Probably most of you will agree that even if you have never experienced working in customer service, you know that it’s the field where you meet quite a lot of interesting people. I am pretty sure that all of us have heard stories, seen videos or read about rude, entitled, weird customers and how workers have to deal with them. Hey, don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of really nice customers, but that’s a story for another time.
Recently, one Reddit user started a thread online asking community members to share some of the weirdest customer interactions that they had to experience at their work! Scroll through the stories, where you will also find an interview with Marlon Joseph, who is the creator of The Modern Waiter Podcast!
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#21
One time I had a customer who insisted on paying for their groceries entirely in pennies. They brought in multiple heavy bags filled to the brim with pennies and spent hours counting them out at the checkout counter. It was definitely an unusual situation, and it caused quite a commotion in the store!
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61points
#22
A lady hit me in the face when I told her she had to leave my store if she wouldn't stop harassing other customers.
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60points
#23
I sell high end marble for countertops and a couple with a project in palm springs came in. They said they needed about 22 slabs. Now that’s a lot, so naturally I asked for more details about the project. They showed me the plans and it was a compound with 9 master bedrooms, all with their own kitchen. Don’t know if they were swingers or cult leaders but it was the strangest encounter I’ve had so far!
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59points
#24
The McDonald’s I worked at in high school charged $0.25 for a cup of water and I had an insane person scream at me and tell me that “God will smite you in hell for profiting off his disciples merely for needing water, which he created for all mankind.” I said cool man, $0.25 if you want a cup though.
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58points
#25
Worked at McDonald's briefly in high school. There was a subdivision being built on the land in back of the building. Group of 10 guys at least all came in to eat and just destroyed the bathroom. S**t literally everywhere. Manager told me to clean it up since I was the newest. Walked right out and applied at the Penn Station down the road.
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58points
#26
I work at a grocery store deli, and there is this girl who comes in nearly every single day.
For a while just to talk to me, she was ordering a single slice of cheese nearly every day I was working. She also basically asked where I live and compliments me an unnatural amount.
I recently found out she flirts with almost all the guys in the produce department (as well as asks them on dates), even boys in their teens. She is around 40. She went on a date with the supervisor of that dept., which was a veteran, and he said it was the biggest mistake of his life.
She has also stolen bok choy among other things.
56points
#27
A customer walked to the front desk and asked me if I believed in ghosts. She then explained she was running late because her mother’s ghost was stuck in her house and she was trying to chase it out.
She immediately explained that she had never really liked her mother. After that she asked where I wanted to be buried. She explained she wanted to be buried in a historic cemetery so that people would come visit her.
Then her phone rang and she groaned and walked out of the store and never came back. I never said one word during this encounter. .
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55points
#28
Banker at the time. Girl roughly my age (25ish) comes in and is giving me the whole sob story of why she has so many overdrafts and if there is anything I can do to help her out? I had already cleared 3 of her overdraft fees (my max) a sentence into the story, blah blah blah.
I let her know and she immediately responds "oh my goodness I'm so happy I could kiss you right now!
Me: "No stress at all, super easy have a great day!"
her: "No seriously I could kiss you right now..."
She doesn't immediately get up and just keeps looking at me and I have no idea how to politely get out of this situation without awkwardness lol.
45points
#29
Had a guy ask me where the exit was, when I worked at a Walmart, he was like 15ft away from the exit. Had to be high as a kite.
44points
#30
Helped a woman with getting a huge dental claim paid and forgot about it. Months went by and I'm on a call when someone is tapping my shoulder. It was her and she's hugging me while all these admin people were dragging her off.
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41points
