Somebody asked retail workers about the pettiest things they’d done to annoying customers – 21 well-deserved little victories
12.
‘Not me but a colleague, whilst working in retail travel she had a big family travelling all together to Jamaica. They managed to piss her off so much that once the ticket was paid and issued she allocated the seats all apart from each other. Never found out if check in staff at the airport managed to put them together or not.’
–Motor_Dig4644
13.
‘I once kindly gave a person directions to a competitor’s petrol station when they announced that they’d never be coming back to the one that I worked at at the time.’
–ThatIdiotLaw
14.
‘Worked in a DIY store when I was younger and a bloke called me over to complain about the price of our products and told me he was going to buy from our ‘competitor’ instead. He was not happy when I told him we’re both owned by the same company.’
–cant_dyno
15.
‘When I worked for Wetherspoons, a customer was being a real nightmare. He was being fussy and annoying and wanting to change every single element of every meal and fill them with substitutions. He was being really rude and was talking down to me the whole time. I said ‘I will just run to the kitchen and make sure that those swaps are possible.’ It was the end of my shift. I just went home instead.’
–soverytiiiired
16.
‘Years ago, I worked at a theme park selling entry tickets. This guy bought 4 tickets, totalling over £100, and laughed as he handed it to me all in £1 coins. He kept nudging his partner and laughing more as I took them out of the bag it was in. He stopped finding it funny when I proceeded to spend around 10 minutes slowly counting it all one by one, seemingly losing my place several times and having to start again. I remember at one point, he snapped at me to stack them in tens, so I did that. And then I ‘accidentally’ knocked them down so had to start again. He was so pissed off by the end, and I loved every minute of it.’
–YunaLessCar
17.
‘Nobhead: ‘Call me sir or nothing at all.’
Me: ‘Ok nothing at all, the grapes are at the end of this aisle have a lovely day.’
Worth a written warning, laughed all the way through it.’
–Kitchen_Owl_8518
18.
‘I’m quite tolerant to a lot of challenging behaviour, but if you tell me to fuck off, I just will. Which upsets people when they called an ambulance and the paramedic just left.’
–earthworm_express
19.
‘Charge for dips. Ask politely and get your money ready (they are supposed to be paid for) and I’ll give them for free. Ask rudely or expect them for free and I’m charging as I’m supposed to.’
–Lunaspoona
20.
‘If they ask for something but don’t say please, then I’m definitely off to get a drink of water instead of looking for the thing you wanted.’
–West_Yorkshire
21.
‘I also used to work at Greggs, and sometimes I’d intentionally serve someone a cold sausage roll rather than a fresh one straight out the oven if they didn’t say please or thank you, or were just generally rude.’
–hollyisnotsweet
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