The customer is an idiot thread.

[Grim_Scythe]

So for those of us that have had to work in the low shit hole jobs. (I pray no one ever works at Mc Donalds and becomes a manager for .25 more )

What are your stories?

If I remember an epic one then Ill post

[[W33T] JimmytehHand8]

You post a story thread but post no story yourself? You fail. Good day sir.

[Grim_Scythe]

JimmytehHand8;243474']You post a story thread but post no story yourself? You fail. Good day sir.

And what did you do sir?

[SoupyC]

When I worked at PC Club, we had a lady come in with a lap top that was being 'hacked' by a guy in Florida (her words). She had 'plugged it in to the internet', and after things 'started acting funny' she disconnected it and kept it disconnected. No matter how hard I tried she swore he found away on it and was messing with her.

She went so far as to show me the C:\Windows\system32 folder and said 'SEE? I DIDN'T PUT THAT STUFF THERE!'

Try as I might I couldn't convince her that that stuff was supposed to be there.

[Grim_Scythe]

I remember a few stories such as trying to comprehend why they didn't want a cheeseburger rather than a hamburger with cheese......I mean i swear to god how stupid are you?

This one is probably my epic customer interaction....
So I am 19 or 20 I am the only manager on deck at Mc Donalds. It turns out that we were out of toilet paper ....yes of all things the higher managers do not know how to order shit....

Anyhow most of my crew is 1 year younger than me but anyhow one of my dudes tells me I gotta customer that wants to speak with me. I'm like okay...this shit wasn't worth a 25 cent increase. I get to the customer and he is like just going off that we don't have toilet paper and that he had to use I napkins instead....

He had his wife and family standing there too so I am like wow how sad.

*Well duh we were out of toilet paper you need something to wipe your ass with. *

So I tell him sorry sir we are out of TP. Then he tells me in a somewhat aggresive tone : "You need to go buy TP now there's a Raplh's right there. This is unacceptable I cannot be using napkins as TP.....". Mc D policy is only store managers are allowed to take money from the safe and buy shit that we are out of.
So I had to tell him the policy.....that was fun.
Then he tells me you need to still go get it, it's not hard to do....I am like I cannot sir I have no authority. I am sorry. *me walks off to go do shit*

One of me crew members comes up to me and hands me a roll of newspaper and whispers "tell him to use this". I had to quickly go to the back to laugh. Actually most of the crew saw that and giggled.

Now I thought this shit was over. Nope as I am working in the front at my "position" the dude comes back with you guessed it a package of TP.....

"You need to learn that blah blah blah to my face".....I am like just staring and trying to not start to act like myself (which we all know what that is). And say thanks. I go back to my position..... Out of know where the dude pokes with me finger....which I considered a hostile act cause you cannot touch any employee and that pissed me off. Personally I wanted to take off the badge and beat him silly in front of his family and then smile after I finish.

Anyhow he wants my manager serial number and what not so I gladly give it to him.

*I laugh inside , like my manager is going to do shit against that*

Then he proceeds to leave.

Man I swear people are so unappreciative in America....people are using their left hand or a banana leaf (they are very good for that) to wipe their arse. I mean give me a ****ing break napkins is bad for you? This is Mc D's not a 5 star restaurant.


Lesson to all youngings if you work at Mc D's do not become a manager.
Trust me it just ain't worth it.
Well I take that back having the power and being the only one around I was the type that every employee wanted to work with.

Why? Cause I let you slack (to a certain degree) and slack on the rules cause it's pointless. When push comes to shove I expect the best of each and everyone's abilities. To me that's somewhat of a decent manager.

There ya ****ing happy now Jimmy?

*point* Now post one or I nerf you!

[Winter]

Well....

I'm most fond of explaining to the irate extended family (maybe 7 people) of a mother of 5 at 2:30 in the morning that a bench warrant does NOT mean she can just be "let off with a warning".

[[W33T] JimmytehHand8]

Alright I have a few from back in my McDonalds; I'll post a few when I get back from my assembly.

[PoPJaY]

i haven't worked yet only be of the age of 14, but my sister has been working at a coffee shop for some time now

so one morning my sister is trying to get coffee to a unruling crowd of people going out the door, when suddenly a woman in a bathrobe and slippers bust through the door and screams" my damn daughter missed the bus after i told 12 ****ing times to go out and wait, and I had to drive her to school, i need a damn coffee" she pushes through the entire line and my sister gives her the coffee free of charge just for being brave enough to walk into a coffee shop, swear, and bust to the head of the line

[atomicbob]

I worked at Ferrril's Ice Cream...but due to whip cream cans being full of Nitrous Oxide and other outside factors, I have no stories.

Then I started building race cars.....a few stories there, but don't go good with this thread.

I do remember pulling through a jack in the box and throwing a couple dozen burgers back through the window pelting the workers.

Dose that count?

[[W33T] JimmytehHand8]

Alright, I have several good stories to tell. Pick from these topics:

"Bitch ass, they close at 10"
"You spilled water on my truck!"
"Drunk Driver Derby"

[Wibby]

'You spilled water on my truck' is my choice.

[FiLTHY_SNiPER]

WHy do I have to choose... tell em all FFS :P

[SoupyC]

WHy do I have to choose... tell em all FFS :P
I agree, however...

'You spilled water on my truck' is my choice.
I concur. :thumbsup:

[LordBeer]

I used to work at a bookstore many moon ago. Right about the time Oprah started her book club thing. I had a fun experience with a few members from the cult of Oprah. Woman comes in and wants the book that Oprah was talking about earlier that day. She doesnt know the title. She doesnt know the author. She also has no clue what the book was about. She did know it was on Oprah earlier that day and seemed to think that I had seen that show. Dont know how since I had been at work all day. :smack: Dont think there are a lot of high school boys who are big fans of Oprah.

[JustMeBF2]

My funniest Burger King/fast food story is with me as the customer.
The employee was more flabbergasted then me.


I don't know if it's is still done but way back when I was 16,
I think the year was 1979. omg

The funny thing was to go to a drive thru and order a
furburger and a side of thighs.

I finally decided to do it one night.
Here comes the punch line.













The girl working the drive thru wassssssssss












MY SISTER

See was pissed off and told my mom.

[EANeuspeed]

JimmytehHand8;243506']
"Bitch ass, they close at 10"


FTW!!

[puffle_cakes]

OMG! i have soooo many good work stories. I have workied in every kind of job from retail, to restraunts to construction and masonry. One of my favorites:
I used to be a waitress at a fine dining restraunt right next to the worlds most famous seaport. One night About 8 or 9 of the seaport's trustees (multi-millionaires) came in and of course they got seated in my section. Now keep in mind that I have a ten year old's sense of humor. So they all sat at the table, I went over trying to sell a few bottles of wine, but somehow we began talking about beers on tap. Now when people asked about beer on tap I would always recite my list, Bass, Guiness, Long trail, etc etc. Suddenly one of my customers says to me " Well what do you have?" And I blurted out "GAS" really friggin loud (i realized what i was saying as I was saying it, but I had too much verbal momentum..." And then I freaking cackled for a good 30 seconds right in their faces before i had to excuse myself.
The moral of the story is dont mix Bass, and Guiness.



Another one: I am a manager at Gamestop now, and about 8 months ago I used to have a creepy guy that would call our store phone and ask if he could buy my panties that I was wearing. That was the weirdest.

[Crotch-Rot]

Another one: I am a manager at Gamestop now, and about 8 months ago I used to have a creepy guy that would call our store phone and ask if he could buy my panties that I was wearing. That was the weirdest.

Snake's soooo busted.... :bolt:

[PoPJaY]

Snake you dirty dog u

[Wibby]

My funniest Burger King/fast food story is with me as the customer.
The employee was more flabbergasted then me.


I don't know if it's is still done but way back when I was 16,
I think the year was 1979. omg

The funny thing was to go to a drive thru and order a
furburger and a side of thighs.

I finally decided to do it one night.
Here comes the punch line.













The girl working the drive thru wassssssssss












MY SISTER

See was pissed off and told my mom.

Maybe it's because I'm still a little drunk but I laughed my ass off at this.

[Grim_Scythe]

No wibby that was funny

[Shadowryche]

My favorite working for the carnival is always the conservatives who come and play the long range. They spend $2 on one shot which they miss horribly then expect me to hand them a $6 peice of stock. Often times because the kid in the middle of the midway running the duck pond is shouting prize every time.

What really sucks is working in the food joint and explaining to people why I'm charging $5 for a sausage that they could cook and grill themselves for a $1.50 at home. Or $3 for a 16 ounce cup of Coke when you can buy a 2 liter for as much if not cheaper in most places. Folks you think its been bad in the past, wait til diseal hits $4 a gallon.

[Kriv]

I use to work for a rental car company and had to repo cars. When people weren't paying, we had to go get the car back.

The best time to repo is after midnight, because shady people don't come out in daylight. My boss and I hit the bar for some burgers and beer until around 1130ish. We then go to the clients house, planning to get the car towed. My boss leaves me in front to watch the car and sneaks up the side of the house to see if he can see and get to the keys. He is looking through the window and sees the guy beating on his wife so he calls the police on his cell phone. The police arive and go into the house and arrest the guy. My boss then goes in the house and grabs the keys off the table.

The cops asked him what he was doing. He gave them his business card and explained. The cops laughed and sent us on our way.

[FiLTHY_SNiPER]

haha, nice Kriv

[sir_digalot]

mine are usually pretty boring, i get some happy chappy on the end of the phone yelling at me calling me stupid f-ing limey (or usually aussie since the accents sound sooooooooo much alike) and he is saying how crap the website is and that we can never do anything right and that he is going to leave, etcetc, and when eventually we get to asking a question, as in "what is wrong'and they say they cannot enter their account number (usually followed by a couple more minutes of abuse) we tell them press the key marked NUMLOCK and try again, which works, they then get all silent, and admit they feel kinda stupid, even though what they said was still justified... and hang up in a sort of meek way...

this happens on average 2 to 3 times a week, and usually the same people too... nd they also only have about $1000 in their account in penny stocks, but they think they are big time traders....


then there is one guy, lives in michigan, is about 900 years old... calls up with no clue, he cannot work computers, we have to run him through making trades or signing on, then his printer won't work or something else, it ends up being abouta 1hour call then he says he has to go drive his police car and he will get Miguel to look at it as he is 10 and knows lots about computers...and hangs up... he usually calls once a month... i guess when he runs out of meds....

and recently one of our independant reps called and asked how to hookup his DVD and vcr to his TV....
last time i looked we were tech support for the website, not firedog!