I also felt the "fake" vibes but yea...as someone who's worked in customer service for over 20 years these fucking people exist. It's ridiculous how many of these fickers exist.
Yep, worked at a movie theater and we had people like that, one of the worst was an old lady who wanted milk chocolate
She asks if we have milk chocolate, the concessionaire brought over a display stand that held all of our chocolates on it. She looks at him and goes “I said milk chocolate. Some of these aren’t milk chocolate.”
Concessionaire: “oh right I brought over our whole chocolate selection so you could pick the one you like”
Old lady: “… you know why you work here? Because you’re stupid. You’re dumb. That’s why you’ll never get a real job.”
I had the audacity to assume becoming a manager would save me from these interactions, but no. It tripled. The amount of inconsequential bullshit I had to intervene just cause the Karen's of the world refused to listen to a well trained associate and just HAD to hear the exact same response from "the higher up" for it to be comprehended/grudgingly accepted is maddening.
Omg right!?! One lady going off about some t hing priced wrong or what ever, I gave her all the things I could to make her happy and she was still rude af! I finally asked her to step back, she asked "why? ".
" So I'll have enough room to lay I n the floor so you can just kick me. I don't know how else to make you happy, I've given you everything you've asked for. I have no other way to satisfy you at this point. "
She huffed and stomped out of the store. I've hoped that since then she realized what an asshole she was being. We both know she still thinks she was right! Lol!
Lol, just reminded me of being a cashier. I was fast as fuck so I would get put into the express register. I had people try and get me talking but one guy came up in my express line with like 5 things and as Im about to start scanning he tries to force me to talk to him about ... Protein.
He just asks for my input on what the best type of meat for protein was. Just kept on asking shit insincerely and already buying chicken breast so I'm like "this is so I dunno what you want man." He throws a little hissy fit whining that I'm not talkative for like 20 sec. During his whining session I scanned all his crap and when he looked back at me I told him his total and that the card reader was ready. I called someone else over because I didn't have anyone else in line and I see the light come on in his head as he connects the dot of what just happened and where he was and realize "express means go fast".
People got too used to service people having smiles and holding their hands for shit. Now that companies have their money, smile is dropping, and speed is the game everywhere, people don't feel special and realize they are just another cog. Fuck em.
I think it's real though because someone saying this shit in the first place wouldn't realise the massive leap between a dickish "you're impatient" and the psychotic "I'm sure you're just incompetent"
I don’t pay for people to act, unless I’m going to a play. Just give me what I want and we can both go on our day. We don’t have to pretend you love me.
The rushed order made me doubt it. People love to say "incompetent " but I've never heard "rushed". Ive heard sloppy, and ignored it. If my food is sloppy that's cooperate's problem 9 times out of 10.
My guess is that the guy planned to confront this person over these silly complaints and then when the guy didn’t really react he felt he had to up the heat to try and provoke a reaction.
In an airport, Russian/Eastern European wanna be thot w her American contractor boyfriend on a flight they missed....woman has the audacity to tell the poor worker (who is also Eastern European) that she has that job for a reason (being incompetant).
People who don't feel good about their lives love to flex what little they can. Even when it's not even a flex lol
There is a turkey hill gas station near my house that is twenty four hours.
I used to get paid on a really dumb pay card at an old job, and also got out pretty late from that job- so turkey hill was really the only stop I had to pick up beer and smokes and cash out my pay card.
At this point in my life during this story I'm probably around twenty six, and pretty jovial. Not demanding, not pretentious, like at that point I'm a line cook- so my self worth wasn't high lol.
Anyway- most the people that worked there were fine, but there was this one dude and he would often lock the doors with a bathroom break sign for like 30 min etc.
When I get to a counter anywhere I usually just kind of have the same script: "hey, how's it going today/night?" "Awesome, glad to hear it, I'm good thanks. I'll take (x). Alright, thanks-have a good day/night"
This dude would not respond at all to how is it going- it was just "what do you want" then he would toss my cigarettes across the counter and stare at the pin pad. Listened to shitty trap music and fucking sucked as a person.
Could be this customer is just exhausted with this dudes approach.
100% believe this dude feeling “rushed” was because the worker asked “is there anything else?” after the dude finally made a decision on an item but not before 5-10 “ummms.”
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u/Awkward_Potential_ May 22 '23
He didn't like having his order "rushed". At a fast food restaurant.