Customer Is ‘Hired’ And ‘Fired’ On The Spot After Karen Yells At Them Thinking They Are A Staff Member

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Dealing with customers can be a serious test of one’s patience. Even more so for someone who doesn’t work at the place to begin with and has to listen to entitled people vent nevertheless.

Redditor u/FantasianMind recently told the ‘Malicious Compliance’ community about the time a lady at a game store mistook them for a staff member. She didn’t care for the fact that the person didn’t work there and requested that the business owner fire them. He did, but only after a quick chat with the ’employee’. Scroll down for the full story.

Some customers are too busy yelling at the staff to realize they might not be actual staff members

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This entitled customer demanded that the store owner fire a person who wasn’t employed there to begin with

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Some customers find it difficult to express dissatisfaction in a pleasant or polite manner

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Arguing with annoying or angry clients is like tilting at windmills. They’re rarely ever polite and usually fight tooth and nail for their truth, whether it’s right or wrong. The well-known cliché that ‘the customer is always right’ does not help in such situations either. It often prompts the client’s sense of entitlement, leaving you—the Don Quixote of the story—trying to fight their rage. In the redditor’s story, the situation was even more hopeless, as the customer was fighting to fire the OP, who wasn’t employed there in the first place.

There are, however, customers who are able to communicate or state their complaints in a civilized manner. This type of client usually just wants to help out; they express their concerns so they are brought to the staff’s attention and fixed if needed. At the end of the day, it can benefit the business. Zippia revealed that whether in a polite way or not as much, roughly 4% of customers actually complain to companies.

The way people express dissatisfaction makes all the difference. (It is that thin line between your comments being taken into consideration and you getting a sneeze muffin—Rachel Green’s way of dealing with rude customers.) The entitled woman at the game store was too engrossed in venting to allow the person to inform her they don’t even work there. That’s why the business owner didn’t give her the time of day to try and actually help her out. It’s worth bearing in mind that ‘treat people the way you want to be treated’ is also a set phrase for a reason.

Dealing with discontented customers can become quite a challenge

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When clients take the less-friendly approach, the staff often has to choose between two evils. The first option is bracing themselves and rolling with the punches; even though the customer’s behavior can make their blood come to a boil, the professional environment typically requires them to stay calm and collected. The second one is fighting back, which rarely ever benefits the business and its reputation. Yet you don’t have to always fight fire with fire; sometimes it is possible to put them in their place by politely complying with their requests.

Engaging in acts of malicious compliance usually requires ingenuity and the ability to think on one’s feet. When the store owner noticed the OP being yelled at, he rushed to get them out of their misery, and in a creative way, too. He struck up a conversation that resulted in the redditor having a giggle and the entitled customer stomping out empty-handed.

It’s an excellent example of how to deal with a patience-test-of-a-human-being without getting into a huge fight and wasting too much of your energy. (An Inc and Go survey revealed that toxic customers have forced up to 60% of employees to leave a job at some point in their careers.) That’s why some redditors made sure to applaud the way the store owner handled the situation in the comments.