'She's just a woman': Man Refuses Customer Service From Female Auto Repair Associate, Demanding a Male Employee Help Him Instead, Leading To Entire Staff Backing Her Up

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Sienna Varady
Mar 4, 2024 9:00 AM EST

Some would prefer to argue that women just aimlessly roam through life while men dominate the public arena. It is simple to overlook the fact that women are leading the way in the twenty-first century, demonstrating to us on a daily basis that we are not just on par with men but, in some cases, even better than our fellow male colleagues. We should all stand up for one another when injustice occurs because gender hierarchy has no place in our society.

The story that follows is a fantastic example of working together to achieve a common objective. The Original Poster (OP) has been employed at a car repair facility. The equal number of male and female employees at the store demonstrates how gender has no bearing on performance in the workplace. But when a rebellious customer entered the store and turned down a female employee's offer of assistance, the staff decided to take matters into their own hands and teach the disobedient customer a valuable lesson!

That being said, be sure to read the narrative below if you're interested in learning what happened between the employees and the ignorant client! After you're through, don't forget to check out the female traveler who offers four crucial travel tips to help all women remember that they are not damsels in distress!

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  • 01
    This was a few years ago when I was around 18, I worked at a large chain of automotive parts stores. The store had a roughly equal number of male and female staff and being automotive the women seemed get a decent amount of men (and other women) who would ask for "one of the boys" to help them.
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    Don't want to speak to my female coworker and would rather talk to a man? How about we don't.
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    This was a few years ago when I was around 18, I worked at a large chain of automotive parts stores. The store had a roughly equal number of male and female staff and being automotive the women seemed to get a decent amount of men (and other women) who would ask for "one of the boys" to help them.
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    I was out the back loading stock onto a trolley to run onto the floor when one of my female coworkers (mind you she's worked here for around 7 years at this point compared to my ~3 months of employment) comes and finds me and asks me to help a customer. I ask why she needs help because she usually knows more than I do considering how
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    long she's been working here. She explains she was standing at the service desk and a guy came up and asked her to "get one of the boys". She tried explaining to him that she is more than competent to help him but he insisted that a man needs to help him. so After hearing this i decide f k it I may as well have some fun.
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    I tell her to follow me back to the desk where he was and to just let me sort it out. I get to the customer and ask what he needed. He explained what he was after so I kinda just stare with a puzzled look for a moment. Look at the customer and say "I'm sorry I actually don't know how
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    to help with that one" and turn to my coworker and say "actually, shes an expert in that field she knows more about that than I do I'm sure she can help you". He looks annoyed and asks for "another one of the boys" and on cue one of my other male coworkers who had overheard the entire conversation walks over. The customer
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    looks at him and asks for the same thing again to which he replies "oh actually she's an expert on that she's probably the best person to ask that question to" before wandering off again. The customer begrudgingly got her help on the matter and walked out without talking to anyone else in the store
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    Musical Merlin 1973 Yeah this s ks. It was happening 20 years ago to my wife when she worked in a plant nursery. She had an associates degree. The guy they were asking for had a much less rigorous certification from the local county extension. ● 1y ago
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    Personally, stuff like buying cars I've had much better luck either with old nice guys or women in general salespeople. It shouldn't matter who is managing the counter. If the person knows their stuff they know their stuff
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    Mjummotr... 1y ago Edited 1y ago I used to work tech support for a major computer company about 15-20 years ago. It was almost 50/50 men and women staffing the phones.
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    I was seated next to a woman who took absolutely zero c p from anyone. She got a call from a customer in his late 50s who kept demanding to speak to a male colleague since it was a tech question and he wanted to make sure everyone understood the issue properly.
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    Her reply was "I'm sorry, none of my male colleagues are available but if you get your wife on the phone instead I'm sure we can solve the problem" One of the best laughs I had at that job
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    Edit: Wow, this really took off! Thanks for my first award and all the interesting threads that came from my story
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    Sunlit53 1y ago I filled in for a year as shipper/receiver at work. Got used to breaking down and shifting 2000lb loads manually every few days. Every 50lb box of product had to be lifted and moved up to 6 times before I got it to the unpacking table. Very inefficient set
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    up but we were stuck with it at the time. I'm 5′10″ and fairly sturdy. I had the biggest veiniest arms I've ever had. It was fine, lots of lifting, lots of exercise, got first look at all the new stuff while unpacking. Then 'that' delivery guy shows up and asks, you guessed it, to 'talk to someone else'. Someone male was
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    implied. So I deliberately misunderstood and took him upstairs to the offices and introduced him to my supervisor. All 5'2" of her totally disinclined to take st from anyone. I just grinned and went back to breaking down the pallet and moving boxes. Wouldn't have done him any good to go up another rung either, it was girls in charge all the way to the top.
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    rose_reader 1y ago I used to enjoy this in my h Iscape retail role. The manager was a woman but all the desks on the shop floor looked the same, so there was no way to tell when you walked in. So frequently, annoyed customers would go to the desk where the oldest male employee worked and begin their complaint.
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    He would then direct them to the younger woman who was actually the manager. Alternatively: customer would go to her desk & demand to speak to the manager, "where is he?" She loved saying "I'm the manager, how can I help you?"
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    Same boss took significant delight in carrying heavy purchases to the customer's car in high heels because they assumed she couldn't. She was a bit of a trainwreck as a boss but you couldn't fault her ability to annihilate s ist assumptions.
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    C-romero80 ● 1y ago Wow this story sounds super familiar.. I worked in a parts store for about 5 years, ASE certified, and I would get that sooo much (part of what drove me to leave). The best responses my male coworkers gave were from 2 who were also Navy and they worked with me part time.
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    Went to test a battery and woman asked if I knew what I was doing, senior chief says "nah we just hired her for her looks" oooh the look on her face! Other time, went to turn rotors, dude says "you're going to let her get away with that? She has a red collar and you don't?" (Assistant manager at the time) his reply "we'll, yeah she's my wife" (I
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    was most definitely not his wife but it shut that guy up quickly) I laughed so hard because it shocked those people dumb and I still laugh about it. Conversely I had a couple of guys who would solely speak to me or two others I worked with because they knew I could actually figure it out. Miss the crew, not the s ism of the customers
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    S ks2bdoxxed 1y ago ● I work as a meat cutter in a grocery store and I can't tell you how many times people ring the meat buzzer and when I go out they stammer "uh, is one oh the meat GUYS back there that can help me?". I find it's equally men and women that say that to me.
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    Then if they insist and I get a male coworker, 99% of the time it's such a basic meat question like which roast is best for pot roast? Really?
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    au-smurf 1y ago ● I would have just turned to the female coworker and repeated the question word for word then repeated the answer back to the customer.
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    NotEntirelyBlind 1y ago Once upon a time while working at The Home of Despots, I serviced electrical and my buddy kitty corner worked flooring. We were chatting and a gentleman walked up to us, didn't even acknowledge me... My buddy let the man explain his issue entirely. When he was
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    finished, looked him d ad in the eye and said he had no idea what he was talking about and suggested he speak with me because I worked in that department and just walked away. Mind you, our departments actually touch and I was literally standing in electrical and he in flooring. I never had a problem with men under 25 or over 65, but the inbetweens. Yes, I am female.
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    reijasunshine • 1y ago ● I work for a sporting goods company. Most of what we make and sell is geared towards boxing. Most of our customer service reps were/are women. An unsurprising number of boxing coaches are mis nistic old men, who will flat- out refuse to talk to a GIRL about anything at all.
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    We have a chat system and can warn everyone else on the phones when we get one of those calling in. One of three things happens:
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    1. He gets transferred back and forth between every woman logged in until he flies off the handle and starts cing, at which point he gets hung up on. This repeats until he gives up or comes to his senses and calls back meek and polite.
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    2. He hangs up every time a woman answers, mistakenly thinking he'll eventually get to a man, until he gives up. 3. He ends up transferred to the man who will lecture him in Dad Voice about how "all these ladies here on the phones have worked here for YEARS and are JUST as
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    knowledgeable about our products as anyone else, and next time, he needs to be nice. 9 times out of 10, the thing he "couldn't possibly" talk to a woman about is something stupid that is clearly answered by the size chart or reading the description. (pro tip: gr n protectors are measured by your WAIST SIZE, not your package.)
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