How many has a horror story to share?

[chrisistheman]

How many of you had a horror story working in fast food or a supermarket, where the ultimate b---- customer gave you an uproar?

[Deceptitech]

SC frequency.

You forgot the most important one.

"How many times a DAY are you harrassed by a SC?"

[MadMike]

It's kind of hard to say, actually. I went with "Occasionally", although it was a toss-up between that and "once in a blue moon."

I have to admit, they're not that bad most of the time. But it's the bad ones that really stand out, and make the job a living hell. Even the few bad ones got me to the point where I'd cringe every time a customer approached me, even when they turned out to be OK.

[dragonflygrrl]

I was kind of between Occasionally and Every Day. Sometimes whole weeks will go by with nary an SC. Then I'll get two or three a day for a week. MadMike is right, though, that most of them aren't spectacularly bad, they are just the ones you remember at the end of the day. Off hand, I'd say I am treated with a total lack of respect at least three or four times a day, but only get a real doozie occasionally.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'd go for Occasionally, as SCs aren't mostly really nasty people; just irritatingly thick ones. But sometimes there will be a really horrible person that will just leave me trembling both with fear and the urge to smack them.

[Lobo]

I've got to say "Every Day". I work in a tech support call center, nobody calls us when everything is working the way the SC wants it to. Damn Bastiches.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Back in my fast-food days, most of the people that I had to deal with were pretty good-nothing to make me kiss them, but few that made me want to smack them in the face-hole. But those that I did want to smack, happened so rarely that they almost-note I said almost-were non-existant.

Except for the Reverend and purple-underwear guy. Those are the exceptions that I remember.

[Greenday]

I went with every day. Drunk people losing money gambling on horse races are very rude indeed. So they take out their dumbness on the concession workers.

[Sofar]

I'm probably going to get gray tomatoes thrown at me for this, but I honestly get almost no sucky customers at all where I work. Sure, it's only been two weeks, but every one has been practically decent. Some almost . . . nice. Some leave a bit of a mess when they leave, and some order seventy dollars worth of food and leave no tip for us, but none have ever really been mean to my face. Not yet, at least.

[ArenaBoy]

Went with occasionally on this one. I don't work much during the school year but some nights they can be unusually mellow or I can have an SC that makes me want to smack them or just yell at them. It also depends on the event I'm working also, a basketball game I know I'm going to get an SC, a concert varies. A few weeks ago at Megadeth, 200 people I heard were thrown out before Megadeth even came on. I am glad I didn't work that show.

[AFpheonix]

I put down occasionally, because it really is rare that we get a full blown moron in. We get the mildly annoying ones on a daily basis that don't understand a lot of the technical things like "laws" and "insurance policies", but the vast majority of those can be talked down.
I get the occasional crabby dork like the lady today who was mad that the drivethru the other night was slow, and wanted an explanation as to why it was slow then Uhhhh....I wasn't there, or if I was, I honestly don't remember lady. Here's your happy pills, go away now.

[friendofjimmyk]

I went with occasionally because since I moved from call taker to dispatcher, I harldy deal with the members as much as I used to. I have more of an issue with my drivers being buttheads now then our members.

[Mizzikiel]

I work at a coffee shop, by multiple bars, in the summer it is quite often (10+ a day) now though since its calming down, its around 5 a week

[Jester]

I'm probably going to get gray tomatoes thrown at me for this, but I honestly get almost no sucky customers at all where I work. Sure, it's only been two weeks, but every one has been practically decent. Some almost . . . nice. Some leave a bit of a mess when they leave, and some order seventy dollars worth of food and leave no tip for us, but none have ever really been mean to my face. Not yet, at least.

It is only a matter of time, young grasshopper, only a matter of time.

Myself, I would say occasionally, but then there are days where it is SC Grand Central Station.

[Department stores *sigh*]

gotta be occasionally. as much as we have all these stories im sure that if we had a site for how many perfect customers we had it would take years to sift through all those stories. example. i look back on this past weekend and gun lady and wannabe theif guy stands out but then ithink about the pleasent customers i dealt with, made a few sales shook a few hands and now on a first name basis with one of our new customers the SC are really clobbered by the GC =P