Only Retail Workers Will Understand These 50 Stories About Serving Demon Customers

15. I was a supervisor at a popular coffee chain that had a rule that employees were not to be in the store alone (so for example, when opening you had to wait for your second barista outside and then enter together). This was to prevent theft, but anyway, that meant we couldn’t put out our patio furniture until our 3rd came in.

A customer began demanding I set up the patio, to which I advised him of the above. When I co tinier to refuse, he said “let me speak to your supervisor” and I said “I am the supervisor.” Obviously now super pissed, he says “you’ll never get ahead if you don’t break the rules every so often,” to which I responded “well I certainly didn’t get promoted by breaking all the rules, now you can order and stop harassing me, or you can leave.”

He promptly stormed out.

16. Treating the cute little bartender like a whore so she went back to the kitchen to tell us cooks and we went out there to tell him off. He tried getting us to wait on him instead, until the other cook just said fuck off.