
The customer is always right. And yet, as 'listentomyopinion' writes, this is utter bollocks.
Tell us of the customers who were wrong, wrong, wrong but you still had to smile at (if only to take their money.)
( , Thu 4 Sep 2008, 16:42)
« Go Back

I think I attract them...
Anyways, during my first year at uni I worked in a nightclub that was part of a chain that had a seventies theme named after a style of trousers of that era, in Wales' second biggest "city". It was an OK job, I like the music and I got to dance. Some of the customers were lovely, mainly the regulars. Some of them were complete idiots.
This one customer was the reason why I left.
It was a usual saturday night, busy, full of welsh chavs wanting a blu, the turkish predators who would surround the dance floor looking for fat single mothers (easy money) and the drunk people who weren't allowed in anywhere else. Yes, that was the calibre of our clientelle. It was my turn for an hour on the floor collecting glasses and bottles. It was nearing the end of the night, and I was glad to be off the bar for a while. So I'm walking around with my basket, minding my own business, inwardly and often outwardly cursing everytime I heard the smash of yet another drink being thrown on the floor. I bend down to pick up a bottle from the floor and this old man puts his hand down the back of my trousers. I stand up pretty sharpish and scream in his face "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He shrugs his shoulders at me and grins "Just having a laugh love" Having a laugh?! How the hell is that having a laugh?! I'm close to exploding at this point, but I know that it would be easier to get the door staff to deal with him as that is their job. I go over to them, explain the situation, they laugh and say to me "Oh you love the attention".... wtf?! So over to my boss to explain the situation once again, about how I really don't appreciate being felt up by sweaty old men, and he turns to me and says "Well, he'll probably tip you later." I look at him increduously, put my basket full of glasses down on the floor, and walk out.
Got a phone call the next day asking if I could cover him as he wanted to watch the football. Twunt.
( , Tue 9 Sep 2008, 14:56, 4 replies)

not your boss. Though he probably could have done with it too.
( , Tue 9 Sep 2008, 15:25, closed)

I'd have had a laugh back and hoofed him in the bollocks.
( , Tue 9 Sep 2008, 15:35, closed)

You know, if that happened today then you'd be able to sue your BOSS for sexual harrassment.
If the management accept harrassment in the workplace and don't do anything to stop it when it occurs, then they are liable in the eyes of the law.
Glad you got out of there.
( , Tue 9 Sep 2008, 19:26, closed)
« Go Back