Work: Make up your mind

Make up your mind

By choke on a dick, sir - 01/11/2013 22:47 - United States - Portland

Today, my boss came around to my way of thinking. He called our customers a "bunch of assholes" and to kick them out if they gave me trouble. When a lady began yelling at me for "setting the damn prices too high" I told her to leave. My boss soon bitched me out for being unprofessional. FML

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By fuck you, boss - 21/12/2013 00:30 - United States

Today, my boss scolded me for being too friendly to our customers and told me to back off and let them do their thing. Less than an hour after doing as he said, he scolded me again, this time for slacking off and not asking them if they needed help finding stuff. There goes my bonus. FML

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By Anonymous - 16/02/2014 17:22 - United Kingdom - Cambridge

Today, my boss bitched me out on the sales floor for a good 10 minutes, because I wasn't "smiling the right way" for our customers. FML

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By maleficunt - 03/06/2014 20:44 - United Kingdom - Cannock

Today, a customer yelled at me so furiously that she sprayed my face with spittle. I had to stand there, smiling and politely explaining that I needed to see a receipt before I could give her a refund. When she finally gave up and left, my boss bitched me out for "provoking the customer". FML

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By Anonymous - 11/03/2018 01:30

Today, my manager cussed me out for being unable to keep a customer happy. That "customer" was a senile old twit who had wandered away from his carer, thought our shop was his living room, and demanded to know who replaced all his furniture. FML

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Grammar rules, OK!

By Anonymous - 21/09/2011 12:11 - United States

Today, my new boss lost his shit and flew into a ten minute rant against me about the "value of respect". He told me that if I wanted to stay in "his" company, I'd best start toeing the line. All this because I corrected his misuse of "your" and "you're" in one of his memos. FML

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You deserved it 9 400

Whiner!

By mrjude - This FML is from back in 2019 but it's good stuff

Today, my boss yelled at me, telling me that I can't answer the phone anymore. Not because I do a bad job, but because a co-worker whined about it being her job. People call her and complain about how rude she is and then ask to talk to me. FML

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You deserved it 207

Tipping point

By BagBoy - 13/11/2013 06:42 - United States

Today, I was taking out a customer's groceries when he offered me a $5 tip. I told him I couldn't accept, since it's against store policy, but thanked him anyway. He called me an asshole just as my boss was walking to his car, who then yelled at me for it. FML

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By notfuckingpaidenough - 13/06/2015 11:45 - United States - San Leandro

Today, a man tried to rob the store I work at. Before the guy was taken by the cops, he complained to my manager for "unfriendly behavior". He took it seriously and bitched me out for not providing "quality service" to our customers. FML

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By jacks_smirking_revenge - 06/03/2009 22:31 - United States

Today, while out to lunch, my sister called me and asked me to pick her up from the mall. I told her she'd have to wait. She got pissed off and started cursing at me, so I hung up on her. She called me back 37 times until I answered and yelled "WILL YOU LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE?" It was my boss. FML

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By anonymous - 30/09/2012 05:32 - Canada - Edmonton

Today, I got yelled at for providing horrible customer service, in a store I don't even work for. FML

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You deserved it 2 015

Kiki242 19

Saturday 2 November 2013 5:07

For a second you had the coolest boss in the world.

kawaiichick 9

Saturday 2 November 2013 5:05

The Boss sounds bipolar.

Comments

macelonel 26

Saturday 2 November 2013 7:16

Bosses can be assholes

raeepressley 12

Saturday 2 November 2013 7:18

You fell for it. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is... YDI

Xalandra 17

Saturday 2 November 2013 7:27

Well if you rudely told the customer to leave instead of saying "I'm sorry ma'am, but this is a family friendly store and I'm going to have to ask you to leave if you can't watch your language." then I'm with your boss. If you were polite then your boss should've backed you up by saying "I'm sorry there's a problem ma'am but I'm going to have to ask you to stop using that kind of language with my employees. Now what can I help you with?" or something like that. I've been told by my boss that if customers start cursing at me that we tell them that kind of language is not appropriate and to please leave the store. If they continue to badger us we call for management to deal with them.

Eivana 37

Saturday 2 November 2013 7:37

You should STILL never act unprofessional! A VERY foolish decision on your part!

nikkih3 2

Saturday 2 November 2013 7:39

Um hello its called sarcasm...

nikkih3 2

Saturday 2 November 2013 7:41

Um hello its called sarcasm...

Curlytwirly22 17

Saturday 2 November 2013 8:51

Your boss sounds like a dick

Headcrab 29

Saturday 2 November 2013 9:06

That's a stupid thing to say, telling a customer to leave.

chelseaaababyyy 17

Saturday 2 November 2013 10:09

Not always. Angry customers can sometimes get carried away. Not asking them to leave can result in violence and death threats. I've seen it, unfortunately.