Jobs where your customers are purposely a-holes

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I'm sure most high schoolers have jobs like that as is, but are you currently working anywhere that basically forces you to have to deal with customers that act like asses towards you because they know it's your job to deal with them? I used to work at Purdue's IT lab, and our job was to keep the noise level down, make sure people didn't leave trash, etc. So of course there would be people that want to be sarcastic and do these things regardless simply because they knew I would have to say **** to them. I think movie ushers have it pretty bad nowadays. The one I go to, they make them announce at the beginning that no one is to talk, to turn cell phones off, etc. and someone always has theirs ring as they say it, or the sarcastically applaud, etc.:whatever:
 
I'm in my freshman year at college, and have worked at Dunham's Sports for 14 months.

The customers, wow. They are arrogant, think they know what the prices are (or what they want them to be), leave items dropped on the floor, crap all over the bathrooms :-)wow:), put things where they aren't stocked, and are just a-holes all around.

Especially if we don't have an item... those people are the real pricks.
 
I'm a computer lab tech here at school and one of the rules I have to enforce are "no food, drinks, or cell phone conversations in the lab"; but everydamntime I work, some ass has to try to sneak 1 or 2 of the three past me. It's getting to the point now where I wanna write the rules on my face and just stare at rule-breakers.
 
Retail!! I don't think any other job can compete with the sheer number of a-holes you deal with in retail.
 
I hated retail.
Teddy.
Especially since the managers taught you to grab your ankles.
 
Colossal Spoons said:
I'm a computer lab tech here at school and one of the rules I have to enforce are "no food, drinks, or cell phone conversations in the lab"; but everydamntime I work, some ass has to try to sneak 1 or 2 of the three past me. It's getting to the point now where I wanna write the rules on my face and just stare at rule-breakers.

who cares? i still sneak my drink in anyways.
 
When I worked non union and did residential work at some rich *****es house.
She never acknowledged my presence,I was on the ladder and she slam the drawer into it instead of saying "excuse me I need to get in here" like a civilized person to gain access. She did that twice at two separate areas in the kitchen. c**t ****e. :cmad:

Teddy
 
I used to work at a lingerie store.

One time, I sold a TEDDY.
 
I work with a bunch of engineers, who have to be one of the most arrogant lots on the planet as well as some pretty obnoxious marketing people. I actually had one engineer, who was being totally unreasonable about his project, start swearing at a supplier I was managing, using every imaginable curse word in the book and chewing them out (he'd changed his schedule at the last moment with no warning and they were having trouble accomodating him). What an a-hole. I had to have the supplier get off the call and then I went and found that engineer and about ripped his face off before talking to his manager about his unprofessional behavior. The engineer was less than repentant.

TEDDY
jag
 
Colossal Spoons said:
I'm a computer lab tech here at school and one of the rules I have to enforce are "no food, drinks, or cell phone conversations in the lab"; but everydamntime I work, some ass has to try to sneak 1 or 2 of the three past me. It's getting to the point now where I wanna write the rules on my face and just stare at rule-breakers.
Password block all the things they need to access on the computers. Also try arranging the desks so there is no room for them to put anything down. Could also try taking the D-R-I-N-K-F-and-O keys off the keyboard and see if they get the hint.
 
I work in direct sales and I have to say, about 95% of the customers that I deal with who come from India, are huge a-holes!!
 
I worked 22 years for a city water company. No one calls you up to say - "WOW, the water taste great today...you're doing a fantastic job."

You only hear from the public when they have something to complain about.
 
C. Lee said:
You only hear from the public when they have something to complain about.
True! I once worked in a catalog call center for Sak's 5th Ave.. Had a woman call to complain about the company making clothes out of Rayon!
 
Wow. I've been a couple of these people before-muh bad.
I feel yer pain. I'm a temp workin for a temp agency and you'd be surprised how many claim they want work and just screw it off for you tryin ta help someone.
 
I worked at an aquarium shop and one of the most annoying things was when people would decide they didn't want to keep fish anymore,they'd bring their fish and equipment into the store and ask you to buy it from them. Then when I would explain I wasn't going to do that they'd get mad and demand to know why they shouldn't be compensated for things they bought. They didn't like my answer 'because this isn't a pawn shop."
I mean seriously, you think Best Buy would listen to you for a second if you brought them your old tv and demanded they buy it?
 
Im a telemarketer, you all aint got ****. TEDDY!
 
Darthphere said:
Im a telemarketer, you all aint got ****.

I can top that. My last year of college I did phone collections for a major department store. People get REAL unfriendly when they get called about money they owe. bear


jag
 
Yeah well I deliver Culligan Water, but I also have to take back someone's cooler if that person went a long time without paying the bill, trust me that part aint easy.
 
working at the theme park for Hallowe'en, I've been punched, insulted, groped and a friend of mine was spit on
 
A coworker of mine was selling pictures to a lady while her son ranamuck. The final straw was when the kid was crawling under the table, he grabbed the dude by the nuts and squeezed. The only thing the lady did was tell the boy to get out from under the table.
Another guy caught a ladies kid who was fallinf out of the shopping cart, not even a thank you.
 
tzarinna said:
When I worked non union and did residential work at some rich *****es house.
She never acknowledged my presence,I was on the ladder and she slam the drawer into it instead of saying "excuse me I need to get in here" like a civilized person to gain access. She did that twice at two separate areas in the kitchen. c**t ****e. :cmad:

Teddy

TEDDY acknowledges your presence!:cmad:
 
JLBats said:
I used to work at a lingerie store.

One time, I sold a TEDDY.

Wrong type of TEDDY... OR IS IT?:wow: :woot:
 

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