20+ Times fed-up customers acted like total Karens: 'He really wanted to get me out of that shop'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 10, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

We all have our bad days… but that's no excuse for treating retail workers with anything less than respect. 

Some people act like Karens all the time, while others only flip out when they're pushed to the brink. The former category — the person who's always in Karen mode — tends to think they're not doing anything wrong. They're always in the right (in their eyes), and they think that they can do no wrong. It's always the employee who messed up. They'll tell stories about how they screamed at a worker who didn't give them fresh enough food, or who couldn't seat them quickly enough at a restaurant, as if this is the most amusing story in the world. To them, every worker is the same: just a lowly employee who needs to be bossed around in order for them to get their job. There's probably no fixing this type of Karen, who gets their kicks from putting the poor workers "in their place."

But, as the people below will tell you, sometimes you just get pushed a little too far, and find yourself totally freaking out on the workers. In some cases a delivery guy demanded a tip when they really didn't deserve one in the first place, or a cashier with a bad attitude tried to refuse the customer service when they weren't even doing anything wrong to begin with. And one person flipped out on a car salesman who tried to upcharge them… and they yelled so loud that it was a warning sign to all the other potential buyers in the building! 

Up next, read about workers who quit their bad jobs on day 1: "I'm outta here!"

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    This is the kind of story most of us would take to our graves

    lawlessSyntax I was in Montreal for a hockey game, and wanted to buy a Canadiens jersey. They're a little pricey at the arena, so I was walking around downtown Montreal looking at all of the Sports- Memorabilia shops. I found one, walked in and bought a Canadiens jersey. It was one of the nice reebok lace-up ones, for almost half retail price.
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    I put it on to wear out of the shop, as I was walking around Montreal in just a t- shirt and it was quite cold. Ripped the tags off and as we were leaving, my dad noticed that the 'NHL' insignia was backwards, and said 'LNH'. This place was packed because it was hockey day, and I got in the clerk's face and said, rather loudly, "You sell fakes! This is a bootleg!
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    Chinese cr p! This is supposed to say NHL!" The clerk's english wasn't great (french speaking) but he ensured me 'These are the new ones. LNH is the new logo'. I replied "Yeah, ok, NHL changed their name. I believe that."
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    He wouldn't do a refund, and finally I left the store feeling defeated. On the walk back to the hotel, I saw another Montreal jersey with the LNH insignia. And another. I pulled my phone out and googled it. la Ligue nationale de hockey. The new Canadiens jerseys had LNH on them to celebrate their French Canadian heritage.
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    wonderdolkje It was in Munich Germany about 15 years ago. I was on a train an a conductor comes around to check for tickets. I give him my ticket, and immediately he starts explaining something about how i hadn't paid and he was gonna write me a fine. I was like: "What the f !?! You literally have the ticket that i bought in your hand! Are you crazy?"
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    He keeps explaining I didn't pay and so he needs to give. me a fine. I keep getting more and more irate at this obvious idiot, how could he possibly say that? I point to him that the value I paid for the ticket is on the thing! And start mentioning/insinuating is he doing this to all tourists, to scam them, ја ahle.
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    By this time we've reached the next station and he gestures to me, while getting of the train with my ticket, and sticks it in a machine on the platform that goes "kachink". And he gives it back to me. "Now, you've paid" "Oh"
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    This person ended up yelling so loud that they warned everyone else about the slimy sales tactics in advance!

    Utaneus Buying a used car from a dealer. We agreed on a price over the phone. He offered to have someone come pick me up to test drive it (I was new in the city and had no car). I said "sure, let's do it. I'm prepared to buy the car with cash today, but not for one cent more than the price we agreed upon, so
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    don't waste our time bringing me out there unless we're clear here, this is the final price all fees included." (The dealership was a 30- 40 minute drive away, so I didn't want to waste my time if it wasn't real). So he and another guy come pick me up. And of course he's trying to sell me a new car instead of the one I'm interested in, but I'm not hearing it. I test drive the
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    car, it's just what I'm lookin for, and the price we agreed on is under KBB value, so I'm good with everything. Then he draws up the paperwork and the final cost is nearly 2 grand more than we agreed on. I'm pretty upset now. We had a clear agreement, and he tries to slip in $2,000 like I wouldn't care. I say no deal, drop me back off at home. He keeps knocking off a hundred here,
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    a hundred there. F that, we had a deal, take me back home. Finally he says, well if you're not gonna buy the car (for $1500 more than what I told you) then you can find your own way home. So now I start raising my voice so the other customers hear our conversation "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU DRAGGED ME 40 MINUTES AWAY FROM HOME, TRY TO
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    CHARGE ME AN EXTRA 2 GRAND THEN TELL ME I'M STRANDED OUT HERE IF I DON'T PAY!?" He's begging me to be quiet, tries cutting more off the price, but I'm not letting this go. People are staring, the dealer is sweating bullets. His manager comes in and starts getting more of it from me, they start apologizing but I'm not letting them off here. I don't
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    respond well to high- pressure sales tactics and they're starting to realize it. Anyway, after making a big scene and giving the auto- dealer that tried to pull this on me a legitimate panic attack, the manager finally
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    agreed to sell me the car at the agreed upon price. Which I then negotiated another $500 off of. He really wanted me out of that shop. Car is still running great.
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    IDontWantToArgue... I spent my last $40 on a car part I needed. It had obviously been returned before and was assembled incorrectly by the first purchaser. First he said I couldn't return it because it had brake fluid on it. Ok fair enough, he can't resell it but whatever, I had my friend drive me home and I cleaned it up and
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    had my friend drive me back again the next morning. Now he's saying he can't take it back without a receipt. Well I paid with a credit card and there's a warranty so I should be in the system. He wouldn't even check and refused to exchange it. | lost it, I was irate, screaming at him, customers were laughing at
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    how upset I was, he threatened to call the police, I told him to go ahead. But then something amazing happened. Behind this guys back, another employee overheard my details, looked up my information and printed out a copy of my receipt. Just as this guy is about to tell me for the millionth time that I can't return the part without a receipt, the employee
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    behind him hands it to me, and I handed it back to the manager I was arguing with. Got my new part and was able to make it to work that night. Hope that guy didn't. get fired for doing the right thing. F you Krager/Checker/Oreilly store manager.
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    [deleted] Sat down at a restaurant at the world's most inconvenient table. Square with four chairs, one was pushed up about a foot from the bar and the bar patrons. They were practically sitting on the table. I sit across from my partner. Shortly a waitress comes and asks me to move adjacent to my partner, as my chair is impeding the ability for
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    others to go to the bar. So I move. Then we wait a long time to be served, get our food and I take my first mouthful when an employee comes over and says that I need to move seats because my chair is blocking the path they use to deliver food. This happened once more before I finished my food. I lost my sh. I just wanted to eat.
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    adinho85 Waiting in Gatwick for our flight, which was at 0650, gates closed 30mins before departure. Watching the boards like a hawk but the "Go to gate" only appears at 0610, cutting it a little fine for them, but whatever. We start casually making our way towards the gate, it's a bit of a walk, but as we pass another board on the way
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    "it's 0615), "Gate closing" appears. So we start running to the gate, get there a few minutes later, as a passenger walks through the gate. Hand over boarding passes and passports and the saggy faced old witch, who was de d behind the eyes and had nothing between the ears, says "Sorry, the gate is closed".
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    It was 0617, not a chance they should've closed the gate, but clearly they'd thought the last passenger had boarded and decided to shut up early to make their stats look good. I KICKED OFF. I had seen that they just let a passenger through, I could see them still boarding the plane. But no, they'd 'shut their systems down' and couldn't do anything. This
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    was utter them out on it, but I called eventually got marched back through the airport to get another flight. As we're checking in for a flight that leaves at 0900 we're told we have to pay another £100 each, this was twice as much as we'd paid for the original flight. I explained the situation, but the woman at check-in wasn't having it either and
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    He said, "Whatever" and left, so I called the restaurant and told them they had a really driver.
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    AlwaysKim28 This happened at my bank. Went in to change my rent money from 20's to 100's so making a money order would be easier to count. I tell the lady behind the desk what I'm doing, and she happily agrees to help me. In 20's, I count out about $1000 to her, putting the money down and counting out loud. She then takes the cash, gets the hundreds, and counts.
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    back $900 to me. I tell her there's $100 missing, and she claims I only counted $900 to her. She already put the 20's I gave her in her drawer, so there was no way to see what I counted to her. I argued with her for about 10 minutes until she told me they were about to close and to come back tomorrow to speak to a manager. I was so shocked this lady was so
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    stupid that I just told her to quit her job while she's ahead and walked out. Thankfully I had an extral $100 in birthday money, but f that lady. Never went back to that exact location.
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    jhimiolek Lady at the drivethrough couldn't hear me, so i talked louder, still couldn't hear me so i spoke even louder, still couldn't hear me so i moved round to the window and she had the headset around her neck, so i said, quite loudly, "can you hear me now?" She jumped about three feet and looked surprised to see me
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    TotesritZ So my husband is a drummer and he had just played a gig. Had a full load of drums in his station wagon and couldn't see well out the back (important later). He pulls into Macca's for a late night snack. Orders McNuggets. He's is told there's a wait and to park in the waiting bay.
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    just assumed we'd turned up late and missed the flight. I was adamant on my timings, so repeated myself getting more and more irate until eventually the manager of not just the airline, but the whole of Gatwick, came out. I repeated my timings, and told them that I thought the airline was trying to bump up their stats by shutting the gate early. He went away and checked, came back
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    and my timings were sport on, he agreed with me....alas, we were on the next flight, upgraded, for free. If you're from the UK it wouldn't surprise you to know that it was an EasyJet flight. Arseholes.
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    -eDgAR- I had ordered some food at around 2am. My roommate had to work the next day and was sleeping, so I made a note on the delivery saying, "Please call, do not ring bell. Thanks!" Our doorbell was a really loud buzzer, so I didn't want to wake him.
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    About an hour later, I hear a loud BZZZZZZZZZZ. I was so annoyed because I had clearly asked that they not do that. I go to the door and it's this guy probably around 20 years and immediately after he hands me my food, he sticks his hand out and goes, "Tip." I had money in my pocket that I was going to tip him with but I didn't even get a chance to get it out before he did that.
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    I responded with, "Seriously?" Then I went to tell him that he was not going to get a tip not only because he rang the bell when I clearly asked him not to (it was printed on the receipt under my address so he should have seen it) but also because of how rudely he demaded a tip. I told him.about how I was a delivery driver when I was in college and I would never try to force someone to tip me.
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    He had to reverse. He reversed once and hit a bollard. Drove forward and reversed and again hit the bollard. He was super embarrassed, so he just drove straight out into the car park and for some reason, reversed into a park, completely taking out a rubbish bin.
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    By this time the whole store is looking outside because it looks like he's tearing the place up, for being made to wait for nuggets. Next thing the poor drive thru kid came running outside with bag of food, apologizing and terrified, threw the bag in the window and ran back inside. I still giggle when I think about this.
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    d4ni3lg Anyone's who's got a bus in the UK (or most other places really) will know that when you ring the bell, not only does it make an audible "ding", but a light at the front of the bus next to the driver that says "BUS STOPPING" will illuminate. Rang the bell, got up and stood right next to the driver by the door so he can
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    clearly also see I'm waiting to get off. Driver just continues past the bus stop. I'm like "you not stopping for me there?". He rolls his eyes, scowls and slams on the brakes in the middle of the road, to the point where everyone standing up nearly fell over and I think I heard someone fall down the stairs. Looks at me and goes "maybe try
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    ringing the bell next time if you want me to stop then" and opens the door in the middle of the road. just walked up to the sign that's lit up right in front of him and start sarcastically tapping it like it's on the fritz. "Well I think your light must be broken or your going blind if you can see that mate". Heard him
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    mumbling something as I got off. So many bus drivers are such miserable There was also the time a bus was 30 minutes late and I didn't thank the driver when I got off, but I'll save that gripping tale for another time.
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    [deleted] Once a few years ago, at an applebees, my waitress was bussing a huge tower of dishes (not wanting to make two trips I guess?) which just visually was precarious. at best. As she was walking towards me I thought to myself, there is no was she is gonna make it to the kitchen.
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    Sure enough, once I am in splashing range the tower goes down. Half full glasses of soda hit the floor and send splashes over my sandaled feet, and a full cup of marinara sauce hits the edge of our table and showers me with about a quarter of a cup of marinara sauce in a billion droplets from my hair to my chest. We hadn't even been served drinks ourselves yet, this was just the start of our
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    meal. So I'm sitting there with sauce literally dripping. from my nose, hair, etc. Waitress makes eye contact with me and sees what she has done, eyerolls and groans " son of a b !" I am sitting there frozen like, uh someone help? Husband is saying loudly, can we get some help here? Waitress Walks less than three feet away, snatches up a rag and
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    begins wiping her OWN hands! Deliberately TURNS HER BACK TO ME, another waiter sees this and come over now and is dabbing at my shoulder with a I of paper napkins. I hear the waitress who dropped all the crop say, "why is this b looking at me, now I bet this b is gonna give me a problem. I'm not dealing with this sh ." And turns and walks into the back.
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    At this point I say to the waiter who is trying to dab away this sauce, she isn't even going to say SORRY? He shrugs and is like, sorry ma'am. I said yeah, thanks, an apology should come from her though and I heard her refer to me as a b ? I'm sitting here minding my own business and get pelted with sauce and soda head to toe, and I'm a b ? At this point the anger rightfully
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    built in me, and asked to see the manager. Manager comes over. By now the spilling waitress has heard I am complaining. She comes over, and stands behind the manager as she and I talk. I explain what happened, and that accidents happens and I'm not even mad over the spill, but I'm mad over being treated like crp after it and being referred to as a b
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    Manager is gushing apologies, our dinner.. a two for twenty we were grabbing.. will be free. Okay, great. Still, I said, this is an area for retraining or something. There needs to be something said to the server, that is not how you treat people. She turns around and sees spilling waitress, and says I'm sure she was coming to apologize right now.
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    Waitress EYE ROLLS and says nastily, it was just an accident. No apology. Manager is now like oh cr p, on her face. I said to waitress, and referring to me as THAT B I is an accident too? She says nothing, gives a smirk and crosses her arms. I looked between her and the manager, who is now silent and doesn't know what to do with this. It ends in a stand off, of the waitress
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    refusing to simply apologize. and me seething. So I think a moment, and said to the manager, so you said our ENTIRE meal tonight will be free? We want to change our order. And we want to keep our same server. No hard feelings, afterall, right? So we changed our two for twenty to the most expensive entrees we could find, with three appetizers and salads
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    and soup first. Dessert after. Tab was well over a hundred bucks. We lingered for as long as we could stand. Needless to say, we stiffed that b, and I wrote no hard feelings on a napkin covered in marinara sauce at the table. Only time I ever stiffed a server, and it was grand.
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    [deleted] Moved cities and had to transfer my internet account. Had to pay a ridiculous transfer and reconnection fee but what ever I needed internet so I paid it, next month my bill arrives with the same fees on it. I call and then eventually am told the fees will be wavered and my next bill will be fine. Next one arrives and I still owe a $150
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    transfer fee and the plan is now $20 more expensive. I call again and am told the plan I signed up for no longer exists and so I have to be on this more expensive one, I am again told the transfer fee will not be on the next bill, after some arguing they agree to give me a temporary credit to make my bill the price I originally agreed to. The next bill arrives, this one is again the same increased
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    rate and has phone charges on it (I had never even bought a phone to plug into the wall only a modem) I ring. again and file a complaint. When they eventually got back to me regarding my complaint I lost it, after months of absurd bills charges and compliant customer service people who always assured me next month it would be fixed, I'd had enough. Entertainingly enough yelling at them was
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    what finally got them to sort the sh out, I got a permanent $20 credit to bring my plan back to what I agree to paid and no more phantom charges occurred, I still switch plans as soon as my contract ended though
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    stu... I was getting my phone number transferred from my fathers name to mine. It took about a year of me begging him to do it, until he caved and did it. As a small backstory; he is a very ab ive, narcissistic b rd and I was trying to get away from him at the time. After we finished the paperwork, we received a confirmation email stating it
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    would take between 2-5 business days. A week passed. Nothing. Another week passed. Still nothing. I contacted their customer support and they assured me that they were working on it. A third week passed by and I called them. After explaining my situation, the girl put me on hold without warning and
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    left for about 10 minutes. I had enough time to cook lunch. When she came back, she told me I never ordered the transfer. I told her that I had, indeed, ordered it and that I had both my fathers and my own confirmation emails and read the important parts out loud for her. She said it wasn't possible and repeated that we never ordered it.
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    I asked her to shut up with the whole "we never ordered it" thing and sent her screenshots per mail. She put me on hold again without warning and I waited again. Finally, she came back again and told me "well the documents aren't here." I asked her why come they aren't there?
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    She made a sound and simply said "I don't know" I was getting kind of upset at this point so I asked her to please find out, prompting her to put me on hold without warning again. When she came back, she explained they could have. been lost but it was most likely our fault they had lost them.
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    This upset me something fierce because we had done everything they asked and from then on, it was their responsibility to complete the transfer. I mentioned this and she agreed. So I asked her if she could, based on the confirmation emails, transfer the number. She told me no and implied that "stealing" another persons number was illegal and that I had to talk to my
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    father to resubmit the request. I was so mad at this point I might have been crying. I felt pretty lost at that point. Pretty much thanked her for nothing and hung up. I feel bad about it in hindsight, but things like these aren't supposed to happen and her accusing me like that was way over the line.
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    McBombDotCom I'm not proud of this one but I was on a 9 day stretch of going in at 7am to work and stopped at Starbucks for a coffee and a bagel since that would be my food intake till like 1. (when coverage got to my department) So I go in, order and wait. Get coffee. Wait. Wait more. Gonna be late if I keep waiting. So I mention it to the person I
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    made the order with and they got with me saying I didn't order a bagel. I showed her the receipt she gave me and she just made a harrumph sound and started making it. 3 more people got their orders before I got my bagel. I mention it again and the lady practically throws it at
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    me. So in a fit of spite I've never felt since I turn to leave and go "Oh and by the way, someone spilled something" and toss my venti coldpress on the ground. The whole place goes silent and the lady, who was the manager apparently just looks at me with pure hate in her eyes. I didnt break my stride leaving.
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    Paperclip902 I bought a phone at the Mediamarkt (don't know if this is well known outside the Netherlands) where they have a policy that claims. that when your screen is broken that you can wait for the repair. So you never have to sent your phone to some repair place and you never have to wait "long"
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    So the screen of my S6 broke and I called the Mediamarkt to ask if it was okay if I could came in. A lady picked up the phone and replied with: Of course! you can just walk in and your screen will be fixed within the hour! I especially say: Well the screen is pretty broken. Will it still take only 1 hour? And the lady on the phone says; yeah don't worry about it. It takes 1 hour on arrival so with
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    waiting line and all. So I was like Holy crop they actually do what they advertise! So I went to my boss to ask for an hour off because the Mediamarkt is not in my hometown (and there was one in the place where I worked) So the big boss agreed and off I went to the Mediamarkt. When I walked into the costumer service I
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    immediately spotted a very big line of waiting people. So I thought to myself: Welp this will probably will take longer than the 1 hour we agreed on. No big deal I will just call my boss to ask if it's okay if i come in a bit later. Boss said: take your time, it's a slow day anyway. Nice! So I just stood there relaxing because I knew I had all the time. 1 hour passes and i'm still in the
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    waiting line. I kinda am getting p ed at this moment, but I keep my cool. 1,5 hours passed and i'm the next guy to be helped. So I think to myself: Finally!!! so i go to the counter and the techguy asks me "how can I help you?" So I show him my phone and he goes: Wow that phone is really f ed up. And i'm like "yeah.. I already told this to the lady on the phone". So
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    this guy is like; There are no females working here.. So I show this guy the number that I called and he is like: I don't know the phone number. No problem. Let's call the number to double check mate! So I call this number and the phone literally next to this dude is ringing... So I can see this dude getting p led. I tell him "mate don't worry about
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    just fix my phone and i'm happy" Then this dude goes like: Yeah it will take about 2-4 hours. So i'm like no.. The lady told me it would take 1 hour total! I've already waited for 1.5 hours now and now you're going to tell me it takes 2-4 hours to fix a phone screen? This dude just looks blank in my eyes and tells something about the line" Deal with it, it's not
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    my problem" (in Dutch: Dat is pech voor jouw. Het is niet mijn probleem) That's the moment I lost my sh. Manager came in and asks me "what's happening. here"?? So after telling my whole story the dude who "helped" me just blankly looked into the managers eyes and said: This dude is lying" LUCKY for me the lady behind me backed me up in my story so the
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    manager goes on some kind of rage toward this employee, says sorry 10 times to me and my repair was free of charge (still had to wait 2 hours tho...) Edit: I also believe the guy who helped me got fired over this (well it turned out he already received 2 warnings)
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    IK Today I went to dinner with a friend. It's one of those order and then they call your number places. Also keep in mind the place is usually out the door busy. When we got there it was basically empty but they had full staff. My friend ordered pasta and I ordered a salad. We sat down and the line started to form out the door but it was moving and things were
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    going smoothly in the kitchen. My friend got his pasta and about 5 minutes go by and I still don't have a salad. I'm watching the kitchen and the cook in charge of salads doesn't look busy at all so I go up to check. There was a r de customer that pushed me out of the way when I was walking up to ask where my food was so I got pl ed off. I finally get to go up there. and see that the cook in
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    charge of salads is laughing with his coworkers and around on his phones. So I go up to the cashier "can you tell your guys to make my salad instead of around. I ordered 15 minutes ago, my friends almost done eating." They scrambled to find my ticket for the order offered me a soda and apologized a bunch I said "no it's fine please just make my salad" i
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    felt bad for going off on them because they probably just lost my ticket, but it really ped me off to see them just around when I'm here wondering why it's taking so long.
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    XJ-O I waited 40 minutes at a KFC. I got there when the place was practically empty. They told me the chicken wasn't ready(in a place that serves chicken, around 3PM no less?), and that I would have to wait. I decided to wait. Ten minutes is okay, 15 is tolerable. But more than half an hour? At first I was fine
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    because they first served a family that had been there before me. I figured that where most of the chicken had gone before my arrival. But then they served several customers that came in after me, which actually pl ed me off. I had two small meal orders. I approach the counter and ask what's going on, they hadn't called my number.
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    The cashier apologizes and takes my receipt to the food worker(I watched and heard this), and tells her to make my order right away. I stay there waiting, thinking she's putting my order together, but then she walks past me and serves two more customers! I became livid and shouted "Are you kidding me?!"
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  • 85
    The cashier's jaw dropped, he starts yapping at her, she sluggishly starts heading back to the food station, but I was done at that point and said, "Just give me my refund so I can get the hol out of here!"
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  • 86
    Then it takes the cashier more than 5 minutes attempting to process the refund, then he asks her to do it, all the while everyone is watching, and more are still getting served. It took every bit a restraint I had not make a total scene or flip things over. Worse KFC experience I've ever had.
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  • 87
    Rainy DayNinja I had ordered a mattress and box spring set from Sears for our new King-sized bed, and when it arrived, it had only half the box springs (King-sized beds use two twin-sized box springs). Called to complain, and they insisted that's all I ordered, and that I should have known I needed to order the other half separately.
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  • 88
    I raised a big fuss about it over the next several days, including reporting them to the BBB, but they wouldn't budge. I went ahead and bought the other half elsewhere. Then one night, I get a call from their delivery department. Lady: "I'm calling to confirm that your order is arriving tomorrow afternoon."
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  • 89
    Me: "I didn't order anything." Lady: "Well I have an order here for you." Me: "What is it?" Lady: "I don't know. I can't look it up. Me: "OK, listen. I didn't order anything. If a package shows up at my door that I didn't order, and you can't even tell me what it is, I'm
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  • 90
    gonna call the police!" I mean, rationally, I know that Sears wasn't going to send me a bomb or anthrax or something, but it felt REALLY good to threaten to call the police on them. I did get my refund later.
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  • 91
    [deleted] I took my old car to get some new tires on it and wound up waiting almost an hour while the clerk was talking to some girl. Not a customer, just his friend. Finally dude decides to talk to me and is a condescending to me. Begrudgingly I leave my car there, because d khead or not I still needed tires. I'm quoted 45 minutes to an
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  • 92
    hour, finally get a call to pick up my car nearly 3 hours later. I show up and you could smell my clutch melting from 20 paces, and they somehow managed to completely snap my shifter the f in half right above the pivot point. These shitbags took my car out and hotrodded the absolute h I out of it. It was literally undrivable, I had to tow it home. They didn't
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  • 93
    pay one red cent towards the repairs. Normally I don't complain about sh, but those yokels got the wrath on that day. Anyway...the clutch somehow survived and I replaced the broken shifter with a nice aftermarket short-shifter, which was a blast to row through. I miss that car.
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  • 94
    TX_Poon_Tappa Oh man, not my proudest moment. My bath robe was in shambles so the wife says it time to get a new one. Now I'm already in a bad mood because everyone knows clothes with holes in them are the superior option and I didn't want to replace my battle worn night clothing.
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  • 95
    So we end up at Wal-Mart at midnight. First mistake. I find one on the clearance. shelf with a clearance sticker that reads the cheaper price on it. Take it up front and of course only self checkout is open. I scan and the kiosk says to wait for assistance. Great.
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  • 96
    Employee scans her card and removes the discount. Me: um ma'am you removed the discount Her: I didn't remove anything. Me: well yes you did it was just on the screen and this is supposed to be 10 dollars Her:Well you'll have to rescan it So I can it and she does the same thing!!!
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  • 97
    Her:See it's the same price. Me: No ma'am, you just removed it again. Her:Well if you think I'm wrong I'll call management Me: Ok, I'll wait I waited for 30 minutes and then asked her again and all she says is "well I called him, If you want to just buy it then you can" For some reason this set me off, idk why after all of this
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  • 98
    that is what set me off. So I said no don't worry about it I'm leaving. Her: Well are you going to put the Rob back where you got it? So I threw it on top of a battery kiosk and let it fall to the bottom of it while making eye contact and told her she could do it since she can't do her actual job correctly.
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  • 99
    Felt like a and my wife was less than impressed, but it was infuriating at the time. My wife reminds me of that often when she wants to embarrass me
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