Employees have to deal with a lot. They face rude customers all the time and here's what they have to deal with when we do something rude or stupid.
It’s Hard To Tell…
“Radiologist here, where I come from, India, sex-determination during pregnancy ultrasound-scanning is a crime. But people usually ask me whether its a boy or a girl, and I usually tell them that I’m not sure because the image is not clear. Much easier than explaining the PNDT laws to them. Q) Why is it illegal to reveal sex of the fetus? A) Female foeticide. i.e.-selective abortion of the female fetus. According to the statistics, nearly 10 million female fetuses have been aborted in the country over the past two decades. Of the 12 million girls born in India, one million do not see their first birthdays.” Source
But What Was The Color Of Your First Bike?
“I work at a bike shop, and every customer who calls on the phone thinks they need to give their complete bike history. ‘Hey my names Sam, and I bought a diamondback in 1986, had it for 10 years, great bike, then I bought a trek mtn bike, it was green, but it got stolen. Do you sell helmets?'” Source
It’s Totally A Size 2.
“Taking out size tags on clothing that is smaller and restitching them to bigger sizes to fit the talent we work with. Yes people this happens, not all the time but it does. If the talent sees a bigger size they get upset or irritable and sometime get really nasty, so to avoid any of this we take a size 2 tag and stitch it on a 4 or 6 to make them happy and all goes well. This is almost always followed with the obligatory ‘You look great, wow fabulous’ when in fact they would look just as good in the any size.” Source
Isn’t That Neat.
“‘I’d like a scotch on the rocks, no ice!'” Source
“Please Hold The Lettuce And Common Sense.”
“I don’t have to do it anymore (thank god), but years ago when I worked at Burger King, people used to order a ‘Whopper Jr., Plain’ all the time, and I had to make them. That’s what’s known as a hamburger. You just get charged more for it.” Source
Real Original Dude.
“Used to work as a janitor at a hospital. Every single day someone would make one of these ‘jokes’: Hey, when you’re done here, you can come clean my house! LOLOLOL. You know, when I clean MY house, I never get paid for it! Hey, you missed a spot, ROFLROFL. I always smiled and went along with it, even though I wanted to scream into their faces for being ignorant. First of all, if you want to PAY me 17 bucks an hour, I’ll come clean the sh*t out of your house. Second, I will assume you’re not disinfecting the rooms of your house for TB, MRSA and C-Diff. If you are, someone SHOULD pay you. And your children should probably be taken away.” Source
“Yup… Uh-huh… Oh Really.”
“Working tech support, I let people talk. I don’t care if you want to talk for 5 minutes about your life when you’re only locked out of your windows account, and the call should have taken 20 seconds. I’ll say yep, and umhumm, and let you talk. Because for those 5 minutes, I know exactly what needs to be fixed, and it’s one more stupid-a** customer I don’t have to talk to.” Source
“What About That Change I Gave To The Homeless??”
“Tax accountant here. I enter itemized deductions (like charitable donations and vehicle registration fees) for people who clearly won’t qualify for itemizing just so they see it in the paperwork. If I don’t enter them people think I’m being lazy and I’m screwing them on their return.” Source
“You Don’t Say…”
“When doing IT support sometimes people would blame us for problems that had nothing to do with us, in a ‘post hoc ergo propter hoc’ kind of way. Examples: ‘Ever since you gave me the new mouse, my internet has been going slower.’ ‘One of you IT guys came and installed Visio, now I can’t attach things to my email’. You just sort of have to smile and nod and get on with it.” Source
Same Diff.
“As an EMT, I die a little on the inside when someone refers to me as an ‘ambulance driver’. You do realize I can practice medicine and perform surgical intervention in a moving vehicle, right? Pish posh.” Source
A Sad And A Shame.
“I work at a bicycle shop and I’m a woman. Customers always assume that I’m incapable of changing their flat tire or answering their questions about their crooked saddle and they insist they ‘need to talk to the service guys’. I just let them wait in line. And yes, it DOES make me feel like s–t a lot of the time.” Source
So Interesting.
“When I tell someone I study linguistics, and they immediately say, ‘Oh my god, don’t you hate it when people say x/use bad grammar/how language today is going downhill?’ No, I don’t tell people how to speak/write, I only look at what they say and try to make sense of it. But I just say, ‘Hmm, that’s interesting’. Also, no, I don’t speak like a million different languages.” Source
The Foam’s The Best Part.
“I cringe at ‘Grande cappuccino, dry as a bone’. If you want to pay four bucks for shots and foam, hey, you are the champion. But lordy do I hate making a grande’s worth of foam. So does everyone else in line.” Source
The Real Director Of The Show.
“I work in broadcast and the directors I work with seem to have no technical knowledge of how things work. At least once a week I get a request where I have to listen to the words coming out of their mouths, figure out what they want, and do something completely different in order to get the results they want. Sometimes I think they only got their jobs because they can count backwards from 5.” Source
They Did Ask For It.
“I work at a Quiznos, after we toast the subs we ask people what they want for veggies (lettuce, tomato, peppers, etc.). Every once in a while I get that person who just says ‘everything’. As if I could possibly fit everything into one sub. We have at least 20 different choices on the veggie table, so I just start putting really weird combinations on it until it’s so full that they tell me to stop. I consider an italian sub with pumpkin seeds, jalapenos, cranberries, mushrooms, and guacamole a fair punishment for refusing to specify a set amount of veggies.” Source
“Let Me Check…”
“When I used to work in a department store, customers would come up to me and ask if we had anymore of a product that was no longer on the shelves. Knowing that we were completely out of stock, I’d still go into the stockroom at their request only to play with my phone for a minute or two and come back saying I checked and that we didn’t have any of whatever it was they wanted.” Source
Everyone Has A Great Idea.
“I am a relatively known author, something that is fairly common knowledge in my neighborhood. Most people know enough to just leave me be or treat me like anyone else, but every so often, someone will snap and go HAY OMG UR (35b) AREN’T YOU? YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD WRITE ABOUT? YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE ABOUT (completely unpublishable/nightmarishly awful/outright plagiarized idea) NEXT! YOU’D SELL MILLIONS! DON’T FORGET TO THANK ME ON THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PAGE! Usually it’s enough for me to just smile and nod and say Wow, thanks, guy, but I’m in the middle of another project, maybe someday! but sometimes, sometimes, sometimes people will hurl an idea that is so batsht ballistically terrible at me that my brain shuts off and i have to bite down to stop myself from screaming NO, F*KSAKE, WHAT THE F__K IS WRONG IN YOUR HEAD JESUS CHRIST JESUS WHAT. In such cases, it comes out as ‘holy balls, that SURE IS AN IDEA isn’t it OH GOD IT SURE IS’.” Source