Lurking in this world is a population of ungrateful, entitled, rude people who lack any patience or common decency. They come from all walks of life. Not only do they devalue other people's work, they'll also waste your time and be total asses about it. That said, it is kind of fun to watch them try to get a deal on a lawnmower. Check this out for more reckless cheapskates.
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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.
Here are the stories of cashiers, customer service reps, delivery drivers, service people and retail workers of all stripes who had to deal with the dumbest, most irrational, and outright furious customers to grace the planet. Man, these people suck. We understand why you'd be mad if a company actually wronged you, but to make impossible demands and turn into an abusive monster is completely out of the question. Here's a story of a cashier who talked back to 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.
It's hard enough to browse through a comments section without coming across infighting and negative feedback. These folks just made it even harder, proving to everyone around them that they see every blank text box as an opportunity to put others down. For more peeps who got metaphysical for no reason other than their own self aggrandizement, here are some more dangerously powerful mind titans.
The internet is not kind to the unreasonable adults who lie to and berate people in customer service. Abusive people like this are not-so-affectionately referred to as "Karens." While we've heard many stories of this kind of frustrating behavior, we often forget that many of them have families; some who see both sides, and some who are just ashamed.
Companies don't necessarily have to be shifty and predatory, but some definitely are. Here are some products that have mastered the bait-and-switch, as well as the just-plain-bad. If you wanna see more creatively misleading products and services, check out these 21 deceptive designs and manipulative products designed by jerks.
We're not exactly sure what compels people to think they can get away with demanding stuff for way below asking price, then turning around and being super verbally abusive. But there sure are a whole lot of people out there who think that's totally cool and normal.
Nothing gets the blood boiling hotter than seeing some rich kid get a better opportunity with the help of daddy's money. Here are some of the more entitled and out-of-touch applications people have reviewed. Luckily, most of these spoiled kids didn't get in. For more stories of rich kid syndrome, check this out.
These clients from the fiery pits of an ignorant hellscape, are the last kinds of folks you'd want to find yourself tasked with helping. I mean, that could be a long shot, maybe you enjoy exercising that skill we call patience. You'd just need an insane amount of it to muddle through any of these scenarios.
What's frustrating about people who think they're smart is that they never learn anything. Having an ego isn't illegal, but when you start trying to bully people online, say really obvious shit, and ruin everyone's time, then you've become a burden. Here's to hoping these folks can see the bigger picture.
Sometimes the fine print won't even help you. These immoral businesses tried to swindle customers with misleading bait and switch tactics, as well as comically strange lying strategies. We could give them credit for being clever, but we don't want to.
You might find yourself grinding your teeth halfway through this list, without realizing it, and that is a perfectly rational reaction. Cause these are the infuriating opposite of those oddly satisfying images that'll occasionally grace our news feeds.
Why do people insist on threatening the people they do business with? We'll never know, but we have some very basic theories, the leading one being "Some people are just jackasses." Like, seriously, people in these situations will be crazily nasty to strangers when they can't get exactly what they want.
A lot of us will encounter unruly customer service at one point in our lives, in the chase to get the most out of the product we spent our hard-earned money on. It is how we choose to react to that momentarily, frustrating customer service when the miscommunication is running strong, that we have control over. Sometimes we lose ourselves in fits of rage and, things boil over. Sh*t happens. In this case, we have a dude getting very frustrated with some customer service doing him anything but a service. And we're talking about a Nintendo Switch. I mean, come on!
Deceptive products make our blood boil, and these ones take the cake. Make sure to read the fine, fine, impossibly fine print. Some of the contents of these packages are comically smaller than advertised. And it doesn't just end with false advertising, this type of crap is pretty common.
