If you’ve ever had to work any kind of customer service job, you know that people will say and do anything to get what they want, and the things they want are absolutely ridiculous. Some folks think that because they are paying for a product or experience, they deserve the moon. The moon is definitely out of their price range.
Twitter user @isabelzatun invited her followers to the “customers suck” party, tweeting, “What’s the most ridiculous demand a customer has made of you? I’ll go first: when I was working retail, a woman once demanded I pick her up from her Botox appointment with my car & bring her to the mall to shop.”
What’s the most ridiculous demand a customer has made of you? I’ll go first: when I was working retail, a woman once demanded I pick her up from her Botox appointment with my car & bring her to the mall to shop
— Pigeon Fancier (@isabelzawtun) January 31, 2020
That story gets even crazier, because Botox Lady framed this nightmare scenario as an “opportunity” that anyone would be happy to have:
I should add, she framed this like a GREAT opportunity for me bc she would shop with me and I would make great sales and was baffled when I said no (because I… no longer worked there)
— Pigeon Fancier (@isabelzawtun) January 31, 2020
This story only scratched the surface of entitlement out there. The replies are full of hilarious (and enraging) anecdotes about the worst customers ever and the things they have asked poor innocent employees to do. Scroll through and feel your blood pressure rise—and don’t be these people the next time you walk into a store.
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“Random pieces” like just hack at it blindly w a knife idk if I die
— Pigeon Fancier (@isabelzawtun) February 2, 2020
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Bagging a large grocery order I was told not to use too many bags, and also not to make them too heavy.
Physics has laws, ma’am.
— Elrond Cupboard (@davewal) February 1, 2020
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I had someone return a fully consumed Rotisserie Turkey. They said it was dry. So they wanted their money back.
— Baby Stove (@mccanncreates) January 31, 2020
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A woman I had just finished bagging groceries for takes her cart and runs it straight into a wall of windows. Turns around and asks me “why isnt there a door here? Shouldn’t there be a door here?”
— amanda jane (@AmandaJane314) February 1, 2020
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When I was a bartender we let a girl stay after close to look for her lost Fitbit. Finally like an hour later we’d tipped out and were closing the bar. She screamed at us that it was “illegal to close when someone has lost something on your property” and called the cops
— Julie Doubleday (@juliedoubleday) January 31, 2020
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A guy once fully handed his baby to my coworker to “take to another room” because he wanted to “eat dinner without her crawling all over me”
— Pigeon Fancier (@isabelzawtun) February 1, 2020
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I was a waitress in Germany with many Swiss patrons. Our restaurant graciously accepted Swiss Francs, but we’d give Euros as change. Every day Swiss people yelled at me why we don’t carry Swiss Francs IN GERMANY. 🙄
SWITZERLAND IS NOT PART OF THE EU AND THAT IS A YOU PROBLEM.
— [Kay.Noire] (@KayNoire) February 1, 2020
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Customer threw a fit because we no longer carried an item in our store that they liked, thought that if she yelled enough we would magically find this item in the back, even though we haven’t had them for 2 yrs, then told us that two other stores nearby had them so why not us
— Jacob Walker (@Gladion20) January 31, 2020
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A dude in a truck came through the Krispy Kreme drive through when I was working there as a teenager…he bought a single donut hole, then pulled forward so I could feed it to his dog (who was in the back of the truck)
— St. Vincent Price (@muddaub) January 31, 2020
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Not sure if this qualifies, but I watched a grown man walk up to a row of closed registers (10 more ft & he would’ve reached customer service where 2 people could’ve helped him). He stopped, looked around & 3 seconds later screamed “HELLLLLP!!!!” at the top of his lungs #fuckface
— jB (@wushUdoin) February 1, 2020