I used to work as a server in a private golf club and some the other servers there were downright nasty. One night, one of the members wanted some cottage cheese for something and the guy looking after his table got all huffy, went into the kitchen to get the cottage cheese…and hawked a huge-ass snotmissile into it and stirred it in. Same guy once put a member's fork down his pants to scratch his nut sack and then went out to give the fork to the member.

 

Grabbing the Keys to dropzone and making sure you fill out the ID10T form correctly while on the way to supply to grab a prickE7 was my favorite.

 

Tell a boot to go grab a couple cans of pee-ee pee ess eye. (say it fast enough and it sounds like your typical Military style name and number. Pee-ee P.S.I)

After they come back confused, look confused back at them and just say "I just wanted a can of P.e.p.s.i."

 

^^^^^ THIIIIISSSSSS

I worked in fast food for about 11 years before making the switch to IT. CUSTOMERS are the problem, absolutely. They are entitled, they feel like you are an underling who is stupid and is beneath them. The problem is people are very egocentric, especially in the US. They do not care about others, they do not anticipate the needs or actions of others. All they know is they want what they want and they want it now, and with our entitlement, we get upset when we can't have those things. Customers do not care about the employees serving them, at ALL.

Now, I work with computers and (luckily) my interaction with actual customers is ZERO. I deal with client managers and stuff, but not the clients directly. AND IT IS GREAT!!!!!!  

 

I work in a call center for a retirement system and we get the stupidest questions sometimes. Like people expect us to be in charge of everything. I had one lady ask me who she should bank with. Really? I don't know that! That's like asking me where you should go for dinner! Why the hell would you call your retirement system for that? Or the one time I had a guy call up screaming and swearing at the top of his lungs over a one time 15 cent deduction when his net (after tax) retirement, PER MONTH, was a third of my annual salary. It's the only time I've ever hung up on someone. Nothing good was gonna come out of my mouth at that point.

 

Yep, I work at WM as well in Electronics and let me tell you. We get some of the absolutely most idiotic people in there. God it's like Walmart is a breeding pool for stupidity!

 

Had a veteran and his wife come in and ask why their military ID card didn't get them military discount at Foot Locker. I guess to get a military discount at foot locker, you register your ID card with some website Foot Locker has.

I had to explain like 10 times, that isn't anything wrong with the ID card...it's foot locker's website. They showed me a slip footlock printed out for them that explained hwo to register on there, and it said "if you have any questions call 1-800-whatever"

If your ID card is working to get you on base, scanning when they scan it at the gate, and working at the hospital, commisarry, and BX...but not the foot locker website, which has a 1-800 number specifically for help with that...

Why would your first train of thought be "My ID card is messed up, better go drive on base and talk to the ID card office" rather then "I better call this website and see if i'm doing something wrong"

 

I work the toys department at my Walmart and I get asked ridiculously stupid questions all the time as well. I had one lady flip out on me recently because my telxon (the scanner gun thing) couldn't just search for "hot wheels set with a crocodile" and needed an actual upc to find the product.

 

How is this for stupid...

A few years back (2009 or 2010) I arranged a meet up for other forum members from RangerBoard.com (A Power Ranger fandom board)

We all met up for lunch at The Ram and of course, being toy collectors all interested in the same TV show that is an overglorified 30 minute toy commercial - we decided after eating to rendezvous at the nearby Toys R Us (keep in mind, this TRU is about an hour away from where I live, so I'm not familiar with it)

Eventually we're hanging out near the Power Rangers and GI Joe, and we're standing by an aisle just bullshitting. Cracking jokes, and stuff. Eventually a lady says "excuse me, where's the pool stuff?" And I, being a nice guy, pointed out where it was at and get back to our conversation.

A few minutes later, she asks me where something else was. I didn't know where it was, again - this wasn't my regular TRU. So I said "I don't know" shrugged and went back to talking to me friends.

She then got an attitude. "DON'T YOU WORK HERE?!" hands on her hips, cocking her neck, and SHOUTING. I gave her a confused look and said "...no..." and all my friends looked at her like she was crazy. Realizing the error in her ways, she looked embarassed and walked away.

Fucking jerk, didn't even apologize for yelling at me.

For the record, THIS is me that day - I have no idea how I was mistaken for a TRU employee. Purple tshirt, red jacket - 5th from the left.

 

This reminds me of when I was working at Blockbuster Video and a lady came in wanting to return her movies. Problem was she rented them from Hollywood Video. I explained this like 20 times until she finally realized on her own that she was in the wrong place. Literally nothing I said was getting through to her. Fortunately, she wasn't rude, in fact she was very pleasant, but she was still in the wrong place.

 

Ugh. Do they still use Ropes? I was but on Phase I setback cause I told a red rope to eat shit. Fuckers were in basic the same time I was, how the fuck do they have the authority or expertise to lead anything?

K9P was always a good one. We also used to have new Airmen get air samples from the flightline. You'd see a moron running around with a big trash bag trying to catch samples. Another one we saw was a "tower check" - stick a guy on a B2 stand with an orange cone on his head and one on each arm, waving at the tower. Priceless.

 

fff yeah they still do. When I was still an A1C here, they'd try to act big.

One day my buddy and I went to the DFAC for lunch, and I don't typically eat DFAC food - I joined when I was 23, and already married. But we went, and there was a fucking rope bullshitting in line with his buddies in front of us and causing a big gap.

So we cut.

Rope: Uh hey AIRMAN, there's a line.

Me: Yeah, and you're not moving along with it. Sorry dude, I got actual work to get back to doing. I've been in longer than 3 months - I don't got time for this bullshit.

That's when they saw my buddy and I had badges...so they STFU.

Another time, my other bud and I were at the gym and just got done working out. My friend had just putt on Staff Sergeant. We ended up going to the gym the around the end of the duty day by the time we got done - so of course all these tech schoolers are now getting in the locker room. We're packing up and one rope thinks he's being a funny "Smells like a bunch of dirty airman in here" and glares at us.

And my buddy and I both look REALLy young - we both could pass for being in high school but I was 24 at the time he was 26.

So my bud looks back at him and is just like "yeah, so you should probably go shower" as he pulls out his ABU top from the locker, and drapes it across his arm - making sure his stripes are visible while glaring at the kid. The kid thought we were AiTS too but after SSgt Campos said that, the fucking dude looked like he saw a ghost.

I swear, you give a fucking 18 year old authority to lead a bunch of kids to class and they think they're fucking NCOs.

Another time, a few weeks ago, I was in the lobby at TMO waiting to talk to someone because I'm seperating and moving back to WA. there's a AB just derping around near the sign in sheet, but not actually signing in (again, a fucking gap in a line). So the Captain that was waiting patiently behind him decides to just skip him and sign in. The kid blabs out "YO BRO, YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST FLIPPING CUT IN LINE LIKE THAT? I WAS ABOUT TO MOVE" (since the CPT was behind, went around, and the AB didn't see stripes) and the Captain finishes signing in, and turns around with a cocked eyebrow and I'm pretty sure that AB peed his pants a little when he saw the 2 bars on that collar...

 

I started cracking up and I think the Captain was sufficiently pleased with the stammering "ss--s-s-s-r-s-s-s-sor-sorrry...s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sir"

I swear man, fucking AiTS.

They stopped thinking they had any authority once I put on SrA, but man for two fucking years I was putting up with being permanent party at a training base as an A1C.

And yeah, it's Green, yellow, red. Then there's white ropes which are involved with the chaplains, drill team wear black, and the now there's sexual assault prevention ones that wear teal. With MTIs wearing light blue, and MTLs wearing dark blue.

I heard about someone who was a rope in tech school wearing it to inprocess to their first base and just getting MOCKED.

I was hoping I'd see that day (my office is the office they inprocess to the base with). Alas, my time in the Air Force is done at the end of the month and I didn't get to see that. C'est La Vie...