Put Them In The Wrong In-Your-End-O
I work at a tech shop that offers repairs. A coworker of mine has a bad habit of cracking all sorts of sex jokes in response to… basically anything that happens in his vicinity, no matter how far he has to stretch to find an appropriate remark. One day, my boss gets fed up, and threatens to fire him if he makes one more remark.
Less than ten minutes later, a customer comes in demanding a refund, or else a free repair, on one of our products, claiming it was defective. When [Coworker] pulls said product out of the box, we are greeted with one of the most sickening sights in the technology world: plugs forced into ports they don’t belong in, badly damaged in the process. Some of them look like scissors or knives have been taken to the plug heads to make them fit.
Coworker: “Yeah, this is not a defective product. This is user error.”
Customer: “I didn’t come here to be insulted!”
Coworker: “Well, then don’t stick something in the wrong hole!”
Realizing what he just said, [Coworker] covers his mouth with one hand and looks over at [Boss] with fear in his eyes.
Boss: “…Nah, that was too easy. I’m gonna let that one slide.”
The customer was most upset to find that he had wandered into a place where the workers are allowed to identify user error as the incompetence and stupidity that it is, and ended up storming out with the destroyed device in hand. We later found pieces of it scattered across the parking lot.