#i hate customer service

[bird-everyday]

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[thatblueishbird]

how i react to having the same conversation with a customer for the 15th thousand time

[frankensteins-mt-dew]

old guy wearing a trump hat: How did the election treat you?

Me, a queer woman, through grit teeth,holding back a scream and a punch:.........fine

[thembohux]

A woman asked me if I was pregnant today in front of all my coworkers and another client.

Super embarrassing for me but not as bad as when I hit her with the “I’m not pregnant 🤨” and she then stood there silently the rest of the time

[beannary]

i know that tomorrow is sunday and that it is going to be a busy day at the museum, but also if anyone comes to the museum tomorrow i am going to actually explode i do not want to interact with a single person tomorrow

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I called in sick today, and while it was good for my mental health I don't know if it was worth $100 off my next paycheck, and I still have to go in tomorrow, so all I did was kick the can down the road and piss my boss off.

[mistninja]

Work is killing me

[teddy-beartv]

putting me in a blender could cure me probably

[ladysophiebeckett]

my mom: why do u look so sad? what’s wrong? 

me: im not sad. im fine.***

***cashier guy i had a thing for shaved his face and now i know what he looks like and idk how to feel about it. 

[celerybeast]

white men with asian spouses need to stop asking me invasive questions and then adding “oh my wife is from [insert asian country here]” as though it justifies the aforementioned questions shut the fuck up i am at WORK why are you playing ‘guess the restaurant worker’s country of origin’ shut the fuck up

(they’re always wrong by the way. spare yourself the embarrassment and stop greeting me in languages that neither you nor i know)

[giri-giri-waifu]

Everyone is seemingly reaaallll concerned with how I look today...

I have resting bitch face. Even as a kid, hardly smiled for pictures, I just don't have a very expressive face (unless I'm around people I'm comfortable with/ actually want to be around, i.e. my friends and Im having a good time or whatever). At work, I work so so hard to keep a straight/ 'neutral' face, because I get comments about me looking angry or whatever. Same with my voice! Apparently I just sound unpleasant. I dont and can't talk like Barbie at my job that requires customer service! Especially on days like today, where Im very low energy. So, even with the effort I feel like Im putting in to accommodate customers, so that they aren't offended by me just existing, I've gotten at least 3 people today being like 'Are you okay?' (not at all actually concerned, just wanting to make their own point that I dont look like im 'supposed to') 'What is wrong with you'. 'Why do you look so bored, so tired, so sad, so [literally any emotion but a fake plastered on smile]'. I work so hard to stay sounding/looking neutral. I push my voice to be low and slower, so people understand me and I don't sound 'harsh' or whatever. But apparently literally anything except a high lilting voice where I'm practically skipping around is met with displeasure in a customer's eyes. And it fucking sucks. It is so so stupid. And its mostly old people and [white] men that express their distaste with how I look or sound. Its so fucking TIRING. Just leave me and people like me ALONE, and mind your own business.

[loveofbots]

My ass should be snuggled in bed with coffee and my cat finishing requests about robot fucking, not working food service in capitalist North America!!!

[indagonightmare]

I love getting yelled at for having basic human needs (eating one muffin after having eaten nothing all day at work when I opened at 6:30 am and still having another 6 hours of work left)

[wafflerageface]

This reminds me of working at chickfila and having to take orders in our drive through while the drive through was being remodelled. They would do one lane at a time so the left lane had these massive holes cut out in it that was damn near impossible to walk around because the cars would take up the only safe space to stand. The holes were also full of rebar sticking out of the concrete. One day a girl took a step back and slipped into the hole, nearly breaking her leg, her entire body went in, and it was a miracle she didn’t end up speared on rebar because it stopped just short of her throat and midsection. She had several large bruises and massive scrapes down her body and had to go to the hospital. Our operator just shrugged and told us we need to be more careful

There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...

[stardustsirenmelody]

I had A DAY at work today so I'm gonna post some stuff I had thoughts I had while I was at work 🫠🙃