Today, at work, a man wanted to buy a garden hose which came up on the till as £1.99. He said that it was wrong and that it should be £1.89, so he then demanded that I call someone down to set it right. He held 20 customers up for 15 minutes to get 10p off a garden hose. FML
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Today, a customer told me that there was no way he was paying for his shopping. He then walked off. As it turns out, the customer IS always right. FML
Today, at work, a customer asked for my number. When I declined, he made a huge scene, shouting and scaring other customers. He tipped me seven cents. FML
Today, I work cleaning houses and a customer submitted a complaint about me to my boss, because he didn’t expect me to use his water from his taps, running up his water bill, which he saw as unfair. What was I supposed to do, bring a water tank with me on my back? Prick. FML
Today, at the grocery store, the scanner at the register gave a higher price for a product than the price tag on the shelf. Apparently I was the one being unreasonable for insisting to pay the price advertised on the shelf, and not some secret price they never told me about. FML
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False_Stupidity 42
Is it just me or does £1.89 seem incredibly cheap for a garden hose?
rjh7428 10
I take it you've never worked retail.
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inappropes 31
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10p can buy alot! jk i have no idea how much that is. AMERICA!
hoosierholla 17
It's worth slightly more than ten American cents.
roaf 13
It is worth around 11-13 cents in us. Basically what you can find on the sidewalk
TheHcwalker 20
I can't even buy gum with that
Juls464 10
sounds like my dad
Destroyer_2_2 15
Doesn't matter if you're American people, I am as well, it's still a pittance.
vcapelo 19
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Actually he didn't hold anyone up. The store did. He was claiming his money and it's not his concern how long it takes for the store to accept the right price for the garden hose.
buttcrackles 9
If it was something as small as 10 p, then I would have just paid the extra money and then leave. I'm sure the twenty other people in line, as well as myself, have better things to do then wait 15 minutes for something so small.
rjh7428 10
I take it you've never worked retail.
pharm121 21
You've clearly never worked retail. Why would I believe the customer. Most of them don't bother to read the actual price tag or pic up a 10$ item from the 5$ item's spot then expect us to adjust that price for them. Or they see a buy one get one 50% off sale and think the high ticket item is going to be 50% off when in reality the cheaper product gets the discount. No im sorry customers plain out lie 95 percent of the time.
buddy_J 16
You're the kind of person that makes the world a darker place with your existence
Brandi_Faith 34
I bet if the customers had known what the hold up was, they would've given him 10 cents just to get him out of there so they could buy there stuff and go on with their day.
confused_wandere 26
#33 Giving him ten cents wouldn't be very useful, since we don't accept cents in the UK.
Namenlos_fml 20
Supposing the customer was right about what the price is supposed to be (say, if the tag said what the customer claims, and the system is ringing it up wrong), which isn't out of the question, 5 is right. Doesn't matter that some customers lie or make a big deal out of nothing; that's irrelevant when a customer rightfully asks for a price as advertised.
bretzeller 13
Agreed 5. The store chose to hold it up.
False_Stupidity 42
Is it just me or does £1.89 seem incredibly cheap for a garden hose?
emeraldarcher74 30
Yeah, I noticed that also. I'd gladly pay £1.99 for a garden hose.
Zebediabolical 45
Me too. Unless the posted price was 1.89 :D
species4872 20
Must be a really short hose.
Tripartita 45
If he's making (at least) minimum wage in the UK and is over 24, he just put in 15 minutes of work to save the amount he earns every 50 seconds (or less). So it took him 18x longer to "save" that 10p than to make it. Does he not value his time?!?!
NeatNit 33
It's a matter of principle. Assuming he was right (it's hard to tell from the FML), it's the store which made a mistake. The store possibly lost money because of the time they had to spend dealing with that single customer. They deserve to lose that money if they try to trick customers like that, even if it's for a mere 10 cents. And finally... Is time spent on FML really better spent than time arguing with a cashier? People can do whatever the hell they want in their free time.
torrea 19
People like that are usually obnoxious in every way. And probably is just an a**hole to hold people up for that amount.
Catdragon 40
Don't you mean assHOSE?
NoahK2003 16
Customers can be such HOSE.
AcieMcG 21
Why I hate dealing with customers.
RichardPencil 32
He just didn't want to get hosed!