Aibu to ask for the most "WTF" complaints

@Limpshade I can't believe that the staff didn't ask them to leave, how awful.

Similar to @AnnaMagnani - I was on a night shift so skeleton staff, patient was unresponsive and code team on the ward. We were attempting to resuscitate the patient when another patient walked into the bay, saw the situation, complained that no one was answering his call bell and loudly demanded someone make him a cup of tea immediately.

I took my mum out for a nice lunch on the day I left home for good - she was a bit emotional about it so I thought we'd have a little celebration together. Unfortunately we ended up near to a table of absolute wallies.

They were convinced they had arrived before us (not sure how, we were on a sofa bench facing the door) and complained to the young staff that how dare we get served before them. The staff said the same - that we had ordered before them - so they took they ire out on us instead, shouting at each other for our benefit about how we'd jumped the queue for food.

At one point the woman came over and jabbed her finger at my mum's plate and said, "That should have been MY lunch". I asked her (very politely, considering the circumstances) to please allow us to eat in peace, so she returned to her table and yelled loudly until we left about how awful we were and how "that one" (me) "must be on her period!"

My poor mum was in bits by the time we got to the car. Still makes me angry when I think about it

If we're on to tourist stories I have dozens. I was coming out of St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC on a Saturday and a British tourist rocked up and said she wanted to see the inside but didn't have time and wanted to know if it would be open the following day.

When I worked in a private day nursery I had a parent shout at me because I had put her daughter into her spare clothes after an accident and the outfit didn’t “go”.
She was stamping her feet and everything the mother not the child.
I’ve also had parents complain about the activities offered because we should of been teaching them to read and write, not playing! ( I worked in the baby room at this point )
These are just the first two that spring to mind, so many over the years working in childcare.

These are brilliant yet awful! Some people eh!

Oh I have one! An American tourist asked me where the rounds for the One O'Clock Gun landed!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Fatbutt

Reminds me of the Peppa Pig song...

I woke up this morning
And all I could see
Was the sea and the sky...

Oh wow.

In a family friendly pub chain (DH and I were without the children for once)...a woman complained her chips were too hot. The employee took them back and bought out a new plate of food. She ate it without complaint. Yeah they were the same chips, different plate!!! The employee whispered it to me as she walked past us!

American so-called bacon, like American so-called chocolate, is VILE!

American bacon, in a sandwich with lettuce and sliced tomato, is food of the gods. Some American mass market chocolate is pretty ordinary, but there are some excellent upmarket brands like Ghirardelli as well.

It's largely a matter of what you're used to.

Yes, Classics please

I had a phonecall once...in my phone,I answered and was met by a barrage of abuse about how I'd effing stolen their phone and they wanted it back.

I explained I hadn't and this was my phone

No it isn't it's mine, who did you get it off

Explained I got it from the mobile shop and they must have the wrong number

No you didn't you've stolen it, you better give it back ....blah blah....

They eventually mentioned what their phone number was and I explained that wasn't the number they had called and hung up.

I remembered what American bacon is like

American so-called bacon, like American so-called chocolate, is VILE!

@MNHQ - can this please go in classics?

A supermarket will consider it good business practice to have sold out of something rather than have any leftovers or stock to reduce

Otherwise, they get (rightly) castigated for food waste, and the prices are liable to rise.

I once worked in a photo lab, we had a customer complain that her photos were all 'too blue' and she wanted them reprinted properly... she had been whale watching and it was all sea and sky!

and the supermarket @ xmas/ny - there used to be CFs who would come in Xmas eve and camp by the fresh turkeys waiting for reductions to happen... one year the fresh manager had enough of them, so refused to knock them down and donated any left over turkeys to a local charity! there were some turkey free tables that xmas because the CFs wouldn't pay full price!

A supermarket will consider it good business practice to have sold out of something rather than have any leftovers or stock to reduce - and they can only go on previous years sales which fluctuate quite wildly - its all a guessing game so worth being prepared or risk losing out!

@StockTakeFucks

Not a complaint but a bunch of mums at school demanded to breathalyse the coach driver before driving off with their PFB's on a school trip.

Wish we had done this before our school bus driver drove off with a coach full of kids whilst sozzled.

Reading a holiday cottage guest book is illuminating as to how intolerant people are.

We stayed in a beautiful isolated cottage in Wales. Lo and behold a previous guest had written that it was really boring there with nothing to do. Someone at a Northumbrian cottage complained that there was a picture of the owner's sons on the hall wall. Another moaned that there was no cupcake baking equipment. Who bakes on a week's holiday?!

Some people just love moaning.

Some if these are mad!

I was in Paris recently, sat outside a bar next to some American tourists. A woman joins them and complains that the walking tour she had just been on didn't take her to any shops. FFS, she was in the city of art, culture and history and she wanted bloody shops.

Oh my goodness, loads ,(worked in a nursery, DWP, children's home and now probation)

In nursery, a mum kicking off because her 3yr old had lost her hair clips in the garden and she kicked off such a fuss that staff stayed half hour searching for the bloody things

DWP - a man had threatened to kill an assessor so understandably they would'nt go to his home. He was housebound and it was all my fault apparently.

Claimant phoned about ESA. Explained he had the wrong phone number and to call X. He ranted a full 10mkns and shouted that were all the government so why can't I stop being lazy and help him

Claimant wanting an advance payment to pay fine or he's going to jail. Explained not possible. Told I am personally sending him to prison.

Claimant rang shouting over money. Explained the appeal process, gave phone numbers and tips ,(much more than colleagues did) , very helpful, she then screamed she couldn't pay her rent and when I grew up dear I'd understand

Man in all seriousness quite baffled and angry as to why Theresa may, amber Rudd, the head of Welsh police, Jeremy Corbyn and the queen, hadnt got back to him regarding his complaint over his money being stopped. Not as though the PM has other things to do such as Brexit, managing terrorists, police cuts etc is it?

Madness

They're essentially asking for 4 separate bills.
The waiter won't know or probably remember the exact things each one had, so they'd have to jot down everyone's orders again. Go to the till, void the whole original order, then proceed to load 4 separate new orders on the till. Print out all the receipts etc.....OR the people in question could do what normal people do and just split it between themselves or one pays and takes the receipt to figure out who owes what later

Ooo, this one is GOLD! 4 customers asked to split the bill. It wasn’t possible.

Why not?

But the shop wouldn’t have been open the next day. And, if in Scotland, it might not have been open on the 2nd either.

All the supermarkets by me open on New Year’s Day. And as for ‘it might have been in Scotland’, it also might not have been. In fact, it’s far more likely it wasn’t. And in any case, NYE is huge in Scotland - surely if there’s anywhere companies need to be prepared, it’s there?

Customer ordered a salad niçoise but sent it back because it had, “too much tuna”

Another customer complained that their drink serving was “too small” (it was the company standard serving) and demanded to speak to the manager. Of course the manager agreed with me but ‘rectified the problem’ by adding 3 extra ice cubes.

Ooo, this one is GOLD! 4 customers asked to split the bill. It wasn’t possible. So I asked them to work out amongst themselves how much they would like to pay and give me the combined total. Long story short, I provide the change and one woman comes back absolutely fuming! She begins to call me incompetent and demands to speak to the manager because I gave her the “incorrect” change. I didn’t. I gave the change to her friend, who essentially stole her £2.30 and proceeded to blame me. The CF then filed a complaint against me due to her shitty friend!!!