#customer service is hell

[acatpiestuff]

remember years ago when i would draw grillby almost every day lmao

[antheia]

It's not that each individual stupid customer is a huge problem. It's just that the number of them that I deal with every single day is absurd. One dumb question? No big deal. A thousand? WHYYYYY.

[ell-on-earth]

As someone who has worked for target, this is the most accurate manager/team member interaction.

posting across the targetverse here bc it did numbers on twitter

[wizardweedykz]

I wish everyone buying booze on Christmas Eve goes to hell no matter what

[polyporewhoresstuff]

The number of clients that use the bathroom while on the phone with me is ridiculous. Half the time, it's not even that I called while they were on the toilet. They call ME while taking a shit. And they don't even try to hide it!

It's not even that it really grosses me out. It just feels weirdly dehumanizing.

[yourdadowesmemoney]

Today is the second time an old man tried to tell me he's been "canceled" for refusing to learn how to use simple technology.

Sir. Your coworkers and near-by strangers thinking you're an asshole and an idiot is not getting canceled.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

once when I worked at a grocery story, this woman came in and bought thirty four squash. so while im scanning all her fucking squash, she starts up a conversation. she asks if I'm in college despite the fact I was fifteen at the time and very much looked it. when i said no she nodded and said that was good because too many women were going to college these days. she told me her son was in law school and paused for a solid thirty seconds after, just staring at me, waiting for me to be impressed. again, I was fifteen. I wasn't impressed by anything but in ground pools and people who don't cough on a gravity bong. after I let out the world's most monotone "wow" (I'm mostly focused on counting these squash), she shows me a picture of her Fully Grown Adult son and asks me if I think he's cute. for the next minute, while I finish scanning all her fucking squash, she tries to set me up with her son. she left when I told her I couldn't date her son because I was an undercover CIA agent working in the store to catch the mafia ring that had taken over the town. my manager thought it was funny and gave me a free vitamin water.

[destinybcnds]

[ so realistically, with the change in my job position, this is unfortunately no longer feasible for me in the capacity I originally planned. I know exactly what my previous role is going to do to my mental health. I will not have time or energy to plan this out properly, even though I will still have a vacation week in May.

I'm really sorry if this disappoints anyone. I am totally open to planning individual threads based on this concept, but I can't commit myself to running an event knowing what I know now. ]

[ if this goes through there will be stuff for both students and faculty ]

[the3rddenialist]

What is wrong with him

[rollforjackass]

look we all know that aziraphale is mr. fiddlesticks-not-fuck and dearie-me-good-gracious, but my favorite thing about him is that there is also, at all times, a fuck-shit little bastard inside of him just begging to be let loose. he's petty, he's passive aggressive, and the Second he decides that playing by heaven's rules isn't going to help anybody, it's all "i know who you are, you idiot!" and "you STUPID man" and "FUCK"

[what-have-i-unleashed]

customer service voice killer (specifically flight atrendants) because i think him being overly amicable and polite as a front while doing the most heinous crimes is a really fun contrast. like, he gets whacked in the head and then minutes later just slowly gets up with such an angelic smile and blood running down his cracked head going "i'm sorry. i would not miss this time". what a polite guy asking people if they want to be served a beheading or a stabbing.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Yes, of course I have a thing for the rich lady that sets up elaborate games to hunt and eat people for sport. She’s British she’s posh she’s old she’s commanding and she’s morally revolting. How the hell am I supposed not to have a thing for her

[sirnotappearinginthistumbl]

Dear Trader Joe’s: You’re Fired

You know, I was really fond of your Trader Joe’s stores when I first shopped there. Lots of great stuff! Usually reasonable prices! Cool shirts! Generally happy workers!

But now the shine is off the rose. Some of your stuff is still great, sure, but most of it I can find elsewhere. Many of your prices are above what I’d pay elsewhere. The shirts are still decent, but nothing like the sea of Hawaiian-themed prints of the aughts.

That’s not enough to make me stop shopping at your stores.

Your employees are not so happy any more and are trying to unionize. They’ve encouraged shoppers like me to keep coming to your stores because they are invested in keeping the business going. That could keep me coming to the store.

In response, you have tried telling your employees that you’re still a great place to work. Their reply? “Nah, if you were we wouldn’t need to unionize.”

That’s not enough to make me stop working at your stores either, because your workers asked. Support the workers!

But now, in your attempts to stop your labor force from unionizing, you’re trying to undermine the National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Relations Board in court, trying to get them declared unconstitutional.

Unions help raise all workers wages. The more unions and union employees are out there, the more the wages go up for both union and non-union employees.

You are actively trying to undermine the wages of not just your employees, but also many of your customers, myself included — just so you can sock another seven to eight figures in your bank account every year.

So, in short: it’s not me, it’s you. You’re trying to hurt me, my family and my community. That is more than enough to make me stop shopping at your stores, and plenty enough to make me want you to leave my community.

You’re fired, Trader Joe’s. Good luck finding another sucker to shop in your stores.

Oh, and Amazon and Muskrat? I haven’t forgotten you. Your walking papers are in process.

[voidpunkanathema]

Nothing will dispel you of the illusion that maturity and aging are inherently related than working with the general public, where you'll spend much of your day working with 40+ year olds who make it abundantly clear that they have never had a single self-reflective thought in their life and never will.

[turtledotjpeg]

This came from a randomized AU prompt involving flight attendants and characters meeting in a coffee shop - I went with the main four meeting in an off-brand airport starbucks (plus melody because I have a blorbo agenda here :P), but got thoroughly sidetracked drawing melody + pika as flight attendants haha

(gon & killua meet in the airport and quickly hit it off, but while goofing off they accidentally bowl over leorio who really needed that coffee after 18 hours in transit back to medical school

kurapika is about ready to murder leorio - not for the coffee stain, but because he didn't apologize sincerely enough - but then gon jumps in very politely and says it was his fault and he's very sorry. kurapika decides to let it go :)

some handwavey logic later and they all end up on the same plane. kurapika gives gon and killua extra bags of the little pretzels and nearly kills leorio again for trying to flirt with melody. they all have a feeling it's not the last time they'll cross paths 🙂)

[scary-monsters]

diego brando working a retail job is so funny to think abt… he’s getting fired immediately if im being totally honest