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Read Don’t Put Melons On Apples Manager: "Can you set up a new MacBook to be sent to the executive floor, for—" Me: "...
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Read You’ve Bot A Problem Me: "I apologize, sir, but I am afraid I cannot send out your parcel. The address does not ...
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Read Offside Explained (Again And Again And Again…) One thing you will know as a referee or official in any sport is ...
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Read Fulfilment Issues Customer: "I want to make a complaint." Me: "I can take the details and forward them to—" Cust...
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Read The Sound Of Accountability Me: "We were told in a meeting about eighteen months ago we would get rewarded for a...
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Read Pardon My French Boss: "Okay, we get customers who order all kinds of fancy wines with no idea what they're orde...
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Read No Such Thing As A Free Lunch Supervisor: "Could you and [Other Employee] clock out for lunch but still take cal...
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Read A Turn For The Worse A customer has been putting money on green on the roulette wheel every time. Customer: "Hey...
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Read Ginfinite Choices I work at a gin bar. Customer: "Do you sell gin?" Me: *Standing in front of over a hundred and...
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Read Et Tu, Customer? Manager: "Remember [New Hire]. About 5% of the customers will be wonderful. But they will gener...
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Read Who’s The Tool? Customer: "I need to return this chainsaw. It died after only a few uses!" Me: "Did you use it t...
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Read The Pear-ent Trap Dad: "See this pear is just right." Me: "How can you tell?" Dad: "It still looks good, but whe...
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Read Soy Close, Yet So Far I watched weaponized incompetence play out in the grocery store the other day. There was a...
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Read Keeping The Names Fluid Customer: "Can I get some of that liquid ice stuff?" Me: "Liquid ice? Like… water?" Read...
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Read When I was seventeen, I used to work in a toy store. I wasn’t allowed on the cash registers until I was eighteen...
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Read During the 2025 lunar eclipse, I was in college. My professor, a middle-aged man with glasses, decided that ther...
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Read My older brother moved from the North East to California in1987. He related this story to me a few years after h...
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Read Waitress, There’s Paranoia In My Meal I walked up and took their plates, and I asked if she was ready for me to ...
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Read I’m the OP from “When It Comes To Soccer, They Don’t Want A Pizza The Action.” After that incident, my parents s...
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Read (When you work in a customer-facing position, you learn a lot about the extremes of humanity. Most patients are ...