Working in customer service is fairly traumatic, as any past or current food service or retail worker will be glad to tell you. It seems that facing rude, nasty, and plain mean people is a job inevitability, as is being forced to deal with the same questions and abuses time and time again; people refusing to leave the store past closing, customers throwing stuff on the floor or leaving it where it doesn’t belong, folks ignoring you or screaming at you for things you have no control over…
The list goes on and on. Here are 22 tweets that will trigger anyone who has had no choice but to work retail at some point in their lives:
1.
When a customer tries to threaten me with ‘ I want to speak to your manager ‘ thinking I care about my job pic.twitter.com/ya9i02FnX0
— @sighpapi970 (@sighpapi970) January 10, 2019
2.
the customer is always WRONG ive never known a more incorrect group of people than the customer
— hannah shakari (@han_shak) January 3, 2018
3.
*item won’t scan*
customer: guess it’s free then ha ha hamy mind: GUesS iTz fr3E tH3N Ha!!hA!!haAhH pic.twitter.com/Xdu0rOK3Rh
— e (@ellyellyelly_) May 9, 2017
4.
me talking with a customer:
▶ 🔘???????? 0:00:02
me complaining about that customer:
▶ 🔘???????? 1:38:49
— levi (@leviwrfl) July 11, 2017
5.
Working in retail is fun because you get to watch grown adults throw tantrums when they don’t get what they want
— tayy (@tayylorrossee) January 18, 2019
6.
Me when I don’t get scheduled a lot vs Me when I do get scheduled a lot pic.twitter.com/o1BYrvzhB8
— selena (@selenamortiz) December 6, 2016
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— Ruin My Week (@RuinedWeek) January 21, 2019
7.
Me: opens drawer
Customer: oh wait I have a pennyFirst of all, I don’t know how to count
— graziella (@graziebocciaxo) October 16, 2017
8.
Customer: *complains*
Me: omg ?
My brain: pic.twitter.com/ujxOygo1D6— ? (@PENGTIVITY) January 19, 2019
9.
customer: can you check for it in the back?
me: sure!
me, in the back: pic.twitter.com/Sp0Omgepqj— the ghost realtor (@badxground) January 15, 2019
10.
Me: I’m sorry but your card declined do you have another one ?
Customer: DEEECCCCLLLIIIIIIIINNNEEEEDD pic.twitter.com/9Dd74C9KXL
— Twonja 💚 (@__MoneyMakingT) January 17, 2019
11.
When a new employee walks in with a smile on their face, a spark in their eye and their sanity. pic.twitter.com/PzTzzGPzpo
— Retail Job Problems (@retailjobsprobs) December 8, 2016
12.
Me: Hi. How are you today?
Customer walks by in silence.
Me: Good talk. #retailproblems
— Dear Customer (@SWilliamBrown33) March 19, 2015
13.
me: your total is $5.30
customer: here’s $6
me: :^)
customer: oh wait here’s 70 cents too
me: pic.twitter.com/pljLVCxTnT— [++] (@amitymiyabi) August 3, 2018
14.
Showing new people around work like… pic.twitter.com/IPwNKw0bcs
— The Retail Job Life (@RetailJobLife) August 15, 2016
15.
this is how i look when customers talk to me and i have to pretend i care pic.twitter.com/tLQvI1V9ej
— solv⚡️ (@peppermintphat) January 18, 2019
16.
Sometimes I hear songs that played when I worked in retail and I get PTSD
— Erin Skoog (@erinskoog) September 14, 2018
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— Ruin My Week (@RuinedWeek) January 20, 2019
17.
Asked a Target employee if I could open this camera before I buy it and he said he wouldn’t even care if I killed someone in front of him.
— Chelsea Lockwood (@chelsealockw00d) March 10, 2014
18.
When the customer blames you for prices you have no power over pic.twitter.com/3TvOJF1AYH
— The Retail Job Life (@RetailJobLife) November 23, 2015
19.
When you’re wearing your uniform, name badge and are tidying shelves and a customer still asks if you work here https://t.co/HXhhNpIspW pic.twitter.com/j8DxnNSFRY
— The Retail Job Life (@RetailJobLife) September 8, 2017
20.
Some of y’all never worked in customer service and let me tell you, IT SHOWS!
— FUCK OFF ✨ (@chelseareneee_) January 18, 2019
21.
Me: “Can I get you guys anything else?”
Customer: “Yeah a million bucks!!”— pretti flacko (@tugcexcakir) January 18, 2019
22.
Customer: hey do you work here?
Me: no, i just come in here to fold clothes because its good for my health— Paul Shorter (@PaulShorter13) December 16, 2018
