Strangest complaint you've ever received

the movie is too loud and could we turn it down?!

killpeppa I've stopped going to our local cinema because the volume is turned up far too loud!

In my first office job the MD got increasingly irate with me as I tried to explain why I couldn't use Google to search for a missing file.

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I work at a supermarket and a woman came in to complain about some grated cheese she had bought(first apologising for the ASDA carrier bag)as it was 3 days from it's use by date when she bought it (um it was in date when you bought it!). She was carrying on because she had forgotten her glasses and didn't read the date, couldn't bring it back until it was a week out of date, getting louder and louder as it was the shops fault she didn't read the use by date. In the end to shut her up calm her down I said I'd replace it, as it just wasn't worth the hassle of getting a manager. As she went to get her replacement I had a closer look at the packet as I hadn't seen that kind of cheese before and it was from ALDI. So not only had she brought it in an Asda bag it wasn't even our bloody cheese and I got a right shouting at. Couldn't wait for her to come back with her cheese so I could see her squirm.

A tenant rented a flat from us which is above a station and on a major road junction. He then complained that he could hear the trains and cars. He made himself so unpleasant it was simplest to just agree to him breaking his tenancy and going.

In my first office job the MD got increasingly irate with me as I tried to explain why I couldn't use Google to search for a missing file.

I am a nurse (brown eyes and hair) and a patient complained because he had been told that he would be looked after by a blonde haired ,blue eyed nurse and was genuinely aggrieved that he was stuck with me instead!

I had parents who complained that my classroom was too warm for their son as they didn't have central heating at home..... I did point out that he always refused to take off his very thick jumper even though he wore a shirt underneath.

A customer got shitfaced and fell off her chair in the restaurant and then emailed to say that our chairs were unsafe. Absolute prick.

Once a Year 8 pupil went to the deputy headteacher to complain that he had to work for the whole period in my class and that there was never time to sit and chat! I took it as a compliment.

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I worked in a call centre for quite a well known company but in the financial sector. We would of received a lot of calls for other departments in the business and a lot if people would get very angry we couldn't explain his problem.

One Sunday a very drunk man phoned up looking to complain about the postal service he received. No matter what I said he refused to believe I couldn't help. Ended the call and he rung back continually until he had managed to speak to everyone on my team and the manager to complain how useless I was. Was a very entertaining day.

SHRIIIEEEK It was a businessman relocating and he could have whatever he wanted as the company was paying! Obviously he wanted a teeny hidey hole, not our obviously palatial flat!

Just remembered this one!

I was in a cafe with my friend, it sold savoury croissants or rolls. A woman came in and asked for a baguette. She was told they didn't sell baguettes, and, oh my god, she ranted and raved that she wanted a baguette and why wouldn't he make her a baguette etc, while the man told her they didn't have any so how could he make her one. She finally stormed off still ranting away.

Buyer speak for "we can't afford it but wanted a nosey"

Like a previous poster we often got post for another person (we lived in Close, they lived in Road, but they were next to each other) I always put their post through their door. They'd put my post back in the post box, with a note telling the postie to try my address etc. But they had to walk past our place to get to the postbox! Mad!

When we were selling our old place the estate agent gave us some feedback from someone who'd looked round.

It was too big. We were selling a one bedroom flat! How the hell can it be too big!

I recently ran a corporate induction at work.

One of the happy sheets came back at the end with the comment 'it was a bit too corporate.'

I took it as a compliment.

Same guy complained about his seat being too far from the screen. Even though he'd moved it there himself against our advice as he wanted to be next to the door.

Regularly get complaints about the type of tea/biscuits we serve as refreshments.

Last week someone marked down the venue because she got stuck behind a road accident and it took her ages to get there.

Another café related incident - person who shall remain nameless asked how much for a jacket potato - I explained £3.25 with chilli and cheese, £2.95 with tuna or cheese. She said she just wanted a jacket potato. I said £1.50? She stormed out screaming at the top of her voice that I was a total rip off merchant...

It still fuck's me off to this day. If £1.50 was extortionate then clearly £1 wouldn't have been good enough either so therefore 50p was actually what she was after (btw the cartons cost 25p)

Ah. I see

another cinema one, I loved working there:)

my boss was 73 & always asked for a nice hot cup of tea to be brought up to his office. no matter who made it it was always cold. we tried everything including microwaving it!

one day I made it not giving a shot cause he'd complain as usual, I brought it up & he took a sip, followed by a big drink of water then said...

'what the fuck are you trying to do? burn my mouth off?'

lucky I loved him to pieces the cheeky wee git

AnyCoffeeFucker: the groceries weren't fresh and were delivered at high speed.

hellsbells76: Sounds about right. I was told, in all seriousness, that more deliveries should be made by pushbike. Considering a standard trailer load runs at 12 tonnes...

Trying to serve a middle agedish couple at the bar, they ignored me until the manager came down with some change for the till. The man then asked the manager how old I was and then refused to be served by me as I was under 25 at the time and therefore would probably mess up the order (2cokes iirc!)
I was actually the restaurant manager and was doing the bar manager a favour due to staffing issues....

My son works for a major supermarket, not the fruit and veg department but he was walking through that dept wearing his uniform.

He was accosted by a customer brandishing a carrot, which apparently was far too phallic to be on sale in a family super,arket, and demanded to know why carrots were not screened before going on sale.

It was such an incovenience that she now had to buy the carrot and take it home "to protect innocent children".

I worked at a share registrars (in the days of paper share certificates). I got a three page letter from a shareholder raging that we had ripped him off - he had paid ££££ for his shares and we had only sent him a share certificate for xxx 5p shares (he was confusing the nominal value of shares for the market value)

Lol dawny I bet they felt all vindicated when that prick saod he didnt like nigellas cooking.
Or more likely they've had another brownie since and realised what fools they were

Our work phone number was similar to the local hospital dept. for something or other. We had a lot of irate people who insisted they had dialed the right number and why would we not put them through anyway.