They say that money changes people. It does, and so does heartbreak, war, having children, falling in love, or failing at a career. But you know what else does that? There is this one industry that people leave utterly different from when they started the job. None have returned the same. It's the customer service industry.
These people have heard, seen, and endured so much that they have become a more evolved and adapted species of Homo sapiens. According to stats published on Tidio, a staggering 95% of customer service employees have to deal with rude, angry, and unpleasant customers. Legend even says that every night some have nightmares about people at the table they forgot to bring the ketchup to.
All jokes aside, customer service is a hard job that must be tackled with humor to survive. It is no wonder why the internet is flooded with funny customer service memes and working in retail jokes. Heck, there are even pages dedicated to sharing call center memes! Why is humanity even trying to reach out and talk to aliens? We've got plenty of Martians and Venusians, aka, the customers, walking the Earth already! Frankly, those who have spent years in customer service deserve a master's degree in communications and praise for their mental stability! Your approach in a job where one must communicate with many different people (with different attitudes) really is the key.
Turning silly and outlandish comments into funny customer service jokes for others to laugh at really is the only way to keep sane in "insane" circumstances. So let's applaud all the hardworking customer service peeps because there wouldn't be so many customer service jokes and work puns to chuckle at if it wasn't for them. Below, we've compiled a lengthy list of funny work jokes and puns from inside the industry. So, take a look and let us know whether you have any work jokes or just funny jokes about customer service to share with us!
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#81
"I bought a pint of Häagen-Dazs ice cream at the supermarket. As the cashier rang it up, I asked, 'How do you pronounce that?' Speaking slowly and distinctly, he said, 'Four dollars and seventy-nine cents.'"
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#82
"I decided to grab a burger at a drive-thru. There were no cars in sight, so I rolled up to the pay window. "We're still serving breakfast. And you have to order at the speaker," the clerk scolded. I drove all the way around the building to the squawk box and ordered a breakfast sandwich. "I'm sorry," she said, "we are now serving lunch.""
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#83
Instead of saying, "And here's your receipt," cashiers should say, "Will you throw this away for me?"
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#84
"A customer pulled up to my drive-through window at the fast-food restaurant where I work and requested something from the lunch menu.
"I’m sorry, but it’s 10:15," I told her. "We’re only serving breakfast now."
After thinking it over, she asked, "Do you have anything on your breakfast menu that tastes like lunch?""
"I’m sorry, but it’s 10:15," I told her. "We’re only serving breakfast now."
After thinking it over, she asked, "Do you have anything on your breakfast menu that tastes like lunch?""
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#85
"I answer a lot of questions at the information desk at Olympic National Park, in Washington State. But one visitor stumped me: 'Do you have any trails that just go downhill?'"
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#86
"A customer called our rental store to ask about rectangular tables. I told him we had six-foot and eight-foot tables. His response: "What's the difference?""
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#87
"After browsing the restaurant menu, I had a question for the waitress. "About the salmon entrée, is that a steak or a fillet?" "Neither," she said. "It's a fish.""
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#88
"Think it's easy being a tour guide? Visit Britain, a travel bureau, has compiled these tourist questions."
"Is Wales closed during the winter?"
"Why did they build Windsor Castle on the flight path of Heathrow?"
"Who feeds the Loch Ness monster?"
"Are there any Sheena Easton museums in Glasgow?"
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#89
"Fresh from a visit to the dentist, I decided to stop at my bank. Barely able to enunciate, I told the teller, "I'm sorry about not speaking more clearly. I've had Novocaine." "You should have used the drive-through," she said. "Why?" "Everyone who goes through sounds like that," she explained."
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#90
"I work at a department store where every night at closing time one of our customer-service representatives reminds shoppers over the public-address system to finish their shopping. One evening, a woman who had recently worked at a Kmart opened the announcement by saying, "Attention Kmart shoppers…" Quickly realizing her mistake, she tap-danced her way out of trouble by adding, "You are in the wrong store.""
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#91
Heard on my cable company's answering machine:
"We realize you are still holding. Please do not hang up, as this will further delay your call."
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#92
"When our air conditioner broke down, we called for a serviceman to come and take a look at it. It turned out to be a high school classmate of my husband's named Love. He said next time we needed any repairs to ask for him. The next year when we needed service again, we requested Mr. Love. I took the day off from work and waited for him to arrive. After he had worked on our air conditioner, he left his work order behind. It had my name and said: "Wants Love in afternoon.""
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#93
"A colleague was planning a trip to my business office and asked if I could find him a hotel with exercise facilities. I called several hotels, with no luck. Finally I thought I had found one. I asked the receptionist if the hotel had a weight room. "No," she replied, "but we have a lobby and you can wait there.""
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#94
"I sold an item through eBay but it got lost in the mail. So I stopped by my local post office and asked them to track it down. "It's not that simple," the clerk scolded. "You have to fill out a mail-loss form before we can initiate a search." "Okay," I said. "I'll take one." He rummaged under his counter, then went to some other clerks who did the same — only to return and confess, "You'll have to come back later. We can't find the forms.""
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#95
"I called my local utility for help with a minor malfunction in my outdoor gas grill. Their automated phone system put me on hold for over 20 minutes. As I waited, I was grateful my problem wasn't worse — especially when I heard a pre-recorded message repeatedly advise, 'If you smell gas, stay on the line.'"
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#96
"During a shopping trip to a department store, I was looking around for a salesperson so I could pay for my purchase. Finally I ran into a woman wearing the store's ID tag. "Excuse me," I said. "I'm trying to locate a cashier." "I can't help you," she briskly replied, barely slowing down. "I work in customer service." And she walked away."
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#97
"Bad weather meant I was stuck overnight at O'Hare airport in Chicago. Along with hotel accommodations, the airline issued each passenger a $10 meal ticket, or "chit." That evening after dinner I presented my meal ticket to the cashier. "Is this chit worth $10?" I asked. Looking up nervously, the cashier responded, "I'm sorry, sir. Was the meal that bad?""
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#98
"I couldn't decide whether to go to Salt Lake City or Denver for vacation, so I called the airlines to get prices. "Airfare to Denver is $300," the cheery salesperson replied. "And what about Salt Lake City?" "We have a really great rate to Salt Lake — $99," she said "But there is a stopover." "Where?" "In Denver," she said."
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#99
Why did the customer choose T-Mobile?
Because he wanted the worst cellphone service in the world.
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#100
If A is for adequate customer service, B must be for Bethesda /s.
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