# Customer service
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 22, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033 "2002-08-22T03:44:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/1 "2002-08-22T03:44:50Z")
I hate customers. They are picky, mean, nasty, and exacting in every way. They become like beasts, ready to pounce when they see an opportunity to save a penny. Is it obvious i work in a resturant?
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### Author:  [@LonelyNoodle05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonelyNoodle05)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/2 "2002-08-22T03:57:23Z")
Heehee I can relate, although I don’t have a job so I guess I would be the customer. But I always try to be really nice and tip well and say “thank you” constantly (actually, I go to Skyline every Sunday after church, and I think they’ve started getting annoyed with the thank you’s lol!). And my friend runs around my youth group broadcasting that “waitresses only get paid $2.01, you HAFTA tip more than that!!” so a lotta customers do, but not everyone.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/3 "2002-08-22T11:33:21Z")
When I used to work in food service, most of the customers were pretty nice, and some of them were fabulous. (I still remember the mom whose kids got into an ice cream fight on the terrace and who marched them back into the store, made them apologize, and asked for cloths so they could clean the mess up.)
Of course, then we got into the racist, yelling, scamming, stay-in-the-restaurant-until-twenty-minutes-after-closing, shit fits.
Anyway, let’s just say I’m much happier to be working in a nice, quiet office for a civilized, unionized, public corporation now. _touch some serious wood_ Isn’t it weird how the shittiest jobs also pay the worst?
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/4 "2002-08-22T11:35:46Z")
Oh, I forgot to add - **Hamish** has some great :rolleyes: stories about some of the more interesting ([sub]again, :rolleyes:[/sub]) customers he’s had, like the guy who, after Hamish indicated he couldn’t do something for him that was both against store policy and physically impossible, said, “You have to let me! It’s the law! This is the United States of America!”
_Um, sir, this is not the United States of America. This is Canada._
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### Author:  [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/5 "2002-08-22T12:47:27Z")
I remember how much I hated customers when I worked in a restaurant.
Has your ability to look at a customer and know whether or not they’ll cause trouble kicked in yet?
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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/6 "2002-08-22T12:56:19Z")
Back when I worked at McD’s, I was often grateful that that plastic utensil containers we kept under the counter were usually unfilled. There were many customers who would have benefitted from a stab in the ass with a fork.
They make you appreciate the nice ones, though.
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### Author:  [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/7 "2002-08-22T16:17:44Z")
I think there should be a law imposed for a mandatory 2 month stint in customer service for every citizen. It should be like paying your taxes. Resteraunt or retail, doesn’t matter, because everyone knows X-customer service employees make the BEST customers…
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### Author:  [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-service/125033/8 "2002-08-22T16:34:30Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by lezlers \*
> \*\*I think there should be a law imposed for a mandatory 2 month stint in customer service for every citizen. It should be like paying your taxes. Resteraunt or retail, doesn’t matter, because everyone knows X-customer service employees make the BEST customers… \*\*
I always thought making everyone work for a customer contact government regulatory agency like Department of motor vehicles, traffic court cashier/clerks, public parking or city ordinance enforcement, maybe even IRS taxpayer help lines.