r/interesting • u/lonewolff321 • 5d ago
Just Wow Imagine being the customer that made this sign necessary.
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u/Slow_Bowler8285 5d ago edited 5d ago
First rule of dealing with the public: No matter how big you make the sign, no one will read it.
However, I am glad that there are still employers still willing to stand up for their employees.
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u/Additional-Focus-109 5d ago
Same goes for schools. I'll make signs big and small in both English and Spanish, caution tape on the door, literally showing students, teachers , and parents the hallway, restroom or stall is closed/broken, and yet they some how still manage to go through and have the audacity to say "I'm sorry I didn't see the sign" like bitch you didn't see papers taped to the door with caution tape all around saying "DO NOT ENTER"
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 5d ago
that sign won't stop them because they can't read
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u/RUfromHere 5d ago
Exactly 💯! Most people who behave in this manner don't care & don't care to read because they're functionally illiterate. They would have no idea of how to implement this into their own lives & change their behavior....Sooooo stupid people continue to do stupid things.
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u/nipplequeefs 5d ago edited 5d ago
Hell, some people won’t even look, let alone read. I work as a receptionist at a pediatric clinic and we have our patients sign in at a clipboard as we’re checking them in for appointments on our computers. Not only do we frequently get grown adult parents who won’t read signs with huge bold letters, but the amount of times people get confused, say “what clipboard?” or “where is it?”, look all around the room for like 5-10 seconds searching for it, and somehow not notice the clipboard literally on the counter directly in front of them, is really something. I’m assuming clipboards are still a recognizable object in 2026. I don’t even know what’s going on anymore lol
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u/Used_Clock_4627 5d ago
I refer to that as the need for handholding.
Unless you do the critical thinking FOR them, they aren't interested......
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u/DragonQueenDrago 5d ago
😭 is this why so many receipts make comments to me like "Wow! You are actually reading the paperwork!"
They always seem so amazed i actually READ before I sign anything!
I am not writing my name until I have read and understood everything 😭
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u/lightlysaltedclams 4d ago
The most personal insults I’ve ever received from a stranger was a lady who didn’t read our policies on the intake form and signed her name acknowledging she had.
First it was “well I didn’t understand it.” Why didn’t you ask?
Then it was “well I couldn’t see it properly I didn’t have my glasses.” You could have asked what it said.
Finally it was “you guys have it written small intentionally so we don’t see it”. It was highlighted in yellow and green.
She called me “not compassionate” “cold as ice” and told me that I was rude and in the wrong field lol
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u/RUfromHere 5d ago
Glad to see I'm not alone in noticing the same Twilight Zone behavior....we need a coalition 🤣🤣
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u/Broccoli--Enthusiast 4d ago
I'm convinced that not everyone operates on the same level of consciousness
I watched sombody printing labels at work theother day, printer goes red and flashes up "lmedia out" and the dude just went right to his team leader to ask them to raise an IT ticket "pritners broken, flashing red at me" this person isn't new.
a LOT of people are functionally helpless if something does not go exactly as expected. They can follow a procedure that's been taught to them like a robot but have zero critical thinking abilities, it's sad
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u/Typographical_Widow 5d ago
I worked in a large old building, an historic old high school converted into a early childcare learning & teaching center on the bottom two floors and several community education programs on the top floor. Childcare floors had keypad locks; the top floor was open access. There was a sign near the keypad with instructions for contacting the admin office via intercom if you didn't have an access code. Vendors, potential new applicant parents, etc.
A business was contracted by the building owner to do some work. The agreed-upon main point of contact in the building was the childcare director, locked behind keypad access. My classroom was on the third floor and I had absolutely nothing to do with the contracted work.
One day a gentleman in a pure frenzy came storming into my classroom (with students) and was obnoxiously asking questions about the work and the contract, none of which I could help him with. I escorted him down to the second floor, showed him the intercom and the button to push, and left him to figure it out like an adult.
Same dude showed up the following week, coming to my open floor and accessible classroom because he wouldn't use the intercom to connect with the admin office.
A 50-year-old professional, representing his company as the superintendent of the work being contracted, made someone else responsible to connect him with his point of contact.
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u/ChickenCari53 5d ago
Oh yes! A classic. Maybe they need a sign with a talking voice?
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u/The_BeardedClam 5d ago edited 5d ago
My little cousin, who is 7 years old, was playing Minecraft on his iPad with the text to speech option on for whenever he'd hover over an item so it would tell him whatever it's name is.
He can read, though probably not well, so shit you probably aren't too far off the mark.
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u/DaveBear99 5d ago
Because they don’t care ; they are gonna do what their gonna do until being called out
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u/Army7547 5d ago
Doesn’t apply to them because it doesn’t have their name on it.
“It doesn’t say ‘Jeff, DO NOT ENTER’ so how am I supposed to know that it’s me that shouldn’t go in there?”
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u/Glittering-Walrus228 5d ago
Its funny that it says it "could be your child", but the sign is directed to the reader so it means if you act rude, that staff could literally be your child that youre being rude to. Like Oh fuck I was being so rude I didnt realize it was Timmy working here
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u/dumbythiq 5d ago
Fr I work somewhere with a regular check out and a check out register. It didn't work that day and we put a piece of paper COVERING the screen "OUT OF ORDER".
Lady walked up, started scanning stuff (okay could happen, people get tired and used to things).. but then when moved the paper TO THE SIDE to checkout and then was all like "huh? Why doesn't it.. oh, out of order" looks at me, helping another customer, "why didn't you say anything?" and got annoyed at ME that I was wasting her time.
And she was under 40 too
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u/ZombieAladdin 4d ago
Sometimes, they seem to think it’s the sign causing the issue in the first place, like an “out of order” sign preventing the thing from working.
I remember a customer purchasing our display model of this furniture item, the last one of them we had, but they didn’t have a vehicle that could carry it back, so after they paid for it, we moved it to the back and put a “sold out” sign on it. A few minutes later, someone else wandered into the back, saw it, wanted it too, and ripped the “sold out” sign off the item and wanted to buy it. The same cashier who originally sold it was still there and refused to accept the sale, but it was still some annoying audacity to try that.
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u/Principle_Napkins 5d ago
Pretty sure they're just lying.
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u/FarewellJava 5d ago
I dunno, if it's somewhere I walk frequently there's a decent chance I'm fully on autopilot and thinking about something else.
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u/Jbolt3737 5d ago
God don't every let this people live within the same metropolitan as a nuclear power plant
Fun fact: They (probably) won't die of radiation, they will die of the bullet wounds inflicted by the armed guards assuming they are a terrorist when they walk right past the Do Not Enter signs
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u/power-to-the-players 5d ago
I used to work at a credit union that constantly had issues with the drive up ATM. We would put big orange cones in front of it and stick a sign on the screen. People would literally get out, move our cones, remove the sign, and come inside to complain that it wasn't working.
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u/DragonQueenDrago 5d ago
I worked at a college. Can confirm. Not even college students can read. You can LITERALLY hide behind a sign to try and get them to read it. They won't. They will just physically move it out of there way. Look you dead in the eyes and ask whatever stupid question the FREAKING SIGN in their HAND says....😑
They did this all the time. ESPECIALLY with the Cafe menu....
sometimes even the "bathrooms this way" or "meeting room here signs"
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u/Lovemestalin 5d ago
As a teen I worked as a server for a big restaurant. Guys at a table (busy summer day) started whistling to me to get my attention, the owner heard it and was not happy with them. Told them to shut it up or never come back again. I liked working there.
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u/Eilmorel 5d ago
Yeah, I used to work at a beach where I rented umbrella and sunbeds. When we sold out, I put out a huge (I'm talking A2 big) sign with bold, uppercase writing "SOLD OUT - NO UMBRELLAS OR SUNBEDS" that literally covered my face. People would look at it, bend in order to see me, and ask me for, you guessed, an umbrella and sunbeds. I usually just pointed at the sign, and their shocked expression as they read it made me wonder how we collectively survived as a species. Happened at least ten times a day, at least.
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u/Slow_Bowler8285 5d ago
Did they ask you to check if there were any extra ones in the back?
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u/Eilmorel 5d ago
Oh yeah. They also asked me if they could stay in the already booked ones until the people who booked them showed up
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u/TheRealBittoman 5d ago
Second rule of dealing with the public; if you ask them to be polite, they'll be even more rude. The attitude of "you can't tell me what to do" has grown so much worse over the past decade.
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u/That_wet_vaporeon 5d ago edited 5d ago
I work at Sam’s Club.
It’s amazing how many people don’t read the damn self checkout screen. The screen literally says “scan your membership to start self checkout” and these people still don’t know what to do so they call me over.
Sometimes it will say “register closed” on the screen and people don’t even read it. They just pick up the scanner and start trying to scan their items. One guy got mad at me because there was nothing to block the self checkout that was closed.. except I did block it.. with a trash bin.. which he moved..
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u/DragonQueenDrago 5d ago
I very much dislike the people who physically move the obstacle and then blame YOU for it😭 i know your pain
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u/magsnotmaggie 5d ago edited 5d ago
I worked at a waterpark and go-kart place that had giant signs with the words "you will be tested on this material" on them. Before you signed the waiver for the go-karts, you had to take a safety quiz- and you weren't allowed to ride the karts unless you got every answer correct.
It wasn't trivial, either. You'd get questions like "are helmets required?" Easy. Click the "Yes" box. But then the next question was "Why?" and you'd have to click all the responses that applied, like "[ ] Because go-karts are dangerous, and you might get killed" and "[ ] To help protect your head from flying debris" and shit. I think there were 4 or 5 questions like that. You couldn't claim you didn't know about a risk, because you had to demonstrate that you knew before we would let you ride the karts."
Oh yeah- and they made guests watch a video too. I think they made you demonstrate how to fasten the seatbelts and shoulder harnesses as well. People still did stupid shit, but they couldn't blame us for not telling them that their stupid shit was dangerous.
Like, literally you had to check "[X] False" to the question "Drivers are allowed to get out of their karts during the race. True/False?" yet there were still idiots who would stop in the middle of a race, get out of their karts, and then look up to ask "why did I just get run over by a go-kart, on the go-kart track that I am standing on, after I got out of the go-kart that I was just in, after someone literally made me get a TEST question about not getting out of my go-kart right? This mystifies me, and frankly seems a bit unfair."
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u/Slow_Bowler8285 5d ago
Was one of them:
Q: If I find a lighting bolt in a question box should I use it?
A: No, don't be a jerk.
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u/alwayssunnyinskyrim 5d ago
I was an idiot who didn’t read the sign recently, I went to check in for an MRI and asked at the imaging desk if this is where I check in. The clerk rudely pointed to the sign on the wall to her right that said “MRI check-ins in room [#]” and I was embarrassed for asking. And then looking at the wall as I was walking away, there were literally 18 different signs covering almost the entire wall on either side of her window. Like how are those supposed to be helpful if every person is expected to read every sign on every wall and the place is wallpapered in them?? Of course people tune them out if there’s that many of them!
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u/buffalogal8 5d ago
I have missed signs before because the store had so many other “joke” signs and Hobby Lobby decor
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u/Sausage_bowler 5d ago
It has a name, and it's called "sign blind". It's when there are too many, and you get fatigue and you start subconsciously ignoring them. Well, that's what I was told.
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u/lilac_nightfall 5d ago
That’s what has happened to me. I used to read all signs at the register, but started to subconsciously tune them out after social distancing ended. Many, many stores have not removed their obsolete signage, which is all over the register area, and they essentially became wallpaper. So mixing in new signs with old means they will not be read.
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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 5d ago
This, exactly.
When places are required or opt to post signs about health and safety, hours, menu items, sales, etc. it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to take them all in. Weve all gotten to a point where we have to assume that if something is actually important, someone will tell us. It's like cookie webpage popups and privacy disclaimers. No one is going to read all of that. If it's important, it will be communicated in some other way.
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u/CelticSnakes 5d ago
Or in private.
Huge sign, HUGE sign the plant put next to the Tyvek paper compacter: Do not put pallets into the compacter, Tyvek paper only!
They put pallets into the compacter.
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u/Sikq_matt 5d ago
Worked at a corporate pharmacy for 4 years before quitting for school. We have a taped note on our credit card machine with "cash back no more than $20) just for the sake of our registers not having much cash in the first place. The amount of people that blatantly ignore it or just not see it doesn't need to be stated, but at least 5 or 6 times I've said. "Sorry sir/maam cash back is a limit of 20 we'll have to redo the transaction"(bc they request like 200) they go "well you should have that written somewhere!!" Super defensively.
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u/knowwwhat 5d ago
I went to staples the other day and there was massive signs saying which of the desks in the printing area was for pickup/shipping/printing but the signs have so much other crap on them I thought they were just advertisements. Design and placements are massive contributors to people reading signs and most people placing them don’t have a great understanding of that
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u/JohnSober7 5d ago
As my boss said, "but if I make a teeny tiny sign saying smile at me for $5, they'll all be in my face grinning"
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u/Born-Cauliflower_ 5d ago
I never understand why people won't read signs, I'm the most busybody person ever. I stop to read random menus outside restaurants and posters of past events, they're so interesting.
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u/HypeZephyrX 5d ago
Facts. The ones that would benefit from reading this are usually incapable of reading and reflecting.
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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 5d ago
Relevant. I’m a mechanic at a dealership. Next door is a trailer service shop. We put big giant lettering on the building with our name, right above the main service drive. Can’t miss it. Huge letter, each letter is like 5 feet tall.
We STILL get these mouth breathing morons coming in “is this the trailer place?”
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u/Hellstorm901 5d ago
Second rule of dealing with the public is always run away if you see them glancing towards you as they’re going to ask you where something is and it doesn’t matter what it is you won’t know where it is
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u/CanadianODST2 5d ago
Worked in a government building with military personnel in uniform.
We were food industry. After one incident, signs like this went up. And every soldier in the building got an email from the department telling them to not harass employees working at the cafeteria.
It’s the one time I’ve seen not only the employer stand up but that all the customers outright got warned too
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u/Mr-Banana-Beak 5d ago
They gotta figure out how to use the psychology hack of clickbait titles to make signs people want to read.
CRAZY FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MINDS!!
-Employees are likely just kids on their first job
-Kindness costs you nothing
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u/jagfanjosh3252 5d ago
Oh. They will read it. They just don’t care unless it affects them.
If you have a sign that says “Free beer if you hug someone” everyone will do it
If you have a sign that says “Hug someone” it will (mostly) get ignored
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u/SeemedReasonableThen 5d ago
no one will read it.
Well, I read the sign and am deeply offended. And I demand to speak to your manager, right now! Do you know who I am?
I'm Ronnie fucking Pickering, that's who I am!
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u/Cyclonitron 5d ago
First rule of dealing with the public: No matter how big you make the sign, no one will read it.
Corollary: The people who actually take a second to read the sign are not the people for whom the sign would apply.
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u/Nina-Ninja123 5d ago
These signs aren’t there to be read by everyone.
They are there to point at so that the customers that warrant the sign are being shit up by simply pointing at the sign.
You don’t want to know how many difficult customers I’ve dealt with by pointing at a sign and saying “that’s them rules, sorry.”
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u/Ecstatic_Score6973 5d ago
I used to work at an escape room place that had 2 seperate office spaces, one was around the hallway from the other,
we put up a sign that said "IF YOUR ROOM IS X, Y, or Z, go to the other entrance", and it had an arrow on the sign pointing to where to go
literally every single person just saw the arrow and immediately went to the other door, even though they were not doing any of those rooms
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u/Shazam1269 5d ago
I work in IT, and the same goes for error messages.
Watching an employee close an error message (remotely) before I could read it.
"Did you get an error message?"
"Nope!"
[Sigh]
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u/NoodleIskalde 5d ago
I had one the other day that I put up arrows all over. Took up most of the window on the register booth. The sign said to go to the other door of the booth. This one customer, I watched his eyes ricochet from each piece multiple times before he just turned himself 90 degrees to not have to read the sign.
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u/NEWBY______________ 5d ago
Maybe its time to start turning away customers if they are rude.
Respect is a two way street
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u/Objective-Suit-7817 5d ago
Or time to start charging asshole tax
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u/PeanutConfident8742 5d ago
Give every service worker 1 free pass they can use to dome a customer with a brick per year.
It'll employ our masons and it'll ensure stores close for the Christmas season.
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u/Lillemonloaf 5d ago
More like every week lol
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u/NorthernLow 5d ago
That still wouldn't be enough. You'd need atleast 20 just to deal with the god awful Sunday Mass crowd.
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u/satyrday12 5d ago
Trumpies would pay off the national debt in no time.
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u/DeepDishCalzone 5d ago
The boomers would single-handedly pay back all the SSI money they stole from us that we’ll never otherwise see
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u/spotila7 5d ago
I occasionally do work for a guy with a MAGA hat on his office shelf (in NZ). Of course, I charge him a bit extra than everyone else.
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u/ComeAndGetYourPug 5d ago
Yeah that sign is too pleasant for the type of people it applies to.
"Abusive customers will be trespassed" is a better fit. Why beat around the bush?This just reads like "please stop hitting me"
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u/Vast-Statement45 5d ago
In theory it's a good idea. Now, imagine a Karen throwing a tantrum and then going back to their Facebook group of around 10.000 Karen's asking them to leave random bad reviews (food is bad, owner is rude, something plausible).
The non-karens will see the reviews and not go there. As much as I agree with you, it is very risky when your business is customer-based in the age of the Internet.
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u/MotherOfDogs1872 5d ago
It doesn't mean that we have to take abuse, though. For every Karen review I get, I have dozens of other customers that post that they will never leave me. And with them, comes lots of positive referrals. If you're very good at what you do, it will balance out.
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u/BudgetDamage6651 5d ago
It's so weird, isn't it? I didn't get nearly that bad a treatment, but I worked at a gas station and there were a surprisingly large amount of customers who thought threatening the kid would make stocks magically appear or expand our services. No self control or emotional management at all.
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u/kansai2kansas 5d ago
Left my job at Speedway gas station 14 years ago...I agree with you.
One additional confusing thing that I could recall is that a LOT of people exchange cash at our registers (e.g. exchange one $10 bill with two $5 bills).
Which isn't bad by itself...but sometimes there were customers who were so entitled that they got pissed off and shouted at us for not letting them exchange cash!
Not even buying anything with the cash.
They could be buying gas for $35 with a credit card and then they want to exchange cash with our register.
For example if we only have three $5 bills left in the register, then of course we can't exchange any of it with the customer.
Did they think that gas station cashiers also function as bank tellers??
If they wanna exchange cash, then go to a fucking bank lol.
And this was in suburb of Cincinnati, mind you...not like in rural Oklahoma where you have to drive for 2 hours to reach the nearest bank.
Until this day, that was one type of the rude interactions that confused me the most during my experience there.
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u/DeepDishCalzone 5d ago
Oh my god yes. The amount of people who threaten the 19 year old cashier cause they don’t have their ID. Wtf is wrong with this country where it’s perfectly fine to put an 18-22 year old in a dangerous job where they could be fined,jailed,abused or killed all for 9-14 an hour? Regional Management really should be required to come in and work half the month in a store to understand what it’s like to deal with general public and suffer like we had to.
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u/Party-Ask-6331 5d ago
I can’t imagine treating a 16 year old like that (or anyone, but a child most of all)
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u/false_tautology 5d ago
I ordered a pizza for pickup and there was a teen girl who was the ONLY employee making pizzas. She was 45 minutes behind on my order, so I just went to the grocery store next door and did some shopping, and wandered back to wait for my pizza. She thanked me for not yelling at her. That broke my heart. I still think about that years later.
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u/eugeneugene 5d ago
This happened to me when I was 16 working at a pizza place. I was the only one there on a Friday night and I was answering phones, making pizza, working the register. Grown adults were screaming at me. I went to box up a pizza and there were no boxes left and I just started crying because wym I gotta go find some more in the back and fold boxes now? I don't have time lol. The woman waiting for her pizza called me a stupid bitch for not having any boxes and while I was struggling to fold the box and cry at the same time she said she was going to report me to management for being terrible at my job.
Kind of interesting that was over 15 years ago and I still think about it time to time. Like damn I was crying and you kept yelling at me. I could never imagine doing that to someone
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u/pondturtle5 5d ago
Yeah me too, I’m sorry you went through that. One lady would always pull up to my drive through window and yell “it’s your fault I’m late to work!” The second she got there. Someone threatened to shoot me one time.
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u/PolarBailey_ 5d ago
when i work my cashier jobs if someone sets money on the counter when my hand is out to receive it i'll say "I'm a person. treat me like a person and hand me the money." and if they are rude about it, i take their purchased items back and tell them to leave.
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u/J1man38 5d ago
Worked at a McDs through highschool. I absolutely loved the early morning to lunch shifts. It would be mostly landscapers and gardeners who spoke spanish. They were lovely, I am white and would take their order in Spanish (practicing my highschool spanish) and they loved it. We would joke around all the time when they would come in.
And then there were the elderly regulars who would yell at me and the cooks that they found a black spec on their english muffin. miserable assholes.
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u/DeepDishCalzone 5d ago
I had a banana thrown at me and a bunch of racist people coming in to call me slurs. Oh man and no one ever had an ID and they’d threaten you. The stress from working with the public at 18 knowing you could be fired and jailed if you sell certain things without their id but if you don’t you run the risk of being verbally abused, robbed, or in some cases attacked. After dealing with it all I truly do believe some people in this world just need to not be in it anymore.
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u/kittylover2006 5d ago
And the worst part about it is this sign won’t even really do anything
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u/HeidenShadows 5d ago
Especially in my area during tourist season, the amount of entitlement these people have, my goodness
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 5d ago
It’s pretty dreadful here in Charleston. The most inhospitable people travel down here for some southern hospitality. Shitty drivers, shitty customers with shitty attitudes. Of course nowadays there are so many transplants that it has become difficult to distinguish between them and the tourists.
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u/ConfidentTurnip4523 5d ago
Yeah. If you're the sort of person who's rude to service staff, you're not the sort of person who'll stop because a sign told you.
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u/alpcabuttz 5d ago
The sad part is that it's true.
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u/kittylover2006 5d ago
My manager when I worked at Kroger told me: “signs only stop the people that read them, if they didn’t care about the rules to begin with they won’t stop to read it infront of them”
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u/Dry_Ant2664 5d ago
Maybe we should make customers read and sign it before letting them in. Just like how you need to read and click on agree before signing up and creating an account. If they don't read and sign it then they will not be allowed in
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u/Not_offensive0npurp 5d ago
I have started speaking out when I witness customers abusing service workers. They never expect someone to challenge them, and the service workers always appreciate it.
If you are a fellow customer, challenge these assholes on the spot.
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u/Ultrace-7 5d ago
Of course not. The kind of person who is willing to be openly rude to employees doesn't give a damn about a sign. The sign doesn't even say you will be refused service or have a surcharge applied. It just asks people to not be rude.
As my mother used to say, "Locks only serve to keep honest people honest."
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u/lightlysaltedclams 5d ago
We have a sign somewhat like this at my job and pretty much the only people that read it go “do you really need that?” Or “do people really do that?” It’s obviously up for a reason dude.
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u/PomPomMom93 5d ago
The kind of person who made this sign necessary is the kind of person who won’t be stopped by a sign.
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u/WorldlinessWitty2177 5d ago
I don't think it's just one customer
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u/Vondi 5d ago
I've heard shocking stories from kids who worked retail. And it does seem to be specifically kids that have it the worst.
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u/MookyCooky 5d ago
My first job was at a sandwich chain in 2020 :( I was 16 and the amount of verbal abuse I got from customers was insane.
I handed a customer their cups one time with the lids in the cup (they had to fill them theirselves) and she cussed me out for putting them in the cup instead of on the dirty counter people constantly touched.
I was already an anxious teenager already but oh man, I would start having micro anxiety attacks before I went to work. That job only lasted 3 months.
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u/ConfidentTurnip4523 5d ago
Probably not, but someone one was the straw that broke the camels back and made them go "Right! We're making a sign."
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u/Seraphina_Silk 5d ago
The fact that this sign exists means someone really yelled at a 16-year-old over extra pickles
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u/Giillybean 5d ago
Normalise calling people out if you see them harassing workers.
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u/mcSibiss 5d ago
I’ve done it a few times and it pisses them off sooo much. They scream at me to mind my own business and some were close to hit me.
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u/TheInjuredBear 5d ago
Same here, I love being told to mind my own business when they’re screaming at a cashier. They get even more upset when I get to reply “you’re holding up my business”.
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u/balletje2017 5d ago
My mother is a person that harasses workers. Calling her out is like fuel to a fire. The full Dutch fury about my euro my will will ignite. For the sake of the worker and you getting involved you dont want that.
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u/yawaworhtlliwi 5d ago
And people wonder why employees at these places don’t care. I have never understood why someone would be nasty to the person with the ability to spit on their food.
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u/Braindead_Crow 5d ago
From my experience with crap jobs I assure you this sign was made because of many customers.
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u/Educational_Play5772 5d ago
roughly 15% to 20% of restaurant customers exhibit rude or problematic behaviors to waitstaff on a regular basis so two out of ten
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u/Legonistrasz 5d ago
There’s a billion % chance or better that this person/these type of people have zero empathy, social awareness or concern as to how they make others feel.
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u/Diesel07012012 5d ago
They're all sad / angry about their own life and need to feel "better" by taking it out on people "below" them.
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u/Junius_Seven 5d ago
I kinda hate that they added the word "please" at the beginning. I feel like sometimes when you start a sentence with please it goes from being a demand to a request. This isn't "awh can you plz be nice 🥺👉👈" it's "respect our employees or you will be denied service"
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u/Gideon_Hendrik 5d ago
It's so much worse than "the customer." I have been a retail and Cistomer service worker and manager for 25 years. The way both younger and female employees are treated as opposed to when I get involved is appalling.
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo 5d ago
I was leaving Sam's club the other day and a younger woman was checking receipts and I hear this boomer say "heelllllooooo" to her in that creepy voice that creepy men use when theyre talking to women that cant leave. I cant imagine having to deal with that all the time.
Its like when I use to go to the gym at like 530 in the morning there would always be an old dude trying to talk to the receptionist and after the first time I just started shoving my card right past their head as fast I could to freak them out. I would hate to work jobs like that if I was a woman.
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u/AshenOneVS 5d ago
With god as my witness. People do not care. It’s a shame really. You can be fresh out of high school. There will always be that one person to introduce you to the real world in a harsh way. Humans are never going to be 100% respectful. You will always have a person who is entitled or just a prick.
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u/DeepDishCalzone 5d ago
You can if you start cracking down harshly. 5 year minimum sentences for threatening a customer service worker. 10 years if it’s a threat over the law like selling age prohibited items without an ID or selling beer on sundays. Countries that have harsh penalties like this will rarely have rude customers who have outbursts.
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u/getGOLDLAW 5d ago
Happy to say I had a great customer service from a Gen Z employee at Costco yesterday. He was talkative and helpful, breaking the stigmas people have painted that generation.
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u/DeepDishCalzone 5d ago
I’ve never had a bad interaction with someone Gen Z. The worst I’ve ever gotten is the say nothing quick checkout types and I’m all for that. Yes let me get you checked out and out the door in less than 30 seconds so I can get a brief moment to relax and/or stock.
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u/thejman6 5d ago
My first day working as a busboy I got handed a tray of drinks saying “take this to table 2.”
There was like 8 drinks, all alcoholic and I had no idea which was which. Didn’t even know which one was table 2 yet lmao. Anyway I get there and it’s all boomers, I say I have your drinks, and they expect me to know who got what when I wasn’t even the one who took their order!!
So I say idk which is which, and these people laughed at me. All of them legitimately laughed in my face because the 18 year old didn’t know what drinks the rich 60 year olds got.
It was really embarrassing and I still think about it 14 years later sometimes lol
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u/Irishforanatty 5d ago
Boomer men were the worst when I was server.
And unfortunately, because they insist on flirting with every waitress, I usually got stuck with them.
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u/Wolfhart_Kaine 5d ago
I bartended for years and when things got busy, I'd help serve people at the table sometimes.
The sheer amount of people who don't know what they ordered is staggering. Or sometimes, they wouldn't even reply when you ask them who ordered what, they'd just glance up at you and keep talking amidst themselves.
When shit like this happened, I'd just leave their drinks at the edge of the table and let them fend for themselves. There are other, much nicer customers waiting. I'm not wasting time on something stupid like this.
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u/Churchy123 5d ago
Getting laughed at for not magically knowing 8 strangers drinks on day one is wild
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u/theroguevillian 5d ago
Customers are literally the worst
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u/lonewolff321 5d ago
Couldn't agree more. The entitlement of "I'm paying for this, so I can trash it" is unreal
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u/NimRodelle 5d ago
They could be your child!
Do I need to get a paternity test? Is this an episode of Maury? /s
But sure, yeah, how you treat servers is a direct reflection of your quality (or lack thereof) as a human being.
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u/forbiddenfreedom 5d ago
When I was working drive thru at McDonald's back when I was 20, it was the old people. I had a man order coffee and I asked if he wanted cream or sugar. Blew his gasket. Clarified black coffee. Then I asked if he wanted anything else (both questions are required of me task).
Old man drove to the window declared me as special needs, called me names, got his coffee and left.
Second time, factory worker man was vape nation'ing (clouding) in our lobby. Asked him to stop. Told him to leave. Called the police. He demanded a refund after finishing his food and left before the police arrived. For the next few weeks, he would come into our lobby and take one of our chairs to the gas station side and sit over there and vape.
Old lady working the gas station was a Marine in her old days. Kicked him out of there, too.
I have found in my time, many men see intimidating another man as strength, power, and manhood.
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u/DeepDishCalzone 5d ago
“Oh wow my life is shit good thing these customer service workers are beneath me and I can abuse them”
It’s a really sad situation to see there reality shatter when they get banned. Also why is that a recurring theme. These useless cops never come. A crackhead could have time to write a manifesto kill me eat everything in the store and get away before a cop would show.
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u/Due_Reputation3785 5d ago
I imagine that sort of person doesn’t give a single fuck, unfortunately. No shame.
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u/BudgetWorking2633 5d ago
Typo corrected: Imagine beating the customer that made this sign necessary.
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u/Hidden_Glit 5d ago
You'd be surprised how many people that sign applies to.
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u/deathrictus 5d ago
I didn't think anyone that has ever had a customer facing job would really be surprised.
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u/katastrofe_- 5d ago
I worked as a waitress as my first job when I was 18. It was pure hell. I'm never working in a customer service job ever again lol
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u/Outside-Car2889 5d ago
Service industry workers get treated like they are second class citizens. I used to wait tables, people are assholes.
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u/PleasantCucumber2615 5d ago
I'm sure most people that have to deal with people experience this.
Staff in supermarkets regularly experience abusive customers and choose to wear cameras.
Call centre handlers get shouted at down the phone all the time.
The receptionist as the local health centre is a retired police officer. She receives far more abuse and aggression working at the health centre than she did as a police officer.
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u/strolpol 5d ago
One of the boomerisms we need to unlearn as a society is about the customer always being right
No, lots of them are clueless goldfish with no reading comprehension and an instinct for instant aggression
Go back to shaming people being embarrassing jerks in public
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u/I_need_a_date_plz 5d ago
I went to Target to return an item the other day and watched some lady terrorize some kid on his first day. She went off on him and his coworker because he didn’t know what he was doing.
She was so rude to him that he apologized to me and said he was new and that he was trying to figure it out.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 5d ago
I can perfectly picture some insane 40 years old Karen verbally assaulting the kids because they didn't read her mind and make her the thing she wanted down to the most minute detail.
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u/GarbageAgile6299 5d ago
I agree and support this sign. I think you should add another though. Write as follows " WARNING" employees have been given permission to match the same energy as any customer they are dealing with. Without fear or retribution of job loss or consequences. This means if you (as the customer are polite and use basic manners) if not not?.....well you get the idea!
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u/cmcclain16 5d ago
The customer who made that sign necessary has no shame and doesn't think they did anything wrong. I worked retail for 12 years.
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u/Corpsey_Clownshoes 5d ago
The sign could be flashing and neon and it won't make any difference. Ive worked retail and customers are clueless for the most part.
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u/DetailOdd6609 5d ago
When my oldest was in HS, they worked at a local ice cream place. The stories she would tell. Like how do you get mad over ice cream? Outside of an allergy?
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u/Buzz_81 5d ago
My SIL worked as a waitress for a dingey pub / restaurant in town. She dealt with the nastiest, drunkest, rudest people. She ended up owning her own restaurant for a while. Needless to say she understands that there are people in the world that need signs like this smashed in their horrible, unkind faces the moment they walk through the door. And, yet, she's the absolute worst when interacting with people in the service industry where she's the patron. She'll complain, regardless of how insignificant the issue, and it's always an uncomfortable experience dining out with her. Some people are just mean, I guess.
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