Customers From Hell Employ Scamming Tactics To Dupe Retail Workers Out Of A Few Bucks Only To Be Exposed On Reddit

This is the Bad Place

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• June 25, 2022

Nothing tests your humanity more than having a job in the retail industry. For some reason, people think it's okay to behave their absolute worst when dealing with customer service staff.

Their horrible behavior is so common yet cringe-fully entertaining that the internet can't get enough of it. It seems like there are new stories about badly behaved customers a few times a week and here's another one.

After reading these unforgettable exchanges, we can only conclude that retail workers are modern-day martyrs. They are forced to smile through every awkward exchange with the lot of us and they do it every day.

Their social batteries must be fully diminished by now, right? Yet they carry on day after day only to receive undeserved abuse from customers who think they are above them.

If you've seen a customer throwing what could only be described as a tantrum in the middle of a store, you know exactly how embarrassing it is. You're not exactly the person causing the scene but the secondhand embarrassment is strong.

These entitled customers let out a litany of insults and curses when they can't get what they want. The retail worker has to stand there and take it while maintaining a calm disposition.

Anyone who has worked in retail must have seen every bad thing humanity has to offer. These stories, however, talk about the most bald-faced scams customers have tried to pull.

Continue reading below to get a front row seat to these mesmerizing spectacle:

1. Thanks for the helpful note!

2. One of the employees is bound to crack and give him a refund

3. That's a different model, sir

4. Don't go back to the scene of the crime especially with the items you stole

5. The one time the owner's daughter is manning the phones

6. See? Retail workers are so invisible a customer can't even remember the rep he talked to for an hour the day before.

7. The dad who was trying to score drugs using his son's prescription

His excuse was his son needed them for a birthday party

8. No problem. We were short on chicken bones to use for stew anyway.

9. You can't fool the tech guys thinking they won't check the unit you're trying to return

10. Was the customer by chance a fan of bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica?

11. Why freeze them? Also, corporate is so out of touch.

12. Imagine getting this worked up over discounted soda?

She tried to double-down but all fight left her when each of her complaints were disproved

13. Your hands were not quick enough mister

14. You can't use coupons from Google Images, ma'am

15. People will try all shady ways to get quick cash

16. The chicken lover who was stealing all the drumsticks for research purposes

17. Imagine trying to use a national tragedy for your own benefit

18. What's your source? Trust me.

19. Bill Gates is so charitable he will pay for your iPhone

20. What makes them think this trick will work?

21. Do not lie about easily verifiable information, please

22. Don't take advantage of a privilege. You're just ruining it for other people.

23. A lady who tried to have a gaming shopping spree

Using a homemade fake credit card

24. A sob story that would have worked if only the ice cream machine was functioning that day

25. The lady who offered sexual favors in exchange for $100 worth of clothes

26. She tried to pull this trick so frequently that they are all friends now

27. I don't like the scent of these used up detergents because I refilled them with water

28. "Hun, the cashier won't accept my fake I.D. go punch her in the face!"

29. That is an elaborate scam for some free towels

30. What is with the name-dropping to get free things or preferential treatment?

31. This pretty smart scam that actually worked

32. He was just trying his luck, maybe you had lost iPhones lying around

33. Exchange my roach infested box with a new unit of Xbox One

He got credit with the understanding of never bringing back his box of roaches

34. The tracking anklet is not the best endorsement of your morality

35. Why would this work?

36. That almost worked, the poor schmuck

37. And lastly, the minor who tried to prove he was of legal age to buy alcohol using an ultrasound

I am convinced that retail workers are the most zen people on the planet. Or they are living saints walking the earth to spare us from the worst of humanity.

The worst part is they are not even paid enough for all of their hard work. Imagine dealing with a barely-showered human while a cheesy pop song plays in the background for the nth time that day? Illegal!

Chelsi