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.
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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.
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.
The internet is rife with people trying weirdly aggressive tactics to get sweet deals. They don't usually work, but boy are there a lot of them. There's an especially huge amount of people who are constantly claiming to be buying gifts for their sick children, asking for a ridiculous price like 20 dollars for a playstation 4, then turning around and blowing up on the person they're trying to buy from. Y'know, fun.
Usually it's an incompetent boss who can't do their job, or a rude manager who doesn't value their employees. Sometimes it's unsafe working conditions. Other times it's outside stress, or just the work itself that's unbearable. These are the final straws people had that made them move on. Turns out, these moments aren't that rare.
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.
You'd be amazed by the tremendously callous things people do all the time. Aside from the harm they do, the worst part is when they don't even think they're doing anything wrong. It doesn't matter who they are or where they come from, there are severe assholes in all walks of life. Luckily, this is just a small percentage of people, but boy can selfish behavior get our blood boiling.
You don't know what you have until one idiot does something stupid and unprecedented that changes the rules for everyone. Whether it's why you can't see the guts of a McDonalds anymore, or why you can't wear your favorite pants to work. Sometimes rules even exist because someone did something so unthinkably dumb that they had to make up a new category, just for that one jackass. And sometimes new rules don't even work.
The world is rife with people who will shamelessly ask for free crap. Even when something is free, it's not good enough. So tread facebook marketplace lightly, or you may run into one of these irrational people. This behavior is absolutely maddening. If this kind of thing gets your motor running and you want to spend more time angry, then you can find more right here.
We've managed to invent the very infuriating things in the world that serve to rob us of our peace, and leave us angry. You might find yourself grinding your teeth without even realizing it, halfway through this list.
