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By RWW - 28/07/2010 17:38 - United States

Today, at work, I was talking to a customer. She kept shaking her head "no" at everything I said. I asked what she was disagreeing with. She told me she has Parkinson's Disease, teared up, and asked to speak to my manager. FML

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By derbyboy - 19/10/2011 05:38 - United Kingdom

Today, at work, I misheard a customer telling me a story. To be polite, I did a slight laugh and nodded my head. She actually told me her mum had died. FML

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By Flippy - 29/08/2010 00:05 - United States

Today, at work, I was reprimanded for not engaging with customers enough. In an effort to be more friendly, I complimented the next customer on her interesting accent. Turns out it was from a stroke she had last year. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/01/2011 07:19 - Korea Republic of

Today, I was waiting for my girlfriend, I wanted to have a serious talk about her hypochondria. She called to cancel because she was (self) diagnosed with some sort of 'neurological disorder'. FML

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By xxccruzxx - 29/06/2012 13:30 - United States

Today, at work, my phone kept crashing. Without thinking, I announced that it was having a seizure. Who did I announce this to? My boss. Who also happens to have epilepsy. FML

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By Anto - 03/12/2008 06:11 - France

Today, in front of a hospital, I noticed that an old lady was having trouble lighting her cigarette because she had Parkison's. So I went to help her to light it up and she then started chatting with me and told me she had lung cancer. FML

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By people suck - 28/03/2015 04:16 - United States - Oakland

Today, while at work, a customer refused to speak louder, despite me asking her to do it several times. As a result, I took her order incorrectly. The customer then finally decided to raise her voice, but only to yell at me about my poor listening skills. 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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Slight hiccup

By really - 05/06/2016 21:40 - Canada - Ottawa

Today, a customer at work was having hiccups, so I suggested she should try to hold her breath for a while. Ten minutes later, she's talking to my manager about how I wanted her to "kill herself because of her severe medical condition." FML

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Bigmouth strikes again

By Anonymous - 09/09/2009 09:58 - New Zealand

Today, I was working at a hospital-level rest home. I was making the rounds when I noticed a woman was sitting in her (electric) wheelchair in the middle of the hall. Going closer, I saw her battery was flat so I said, "Uh-oh! Looks like you've died." She bawled her eyes out and said, "Not yet." FML

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Customers from hell

By GirlWhyyyy - 09/08/2023 14:00

Today, I reduced a customer to tears and she had a tantrum, saying that nobody loves her, her life is a joke, and she’d be better off dead. This ordeal happened to grab the attention of my manager who was nearby. All I did was tell her that an item she wanted was sold out and offered to help her order it online. FML

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DeathShad0 1

Thursday 29 July 2010 1:24

Inconsiderate? How the hell was he supposed to know?

SamBoDeanxyz 0

Thursday 29 July 2010 1:23

Ouch, sucks fo' you. My great-grandma had that terrible, but it never caused her to shake her head that way. Oh well, you didn't know! I understand her being a bit hurt for the misunderstanding, but no need in talking to the manager about that.

Comments

NorfolkDude 2

Thursday 29 July 2010 5:44

Well I guess there is double confusion here. You didn't realize she had a disease, and she didn't realize you probably never seen someone with Parkinson so you were trying to be nice. I guess a good lesson to learn here is what you can say for future cases for things like this. My guess is that you're young, probably got a job as a cashier or something. This is what I think is good for people to learn and grow. My suggestion is that next time you should try to be more careful with how you ask questions. Like for this woman, instead of asking her what she was disagreeing with, ask kindly, "Is there something I can help you with?" or something along the lines of, "Did you find everything okay?" That way it can't be taken as offense and at the same time you can see what she is disagreeing on, and she would have then maybe revealed to you that she had parkinson.

fyllmao 0

Thursday 29 July 2010 6:03

there are dumb people on here he knows wat google is dumbass

stevenmx86 7

Thursday 29 July 2010 6:10

Innocent mistake op

iiilovvveyooou 0

Thursday 29 July 2010 6:28

Y'all don't have a sense of humor. 20 was obviously joking because honestly who doesn't know what google is?

kountrygyrl 0

Thursday 29 July 2010 6:31

This was just a slight misunderstanding. no way he could've known. fyl

bighairdontcare 0

Thursday 29 July 2010 7:04

u need a new profession.. and not a doctor lol follow me @msgreekgoddess

kmwis_00 6

Thursday 29 July 2010 7:49

It's okay, it wasn't your fault. You didn't know. :)

Crlnprz 11

Thursday 29 July 2010 8:38

awww.. I'm pretty sure that op didn't mean to be mean

HazmatPilgrimage 0

Thursday 29 July 2010 9:00

I seriously doubt he just said "what are you disagreeing with" in a decent tone. Also you could tell something was wrong with her I'm sure it wasn't a steady slow motion she was making. most likely he jokingly said something like "why do you keep saying no" probably halfway giggling because of the irregularity of her movements. Not an innocent victim. Just a douche with an FML account.

Elenachka 0

Friday 30 July 2010 11:33

yeah I doubt he was as polite as he claims either. reaction just doesn't make sense, in my experience

LilaBear 1

Friday 30 July 2010 14:48

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a woman with a disease that has obvious symptoms would be over-the-top sensitive about their illness. I'm not saying that's wrong, I'm just saying I think it's perfectly possible - in fact probable - that her upset was caused by her own self-consciousness and not the OP's tone. The OP is employed in customer service and therefore very unlikely to just suddenly get cranky at a customer for not wanting whatever he's got. IChances are he wanted to know what she was disagreeing with so he could offer her something more to her liking.