It’s not easy working in the service sector. Dealing with entitled customer demands can break even the strongest of spirits. In fact, 75% of frontline employees reported feeling stressed and overworked in 2024. After you’ve seen some of the entries on this list, you might get the idea why.
Today, we’re shining the light on some of the most insufferable and annoying behaviors from customers that workers had to deal with. From wreaking havoc in supermarket isles to expecting to get stuff for free, some people just deserve shaming. So, join us in calling out inappropriate customer etiquette and have a chuckle in the process!
#1 Two Kinds Of Regular Customers
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#2 My Dad’s A Photographer, This Is His Most Recent Client
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#3 I’ll Just Leave This Here
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#4 The Customer Is Always Right
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#5 Found A Total Of 6 “Gift Baskets” Today On The Shelves. Please Stop Doing This
The only reason I know why this even happened is because my coworker said there’s a trend on Tiktok to make gift baskets in retail stores and leave them on the shelves for people to buy and get for their partners, friends, etc.
Idiotic, nobody is going to actually pick these up and buy them. You just made me and my coworkers day so much worse in the middle of our busiest day of the week. These take so long to put away and its utterly pointless.
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#6 Retail Reality
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#7 A Very Annoying Customer Left An Annoying Review At My Store And This Was The Response From My Owner
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#8 People Who Constantly Block The Isles Of Stores To Stand Around And Chat
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#9 Member Wanted One From The Middle And Decided They Didn’t Need Help
Cause the middle ones are freshest ya know.
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#10 Going To NYC For The First Time So I’m Looking At Restaurants On Yelp, Only To Come Across This Gem
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#11 This Lady Using Bread As Kneepads So That She Can Look At Other Bread
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#12 The Cashier Touched My Bottle
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#13 Client Tries Getting Out Of Paying By Offering Free Cupcakes To Their Diabetic Marketer
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#14 Leave Your Kids At Home
Parents are financially responsible for every hole your kids poke in our ground beef.
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#15 Someone Doesn’t Understand What “Client” Means
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#16 This Grouch Thought It Was Ok To Pop A Squat On The Buns! She Then Proceeded To Yell At Me For Stealing Her Spot In Line At The Deli Courter
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#17 This Lady Resting On The Apples At Walmart
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#18 Karen Leaves 1 Star Review After Trying To Use Voucher For A Different Restaurant
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#19 When Clients Think This Is How Commissions Work
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#20 And People Ask Why I Hate People
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#21 The Things You See At Walmart
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#22 Customers Wanted To Inspect Cupcakes By Flipping Them Upside-Down
Happens to cakes as well. At least a few times a week someone will flip the package over (to inspect the bottom of the cake I guess?) and they typically put it right back on the table after ruining the icing and decorations. Not the end of the world, but mildly infuriating for me.
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#23 The Parents Walked Away
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#24 What A Waste
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#25 Creepy Guy Thrown Out
Context: was closing at my job with a 18 year old still in high school coworker. We have a regular guy who comes in all the time, and he’s clearly a little not right in the head. It’s about 9 at night so it’s dark too.
I’m checking the guy out, and he sees my coworker mopping nearby. He shouts out “oh there’s my tiny girl! Where are you going prey? I’m gonna stalk you, I like scaring people!” For a couple minutes and is actively looking for her, and I can see by the way she’s shuffling away that she’s uncomfortable.
I page for my manager to come up and wait for the gentleman to leave the store, and then tell her that I was uncomfortable about that guy and didn’t like the way he was talking to a teenager. My manager has always told me she had my back, and she literally chased the guy out and told him not to return or we’ll call the cops.
All is well ends well, right? Nope. Corporate called the owner mad over the review he left – where he literally admits he was saying weird stuff. I don’t know the history with this customer, but a couple other coworkers have come up about being uncomfortable around him.
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#26 This Extremely Sticky Dollar Bill A Customer Gave Me That Left Residue On My Hands That Won’t Wash Off
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#27 I Got This Google Review Left About Me
This is a small local shop, often with only one employee closing so we’re instructed to close up shop if no one is in the store at about 9:55pm, so that we’re out the door at 10pm.
This dude called at 9:30pm asked if we’re open until 10pm and then says his GPS was giving an ETA of 10pm on the dot, I said well we normally lock up around 9:55 to start closing down if no one’s in the store but as long as they’re in the door before 10pm and they knew what they wanted to buy I’d check them out. He said well can’t you just wait to close until I get there? And I said I’m sorry sir but we do close at 10pm, and he hung up on me.
Thankfully the owner is a nice dude and I didn’t get in trouble for this but are you serious dude, you could cost someone your job for that.
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#28 Parents Who Just Let Their Kids Run To The Toy Dept And Tear It To Shreds While They Shop Are So Annoying
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#29 To The Customer That Did This, I Hate You
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#30 You Just Can’t Make This Up
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#31 Just A Mother Teaching Her Son How To Spray Paint On The Store’s Floor
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#32 It’s Always Like This Around Christmas Time
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#33 I Have No Words
This was an hour before closing by the way.
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#34 Why Would You Post That?
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#35 This Lady Got Mad Walmart Didn’t Have Any Great Value Vanilla Cookies So She Made This Mess At The Kokomo Walmart
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#36 Come On, Really?
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#37 Male Karen Believes It’s His Right To Drive Off With The Walmart Electric Cart, Berates Employee For Trying To Stop Him
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#38 When Clients Try To Dictate Your Prices
Grinds my gears when clients do this. We priced his property at $240+tax per month – and this is our pricing for him since 2021.
Last winter, he decided that he wasn’t gonna hire us. This year, he called to book the service for the season. I told him on the phone that it will still be the same price as before to which he just said “okay”. This is our conversation the following morning after our phone conversation.
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#39 I’m Building Custom PCs For People On Facebook Marketplace And I Get This Tool
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#40 A Lady Tried To Play Me With A $300 Worth Of Counterfeit Bills
So a lady tried to load her Cashapp for $300 and when she gave me the money, I immediately knew that the bill felt off so I grabbed my pen and boom, it turned black. I delayed her by telling her my computer was moving slow and I called the manager up front and she tells her “Ma’am this money fake.” She tells my manager and I that her baby daddy gave her the money and she quickly left the store.
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#41 This Grown Man Left A Review On The Facebook Page Of The Mcdonalds I Work At And Put A Picture Of Me In It
I have special needs due to having asperger’s syndrome and anxiety. This person doesn’t know anything about me and had no right to post this.
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#42 I Work In A Small Natural Foods Grocery Store. We Have A Regular Customer Who Steals Dates Then Leaves The Pit In Random Places Throughout The Store
We’ve found pits on shelves, in cold cases, sitting next to fresh baked goods. It’s so gross. It’s been going on for years and no one seems to know who it is.
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#43 I Don’t Understand Members Sometimes
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#44 I Work Closing At Target, Every Single Night I Have To Push 3-5 Carts Full Of Shopping Trips Abandoned By Customers
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#45 Karen Is Angry That The Store Didn’t Serve Her. When They Were Closed
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#46 The Way Customers Leave The Fitting Rooms At My Job
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#47 To Be Fair, Every Customer At This Theatre Is Either 6 Years Old, Brain Damaged, Or Both
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#48 When You Need Help Finding Something But Can’t Find An Employee
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#49 How A Customer Left My Local Target
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#50 A Customer At Work Asked Me If This Register Was Open
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