Customer throws a tantrum then a witty call center employee shuts them up by treating them like a toddler: 'Could I talk to your mommy or daddy?'

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    "Behave like a child? Get treated like one"
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    r/pettyrevenge ⚫ Tjoffex Behave like a child? Get treated like one
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    A couple of years ago I was working as a phone surveyor, calling people up to do various kinds of market research. One client was a large grocery chain, and the script started with the question 'are you one of the people responsible for food purchases in your household?'
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    Now, it's none of my business how people split chores in their relationships, but the amount of (seemingly older) men who would straight up laugh mockingly at the very idea of them doing the shopping did get on my nerves a
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    bit. So, any time it happened (and they didn't explicitly mention a wife/partner) I started saying 'I see, then could I talk to your mommy or daddy?' in my bubbly super-friendly work voice. Got 'caught' by my supervisor once, but since I was still friendly and professional and had good numbers in general she just found it funny
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    Meincornwall • 3d ago My married friend once complained about having the same for his packed lunch every day. I suggested he just pick something different next time he's at the supermarket & make it with that instead. The only noise was his wife guffawing, from the kitchen.
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    cacao_blanco_sex... . 3d ago Nicely done. As a Gen X man, I don't understand those guy's mentality. I love grocery shopping with my wife.
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    Prestigious-Moos... 3d ago I once answered a call regarding a survey about radio stations and I genuinely tried to be helpful but I left this guy totally gobsmacked at how a woman in her twenties living in Chicago couldn't name any radio stations or music genres.
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    KindaKrayz222 . 3d ago My father was the one to do the shopping, every week. He was thrifty and discerning. Cut coupons, shopped the specials, day-old bread store. Once, he found a deal at a butcher on a side of beef. Yup, he had it butchered & packaged to freeze. We ate well the rest of the year. But I like your style. I also treat people who act like this as babies.
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    upset_pachyderm • 3d ago I hate shopping, so my husband always did the shopping. I have no clue why shopping would be a gendered activity.
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    chickens_for_fun I'm an old geezer. • 3d ago My mother hated grocery shopping, hated it with all her being. My father liked looking at the groceries and getting the best deals. And he hated being left alone with us kids, who got on his nerves.
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    So, he did all the grocery shopping, aside from milk and bread which were delivered by the milk and bread men. After he died, my mother hated having to grocery shop, for the first time in over 40 years.
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    PM_ME_YOUR_WEIRD_PET • 3d ago I started doing the shopping as soon as I was big enough to carry it all home, and you would think I had slapped them the way some older people reacted when they would go "Aww, are you helping your mom?" and I would tell them that my dad was the cook.
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    MsSamm 3d ago • My greatest generation dad used to grocery shop.when my mother I was alive. Sometimes he'd work from her list. Other times he'd go for himself, get buttermilk, ham hocks for split pea soup, fruit (he
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    could pick fruit like no one else, even Firefighters), and sardines in tomato sauce. After she passed, it would still be the purchase, but he added in hungry man dinners. Until he discovered how much salt was in them.
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    GrouchySteam • 3d ago Well done and fair. 순 21 ↑ Share ... notyourlocalguide • 3d ago Hahahaha I loved this one!! Great work
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    • BayBandit1 3d ago I do all the food shopping and all the cooking; my wife can't even make a decent reservation. I didn't get married until I was 35, and by then had become a better than average cook. I worked Front of House in restaurants from my early teens through college, but have
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    always been interested in food preparation. I've been fortunate enough to be able to afford any equipment I've wanted, and have a lot of it. I also never have to do any type of cleanup. I make the mess and serve the food, then my wife and son take over from there. It's worked out well for all of us. Divide and conquer.

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