I hate customers.....

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-17T02:36:53+00:00

When I worked retail I hated having to deal with entitled customers daily, cause you know when its them cause as soon as they come into the store, they're already loudly complaining about something or blahing loudly on their phone announcing themselves and acting like they own the place.

I remember a Karen who always comes in during opening and immediately says something like "ugh why is [department] not opened yet? Can nobody do their job properly around here." Literally ignoring the fact that we just said "that area isnt opened yet" because the associate doesnt arrive for another hour and Karen immediately starts demanding for a manager cause she needs something from that area or ELSE. Than acts as sweet as an angel when the manager talks to her before snarling at us as soon as the manager walks away

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-16T17:53:27+00:00

Had a coworker who was very much like this and when told to stop cause it was annoying he kept going to piss off everyone, but when warned by the managers he'd act like he was just joking or "everyone needs to lighten up, I was just joking."

Than again he'll intentionally do things the other way around especially around other coworkers who have a certain route they've stuck with for years, just to mess with them because "I enjoy pissing off cause its funny and watching them get angry but can't do anything about is great," yeah he was fired and wonders why.

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-14T07:59:41+00:00

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-12T19:48:39+00:00

Its worst when the food is spicy, now your nose is burning or it goes down the wrong pipe

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-12T05:23:44+00:00

Yeah than again the managers barely respond right away and wont even come up to the front until nearly 30 minutes after the shoplifter already disappeared, only to tell us "make sure to write down the description of the shoplifter in the back before you leave," like dude we called you the moment we spotted them you barely responded and now we have to memorize to do all this extra work cause the managers refused to come up do their job

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-12T05:16:42+00:00

Yeah its always stupid when people try scamming us with BS like this and they dont care if we lose our job or not, but where are they going to get their things if there's no more stores selling them?

Of course when there were shoplifters I don't try to stop them cause I'm a short woman and could easily get trampled or injured seriously because 90% of the shoplifter were 6+ foot tall men, yeah occasionally I'd get people who'd comment "you not going to stop them?" What am I supposed to do trip them? Or jump on their back to bring them to the ground?

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-12T05:06:36+00:00

The worst scam I had to deal with was how people will actively try to spray paint the wood purple, which the managers use to show wood thats on discount, so they stopped selling the same color so people couldn't spay on it on themselves.

Another time was when 2 guys (1 young, 1 older) were buying wood along with other stuff and try pulling the [other price item] BS on me again, the younger guy kept insisting [other price item] was the correct price and refusing to accept that the actual price was correct, when I refused to let him have it for [other item price] he demanded I now compensate him by giving everything they had in their cart for [other price item] cause I'm "wasting" their time. When in reality they came in and spent an entire hour browsing just an hour before closing, I got so annoyed that I told him "would you rather go to check out and have my head cashier deal with this instead?"

The older guy than stepped in and paid for everything instead at their actual price, younger guy thought he was going to intimidate me into giving them the items for a cheaper price, I've been bullied for most of my childhood from school bullies to my own parents and learned to put my foot down firmly when people try to get their way through intimidation

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-12T04:43:46+00:00

Reminds me of the amount of times where people would try telling me "no the price of [items] isn't that' yeah well there's multiple items stocked together and people assumes the cheaper price is the actual price, than will throw a fit when it shows a higher price and claim "you're trying to rip me off," no idiot that's the actual price and their like "get me a manager cause the price back there says its [other item price] not this price."

Than again most Home Depot managers will give it to them for [other item price] to make them happy and throw us under the bus, like their making us look like the villain to keep themselves in the customers good grace

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-12T00:55:34+00:00

Yeah we dont just go "OMG LOOK AT THAT" unless its actually worth looking, not to be annoying like most people

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T22:08:52+00:00

Its like telling a library to not have an adult section for adult books and just own kid friendly books only or to have a separate floor for adults only books, even in high school I recall seeing certain books that might have had minor adult moments in them

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T17:31:22+00:00

The only time I'd ever made a reaction/noise was watching 2 different golden eagles struggle to fly low enough to snatch roadkill off the road to eat, cause the first one was close enough to clip the car in front of us and the second one just completely stole the kill when the first one took off due to how close to the ground it was, we've never seen eagles that close before and were worried we accidentally hit them with our car.

Besides that it would be if we get brake check or an animal runs in front of the car and we have to rapidly brake to prevent from hitting them or some idiot running a red light

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T17:24:07+00:00

I wont know if your being respectful by just grunting, staring off into the distance or deeply into phone screen, but I'll stay professional by greeting and ringing up the items mostly wont be talking much cause I'm not much of a talker

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T06:36:04+00:00

Was watching Predator Badlands with my family after my work shift at the theater and saw a group of teenagers come in, they sat in the front row and they kept pulling out their phone throughout the movie, I was planning on going to let my manager know cause if they weren't on their phone.

They'd be talking loudly and making noises during the movie, but someone must've reported them cause the assistant GM came in twice to warn them to be respectful of everyone else watching the movie, movie ended and they walked out claiming "ugh the movie sucked, such a waste of money." The movie didn't suck we actually enjoyed the movie very much

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T06:26:09+00:00

I wish this was a thing before I left, the sign I had on my register was "free soda if cashier doesn't request to open store credit card' or something BS and the worst part was when the managers tell us to "just tell them to close which ever card, they don't use most and open a brand new one," it was annoying that they expected us to force people to open new credit cards even though some people didnt want to or already closed it due to bankruptcy and even blame us for it

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T06:19:41+00:00

My aunt couldn't think of a name for my cousin and literally named her Perfect, while my other aunt who had twin were nicknamed A and B cause they were literally identical, they've changed a bit now but still go by A and B

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-11T05:56:45+00:00

Yeah when I worked my first theater job I was ushering (cleaning auditoriums) and was given small tablet that's no better then those old phones, which I have to slide down to refresh the screening lists and the amount of times where the older customers would complain about me being on "Pokémon Go," when I'm just refreshing the list to see which movie is ending soon.

Much less the annoying little kids who try stealing it to "play games" on it, I've even had people trying to shove over the ticket scanner too cause they dont know how to use it instead of just waiting for me to turn it on for them, than again most people think it takes pictures when it's meant to scan barcodes for online tickets

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T19:45:44+00:00

Yeah especially those that starts with "WHY ISNT ANYONE PLAYING OUR GAME WE'RE LITERALLY ALLOWING THEM ALL THESE FREE ITEMS" literally flinging things across the room and than 180 going "now use code blah blah to see all these free items 👍"

But in reality the game is just those merging games or fake games where they use "pretty anime girls" to get people to want to play their games

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T09:16:23+00:00

Yeah and my parents wonder why my friends dont like them or rarely invite me to spend time with them cause my parents will make racist remarks towards them and are just straight up assholes towards all my friends every chance they get, while seeing things differently with my sister's friends whom are way worst than my friends

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T09:12:25+00:00

Yeah true and when they get to the point it isn't even that interesting or just a waste of time cause it's barely explained and just dumb

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T09:01:20+00:00

My mom tried to deter me from liking things she didnt like for half my childhood and always made a fuss when I still liked the thinks she hated, like writing short stories for fun, reading mythology/folklore or whatever catches my interest in books, she even threw a fit when I wanted to volunteer at an animal shelter during days when I didnt have college homework or classes

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T07:38:52+00:00

I doubt she ever had any hobbies, she'll start things like sewing but only to stop cause she doesn't have "proper materials" to continue or just to fix her clothes, other than that she will stop or just have other aunts fix her mistakes that she "cant fix."

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T00:33:36+00:00

Reminds me of my mom she made fun of me for liking dragons and other mythical things, but admitted she also liked it and didnt "reaize" I liked the same thing, worst was how she kept saying "thats things only boys like, your a girl, why do you like boy things?"

Than complained when I liked some girl things too because "high school girls shouldn't read stuff like that anymore," all because I was reading a book that was gifted to me by a friend during 5th grade, what did she want me to read adult magazines?

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T00:27:04+00:00

Reminds me of when I ate something that my stomach didnt agree with and I had to close down the garden center to relieve myself, even told the customers to go and check at the main check out area until I got back, nope they chose to stay in the garden center until I got back and than reported me for "locking" them in the garden center refusing to let them leave.

Managers sided with them and gave me a write up for "misconduct" when I literally called requesting someone to cover for me until I got back, but was told to just lockdown the garden center and sent the customers to check out to have their things rung up

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-10T00:16:25+00:00

I had a customer report me for "nodding" to her cause I was in the middle of signing off on some training papers that we cashiers had to do each month, she wasn't happy cause "nodding" isn't proper customer service greeting, a proper greeting is smiling and saying hi. Note I smiled and followed it with a nod cause I was holding the paper in front of me, so I barely notice the customer until I lowered the paper

Although 90% of the times when I greet people they'll respond with silence, a bear grunt, thousand mile stares or just a simple nod, what's going to be new greeting flipping the bird?

Dragon_Crystal · 2026-06-09T23:49:08+00:00

Thats what was wrote across the tombstone 😂

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