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Does anyone else hate customers!?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by amoore658, May 30, 2014.

  1. amoore658

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    I work in a convenience store/ petrol filling station. There are about 1,500 customers (transactions) each day! That's how busy it is

    But I hate customers! Some of them are really nice, but most are just a$$holes.

    * They put fuel in but don't know which bloody pump they're at
    * When we get the newspapers delivered in the morning, they come in huge bundles. Customers come in, looking for newspapers I haven't put out yet and stand there until you find them. Sometimes they even help themselves and start looking through them!!
    * The convenience store is large - when the fresh food is approaching it's sell-by date, and we put the yellow reduction labels on them, whilst I'm putting them out, customers come up and say "IS THIS BEING REDUCED?!?!" OMG SO ANNOYING!
    * Put £20.01 of petrol in, but don't give you the penny! Pennies add up!!!
    * They come in at 22:30 in the evening looking for coffee, only to throw a tantrum when I tell them the coffee machine is being cleaned!! 22:30 at night!!

    Just had a week off - it was like being out of hell for a week! hahah

    Anyone else hate customers?
     
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    Need I say more?
     
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    I worked in a call center environment for 6 years almost and retail before that for 5 years. I get it, trust me. An emergency on their part usually dictates an emergency on yours. And you can't complain about it because it is part of the job. People don't know how to plan if their lives depended on it and some day it will. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    I work in a bar and yes, some people can be bitches. "Make it strong!!" No, fuck off. We have standard quantities of liquor and I'm not making exceptions, definitely not for whining bitches. "I only have 1€, can I get a beer?" Really? What do you think? Does this asking-for-discount-thing work at a supermarket or a clothing store? No, it doesn't. So why would it work here?

    And there's a lot more I can spill my guts about. Most people are cool though.
     
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    As stupid as they are, they are the ones that are paying my paycheck.
     
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    As a guy who's working in fast food for about 8 years, yes, I fucking hate customers.
     
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    No, never. In fact, they're always right, as well. It's all my fault, anyhow.
     
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    Definitely agree with you there.
    That's why I don't work in a job that involves customers any more.
    Hope you get the same chance one day soon.
     
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    being an employee for a governmental customer service business (the DMV) the public is sometimes nice to deal with. a lot of the times its not. People are stupid.


    Some stupid things said to me at the DMV

    How long does a 30 day tag last?

    What do you mean my license is suspended? It was just a DUI

    Is there an OHIO BMV branch near Bradenton, Florida?

    When does motorcycle season begin?

    Why cant you take my laminated social security card? (it says on the back do not laminate, on the newer ones at least.)

    $54.50 for a sticker renewal?! Thats too damn expensive (obviously they have never experienced the DMV in California, New York, Kentucky or other states that can be over 100 dollars or go by the value of the vehicle.)
     
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    $54.50? I need to live in Toledo. Most everybody here in MI pays between $75-$100. I pay $84.
     
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    A passenger vehicle (car, SUV) in Ohio can be anywhere from $34.50 to $54.50 with half or three quarter ton non commercial pickup trucks $15 more. We have had no price increases in almost 12 years, which says a lot during the economy we have had in those years.
     
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    I prefer customers to the braindead dumbfucks I work with.
     
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    My bad, double checked. It was $81, a whole $3 less than last year. And Ohio's roads are still better than ours...
     
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    Wow, people seriously ask those things? Wow, people are stupid. :lol:

    Seriously, people where I live have this thing about trying to combine coupons when it says on the coupon, "Cannot be combined with any other offers or discounts"! There was this lady the other day who had two coupons, one for two sandwiches for $5 and another for buy-one-get-one, and she tried to use them together. It even said on the BOGO one, "with purchase of sandwich at full price". Two for $5 is not full price. I told her she couldn't combine coupons, and she laughed in my face and left.

    Yeah, that's right, bitch. Get out of my drive thru. And while you're at it, get a bra and some decent shoes. Jesus. :dry:
     
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    @justjade - you asked "if people really ask those things?"

    Ehm, I get asked numerous times per day "if Super-Unleaded will damage my [their] Unleaded engine"

    That ^^^^^ takes stupidity to a new level
     
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    Oh, lord. They really do be crazy. *facepalm*

    One of my personal favorites is, "Do you all have hamburgers?"

    No, we don't. (Read: Hell, no, we don't! We're a fucking Arby's. Why the fuck would we have hamburgers? :tantrum: )

    ---------- Post added 30th May 2014 at 09:29 PM ----------

    Oh, and I love when I'm at Walmart, just shopping, minding my own business, in my Arby's uniform, and get asked by customers where stuff is.

    Um.... My hat and shirt both say Arby's. I don't work here.
     
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    I hate some of them too but I hate my bosses more
     
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    Ya especially bc they're homophobic
     
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    I worked on a Fine Dining restaurant before and to my surprise most of the customers/guests are very nice and understanding but then I remember during the Holidays where this woman was complaining that there are no more marshmallows for the s'mores and I told her to wait for the refill and demanded to talk to the manager and I was all like woah, calm down Ma'am I'll get the marshmallow as soon as possible but she begged me for it so I had no choice but to do it, because after all, the "Customer is always right" but the Manager insist that he can't go because he's "busy" so I had to return to the woman and next thing I know she's gone and went to complain to the Front Desk clerk.

    But one thing I did learn from where I worked at. The guests are easier to handle than the people who you work with.
     
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    I work in retail.. there are some nice customers, then there are some that I feel like came from the pits of hell. Really though, I don't understand how people think that screaming insults at you will help them get what they want. It does not work that way..