2006-09-28 01:57:22 · 10 answers · asked by Andrew S 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
My worst experience. I work at a Solicitors, the sort of place clients expect respect, and had just made a cup of tea in the kitchen area. To get back to my office I have to walk through the Reception area which was full with one family, I don't know what they'd come in for. One of them was a young lad in a wheelchair and I smiled confidently at them (you never know what sort of smile to give as you never know what area of life they need help in, so confident is always best because I feel it inspires confidence in my firm's competence!) and raised my mug a little in a sort of "Cheers" motion. I received nothing but filthy looks and shaking heads from the family and quickly scurried away wondering what was wrong. In the lift I checked my flies, done up. Shirt? Buttoned. Tie? On. Demonic face? Well I was smiling at least! Then it hit me, the young lad in the wheelchair who was obviously mentally impaired. This was the late nineties/early noughties when South Park was very popular. I looked at the mug which I had just waved at the entire family, white it was. A picture of a young lad in a wheelchair printed on it's sides. "TIMMY!!!" emblazoned above the picture in red. I felt like I had just kicked an entire family when they were down and then rubbed their noses in it. I have never hit a lower point in life. To be fair, the downs kid did smile at my mug! TIMMY!!!
2006-09-28 11:33:49 · answer #1 · answered by alfie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one is a bit of both the best and the worst! I used to work in a club behind the bar. I had one customer who bought a round and gave me a £10 note. I passed back the change and they started to insist that they gave me a £20. No, they gave me a £10. The argument went back and forth for a while until the manager got involved. I knew I had taken a £10 note but started to doubt myself, and the customer was really kicking up a stink! We decided to cash the till up infornt of the customer. We counted the money, we ran the reports, and the till was spot on! The customer was then made to apologise to me and buy me a drink for the way he had spoken to me. Used to get that kind of situation quite a bit, after people had been drinking.
2006-09-28 02:05:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to work at a library - not as nice and quiet as it sounds - often had daily police patrols due to drug dealing was thought to be occuring on the premises.
Anyway, I notified a customer as he was taking a book out that he had a 10p (£0.10) fine and asked if he could pay it before taking the book out. The next thing I know, I'm being shouted at using all manners of words, saying that he was not going to pay the 10p fine. He became quite agressive and security had to step in. All over 10p. And the next customer had accumalated £50 (lost books) and paid it straight away - what some people will do over 10p!
2006-09-28 21:17:26 · answer #3 · answered by Dravvin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
on a lighter note i was a butcher for a supermarket chain and was coming back from diner one day when i was called to the office straight away so went and there was this bloke shouting an dranting about enviromental health so i asked politely what seems to be the problem the guy stuck his face in mine saying i bought this chicken and it has maggots in it i said let me see so he passed the plate with the hot chicken he had just got out of his oven and had carved really nicely and showed me the two maggots i said hold on sir they are not magots he started to get more angry so isaid to my assistant go and bring me a small knife and if the gentleman would like aphone so we can ring the eho so he did the guy looked at me as i cut into the kidneys of the chicken and went bright red apologised and buggered off a bit sharpish without his chicken so we had it for afternoon snack the maggots you see wee the bl**dy kidneys the big dope
2006-09-28 02:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I worked at a local petrol station on the local council estate a few years ago, we had a long long long list of all the people who were banned for shoplifting.
One day a girl about 10 who was banned came in and started filling her pockets with sweets, brazen as anything. I made her put them back and told her to leave immediately.
Ten minutes later her Dad came storming down with her and really laid into me f'ing and blinding. I politely explained that she had been stealing and as he knew was not allowed in the shop anyway and I had her nicking on CCTV if he wanted to look,but all I got was a barrage of abuse in front of a shopful of customers.
He finally went but returned a shortwhile later with a hammer and started bashing on the garage windows yelling his head off at me. Pressed my panic alarm and locked the shop up and he was carted away by the police and done for criminal damage!! Was extremely scarey!!!!
2006-09-28 02:08:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to work in a local store in Chester.
My worst experience was when I refused to serve a drunk alcohol after 11pm and he started threatening me, saying stuff like how I'd be eating through a straw and then waited outside for me to finish work at 12pm! I was a bit scared (as you would be!) so called the cops and made them take me home safely!
My best experience was when a girl came in once to buy a Lottery Instants scratchcard and asked me which one did I recommend. I told her, and jokingly said that if she won, she had to share it with me. 5 minutes later, she came back in after winning 50 quid! And bless her, she really did share it with me! She said that 25 pounds was more than she'd come in with anyway!!!
2006-09-28 02:04:04 · answer #6 · answered by sammi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to temp in what I thought was an office but actually turned out to be a hearing aid shop. was not so bad at first but the first time I was left on my own an old grimey and dirty man came in, dug around in his crusty ear, prised out a wax encrusted hearing aid and dropped it into my hand demanding that I clean it. It was soooo horrible that I nearly got sick on the spot-I had thought I was there to do the filing-yuck! He was so obnoxious besides. when the manager came and saw me trying to deal with it he noticed that the aid was actually from the government and had nothing to do with us but he still made me clean it-basically I quit
2006-09-28 02:14:33 · answer #7 · answered by Charlotte C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to work in a petrol station. When I went out to tell a customer he couldn't fill an old oil can with petrol he threw a pump nozzle at me. I stopped being tactful at that point.
2006-09-28 02:08:03 · answer #8 · answered by sabbyt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
an homeless dined at the restaurant where i was supervisor,(an idiot of colleague let her in) after starter, main and dessert left without paying. I run after her just across the street asking to come back, she took out a knife from her bag!!!! I run away!!!! I have never followe anyone anymore after that! No matter what happen!
2006-09-28 02:02:44 · answer #9 · answered by sarah d 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a tie between two so far.
A customer had some friends come up and check me out (when I was really small and unmarried) and then he asked for my phone number and when I wouldn't give it he nudged a female friend who then asked me if I'd give HER my phone number instead. They all had so much fun, but I tried joking with them instead of acting pissy. Was up for management already.
Another customer, different place: a couple came into a fast food I worked in for extra money to help get gas money to go to another job, and everyone had caught on I was the "polite" one there who didn't make errors (at least that's what most thought.) Anyways. The couple had been in a few times and would only choose my line. The woman stood next to him and fussed for a really long time, being really rude and loud, and then stormed off to sit down, leaving the guy to order for her. He ordered a Spicy Chicken sandwich for her, so that's what I typed in. She ate part of it, HALF of it, to be precise, and then came up to the front and started being snippity with me about it not being a Grilled Chicken sandwich like she wanted. She had only told him she wanted a chicken sandwich and she didn't care what kind as long as he hurried up and ordered! Cursing at him in between of course. She was really mean to him and that was quite memorable. So I kindly told her what her husband ordered and she insisted he did not, that he would not have. She started saying really nasty things about me, made assumptions about my education since I was working THERE, and about me being pregnant, said a lot of things about me, and then her husband came up and they argued for a few minutes and she sat down, threatening never to come back, never to go anywhere with him again, this--that--the other, and he apologized to me about her, saying it happens all the time, she never knows what she wants, but of course my manager came over and blamed me for the whole thing and gave them a packet of coupons.
It really sucked coz they were already looking for reasons to get rid of me since I'd fallen in their freezer recently (pregnant), and was "too nice" to the customers. I wasn't in trouble for it, but it lowered my morale and really became a topic of things about me, if that makes sense, you know, like things you mention when talking about employees you wish would quit?
How can that be a bad thing, to have many of them liking your service? Grr.
2006-09-28 02:17:34 · answer #10 · answered by *babydoll* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋