People Share The Worst Customer Service Experience They’ve Ever Had.

I’ll give you the story of a racist gas station attendant and my father’s revenge:

On a long road trip Mom badly needed to pee, so Dad pulled into a gas station and Mom ran inside asking where the restroom was. The attendant told her “around back” so Mom hot-footed it outside and to the back of the store, only to find the door padlocked.

A little ticked off that he didn’t say something before, Mom went back inside and asked for the key. The attendant told her “We can only give the restroom key to store customers.” Aching at this point, Mom ran out to the car and told Dad the situation, he was already pumping some gas and when he was done he paid with a credit card at the pump. “There, now you’re a customer.”

Mom ran back inside and asked the attendant for the key. “I’m sorry Ma’am, but that man outside paid for the gas, you didn’t. Maybe you could buy some tacos? Or burritos? Habla Ingles?” (My mom is part Native American but the guy was mistaking her for Mexican)

Dad was 6’9, heavily tattooed, and weighed 400 pounds. The attendant meekly handed over the restroom key. Meanwhile Dad bought a Big Gulp (actually, I don’t think he ever paid for it) and downed it in 3 sips while glaring at the attendant.

When Mom came out of the restroom, Dad told her to sit in the driver’s seat and keep the car running. They pulled up to the front door of the gas station and Dad stepped outside, unzipped his pants and peed all over the glass and floormat.

Dad loved telling that story. Mom, not so much.

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2. Great waiter!

I had a waiter walk off while I was in the middle of my order.

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Husband and I were interested in upgrading our iPhones with our provider. He was up for an upgrade 5 months before me. They won’t let me upgrade when he upgrades, and say I have to wait the 5 months. OK, fine, whatever. Well, when he upgraded he also opted to change his number because we had moved across the country and he wanted one that would now be local. Because we were on a family plan, they insisted that I also had to change my phone number. There was absolutely no way I could keep my old phone number. OK, annoying, but whatever.

Well it took talking to multiple CSRs on the phone and some major complaining but I finally got my new phone. It doesn’t help that every time we talked to a new person they told us something completely different and insisted that what the last CSR had told us was totally wrong.

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4. Sure, I’ll pay that…

Sorry, I have a stitch in my side from laughing at them.

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I probably provided some of the worst customer service you’ve ever had.

I’m going to say the front office at my therapist’s clinic. I didn’t get to go see her for almost a year because I was extraordinarily sick, moved, and injured myself while moving to the point that I had surgery. I called to make an appointment and they said that since it had been over a year they had dropped me as a patient. Ok. So do I fill out new patient paperwork again? Well, she’s not accepting new patients right now. Ok, so can I see a different therapist because I’m seriously having some problems (they’ve got like 20 of them in the same clinic). Well, since you’re established with her and you have a rapport built up with her we don’t want to switch you to a new therapist. You could try calling back next month, but just so you know she’s booking four to six months out.

And that’s when she hung up on me. I called back and said, “Hey I think we got disconnected” and she hung up on me again.

So yeah, a mental health clinic that hangs up on people that have a history of suicidal tendencies and are asking for help gets my vote.

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8. Not everyone is trying to steal.

When I ordered 2 kebabs with cheese for me and a friend in a crowded place. I was given one and I passed it to a friend and I haven’t gotten mine so I was patiently waiting. After some 10 minutes I finally asked where is my kebab and the lady was pissed off because she noted that it was already given away and for sure I’m trying to cheat and get one for free. Lady, it’s not my fault your establishment doesn’t give a out a number with your order and you don’t keep track who takes what. So annoying.

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She was 20 years old, in college thousands of miles away, when she found out a very close friend died. She and a friend bought plane tickets from a certain airline so they could fly home and attend the funeral. At the gate, after checking in, and going through security and everything, the plane began boarding. They called by sections to board, and my sister and her friend were in the last one. At the last minute, an employee told them they were booted from the flight because they were overbooked.

At this point, my hysterical 20 year old sister and her friend are sobbing over the fact that they might not be home for their best friend’s funeral. The employee isn’t helpful at all, just causing them more grief and panic. In a state of panic, my sister rushes over to the door to the terminal or whatever and tries to open it, insisting they can still get on the plane, she can still see it out the window, it’s there. Airport security comes to escort them away.

To start off, I am a server. I can usually tolerate a lot of crappy service, usually giving the benefit of doubt.

It, drops it on the table without a word, and disappears. We look down to basically this burnt piece of folded up dough with burnt nutella inside.

I try flagging her down, she avoids eye contact. FINALLY I get her to come over. I tell her it’s way overcooked and inedible. She picks up my fork and starts poking at it, telling me it looks okay to her. Here is how the conversation went:

Me: “I’ve had this plenty if times before. Usually it’s nice and soft and gooey. This is just overcooked and inedible.”

Her: “Hmmm. Yeah. Well like, the only way I can see it is: It can’t be super awesome every time cause then your expectations will be too high the next time you order it!”

I burst out laughing. I thought she was joking. I even had her repeat herself, which she did, followed up with “Did you want me to pack it up for you?”

I did. And I am actually pretty good friends with the owner of that place so I swung by their house to show and tell them about my experience. The scream of “She said WHAT??” still resonates in me to this day. Let’s just say she didn’t have a job by the next day.

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As that was ending, I tried again, they repeated the “holiday” thing, even though I couldn’t have any more “holiday” time on my account. Then they said that I can reduce my subscription (I was on an expensive one), but I wanted to completely cancel.

They finally cancelled, buy my account was still there, including my payment details. So I sent them another email threatening legal action again before they finally removed my details.

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13. What does it take?!?

It failed to work so the next person did it again and it failed again. When the third person went to do it again I asked him to stay on the line as I didn’t think it would work the third time (and it didn’t).

Shadowmant

Great little Ultrabook. Small, sleek, sexy, high-res screen.

After having the machine for about 3 weeks,they released an update to fix some touchpad issues. The update utility notified me of the update and offered to download and installed it.

I said fine.

Utility downloaded the update, ran its little bit of code to force an update on reboot and rebooted the computer.

The update failed. They had bricked my new $1300 laptop.

So, I called their support team.

Their response? Because I hadn’t shipped my laptop to a specific service center for them to install the update, I had violated my warranty and now had a $1300 really infuriating paperweight.

Thanks be to the FSM for Best Buy and their return policy for Reward Zone Platinum members that allowed me to return the bricked machine to the store which I exchanged for a better laptop

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A few years back I decided that I wanted my own domain name. I went online and picked out a company that had been recommended to me by some random folks on myspace and decided to find out how much it’d cost to own myname.com.

This site didn’t list any of the package prices on the front page so I figured I’d go through the registration process and then click ‘cancel’ when I got to the payment page if it was more than I wanted to pay. Domain name, my name, contact info, credit card number, click continue aaaaaaaaaaaand congratulations, you now own a domain and hosting! And it cost way too many dollars!

There is no abort or cancel button to be seen so I grab my phone and get on their support line. I explain my situation to the nice customer service rep and he tells me twice that by pressing “continue” I have accepted their terms of service and now my money is theirs and that domain and a hosting package are mine.

So I explained that to the rep yet again and he said “ma’am? I’m just yanking your chain. I’ll cancel that order immediately.”

Speechless. At that point I’d worked in several customer service jobs, including in tech support. I stammered a thank you and hung up the phone and passed out on the couch, reeling that a company would build a purchase form that used “continue” as a “take as much moneys as you like!” button and have reps that would “yank my chain” about a refund.

Never again.

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