Today, while working as a barista, a customer yelled about her muffins and butter not being ready since she only had a "short time to eat". There were 7 tip giving customers ahead of her, but I rushed her order. She gave no tip and stayed for over an hour. 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 the café I work at, I was yelled at by a woman because the drinks and food she ordered were "taking too long". Before I had the chance to get a word in, she stormed out and said she would never come back. I didn't get the chance to inform her that she hadn't ordered yet. FML
Today, I was yelled at by a customer, who was upset over having waited twenty minutes for a waiter to come take her order. Maybe it would be understandable, if she was sitting in an actual restaurant, and not a serve-yourself coffee house. FML
Today, while working my shift at the grocery store, we ran out of muffins. I'm a little overweight, and I guess that's the reason an irate customer accused me of eating all of them. FML
Today, at work, I got to wait on one of those tables where everyone had very complex orders, and some of them sent their food back. When the time finally came for me to bring them their check and receive my well-earned tip, I returned only to discover that they'd dined and dashed. FML
Today, while I was working at Starbucks, a customer spilled her drink all over the counter. After I cleaned up her spill and remade the drink (for free), she exclaimed, "Thanks! I should really tip you!" Then she turned around, walked directly past the tip jar, and left the store. FML
Today, I got a write-up because I told my boss that it was impossible to have pies, which have a bake time of 1 hour, ready for a customer who wanted them in the next 15 to 20 minutes. Then, when the customer got there and the pies were still in the oven, I got a second write-up for wasting time. FML
Today, at the restaurant I work at, my own mom refused to give a tip and complained to my boss. FML
Today, working at a fast food restaurant, I was berated by a customer for a good two minutes. It's okay though because she ended with, "Sorry, I forget you all are real people." FML
Today, at my place of work in a fast-food restaurant, a customer called in and bitched at me that her warm food was weirdly cold. That is, after she drove 45 minutes from the restaurant to her house. FML
Today, while waiting tables, I watched a woman pull the bacon off her roast beef melt and eat it. She then called me over and spent several minutes complaining about the our chefs' inadequacy because they didn't put bacon on her sandwich. FML
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PenguinBitch 44
What a lying bitch.
allison12197 23
It's sad how rude some people can be even when you try and do something nice for them.
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Comments (81)
marijuflowers 6
Keep a couple of laxatives in your pocket for the next time she returns :) Also if there is a bathroom at your workplace, perhaps you should forget to replace the toilet paper roll after you've served her... Just a thought.
reecez15 6
That would be a asshole thing to do to everyone there tho...
marijuflowers 6
Surely she's going to run out and it can easily be replaced so no other customers are inconvenienced... It's only being an ass to her ass.
Enslaved 38
And who do you think will end up having to clean up after that type of mess?
DArthurVaderian 18
Technically that is poisoning her...
91hayek 31
I usually am one of the seven who are patient and don't really care, but when I see my server is given a hard time by some self-entitled asspixie I make sure to try and make the server's day better. Sorry OP, but at least you had a majority of good customers.
xNephilim 19
I've been working in a customer service position for almost two years now... At this point in time, you have got to be a seriously incompetent twat for me to get mad at you if you're serving me. Like, Indian tech support incompetent. I can sit and wait for 20 minutes and I'll be patient through it all. ... Because I know what it's like to be on the other side. It sucks.
Enslaved 38
I'm in the service industry myself If I go somewhere and witness someone else getting abused by a nasty customer, I often speak up on their behalf because I know they can't say anything without getting in trouble. But since-- I don't work there, it's "no holds barred!"
astropuff69 9
Shoulda made her wait. Been there done that OP. Take extra time on her stuff. Most that'll happen is you get bitched out.
BoltTheSuperdog 22
That customer wasn't Derpy per chance, was it?
miianah1 22
No. It wasn't.
BoltTheSuperdog 22
#25 "Don't say it", my instincts told me. "It's going to get buried in negative votes; don't do it." Well, at least I tried, and it didn't hurt to try!
SplitEnds 11
Sounds like a b*tch to me.
infectedsense 15
You learned a valuable lesson: some customers are selfish scumbags who lie to get what they want. F the nice, honest customers lives too.
Axel5238 29
Customer service sucks, I've had people blaming me for the system failing. Even a few that threatened to hurt met. Once had someone who asked if they could skip the line because their mother was in poor health in august in Long Island during back to school at staples when the lines wrapped around the store. You meet all kinds course I also had a cougar (while I was tossing a stress ball) asked how often I play with my balls and if she could play with them. You get all kinds.
GatherTheMice 15
"The customer is always right." Except when they're, you know, completely and totally wrong.
justsomerandguy 8
I'm not a native English speaker, so my grasp of the language could be less than ideal, but that kind of sounds like the customer was working as a barista.
ftloosenfanzfree 7
Your grasp on English is just fine, you are absolutely correct. But I think we tend to let misplaced modifiers like that slide here since FML has required structure for posts (though she could have said "while *I* was working as a barista").
blondeamazonian 18
As a barista too, I feel your pain.