17 Examples Of Awful Customer Behavior Experienced By Essential Workers

Essential workers have been stuck between a rock and a hard place for much of 2020 and 2021, working hard to pay the bills, but also dealing with difficult customers.

We recently asked essential workers in the NAR community for examples of the worst customer behavior they witnessed Here’s what they told us. Note: names have been pixelated for privacy.

1-2) Rampaging toilet paper hoarders:

3) This grocery store customer who screamed at an exhausted nurse who was shopping after work:

4) This lady who went full Godwin’s Law on employees for not accepting cash:

5) This customer who catapulted cucumbers at other customers:

6) This random woman screaming at a cashier:

7) Coughing and sneezing customers who refuse to wear masks:

8) This Halloween customer who accused an employee of not doing their job, except they were:

9) This wiseguy with a “creative” interpretation of “wearing”:

10) This person who doesn’t work on the front lines, but has still has seen WAY too much:

11) This threatening customer who cost herself a discount:

12) This disgusting diner who turned a salad bar into their personal dining room:

13) This customer who didn’t just throw a fit, but literally threw things:

14) Families who turn school events into potential superspreader situations:

15) This yucky customer who left their saliva on a shopping cart:

16) This sneezer who clearly didn’t get the memo about how masks should be used:

17) Thankfully, not ALL customers are bad … as long as they walk on 4 legs!

If you’re an essential worker (or even a customer), have you experienced terrible customer behavior lately? Leave a comment and let us know!