Oh, this one had me steaming. Hell, I am still steaming about it.

I manage a game store in a mall. We have an outside door which is really just a…

BG: I have a cochlear implant, and am always on the lookout for new music. HOWEVER, “new” doesn’t necessarily have to mean new in terms of age. In…

…at my xrays.

I ended up in the ER Christmas Day and found out I had a heel spur on the LEFT foot. Popped into a local podiatrist in my family…

Recently I noticed whenever I popped a Midol I’d get a horrible allergy attack of sneezing, runny nose, and it would eventually turn into a sinus…

BG: I have 5 kids. Two of them are special needs, both are on the spectrum. One is high functioning asperger. The other is PDD-NOS. The other…

So I applied with a rather large chemical lawncare company for an open position. After interviewing and being told how much they liked me and what I…

Lately, it seems to be an epidemic! Rude little jerks with cell phones out during the movie. Our group doesn’t care about people texting during the…

http://www.uhpinions.com

This is pretty much along the same lines as Raps’ “More Amazon Review Fun”…

Ok since my creativity is rather on the low side right now, this is going to take a long time to get this going but I wanted to put this down before…

Background: I work as a security guard, for a large company. My company also provides security for some advance screenings of movies, which I’ve been…

This is a posting on behalf of a friend. Some background, he is roommates with the girl in question, and the things he does for her that he…

If given the chance to become both rich and famous would you play a character the opposite of what you are now. IE if you are straight they are not,…

Here is a site started by Jurgen Henn called 11foot8.com (http://11foot8.com/). It is dedicated to a train trellis that is about 11 feet, 8 inches…

Something Positive had my Father’s Day (http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp06172013.shtml).

… was chatting Sunday with my son in Israel and…

Lemonade for Peace Girl (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-upbeat/girl-westboro-lemonade-stand-140819768.html)

Here are a few lines from the…

Ok, I’ve finally figured out when I’m able to take a vacation this year. It will be late July, and I’m going to Vegas. I’ve been there 3 times…

Actually, it’s scale mail, but still. Now your peeg can be ready to joust at a moment’s notice! Do you think hamsters would make good squires?
…

Me = Me
TINP = Totally imaginary normal person
SC = Totally real sucky customer

*How I thought it would go:*

TINP: No thanks I wouldn’t like…

I love working at but this past week really took a toll on me.

WIFE: Honey? What’s that? (pointing at a dark spot on my arm)…

What the hell? Fried Chicken.
…

We’ve had this family staying at the hotel for a while, they checked in for one night and have now been there 19. The lady keeps putting her kids…

I’m planning my mom’s funeral today and I find that I really, really want one of those pendants with the color photo engraved or stamped in the metal…

So, I’m at the local restaurant with a pepper as a logo…

I’m looking over the menu, and I notice that they have an item that they want on one of…

A good friend of mine is being forced to give up her pitbull Zeus due to a change in her apartment’s pet policy.

Not 100% sure of the exact…

ASM called me in early yesterday. Usually there’s a manager’s swipe-card for the timeclock upstairs; there wasn’t, so I had to pop down to the front…

So I am now in need of a new mobile phone. Due to the issues I had with my HTC, I am reconsidering going for a HTC. I also won’t be going for an…

So my manager was working a night with me last week. Normally he has me go do a round of ‘store is closing in five minutes’ customer to customer, but…

So here I am, legs all trembly, sweating, and giving off a smell that could tarnish brass. Why? Because I just returned from the gym and I’m…

Dad told me this one tonight.

He was in the grocery store a few days ago. He was carrying two items (he didn’t say what) and got in line for the…

So mom and I were driving along with a music station on the radio. Between songs, a listener called in and she and the deejay started talking about…

This is the most disturbing that I’ve seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo

What’s yours?

Do I have diplomatic immunity?

*Guh?*

Customer: Uh like, are these, like, games for like, sale?

Me: No. They’re games to stick under your…

The pollen around here is pretty bad, so I have lovely seasonal allergies. I always carry some tissues in my apron and am as discreet as possible if…

So after 13 months of not working, I got a job! I am one very happy girl right now.

It is a 3 month reception/admin role with the possibility of…

Go ahead. I’m not the only one who has had them. Lately I’ve been having them more and more often, and this isn’t an attempt to justify them. Just to…

So I know I don’t have nearly as much to bitch about as some people here. But it’s the middle of the night and nobody is online who gives a shit and…

Just a quickie, from just now. Guest called for a cab at 8:15am to get to the airport, so I called the company for them to schedule it. Upon…

We’ve been open since ten. It’s now six. That’s EIGHT HOURS you’ve had to mosey on in and check out the merchandise.

Now we’re closed. No, I…

So I went to donate plasma today and since they classify my veins as a very difficult 3 (deep and hard to get to), I’m very particular on who sticks…

So because of my role as an emergency after-hours worker, I end up filling the boots of a “colleague”. So while my name is fireheart, I might end up…

If you had asked me two months ago how often I had gone to the bar, the answer would have been about 5-10 times since I turned 21 (I’m 28 now), in…

Last year I posted a thread in which I mentioned a physical I had, which said, I n essence, that I was amazingly healthy…other than my out of whack…

Check out this video about why Homer’s dad and Marge’s mom shouldn’t get married:

When I explained…

That’s what it said across on the back of the purple Honda Civic, on a bumper sticker as big as a European license plate. On either side of this…

Is Candlejack’s hood/gloves/boots white or grey? I can’t tell.

I found a good infographic about body language in job interviews….

I had to replace the battery in my riding lawnmower, so I tried to remove it. I was not successful, since I’m not a mechanic. So, I decided to rent…

Today I was shopping I couldn’t find an item I was looking for. Since I was unable to find an employee, I called the store from inside the store to…

I was wondering if there are people on here who work for a Save on Foods or PriceSmart. I work for a PriceSmart that was once an SOF, and now we are…

In trying to think of what to post, I again can only come up with little things that happen all day long that I would really love to just change but…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uTFl0rNNQrY#!

So this fashion designer a few years back decided to “push the envelope” by…

I found out recently that a member of our support staff was arrested a few months back. He was arrested for dealing heroin. A drug addict and a…

Me, I manage a game store in a mall.

Today my boss pulls me off to the side and says “I got a complaint from a customer about you the other day,…

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=84984

The above link pertains to this post.

My fiance and I recently married.

Before we…

Yes, yes you do.

You DO have to give me back that FAKE PERMIT you tried to park with before you can leave the impound.

“But it was good!” you…

…because of the same dumb questions and statements, over and over.

“Where’s [thing national park is named for]?” If you were standing much…

My Google-fu has failed massively, and while I can get an answer tomorrow/later today when my folks are up, I’m frustrated that I can’t find it right…

I went to the movies last night to watch “Now you see me.” The theatre was blissfully emptyish as most people went to see Man of Steel. We get there…

Not so much suckage as :hairpull:

We had an inordinate number of customers coming in tonight saying, “I had this WONNNNDERFUL drink here two weeks…

So..Kraft has some new commercials for their Zesty Italian dressing. It’s been causing a stir and people aren’t happy about it. But Kraft doesn’t…

Here’s a web site that finds guys that post, “Make me a sandwich, bitch! (http://bitchsandwich.tumblr.com/)” and digs through their Twitter feed to…

I am looking to embed a graphic like the attachment on this post into a video. I currently have Windows Live Movie Maker and I am curious as to if…

I think it might have. Let the nerdiness commence!

A large number of thought to be lost Doctor Who episodes have been recovered…

At 6:40 EST 06/14/13 I was getting a message along the lines of “the server is too busy” or something. I forgot to write the message down, sorry.

So I thought I had finally gotten ahead in life. The roommates were calming down, the hives on my skin were going, and I wasn’t waking up and…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYm9vCPLoG4

Caught on the driver’s dash-cam. The road-rager literally kept trying to run the man off the road,…

So I work for a after-hours care program, where I look after school-aged kids. They are divided into 2 groups: the “little ones” and the “big ones”….

A car lost control in an insane way, and the guide dog alerted the trainers and gave them just enough time to get out of the way:…

It went quite well, but I don’t have the job yet. Among other things I need to get a licence, but things are looking good. I’ll keep you posted.

Old habits die hard… so it is time for another round of craziness!

Same as the last couple of threads: basically I’m doing a bit of a ripoff of…

Customer wants to buy a prepay phone card, upset phones battery is dead and wont be able to provide the phone number, told phone doesn’t need to be…

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(no spoilers here I promise…and I’ll be getting to the point….just have a lot of set up, go here…

Apparently, the tipping culture is not universally seen as the Best Thing Ever. Who would have thought?
…

So I am sitting here in agony because of my legs, unable to rest..and had one of my crazy ideas. This one for a reality tv show. I want HONEST…

Of baby Parker singing! I love the way he warbles. I don’t know how (or even if its possible) to post a video here, so if anyone wants to see my…

So I woke up around 1PM. Those who are following my archives thread know that I went to bed around 2 last night due to all the trouble, and I didn’t…

Image: http://i.imgur.com/jxSqx39.jpg

Canyons of concrete, mountains of steel and glass, rivers of asphalt. The shine and glow of millions upon…

So, I don’t have the exact convo, because it was a few computers ago, but along with being in retail, I’m also an artist. Nothing super-talented. I…

So, after a Wal-mart encounter with a truly maginificent mullet, a convoluted thought process led to me to the idea of writing a blog post about the…

This story is about carbon monoxide poisoning….

and what does it look like??

I mean, I read that on here a lot, and I think I kinda, sorta know what it is, but my wife asked me the other day,…

Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSJZ5aGTTo

* Douchebag says hi to lady through a Facebook dating app
* Douchebag sends the lady a pic of his wiener, a whopping 11 minutes after his greeting…

Starbuck & Starbuck in Starbucks.

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/10/starbuck-and-starbuck-in-starbucks/

It’s a couple of years old but ……

Awhile ago, I posted advice about the situation of having a boyfriend going to the military and such…

We broke up a couple of weeks ago.

Its…

So I work for an after-school care program. Because I’m an emergency worker, I can be contracted out to a number of schools on a regular basis. At…

As some of you will have worked out my life has gone to the dogs lately and is causing a few stress and depression problems. The result of this is…

http://consumerist.com/2013/06/12/this-photo-might-make-you-reconsider-heading-out-for-a-nice-cold-wendys-frosty/

You would think the Taco Bell…

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/travel/news/emily-harris-uses-unicorn-passport-to-get-through-turkish-customs/story-fn3015fd-1226662863144

So on a…

A) Seen so many people traveling in the far right lane on a high-way, in heavy traffic, being larking turnips and refusing to let anyone into the…

…and not with Rock and Roll. :p

So, big game convention (Origins) had a minor setback. The convention center caught fire today.

The good…

I work in a union run place. So this took years to happen.

Basically had a cw. He was unsafe. Idiotic. Everything you’d post about in coc. They…

The last few months have been awesome. I should have seen this coming, honestly.

So about 10 days ago, I was at my old house. I was minding my…

A couple of days ago, a man left in a suit to be cleaned. He seemed really stressed over it because it had a scuff on the knee and he thought it was…

Wrote this (http://www.customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=99197&highlight=Expletive) post on May 30. Been driving around thinking, “Hahaha,…

I had this couple asking me for help with the wifi in the lobby last night. Since we’re in a national park and quite remote, the wifi is about as…

In my pathology/pharmacology class we are currently studying the concept of pain. I need to get information from 3 people about any pain they…

I went out to dinner at the Outback Steakhouse with the GF last night. We opted to sit at a bar table (self-seating) rather than wait 20 minutes for…

One thing I’ve learned working a gas station is that people seem to think the guy behind the counter is 10x better with directions than the lady….

Recently I became hired as a FT cashier for the national chain of hardware stores with the the blue house silhouette. It’s not what I want to do,…

This lady got pissy at Dunkin Donuts and made herself look like a fool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAOo9SnzRH8

I manage a game store selling board games, card crack (magic the gathering), and miniature games (warmachine). These customers are nuts, just saying….

So I’ve made a few mentions on this site of how my mother can be… Well let’s just say there is a line you do NOT want to cross with her. I’ve…

I found this hilarious. Don’t turn it off after the first robbery–you HAVE to watch the second attempt. It’s comedy GOLD.

Robbery FAIL…

Years ago, my male friend, we’ll call him Gray, needed a new digital camera at the same time I needed a printer so we decided to go together to a…

My mother and I went shopping today and bought 5 little mini perfumes. The cashier only checked out 4 of them but bagged all 5. So we ended up paying…

So. You’re a student in an online class.

The instructor posts an announcement that she will be out of town from x date to y date. You aren’t…

A soccer player in Argentina mistreated a dog on a soccer field….

I have had a really shitty day. you’ll find out as to why i say this. Lets just say that i am glad i do not work janitorial position.normally.
…

So, I already posted in CoC that it was good I took work home with me when I left sick today.

Now, I’m feeling slightly better, and I’m working…

Just a few moments ago, I opened this site and got this message:

—Quote—
A website wants to open web content using this program on your…

So. Tiny library. Library = books. Books = reading. If that were the end of the story, I’d be cataloging instead of kvetching.

Adventures in…

So, I’ve been working at Walmart for over a month now, selling cellphones and contracts, when in the past week I’ve noticed a new trend with some…

So last night, we had a really bad storm that blew down a large robin nest from one of our trees. Nothing I could do about it, the nest was…

http://packet-media.com/2013/06/06/from-the-publisher-close-to-home/

A forumer wished to remain anonymous for personal reasons and asked me to…

may be added to as the day goes on.
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Why do we care?
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There is a snake in the most west-ward corner of the lake.

Caller is scared.
…

Working in a call center has given me so much new-found respect for tech support. If we get a call about online banking and it’s something “simple,”…

Look sparky, if you want a favor from me, and make no mistakes me giving you a late check out time IS a favor, then you need to at least start with…

Why are people suddenly surprised when their credit cards are declined? These people will ask you to run the card again because there must be some…

It never ceases to amaze me how many people arrive to check into hotels in the middle of the night and ask for a rate reduction because they will…

Why is it so hard for people to understand directions over the phone. We listen to what you have to say and then present you with step by step…

So as part of my job I train people on how to handle calls, it basically means for a day I sit with them, do their job and if anything unexpected…

The background was nice and silent (major plus), but this thick accented guy kept saying the same thing over and over.

Me: *greeting*

Guy:…

I’m sure lots of you can riff off this idea…

My new manager and I had this conversation tonight.
Him: So (other manager at another property)…

My coworker’s recent facebook post:
—Quote—
While cashiering at [store] today I noticed the lady I was checking out staring at me. Feeling…

She decides to go in and confront someone that had nothing to do with it and when she sees the worker, calls her a sand n-word. She has learned that…

I want your opinions on this situation, whatever they may be. I am too close to the situation to be impartial, so am hoping for some fresh eyes. I am…

Ok, Saturday night was the big ride of the Portland branch of the World Naked Bike Ride.

Now, a lot of folks on the side of the road (and…

Everyone wish your favorite foul mouthed blondie blas good luck.

I applied for a day shift shipping job, hoping to get off weekend 12 hour shifts….

A very cute commercial from a hotel chain. Watch until the end, there’s a “behind the scenes” video too.
…

Just got this one from my new CW, “Wah” on our intra-Client IM system.

Wah: “This user just asked me how to turn off the…

Bad customer!

I just had a customer send me a facebook message.

Strike one!

We’re already crossing the line. It’s nearly 9PM. We aren’t…

Can anyone find me something like this (https://www.artebo.de/en/produkte/armschutz/) but sold in America? (either the sleeve or the sleeve/guard)
…

for one of my teachers this fall…

I kid you not… Dr Patrick Cronin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188795/), will be teaching one of my classes…

So I thought it’d be kinda cool to share your favourite apps from whatever device/s you own. Might get some more people interested as well. So here’s…

Haven’t been posting as much as I intended to since I finally joined the site. Turns out that one of the advantages of working graveyard at TBGSITW,…

I’ve been at a loss as to what kind of story to post; usually I get lucky and don’t get the really bad SC’s but only the minor annoyances that happen…

1. Let your brother drive your car onto the Turnpike who then decides to race like crazy and get pulled over. Oops, he had a few warrants and now you…

*_For Those who place internet orders, PART I wanna hit you with a clue X four_*

had another one of these gems happen last night. Why is it ALWAYS…

So yeah… I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus. I considered the fact that I spent most of my time on here while I was at work on a work computer. My…

very sad tonight..Last night, went out to feed my bunny Gizmo & found our neighbor’s dog in her enclosure. Dog had broken Gizzy’s neck & was standing…

So I’m working on a project. I’m taking all the threads (not necessarily posts) from some of the famous members of CS, putting them in a document,…

And the floodwaters are apparently still rising…

da.
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Was at work yesterday when myself and my coworker happened to see this bit. It is normally seen only in those crazy Steve Martin movies.

2 bums…

I’d love to mention it, and I’m trying to help him get the word out. Especially to those of you in the states who have furry animals that bark…

Okay, we all know that Movie and Game trailers are designed to get you to want to see the movie/show/buy the game, and all that, so you can only…

… not to mention you find yourself on the verge of passing out a couple of minutes into the video because you’re holding your breath.
…

I’ve been debating making a post due to a severe lack of suckage at work. However, this is my latest and I’ll start it off with the few I was there…