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    BG: I work at a fabric store, in a city that has passed a plastic bag ban. Every store in the city -- grocery, clothing, office supplies, pet supplies, etc. -- now only has paper bags for five cents each (as well as tote bags for sale, but that's a different story).

    Today was a typical day; stuff to stock, customers to serve, fabric to cut, etc. For the most part, it passed decently enough.

    Then SHE showed up.

    Another coworker and I were at the registers, and I called the next customer forward. SHE came to my register with a cartload of yarn and a nasty attitude.

    ME: Good morning, ma'am, will you need a paper bag for five cents?
    SC: (snarling) That bag ban's only for grocery stores!
    ME: I'm sorry ma'am, but it's all stores throughout the city (here I pointed at a sign stating the ordinance). Would you like to speak to a manager?
    SC: No, I don't want to speak to a manager, but I will speak to City Council about this!

    SHE proceeded to dump her yarn at my register, throwing some of it on top of the ones I had already rung up and stacked neatly. Nevertheless, I did manage to ring all of it up correctly; it came to over $170.00. She thrust her coupons at me.

    Now, the current ad contains a coupon for $30.00 off any order over $150. I scanned this and thought she'd be happy about it. She demanded that she use her VIP 10% off card with it.

    ME: I'm sorry ma'am; you cannot use both of these together.
    SC: (angrily) Yes I can! It says here you can use it on both regular and sale price merchandise!
    ME: It also states that it cannot be combined with any other coupon or discount. (I pointed that out to her on the card.) But the coupon will save you more than 10%.
    SC: I don't believe this! Ring it all up again!

    I had to cancel out the current order and re-ring everything.

    SC: Now ring up my coupon!

    I did.

    SC: Now ring up my VIP card!

    I did, and hit total. The register took off the coupon but gave the loud "no" beep and flashed the message "Cannot be combined with previous discount."

    ME: Like it says on the card and the coupon, they cannot be combined.

    SHE got even more irate and started demanding all of her discounts. She insisted they could be combined and demanded that I do it.

    I must admit, I am not proud of myself for this, but I was getting very upset and frustrated and ended up raising my voice at her when I repeated the conditions. Another coworker noticed my distress and paged a manager to my register.

    SC: (livid) This is ridiculous! I'm spending enough money here; I demand that you give me my discount! This is bad business!

    The assistant manager came to my register and took over the situation. By this time, I was breathing hard and shaking visibly. The AM told me to go take a break.

    I barely made it to the break room before I started sobbing. That horrible customer had me so wound up I was shaking, crying, and borderline hyperventilating.

    About five or ten minutes later, the AM came to the break room and gave me a big hug. She told me that the woman got even worse after I left, that she started swearing profusely and yelling. The AM told her to stop swearing, which only made her swear more. Apparently the hag figured out that she wasn't getting any more discounts and finally left, after threatening to tell the city council, the Better Business Bureau and Corporate on us. The AM assured me that it was not my fault in any way, that I did nothing wrong and that four customers in line after the hag offered their condolences to me for dealing with her! The other AM, who'd been standing nearby in case things really got nasty, came into the break room and told me she was contacting the DM to let him know what had happened and to head the hag off at the pass.

    This customer is the worst one I've dealt with since the Drug Store From Hell back in the late 80s. The managers at the DSFH would've gladly thrown me under the bus and bent over backwards for the customer, but the managers here stood up for me and refused to let the hag knuckle them under.

    After I got myself under control, I went back on the floor, this time to the cutting counter. My coworker there asked what had happened (my eyes were very red and puffy). I told her that I just dealt with a very nasty customer. The customer my coworker was helping said, "Yes, I saw that. I felt sorry for you." She was sincere and sympathetic, and I appreciated it and thanked her. I must say, it does help to have a decent customer after a vicious one. And it really helps when your managers and coworkers back you up.
    Last edited by XCashier; 11-23-2013, 12:28 AM.
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  • #2
    *passes over cookies.Today we have Lamingtons*
    and hugs... good to see AM has a spine and the other customers were willing to support you.We normal customers don't like bitchy SCs. When we see one we gun on them...
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    • #3
      *hugs* customers like that deserve to be run over by a train, several slowly-moving trucks and a couple of dozen elephants. Good to hear that your managers backed you up.

      I always find it a little amusing though that people seem to think that contacting the BBB is going to make any significant difference, as if they are some all-powerful entity that every business in the USA has to bow and scrape to.
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      • #4
        I'm so sorry that you had to deal with that raving psycho. I'm always grateful that I don't have to deal with my asshole customers face to face. I think I'd lose it every day if I did. If it's any consolation she sounds like one miserable bitch who has to go home and live with herself. Shudder.

        Quoth Kagato View Post
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        I always find it a little amusing though that people seem to think that contacting the BBB is going to make any significant difference, as if they are some all-powerful entity that every business in the USA has to bow and scrape to.
        Yeah, the BBB is full of shit anyway. I went to their site to register a complaint about that company that has those 'who's trying to find you? Sign up and find out!' ads (total scam as my red face and credit card can attest to) and although the comment page was full of complaints just like mine, they had an A+ rating. Either they don't do their research or they take kickbacks.

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        • #5
          Grrrrr...

          Cookies & hugs are great but you need this ::::sliding the tequila::::::

          That bitch had attitude before she approached you. Fuck her. What a miserable excuse for a human being. You showed remarkable restraint. I would have been sorely tempted to knock her teeth out.
          Here Mr Customer, let me pull that out of my arse for you!

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          • #6
            Hugs to you and high fives to your AM for not backing down. I hope that hag NEVER comes back to your store.

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            • #7
              mystic -- There have been reports on things like that in the past...from some news agencies, if you wish to look them up Just, please take any theories about their business practices to Fratching
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              • #8
                Too bad there wasn't a can of soup to hurl--- oh wait, wrong thread.

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                • #9
                  Quoth XCashier View Post
                  BG: I work at a fabric store, in a city that has passed a plastic bag ban. Every store in the city -- pet supplies, etc. -- now only has paper bags for five cents each
                  No plastic bags, only paper? That must make it VERY interesting when someone buys fish at the pet store.
                  Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth emax4 View Post
                    Too bad there wasn't a can of soup to hurl--- oh wait, wrong thread.
                    I was thinking that. She was mad before she even came into the store. I am sooooo glad the managers didn't take her bull.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth JustShootMe View Post
                      That bitch had attitude before she approached you....You showed remarkable restraint. I would have been sorely tempted to knock her teeth out.
                      If she had started a physical fight, things would've gotten very ugly very fast and I might be in jail right now. I am glad things didn't get to that level.
                      Quoth wolfie View Post
                      No plastic bags, only paper? That must make it VERY interesting when someone buys fish at the pet store.
                      I meant the "t-shirt" bags, the handled plastic bags. They still have small plastic bags for live fish, or bags for produce/meat at the grocery store, just not the ones with the handles. The city banned them ostensibly to protect the environment.
                      Quoth emax4 View Post
                      Too bad there wasn't a can of soup to hurl--- oh wait, wrong thread.
                      Yeah, if I wasn't several states away from CrystalnRose, I'd think it was the same hag. The mere thought that there is more than one is chilling. Yes, I do know what site I'm on, but the fact that so many people think that behavior towards fellow human beings is perfectly acceptable, even justifiable ("the customer is always right" ) is quite appalling.
                      Last edited by XCashier; 11-23-2013, 11:45 AM.
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                      • #12
                        You have my hugs. Her behavior was just disgusting. I'm glad management at least has a spine and didn't bend over for that SC.
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                        • #13
                          I have notice that whenever you have the horrible customers it always seem that the ones after are super nice and sweet.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Lovecats View Post
                            I have notice that whenever you have the horrible customers it always seem that the ones after are super nice and sweet.
                            Most people are decent people who would never consider acting that way; it wouldn't even occur to them to do so. Therefore, when they see someone else go into a tearing rage, they're shocked. They stand there like thinking, "am I really seeing this?!"

                            And the vast majority of my customers are pretty good. It's like a bell curve; most are average, a few are the salt of the earth and a few are the scum of the earth (and those few are the ones I post about here). This one was definitely on the nasty end of the curve.
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                            • #15
                              I hope they revoked her VIP card. She's a psycho.
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