70 Dumb Things Professionals Said Or Did That Made Clients Lose Trust In Them Instantly

Car salesman

"You dont need to worry about those new diesel laws. We all drive diesels and it really wont change anything"

Ten minutes later

"I drive an M3."

Edit: Yes he may have had two cars, however thats not how it came across and he didnt mention that he did. So yeah, stop repeating people.

If you're paid to do a job then technically that makes you a professional regardless of training.

Marked the wrong wrist before surgery!

Had an American History proffessor claim that Galileo was sentenced to his end by crushing and his last words were "More weight!" I called him out on this and his response was "Im the American Histroy proffessor here", and I had better show him a source. I brought in a book that talked about his trial and punishment and eventual passing and all the prof said was "Well thats just one book."

Bought a used car that needed the oil changed, a task I do myself because it's simple and gives me an iota of pride. I could Not get the bolt off...last person to change the oil tightened it way too hard, which can damage the threads, requiring a more expensive repair.

So I took it to a repair shop, and told the guy at the counter to torque (tighten) the bolt to whatever tightness the car manufacturer recommended. (To 'factory spec', iow.) He looked at me like I was out of my mind, and said they tighten bolts the same on any car. Ugh.

Car is near due for its next oil change, can't wait to see what awaits.

Related LPT: Test the bolts that hold your wheels on...many garages tighten them so hard you'd never be able to fix a flat tire yourself.

About a month ago I rented a car through Avis. Did everything online, paid for it right then, figured I was ready to make a 12 hour road trip with my younger brother.

Get to the pick-up and they have to put my card on file on site in case of any damage. Cool, no problem. Except my card only had like a hundred bucks on it at the time. So the guy denied me my car I had already paid for.

Alright whatever, we can put it on my brother's card right, no big deal? Just swap the reservation to his name, he's over 25 and it's already paid for. Nope, can't do that. Have to cancel the reservation and do it from scratch in his name.

Oh wait, we can't do that either. Because there are no available vehicles, since you already rented the last one and cancelling it doesn't put it right back into our system. Doesn't matter that the car is literally 20 feet away and you already paid, you have to call customer service.

So I call customer service and naturally I get some guy in India who barely speaks English, but somehow his name is David? Oh and he hangs up on me when I ask for a Supervisor after he explains that he can't reserve the car since it has already been reserved. By me.

First time I've ever cussed somebody out face to face like I did, and finally managed to get it cancelled and reserved again. Except now the rate isn't the same and it costs twice as much on my brother's card.

It's been a month and I still haven't been refunded the 100 bucks that was supposed to take 3-5 business days from my initial reservation.

So yeah, I know which rental company I will never be using again.

I was at a initial appointment with a new primary care doc because my old primary care doc had turned her practice into a boutique practice and stopped accepting insurance. In the course of the "getting to know you" banter, the new primary care doc decided that I'd used a word incorrectly. He literally said that - "You're using that word incorrectly." When he stepped out, I pulled up m-w.com, wrote down the literal definition of the word I'd used (that was in alignment with my usage of it), and bounced. Found a new new primary care doc and never returned.

Even if I had used the word incorrectly, I don't see how it helps to build doctor/patient relations to point it out. Maybe the visit should be about my healthcare, not about some dude trying to prove he's smarter than me.

My orthopedic surgeon suggested I do acupuncture. When I mentioned that acupuncture hadn't ever been proven to work or be effective in any way, he gave me some nonsense story about a friend's professor's time in China.

I got a second opinion.

Doctor: "well I can't feel anything, you've got those scars on your arm so maybe this is just another cry for attention?"

Context: my first visit ever to an obgyn for pelvic pain, the "it" he referred to turned out to be an ovarian cyst which later ruptured. The scars on my arms were old scars, and I don't know why everyone always assumes is about getting attention.

"I'm going to prescribe you some homeopathy pills"

Last time ever I went to see that doctor.

Me: "What is the biggest, baddest, android phone you have that is eligible for this promotion?"

Verizon rep: "The new iPhone."

"You dont need shaded safety glasses"

As I was staring in to a 2500 degree furnace

Edit: I spend all day making jokes on reddit and this is my highest rated comment.

veterinary clinic

So what’s wrong with your cat?

Was holding a rabbit.

Edit-Her face got really red afterwards most likely a brain fart.
To her excuse my wife tried buying cat litter and cat food for
the rabbit.Until I reminded we had a rabbit.

My bankruptcy attorney was convinced that taxes paid had to be counted as income... NOT gross pay mind you.

Example:

Gross pay is $1000, $300 is taken out for taxes meaning you had a $700 check. He insisted this meant there was $1300 in income.

His reasoning was that there was an area later on the form to deduct taxes, and if we used the pre tax number of $1000, then after the deducted taxes it would only show a $700 income, which is clearly not the case since I made $1000.

Took my kids to a local optician for years, I queried a few times with them about glasses as I felt they couldn’t see very well as they were getting older. Some glasses were given, but they were only to wear them “if they absolutely had to” Cue my kids not wearing them hardly at all. The advice was this would strengthen their eyes and hopefully reverse their short sightedness.
Took them to the races. They could not see a thing, what horses were running, boards with winners placings on etc.
Took them straight to a new optician who immediately gave them glasses and contact lenses for permanent use and were horrified with the old opticians advice. Apparently your eyes get worse of you don’t wear glasses when you’re short sighted, not better. I still don’t understand how they were managing at school!

I was meeting with a "financial adviser" who had gone to school with my brother. Halfway through a useless meeting (in which it became apparent he knew nothing about personal finance), he tried to sell me life insurance.

My former boss was one of the shrewdest, smartest business man I had ever met. Until one day I found out he had been paying for his email address for the last 20 years.

Edit: it's just a Bell email address there is nothing special about it. He thinks it's more secure, even though it was spammed like crazy last year and kept spamming his contacts until I fixed it for him.

Math teacher, to a class of 17 year olds:
Heyo childsies, you are going to learn some mathsies today....

Next day she yelled at us for opening the door. To enter the classroom. She got mad for going to her class. Guess who got fired?

Went to the doctor for back pain and leg numbness/pain.

Doctor tells me it’s probably muscular, has me do physical therapy for 6 weeks. Physical therapy only makes it worse.

Doctor still doesn’t understand, does multiple xrays at different intervals, finds nothing wrong.

Finally does an MRI, refers me to orthopedic doctor.

Surgeon walks in and the first thing he tells me is “You are having surgery next week, why did you wait this long to come see us. Your back is really messed up.”

A doctor told me once that marching band did not count as exercise. I tried to explain, but he couldn't admit he was wrong.

Not quite a “professional” but my Uber driver joking about hoping to pick up a lawyer so he could get free DWI advice was a little unnerving...