Entitled customer screams at new supermarket employee, she spends a year making him pay for it by hiding away all his favorite products: 'Don't scream at the people who handle your food'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 16, 2025 4:00 PM EST

It's funny how people tend to lose all common sense as soon as they are angry or think some of kind injustice was done to them. So much so that they end up only putting themselves in difficult situations they will struggle to get out of. It mainly happens because they don't consider the fact that there are consequences to their actions, especially towards other people.

For example, when guests at restaurants are mean to their serves, they fail to remember that those people are eventually the ones who handle their food. They have full control over the product that ends at their table, which means they can do whatever they want with it, without the guest ever finding out, if you catch my drift…

This example applies to almost every employee who works in the customer service industry. You should treat them with respect, not only because it is absolutely the right thing to do, but because you can come to seriously regret it if you do otherwise. They know how to make you pay.

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  • That is what happened in the story down below after an entitled customer thought it was appropriate to yell at a supermarket employee on her second day on the job. The employee quickly learned of the best way to make that entitled customer pay, after she found out he was a regular at the store. 

    Keep scrolling to read the full revenge story.

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  • "A customer screamed at me once, so now I eat his favourite food"

    When I was a university student, I worked in a little supermarket for over a year. I was 19 at the time, and since UK minimum wages are age-based, I was making very, very little.
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  • We had a really complicated machine for printing and cashing lottery tickets, and any corrections and refunds had to be signed off by the manager who was never around
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  • when we needed him. Cashing one ticket alone took something like 15 steps - it was wild. So, for the first few weeks, I was quite slow at it in order to avoid making any mistakes.
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  • Well, on my second day there, an old guy turned up and in addition to some food, he wanted a few lottery tickets. He didn't seem to appreciate my lack of speed, and leaned in to
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  • about 8 inches away from my face to scream "YES!" when I tried to check if the numbers I was about to print off were correct. In retrospect, it really wasn't that big of a deal, but I was
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  • young and very small, so his screaming and towering over me was enough to make me feel upset and afraid. He looked very pleased with himself for
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  • making the young girl earning a few pounds an hour tremble with fear. I'd already had a bit of retail experience under my belt from a prior job, but
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  • that day, I cried in the employee bathrooms for the very first time. The job was not great, so I was brought to tears by customers a few more times during my time there,
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  • but I was broke and a fast learner, so I was always available for overtime. I ended up working 45-55 hours a week, and the guy tuned out to be a regular, which meant that he had
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  • absolutely known I was new, and I got to serve him often over the next year or so. Joy. I also got the hang of things, and did pretty much everything else there - from
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  • I also got the hang of things, and did pretty much everything else there - from training others, keeping the refrigerators' temperature log, ordering stock, logging and clearing waste (expired
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  • items and those with a broken seal), to reducing items which had reached their sell-by date - 25% off at 9am, 50% off at 12pm, and finally 75% off at 4pm.
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  • Well, one benefit was that I learned a few things about the miser who had screamed at me, like how he was nasty to everyone working there (especially the younger ladies), how he
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  • was retired and seemingly not very well-off, and how he appeared to keep track of food sell-by dates, and would regularly turn up soon after certain meat- based items had been reduced for the final time.
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  • Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being old or on a budget, but it's always a bad idea to scream at people just because you're having a bad day and they're not allowed to defend
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  • themselves. Especially the ones who handle your food. The other benefit was that, because I was working there full time, I was the one serving him 99% of the
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  • time, which gave me ample opportunities to deliver my petty revenge. And it was going to be a slow burn - like cooking a frog, as they say.
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  • Being a broke university student, I figured that I could both stick it to him and save myself a bit money, since food price reductions stacked with my employee discount.
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  • He never screamed at me again, but for 10 months, I hid all of his nearly-expired favourites behind the dairy items, and purchased them for myself once he'd left in a huff after finding them gone.
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  • I didn't even care for sausages all that much, but I regularly ate something called "toad in a hole" out of sheer spite, and the vile git probably managed to buy reduced sausages maybe five times in 10 months.
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  • He got visibly more and more upset overtime because other shoppers had seemingly caught onto his strategy. I always nodded sympathetically: "Sorry, we've sold the last ones. Maybe try again later in the week?"
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  • I actually rather like toad in a hole now, and have it as a special revenge treat. It reminds me of that time I cooked a frog for nearly a year.
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  • Don't scream at the people who handle your food. Edit: Fixed some minor errors and added a little pun because I couldn't help it.
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  • OverallRow4108 yeah, what you did could be considered nice compared with what other people do to customers food! I like your thought process!! good for you!
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  • TheBlonde1_2 Toad in the hole is amazing. I have mine with creamy home-made mash and onion gravy.
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  • Nuicakes I would've eaten a sausage right in his face. "I don't like these but they're really cheap on expiration day. I buy everything and give them away to my friends".
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  • justaman_097 Well played! It's nice that you found a way to get back at him without having to do anything that he could see.
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