today, I was carrying a stack of paperwork at work, when my pen rolled off and onto the floor. As soon as I bent down to pick it up, a nearby co-worker, who's always hated me, accused me of putting on a show and sexually harassing him. He actually followed up by reporting me to HR. FML
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IllestRated 17
This needs a follow up. I want to know what the guy said.
SmilieAKD 20
It is so stupid how corporations & managers write people up or fire them over the stupidest little customer complaint. People are idiots. Someone shouldn't lose there job because someone else is a moron. They shouldn't get written up either.
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Comments (87)
BulldogHoops 14
Customers are usually pretty ******* dumb - really sucks when you're victimized by that. FYL!
TheGriizlyBear 22
What could he have said?!
chelseaalise 12
didn't you knOw that all servers have to be mind readers? sheesh some people are so rude. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
dragxnfly 4
Well on the bright side, he still has a dirty table! c;
briang959 47
Karma is a bitch. He'll get what's coming to him.
dammityou 10
what a tight ass douche
TerraShadow 18
Dude that sucks
tasinatee 2
I feel like there was an extra detail left out... Who would go to all that trouble to get you in trouble for no reason?
Gidget_mom 6
Have you ever worked retail? I once had a customer tell my managers that I told her she was stupid and was wasting everyone's time by being in our store. She gave them my name and everything. Even if it was true, I kinda need an income so of course would never say that to her. People are messed up.
sunshineb81 16
#24. Thank you. Finally someone said this. Corporate isn't going to write someone up for a silly complaint. Either the customer outright lied or there is much more to this story.
R3TROxLOV3 32
You'd be surprised at how many times customers lie outright to get their way. There have been multiple times where I've given a customer their food, and come back a couple of times to check that everything is okay, only to have them throw a huge bitch fit and claim that I got their order wrong and refused to fix it, or ignored them the whole time and never came to check on them once, or cursed at them and/or called them a rude name. A lot of the time, their aim is getting a free meal/dessert/gift card out of it, but they fail to realize that someone could lose their job because if it.
tj4234 36
No 33, they do realise someone could lose their job. They just don't care. It also actually depends on the type of establishment how the customers will be. I worked in a McDonalds for a few years, and there were customers who would do all sorts. One man once bought a drink, then immediately threw it over the girl who served him at the counter. Others just make a mess deliberately do people have to clean it up. Now i work in a supermarket just down the road. Customers are a lot politer. And some people i can think of who disrupted McDonalds, are perfectly normal human beings in my store. I have almost exactly the same role in my supermarket that i did in McDonalds, but they act fairly reasonable to me now i'm in a supermarket instead. Then you get the dregs of society, those who come in 1 minute before closing time and fight with security for not letting them in, those who throw pints of milk on the floor (no use crying), those who vandalise the wheelchairs meaning disabled people can't use them. And of course, those who make a fuss just to get a gift card (our supermarket chain doesn't give them out if they think the customer is doing that though, and can reasonably justify it).
dragxnfly 4
Bwahah
CaLea18 5
Sorry to hear that =c Hopefully the next day will be better!