Bus people include a wide range of personalities from the rude to the kind.

When you deal with customers, no matter how big or small your operation is, there's the inevitable risk that, at some point, you'll stray across an unreasonable one. It's incredibly likely that your experience with this someone with culminate with them blaming you for problems and unhappiness of their own making while gesturing wildly in a manner reminiscent of a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man—just to be sure they've gotten their point across. If the experience doesn't end in an…

It can be incredibly frustrating when you repeatedly ask someone to do something, only for it to remain still undone or incorrectly finished… (or so my girlfriend tells me, at least.) Most of us will also agree that an incorrect or ruined food or drink order can ruin the one thing that was going to be great about your day. Now, most of us will probably be too diffident to do or say anything about our spoiled beverage, instead be resigned to our cup of overheated milk that has just the slightest…

People will make up anything and jump over any number of mental hurdles to displace their own unhappiness onto someone else. This thread was shared to Reddit's aptly named r/F**kYouKaren subreddit and featured screen grabs of a Google review that had been posted on a local game shop's page. In the review, the reviewer accuses the shop owner of weighing packs in order to determine which ones contain rarer cards to keep for themselves, putting out the lighter packs to sell to customers. As commen…

Being hailed as a hero only to be slandered from a safe distance: what a quintessential retail experience… While the people who won't hesitate to yell in your face are always the first ones who come to mind, there is a second type of person who has a deep anger buried deep inside of themselves, yet they remain so conflict averse that they will happily greet you with a smile to your face. It's only once your back is turned that they drive the knife in deep and twist. When I worked retail, we had…

Imagine making your own doctor visit longer on purpose. Some people get so convinced that they're right that they just turn off their ears and refuse to hear otherwise! This person shared their story to r/TalesfromRetail, though it does take place at the doctor's office where the OP and their supervisor worked. The OP shared that their supervisor is quite young, which some patients take to mean that she's not actually a supervisor. In the comments, people applauded the petty nature of the story…

Some parking rules are ridiculous, but this guy very much got what he deserved.

Anyone who has worked retail or otherwise dealt with customers knows all too well that customers generally will try anything and everything to get their way. This includes (but is not limited to) quoting irrelevant pieces of legislation, being generally aggressive, hurling insults, demanding a manager, and name-dropping the owner (or some other executive.) In the case of name-dropping, if you actually bother to bother the person whose name is being dropped, they'll usually have no idea who the…

When you're mistaken for an employee at a store, nine times out of ten, you're probably dealing with a Karen. But every so often, it's an honest mistake and the story wraps up with a wholesome ending.

Living next to a bad neighbor will surely cause you a terrible existence. And when you're living in densely inhabited accommodation like an apartment building, you're rolling the dice many more times, resulting in a far greater chance of ending up near a complete psycho or entitled individual. Redditor u/SilentJoe1986 shared this story to Reddit's r/EntitledPeople subreddit, telling of how their neighbor had insisted that they turn up their own thermostat so that the rising heat would heat the…

Taking something that isn't yours—or is otherwise claimed or being used by another party—is generally a bad move. If you've ever considered doing this, maybe you should reconsider… or just go home and rethink your life. ( You don't want to sell me death sticks…) This family's behavior is eerily similar to that annoying child who would take your seat in class when you got up to do something and would refuse to move since you didn't call “dibs” or “tap-tap seat back." I think it's safe to say tha…

It's hard out here for a restaurant worker!

I can't imagine having to share a thermostat with crazy neighbors.

Every retail or service person has learned the hard way why you don't make exceptions for customers and guests. It's always the customer you think is level-headed, sane, and “gets it” who ends up being a woefully entitled complainer, review bomber, and exceptionalist. These people will go feral on you and make your life a verifiable living hell for a few weeks until they've done the damage they're seeking and disappear into the void of their miserable existence to ruin someone else's day. The c…

Rule number one of living in any neighborhood: don't become the enemy of all the town children!

This world is jam-packed with all sorts of wonderful people: people who are empathetic and honest, generous and fair, responsible and humble. Unfortunately, the yin to that yang comes in the form of an onslaught of entitled, cruel and selfish people who want everything for nothing and everything for themselves. They care not about anyone or their negative impact on the society that they benefit from—like a leech that's had more than its fill, growing fat unnoticed on a swimmer's leg. This is a…