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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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at my store, I had an old man violently accuse me of charging him for an extra pack of 99¢ Mounds candy yesterday. He held up my line for 10 minutes, fighting me about it. I didn't even work yesterday. FML
Today, I work at a general store and a customer came in trying to bargain a set price of an item. The item? A 50 cent candy bar. He wanted it for 34 cents. This is not the first time he's done this. FML
Today, while working at a gas station, I accidentally changed the price of gas to 8.9 cents per litre. It took me fifteen minutes to figure out why everyone wanted only two or three dollars of gas. I fixed it, but now my managers are debating charging me for lost revenue. FML
Today, at work I was trying to be nice and give a customer a discount because she was having trouble finding money to pay for her food. Everybody behind her then demanded a discount as well. FML
Today, I had a customer throw his purchase at me and demand a refund after I told him that, due to the national change shortage, I couldn't give him his 38 cents. FML
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
Today, a customer filed a complaint against me because my coworker took too long to do a price check. I hate my job. 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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Comments (71)
RichardPencil 32
Why did it take 15 minutes to do a simple price check? Your store needs to improve its process for such a routine task.
yerawizardlizzy 27
Also open up another lane. 20 people waiting for one register is ridiculous.
RinoaHeartilly 36
Tell him he needs to step to the side so you can ring up other customers while he waits and he'll be next once the price is confirmed.
Catdragon 40
at this point I would put in the 10p out of my own pocket and sent him on his way. always hate getting the manager involved and wasting valuable time of customers when you could easily solve the problem yourself.
RinoaHeartilly 36
Why should OP have to give their own money to stop his temper tantrum? That's ridiculous.
Brandi_Faith 34
Plus, a lot of people don't carry change in their pocket, or have their wallet on them while working.
Catdragon 40
Ok but put it this way, if you could speed things up and keep the line moving, wouldn't it be better to solve the problem like that? It's only 10p and no matter where you go, there will always be petty people. You can either go against them and inconvenience the other people behind them just trying to get their shopping done or get them out of the way without creating a scene and keeping things moving along. If you can fix the problem yourself, why not?
Diegoba12 16
because you work hard for your money, no matter how much it is, and do not have to give any away because a certain person is Cheap af.
MulticoloredSlug 18
I would have given him the 10 cents damn.
worthypegram1 13
Not saying that that isn't ridiculous of the customer to do? But couldn't you have just adjusted the price 10p?
RinoaHeartilly 36
You can't just change prices at most places. At least not without manager approval.
soulreaper12296 28
Lets see how long you keep a job when you change the price of something because you don't want to argue with the customer.
oj101 33
I work as a cashier. I would've just set him aside, and serve the other customers until the coworkers comes back with the right price.
clair_brodie 35
For that much of a price difference, why didn't you just change it and save the hassle of a price check?
polsen4273 8
This site is so ridiculously sensored that they have isolated a particular and very strange part of the population to make comments here. It is no surprise to me that the most reasonable comment on here gets downvoted out of existence.
Kougeru 12
It's the principle of the matter. Can't blame him.
Diegoba12 16
How? It never said he is right? For all you know, he is just trying to save 10p and the price was not 1.89 but truly 1.99. People try to be cheap.
nishialynne 1
I'm sorry op but, it will happen. Customers will do that.
overthedeepend 7
Am I way out of line in thinking that the bigger problem is that your store is not reading prices correctly?
mineller 24
Yes
Zebediabolical 45
Nope. Around here, if there's four people in a line at a grocery or hardware, they open up a second till. If there were 20 people in front of me and they didn't open up another line, I would set down my items and walk away. Hopefully their competitor values my time and business more.
brezzyanna 17
How do you know it was the store that read it wrong and not the customer?