I work at a popular italian restaurant as a food/kitchen runner. Sucks. A woman ordered a salad. She sent the salad back complaining that the vegetables in the salad were too "crispy and fresh." She asked for us to put it in the microwave with butter. People are simply ridiculous.
27 and 1/2 and 5/8
I work for Lowe's Home Improvement as a customer service associate. We get all kinds of stupid people and I knew that going into the job. A lot of people come from inside Philadelphia to our store, even though it's such a far trip. This one guy comes in with his daughter complaining that a saleswoman miscut his window blinds. I told him that I'd cut his blinds for him to avoid any trouble. He told me that his blinds had been cut to 28 inches or more and he wanted them cut down. He handed me a slip of paper with the measurements on it , which read "27 1/2 and 5/8 inches". I assumed he meant he wanted 5/8 inch blinds cut to 27 and 1/2 inches. I cut them and came back to the desk where the man measured them and told me they were way off. I cut them again to 27 and 1/2 inches and even measured them myself before returning to the desk. He asked for a manager. Before I go any further into this ridiculous story, let me mention that carpenter's tape measures have eighths and quarters written out in addition to the half marks, so each tape reads 1/8 then 1/4 then 3/8 and so on. When my manager came up I explained the situation and he asked the man exactly what he wanted cut. Then his daughter starts trying to explain to us what 27 1/2 means. Then the man cuts her off, takes my manager's tape measure and points to 27 1/2, then counts over to 27 5/8 and says "twenty-seven and one half... and FIVE EIGHTHS!" He thought we were stupid but this mean clearly doesn't know how to read a tape measure. He doesn't even understand how fractions work, thinking that 27 and 5/8 was read 27 and 1/2 and 5/8! How this guy made it as a carpenter amazes me. So many houses are probably collapsing as we speak.
As a bartender, I usually have to deal with people who are douchebags when they are drunk. Some are fine, and if they get too aggressive or stupid, I can cut them off or make them drink water. However, I can't really do anything unless they ask for another drink. One night not too long ago, a girl was in the bar I worked at and was mucking around with her friends. She was... Read More »
I work as a bagger at the grocery store on a navy base during the breaks when I'm home from school. We don't get a salary, just tips. This can be both good and bad at times, usually bad considering we have only one small sign to let people know this (we used to have more but one person complained they felt pressured to tip...well you should when we cram 2 carts worth of... Read More »
I work at a drug store, and one day we had a guy who was at least 65 come in, furious he could not find non-lubricated condoms. His reasoning for needing them was because he if he used lubricated ones, the lube got in his eyes and it burnt like hell. I try not to think of what exactly he was doing with them.
I work as an intern doing HTML coding, and I get paid eight dollars an hour. Recently, I've been working with a head coder from a major online company, and when I sent him my coding he ruined it, forcing me to fix it all and do his job for him because he didn't know how it got messed up. He gets paid five times what I do.
One day I was one break from my job at the pool store, so I was sitting in my car in the parking lot to check my phone and get away for a little. While I'm sitting there, an couple comes out of the store and starts loading their pool supplies in their car. As the morbidly fat wife opens the side door to put things in she hits my car with her door. I just stare out the window... Read More »


