It’s said that everyone needs to work a retail job at least once in their lives. If not for character building, then to learn what never to do as a customer. Retail is the best place to apply the golden rule: treat others the way you would want to be treated.

However, it’s also true that not all customers are the sharpest tools in the shed. We’ve scoured the internet once again and found the most exasperating customers employees had to deal with. Check out these sometimes hilarious, sometimes enraging moments and let us know in the comments if you’ve ever had to deal with similar situations, retail pandas!

#1 The Escalation Is Real

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#2 Customer Said His Phone Wasn’t Charging Properly As The Battery Was Too Cold. He Thought “Warming” It On A Toaster Was A Good Idea

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#3 I Think They Have An Apple Phone. Not Sure Tho, I’m Getting Mixed Signals

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#4 Customer Bought Wheels And Tires Online, After Advising Multiple Times That The Tires Are Too Small For His SUV He Insisted For Us To Put Them On

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#5 A Customer Called Asking If We Were Practicing Social Distancing With Her Sandwiches. I Told Her We Are, But To Be Honest Guys, I’m Running Out Of Space

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#6 Customer States: “Hissing And Rattling Noise From Under The Hood”

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#7 Customer Service

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#8 I Get A Customer Like This Once A Week

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#9 Customer States Driver Seat Will Not Move Forward Or Backwards. I Wonder Why

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#10 Mechanic Mate Just Shared This Photo Of A Client’s Car. The Client Claimed His Leg Got Sore, So Instead, He Used His Hand To Accelerate

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#11 Customer Said Her Husband Patched The Tire, But It Keeps Leaking Air

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#12 “We Had To Remake Her Latte Because She Wouldn’t Leave, And She Had Like 15 Cars Behind Her”

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#13 Tech Repair Client Did This To “Combat Overheating”

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#14 Customer States ABS/ESC And Front Radar Lights On

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#15 I Told A Customer It Wouldn’t Work, But She Insisted. When She Saw It, She Said Nothing And Left

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#16 Plot Twist: He’s The Only One There

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#17 Customer Microwaved Her Phone For 20 Seconds. It Still Functioned Except For The Bottom Navigation Buttons

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#18 The Customer Rolled In Asking Why The Rear Shocks Were So Low. Needs New Shocks?

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#19 What Was The Customer Complaint Again?

“The customer states car should “vroom vroom” instead of “tick tick tick tick tick”.”

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#20 Part Of My Job Is Processing Items That Were Returned As “Defective” Before They Get Sent Back To The Warehouse. Came Across This Absolute Gem

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#21 Customer Was Annoyed That We Refused To Recover Their Lost Data

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#22 Special Glass

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#23 I’ve Been Thinking About This Interaction For Approximately Seven Days Straight

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#24 Some People Are Really Something Else

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#25 Fair Enough

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#26 Customers Be Like

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#27 Customers Thinks You’re An Octopus

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#28 Donations

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#29 My Girlfriend Just Sent Me This. She Works In A Bakery

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#30 “It Was A Woman, And It Took Everything In Me To Not Walk Off”

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#31 Customer Marked The Tiles She Wanted To Be Removed

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#32 The Struggle

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#33 Customer Asked If We Can Fix This

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#34 Customer Refused All 4 Tires On A Rainy Day, She Also Had To Sign A Waiver Before Releasing The Car

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#35 French Onion Soup With No French Please

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#36 Customer Drove This All The Way From Mexico Because He Was Told Not To Pull Over Out There

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#37 Mixing Up With The McDonald’s

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#38 An Actual “Key” Supplied By A Customer

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#39 Who Knows

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#40 So Annoying

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#41 Customer Is Complaining About A Funny Smell Coming From The Car. I Wonder What It Could Be

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#42 Customer Says He Wants His Exhaust On The Side

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#43 This Customer Replaced Their Passenger Seat With A Shopping Cart

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#44 Customer Was Upset That A Mattress Store Won’t Help Them Move?

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#45 Customer Wants Remaining Oil Back

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#46 “Orange Juice Was Only Like $3 Or Something, But That’s On Her. One Of The Friends She Was Sitting With Looked Super Embarrassed, But I Just Kinda Rolled With It”

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#47 Did These People Not Know What Decaf Was Or Something?

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#48 The Customer Complained About The Printer Not Working Even Though He Plugged It In. This Picture Was Sent In Our WhatsApp Group After My Colleague Went To Check

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#49 Customer States That He Accidentally Discharged Firearm While Exiting The Vehicle

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#50 Food Service

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#51 This Came In For A Safety Inspection

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#52 You May Not Believe It, But Someone Requested Cash Back

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#53 I Know Customers Can Get Mad At Being Charged For Extra Sauces, But This Lady Got Like +20 Sauces And Was Surprised To Be Charged A Few Extra Bucks For Them

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#54 Customer: “I Don’t Know Why My Car Has No Power”

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#55 Chipotle Customers Don’t Know What’s A Bay Leaf

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