The Not Always Right 2023 Mid-Year Retrospective: 23 Of Our Favorite Stories!

Roundups | Right | July 7, 2023

Dear readers,

We close out our week of reviewing the first half of 2023 by letting the editors have a go at picking their favorite stories of the year so far. Many of them were already snapped up in some of the highest-voted roundups, so it’s good to know that you all have similar good taste! Therefore our editors have whittled down the list to the following twenty-three stories that we hope will tickle your funny bone, roll your eyes in disbelief, and continue our stance of solidarity to those customer-facing employees past, present, and future who have to deal with… well… whatever you’ll find in the following stories!

The Kids Are Alright – We actually start with a hopeful story! Hope for the next generation at least…

The Marvellous Ms. Bagel – For those asking, we don’t know where this bakery is either, otherwise we’d be buying all the bagels! 🏳️‍🌈

The Menus They Are a-Changin’ – Continuing Not Always Right’s theme of 2023 being managers with spines!

Countering Their Counter-Strike – It’s always fun when the scammers don’t want to play.

Hermione Granger And The Weekend Shifts At Whole Foods – Elitist snobs getting karmic comeuppance, petty revenge, magic… this story has everything!

They Suddenly Shut Up When They’re Given As Good As They Get – Warning, this story contains swearing. Gloriously appropriate swearing.

How To Get Someone At Your Door In No Time – Why do they always think shouting and threatening will ever end well for them?

They Tagged Themselves – If your shopping pile consists of nothing but tag-swapped items, it’s not going to go the way you think it will.

When Ignoring The Trolls Actually Works – When you’re allowed to actually refuse service to abusive customers.

What Would Jesus Tip? – Sorry, we only accept money, not Jesus.

Oh, My Gourd, They’re Doing It Again – Hey DudeBro! This wasn’t even funny in the nineties!

The NAR Avengers First Big Bad: Mr. Charcoal – When it comes to taste, the customer is always right. But when it comes to being a jerk about it…

Transitioning Away From Tolerance Of Bigots – You can’t say the customer is always right if you ‘bigot’ your way out of being a customer!

Thought He Could Give The Law The Slip – If you’re going to impersonate a Chinese man don’t be a ginger white dude…

The Red Flag In The Red Dress – Quite possibly the most dramatic story of the year so far…

The Moment You Use THAT Word, We Have None Left For You – Zero tolerance to those using this slur. We approve.

Getting A Lesson From The Locals – When racists realize that they’re the ones that fall under their definition of ‘immigrant’ it’s glorious!

Totally Estúpido! Part 27 – This story just gets better and better…

He Saw His Opportunity And He Took It! – Gerald is still out there somewhere… running… getting further away by the minute.

S Like “Sesquipedalian” – Some say that categorizing our stories like this is total floccinaucinihilipilification but we respectfully disagree.

Careful, She’s A Back-Belt – The more you try to rush her the later you’re going to be.

Living Childfree Doesn’t Protect You From Screaming Babies – Why can’t some people understand that some of us don’t want children?

Perils Of The Night Tube – When the job requires a little bit of sass.

Thank you for reading our mid-year roundups! We’d love to do a readers’ choice roundup, so if we’ve missed any from the roundups this week that you think need to be mentioned, please let us know in the comments!

Check out our other 2023 retrospective roundups!

The Not Always Right 2023 Mid-Year Retrospective: 23 Top-Voted Stories