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The stupidest customer you've ever had to deal with.
The other day I'm working down at the local instrument store, mostly renting 5th graders their first instrument. Around 2PM this guy walks in, I'd say late twenties early thirties. He walks up to the banjo and asks me "How much for the guitar"
I tell him that it's a banjo but he doesn't listen. Then I had to spend the next 15 minutes of my life explaining the difference between a guitar and a banjo. When I'm done he buys a regular guitar and on his way out says "Thanks for the banjo!" I told my boss and he just laughed and gave me a small bonus that paycheck.
I deal with online shopping so I don't have these issues often. But I did have one case where I was supposed to get "an onion". That's it. No item number, nothing. I just had to scan every type of onion we had, then when that didn't work substitute it with a generic onion.
That's nothing dude. I was a facilitator for a robotics camp last summer right? This mother walks in, sees her kid is working on the beginning stuff and asks us why, when she signed him up for the more advanced stuff some of the other kids are working on. Reasonable thing to wonder right? Well, our reasonable answer, was that we were putting him through the beginning stuff to see how well he could handle the advanced builds.
The mother said something stupid in response that I forgot, but we then had to just put him on the advanced stuff to appease the parent. She stays with him and starts helping him (something that really shouldn't have happened, but the customer is always right, right?) but then after a while, do you know what she said to us?
"This stuff is way to hard. How do you expect kids to build this stuff?" When, looking around the room.... plenty of kids were building things just fine. If she as an adult was having trouble following relatively simple instructions, I fear for how she's raising her son. I've seen six year olds happily building away at the stuff we had. There's little excuse.
The mother said something stupid in response that I forgot, but we then had to just put him on the advanced stuff to appease the parent. She stays with him and starts helping him (something that really shouldn't have happened, but the customer is always right, right?) but then after a while, do you know what she said to us?
"This stuff is way to hard. How do you expect kids to build this stuff?" When, looking around the room.... plenty of kids were building things just fine. If she as an adult was having trouble following relatively simple instructions, I fear for how she's raising her son. I've seen six year olds happily building away at the stuff we had. There's little excuse.
(Bump for curiosity sake) Another time we have this older woman who wants to learn how to play a saxophone. So I ask her, "Alto sax, tenor sax, or bari, baritone, sax?" Her response. "I want to play a saxophone." I'm patient with her showing her the different types and showing her how each one sounds, what she does is ask to talk to my boss and tells him I was "Talking down" to her when all I did was explain the difference between the saxophones. She ended up buying an alto sax and leaving. Thankfully she didn't get me fired.