Ahhh love this thread. Had a good read. I'll probably post every day I have a shift at work! I have always worked in some form with customer service/ retail/ hospitality. To those who swear they never will, suck it up princesses 90% of jobs these days involve working with people in some form. be it public or other employees!
I have so many stories, the usual crap, at the petrol station daily it's the whole no smoking and why? put the jerry can on the ground and why? no mobiles etc. Had tonnes of douches ask why they couldn't have that fish and that fish and that fish and you explain that ones a goldfish ones a cichlid and ones a freakin Wrasse! (salt water for those who don't know fish) At the pet store I worked at last tho the staff had the right to refuse a sale. So if the stupidity just kept on going and they weren't listening I could refuse to sell the animal. we also had codes on the bottom of our reciepts so if they returned cause the fish etc died it would say NR (not recommended) etc and the senior staff refused refund.
I also had stupid cold callers trying to sell me ****** when I was working on a switchboard for the Dept of defence. You'd always reply " did you just not listen to what I just said? I answered Department of defence. This is a switchboard, I'm not gonna buy your telco's offer. Goodbye" In the end we'd just hang up! Being on the switchboard we were the front line for the Army base. Don't know if anyone remembers the incident in Townsville with some 10FSB members and some kittens.... if you do (I shouldn't be typing this but I didn't sign a gag order) We had calls from all over AUS and even some fromn the UK and USA abusing the ****** out of us poor civie switchboard operators! Feel sorry for the PR worker who eneded up getting those calls, they would have got it just as bad as us.
I've heard most of the stories on here like they were my own (accept the gun. TOUCH WOOD I have not experienced that)
I have regular BO customers, regular oldies that should really be in homes or a carer at least. Douches who love to argue, a germaphobe OCD who loves to tell me how we should all kill snakes, some regulars who always tell me their sad life story and be damned who's waiting behind them. Slow *** buggers who take their sweet time etc Boss had one who said they used a divining rod on the fuel and the E10 is not 91% octane, poor 2IC was there and she quickly excused herself and P****d herself LOL out the back. But I have had one that I wish the camera's had sound, would put it on funniest video's. I've worked in these industries for over half my life and nothing, NOTHING prepared me for this one.
A lady, 30's dressed nicely. Clean and had a well maintained car about 10 yr old. Came in, usual niceties etc said she was having a bad week. I said that's no good. She proceeded to tell me how she's been to bris for hospital tests etc cause on the Wensday night she was abducted by aliens and had been anal probed. That we should all be careful, cause they'll be back and do it again. I just stood there with my mouth open. She was serious, said it straight faced and all. All I could say was that's and exit only area no entry allowed and put my hand on my butt. She smiled and said yeah I know and left. I PMSLOL for a good 10 minutes, had tears rolling down my cheeks and everything. Didn't know what to do.
I'm still waiting to trump that one.
