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hey everyone! after a brief conversation in chat about the horrors of retail or any sort of customer-based jobs, I want to know all about the weirdies you've encountered at work. tell me EVERYTHING. I used to work in the deli at a grocery store and these are some of my all time favourite customer interactions (all of these were with grown adults, by the way) - was once asked if bacon was chicken or beef
- was once asked how to store ham and was yelled at when I replied with "in the fridge" because she "already knew that". then why did you ask ::::)
- was once complained at because I didn't cut a whole rotisserie chicken in half on the ham slicer
- someone once ate a shopping list - like chewed and swallowed it - in front of the people he stole the list from and then lied about it WHILE STILL CHEWING IT
- told a customer that "it sucks to suck" after she yelled at me for being closed and my manager backed me up lol
- ran out of bacon and was told to off myself (this happens a lot, actually)
- once watched someone pee on the window from outside. saw an entire wee wee
- was once yelled at for "using my fingers" (I was wearing gloves) to pick up their ham
- some freaking lady comes in often and yells at us about not having any ham that is 100% Australian even though the pigs we butcher are bred, born, raised, and slaughtered here, it's literally just the preservatives and flavourings and brines that take up TWO GODDAMN PERCENT of the ingredient list. "98% is still not 100% so it's not really Australian" then neither are you, lady!
- we sell salmon without skin and salmon with skin in our seafood section. someone once asked me for a piece with skin but wanted me to remove it. why can't we just buy the pieces with skin off please I'm begging you
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That whole list was WILD omg😭😂 - My family used to do pony rides and a petting zoo at our local pumpkin patch, and one of our ponies is a cute little buttermilk buckskin. So last year for Halloween, I painted black zebra stripes on him with Crayola paint and dressed myself in a safari outfit. I shit you not, at least 7 or 8 GROWN ADULTS asked if he was a real zebra😭 I told all of them he was, in fact, imported from Africa, and all of them believed it xD |
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So me and my family train horses and do overnight layovers and here are some of the stupid shit people have asked or done lady *calls us* "hey So I have a 2 year old filly who I've NEVER done groundwork with or PUT A HALTER on do you think you can take her in and just get on her" Man *comes into our barn without telling us he was coming by sees that his horse has only half a bucket of water and a different horse has none (the other horse has just gotten vetted) takes his horse out of training for only having half a bucket of water I was riding my cremello gelding at a showing the color show (it's something we have where I am) and some lady came up to me "WhItE hOrSeS aRnT cOloReD" uh ma'am he's a homozygous cremello with rabicono and a badger face I had a man ask me if my shetald pony was a horse that got sat on for too long by a fat man and got shrunk |
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KPH Equestrian said:
That whole list was WILD omg😭😂 - My family used to do pony rides and a petting zoo at our local pumpkin patch, and one of our ponies is a cute little buttermilk buckskin. So last year for Halloween, I painted black zebra stripes on him with Crayola paint and dressed myself in a safari outfit. I shit you not, at least 7 or 8 GROWN ADULTS asked if he was a real zebra😭 I told all of them he was, in fact, imported from Africa, and all of them believed it xD
WHAT HAHAHAHA it's genuinely alarming how little sense grown adults have sometimes.
ghost light stables said:
So me and my family train horses and do overnight layovers and here are some of the stupid shit people have asked or done lady *calls us* "hey So I have a 2 year old filly who I've NEVER done groundwork with or PUT A HALTER on do you think you can take her in and just get on her" Man *comes into our barn without telling us he was coming by sees that his horse has only half a bucket of water and a different horse has none (the other horse has just gotten vetted) takes his horse out of training for only having half a bucket of water I was riding my cremello gelding at a showing the color show (it's something we have where I am) and some lady came up to me "WhItE hOrSeS aRnT cOloReD" uh ma'am he's a homozygous cremello with rabicono and a badger face I had a man ask me if my shetald pony was a horse that got sat on for too long by a fat man and got shrunk
all of this hurt me so much. I didn't realise horse karens existed lol |
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So, it's not really job based but me and my family(mainly me and my sisters now but it used to be a whole family thing) go to some fair type dairy cow shows and some of the questions we get from fair goers are nuts xD Someone asked me when the boy cows become bulls. I thought she may have had the terms wrong and meant to ask when they become a steer so I asked and no she legit wanted to know when they became a bull lol We show holsteins so the cows usually have fairly big udders and someone came into the aisle explaining to their kid that the cow was pregnant. I wasn't quite sure how he knew since she was early into her pregnancy but the cows was in fact pregnant so I was like, okay. Fast forward just a bit and I heard him pointing and saying that the way you could tell she was pregnant was because the calf was in the udder(or the sack as he called it) and the udders get bigger as the calf grew so she must be close to having her baby xD This cow was maybe 2 month into her pregnancy LOL We all the time have people telling us that we are starving our cows because they can see their ribs and I'm like ma'am, that's just how they are built, do you not see the full feed pan in front of them? Or the large piles of alfalfa? Or the class I lost because thw judge thought my calf should be slimmed down? XD And my all time favorite, we have had multiple people ask us what breed we show so we always reply holstein, because that is what we show, but the amount of people that then walk down to our heifers and ask what breed they are is insane. Like, we just said we show holsteins, we didn't put any other breeds in there and they all look the exact same. My brother said that the heifers were half-steins as a joke and they took him seriously and were calling all the heifers half-steins xD So now we just always answer that they are half-steins lol |
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