Most ridiculous complaint.

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I got a supermarket delivery and it arrived about 10 mins before the time slot. I was happy with this but joked with the driver about it being early.

He said some people do make genuine complaint if he is early.

At one house he knocked on the door, the door was opened and he was told to come back at the allotted time. It was 2 mins.

Sorry....... got a bit lost on that one.😖

Are you drunk? 🫤. What does that say?

Just say 'fine' - like everybody else! No need to be annoyed.

I agree. They ask you this while you’re actually concentrating on something else. But if you then reply “nothing much” it appears rude.

I was by myself on the shop floor when everything started to go black just as a man came to the till. I had to put my face about 10cm from the phone to make out the numbers to page the upstairs staff and i apologised profusely and managed to mumble that someone would be down immediately but I was about to faint. He started shouting at me and was still shouting as I fell to the ground! He was served by my manager and was clearly in such a rush that he made a complaint about me!

I tend to not want a conversation when I’m shopping so my default is usually just to say, nothing much.

I don’t think that appears rude at all.

I worked at a place that had lots of ponds in the grounds with swans, someone complained to us he'd seen a heron eat a cygnet and what are we doing about it ... hope he never watched Springwatch its a brutal time of year in nature!

I had the same - they were really arsey and I was home 15 mins before they were due. I always book them for after the school run.

I phoned and complained to the company because he was so rude about my not being there 25 mins before my slot 🤪

had this before! they were a few minutes early, thought nothing of it, just opened the door and the driver apologised for being early- explained people do get really funny!

@ToadRage I wish I'd encountered more people like you during COVID. Especially when they were behind a fixed screen with a mask on. I had no chance of hearing them. I usually ended up putting my ear to the hole used to pass stuff through

Work on a national helpline - my opening line “good morning my name is X - do you want help with Y”
Shouted response “why are you so rude and you don’t help, I’m going to make a complaint- you talk to me like shit. I want to complain - tell me where you work”
Conversation did not get better. As far as I know no complaint.

we used to get complaints (mainly from Americans, it has to be said) from people asking why we'd built the castle on top of such a steep hill.

I've heard stories of Americans asking why they built Windsor Castle so close to the airport.

Someone I knew was once outraged when a delivery driver phoned her to say he was running early, he was parked round the corner, and could he make the delivery now. The outrageous thing was not that he wanted to deliver early, but that he was parked round the corner. She seemed to think it was equivalent to stalking or something; I don't know what she thought he should have done instead.

Not so much a complaint but when I was a reporter I interviewed someone who said they disliked a certain location because they felt the local men sexually harassed them a lot. Men from said location then proceeded to send me emails and messages threatening to rape or kill me for spreading such ‘lies’.

Proved her point. And missed the point of who was making the statement.

I work in a primary school, I'm not sure you're ready 😆

A drunk lady came into her mothers shop - they sell fabric and her mother does sewing and alterations. The lady was angry they didn’t have a damask fabric and had a go at them for 15 minutes, then ordered the fabric and paid by throwing £100 on the counter and walking out. The lady never came back for fabric, money nor change so the mother eventually gave the poster the £100. Another time, a teacher asked for the manager to complain about the poster so her mother came out from the back and said ‘she’s as good if not better than me so if you don’t want to deal with her then leave’.

The poster then states that her mother is not lovable but backs her children.

I was called stupid in a fabric store when I was unable to define the measurement system of wales in corduroy. It was a man natch, he was furious I couldn't explain what exactly 10 wales meant.

I was too young and nice then to tell him to fuck off, today I'd do that.

Ahh that would be the bloke who became incandescent with rage when I wouldn’t sell him cough syrup for his wife. She was coughing up blood and I insisted he sought medical attention for her.

He raged and screamed and spat at me (luckily it missed) ‘All she needs is buttercup syrup and this thick cunt won’t give it to me!’.

No two minutes sounds like an entitled tosser! Mumsnet is full of them!

I worked in medical room of secondary school. 14yr old came in at end of lunch break saying he was dizzy. Let him sit it out for 10 mins. Got him to go to lesson but said return if still feel unwell. He came back after twenty mins so I called parent & she collected him. Next day she made a complaint about me as he had a broken arm and I hadn’t diagnosed it. Hmmm the 14yr old lad told me he was dizzy, he got up & down from medical bed, picked up his bag and put his coat on. Never once mentioned pain anywhere let alone his arm!!!
shame on me for not realising eh!

My Tesco is often early, sometimes by 20 minutes or so and they have never called! Is never complain but it is a bit annoying as I've booked a time slot for a reason.

I taught a student once who was very smart and got an A* in the A level that I taught him and got in to Cambridge. On results day, he emailed the school to complain that I hadn’t taught him well enough!

I was recently furious with a supermarket delivery person who came early, hammered repeatedly on the door and then leant on the doorbell while I was in a work meeting. I don't think I was the one being unreasonable. He obviously disagreed.

Ocado are good, though, for not doing this.

I must be lucky with our delivery drivers here. I agree with you on the slot you picked was done for a reason too, mine is specifically picked for when I finish work and before I have to go out later on.

We get a Sainsbury delivery , sometimes the house across the road has their delivery slot a few hours ahead of us and the driver will ask if they can do ours after .
They always ask , never assume and it is fine . We don't book a 1 hour slot anyway , usually 4 hour so prepare to be flexible .

Don't move to Australia. It is considered incredibly rude not to ask after somebody - be It cashier, salesperson, receptionist. We start every interaction with "how is your day going"?