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'The customer is king': 20+ retail workers share the craziest demands customers have made on the job

'The customer is king': 20+ retail workers share the craziest demands customers have made on the job

'I won't leave this store until I get my refund': Customer faced with strict returns policy finds a way to get full refund

'I won't leave this store until I get my refund': Customer faced with strict returns policy, finds a way to get full refund

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'You want me to intentionally break a client's new computer?': Employee insists coworker give 'bad customer service,' coworker breaks customer's computer with new software

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'I still got [it] for a cheaper price': Cashier refuses to honor "online only" price, dude orders it online right in front of them

'What time does the internet close?': 40+ Customers who had ridiculous questions to ask their local retail workers

'What time does the internet close?': 40+ Clueless customers who had ridiculous questions to ask their local retail workers

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'A woman came in to return a bag of soil because "the bag was dirty"': 25+ Retail workers who were baffled by their customers' requests

'A woman came in to return a bag of soil because "the bag was dirty"': 25+ Retail workers who were utterly baffled by their customers' requests

'I’m shocked into total silence': Manager insists on eating while customers queue in line, demands to talk to engineer's manager because 'her lunch break was ruined'

'I’m shocked into total silence': Manager insists on eating while customers queue in line, demands to talk to engineer's manager because 'her lunch break was ruined'

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'She was the most delusional customer I ever had': Karen tries to return costume the day after halloween, five years after she bought it

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‘I'll show you!’: The most satisfying awkward silence ensues after entitled lady attempts getting snarky with retail employee but ends up proving herself wrong

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'He's contradicted himself... his face went bright red': Retail employee begins clocking in four minutes late every day to protest boss's time-clock policy

'He's contradicted himself... his face went bright red': Retail employee begins clocking in four minutes late every day to protest boss's time-clock policy

'I was called into my bosses office... there was a printout of my post': 25+ Oversharing employees whose social media posts got them fired

'I was called into my bosses office... there was a printout of my post': 25+ Oversharing employees whose social media posts got them fired

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'Everyone who came to my register [got] 20% off': 20 Employees who quit on their first day of work

'Everyone who came to my register [got] 20% off': 20 Employees who quit on their very first day of work

'Do these smell like the right pants to you?': 20+ Times retail workers had to answer funny questions from customers

'Do these smell like the right pants to you?': 20+ Times retail workers had to answer the world's silliest questions from customers

'What would have been a 10 minute drive... ended up being a 4 day wait': One-hour-photo employee tells customer their photos are at another store, customer insists they're at the location 'on her way to work'

'What would have been a 10 minute drive... ended up being a 4 day wait': One-hour-photo employee tells customer their photos are at another store, customer insists they're at the location 'on her way to work'

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'He started piling sweets, biscuits, cakes, etc. onto the counter': Customer and cashier work together to evade store's return policy

'He started piling sweets, biscuits, cakes, etc. onto the counter': Customer and cashier work together to evade store's return policy

'I just want to make sure I do my job correctly, ma'am': Video store clerk makes customer wait while they scan 50 DVDs

'I just want to make sure I do my job correctly, ma'am': Video store clerk makes impatient customer wait while they scan 50 DVDs

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Tenant spends ten hours scrubbing an apartment spotless before moving out, landlord withholds $500 of her security deposit claiming sun-faded paint is "excessive wear and tear": '[He said] I should have rotated my furniture to prevent uneven fading.'

Tenant spends ten hours scrubbing an apartment spotless before moving out, landlord withholds $500 of her security deposit claiming sun-faded paint is "excessive wear and tear": '[He said] I should have rotated my furniture to prevent uneven fading.'

Couple feels uneasy about the house they are about to close on, but don't know why, so husband drives by it one night and makes a discovery: ‘That 10 minute drive basically made the decision for me.’

Couple feels uneasy about the house they are about to close on, but don't know why, so husband drives by it one night and makes a discovery: ‘That 10 minute drive basically made the decision for me.’

Resident allows neighbors to use their backyard gate as shortcut to school, until neighbors start making demands about the yard's appearance: ‘It will never end’

Resident allows neighbors to use their backyard gate as shortcut to school, until neighbors start making demands about the yard's appearance: ‘It will never end’

Manager demands warehouse employee follow closing checklist to the letter, they comply getting overtime and making the manager late to leave: 'By the time I finished everything, we were almost an hour past closing time'

Manager demands warehouse employee follow closing checklist to the letter, they comply getting overtime and making the manager late to leave: 'By the time I finished everything, we were almost an hour past closing time'

Project manager volunteers to demonstrate new software to his entire team, ends up getting everything wrong: '[I was] wrong about literally every single thing'

Project manager volunteers to demonstrate new software to his entire team, ends up getting everything wrong: '[I was] wrong about literally every single thing'

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