{"id":2069,"date":"2016-09-02T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2016-09-02T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:28:20","slug":"ten-retail-customer-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Ten Retail Customer Horror Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article_post_title entry-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/openaccess-oampiinc.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/3-Types-of-scary-customers-that-creep-call-center-agents-out-Open-Access-BPO-call-center-in-the-Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for scary customers image\" width=\"406\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article_post_title entry-title\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0These are from &#8220;I Work in Retail And Hate My Life&#8221; on Facebook and are some of the best stories ever. \u00a0 #7 reminds me of the customer that kept bringing fax machines back to Staples, I happened to be there when he returned the 3rd one because &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221; \u00a0 I plugged it in and flipped the power switch on the back, and lo and behold it comes to life. \u00a0&#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s a power switch? \u00a0I thought you just plugged it in.&#8221; \u00a0 Arggggghhhhh<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article_post_title entry-title\">TEN RETAIL CUSTOMER HORROR STORIES<\/h1>\n<div class=\"article_meta_container post-header\"><em><b>1.<\/b> \u201cI used to work in a small supermarket and we had a lady return a disposable barbecue because \u2018it\u2019s just got lumps of black stuff in it.\u2019 She had seen the picture on the front of the box that showed burgers and sausages on it and assumed they came with the barbecue.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"article_meta_container post-header\"><\/div>\n<p><em><b>2.<\/b> \u201cI used to work at Domino\u2019s Pizza, and as most will know, they do a \u2018Two for Tuesday\u2019 buy-one-get-one-free deal. A customer phones and tells me she would like \u2018A Two for Tuesday please.\u2019 I say, \u2018Ma\u2019am, it\u2019s Thursday.\u2019 She grumpily replies, \u2018I would still like a Two For Tuesday.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>3.<\/b> \u201cI worked on a deli counter and a man came in 10 minutes before closing time on Christmas Eve and lost his shit when he realised we had run out of pork pies. After shouting at me for 10 minutes he told me that I had ruined not only this Christmas for him, but every subsequent Christmas after because he would always remember the Christmas he had to go pork pie-less. I apologised and asked if he would like to speak to the manager, and he replied, \u2018It\u2019s not your manager that\u2019s ruined my Christmases, it\u2019s you [*pauses to look at my name badge*] RACHEL,\u2019 and then stormed off.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>4.<\/b> \u201cI work at a bank and a customer once presented his plumber\u2019s ID to do a withdrawal. When I told him that it wasn\u2019t an acceptable form of ID he replied, \u2018You have your rules, I have my rules.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>5.<\/b> \u201cOne customer threatened to pee on the dressing room floor because I told her it was against our corporate policy to let her use the restroom in our back room because it was unsafe and a hazard. She was over 50, and knows that a dressing room floor is not a place for urine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>6.<\/b> \u201cOne of the servers at my work had a customer complain that their ice water was too cold and asked for it to be microwaved. She was very upset when the server returned with a cup of just water.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>7.<\/b> \u201cI used to work in the home section of a high-end department store in New York. A woman comes in to return her Keurig saying that it won\u2019t make coffee, won\u2019t turn on: nothing. We happily exchange it for a new one. Two weeks later she\u2019s back. Same problem, it won\u2019t turn on and it\u2019s totally dead. So we give her a new one. A week later she comes back AGAIN with the same problem. This time, she\u2019s LIVID and yelling at one of the associates. \u2018I can\u2019t believe you sell such a terrible product! No one here has any idea what they are doing! God, it\u2019s like every time I put it in the dishwasher it breaks!\u2019 She had been putting her entire coffee machine into the dishwasher and didn\u2019t understand why it kept breaking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>8. <\/b>\u201cWhen I was a server, I once had a girl ask for a cheeseburger without cheese. My reply was \u2018So just a burger?\u2019, to which she replied \u2018No, a cheeseburger without cheese.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>9.<\/b> \u201cI was working in a health food store when a woman came in asking for local organic oranges, swearing she had bought local oranges from our store in the past. It was February\u2026and we live in Canada.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>10.<\/b> \u201cOne time a customer came up with a coupon that was written on BY THEM, CLEARLY, to give them a free meal instead of just a free pretzel. They kept INSISTING that it was a legit coupon and we ended up having to call the manager and mall security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-8242920963943345103\" class=\"post-body entry-content\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0These are from &#8220;I Work in Retail And Hate My Life&#8221; on Facebook and are some of the best stories ever. \u00a0 #7 reminds me of the customer that kept bringing fax machines back to Staples, I happened to be there when he returned the 3rd one because &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221; \u00a0 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=2069\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-stories"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}