The greatest inventions of mankind in its entire history are usually thought to be, for example, the wheel, paper, printing, the internal combustion engine, the airplane and other similar stuff... forget it! Just forget it. The top ten greatest inventions simply must include online shopping and delivery services.
Now I will explain why. In fact, the less people communicate directly with each other, the less the temptation for various entitled and simply weird people to expose themselves in all their glory. After all, you won't demand any undeserved privileges from a chatbot! On the other hand, the fewer trips to stores, the fewer such complete masterpiece retail horror tales, a selection of which we're highly recommending to you today.
#21
A customer was gifted an accessory she couldn't use without the main product, even though she was the one that had created the registry. When I said we couldn't just give her the main product free of charge, she told me to [end] myself. The fact that I didn't break character and still remained polite really p****d her off.
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76points
#22
2 sets of people came in the restaurant I work at, at basically the same time. One was a lady by her self and the other an elderly couple the man had a prosthetic leg. I got the couple seated first. The lady lost her mind because of it she told me about how she worked in food service before and how she would never do that demanded to see my boss and then complained about me on three outlets. Some people suck.
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75points
#23
Working retail in a greenhouse, a man comes up to me with his (approx) 6yo son. "Can you tell me where to find the chlamydia vines?"
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69points
#24
Worked at Target when I graduated high school, I was stocking a shelf with my cart and this lady and her daughter wanted to get where I was standing, and the daughter who was nice says "lets just go down and around the aisle."
The mom cuts her off and goes "no, its their job to move for us."
I just walked away into the backroom otherwise I would have gotten fired.
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64points
#25
I was in shipping receiving for three years at a wholesale glass decorating plant. Once (and only once) my boss put an irate client through wondering where her package was (I shipped it 3 days prior and she had the tracking number). So I gave her the "hmmm, where could the package be. Hmmm, I wonder, no no, could it be? No, that can't be right, hmm the package, now where could that be..." They let it go on comically long before screaming for my boss to be put back on the phone. My boss later thanked me because he hated dealing with this client so much it wasn't worth the trouble.
53points
#26
I work in a restaurant. The owner of said restaurants owns 2 other businesses, one being a pool store/pool construction business and the other one is a gun store/bait tackle store. Both stores and the restaurant I’ll join via hallways that we can but don’t often shut the door to.
The restaurant is a barbecue place and it’s western themed. We have real authentic guns all over the place we also allow concealed carry. I very recently had a lady initially refused to even step foot in the building, and then berate me through service about how the guns make her feel uncomfortable, and that she is not comfortable being in a place that condones concealed carry , as if I can do anything about that.
She then went on to ask me if the stuffed animals in the building are real. And strongly let me know how she felt about the establishment as if I was the owner and it got so bad to the point where I told her that at least the taxidermy animals were quiet.
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52points
#27
"Oh, you don't want to let me touch your display computers! I'm a hacker. I once hacked Tiger Direct for an 80% discount. And I changed FBI records to show that my dad is not dead, just deported."
48points
#28
I had a customer ramble incoherently at me and then say: "you seem trustworthy, so I'm gonna tell you something: I have angel dust in my pocket!" I was pretty new and had no idea how to handle the situation lol
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43points
#29
I once worked in a call centre for transportation services. There was some guy that would call up a few times a week. Every time he did, there was always one of his friends or family members in the background relentlessly screaming out I AM ARNOLD in a heavy Schwarzenegger accent. Any time I spoke to him I always tried to remain professional and just ignore the background noise but sometimes I giggled haha.
38points
#30
I was working a shelf when a guy came to ask me where the avocados were. Before I could answer he saw them, I gave a good ol' "happens to me all the time" and he goes, "It's okay, I'm dying soon anyways." Not sure if he was terminally ill, just getting old and making a joke on his age, depressed, getting MAiD, or why he said that. No smile, no chuckle. Just an older guy (mid 70s to early 80s?) with very little food in his buggy. I haven't seen him again, but maybe he was from out of town or something. I'm usually so chipper and friendly with customers, but I didn't know what to say
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33points
#32
The lady that came into work and stuck to me like glue talking about how her ex husband tried to [end her life] with arsenic after he took out a million dollar life insurance policy on her and how she actually did die but she came back to life after God had told her it wasn't her time yet and dispite everything else she went into she never did say if he went to jail
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30points
#33
Thankfully it didn’t happen more than once, but once I had kids laughing at me and saying it was a prank call and then hanging up… Couldn’t cuss at them because 1) They hung up too fast and 2) I was subject to quality monitoring…
Messed me up on my next calls though I think the customers I spoke with couldn’t tell, I hope..
Little s***s.
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26points