Manger: “Once my children finish year 12, if they go to uni, then they can stay at home. If they go to Tafe, then they have to move out”

Me: *thinking this is harsh* “Why’s that?”

Manager: “Because if they go to Tafe, they won’t amount to anything, so if they choose Tafe, I won’t be supporting them.”

Me: ………

So 2 separate stories into one. Dont feel like typing 2 separate ones out.
This is on Thanksgiving day.
I’m working and I’m really tired since at this point, I’ve been working 5 days in a row and my hip is hurting for some reason and I’m only 19. I guess the tiredness was showing on my face and this lady around maybe 5o years old comes through my lane and buys some simple things. She looks through the candy real quick and picks a snickers bar,king size.
As I scan the snickers bar she tells me “That’s for you”. I’m just a little surprised since I didnt really expect it. I thanked her a lot and she went on her way. It was very delicious.

2nd story, close to closing around 5:50pm.
So I’m currently finishing up with a customer when i’m hear the cashier in front of me page for a manager. Two of them come to the front since they’re the only ones left.Apparantly, the customer tried to get $200 CASH BACK.
She didnt have a lot in her till since they gave us new ones due to a new policy.
Customer: Why cant you just give me my money from the register?!!
Manager 1: She doesnt have enough money in the till for that amount.
Manager 2: The limit on cash back is $60. It should say on a sticker on the pin pad.
Customer: WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT!!? If I knew it was $60, i would have gotten that amount!!
Me: *thinking* Who the hell thinks there’s enough money for $200 cash back in a till?!
Why didnt he ASK?!!!
He ended up getting his money since it had already been taken from his account. They took it from the safe where they keep the money. I was surprised the register even let him do that amount. At a certain point, our registers would need an override if it went over $60 but I guess it didnt work anymore or idk.

I work for small taxi company as a dispatcher. I get this call at least once a day

Caller: Can I get a car to 123 blank st.
Me : Sure thing will be just a few minutes.
Caller : How long ?
Me: 5 maybe 6 minuets. We will be right there.
Caller: Can it be faster ? I’m going to miss my (ferry bus plane etc )
Me *in head* Yes I keep a teleporter at the office for just such cases*
Me: I will do the best that I can.
*Note 9/10 of these callers require a follow up phone call to get them out of their houses once the car is there if you are in a hurry please wait outside for your taxi.

(I’m working retail and currently in an area that is not customer-facing. My personal cell phone rings, and I notice it is a phone call coming from myself– contact photo and all. Curious, I pick it up and answer it.)

Me: “Hello?”
Person: *Pause*
Me: *Figuring it is a robo call, but giving it one last shot* “Hello?”
Person: “Yes, hello, I am calling to inform you that you have a virus on your Windows computer.”
Me: *Looking around, incredulously* “Are you serious?!”
Person: “Yes, you have a virus–”

(At this point, I begin cracking up laughing so hard that I can’t even speak. My colleague looks at me, raising an eyebrow, and I gesture at him to take my phone. He sees that the call is coming from myself, and takes the phone and puts it up to his ear.*

Colleague: “Hello?”

(He pauses and listens for a moment, then breaks out laughing.)

Colleague: “Yeah… About that… Buddy, you just called the Apple Store Repair Room.”

(The other end responds with something confused sounding, but we’re too busy laughing, and he hangs up a few seconds later.)

The video game store I work at trades games in, and if you have a membership card of a high enough level you get a voucher for 50% extra trade credit for your birthday. It says on the voucher that you must present it to staff in order to get the 50% extra. To trade we have to manually check, then scan every item, but can only do 80 at a time. A customer comes in with approximately 350 games. Its taken us an hour and a half to get to the fourth transaction when the customer asks if he’s been getting the 50% extra. He hasn’t because he didn’t tell us about it, nor could he bring up the voucher on his phone to even show us. We sat there gobsmacked while he called a friend so that the friend could call us to complain to the manager rather than talking to us himself. While I understand him asking us to fix it, it was his mistake, and it was clearly written on the voucher that he needed to show it to us, which he never did. Regardless, we did end up fixing it. It took four hours of manually typing in 350 item skus twice each, and he got an extra $1000 in store credit. I still don’t understand how someone looks at a voucher, one with a barcode even, and somehow expects staff to just know to use it.