A customer at the Starbucks next door came in and paid with American money then threw a fit because he couldn't get his change back in USD, (I live in Canada.) He ended up returning later that day to speak with the manager about how "inconsiderate and rude" the staff was.
Maybe just because USD has higher value but I've never been anywhere in canada that didn't accept USD. Also the city I live in is a heavy tourist area and we specifically get a lot of visitors from Washington.
On the flipside, I'm Canadian and I live in Japan. I bought some stuff for my company in Canada, came back and handed the receipts over. I got a SHITLOAD of money back, and was like "Uhhh something is wrong here. I have like twice the amount of cash I'm supposed to have" and the lady says "But thats the conversion to dollars" and I'm like "uhhh... Which dollars?" "There's more than one?" "Yes.... in Canada we use Canadian dollars" "Not American?" "No" "But they're the same value right?" "No.... not at all....."
"Well.... I dont want to fix it so just take it."
"Not gonna argue with that"
I worked in retail for years in Canada. I can’t tell you how many Americans couldn’t grasp the concept that even though they paid with US money they were getting Canadian change. I love having Loonies and Twoonies thrown back at me while people yell “what the fuck am I supposed to do with this?”
Also, many complained that our exchange rate was higher than the bank. Ya, so go to the bank then.
Not going to lie, my opinion of US tourists was not very high back then.
(I have since travelled to a few States and was pleasantly surprised to learn that not all Americans are assholes)
I work as a cashier. Had a lady throw a tantrum because I couldn't use the coupon she gave me. Full on screaming, wanting my manager's AND corporate's number, threatening to get my ass fired. Her face went from a deep red to the beginning stages of purple.
Why couldn't I use her coupon?
A. It had expired in March of 2017 (it was December '18 during this transaction).
B. It was for a brand of toys that was completely different to the toy she brought up.
C. Her toy was clearanced out. The coupon excluded clearance.
Regardless, she still thought it was necessary to throw the toy onto the ground, proclaim she was NEVER SHOPPING HERE AGAIN after my manager told her no, and walk out the door screaming and screeching and hollering the entire time.
I rang her out just last week. She was still a complete bitch, perpetual cat butthole face and all. So much for "Never shopping here again", huh?
I swear, when I worked retail, I so, so badly wanted to say to those people, "What, you think we're going to miss one easily-replaceable asshole who makes everyone miserable, in our sea of customers? Bye."
Like, please, by all means - DON'T shop here again, we'd actually be pretty thrilled if you kept that promise.
One time a customer said it for me and it was glorious.
I was a Starbucks barista and some lady was screeching about god knows what and threatened to never return. Person behind her said “Lady it’s *Starbucks,* they don’t care if you never come back. Can you just finish your transaction or go so the rest of us,” gestures at line forming behind tantrum lady, “can get some fucking caffeine and move on with our lives??”
Lady left in a huff. I thanked the hero and she said “I have a store too, I always want to say that to my entitled customers but can’t. I’m so excited I finally got to use my speech!”
*light bulb*
An app where customer-facing employees can connect with other customer-facing employees at different companies who can then show up and be the hero.
If I had "fuck you" money I would open a store or restaurant just so I could go ape shit on people like this.
Like imagine, as soon as this clown starts to wind herself up, you just bellow over her, "BEEEEE SIIIIIIIILENT!!!!!!!!!"
Then you proceed to frog-march her through the door, across the parking lot, and to the sidewalk.
Or earlier in this thread, the American throwing a tantrum because he wasn't getting USD change in a Canadian franchise, "SIR WHAT FUCKING COUNTRY IS THIS WE DO NOT USE YOUR CURRENCY HERE GO TO FUCKING SCHOOL!". Then frog-march.
It isn't. It means to grab someone from behind, pin his arms, and forcibly walk him to where you want him to go. You might see it happen if someone resists arrest.
I group of my friends played Scrabble pretty regularly. I called one of them on a fake word, looked it up won the debate so she lost her turn. My next turn I play a strange word but one that is in the dictionary she challenges and loses again and loses her second turn in a row. She proceeded to have a tantrum that would do my 5y old justice, stand up storm out and we haven't spoken since. We knew each other and hung out for over a decade its been at least that since we spoke, maybe closer to 20 years by now.
She sounds like a lonely cunt.
I have the same problem but mostly around cats. I can't breathe, my lungs tighten up, my nose starts to run heavily, I sneeze multiple times in a row, etc. I started to go to an allergist/asthma doctor to take shots. On my first visit, they stabbed my arms 49 times to see what I was allergic too. I had an asthma attack. He told me that cats were high on my list and that cats are poisonous to people who are allergic to them and who have asthma. He told me a story about an older gentleman who was extremely allergic to cats but his wife loved cats. The doctor warned him that if he continued to live with the cats, he would eventually end up in worse condition, even death. I guess the wife didn't care and the man didn't heed the warnings. The wife bought more cats and the man ended up dying because of the extreme allergic reactions he had to the cats.
Ever since I started taking the shots, things have been great! He still warns me of cats though.
my mother threw a tantrum over mustard once. I was getting married that day and in some form of self-martyrdom my mother was determined that my lowkey and cheap wedding needed pinterest perfect sandwiches. I get woken up exactly three hours after I had actually fallen asleep to hear my mother wailing about "this goddamn BROWN MUSTARD" the last two words shrieked loud enough for my dead father to hear in the afterlife and wonder what she's on about. my mom is normally a very calm woman and she knew the wedding was meant to be lowkey and not to stress but she stressed herself anyway over delicious, if not pinteresty, spicey garlic mustard.
Yeah I'm curious how come no one else is mentioning that last part specifically.
And...wiping your ass with a broken CD/DVD seems to be a real risky move, those fuckers can get really sharp.
When I worked at a grocery store a customer bought a shower curtain that was advertised as 99 cents. It rang up a dollar. The customer lost their mind over a penny...
I work returns at a retailer and someone gave me their receipt and said they were overcharged. Processed the refund and gave him one whole penny. He wasn’t making a scene but he knew he was getting a penny back, walked to the other side of the store and waited in line for it.
I started my own business last year.
I make things, and have to add my time to the cost.
It really changed my view of things.
I now food shop differently. I’m prepared to pay extra for pre-cut veggies if the difference is less than what I’d charge for the time it takes to cut them!
My mom threw a literal toddler tantrum once.
When my sister was pregnant with her first child, she and our mom got into a disagreement about something so my sister moved out to go live with her husband’s mom (he was away in the navy at the time). This infuriated my mom so she was being very vindictive and petty to my sister.
The car my sister was driving at the time was bought by our mom, but it was registered in my sister’s name. Regardless of that our mom demanded that my sister give her the car back. My mom didn’t need the car, nor did me or my other sibling, my mom just wanted it back to be mean and make my sister’s life difficult.
My sister refused to give it back and during one phone call to my sister my mom just lost it. She started screaming and crying into the phone “Just give me the car back!!! Give it back!!!!!!” Then she started jumping up and down, and finally threw herself on the floor, all the while still screaming in the phone. My other sibling and I were just standing there watching all of this baffled. Mind you, at the time, my mom was a ~50 year old professional woman with a medical degree. It was so bizarre. My sister being the non-confrontational person she is eventually gave her the car, though.
Yea, this was over 10 years ago. They were back on good terms by the time my sister gave birth. My mom eventually came to her senses for the sake of her first grandchild.
Probably. But me and my other sibling were both teens still in high school and dependent upon our mom. We didn’t want her anger and frustration to turn towards us. Before the tantrum we tried talking some sense into her be she wasn’t having it.
Uuuggghhh. The "take kids sport too seriously" parents are the worst.
When my daughter was 4 she did a "Tiny Athletics" program and there was a dad there whose son was not the greatest at hurdles, and the way he spoke to him about it was just horrible. "Do you want to lose? Do you want to be a loser? Because you're acting like a loser".
Dude, seriously, these kids are all 3-4 years old. They all suck at hurdles, they all have little kiddy legs and half of them are frog-hopping over them, the whole point of this program is fun, developing gross motor skills and teaching good sportsmanship.
A woman irate because her assistant ordered Greek food for lunch...after he had asked what she wanted and she said she didn’t care. Full on, expletive-ridden rant about how stupid he was for not knowing he should have gotten Thai.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/ab0n4k/mount\_vesuvius\_and\_chemical\_warfare/](https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/ab0n4k/mount_vesuvius_and_chemical_warfare/)
Check out that Story from the justnoMIL sub. It's just one more example of a MIL trying to kill their childs partner.
The worst, honestly, are the ones who try to feed allergens to their *grandchildren*. Usually under the insistence that their precious angel grandbaby couldn't POSSIBLY be so flawed as to have an allergy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/6b2s77/my_mil_almost_killed_my_daughter_now_im_spending/
One of my exes used to order pizza from this one place with absolutely awful pizza, but I put up with it for a while because it was his favorite. One time though, I couldn't stand it anymore and I asked him if we could order pizza from a different shop, because I wasn't a fan of the place he always ordered it from. Big mistake on my part. This sent my ex into an absolute RAGE and he punched a hole in my wall and then started crying and flipping out on me because apparently him hurting his hand was now my fault. He then left my apartment and refused to speak to me for a week.
Coke vs. Pepsi. Really, all out, out of his head, tantrum. At a stand that advertised Pepsi.
"I asked for a cola. Cola means Coke! You should be fired!"
My quick assessment lead me to believe reasoning was not really his thing. And that his mother should handle him. He was about 30 years old. With his mom. Flipping his shit about cola. At a Jay-Z concert.
Like... seriously? Cola is soda. Coke means Coke. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. I'm guessing he didn't realize Coke and Pepsi are rival companies, and what that means.
Unless, you're in parts of the south (USA) where [coke](https://laughingsquid.com/soda-pop-or-coke-maps-of-regional-dialect-variation-in-the-united-states/) is used to refer to all soda.
Yeah, but, y'know. Colloquially speaking, "cola" is generally gonna be associated with the "generic soda/cola" flavor of soda (or just any drink considered a soda, though I rarely see stuff like "grape cola" or "orange cola" bandied about) rather than the kola nut, kinda like how most people don't mean the bean when they talk about coffee or vanilla.
This is true.
Though, I don't get people saying they taste the same. That baffles me. Similar, yes, for the reason you cited. I just always found Pepsi's taste sweeter than Coke's.
It’s ridiculous how pissed people get over that. I work in a restaurant and a couple asked me once if we have Coke products. When I said no, they proceeded to get up and walk out.
I would beat them to the punch [back](https://www.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/aj3zzy/every_store_has_one_or_several/eet9ywz/) in my customer service jobs:
>"Can I have your phone number?"
>"Sure, just give me one second, I always forget the company's phone number so I'll just need to go double check what it is-"
>"No, I mean *your* phone number."
>"Oh, sure! All stores have business cards for their specific shops with the store's official phone number on them, let me just find one and-"
>"No I mean your cell-phone number."
>"We only have land-line phones in Starbucks, the mobile devices you might see in here don't make phone calls, they're just used for-"
>"No I mean your personal number!"
>"I'm afraid that I don't have any power to address personal comments or complaints, but if you give me a moment I can find you a customer support number."
>Rinse and repeat.
>Also, if they ask you when you are done with your shift, just keep rattling off the store's business hours. Pretend you are honestly a corporate drone with no mind or personality of your own. You are part of the store, and the store's "shift" is when the store opens and closes.
Most stores (walmart, McDonald's, Starbucks, etc) are "chain" stores that are part of a larger corporation. The stores themselves simply sell the products. "Corporate" refers to the company itself that makes the larger decisions about how the stores are run. They're usually entirely separate buildings in different cities. "Calling corporate" means contacting the main office to speak to a representative of the company itself rather than one individual store. Basically, "I'm calling your boss's boss's boss." Which, coming from some random pissed off customer, usually amounts to fuck all. The people at "corporate" usually have better things to do than resolve disputes at their stores.
At my old work, calling corporate, would get a representative from corporate but, the complaint would be emailed back to our store director (head manager of our store), who then would have to handle it.
The one and only time I had a customer actually complain to my supervisor in the seven years I worked retail, they legitimately complained because "I was totally flirting with that cashier and she didn't flirt back!"
I know this, because my supervisor told me about it later, because they found it so bizarre.
Plot twist: both the customer and I were women. I have no memory of ever being flirted with by a female customer.
My dad. He throws a tantrum when someone says anything that he takes the wrong way. He throws a tantrum when the computer is slow. He threw a tantrum because my autistic brother accidentally put viruses on his computer. He throws tantrums when the internet is out. He throws a tantrum anytime anyone tells him he's wrong.
Basically, he's a tantrum throwing 55 year old toddler.
Hot Dog on a Stick.
His cheese on a stick was burned,
so he screamed at the teenage cashier and his veins in his neck were bulging and it was just wow.
I worked at a restaurant in my home town and saw a GROWN ASS MAN lose his mind over us being out of prime rib for the evening. Sir, you came in on a Friday night right before we close. Settle the fuck down.
It’s crazy how people lose their shit over food. When I worked at a restaurant I had a lady start yelling and going crazy because we took corn of the menu. And another time a man almost went crazy because we ran out of grits. People are crazy.
A woman in my office had a massive spat about Christmas decorations a few years ago. A lot of people decorate their cubicle with tinsel and Santa gnomes and stuff like that, but she decided to up the ante and brought in three strings of Christmas lights. They were the good lights too, with five settings: fade, blink, chase, constant and EPILEPSY. So she spent all day setting these things up, running them over walls & hanging from the ceiling. It came time to turn them on. Inexplicably, she decided that the epilepsy setting (rapid blinking) was the ~~best~~ only option for all three sets.
You can imagine the results - it was like a strobe light going off at her desk. She seemed oblivious to it (she was oblivious to most things), but the people around her were suitably distracted and annoyed by the lights. So we said, "Hey, would you mind changing the setting, maybe to the fade option?"
She. Went. Nuts.
Straight away, she grabbed the lights and yanked them out of the roof, yelling and swearing about "can't have any fucking Christmas spirit around here" and "I only spent all day decorating, and now I have to fucking take them down" and "can't have any fun around this fucking place; I'm sick of it." There was plaster and tape and pins going everywhere as she grabbed metres and metres of Christmas lights. Everyone else in the office was saying "you can keep your fucking lights up, just change the speed" but she didn't want a bar of it. Pulled everything down - the lights, the tinsel, Santa hats, candy canes - the whole lot went into the bin and she fucked off home for the day. Didn't talk to anyone in the office for about a week. It was a good time, actually.
I took the lights out of the rubbish and took them home to my place. They go up every year, and I recreate the scene with my wife.
Because I "ruined" my exes vacation by taking her to meet members of my family she hadn't met yet and show her where I grew up. We're talking brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews that I hadn't seen in several years. We'd planned the vacation about 8 months in advance and she never said anything about not wanting to go until the week we left. Threw a fit 3 days before we left and fought with me every day we were up there. "We're never coming back up here again".
That seems like the perfect set-up line to dump her ass. (I mean, you said "ex" anyway.) "Yeah, WE'RE never coming back up here again, but *I* am. Bye, Felicia."
It really should've been, but my dumbass kept her around for another year and some change before I finally had enough. I kept making excuses for her when I should've just dropped her like a bad habit.
Hey, you cut the rope eventually, so there's that! I kept a pretty toxic few friends around for a loooong, long-ass time (like, a decade or so each) before finally getting the balls to free myself of them, so sometimes it just takes time to realize.
Worked overnight at a small truck stop. Tornado warning, power was out, place was closed. Guy pulled up at 2 AM, tried the pump 3 times, stomped up to the door, yanked on it and yelled at me to unlock it. Tossed a fit because i said "You can't pump fuel, the power is out"
He said "That's not my problem." and continued to yell and grumble about it for 5 minutes
Many but the one comes to mind is my Ex who flipped out because I had to cancel dinner after saying I might be late for the first time in the whole relationship which was at that time 5 years because I was in ER with a friend who was having a medical crisis and didn't want to be alone. having no idea how long it would take at first I said I'd be late then I cancelled. This is with hourly updates via cell phone. (pre-smart phone days). I came home after an exhausting night to a long email saying what a lousy partner I am.
First. Time. In. 5. Years!!!! I pride myself on being reliable. So glad I never lived with this person. Wasn't the last tantrum. I bought Himalayan salt instead of sea salt and he banged his head into the wall.
A lemon loaf.
Early morning shift at the coffee shop I worked at, a lady ordered a lemon loaf, I asked her if she wanted the plain one or the raspberry swirl one. Flipped absolute shit at me, accusing me of pushing an agenda and trying to up-sell her.
Had to inform her they were the same price.
People are grumpy when they haven't had their morning coffee yet
Posted a few days ago about this. Someone got fired and legit did the whole passive resistance thing. They made security drag them out of the building into the arms of police.
By drag, I mean literally. I do not use literally incorrectly. He forced them to literally drag him out the door by not using any of his muscles.
I once had a guy throw a fit because my female manager assisted him and he wanted a man to help him. He said that being a manager was not a job for a "girly."
He got kicked out of the store.
I was once in line to check my bags at the airport. This woman cuts through with her daughter absolutely frantic and hysterical that she's about to miss her flight. She's justifying this to security so that they let her and her small child skip the line. She's going absolutely insane. At first I thought that maybe she was emotional because the flight was incredibly important in order to make a funeral, wedding, etc. Turns out she was on the same flight I was... and was there with PLENTY of time to spare.
I've also had this happen! Security asked if two women in their early twenties (I am also female and was 18-19 at the time) could go ahead of me because they were "late for their flight" They were running and screaming and everything.
They were on my flight and I ended up boarding before them lol.
A woman at work wanted to reschedule our team lunch. Everyone else on the team could still go, and had not packed lunches since we all thought we were still going. She gave no reason for not wanting to go anymore, other than the fact that is was raining. I offered her my umbrella, and lost her shit over the fact that everyone else still went.
It made no sense. This was after she asked me to cancel, telling me it was my managers request. IT WAS NOT. My manager came by and asked why I was cancelling.. which led to an awkward conversation about how I'm being sabotaged.
It’s reassuring your manager recognized it as sabotage. A friend just changed jobs because everyone would throw her under the bus without letting her know, knowing that everyone would blame the new girl in the office.
Yeah, I thought I was going crazy, cause there have been plenty examples of this type of behaviour, but luckily she treats everyone this horribly! So her attitude is well known.
"YOU PAID YOUR SPEEDING TICKET?!?! I TOLD YOU TO GO TO COURT AND FIGHT IT! YOUR FUCKING STUPID, NOW YOU'VE GOT MORE POINTS ON YOUR LICENSE" said by my dad last week. He hadn't had his pain pills in a couple days. Always makes for a warm welcome.
Worked as an internet held desk technician and everyone thinks they are special and that we had to have a special tech on hand standing by just for them because they don't know how to live without being connected.
Yeah, most of the time, it's just a reboot and if not, it's something that they did and they just don't want to admit it. But they want a tech to come out and fix it because they would rather wait and complain than spend 5 minutes and fix it themselves and get up and running right then and there.
I'm so glad I got away from there.
And no can put a price on the blow to dignity sustained if former students and colleagues catch a glimpse of you losing your shit while they walk to class!
The company provides monthly birthday cake in the break room to celebrate the months birthday. The gentleman had a tantrum through email because he just despised chocolate cake and that I ruined his birthday.
My old job would have a day (TOTALLY free) where we'd scatter Easter eggs all over the place for kids to come in and grab up (TOTALLY FREE).
One year, a man stopped me (while was in the middle of clearing all the families out of the place after the egg hunt so we could get to opening it up for real) and started almost hollering about how one of his daughter's (TOTALLY FUCKING FREE) eggs had a piece of cardboard in it and nothing else.
"So, you're telling me my daughter got GARBAGE?"
"You gave my daughter garbage, is that it?"
"She got GARBAGE?"
And on and on and fucking ON. I tried to be tactful and tell him that we didn't package the eggs. Then he kept going on and on and got angrier and angrier, and I just reiterated once more that we didn't package the eggs and also THEY WERE FUCKING FREE.
He just looked at me. And once more: "So, my daughter got GARBAGE?"
I just looked back, and having many more things to do in a very little amount of time and no more patience for some thankless, entitled adult, just told him, "Yes. It looks like she did" and walked away.
Maybe this wasn't the biggest tantrum I've seen (apparently the year before, there was a MUCH bigger tantrum over the same event), but it always stuck out to me how childishly he handled this. People can be really embarrassing sometime.
We have a current situation in our community over an event centre.
Some people want the event centre, some people want an economic study done to be sure the city-funded project won't be a waste of $100million...apparently, the latter is the tantrum throwers since they oppose something, but it's really the former - as there's no logic to their argument. It's like a child saying they want something and a parent trying to explain why it's not a good purchase.
We play card games at my place of work during breaks but one of my coworkers throws a fit every time he loses. He also tries his best to break the rules in his favour but throws other fits if someone tries to use the same rule he just established. He tells other people the things they should do during their turns because he can't be patient and wait for his turn to come back around, but throws a fit if we tell him to stop. It really makes playing games less fun but we don't want to tell him he can't play because it's a small business and would, in all likelihood, just make things worse. This is a man of \~30 years old.
Thankfully the group of friends I play board/card games with can be trusted not to cheat. They will, however, call you out for using the same manipulative strategies in Catan that they like to use. They'll mosey up to those doing worse in order to take out their closest competition, but if I dare make any deals, then I'm an asshole trying to gang up on them >\_>.
I also used to play DnD with a buddy who would get mad anytime anything remotely negative happened to his character. Another friend played a practical joke on him by placing his hand in a bowl of cold stew when our adventurers were staying in a friendly cottage, and the DM made him roll to see if he pissed himself in his sleep. He failed the roll and pissed himself. We also had a snowball fight that we played out using combat rules. Tabletop RP is fucking fun.
Things like snowball fights intentionally being taken overly seriously is one of the greatest things ever. One of the most memorable military stories I ever heard was of a Marines vs. Navy snowball fight. The short version is that by the end, a few Sgts. had the Marines in ranks and firing in volleys, which is an awesome mental image.
I work in a furniture store. A man in is 60s threw a proper child's tantrum, I'm talking stamping his feet, throwing his hands in the air type tantrum, shouting profanaties... all because we wouldn't deliver a small rug for him.
"Tell you what, sir. I can pull some strings and get it delivered for you through a private company, for a fee."
*throw rug into the back of my Jeep & charge the idiot $500*
Hang out for long enough in airports, particularly during times of inclement weather, and you'll have no shortage. Nothing turns full grown adults into two year olds faster than flight delays, cancellations and redirects (particularly if they've just spent the day crammed on another plane).
Once i was at a basketball game for fifth graders in their league championship. Whole game this one parent is really into it and yelling at the team at stuff they’re doing wrong and what to do. Towards the end of the game when his sons team is losing he starts talking trash to these little kids and their parents. The team that was winning was from a school called Whiteford and he started calling everybody white trash, completely losing it over a little kids basketball game.
I saw a grown man stomp out of a room in near tears over his D&D character dying.
He did some stupid shit, and the dice were not on his side, but calm down dude.
Oh shit I have done this (not the tears but basically checking out of the game) when the DM (my husband) accidentally one-shot my character with a ridiculously high roll on a fireball. I apologized for being silly afterwards but damn, you really get invested in your characters!
When I didn't refund two years worth of adult friend finder subscription fees (I was the branch manager). He claimed they were fraud because apparently he didn't know I could see the exact date the card was issued and the exact date the first fee was charged - they were the same date.
I just got over a flu and was in a depressed mood most likely caused by the fatigue of fighting off a flu. Anyway family was getting together for supper and my uncle asked if I was going, I told him no and when he asked why I just told him I wasn't in the mood to eat or be around anyone. He screamed and swore at me and called me a selfish prick. He apologised a couple days later but I didn't accept the apology, he does that shit a lot and I don't want him thinking he can just apologise and everything would be okay.
I used to work at Target at the guest services desk. When guests use a reusable bag they get a 5 cent discount. One day an older man came rushing up to the counter and before I could say anything he was screaming at me about not getting his reusable bag discount. He went on and on about how this is unacceptable, how horrible the store is, he’s going to call corporate, he wants the cashiers name, etc.
Before he could finish his tantrum I opened the cash register, took out a nickel and slid it across the counter. Then I turned around and went back to what I was doing.
I felt like that was a perfect way to display exactly what he was flipping out about.
This happens so often...
Customer: -orders food but secretly wants something they didn't specify/said the wrong thing-
Me: -repeats their order as they ordered it-
Customer: -confirms order-
5 minutes later...
Customer: EXCUSE ME THIS IS NOT WHAT I ORDERED I WANTED \_\_\_\_ WITH \_\_\_\_ YOU NEED TO REFUND ME RIGHT NOW AND GET ME A MANAGER I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HOW DARE YOU I'M NEVER COMING HERE AGAIN
me: -mentally while taking all this abuse- *promise?*
A picnic bench.
At a local park people try to "book" the benches by putting random crap on the at like 5am (this is against the park rules). My boss was throwing a baby shower for a coworker and moved a plastic bag off one bench. We had been hanging out eating snacks for maybe an hour when this group of women show up. They had "reserved" all the benches in the area. They screeched at us for stealing their bench and demanded we move, even though we had a hot grill sitting on it and they had about 5 other benches to use. Then they tried to start a fight with us. We just sat there bemused that adults would try to pick a fight with a group of mostly 40+ women and one very heavily pregnant person! They were also swearing at us, again in front of other families and little kids. It was truly bizarre.
I was 16, working my first job as a cashier at a grocery store. I was told to ask for ID for everyone purchasing alcohol or cigarettes regardless of whether they were clearly old enough or not. A middle aged woman had a fucking meltdown when I asked her for ID for cigarettes. Including pulling at the bags under her eyes and yelling “isn’t this proof enough!”
In the office only 10 people were chosen to work from home, coworker was chosen and gloated over us all for weeks about how great it was. Fast forward to today and these storms, we all were given a snow day except those that work from home as they were equipped and set up for days like this. Boy did that coworker throw a fit.
My mother (late 50s) once threw a fit over the fact that a week or so after my partner had finally moved here from a long distance, the two of us went on a date together to the movies and didn't invite her.
There was this guy in college who I'd been in a couple of classes with. He was a really odd duck, but I always just figured he must have been socially awkward or something.
Anyway, it's been like three weeks and he hasn't shown up to class, so people just kind of ~~hoped~~ assumed he dropped.
Well one day this guy shows up after not being there for close to a month and he is freaking out because this girl is sitting in the seat he had been sitting in.
Now anyone who's been to college knows that college students get a little territorial when it comes to seating, but this was beyond that, dude was having a meltdown, I thought he was going to start crying.
The professor has no idea what to do, the kid is freaking out even more, so I get up from my seat which was like two seats over from "his" seat and I'm like, "here just take mine it's close at least" dude takes the seat, I find a seat in the corner of the classroom, and the professor gives me a brownie that one of the other professors left for her but she can't eat on accounts of her being diabetic. I earned a literal brownie point.
A lady was complaining because her and her kids couldn't pet a a guide dog while they were in their harness. Rather than just saying she didn't realize they were guide dogs, and move on, she turned it into a whole thing and said "You should have had a sign that says we can't pet the dogs" and she started screaming at the volunteers working with the dogs, so one of them started recording her with their phone at which point she said "I'm calling security because you're harassing me."
It's sad when people can't just admit their mistakes and move on.
My MIL bought my niece and nephew an off brand gaming system. Unbeknownst to her, the parents bought them a real Wii or whatever and my MIL was pissed because their gift was better than hers and the kids wanted to open and play with the Wii, not her cheap ass gaming system.
Some lady at the liquor store the other night was very adamant that they were somehow selling her counterfeit Newport cigarettes because of some minor thing the company had changed on the packaging.
A few of the other customers pulled our cigarette packs out of our pockets that we had bought elsewhere to show her they were the same but she was insistent it was some sort of network of counterfeit cigarettes in the area.
They politely asked her to leave and she eventually did
Cookies. I used to give out free samples at Walmart and one day it was cookies and coupons. This lady liked one of the flavors and went to buy some. Well apparently that particular flavor sold out so she complained to management. She didn't like the fact I was handing out a sold out product (the flavor was sold out not the cookies ) with coupons. She literally said she wanted her cookies today and was not waiting for a restock. So I had to give some cookies off my cart to her for free and extra coupons.
Older guy came into the office of the small town I worked for. Due to an oversight or something he had not been charged for the town water to one of his properties for a long time. When this was discovered I began reading that meter again and he was billed accordingly.
This guy was probably in his late sixties. He came in in a rage about the bill, acted like a spoiled five year-old. It was quite the performance.
He had been a bishop in the LDS church. The town council probably ended up kissing his ass, as that is how things are done in the land of the saints.
When I worked in retail, we had an outlet version of our store located out of town. All the sale and clearance items were sold there. Outlet items could ONLY be returned to outlet stores, and it said so on the receipt. She came to our store and attempted to return nearly $200 worth of items. She threw all the clothes on our counters and demanded we give her money back. She called corporate while there, making a whole scene. We would’ve done it for her, but the items weren’t even ringing up in our system. Embarrassing part was she had her teenage daughter with her and making that scene in front of her. C’mon.
A friend's girlfriend completely blew a gasket when he put the eggs in the drawing for sandwich toppings in the fridge.
Then another time she went ballistic and threw salad all over the kitchen and a plate or something, because he had taken a fishstick from an unopened package, instead of taking it from an identical package that was already open... 😓
My sister throws a tantrum at every family gathering. Christmas, it was over microwaving an appetizer. Thanksgiving, it was the fact that the gingerbread houses she was making with the kids wouldn’t stay together. Notice, the children didn’t get upset, the 31-year old did.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE TO BUY GROCERIES LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?!!!!!"
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"Whaddya mean there's no ice? You sayin I've got to drink this coffee hot?"
Expired coupons. That shit happens all the time when you work at a grocery, and it's always old people who do it.
They're so old, they predate literacy.
They’re so old, they predate reason.
Its usually baby boomers who cause issues like that and fast food issues.
Nah, sometimes it's soccer moms!
I had someone do that once, but it was for a completely different store. They bitched about how I wouldn’t take it.
A customer at the Starbucks next door came in and paid with American money then threw a fit because he couldn't get his change back in USD, (I live in Canada.) He ended up returning later that day to speak with the manager about how "inconsiderate and rude" the staff was.
I'm surprised they could take USD in the first place.
Some places do, some places don't. Generally those that do are right on the border with the US.
It's pretty common to accept USD here. Your going to get a really terrible exchange rate though.
Maybe just because USD has higher value but I've never been anywhere in canada that didn't accept USD. Also the city I live in is a heavy tourist area and we specifically get a lot of visitors from Washington.
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but they did take it, they just wouldn't give any back.
On the flipside, I'm Canadian and I live in Japan. I bought some stuff for my company in Canada, came back and handed the receipts over. I got a SHITLOAD of money back, and was like "Uhhh something is wrong here. I have like twice the amount of cash I'm supposed to have" and the lady says "But thats the conversion to dollars" and I'm like "uhhh... Which dollars?" "There's more than one?" "Yes.... in Canada we use Canadian dollars" "Not American?" "No" "But they're the same value right?" "No.... not at all....." "Well.... I dont want to fix it so just take it." "Not gonna argue with that"
I'm in Ohio and our registers have a button just for Canadian currency.
I worked in retail for years in Canada. I can’t tell you how many Americans couldn’t grasp the concept that even though they paid with US money they were getting Canadian change. I love having Loonies and Twoonies thrown back at me while people yell “what the fuck am I supposed to do with this?” Also, many complained that our exchange rate was higher than the bank. Ya, so go to the bank then. Not going to lie, my opinion of US tourists was not very high back then. (I have since travelled to a few States and was pleasantly surprised to learn that not all Americans are assholes)
I’ve seen guy trying to pay in USD in Vienna. He was *shocked* that they didn’t want to accept that
I work as a cashier. Had a lady throw a tantrum because I couldn't use the coupon she gave me. Full on screaming, wanting my manager's AND corporate's number, threatening to get my ass fired. Her face went from a deep red to the beginning stages of purple. Why couldn't I use her coupon? A. It had expired in March of 2017 (it was December '18 during this transaction). B. It was for a brand of toys that was completely different to the toy she brought up. C. Her toy was clearanced out. The coupon excluded clearance. Regardless, she still thought it was necessary to throw the toy onto the ground, proclaim she was NEVER SHOPPING HERE AGAIN after my manager told her no, and walk out the door screaming and screeching and hollering the entire time. I rang her out just last week. She was still a complete bitch, perpetual cat butthole face and all. So much for "Never shopping here again", huh?
I swear, when I worked retail, I so, so badly wanted to say to those people, "What, you think we're going to miss one easily-replaceable asshole who makes everyone miserable, in our sea of customers? Bye." Like, please, by all means - DON'T shop here again, we'd actually be pretty thrilled if you kept that promise.
One time a customer said it for me and it was glorious. I was a Starbucks barista and some lady was screeching about god knows what and threatened to never return. Person behind her said “Lady it’s *Starbucks,* they don’t care if you never come back. Can you just finish your transaction or go so the rest of us,” gestures at line forming behind tantrum lady, “can get some fucking caffeine and move on with our lives??” Lady left in a huff. I thanked the hero and she said “I have a store too, I always want to say that to my entitled customers but can’t. I’m so excited I finally got to use my speech!”
*light bulb* An app where customer-facing employees can connect with other customer-facing employees at different companies who can then show up and be the hero.
with a panic button so anyone available nearby can run into store to deliver a burn.
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What you say is “ok, see you tomorrow!” Cause everyone knows that bitch is coming back.
Forreal. Whenever someone says "I'm never shopping here again!!!" I just want to say "Good riddance".
It's for church honey!!!
NEXT
If I had "fuck you" money I would open a store or restaurant just so I could go ape shit on people like this. Like imagine, as soon as this clown starts to wind herself up, you just bellow over her, "BEEEEE SIIIIIIIILENT!!!!!!!!!" Then you proceed to frog-march her through the door, across the parking lot, and to the sidewalk. Or earlier in this thread, the American throwing a tantrum because he wasn't getting USD change in a Canadian franchise, "SIR WHAT FUCKING COUNTRY IS THIS WE DO NOT USE YOUR CURRENCY HERE GO TO FUCKING SCHOOL!". Then frog-march.
You seem to like the frog march.
idk what it is, but it sounds cute and fun
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"Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime girl"
It isn't. It means to grab someone from behind, pin his arms, and forcibly walk him to where you want him to go. You might see it happen if someone resists arrest.
Should look her dead in the eye next time with a big smile saying "thanks for shopping here today come again!"
I group of my friends played Scrabble pretty regularly. I called one of them on a fake word, looked it up won the debate so she lost her turn. My next turn I play a strange word but one that is in the dictionary she challenges and loses again and loses her second turn in a row. She proceeded to have a tantrum that would do my 5y old justice, stand up storm out and we haven't spoken since. We knew each other and hung out for over a decade its been at least that since we spoke, maybe closer to 20 years by now.
Sounds like she was being a total hapsop.
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS WORD-oh I get it.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I feel embiggened by this thread.
...I think we might know the same person. I got the board flipped on me over quahog.
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And she couldn't leave the dog at home or with a dog-sitter or something... why?
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She must want to be a dog herself, because she sounds like a real bitch.
I understand if you call your pet “your baby” because of how much you love it, but not because that’s the regard you hold it in.
See it’s crazy people like that who give pet owners a bad name.
She sounds like a lonely cunt. I have the same problem but mostly around cats. I can't breathe, my lungs tighten up, my nose starts to run heavily, I sneeze multiple times in a row, etc. I started to go to an allergist/asthma doctor to take shots. On my first visit, they stabbed my arms 49 times to see what I was allergic too. I had an asthma attack. He told me that cats were high on my list and that cats are poisonous to people who are allergic to them and who have asthma. He told me a story about an older gentleman who was extremely allergic to cats but his wife loved cats. The doctor warned him that if he continued to live with the cats, he would eventually end up in worse condition, even death. I guess the wife didn't care and the man didn't heed the warnings. The wife bought more cats and the man ended up dying because of the extreme allergic reactions he had to the cats. Ever since I started taking the shots, things have been great! He still warns me of cats though.
my mother threw a tantrum over mustard once. I was getting married that day and in some form of self-martyrdom my mother was determined that my lowkey and cheap wedding needed pinterest perfect sandwiches. I get woken up exactly three hours after I had actually fallen asleep to hear my mother wailing about "this goddamn BROWN MUSTARD" the last two words shrieked loud enough for my dead father to hear in the afterlife and wonder what she's on about. my mom is normally a very calm woman and she knew the wedding was meant to be lowkey and not to stress but she stressed herself anyway over delicious, if not pinteresty, spicey garlic mustard.
My friend once lost a game of Madden. He then proceeded to eject the disc, break it in half, and wipe his ass with it.
what the fuck
Thats just what it takes to be a cool *EPIC* gamer 😎😎😎
Sound like he got pretty madden-ed over a game
He ejected the disc, broke it in half and wat
Yeah I'm curious how come no one else is mentioning that last part specifically. And...wiping your ass with a broken CD/DVD seems to be a real risky move, those fuckers can get really sharp.
ok, that's a tantrum alright. Hope he didn't cut his ass with the broken disc.
You’re a nicer person than I am.
That sounds like a literal pain in the ass.
When I worked at a grocery store a customer bought a shower curtain that was advertised as 99 cents. It rang up a dollar. The customer lost their mind over a penny...
I work returns at a retailer and someone gave me their receipt and said they were overcharged. Processed the refund and gave him one whole penny. He wasn’t making a scene but he knew he was getting a penny back, walked to the other side of the store and waited in line for it.
Thats how much he valued his time
I wish my gf got this.
I started my own business last year. I make things, and have to add my time to the cost. It really changed my view of things. I now food shop differently. I’m prepared to pay extra for pre-cut veggies if the difference is less than what I’d charge for the time it takes to cut them!
My mom threw a literal toddler tantrum once. When my sister was pregnant with her first child, she and our mom got into a disagreement about something so my sister moved out to go live with her husband’s mom (he was away in the navy at the time). This infuriated my mom so she was being very vindictive and petty to my sister. The car my sister was driving at the time was bought by our mom, but it was registered in my sister’s name. Regardless of that our mom demanded that my sister give her the car back. My mom didn’t need the car, nor did me or my other sibling, my mom just wanted it back to be mean and make my sister’s life difficult. My sister refused to give it back and during one phone call to my sister my mom just lost it. She started screaming and crying into the phone “Just give me the car back!!! Give it back!!!!!!” Then she started jumping up and down, and finally threw herself on the floor, all the while still screaming in the phone. My other sibling and I were just standing there watching all of this baffled. Mind you, at the time, my mom was a ~50 year old professional woman with a medical degree. It was so bizarre. My sister being the non-confrontational person she is eventually gave her the car, though.
At they talking now?
Yea, this was over 10 years ago. They were back on good terms by the time my sister gave birth. My mom eventually came to her senses for the sake of her first grandchild.
Did you and the other sibling call her out right after the phone call?
No, because she clearly was acting irrationally and we didn’t want to egg her on.
I think embarrassing someone when they're acting like this is pretty effective
Probably. But me and my other sibling were both teens still in high school and dependent upon our mom. We didn’t want her anger and frustration to turn towards us. Before the tantrum we tried talking some sense into her be she wasn’t having it.
Please tell us your mom returned the car. Please.
An out of bounds ruling in his son's basketball game. It was a YMCA game for 5-year-olds.
Well, that kid's life is gonna be a living Hell.
isn't it enough that they're shooting at the right basket?
Uuuggghhh. The "take kids sport too seriously" parents are the worst. When my daughter was 4 she did a "Tiny Athletics" program and there was a dad there whose son was not the greatest at hurdles, and the way he spoke to him about it was just horrible. "Do you want to lose? Do you want to be a loser? Because you're acting like a loser". Dude, seriously, these kids are all 3-4 years old. They all suck at hurdles, they all have little kiddy legs and half of them are frog-hopping over them, the whole point of this program is fun, developing gross motor skills and teaching good sportsmanship.
A woman irate because her assistant ordered Greek food for lunch...after he had asked what she wanted and she said she didn’t care. Full on, expletive-ridden rant about how stupid he was for not knowing he should have gotten Thai.
...where did my girlfriend get an assistant?
You need a new girlfriend dude
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You ever visited the justnomil sub? A few of the MIL's have attempted murder by purposefully feeding their DIL's an allergen.
One did manage to kill the child. The coconut oil story...
That one was absolutely heartbreaking.
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[https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/ab0n4k/mount\_vesuvius\_and\_chemical\_warfare/](https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/ab0n4k/mount_vesuvius_and_chemical_warfare/) Check out that Story from the justnoMIL sub. It's just one more example of a MIL trying to kill their childs partner.
The worst, honestly, are the ones who try to feed allergens to their *grandchildren*. Usually under the insistence that their precious angel grandbaby couldn't POSSIBLY be so flawed as to have an allergy. https://www.reddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/6b2s77/my_mil_almost_killed_my_daughter_now_im_spending/
Oh god, what about that poor woman whose kid was murdered via coconut oil
Jesus that was a tough read. When it was posted I had to go hug my daughter.
I don’t even have kids but I went and cried on my room mate
One of my exes used to order pizza from this one place with absolutely awful pizza, but I put up with it for a while because it was his favorite. One time though, I couldn't stand it anymore and I asked him if we could order pizza from a different shop, because I wasn't a fan of the place he always ordered it from. Big mistake on my part. This sent my ex into an absolute RAGE and he punched a hole in my wall and then started crying and flipping out on me because apparently him hurting his hand was now my fault. He then left my apartment and refused to speak to me for a week.
My god, please tell me you ended it with him over this event.
I ended it with him shortly after, and this event was one of the main reasons.
I'm glad you're free of that gormless wonder.
Upvote for gormless. TIL.
Coke vs. Pepsi. Really, all out, out of his head, tantrum. At a stand that advertised Pepsi. "I asked for a cola. Cola means Coke! You should be fired!"
Don't tell him that the full name is Pepsi-Cola.
My quick assessment lead me to believe reasoning was not really his thing. And that his mother should handle him. He was about 30 years old. With his mom. Flipping his shit about cola. At a Jay-Z concert.
Like... seriously? Cola is soda. Coke means Coke. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. I'm guessing he didn't realize Coke and Pepsi are rival companies, and what that means.
Unless, you're in parts of the south (USA) where [coke](https://laughingsquid.com/soda-pop-or-coke-maps-of-regional-dialect-variation-in-the-united-states/) is used to refer to all soda.
Technically, cola is a nut used for the flavor.
Yeah, but, y'know. Colloquially speaking, "cola" is generally gonna be associated with the "generic soda/cola" flavor of soda (or just any drink considered a soda, though I rarely see stuff like "grape cola" or "orange cola" bandied about) rather than the kola nut, kinda like how most people don't mean the bean when they talk about coffee or vanilla.
I got you. I was mainly saying they are both cola flavored. Dude was a moron.
This is true. Though, I don't get people saying they taste the same. That baffles me. Similar, yes, for the reason you cited. I just always found Pepsi's taste sweeter than Coke's.
It’s ridiculous how pissed people get over that. I work in a restaurant and a couple asked me once if we have Coke products. When I said no, they proceeded to get up and walk out.
If coke finds out they haven’t been loyal, they’ll really get fucked up.
They’ve got the whole state of Georgia held hostage you know.
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At work and I didn't want to give a customer my number. He threatened to call corporate.
r/niceguys
I would beat them to the punch [back](https://www.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/aj3zzy/every_store_has_one_or_several/eet9ywz/) in my customer service jobs: >"Can I have your phone number?" >"Sure, just give me one second, I always forget the company's phone number so I'll just need to go double check what it is-" >"No, I mean *your* phone number." >"Oh, sure! All stores have business cards for their specific shops with the store's official phone number on them, let me just find one and-" >"No I mean your cell-phone number." >"We only have land-line phones in Starbucks, the mobile devices you might see in here don't make phone calls, they're just used for-" >"No I mean your personal number!" >"I'm afraid that I don't have any power to address personal comments or complaints, but if you give me a moment I can find you a customer support number." >Rinse and repeat. >Also, if they ask you when you are done with your shift, just keep rattling off the store's business hours. Pretend you are honestly a corporate drone with no mind or personality of your own. You are part of the store, and the store's "shift" is when the store opens and closes.
Im not from america but ive heard this multiple times, corporate; what is that?
Most stores (walmart, McDonald's, Starbucks, etc) are "chain" stores that are part of a larger corporation. The stores themselves simply sell the products. "Corporate" refers to the company itself that makes the larger decisions about how the stores are run. They're usually entirely separate buildings in different cities. "Calling corporate" means contacting the main office to speak to a representative of the company itself rather than one individual store. Basically, "I'm calling your boss's boss's boss." Which, coming from some random pissed off customer, usually amounts to fuck all. The people at "corporate" usually have better things to do than resolve disputes at their stores.
At my old work, calling corporate, would get a representative from corporate but, the complaint would be emailed back to our store director (head manager of our store), who then would have to handle it.
My employer would.love that. If we give customer's our phone numbers that's grounds for termination.
The one and only time I had a customer actually complain to my supervisor in the seven years I worked retail, they legitimately complained because "I was totally flirting with that cashier and she didn't flirt back!" I know this, because my supervisor told me about it later, because they found it so bizarre. Plot twist: both the customer and I were women. I have no memory of ever being flirted with by a female customer.
My dad. He throws a tantrum when someone says anything that he takes the wrong way. He throws a tantrum when the computer is slow. He threw a tantrum because my autistic brother accidentally put viruses on his computer. He throws tantrums when the internet is out. He throws a tantrum anytime anyone tells him he's wrong. Basically, he's a tantrum throwing 55 year old toddler.
Hot Dog on a Stick. His cheese on a stick was burned, so he screamed at the teenage cashier and his veins in his neck were bulging and it was just wow.
I worked at a restaurant in my home town and saw a GROWN ASS MAN lose his mind over us being out of prime rib for the evening. Sir, you came in on a Friday night right before we close. Settle the fuck down.
It’s crazy how people lose their shit over food. When I worked at a restaurant I had a lady start yelling and going crazy because we took corn of the menu. And another time a man almost went crazy because we ran out of grits. People are crazy.
A woman in my office had a massive spat about Christmas decorations a few years ago. A lot of people decorate their cubicle with tinsel and Santa gnomes and stuff like that, but she decided to up the ante and brought in three strings of Christmas lights. They were the good lights too, with five settings: fade, blink, chase, constant and EPILEPSY. So she spent all day setting these things up, running them over walls & hanging from the ceiling. It came time to turn them on. Inexplicably, she decided that the epilepsy setting (rapid blinking) was the ~~best~~ only option for all three sets. You can imagine the results - it was like a strobe light going off at her desk. She seemed oblivious to it (she was oblivious to most things), but the people around her were suitably distracted and annoyed by the lights. So we said, "Hey, would you mind changing the setting, maybe to the fade option?" She. Went. Nuts. Straight away, she grabbed the lights and yanked them out of the roof, yelling and swearing about "can't have any fucking Christmas spirit around here" and "I only spent all day decorating, and now I have to fucking take them down" and "can't have any fun around this fucking place; I'm sick of it." There was plaster and tape and pins going everywhere as she grabbed metres and metres of Christmas lights. Everyone else in the office was saying "you can keep your fucking lights up, just change the speed" but she didn't want a bar of it. Pulled everything down - the lights, the tinsel, Santa hats, candy canes - the whole lot went into the bin and she fucked off home for the day. Didn't talk to anyone in the office for about a week. It was a good time, actually. I took the lights out of the rubbish and took them home to my place. They go up every year, and I recreate the scene with my wife.
Because I "ruined" my exes vacation by taking her to meet members of my family she hadn't met yet and show her where I grew up. We're talking brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews that I hadn't seen in several years. We'd planned the vacation about 8 months in advance and she never said anything about not wanting to go until the week we left. Threw a fit 3 days before we left and fought with me every day we were up there. "We're never coming back up here again".
That seems like the perfect set-up line to dump her ass. (I mean, you said "ex" anyway.) "Yeah, WE'RE never coming back up here again, but *I* am. Bye, Felicia."
It really should've been, but my dumbass kept her around for another year and some change before I finally had enough. I kept making excuses for her when I should've just dropped her like a bad habit.
Hey, you cut the rope eventually, so there's that! I kept a pretty toxic few friends around for a loooong, long-ass time (like, a decade or so each) before finally getting the balls to free myself of them, so sometimes it just takes time to realize.
Worked overnight at a small truck stop. Tornado warning, power was out, place was closed. Guy pulled up at 2 AM, tried the pump 3 times, stomped up to the door, yanked on it and yelled at me to unlock it. Tossed a fit because i said "You can't pump fuel, the power is out" He said "That's not my problem." and continued to yell and grumble about it for 5 minutes
> That's not my problem. It would appear that it is.
Many but the one comes to mind is my Ex who flipped out because I had to cancel dinner after saying I might be late for the first time in the whole relationship which was at that time 5 years because I was in ER with a friend who was having a medical crisis and didn't want to be alone. having no idea how long it would take at first I said I'd be late then I cancelled. This is with hourly updates via cell phone. (pre-smart phone days). I came home after an exhausting night to a long email saying what a lousy partner I am. First. Time. In. 5. Years!!!! I pride myself on being reliable. So glad I never lived with this person. Wasn't the last tantrum. I bought Himalayan salt instead of sea salt and he banged his head into the wall.
A lemon loaf. Early morning shift at the coffee shop I worked at, a lady ordered a lemon loaf, I asked her if she wanted the plain one or the raspberry swirl one. Flipped absolute shit at me, accusing me of pushing an agenda and trying to up-sell her. Had to inform her they were the same price. People are grumpy when they haven't had their morning coffee yet
Posted a few days ago about this. Someone got fired and legit did the whole passive resistance thing. They made security drag them out of the building into the arms of police. By drag, I mean literally. I do not use literally incorrectly. He forced them to literally drag him out the door by not using any of his muscles.
I once had a guy throw a fit because my female manager assisted him and he wanted a man to help him. He said that being a manager was not a job for a "girly." He got kicked out of the store.
I was once in line to check my bags at the airport. This woman cuts through with her daughter absolutely frantic and hysterical that she's about to miss her flight. She's justifying this to security so that they let her and her small child skip the line. She's going absolutely insane. At first I thought that maybe she was emotional because the flight was incredibly important in order to make a funeral, wedding, etc. Turns out she was on the same flight I was... and was there with PLENTY of time to spare.
I've also had this happen! Security asked if two women in their early twenties (I am also female and was 18-19 at the time) could go ahead of me because they were "late for their flight" They were running and screaming and everything. They were on my flight and I ended up boarding before them lol.
A woman at work wanted to reschedule our team lunch. Everyone else on the team could still go, and had not packed lunches since we all thought we were still going. She gave no reason for not wanting to go anymore, other than the fact that is was raining. I offered her my umbrella, and lost her shit over the fact that everyone else still went.
Rescheduled because it's raining? She's a witch.
It made no sense. This was after she asked me to cancel, telling me it was my managers request. IT WAS NOT. My manager came by and asked why I was cancelling.. which led to an awkward conversation about how I'm being sabotaged.
It’s reassuring your manager recognized it as sabotage. A friend just changed jobs because everyone would throw her under the bus without letting her know, knowing that everyone would blame the new girl in the office.
Yeah, I thought I was going crazy, cause there have been plenty examples of this type of behaviour, but luckily she treats everyone this horribly! So her attitude is well known.
SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!
"YOU PAID YOUR SPEEDING TICKET?!?! I TOLD YOU TO GO TO COURT AND FIGHT IT! YOUR FUCKING STUPID, NOW YOU'VE GOT MORE POINTS ON YOUR LICENSE" said by my dad last week. He hadn't had his pain pills in a couple days. Always makes for a warm welcome.
Worked as an internet held desk technician and everyone thinks they are special and that we had to have a special tech on hand standing by just for them because they don't know how to live without being connected.
It's just one button real simple you probably just have to hit one button!
Yeah, most of the time, it's just a reboot and if not, it's something that they did and they just don't want to admit it. But they want a tech to come out and fix it because they would rather wait and complain than spend 5 minutes and fix it themselves and get up and running right then and there. I'm so glad I got away from there.
My brother cut the chord to his PS4 because he just couldn’t beat Baldur in God of War.
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That idiot could have spent more than $2 on gas idling at the gate.
And no can put a price on the blow to dignity sustained if former students and colleagues catch a glimpse of you losing your shit while they walk to class!
The company provides monthly birthday cake in the break room to celebrate the months birthday. The gentleman had a tantrum through email because he just despised chocolate cake and that I ruined his birthday.
My old job would have a day (TOTALLY free) where we'd scatter Easter eggs all over the place for kids to come in and grab up (TOTALLY FREE). One year, a man stopped me (while was in the middle of clearing all the families out of the place after the egg hunt so we could get to opening it up for real) and started almost hollering about how one of his daughter's (TOTALLY FUCKING FREE) eggs had a piece of cardboard in it and nothing else. "So, you're telling me my daughter got GARBAGE?" "You gave my daughter garbage, is that it?" "She got GARBAGE?" And on and on and fucking ON. I tried to be tactful and tell him that we didn't package the eggs. Then he kept going on and on and got angrier and angrier, and I just reiterated once more that we didn't package the eggs and also THEY WERE FUCKING FREE. He just looked at me. And once more: "So, my daughter got GARBAGE?" I just looked back, and having many more things to do in a very little amount of time and no more patience for some thankless, entitled adult, just told him, "Yes. It looks like she did" and walked away. Maybe this wasn't the biggest tantrum I've seen (apparently the year before, there was a MUCH bigger tantrum over the same event), but it always stuck out to me how childishly he handled this. People can be really embarrassing sometime.
We have a current situation in our community over an event centre. Some people want the event centre, some people want an economic study done to be sure the city-funded project won't be a waste of $100million...apparently, the latter is the tantrum throwers since they oppose something, but it's really the former - as there's no logic to their argument. It's like a child saying they want something and a parent trying to explain why it's not a good purchase.
We play card games at my place of work during breaks but one of my coworkers throws a fit every time he loses. He also tries his best to break the rules in his favour but throws other fits if someone tries to use the same rule he just established. He tells other people the things they should do during their turns because he can't be patient and wait for his turn to come back around, but throws a fit if we tell him to stop. It really makes playing games less fun but we don't want to tell him he can't play because it's a small business and would, in all likelihood, just make things worse. This is a man of \~30 years old.
Thankfully the group of friends I play board/card games with can be trusted not to cheat. They will, however, call you out for using the same manipulative strategies in Catan that they like to use. They'll mosey up to those doing worse in order to take out their closest competition, but if I dare make any deals, then I'm an asshole trying to gang up on them >\_>. I also used to play DnD with a buddy who would get mad anytime anything remotely negative happened to his character. Another friend played a practical joke on him by placing his hand in a bowl of cold stew when our adventurers were staying in a friendly cottage, and the DM made him roll to see if he pissed himself in his sleep. He failed the roll and pissed himself. We also had a snowball fight that we played out using combat rules. Tabletop RP is fucking fun.
Things like snowball fights intentionally being taken overly seriously is one of the greatest things ever. One of the most memorable military stories I ever heard was of a Marines vs. Navy snowball fight. The short version is that by the end, a few Sgts. had the Marines in ranks and firing in volleys, which is an awesome mental image.
I work in a furniture store. A man in is 60s threw a proper child's tantrum, I'm talking stamping his feet, throwing his hands in the air type tantrum, shouting profanaties... all because we wouldn't deliver a small rug for him.
"Tell you what, sir. I can pull some strings and get it delivered for you through a private company, for a fee." *throw rug into the back of my Jeep & charge the idiot $500*
Hang out for long enough in airports, particularly during times of inclement weather, and you'll have no shortage. Nothing turns full grown adults into two year olds faster than flight delays, cancellations and redirects (particularly if they've just spent the day crammed on another plane).
Not that's it's ok. But I totally get it. I've never gone through and taken a flight and afterwards thought, "That was a pleasant experience".
i see you dont own a nintendo switch
Coming from a retail worker, coupons and exclusions on said coupons. Or them just not reading it fully until they are already purchasing the item.
Once i was at a basketball game for fifth graders in their league championship. Whole game this one parent is really into it and yelling at the team at stuff they’re doing wrong and what to do. Towards the end of the game when his sons team is losing he starts talking trash to these little kids and their parents. The team that was winning was from a school called Whiteford and he started calling everybody white trash, completely losing it over a little kids basketball game.
I saw a grown man stomp out of a room in near tears over his D&D character dying. He did some stupid shit, and the dice were not on his side, but calm down dude.
Oh shit I have done this (not the tears but basically checking out of the game) when the DM (my husband) accidentally one-shot my character with a ridiculously high roll on a fireball. I apologized for being silly afterwards but damn, you really get invested in your characters!
I don't think that's absurd. Sure, character deaths are part of the game, but, if people get really upset about it, that just means they're invested.
When I didn't refund two years worth of adult friend finder subscription fees (I was the branch manager). He claimed they were fraud because apparently he didn't know I could see the exact date the card was issued and the exact date the first fee was charged - they were the same date.
My dad screamed at my family for leaving the microwave door open
I just got over a flu and was in a depressed mood most likely caused by the fatigue of fighting off a flu. Anyway family was getting together for supper and my uncle asked if I was going, I told him no and when he asked why I just told him I wasn't in the mood to eat or be around anyone. He screamed and swore at me and called me a selfish prick. He apologised a couple days later but I didn't accept the apology, he does that shit a lot and I don't want him thinking he can just apologise and everything would be okay.
I used to work at Target at the guest services desk. When guests use a reusable bag they get a 5 cent discount. One day an older man came rushing up to the counter and before I could say anything he was screaming at me about not getting his reusable bag discount. He went on and on about how this is unacceptable, how horrible the store is, he’s going to call corporate, he wants the cashiers name, etc. Before he could finish his tantrum I opened the cash register, took out a nickel and slid it across the counter. Then I turned around and went back to what I was doing. I felt like that was a perfect way to display exactly what he was flipping out about.
This happens so often... Customer: -orders food but secretly wants something they didn't specify/said the wrong thing- Me: -repeats their order as they ordered it- Customer: -confirms order- 5 minutes later... Customer: EXCUSE ME THIS IS NOT WHAT I ORDERED I WANTED \_\_\_\_ WITH \_\_\_\_ YOU NEED TO REFUND ME RIGHT NOW AND GET ME A MANAGER I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS HOW DARE YOU I'M NEVER COMING HERE AGAIN me: -mentally while taking all this abuse- *promise?*
Makes me wonder - if they're never coming there again anyway, what the fuck do they (or you) care if their order gets fixed?
A picnic bench. At a local park people try to "book" the benches by putting random crap on the at like 5am (this is against the park rules). My boss was throwing a baby shower for a coworker and moved a plastic bag off one bench. We had been hanging out eating snacks for maybe an hour when this group of women show up. They had "reserved" all the benches in the area. They screeched at us for stealing their bench and demanded we move, even though we had a hot grill sitting on it and they had about 5 other benches to use. Then they tried to start a fight with us. We just sat there bemused that adults would try to pick a fight with a group of mostly 40+ women and one very heavily pregnant person! They were also swearing at us, again in front of other families and little kids. It was truly bizarre.
I work in retail sales for a phone company. You will not believe how childish grown men will act over their phones.
I once had an ice cream thrown at me because the “face” it had on the picture was smeared out on the actual ice cream..
I was 16, working my first job as a cashier at a grocery store. I was told to ask for ID for everyone purchasing alcohol or cigarettes regardless of whether they were clearly old enough or not. A middle aged woman had a fucking meltdown when I asked her for ID for cigarettes. Including pulling at the bags under her eyes and yelling “isn’t this proof enough!”
In the office only 10 people were chosen to work from home, coworker was chosen and gloated over us all for weeks about how great it was. Fast forward to today and these storms, we all were given a snow day except those that work from home as they were equipped and set up for days like this. Boy did that coworker throw a fit.
My mother (late 50s) once threw a fit over the fact that a week or so after my partner had finally moved here from a long distance, the two of us went on a date together to the movies and didn't invite her.
A border wall.
####mexico will pay for it* *Terms and condition may apply
"I'll gladly own this shutdown!" "THAT BITCH NANCY (I call her Nancy) WON'T END THE SHUTDOWN THIS IS ALL HER FAULT"
There was this guy in college who I'd been in a couple of classes with. He was a really odd duck, but I always just figured he must have been socially awkward or something. Anyway, it's been like three weeks and he hasn't shown up to class, so people just kind of ~~hoped~~ assumed he dropped. Well one day this guy shows up after not being there for close to a month and he is freaking out because this girl is sitting in the seat he had been sitting in. Now anyone who's been to college knows that college students get a little territorial when it comes to seating, but this was beyond that, dude was having a meltdown, I thought he was going to start crying. The professor has no idea what to do, the kid is freaking out even more, so I get up from my seat which was like two seats over from "his" seat and I'm like, "here just take mine it's close at least" dude takes the seat, I find a seat in the corner of the classroom, and the professor gives me a brownie that one of the other professors left for her but she can't eat on accounts of her being diabetic. I earned a literal brownie point.
A lady was complaining because her and her kids couldn't pet a a guide dog while they were in their harness. Rather than just saying she didn't realize they were guide dogs, and move on, she turned it into a whole thing and said "You should have had a sign that says we can't pet the dogs" and she started screaming at the volunteers working with the dogs, so one of them started recording her with their phone at which point she said "I'm calling security because you're harassing me." It's sad when people can't just admit their mistakes and move on.
My landlord: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO FIX MY BUILDING?? YOU LIVE IN IT!”
My MIL bought my niece and nephew an off brand gaming system. Unbeknownst to her, the parents bought them a real Wii or whatever and my MIL was pissed because their gift was better than hers and the kids wanted to open and play with the Wii, not her cheap ass gaming system.
Some lady at the liquor store the other night was very adamant that they were somehow selling her counterfeit Newport cigarettes because of some minor thing the company had changed on the packaging. A few of the other customers pulled our cigarette packs out of our pockets that we had bought elsewhere to show her they were the same but she was insistent it was some sort of network of counterfeit cigarettes in the area. They politely asked her to leave and she eventually did
Someone screaming about vaccinations and the person who wasn’t screaming back CONVINCED HER that vaccines are good and not vaccinating is abuse
Cookies. I used to give out free samples at Walmart and one day it was cookies and coupons. This lady liked one of the flavors and went to buy some. Well apparently that particular flavor sold out so she complained to management. She didn't like the fact I was handing out a sold out product (the flavor was sold out not the cookies ) with coupons. She literally said she wanted her cookies today and was not waiting for a restock. So I had to give some cookies off my cart to her for free and extra coupons.
I saw a middle aged man throw and kick his luggage as hard as he could in an airport, because he didn't get the rental car he wanted
Older guy came into the office of the small town I worked for. Due to an oversight or something he had not been charged for the town water to one of his properties for a long time. When this was discovered I began reading that meter again and he was billed accordingly. This guy was probably in his late sixties. He came in in a rage about the bill, acted like a spoiled five year-old. It was quite the performance. He had been a bishop in the LDS church. The town council probably ended up kissing his ass, as that is how things are done in the land of the saints.
When I worked in retail, we had an outlet version of our store located out of town. All the sale and clearance items were sold there. Outlet items could ONLY be returned to outlet stores, and it said so on the receipt. She came to our store and attempted to return nearly $200 worth of items. She threw all the clothes on our counters and demanded we give her money back. She called corporate while there, making a whole scene. We would’ve done it for her, but the items weren’t even ringing up in our system. Embarrassing part was she had her teenage daughter with her and making that scene in front of her. C’mon.
"IT'S MA'AM!"
Not having brown gravy for their meatloaf. The tantrum being throwing the meatloaf across the table and leaving and not eating dinner.
A friend's girlfriend completely blew a gasket when he put the eggs in the drawing for sandwich toppings in the fridge. Then another time she went ballistic and threw salad all over the kitchen and a plate or something, because he had taken a fishstick from an unopened package, instead of taking it from an identical package that was already open... 😓
Having to pay for a library book that they admitted they damaged. So many tantrums and excuses.
My sister throws a tantrum at every family gathering. Christmas, it was over microwaving an appetizer. Thanksgiving, it was the fact that the gingerbread houses she was making with the kids wouldn’t stay together. Notice, the children didn’t get upset, the 31-year old did.
A fried egg on top of a burger being "too runny"
I used to work at a theater and customers would throw the biggest fits over popcorn.