Rude customers

[Lace Neil Singer]

Another one...

Women who assume that just cuz you're daring to smile and be friendly towards their SO, you're chatting them up. -.-

This always annoys me, and I don't think it should be excused, even if said woman is pregnant. Yeah, I'm aware you feel unattractive and fat, but unless you come to the till and find me in an embrace with your SO, please don't jump to the conclusion that I'm chatting him up. Especially if your SO is balding, overweight and ugly. -.- Just cuz you think he's the dog's bollocks, does not mean that every woman in existance wants to jump his bones. And rabid jealousy will only hurt you in the end.

[DrFaroohk]

Openly STARING at someone's chest is....actually kinda creepy, but you can't blame a guy from just stealing a glance, can you? Would you be able to look away if you saw a bulge the size of a grapefruit in some guys crotch?

[DesignFox]

Openly STARING at someone's chest is....actually kinda creepy, but you can't blame a guy from just stealing a glance, can you? Would you be able to look away if you saw a bulge the size of a grapefruit in some guys crotch?

LOL!

We know you're gonna look. Hey, everyone does it. The STARING is the creepy thing. You've got the gist. There's a fine line...it's when the guy crosses it that it gets...icky. I hate when a guy looks at me or says something and it makes me feel like I need a shower after dealing with him. *shudder* I can, unfortunately, sympathize with that post.

Frankly, even as a woman, there are times when I'll steal a glance...mostly if the boobs are so over the top and obviously fake, I mean sheesh, what do you expect if you pop 'em out there for everyone to see...and if a guy you described came along...LMAO.

I wouldn't STARE though. That's just rude no matter what!

[tropicsgoddess]

Cutting me off: You would get somewhere if you closed your mouth and opened your ears for what I would have to say to you!

Arguing with me: Please, just STFU and stop flapping your gums like you know more than me, just because you think we phone monkeys are too stupid for you. If you think you know more than me, why the hell are you wasting my damn time?!!

[Boozy]

Arguing with me: Please, just STFU and stop flapping your gums like you know more than me,

I had someone do that to me while enquiring about the job we had posted. Needless to say, her resume ended up in the round file.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Argh. I hate it when people cut me off and/or talk over me. -.- Mostly when I'm telling them something they don't want to hear, such as when the petrol vouchers expired, that they could no longer use theirs.

[Peppergirl]

Just found another one to add:

Customers who cannot put their food down for two fucking seconds in order to utter a coherent sentence into the phone.


This woman has called our agency 3 times in 45 minutes. Not only was she a raving idiot who forced us into cringe-inducing circular conversations, she was eating EACH TIME she called. We could hear her smacking her lips and actually swallowing her food, and she also talked (or attempted to) with the food in her mouth.

Each of the agents that have gotten her (me included) have collectively decided that if she calls back a 4th time, she is getting passed off to the supervisor. We don't get paid enough for this. I'd rather get yelled at, seriously. Ugh.

[fireheart17]

Yet another one....

Customers who require someone to show them an object because they can't be bothered looking.

[blas87]

Oh, it's been a long time....and a lot of them have already been covered....but I'm sure I can think of something....

I did get quite a few complaints about me at the Deb Shop (for anyone unfamiliar, it's a young ladies clothing store) for not being a smiling happy go lucky drone.

Would you be smiling if hundreds of stupid teenage girls just rampaged the entire prom section of the store and the fitting rooms are full of dresses on the floor, stomped on, off the hangers, just a huge mess.......and day in and day out you have to deal with idiot tweens and teens stealing underwear and other smaller clothing and shoving it in their giant paper Hollister bags and not always being able to catch them because of no cameras and the fact that we had to be so damn aggressive about greeting and assisting customers? It was just too damn easy for those girls to sneak on by and get in the hot spots and cram tons of pairs of panties into their bags and walk right out.

Would you be smiling if a great number of shoppers really weren't planning on buying anything, but figured it would be a really fun day to just come to the store and try on almost everything we have and parade around in it, then change, toss the clothes all over the place, rinse wash repeat....

[fireheart17]

Oh yep....

Customers who think you're robots who don't eat, sleep or have lives.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Especially those who show up five minutes before closing time on Christmas Eve.

One year, Christmas Eve fell on a Sunday. How we all laughed at the people who assumed that Sunday trading hours don't apply to Christmas Eve, and who stood there bitching as they were refused entry at 4pm. Cry me a river...

[DesignFox]

People who show up 5 mins. to closing regardless of the day. Seriously, if your boss gave you a project that you know will take you 45 mins. right before you clock out at 5, are you going to do that project? or are you going to do it tomorrow?

Why would you expect anything different from a store clerk? Lack of planning on your part.....

I've been yelled at on more than one occasion for refusing to start an activation at closing time.

I'm also starting to lose patience for out and out rudeness. The other day, a guy walks in. I greet him, "Hi Sir, how can I help you today?" His response, "Check my upgrade" *throws ID on my desk* I mean, really? Maybe a little "Hi, can you check my upgrade for me?" Or...I dunno, just a more pleasant tone of voice? Maybe not throwing your ID at me? He also wanted the phone for some ridiculously low price (he said he got a letter from some big retailer offering it at that insane price). I just flat out told him no.

If you think I'm gonna haggle with your cheap ass when you acted like a dick, plus have the lowest rate plan going, plus didn't even get the letter from the service provider, you got it from a national retailer? Um. Fuck off.

And then there are people who yell at me, the WIRELESS sales person, for issues not related to WIRELESS. I explained to some older lady that I don't know about international calling cards because we don't offer them, and our office isn't even in the right branch of the company for dealing with them. I explained that I only have numbers for WIRELESS related services and gave her ideas of where to look for what she needed.

She then sits at my desk and gives me a tirade about how terrible my company is, how we never think of the consumer and our company is going to go up in a ball of flames.

Fucking seriously. I mean, she was looking for the calling cards for a charity that was sending them to Iraq for the soldiers. Maybe if this charity wants these cards so badly, THEY should be providing you with information on WHERE to get them. Don't get mad at ME, for not being able to do SOMEONE ELSE'S job.

Yikes. I need my vacation!

[violetyoshi]

I was thinking this might interest you:

http://tinyurl.com/ykf5syz

There's a discussion over there at Yahoo, asking if people think it's rude for a customer to be talking on their cellphone while checking out.

[Peppergirl]

I was thinking this might interest you:

http://tinyurl.com/ykf5syz

There's a discussion over there at Yahoo, asking if people think it's rude for a customer to be talking on their cellphone while checking out.

Awesome link! I was pretty encouraged to see that most people found it rude.

[Lace Neil Singer]

People who show up 5 mins. to closing regardless of the day. Seriously, if your boss gave you a project that you know will take you 45 mins. right before you clock out at 5, are you going to do that project? or are you going to do it tomorrow?!

Yeah, I find it annoying every day, it's just more annoying on days like Christmas Eve when all I want to do is go home, get changed and go out and party, not have to remonstrate with a selfish customer who thinks that their needs prevail. -.-

I find it laughable that people can only come and get petrol five minutes before we close the petrol station; they've had all fucking day to get off their fat arses and come here. It's even worse when it's something like cigarettes, chocolate or sweets. -.-