customer service

Working retail, you get to see an amazing number of characters stroll through the front door. There's always something new around the corner, ready to completely derail your day, make you miss your lunch break, and in rare cases, actually make you sort of happy. This Tumblr user documented their first few days of working at a Target, and the world did not disappoint. For more retail stories, check these horror stories from Hot Topic employees.

It's no secret that Walmart employees have seen some gruesome sh*t in their days. It's like people suddenly devolve to their worst selves upon entering the store. From there, the acts of insanity and outright vile bodily functions is imminent. We rounded up some of the most notable horror stories from Walmart employees remembering their worst days on the job. Get yourself ready. 

Check out 38 times the people of Walmart left us emotionally scarred for more Walmart madness. 

These spicy memes about working retail capture with painful accuracy the soul-grinding struggle of dealing with customers who often seem like they just want to be pissed at the world. They're real and so is the struggle. Thankfully we have memes to speak to the pain, and even provide us some bitter laughs along the way. 

This Toyota service advisor got back at his hotshot manager who had a bloated ego and no chops to back it, with a very satisfying walkout. Sounds like Chad was doing a great job at being an insufferable manager, and disrespecting the people who mattered most to his smooth operations along the way. 

If you're looking for more gloriously satisfying revenge drama, check out the time a moving company tried to screw a military guy over and he got back at them by royally screwing them over!

This Jiffy Lube employee learned a swift and very necessary lesson in respecting a woman's boundaries, after using her private contact information to make a pass at her. His response tells us all we need to know about whether or not he's going to pull a slippery move like that again. 

We're not sure what kind of person tries to spray paint a four hundred dollar vase, but it makes sense that it's the same kind of person who demands that the store she bought it from pay for her mistake. We're kind of hoping this customer is lying about the whole thing in order to defraud the store, but given the stupid-ass customers we've dealt with in our own lives, she's probably telling the idiotic truth. For a triumphant story of an employee who actually gave an awful customer a piece of their mind, check out this cashier who told off a Karen and lived.

Oh Rhonda had this one coming! The Uber driver masterfully executed a satisfying revenge on one insufferably snobby and impatient customer. We really wonder if it wouldn't be better to just have called her Karen. 

Uber drivers see us at our very worst. Whether you're stumbling your way into a drunken 2am ride home after closing out the bars with a reckless abandon, or in all kinds of disarray after crashing at a stranger's place; they get to sit there, get you home, and maybe stay quiet about the state of things if you're lucky. Just make sure you leave them 5 stars! 

Bus drivers are just trying to make it through another day without having to deal with too much of anyone's careless BS. You can help the cause by reading up on some stuff they really wish that their customers knew about. 

If you've spent any time in the world of retail, you're familiar with the type of customer who, no matter how wrong they are from the start, will never take no for an answer. They will be rude and insufferable to employees for nothing more than the satisfaction of "winning" a social interaction. Well their kids don't like them either.

Look out! Disciplinary action is imminent! This collection of angry notices was served up by some very likely enraged managers that were sick and tired of their employees' BS. That or they just had a rough day and needed some place to redirect their case of rage. 

This is the BEST brand on social media. Every time I thought Domino's Pizza Zimbabwegot as funny as they could possibly get, they went and outdid themselves. 

McDonald's employees are exposed to humans doing their absolute worst on a regular basis. Often times the experience of working at McDonald's sounds like an absolute waking nightmare. These tweets are further proof of that reality....

Anyone who's worked on the floor of any kind of store is gonna be reminded of a time when there was a customer they just couldn't deal with. Thank god for the good managers out there. This one is weirdly reminiscent of that old story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. For a triumphant retail story of someone in customer service who actually got to speak their mind, check out this cashier who told off a Karen and lived.

We're a fan of any story where a rude customer fails to get away with being miserable to a retail employee who's done nothing wrong. We're also fans of surprises and drama where people get super pissed, double-down and make even bigger asses of themselves. For a strikingly similar story where a customer bad-mouthed an employee in a different language before having the tables turned, check this out.