Does anyone else here work with idiots??
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I haven't worked in a while, prepping for my new position as "stay at home mom/student" 
!! However, these posts are making me feel better, I certainly don't look forward to working any time soon!!!
I used to work at a bank, and the customers were really bad, people get very upset about their money. Everything that went wrong with their account was our fault. I can't say I miss it
!! However, these posts are making me feel better, I certainly don't look forward to working any time soon!!! I used to work at a bank, and the customers were really bad, people get very upset about their money. Everything that went wrong with their account was our fault. I can't say I miss it
There's no escape they're everywhere. I've worked a great many jobs and sometimes it's a toss up between co-workers and customers.
On refunds I once had to explain why I couldn't give a man a refund on his camp stove. He claimed it caught fire and he threw it in the lake. He also threw away his receipt. No product, no receipt but couldn't understand why I wouldn't give him a full refund. Same job a coworker politely held the door for the two guys stealing a canoe. Same job on a busy Saturday afternoon in a packed mall somebody used the display toilet on the frontend of a shelf. No one witnessed this but the evidence was extremely gross.
Taxi driver: Coworker gets out of car and leaves it running. Guy gets in, steals it and spends the rest of night calling in on the radio taunting the dispatcher with his whereabouts. Another driver when told to pick up people at the front door of a pub that was down in a courtyard. Calls in to find out how he was supposed to get up out of it. He had driven his car down over the steps into the courtyard. It required a crane to get the car back up.
Trust me when I say to the stay at home parents cleaning up after your kids is much easier to stomach then cleaning up after drunks who throw up in your cab. But the best customers were the ones to drunk to remember where they lived.
In my current profession. I once asked a client if he spelled his name Derrick or Derek so he takes out his license and looks. Another guy when asked for a contact person said I could use his grandmother. When I asked her name he said "Jeez I'm not sure all I ever called her was Nan."
But the award for dumbest customer was relayed to me by an RV salesman. The customer was driving down the road in his brand new RV whe he decided to put it on cruise control and go in the back to make coffee. After the crash he went back to complain he wasn't properly warned that he couldn't do that.
On refunds I once had to explain why I couldn't give a man a refund on his camp stove. He claimed it caught fire and he threw it in the lake. He also threw away his receipt. No product, no receipt but couldn't understand why I wouldn't give him a full refund. Same job a coworker politely held the door for the two guys stealing a canoe. Same job on a busy Saturday afternoon in a packed mall somebody used the display toilet on the frontend of a shelf. No one witnessed this but the evidence was extremely gross.
Taxi driver: Coworker gets out of car and leaves it running. Guy gets in, steals it and spends the rest of night calling in on the radio taunting the dispatcher with his whereabouts. Another driver when told to pick up people at the front door of a pub that was down in a courtyard. Calls in to find out how he was supposed to get up out of it. He had driven his car down over the steps into the courtyard. It required a crane to get the car back up.
Trust me when I say to the stay at home parents cleaning up after your kids is much easier to stomach then cleaning up after drunks who throw up in your cab. But the best customers were the ones to drunk to remember where they lived.
In my current profession. I once asked a client if he spelled his name Derrick or Derek so he takes out his license and looks. Another guy when asked for a contact person said I could use his grandmother. When I asked her name he said "Jeez I'm not sure all I ever called her was Nan."
But the award for dumbest customer was relayed to me by an RV salesman. The customer was driving down the road in his brand new RV whe he decided to put it on cruise control and go in the back to make coffee. After the crash he went back to complain he wasn't properly warned that he couldn't do that.
I read about this. He actually sued and won. Now the company has changed thier owners manual to reflect this, kinda like the superman costume disclaimer that says it wont make you fly.Chill said:
sumthin fishy said:
Sorry guys, that one is an urban legend that's actually been circulating in one form or another since the 1970s. http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp I'd hope anyone dumb enough to put a car into cruise control and walk away wouldn't be able to get a driver's license in the first place.
I worked in a chain "bakery-cafe" called Panera for 8 months before I quit (couple weeks ago). I quit because I had been waiting for my raise for 2 and a half months, but thats besides the point.
For most of the time I worked at the register, taking peoples orders, etc. I had someone actualy ask me how to get outside .
HOW THE FREAKING HELL DID YOU GET IN HERE YOU RETARDED IMBECILE!?
And it wasn't just one person, oh no. I clearly remember the question being asked 4 times during those 8 months. I mean really. Have people degraded to such a low? Its times like that I recall a quote from the movie Men in Black:
It went something like: "A person is smart and sensible. People are dumb stupid animals that like to think they have a good bean on things."
I hate people.
For most of the time I worked at the register, taking peoples orders, etc. I had someone actualy ask me how to get outside .
HOW THE FREAKING HELL DID YOU GET IN HERE YOU RETARDED IMBECILE!?
And it wasn't just one person, oh no. I clearly remember the question being asked 4 times during those 8 months. I mean really. Have people degraded to such a low? Its times like that I recall a quote from the movie Men in Black:
It went something like: "A person is smart and sensible. People are dumb stupid animals that like to think they have a good bean on things."
I hate people.
I worked in a movie theater during part of highschool & college. One time some lady came in on a slow afternoon & bought her ticket an hour early & wandered around the empty lobby. She wandered up to the concession stand where I was working & stared at the menu board for what seemed like forever, finally ordering frozen yogurt. I sell her the frozen yogurt & she proceeds to nibble on it, wandering around the lobby some more. About 10 minutes later she comes back demanding a refund because..... get this.... it's TOO COLD! 
