I quit my job after telling off a four year old for shaking his cup at me. What's the dumbest thing that has set you off at work?

DevilWorshipper · 3 months

I was a lifeguard for an uppity condo association when I was in college. Every day I had to deal with this typically rich-spoiled-entitled brat of a 12-year-old boy. The last straw occurred during finals. I had had very little sleep, my car was fucking-up and I had two tough tests that day that drained me even further.

I was sitting in my chair watching the pool and the brat walked up to me carrying my keys with a pair of BBQ tongs. "Hey I found your keys." Now, my keys were attached to a metal Two Fingers Tequila rectangle thingie. So, not thinking things through, I open my hand and he drops the keys into them. It took about two seconds before I realized they were red-hot.

The little fucker had let them sit in the hot coals of a grill for a while before picking them up with the tongs and bringing them to me. The smirk on his face was begging me to throttle him. I came very, very close to knocking the shit out of him, but, at least had the clarity to know what would happen if I did. I closed the pool and went to the condo association office to let them know I would not work if this kid was allowed in the pool from then on. I was fired on the spot.

chaos_is_me · 3 months

Not me, but an acquaintance.

She was worked at a grocery store in the produce section for a few years. She was stocking the bananas and a customer came up to her, grabbed a bunch of bananas, held it up and said rather sharply, "These bananas are green!"

To which she clapped her hands and said, "Very Good."

Got Fired

Cheerio1234 · 3 months

I am the only male worker in my work force in retail. It was a very busy busy day and the store was moving and I had to keep on top of things. I get this very annoyed woman coming up to me yelling at me to hurry when I asked how her day was. She had returned a crap load of things. Our return policy is we can only give money back in the form it was paid for. I told her I just couldn't give her cash back (I am a peon and not a manger so I could not override the system to give cash back). She kept saying she wanted cash back and nothing else. I explained to her our whole return policy without ever losing my temper. She then demands to see my manager (who is female). My manager says the EXACT same thing I said. The woman was like Oh ok I understand. So then my manager was giving her money back on her card she paid with. Then the woman was like thats what you get for hiring unintelligent men (I had been there 9 months). My boss suddenly stopped doing the transaction. Cancelled it. And said have a nice day. The woman was like what about my money. My boss was like. Too bad, this "man" was doing everything right, now get out of my store.

EvilShannanigans · 3 months

I am a manager and had a guy refuse to talk to me because I am female and he didn't want a woman assisting him. I told him he could sit his ass in the lobby until a man showed up...which was a few days later. Then all my male coworkers refused to help him.

MosifD · 3 months

Three events come to mind.

1: I was a stocker/cashier for a big box petstore. One busy Saturday a lady comes up with about sixty loose cans of cat food. I proceed to painfully scan every can, and as I'm totaling everything up, I ask her if she has our discount card. She replies no with a rather annoyed sounding tone. I ask if she wants to get one for free. Same answer. She pays for her stuff and starts complaining that our stupid discount card doesn't do anything anyways. I told her that we have about 200 items on sale each week. She actually says I'm lying, and takes her receipt and starts to walk away.

Before I can help the next person, she yells at me, asking what the marks next to the prices on her receipt mean. I took a deep breath, and told her that I means the cans are on sale for card holders. She then replies "Oh" and pulls a FUCKING DISCOUNT CARD FROM HER PURSE and demands that I give her the discount. The customer who had been behind her actually said "Is she shitting me?" out loud. I was blocked in to my register, so I jumped the side and got a manager and told them what happen and why I really shouldn't be near that lady. He had to go through and adjust every can individually, while listening to the woman bitch about me.

2: Same store, now a manager. On a very slow Friday night, my cashier calls me to the front at the request of a very angry customer. I get to the front, and she is almost in tears with a very angry middle eastern man nearly screaming at her.

The man is trying to buy a 70 gallon fish tank, a stand for it, and all the other accessories needed to start a tank of that size. I calmly ask what the problem is, and his answer nearly sent me over the edge. "Finally, a man! This woman is trying to rip me off!". Now the cashier (who was fairly new, and this was her first job) is actually crying. She hands me a massive stack of coupons and tells me that she refused to take them. The coupons were for $2 off a purchase. All of them were clearly printed off a fake coupon site. No expiration dates, and no real restrictions printed on them. We deal with them all the time, but not normally the 200 that this man had. Yes, 200 fake coupons. I know how many there were because he yelled at me how she was stealing $400 dollars from him.

Still fairly calm, I explain why we can't use those coupons, and even if we could, not that many. This literally would have let him pay like $80 for almost $500 worth of stuff. The asshole yelled at the cashier, not me, that he wanted to see another manager. I lost it.

I stepped between the two of them and yelled right back at him. I told him I was the only manager and he had to deal with me. I told him to apologize to the now sobbing cashier, and the get the fuck out of my store. He screamed back about how this was illegal and the SHE was ripping him off. He started to storm out, and stumbled over his own feet, nearly hitting the sliding door. Once he was gone, I tried to calm down the cashier, and sent her to the office to chill for a few while I watched the front of the store.

I sent an email to nearby stores to warn them about the guy. I found out he had pulled something similar a few weeks before at another location, also trying to intimidate a young female cashier. On the plus side, the cashier was in culinary school, and made me some awesome cupcakes to thank me.

3: I briefly had a job installing satellite systems. One morning, I get to a clients house to hook up two TVs. He shows me the first TV. I put my tracer on the cable line and ask to see the second TV. He leads me out the back door, and into the back door of the house behind his. He wants me to hook up one dish and one box to two different addresses.

This is not only against policy, its actually illegal. I explain that I can't do that, and that the other house (his moms) needs its own account. He flipped his shit. He starts yelling at me that I'm racist (I'm white, southern, but live in the north east, he was black) and lazy and just don't want to do my job. I tell him I need to leave and blocked the door.

He demands that I install his system and that I can't leave until I do. I yell back that if he doesn't get the fuck out of my way I'll move him. About that time, his mother comes in, woken up by the yelling. She yells at him to move his fat ass and let me leave before she helps me move him. It looked like he literally shrunk. He moved away from the door and I quickly made my exit and called in the incident to my dispatcher.

Nothing really came from it, but needless to say I put in my two weeks notice...

EDIT: Spelling...

commiewizard · 3 months

I'm an asian guy working in the electronics department of a retail store. One day some kids (13-14 year olds) walked by me and said "Hey whats up Jackie Chan". I told them to go fuck themselves and that they were white cracker pieces of shit. They ran and told their parents, who then reported it to my manager. Luckily the manager just laughed at the situation and told me to carry on.

le37 · 3 months

So I used to work full time for an electronics retailer (spoiler alert: it was Best Buy) where I sold TVs. I honestly didn't mind most people, even when customers would get pissed off I would find myself just kind of smiling inside at how seriously people take such little things.

The one thing that did piss me off was when a guy came in with his own janky ass tube TV from the early 90s in a cart. He demanded that he "test out" various antennas that we sold because the last one didn't work.

A guy who worked for me and also happened to be a pretty good friend politely and patiently explained to the man that what he needed was a digital converter box. He even took one out of the packaging and set it up for the crazy bastard.

This whole while, the asshole with the TV was calling my coworker an idiot, telling him that he didn't know what he was talking about, and demanding that he set up "just the antenna, that's all I need."

See my buddy was being a good sport about it, chuckling a little bit and repeating himself, but when I overheard that fucking mouth-breather calling my coworker an idiot, I flipped shit.

I didn't do anything TOO crazy, but I walked up to the pair of them and kicked the guy out of the store, which I had no real authority to do. It was very satisfying though.

TL;DR: I kicked a guy out of the Best Buy I worked at for being an asshole, despite lacking the proper authority

capnjames · 3 months

Bartender here.

I work right beside Eden Park, Auckland New Zealand. For those who don't know, this is where the Rugby World Cup was hosted a couple months back.

Opening weeked, 10 hours into my second shift, after a 3 hour gap overnight. Customer tried to take two beers without paying. Apeshit crazy-mode engaged.

Long story short. I get this guy thrown out, GM tries to rip me a new one, I say fuck you.

Don't ask me to work 30 hours over two days with no sleep and fuck all breaks. I will cut you.

sirdigbychikencaeser · 3 months

my friend was a kindergarten teacher...until she called one of her students a bitch after the kid squirted a bunch of glue in her face and then threw glitter...

roflharris · 3 months

We had an old lady pay for 4 cans of coke then grab 5 and try to leave. She then refused to open her handbag and return it because we 'charged too much' ($1.50 per cold can). Now, we're a small business and we regularly lose hundreds of dollars every year to theft of these cans alone. My boss (6'+) firmly takes her by the arm and walks her around the block - Bottle shop next door ($2.20 for a can), fish and chip shop across the road ($2.50), cafe next to that ($2.50),newsagency next to that ($2.20) and the internet cafe next door ($2.00)- before coming back into our shop, by himself, with the extra can in hand. She never did come back.

randomfemale · 3 months

Much love OP. I had a table of 6. ALL douchbags. Basically treated me like a douche the whole time. Acted like highly entitled American teenagers. Same sad story...

But then! They tried to "dine and dash" on me. In a former life, I was an all-state linebacker,... and I can bird dog like a mother fucker. So, after running a 4.4 40 in full waiter gear, I catch them in the parking lot.

Guy says "What! Do something?" and pushes me. So I boxed his fucking ears... hard... really hard. As much as I hated this guy, don't do this to people. It fucking dropped him.

Anyway, cops get called. He agreed to not press charges for my hurting his ears, in exchange for the restaurant not pressing charges for the 3rd degree shoplifting. And the cops made him pay the tab.

Of course I got stiffed on the tip, but it was still the most awesome violent win of my life. I got fired, but I am still friends with my former manager from this instance.

burlapsmooth · 3 months

I just did my last day at a certain pharmacy chain recently. Well it happens that my first customer starts my shift out screaming at me about mayo. Now, we always try to order things, but since my store was low budget the distro center always gave us the shaft on ad items. We couldn't substitute anything for this item either, my hands were tied. I explained all of this to her and told her that a store very close by had the mayo. This set her off, it was my fault gas was $5 a gallon (3.35 really), that I probably pissed of the distro people since I was such an asshole and she wanted to talk to the manager. I was the manager on duty and told her this while still being incredibly courteous about it. At this point she goes, "no fuck you I want to talk to your manager." Again, this was my last day, so the hell with it. I hand her the 1800 number card for customer service and tell her to talk to them. She snatches it out of my hand and goes "IM GONNA GET YOU FIRED IM GONNA GET WHAT I WANT FROM THIS COMPANY ONE WAY OR ANOTHER." At this point I just lost it and said, "you do that, go ahead, maybe they'll tickle your bum a little too if you ask nicely." and walked off. I come back to the counter after I know the woman has left. The cashier that had only been there three days was witness to all of this and was in tears laughing. So I had a little /freddie moment too.

mrs_slave · 3 months

I was working at a canteen at my local football club when some guy bought a hotdog with a five dollar note. When I brought him his change he looked at me and said he gave me a twenty. He had done this before at a busier time and I hadn't noticed till after, so I was certain this time. I refused to give him the extra change and he threatened me (i was around 14), and none of the other asshole customers did anything. My manager then made me give him the extra money. Never have I been more pissed of at work.

[deleted] · 3 months

I worked at an oil field company for about a year and a half. I started off with no experience in the oil field, no experience on operating and fixing heavy machinery, no experience pulling goose necks through downtown traffic and also no experience driving 18wheelers. I moved up very quickly for someone who had no experience. I hounded for a raise and a position upgrade because I had the records to prove I was worth it and the people I worked with wanting me moved up as well so the position I had could be available.

One week after my boss told me this position was mine and to enjoy the new salary, benefits, company truck, etc, the boss comes in and calls a meeting. He hired his brother on the spot that day ( some 20 year old kid who smokes that legal shit so much his brain is fried, also the kid has no experience here ) and was introducing him to everyone. Two weeks after I got my new position, one week after the ceo hired his brother, the head ceo promoted his brother up about 5 levels as far as promotions go. Guess whose job he took? My new job.

autumnus · 3 months

When I was a supermarket cashier, I had one woman come through with a huge stack of coupons. As I am ringing them up, some of them do not go through because of the max allotted amount and brand. I try explaining this to her, and she rips the coupon from my hand and reads from it condescendingly, and very very slowly. For the first time in my service industry career, I snap and say "I think I know how to read"

She then says she will like to speak to my manager, as I take back the coupon and grab my highlighter. I respond with "Sure you can, I'll grab her in just a second" I then highlight the fine print explaining why her coupon is defunct, shove it back to her, and she folds. Pays for her shit and leaves.

I'm sorry, when I'm on a second degree, 3 hours into a 7 hour shift and came straight up to work after 3 classes, I don't need some entitled bitch demeaning my intelligence.

squizziphish · 3 months

Was working at a pizza slut and i was 18. Worst day of my life up to that point, busy ass school day, busy ass friday night dinner rush, found out that day parents were getting divorced. all i wanted to do was stay in the corner doing dishes all night and not be bothered. it was fine. i was content... angry... but content. Finally one of the shift leads who had started the same time as me (but was only prometed the week before) came up and asked me to wash the silverware. i said sure and went off to find the certain tray we used to wash the silverware and find it up front full of clean silverware that the wait-staff had not yet wrapped yet. so i said fuck it and went back to doing my dishes. about 20 minutes later, shift lead girl comes back and said "i thought i told you to wash the silverware?" i responded "I saw they haddn't wrapped the clean ones yet" she then said the last thing i wanted anyone to say to me. "You have to do what i tell you, I'm a manager!" I lost it... "FUCK YOU! FUCK THIS JOB, I DONT NEED THIS SHIT, IVE BEEN HERE OVER A GOD DAM FUCKING YEAR AND YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW HOW TO WASH GOD DAM SILVERWARE?! FUCK THIS!" threw down my shirt and walked out. The entire store heard me. When i got out back my buddy who had just gotten off the clock and knew i was on my last nerve started cheering after he had realized i was walking out. Best Feeling Ever

Zailmeister · 3 months

Mother with a very young (less than 2yrs) disabled child comes to the library and sits at the computers playing farmville. Her daughter keeps shrieking every 30 seconds playing with a toy. I 'shhh'ed her once and asked the mother to please keep it quiet once. This goes on for 30 minutes and this is a small (1200 sq ft) library with other people using the computers and working at the study tables and they are clearly being distracted by the shrieking. When the parent does nothing to address the shrieking I keep periodically shushing the child when she gets loud.

When the mother got up to leave she asked to see our policy on discriminating against disabled people. I pull out our policy manual which says that all parents are responsible for the actions of their children, and must respond to any reasonable request made by a staff member. She storms out saying how she's never coming back (good riddance) but it was really annoying.

Her daughter was cute, but down syndrome or no, you still don't get to let your daughter scream in the library while you play farmville. -___-

PerfectGeek · 3 months

I worked at a shoe store during the summer to make some extra cash. The store isn't located in the "nicest" area so my main job was to make sure that no one stole. One day I caught a lady sneaking a pair of shoes into her purse. I confronted the lady about it before she was able to leave and she started screaming about how I was racist. My manager looked through her purse and found the shoes and asked the lady to leave. The whole way out of the store she kept telling me how I was a worthless piece of shit for not letting her steal the shoes.

Stahrk · 3 months

Ex-bartender here. Was working an extremely busy Saturday night solo, when I generally have a second guy helping me out on the weekend. Asshole had called in 'sick' after staying out too late. People are coming up to my bar non-stop (we had 2 different ones, and the other one was far less busy with extra bartenders) just because it was the 'cool' one. I'm barely managing to keep up when some guy shoulders his way through the crowd and slaps the bar.

I'm in the middle of mixing a drink and ignore him as I work on it, and then he has the balls to snap at me. No, really. This fucker snapped at me. I glared at him from behind the bottle I was pouring from, and he says "Bro, I need six mojitos. 5 minutes ago. Get on it or I'm not leaving you anything."

I snapped.

Reaching to the side, I grabbed the wet-bucket that held the mint and flung it all over him. I followed this by grabbing the bottle of rum and shaking it all over his face while simultaneously spraying him with club soda from the soda-gun.

I got fired.

robeph · 3 months

I had broken my toe and was up all night doing sound for a local promoter and then had to go work at food world. Some old ancient guy in my line is bitching because it is taking me too long to check him out... even though I'm pretty quick and most of his stuff was canned which I just slide across real fast. Not sure what he was griping at. So one of the cans rolled back as I was trying to go faster so he'd shut up and double scans. He gets mad and throws a can of cabbage (a big can) on the conveyor. It bounces off and lands right on my broken foot. I picked up a cabbage and hit him with it and walked out. I knew I was going to be fired for that, but the shit hurt... I was about 17 or so at the time.

smeenatchu · 3 months

I too am a server, I have dozens of similar stories but one in particular sticks out.

SUPER busy Sunday morning breakfast rush. I barely have time to bring people their food, let alone anything else. Father of 2 girls comes in. Girls are about 8 and 10. Father asks me to remove all preset silverware, coffee cups, sugar, salt, pepper, etc from the table because he doesn't want his kids messing with it, and breaking it. I move everything 2 tables over to a vacant table. This guy yells at me, tells me I "need to bring it back to the kitchen, DUH!!!"

Since when can you NOT control your 8 and 10 year olds? If you can't take them out in public and have them NOT break shit, you've got bigger problems than coffee cups buddy.

I left his ass sit there FOREVER. I put his food ticket in last. I generally made it take as long as humanly possible for this guy to get his food. When I dropped it off at his table, he had the nerve to ask me for silverware, and condiments so he could eat. WTF??

[deleted] · 3 months

I worked at a Toys R Us in the past few months (I'm not there anymore), and on a day where I was helping move a bunch of boxes off of one shelf and onto another (a group of drum kits and small electronic pianos), which included moving different price tags around, a woman came in and stood around the section I was in before zeroing in on a drum kit I was kneeling down in front of, having just taken it down from the very top shelf. I had gathered up the price tags in my fist at that point, and so set them down on the box before helping this woman. Kind of a mistake.

After asking how she was doing, this woman bent down to the price tags that I had momentarily placed on top of the box I was just carrying, saw the $24.99 price tag designated for the piano kits placed at the very top of the pile, and used her almighty powers of reason and logic to deduce that tag of all tags determined the cost of the ($199.99) drum kit. I explained to her that that's not how it worked, that the drum kit was actually not the price of a small electronic piano, that the tags weren't even affixed to where they would need to be in order for us to have made a mistake in the first place, and she absolutely lost her shit.

She started yelling at me about how "when I was younger, I did things competently and knew how to price things right", and how if a price tag is sitting on a product on the floor clearly in the process of being moved around, however loose and unattached it may be, it automatically makes it cost however much that loose piece of paper says.

I refuse to get mad at her, and instead ask her what she would like me to do for her. She says she wants me to hand in my uniform and learn how to deal with people. I ask her to stay still, and I call the store director to come deal with her. When he gets there she starts yelling at him with everything she's got, from "Do you know who I am?" to "I'm going to report you to head office", and he just stands there and smiles and nods serenely. The calmer he was, the madder she got. After repeatedly denying her demands to walk away with the drum kit for free, the lady just gave up and left. Director comes to me and gives me a high-five for not blowing up in her face.

The place had its problems, hence my quitting, but that was a cool boss moment.

dannyREDDIT · 3 months

is there any restaurant that doesn't tolerate rude customers? If I ran a restaurant I wouldn't stand for servers to be treated poorly

olivaw456 · 3 months

I had this guy go off on me and call me an idiot because the cafe I worked at was out of half'n'half. It was a Starbucks like setting, so I had to just sit there and listen to this asshole. It turns out we had just ran out and the manager was at the local supermarket buying some more. This guy went on for like 5 minutes while the line got longer, so I eventually told to go get his coffee elsewhere, that we weren't interested in his business and that he was being a pain in the ass. I didn't get fired, my manager actually backed me up, but I got a corporate write up. Blah blah blah.

thatguymn · 3 months

Probably my favorite was when I used to sell electronics and we had a $20 DVD player on sale during the Christmas season that, because it was a loss leader, we actually lost a penny if we sold it. The idea was people would see it in the ad, come in to buy it, and we would try to up sell them to a profitable unit and add on accessories. The flaw in that logic is most people coming in to buy a $20 DVD player don't give a shit about what kind it is, it's a present for some one else and we were just wasting our breathe going through the whole spiel. I finally had enough of it, and when the next little old lady asked "if it was a pretty good one?" I calmly and directly looked at her and said "no, not really." Very confused she asked why we would sell it then and I explained the whole rational behind selling loss leaders and up selling. She got very flustered and asked to speak to my manager. And then proceeded to go off on him about how unscrupulous of a company we were and she couldn't believe we would do this to our customers. But she didn't want me to get in trouble and really appreciated me for my honesty. This of course didn't work, and my very pissed off manager suspended me for three days. It was worth it though. Something of a Jerry Maguire moment since that is something pretty much everyone who has worked in retail has gotten fed up and wanted to do at some point.

Nickitydd · 3 months

My friend was complaining that I was taking to long to pick him up to go to school because I had to go get gas (which he never gives me money for, even though I take him to and from school). He asked me with a serious face "why did you need to get gas?" to which I calmy replied that "My car was on E and since it doesn't run off of the power of friendship I had to put gas in it." then I cussed him out and called his girlfriend a whore.

jesusismoney · 3 months

Reading this entire thread makes me realize how much better it is to not be a prick to people that I don't know in life.

lucidviolet · 3 months

Working in event planning solidifies how any kind of celebration can bring out the worst in people.

On this particular day, everything seemed to drag on, go wrong, you name it, it happened. It didn't help that I went to bed at 4 AM. Right before my shift was over, I received a phone call from a lady requesting the following Saturday in a crime-laden part of the city. For the record, we have had equipment damaged there, plus we take the safety of our employees very seriously.

"Unfortunately we are sold out for that da--" All of a sudden she begins screaming at me, "You just don't want to come out here!" Well, she was right.

I couldn't get a word in edgewise over her yelling (nor could I understand her) and yes, I should have hung up, but I held out hope that I could still salvage the call. So I cut her off and tried sounding as professional as possible to recommend another company until:

"YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH BLACKS!"

"Ma'am, I explained that the date is sold out. We cannot manufacture equipment we don't have. I have the name of another comp-"

"I'M CALLING THE NEWS ON YOU!!!!"

I was done.

"THEN FUCKING DO IT!" And I slammed down the phone.

I was shaking from the anger, my eyes were bugged out. I remember planting myself in my chair and staring at the phone, secretly daring the bitch to call back. I couldn't believe what I had just done.

deilax · 3 months

I'll give my server story as well.

I was working at a local Mexican place that a friend had gotten me a job at. I was a reliable worked and the new owners of the joint noticed this. So they gave me the opening shift. It was pretty easy, not many customers, but the ones that I got were regulars so I made pretty decent tips for a 19 year old. Because of this morning shift I would stay late sometimes to help with the dinner rush and get some more tips.

It was one of those days where I would worked extra hours and it was fun. It was going on 9PM though and I had been there since 9AM. I finished my last table and clocked out. As I was walking out I was kind enough to sit a family that came in and notified one of my co-workers and left. At 11PM on the dot I get this phone call from a number I do not recognize, so I answer it.

It was my boss, and he was pissed. Extremely pissed. It turns out that the table I sat before I left never got any service and they caused a scene. I told him that I had notified insert co-workers name here about the table and he said he'll get right to it. Turns out he didn't and blamed me saying I didn't tell him. Trying to be a mature person I told him I would talk to him in the morning, and we would get this all sorted out.

Fifteen minutes later I get another call from him. More irate than ever, screaming at the top of his lungs, and cussing at me in Spanish. This is when I lost it. I told him to shut the fuck up and that he was yelling at the wrong person. Before he could open his mouth once more I told him to fuck off and find someone else, than hung up. Two weeks later I received a note saying I would not be receiving my last 125 hours of pay.

I know it's only server wages, but this pissed me off. I use that server wage to pay bills and now I wasn't going to receive it. So like a calm individual I am, I walked my ass in there to demand my check calmly. With out saying a word the owner let loose on me and told me to leave. I told him I was going to contact the local labor enforcement for my last check and he freaked. Literally up turned a table and everything. He than called the cops. What happened blew my mind.

Cops showed up as I was waiting outside smoking a cig waiting for them. I told them what went down and why it went down. They walked in there and shortly after I could hear the owner screaming at the top of his lungs. After the commotion from inside both the cook and the new owner were arrested for outstanding warrants and were illegal immigrants with false documents. Shortly after both tod the original owners took over the place again. Hell they even offered me my job back, with a promotion to lead server. I told them no kindly and all I wanted was my last check. Two days later I got a call from them to come pick it up. They ended up paying me double and bought me lunch as they tried to convince me to take my job back.

4 years later, they sold the business and they ended up selling the building which is now a bar which is pretty popular.

TL:DR - Boss freaked out blaming for something I wasn't at fault for and refused to pay me. When I went to demand my check in person he called the cops getting himself and his cook arrested for warrants. Old owners took over again, paid me double and offered me my job back and I turned them down.

I'll never work food again.

BamBam-BamBam · 3 months

In Pflugerville? That is the nastiest excuse for a restaurant that I have ever eaten at.

Kellianne · 3 months

As a preschool teacher I had a rather large woman (I'm small) standing over me IN MY FACE yelling at me because I told her daughter she wasn't a real princess (she could pretend to be anything) She was making the other girls cry. That is the moment I decided preschoolers' parents are nuts and I'm getting out.

Trashcan42 · 3 months

After reading all of these I'm extra glad that I'm generally a very nice and patient person in regards to being served by anyone anywhere. I don't make a fuss about anything when there's a problem and I keep my shit cool. People need to understand it from the opposite perspective. Would you want to serve someone like you? If no, then be fucking nicer to people that have to deal with customers all the time.

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Culero · 3 months

Was he asking for more porridge?

jableux · 3 months

Funny you should ask as I got set off today. I'll try to be brief.

A mentally handicapped guy came in today and was somehow ruder than any of the customers we've helped in the past year, easily. We were both really kind when helping him, but he stayed on the phone through an earpiece while we tried to help him, yelling at the person he was on the phone with every time we tried to answer his questions. He got upset when we couldn't offer him one of our services because of some fine print in a commercial he had seen and he began to get belligerent with one of my younger coworkers. I turned his attention towards me instead and he tried to pull the same thing.

He started going on and on about how we were asking stupid questions and then focused on how stupid we were, using as many relevant insults as possible. I took half a dozen of them in stride and gave him my sincerest apologies, but he kept going, being more and more condescending. Being a big guy (6'4", 280lbs), I stood up abruptly from my workstation and advanced a few steps towards him. He immediately stepped back and started mumbling about how he wasn't a fighter and didn't want any trouble. I peacefully stood my ground and assured him that there would be no trouble as long as he left right away.

I feel absolutely terrible that I had to intimidate someone with special needs, though that female coworker told me she had felt scared with some of the things he had said, and I wouldn't have tolerated that kind of behavior from anyone, handicapped or not.

tl;dr I snapped on a mentally handicapped customer for getting belligerent with me and a younger coworker.

Lots42 · 3 months

It was this Christmas eve that just passed, was working a seven hour shift with another two hours of unpaid overtime as well, i work at a pizza place and was on cut. For those who havent worked at busy pizza places the cutter never moves from his place, if i lose cut then the ovens back up and everything goes to shit.

I am a good cutter and a lower member of the stores management, we have a three tiered oven and all ovens pumping out pizza, then this middle aged man comes in. He walks through and past the thick of customers waiting to place or pick up their orders and just stands there staring at me. Now our servers are smart, they will ignore men like him and do their job properly and serve people in order, thank god we have good staff.

Anyhow, he sands there and keep staring, trying to get my eye contact, it just ticks me right off, here we are busy as all fuck, working Christmas fucking eve, no public holiday pay, unpaid over time and this prick is leaning over the counter being an impatient bitter lonely old man. I tun around, speaking clearly and loudly over the din "Hey mate, how can i help you?" and he replies "What do you think you are? A Major in the Army?" with his nastly little pommy accent. I am just like what the fuck in the my head? He then proceeds to have a go at me, so i just turn around and start cutting pizzas again. After a few orders i stop again, turn around and ask him which name hes waiting for, he says 'Steve' and i turn around and pick up the order i had just cut with his name on it. He then complains i 'mutilated' it, says ive been rude to him and asks for some one else to serve him, he also said "Im not your mate". I just stop dead, turn around and walk out of the kitchen, i was about to either quit or beat the shit out of this cunt.

In the mean time with no one on cut so it backs up slightly, i yell for a maker to hop on cut and 'Marshall' runs to the front to cut, hes faster than me but not as neat, so this middle aged prick stand there and realizes im actually a good cutter and his pizzas are cut pefectly. I get my head again, walk over and say "As you can see things are a little busy, so im going to have to serve" take his money, give him his change and "Have a good night mate".

I then walk over and pick up a ringing phone and all i hear is "Man your pizzas are so shit, go fuck you and your pizzas, fuck you cunt" i hang the phone up, walk outside and started laying into the industrial skip bin; broke my hand, came inside and finished my shift eight hours later.

TL;DR: There went my career as a hand model.

Spectre2689 · 3 months

I work at Geek Squad (hello downvotes!) near Toronto.

We get a lot of dumb shit at my store and I've been set off before to small extents (mostly underhanded comments and looks of disapproval), but I don't think I will ever forget this one entitled bitch about a month ago. After almost avoiding it, I got stuck working Christmas Eve. The day had been going fairly well as people in the holiday spirit are generally a little bit nicer when dealing with the service counter as opposed to buying things. Toward the end of the night, I had another nice customer come to pick up her backup DVD. I will call her Jane for clarity's sake.

Let me get the background out of the way here. Jane's laptop no longer POSTed and she was going to send it back to the manufacturer herself to get it repaired, but she wanted to get some files back off of it first. She was one of the nicest people in the world, and my senior decided to help her out when she came in the day before by charging her the lower tier backup SKU (less than 10GB) even though our normal procedure is to backup the entire Users folder, which in her case was well over 30GB. We let her pick and choose which files and folders she wanted to get under 10GB, which we could fit on a dual layer disc, and she wrote down the folders on the work order for us. We had to call her later in the day since the folders she mentioned weren't there, but we had to leave a message with her mother; Jane called us back the next morning (Christmas Eve) and together we figured out where exactly the folders were and which ones would fit on a disc and which wouldn't.

So the DVD is made and Jane is at my counter to pick it up. I grab the DVD, put it in one of our PCs and show her all the stuff that's on it. It turns out that there were a couple more folders that she forgot about, and one file that I had forgotten as well, so I quickly went about starting a new disc. I let her know it would take 5 or 10 minutes and she could take a seat at the counter or walk around for a bit. She elected to go for the latter option and I started doing something or other near the front window while I waited for the disc.

A lady walks up to the window and asks about the same work order. I find out that she's Jane's mother (who I will call Susan), and say something like "Oh, yeah, I'm just making a new disc for your daughter, it should be ready in the next few minutes." Reddit, holy fuck, Susan flips her shit at me. Starts yelling at me about how it should have all been ready this morning and she paid so much for it and she's wasted so much time coming back and forth to the store and this is not the first time she's had a problem, the whole fucking shebang. As Jane's disc pops out of the drive I calmly interject, informing Susan that a) we had done the service for almost $100 less than we should have, b) we had let her daughter pick and choose her files, which we usually don't, and c) we did not ask her to bring (or purchase) an external HDD for the full backup since we were arranging it so it would fit on a disc. I informed her that my senior had arranged this because her daughter was a nice person, and that if it weren't for her daughter, I would have immediately asked her to leave the store at this point. I informed her that the whole conversation had taken longer than making the disc had, and that it was done, so her three options were: take it and leave, have her money refunded and get nothing, or go about doing it properly (which would have been much more expensive and taken longer). She turns around and walks away. I learned later that she actually went and complained to a part-timer in Computers who gave approximately zero fucks.

A few minutes after that Jane walks up again, nice as ever. I show her her backed up files on the new disc, she's happy, and I close the work order. Almost the whole time, her mother was angrily whispering things in her ear. At one point I saw her turn around to her mother and say quietly but sternly "It's fine ಠ__ಠ"

I felt pretty bad for Jane, but fuck Susan man. I'm glad Jane doesn't take after her mother, there's some hope for humanity yet.

TL;DR Geek Squad. Nicest girl in the world has backup done on Christmas Eve, mother of nicest girl in the world flips her shit because we've done things better than we're supposed to.

strikervulsine · 3 months

When I was like... 12 or so I once shook my glass at a waitress as she was clearing plates. I smiled when she took my glass, but when I got it back full of soda I was confused, I just wanted her to take it with the dishes so she didn't have to make two trips.

Years later I learned how rude that was and I had one of those "OH GOD WHY?!" moments.

canadope · 3 months

I used to work for a cell/cable company in face to face sales and customer service.. sometimes if someone was signing up for a bunch of services it could take 10-15 minutes.. if the network decided to be slow that day it could take 30 or more mins.. I understood people's frustration at waiting in line.. but it was still a thankless job. One time this lady came (while I was working alone) and started freaking out after waiting maybe 5 minutes.. She caused a huge scene, demanded to "speak to the manager blah blah blah stomp stomp stomp" (anyone who's ever worked retail knows this routine).. I calmly told her to relax, and that she would get the same service the people in front of her were getting.. when it was her turn. She never relaxed. So she waits probably 25 minutes, gets to the front of line, says "FIIINALLY!" and slaps her bill on the counter.. she's in the wrong store! I say "you can't pay that here..." she looks like she's about to explode on me.. I explain to her that my company's theme is red, and that everything around her is red.. the whole store is red.. while her company's theme is blue.. everything blue.. (any Canadian will know how stupid you would have to be to mix this up) Anyway, she claims that her company directed her to my store's address and wants ME to call their customer service to get an explanation.. I say "I don't think they did and I'm not going to do that." She begins to protest.. but then decides to just scurry out instead.
I quit eventually, the company didn't treat employees any better than customers treated employees.. getting it at both ends.. no thanks!

FreeMoustacheRide · 3 months

I once had a customer that wouldn't tell me what item he needed several times at a boating store only for him to get pissed at me for not helping him. Under pressure I just held up my hands and yelled "Dude I don't know what the fuck you want, you wouldn't tell me so I didn't help you now get the fuck out of my store" he stared at me blankly and said "well shit" then left. I hate when people expect to be waited on at every store imaginable.

iamatfuckingwork · 3 months

Any fucking day now I will have the story for all of you, and it will be the most glorious and talked of tale of our times. ANY. FUCKING. DAY.

life_failure · 3 months

My sister was a waiter at a Chilis for almost 2 years. She had been feeling for a while like it was time to quit, given how stressed she was all the time i dont know how anyone can do that job.

One Sunday night a group of churchgoers came in from evening services and they sat them in her section. The group told her, at the very beginning of the meal, "we just want you to know that we wont be tipping you this evening, because..." wait for it... "we dont believe in people working on sundays"

my sister was taken aback and, to her credit, for the most part kept her cool. she did reply "well, i wouldnt have to work on sundays if there werent so many people coming in after church."

she went and told her manager who stuck up for her and told the family "we at Chilis dont believe in our waitresses working for free and so i will be serving you this evening..." she quit shortly afterward.

(p.s. please dont take this as a sweeping commentary on Christianity, both my sister and myself were raised methodist, we are both avowed Christians and we are both excellent tippers lol even on sundays)

andrewsmith1986 · 3 months

I went off on this woman for putting packages of meat on the floor.

Ain't my job to raise you right.

LifeIsKarma · 3 months

During a morning show radio shift, my cohost and I were called up and berated by some angry dude who didn't like the music we were playing. This boiled my blood for no reason.

When it was time for the sports report, our sports guy started talking about Nascar and I cut him off - "Man, who cares what those rednecks are doing. It's just left turn after left turn. If it weren't for the fatalities, it wouldn't even be a sport."

The tirade went on for way too long and surely pissed a lot of people off - but noone called the studio, probably in fear of getting verbally sodomized on the air.

Not one of my greatest moments on the radio.

BeyondMars · 3 months

Good for you for finishing out your tables and not leaving everyone hanging.

Undertow_Jambi · 3 months

When some dumb cunt can't fucking order their shit right and goes "UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I DIDN'T ORDER THIS" after everything's been handed to them

areyoufuckingkiddingme.jpg

IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE RECEIPT MOTHERFUCKER, YOUR ORDER WAS REPEATED BACK TO YOU AND YOU SAID IT WAS RIGHT, BUT NO, YOUR DUMB FUCKING ASS IS ALWAYS RIGHT, SO LET ME GO PUT EVERYTHING BACK BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FUCKING PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOOD YOU'RE ORDERING.

I've never gone off on a customer, but I've come close. I fucking hate fast food.

DarthBrad · 3 months

I used to work at a movie theater & was always getting into arguments with people. I don't remember the situation, but I do remember that someone started fussing & I snapped at them. Realizing I might have gone overboard, I apologized. They, however, continued bitching. It was then I decided I'd had enough & said, "You know what? I'm actually not sorry. And you need to leave." Sure enough, they left.

Another night I was assaulted by a customer (manager had provoked her, she punched a sign at him & it hit me instead). I was super irritated already & these redneck teenagers came in. They started antagonizing me a little bit until I smarted off at them. The leader called me a dick & then I about lost it internally. Externally, I kept my composure & told him that they needed to leave because I wasn't going to deal with that harassment & if they didn't leave I would get the security guards involved. They left.

I have so many more stories like this.

aislingcats · 3 months

I worked at a Chilis for about three weeks before I snapped and quit one day after a mom yelled at me for not putting ketchup on her fatass brat's burger. The kid was about twelve and there was a bottle of ketchup literally three inches from his fat little hand. He was a little shit the whole time I was taking his order, his mom was a cunt, his dad was a spineless asshat.

I kindly told the kid the ketchup was on the table after he demanded I take the plate back to the kitchen. His mother yelled that I should put it on her son's burger for him and that I wasn't getting a tip yadda yadda. I just walked off and told someone... I don't even remember who, that I was taking my tips and going.

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with children now.

ducky-box · 3 months

This'll probably get buried, but anyways

Working as a cashier in a busy supermarket. Served a customer as normal, except while I was scanning he decided to put a 20 on the conveyor belt which I moved (I hadn't finished scanning and that stuff just goes underneath it). His wife picked up the 20 when I moved it, which I didn't see.

Finish scanning, totals just under 50 bucks. Wife hands me a 50, so I give her her 3 or so dollars of change. Next thing, the husband is saying no, I gave you a 20. You've taken my 20. I said no, you paid with a 50, this is your change. He loses his shit at me, saying I've got his 20, there is no way he would say that if he wasn't sure it was true. His wife says she took the 20 but he insists he had 2- one of which she had and one that I did. So my supervisors come along, take my till and count it, and it balances. Whole time I'm arguing with this guy getting angrier and angrier because he is basically accusing me of theft. He repeats the same stuff over and over, and even bets $1000 that he is right. He finally leaves after my supervisors get his number promising to check the cameras.

Week later, I ask about checking the cameras. This guy did not have 2 twenties, and I did not ever have one of them. His wife took it. They rang to inform him of this, and he said oh okay, and hung up. No apology, nothing. Luckily I haven't seen him in the store since.

TL;DR: I hate everyone from working in customer service

namegoeswhere · 3 months

everything. if it weren't for my lack of a degree, i'd have quit in a grand fashion months ago. working the stock room at a store like Sonoma William's (Restoration Hardware/Pottery Barn) is like working in a shit house. there isn't a single semblance of organization.

so it's taken something as small as not being able to find a rug (because our last one was sold a week ago but somehow the database was never updated. which happens thrice weekly.) to make me wish i could quit.

DarrenEdwards · 3 months

Tech support for the internet. I was really burned out, but the last call I took was with a guy who's problems were his motherboard battery. This old guy knew that he needed a new battery. He expected me to write a script so that he wouldn't have to enter date information at start up again. He wasn't going to let me go until I did and I couldn't hang up on him. 45 minutes into the call, and 30 late for my break I started into a 'fuck you, asshole' lecture that over a thousand callers deserved.

livinglitch · 3 months

I worked the redemption counter of a family fun center (chuck e cheese, david busters etc) and the little shits would constantly demand my attention while I was helping another one. Id have 5 kids screaming they want such and such. It was worse when the parents would start in on it also.

I work laser tag now so I deal with the parents more then the kids in terms of who I talk to more. Some of the adults dont understand how a list works. They sign up last, they get on the bottom of the list. Bring in a big group and at the bottom of the list? Sure Ill let the group of 2 kids in that signed up after you but only because I can fit them in with the group of 7 and 8 that signed up before you. I have to hold back from punching some of these dumb shits. The kids at laser tag piss me off so much. They can get their vest on just fine but when they take them off they just bring them over their heads and drop them because they dont care. $500 peices of equipment that they just drop. Ive got 4 that are having issues.

Im not fire yet, but I will be soon because Im almost at the level of not giving a fuck.

Purpletech · 3 months

I worked at a beach club, in the snack bar, making salads and sandwiches for the people who went there.

I was making a sandwich for a lady during the 3 hour long lunch rush. She asked for tomato, so I casually took 2 tomato slices and put them on her sandwich only to hear her say "Those slices aren't round enough."

I proceeded to pick up 2 handfuls of slices and say "Find me some round ones".

God, I wanted to punch her.

SustainableThrowaway · 3 months

Tried to quit after 2 hours straight of lunchtime peak when I was the only cashier doing stuff. Front counter, drive through, prep work, the works: I was on it, while the other cashier was sitting in the storeroom gasbagging. I chalked it up to "The manager and her have an 'understanding'" (read: he's banging her), but I got fed up at the 3 hour mark, asked her to do one thing, prep work or something, while I ran frontshop and everything lse, she snapped back something, so I turned around, hung up my nametag, and walked out the door, saying "I can't do this while <she> does nothing".

Manager was confused after an hour, so he sent a kitchenhand out to see if I was actually coming back (was waiting outside for a ride home). What a cuntnugget.

Parents made me apologise and beg for my job back. Bastards :(

karmenthegreat · 3 months

My best friend walked out on a job and left me stranded because someone ate his lunch.

noisy_honey · 3 months

the thing that pisses me off the most is that it sounds like that little fucker was trained to do what he did. Maybe mommy allows him to do that at home --- though not necessarily to her.
I can appreciate that much of the tirade you went into was directed at the mom, rather than just at the boy. However, much of what you said probably went right over his head; I work with 3 and 4-year-olds; trust me when I say that he likely wasn't able to understand much beyond the initial comment that "waiters don't like it when you shake your cup at them".
edit: I forgot: Kudos to you for standing up to the little tyrant!

moosemiester · 3 months

I work in restaurant and a few years back I had this bitch of a coworker who would just attempt to make my life a living hell from the second I walked in the door. We did not see eye to eye but most days I could tolerate her just fine.

One day I was stressed from some issues with my family when a couple of my regulars come in. She had gotten them as I wasn't there when they sat down and I went to say hi when I came in. They asked me why I hadn't waited on them and I said, "Next time you come in, just ask for me and I'll take care of you." We chat for a bit and I walk back into the kitchen feeling pretty good about myself for about 2 seconds until my manager yells in a shitty, sarcastic voice "Great idea, telling someone else's table specifically to request you!" I lost my shit. I knew it was that girl and the manager was on her side solely because he didn't want another employee complaint. I yelled down the server aisle "Well you can tell her to go FUCK herself!"

The entire server aisle stops and stares at me. The grill line (my buddies who hate this girl about equally and had heard everything) bursts out into laughter and this idiot manager just stares at me. He drops what he's plating in the window and pulls me into the office immediately. I'm sent home with a slap on the wrist and long story short, it was completely worth it.

lychee-twist · 3 months

We have a regular drive through customer at my job. He expects us to know his order so he always orders the "[His name] and [wife's name] special". It's got to be some sort of social and psychological thing with him to make him feel special since he's the only person who does it. I didn't know what it was, and when I apologized and told him, he freaked the fuck out. I don't remember a lot since I fell into this sort of apathetic state, but I do definitely remember the words "I don't mean to be an ass, but I'm having a bad day...". I have no idea my manager really did this, but I guess he was warned to not do that again or we would refuse service to him.

A month later, my coworker was dealing with him and said she was new, didn't know his order, and asked politely if he could please tell her, he replied with this pained"...If I must." About a week after that he was acting as sweet as pie and after he ordered he told me "Hey, can you do me a favor? Can you have a great day?" I bit my tongue because I like my job. Asswipe. I don't give a shit if you're rich. We aren't your servants. Your useless business coupons aren't going to frost over the fact that you're a slimy douchebag. I can't help but wonder if he treats his wife and kids like that.

bubrockit · 3 months

I work at my local Frys. We have 1 day sales here and there. On a Saturday, we had a sale for a 32GB SD card, it was like $32 bucks or something. On Wednesday I had a short, sort of chubby asian guy looking at the SD cards and I asked him if he needed any help. He was really excited and asked for the 32GB SD card that was on sale, I wasn't aware of one that was on sale that day and asked him if he knew the model, speed, ect. Turns out he had called on Saturday to confirm that we had some, which he did, and only came 4 days after the sale was gone to get one. The same SD card was now at its normal price of $55. He then started complaining to me saying that this wasn't fair and that he should get one for the sales price 3 days ago. Obviously I'm not going to give it to him at almost half price, so I calmly explain to him that we had a different one on sale for a very similar price made by a different company that was on sale that day to which he responded "I DON'T WANT THAT ONE, I WANT THE SONY BECAUSE THAT'S THE GOOD ONE" in a fobby accent. At this point I have dealt with enough idiots to know that he's going to be a pain in my ass weather or not I'm polite and helpful, but for whatever fucking reason I was in a good mood and kept trying to help this guy. I calmly explained the policy for 1 day sales and told him that I didn't even have the access to change the price. He just kept replying "don't tell me I wasted my time...". This literally goes on for another 10 minutes. I call my lazy ass supervisor over and he explains the policy to him once more and states that we can't do anything for him. He has now wasted 30 of my minutes with "don't tell me I wasted my time", I wanted sooo badly to tell him "I won't say it, but you did!". Finally my shitty supervisor pushes the responsibly onto someone else like he always does and I walk him up front to the main returns desk to see if someone high up can just give him the damn discount so he can get the fuck out. He follows me up while saying "this is ridiculous, you guys should post it in your ad." (Which it is in big ass yellow and red letters) We get to the desk, we wait because our returns desk is always packed. The head manager at the time talked to the customer for about 30 seconds before the guy storms off yelling "YOU'RE NOT PROFESSIONAL!" and ends up almost breaking the door on the way out for pushing it the wrong direction.

Turns out he was on our "be on the lookout" list because the last time he got bad news at Frys, he grabbed the girls arm who was trying to help him and yelled at her in the parking lot or some crazy shit.

All in all, just another day at my shitty retail job.

jbddit · 3 months

Kind of serious, but my dad almost dying of an aneurysm made me re-evaluate my life situation last year, and it was a big reason I quit my job.

Little upset about letting emotion make that ruling now, though. Haven't been able to land employment since, and living with my parents again. Cool that I get to spend time with my dad after almost losing him, feeling super guilty and super lame for having to depend on him and my mom for financial support.

amclain26 · 3 months

I was 18 and working for a large movie theater as a concessionist. This, by far is the worst position to hold, but all of the newbies start there and attempt to work their way up to better positions. It was a very slow mid-week morning shift and I'm the only one working the stands. We had four registers and stations for customers to line up. I was clearly standing at my register when this mom and daughter(teen) walk up to the concession stand at an empty register. It's clearly on the opposite end that I am standing. No big deal, I figured they were just looking at the sign with the prices and options. I'm not doing anything else but standing at my freaking register waiting for them to decide what they want.

A few moments later, the mom snaps her fingers at me and says "helloooo?" in the most condescending tone I have ever heard. I walk all the way to end of the stand to her and she begins berating me for making her wait to order. I attempted to explain that I was standing at my register and that I cannot take her order on another empty register. I also explain that it is fairly common for people to browse the sign and then come to me and order once they know what they want(which is what I thought they were doing). She begins to call me an idiot and incompetant and demand to speak to a manager.

I call my manager over, and then begin to start making her order. She is still waiting for my manager and still standing at the wrong god damn register when I hand her and her brat their food at the register they were standing at. She then proceeds to curse at me and call me an idiot because "you just said you couldn't help us at this register?"...SERIOUS RAGE. I then explained to her that I was trying to make her happy by serving her where she stood, all the while having to walk all the way to my own register and back for her.

At that point, my manager comes up and starts to talk to her and I can hear her call me a spick and and idiot, all the while her stupid daughter is chiming in too. I was in tears at this point and another man whom I assumed saw the whole thing go down, walks right up to my manager and says "Ma'am, I saw the whole thing. These idiots came up to an empty register and your employee asked them if they needed help and they ignored her until they realized how stupid they were for standing at the wrong register. They called her names and this poor girl still tried to help them out, the whole time being considerate and sweet. If I were you, I would tell them to stfu and get out." They looked stunned and my manager told them to take their business elsewhere. Then the guy came up to me and hugged me and told me to never take shit from any cunt again lol!

TL;DR: Bitch and her daughter were megacunts and another patron stood up for me and gave a much needed hug!

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