Customers ..

[anhedonia]

I work for a doctor. So I see like.. 20 people a day.. Plus dozens upon dozens of phone calls.. Etc..

And it never ceases to amaze me. The stupid questions. The behaviour that just makes you go wtf?? Because it's either just so ridiculously dumb, or rude.

Anyway, I figured some of you guys probably have to deal with people a lot and probably have some infuriating/hilarious stories about nightmare customers/clients.

Right now I'm sick as well, so my patience is about 1/4 as much as usual. I'll post some of my stories (I have dozens) a bit later, but yea.. God I'm so over serving people constantly. Need a holiday.

[bigperm]

This is a real conversation from when I worked at Domino's.

Me:Thank you for calling Domino's, how may I help you?
Obviously Black Woman(OBW):Hello? I got a question.
Me: Alright, go ahead.
OBW: How many slices is in your medium pizza?
Me: Eight.
OBW: Ok (yelling in the background: 'Eight slices in a medium ya'll!)
OBW: How many slices in a large pizza?
Me: Eight.
OBW: How dat bigger then?

[Bruce]

ROTFLMAO <-- I haven't used that in a while, but there's no better time than now.

[stuffradio]

That was funny

[bigperm]

I am a maintenance man now, and the stuff I deal with. I work at a fancy (expensive) apartment complex and you would not believe the things that I have to do for people.

On shower heads, there is a ring that conceals the hole that was cut out of the dry-wall for the pipe.

Sometimes that ring sneaks off.

I get a work order, go to their apartment, and do this:

http://permcast.com/sa/shower_ring.avi (371k)

[Canuckkev]

Okay, I worked at Zellers (think Wal-Mart or Target). This guy was going camping, and wanted some ice packs. You know, you put them in the freezer, then your cooler to keep stuff...cool. He asks me where they are, I bring him to the shelf (as in, not in a freezer). He picks it up, looks at it then says "It's not frozen".

And another time, some guy points something out to me in the Wal-Mart flyer, "Where can I find this?" I'm no smartass, and surely didn't make a smart --- comment. But I said "Uhh, well, this is Zellers". He looks at my shirt, eyes go wide, then looks around like he's in the twilight zone or something...and scoots out of the store.

Then there was the guy who calls up, "Yeah, do you have any green bath mats? You know, the kind that go around the toilet?" There was sort of an echo in the background...weird. Me, on my portable phone: "Uh, yeah...I'll go see what we have. There is a dark forest green one,$ 14.97." "Oh, that sounds nice...I'll come in and have a look. What time are you guys open till?" Me: "9 o'clock." "Ok, thanks. *flush*." End of call. He must have been sitting on the can, and thought "I need a new bathmat".

I worked there 3 years, probably 300 shifts. I'd have 900 stories if I wrote them down.

[Abush]

I'd have a bunch to tell you all if I felt like writing them but anyway. There was this lady that came to a grocery store I used to work at. She scanned her items and all at the self checkout and when time came to pay, she started putting quarters in the bill acceptor slot. After realizing it wouldn't go in all the way, she comes and tells me the machine won't take her money. I walked over and pulled the quarter out and told her that was for the bills not the coin.
Had a bunch of times where people come and yell at me because the machine won't take their money but it turns out they didn't press 'pay now'. Some people are messed up in the head and some people just make my day. It was fun when I look back at it.

[anhedonia]

Ok, story #1

I had a guy have some medical work done on his head. So he comes out and says, 'I know I can't get my hair wet .. but can I wash my hair?'

lol.

Keep them coming, I'll keep posting some intermittently. I have way too many, if I did them all at once, I'd be here forever typing.

[allanh]

Ok, story #1

I had a guy have some medical work done on his head. So he comes out and says, 'I know I can't get my hair wet .. but can I wash my hair?'

.

answer- Dry cleaning

[Blank Verse]

Right, well, I haven't worked a job where I have to deal with people in a while, but...ahh the memories.

When I worked at a liquor store a few years back, I got some frontrunners for the Darwin Awards.

One women came in one day...on my last day, thank God. She comes in, picks up an 18 pack of this beer called Alberta Genuine Draft...it's your run of the mill cheap brew...the stuff you buy because it's cheap and you just wanna get slammed. At the time, it was an 18 pack for 16 bucks. That's an insanely good deal.

Not for this woman. She comes up to the till, like normal, nothing seemed wrong. She puts the beer on the counter, sits there for a second, and suddenly has an epiphany. "Wait a minute", she says, with a hint of surprise in her voice. "How much is a case of that?"

"a case is $13.99. the 18 pack is on sale, which is why it's under a dollar a beer"

"$13.99? That's bull----. Bull----! You can get a case of this in the city (I was still living in a small town outside Calgary at the time) for 10 bucks."

"You've got the 18 pack there, I don't see the prob..."

"What are you gonna do about this?"

"What?"

"Aren't you going to cut me a deal? Seeing as the price on this is absolute ----"

"...no. No I'm not"

"Why the hell not?"

"Because you can't get that in the city for 10 bucks. It's $13.99 and you're not even trying to buy that. You've got the 18 pack"

"are you calling me a liar?"

"I am. You're lying about the price to try and scam a deal out of me. If you want to buy a case, it's $13.99, take it or leave it"

"This is absolute ----. You've lost a customer! I'm going to go into the city from here on in and I might have a speech with your manager"

"have fun. YOu're going to waste gas driving into the city to buy beer for the exact same price. That's pretty hardcore for a case of beer"

She stormed out. I waved goodbye.

I've got a lot more stories. I shall tell them promptly.

[Megaphile]

This is a real conversation from when I worked at Domino's.

Me:Thank you for calling Domino's, how may I help you?
Obviously Black Woman(OBW):Hello? I got a question.
Me: Alright, go ahead.
OBW: How many slices is in your medium pizza?
Me: Eight.
OBW: Ok (yelling in the background: 'Eight slices in a medium ya'll!)
OBW: How many slices in a large pizza?
Me: Eight.
OBW: How dat bigger then?

LMAO

[Jan]

*Jan robs the memory bank.

Some of these have reminded me of a few over there years.

[themoose]

bigperm's the best so far... made me laugh

[Matt8]

I am a "computer technician" [kind of] and boy I've had some interesting ones.

One night a guy came in and told me the sound on his computer is not working. He told me about how it has an integrated sound card and video and so on. Turns out the guy thought integrated audio meant the speakers were built in too ;-) He was pissed when I plugged in speakers and it worked, while he is realizing how stupid he is.

[Blank Verse]

So at the store I worked at, we had a 5% seniors discount on Mondays.

Elderly couple walks in, brings a bottle of Jack and some wine to the counter.

Old Guy: "Hello, sir"
Yours Truly: "Good afternoon"
Old Guy: "Do you offer a senior's discount?"
Yours Truly:" Yes, we do. You get a 5% discount on Mondays"
Old Guy: "Oh...well, at Co-op, it's on Wednesday"
Yours Truly: "oh...I didn't know that."
Old Guy: "Are you going to do anything about that?"
Yours Truly: "uh...why?"
Old Guy: "Because Co-op has their seniors discount on Wednesday"
Yours Truly: "But we're at Safeway. And it's Tuesday."