Aibu to ask for the most "WTF" complaints

Plus, surely the Americans could have asked before they ordered it.

the customer who sent their gammon back because it ‘tastes like big bacon’

I nearly replied to the American upthread who asked what gammon is, that it's big bacon (but then I remembered what American bacon is like so decided that mightn't help.).

No, but just as nobody wants a fresh turkey on the 27th, there is a limited market for party food that's left in the supermarket on the 1st.

But surely there’s a halfway point between overstocked and sold out by 3pm? It shouldn’t be that difficult for a major supermarket to plan ahead. If the worst that happens is a few pots of marked down homous the next day, I’d say that’s better than letting down customers.

Working in a charity shop woman complained we don't have many clothes in her size and that were discriminating against overweight people. Yes,because we deliberately reject/throw away bigger sizes just for the fun of it. We put out what we get.

Same charity shop,a bunch of people complaining we hadn't put their stuff out for sale and that we're probably stealing it all and they'll complain to head office,Police etc. Mhm...just what I always wanted a stripper pole/makini/used lube or toys/ manky knickers / household "rubbish" / books that we said every single time we don't sale anymore but we will take them(had someone pick them up every few weeks for other branches)/whatever random stuff that they considered should be out there because they brought it in.

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.

I work in healthcare. I once had a patient complain to me that I called him in for him appointment 2mins early. He couldn’t understand why when he tried to book the appointment the 09:50 was full yet I called him in at 09:58.

I explained I was running ahead of schedule and he was welcome to wait in the waiting room for 2 minutes until his appointment time. 🙄

Springydaff, Blutopia

We is all fick sometimes . . . .

There's loads of times I've misread a post, or misunderstood it because my mental emphasis has been placed on a different word to that of the writer, totally changing the meaning.

That's the problem with this sort of written communication - usually typed in a hurry, often full of autocucumber corrections and frequently reliant on the ESP of the reader.

And, of course, I'm a sarky bugger at the best of times

No worries Blutopia

My honeymoon was on an resort in the carribean and there were a few peacocks roaming loose on the resort, very harmless, didn’t approach anyone. I saw a review on tripadvisor from someone else that had stayed that said their holiday was ruined by the intimidating peacocks and they were too scared to walk anywhere the whole holiday 😂

Friend of mine runs an annual event with camping
Had a complaint because it rained and she should have known it was going to rain and rescheduled the whole thing (4+ days). Apparently the grass was too wet as well.

I know people were worried about the millennium bug, but surely the stock wouldn’t have gone off bang on midnight 🙄
No, but dips and salads have quite a short shelf-life, so they'd probably have gone out of date before they could be sold.

Many years ago, my landline number was similar to a local fish packaging company; think 6545/5645. The salesmen/stock procurers/customers would quite often get the number round the wrong way, so I'd get loads of calls on my landline. (In the days before caller display and mobiles, god I sound old!) I knew one of the senior managers and asked him to ask the staff etc to go careful when ringing in.

A few weeks later I was home ill, and the phone rang. I was expecting a call from the doctors so answered it. It wasn't the doctor, it was "Trevor," asking to speak to the purchasing department. I explained he'd rung the wrong number and he needed to ring the correct one, which I told him. He went mad, saying he knew what number he'd dialled, he was phoning from the bay of India and he needed to talk to the purchasing department about the prawns and he needed to speak to them RIGHT NOW! I told him I didn't care if he was phoning from the dark side of the moon, it's the wrong number so sod off. I told the senior manager again, and that his employees shouldn't speak to people like that, but he was very dismissive of it.

A few days later, phone goes again, I was ready this time!! Someone wanted the order department, so I clicked the phone a bit, jiggled the wire, then said in my best phone voice 'Order department, can I help you?' Someone (not Trevor!) wanted to know if it was ok to order x number of tons of stock from the new company they were dealing with, told them it was fine and put the phone down. Never had any wrong calls after that!

I feel sad that I’ve reacehed the end of these 😂

A patient couldn't park in the Blue Badge Bays (there are 6 of them ) and there was someone parked with no badge .
They expected me to go round every room , ( about 8 GP surgeries, Practice Nurse, Physio, Dental, Leg Ulcer and more) to find the culprit and make them move .
The patient had parked on the road (single yellows ) with their badge .

Yes its not on using a space without the badge but equally not on for me to walk round interupting other HCPs/GPs or standing in the waiting rooms shouting "Right who's got the Blue Ford Focus , move it no please "

Springydaff I'm sorry I wasn't being mean, I'm just jesting...if I'm honest I had to read it twice myself before I spotted cows eggs. If you is fick I is equally as fick.

To be fair Schadenfreude, the term "cows eggs" should have made the need for a sarcasm font somewhat redundant.

Well. Some of us is a bit fick innit.

Sooo many sun didn't go in so couldn't eat or enjoy breakfast offered another table but said no waiting for the sun to go in. No sugar free maple syrup. Boiled eggs to brown (the shell). Butter to buttery. To much scrambled egg only wanted a teaspoon. I could go on for hours but it's hurting my brain x

I work in a school the term ‘human rights’ is thrown about a lot.
The head is great through. The parents complain about how their child had their human rights compromised with detention or if they have to spend a few hours in ‘the thinking room’ (usually for throwing a chair etc). The head shrugs and says ‘if you don’t like it, take them out, easy’. The school is massively oversubscribed anyway.

I worked for a museum, a man rang and told me that he wanted to bring his elderly mother and how long did I think it would take them to go round? I told him it depended on how long they spent looking at each exhibit, whether they talked about it, had a coffee etc but we were quite a small museum so probably no more than 2 hours and that a lot of our exhibits were aimed at children so probably less. He also asked if we had disabled parking, I said yes but that it needed booking. If he told me when they were coming I would book it now and he'd just need to ring the desk when he arrived and they'd send the security guy down to let him in. He declined to book it because he wanted to choose a date with his mother.
My manager later got a complaint because the parking space hadn't been free when he'd just turned up and it had only taken them an hour to look round so he'd been forced to have lunch in our (very nice) cafe and wanted a refund for it
As a teacher a parent complained to the principal that I'd given her precious son a lunchtime detention for not doing his homework. According to her her son had done his homework but forgotten to bring it in (even though he had his workbook with him) and that I should have taken his word for it that he'd done the work. She also complained that a lunchtime detention was contravening his human rights because it meant he didn't get lunch - he'd had his lunch with all his friends then spent 15 minutes in the classroom finishing some work and sharpening some pencils for me. So many other mad parents I could share but I try not to think about them.

Thank you Blutopia

I thought so

I used to work for M&S customer service and a customer called up and complained that he had ordered a woman's clear make up bag for a hospital stay and didn't want anyone to know, but we had emailed confirmation to him, along with a photo so now everyone could see it and would know. Took some time to (politely) explain that unless the hospital staff had his password to access his email, then no one would know. I don't think he was entirely convinced.

I helped out at the summer fair at my niece’s school, which had a 1960s theme. I was working on a soft drinks stall where we had, amongst other things, Dandelion and Burdock and cream soda (both very popular in the 60s). Several people bought their drinks and then came back and complained because ‘I thought it was Coke/Lemonade’ - despite the fact that we also had both Coke and Lemonade on offer, with the bottles literally next to the other drinks.

Someone bought a pie from us one day. We sell them cold and wrapped. She came back the next day to say she had followed the cooking instructions and it had burnt her husband's mouth. We explained that on the back of the packaging there is a warning about eating it hot (steak and pastry equals trapped heat) and that we are not in control of how fast people eat the pie when hot.

Someone bought a pie from us one day. We sell them cold and wrapped. She came back the next day to say she had followed the cooking instructions and it had burnt her husband's mouth. We explained that on the back of the packaging there is a warning about eating it hot (steak and pastry equals trapped heat) and that we are not in control of how fast people eat the pie when hot.

Someone bought a pie from us one day. We sell them cold and wrapped. She came back the next day to say she had followed the cooking instructions and it had burnt her husband's mouth. We explained that on the back of the packaging there is a warning about eating it hot (steak and pastry equals trapped heat) and that we are not in control of how fast people eat the pie when hot.