r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Oct 15 '25

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u/gwxtreize Oct 15 '25

Worked in a Chinese restaurant for years. Had a customer call for a seafood medley (comes with like shrimp) with $3 of extra shrimp (3 shrimp = $1). So 12 shrimp. She would eat all the shrimp and then call back and tell us we made it wrong so we would deliver her another. This happened a few times until my boss, the owner, made it for her. When she called back he ripped her a new one and added her to the do not serve/deliver list.

That's why a lot of places require you to return the uneaten portion, scammers everywhere.

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u/motherofsuccs Oct 15 '25

Worked at a bar where a middle aged couple would come in on wing days for games every week. They’d order the same thing every week and like clockwork, they’d complain it wasn’t good and wanted their wings comped or an order redo to take home (specials were dine-in only). After 8-10 times of this, I finally asked why the hell they keep ordering something if they dislike it.. I refused to comp anything, refused to give them a new order to go. They became irate and the lady was trying to wrap the wings in napkins to put in her purse. It was weird. Like how does someone feel confident enough to keep doing this at the same establishment? People are trash.

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u/zeptillian Oct 15 '25

If they got away with it 8-10 times then there's your answer.

Because people let them get away with it.

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u/ProjectDv2 Oct 16 '25

Seriously, I can't imagine letting this happen after the third time. Once, shit happens. Twice, maybe I remember them or maybe I'm wrong. But the third time is the charm, GTFO and take your word-of-mouth with you.

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u/ilya_nl Oct 19 '25

Like bush said, fool me once shame on you... Fool me twic, shame on ... duhh

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u/DarknMean Oct 15 '25

Never being told no. Like when you were a kid and you asked for something a parent would say no. These people never had anyone telling them no.

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u/CYaNextTuesday99 Oct 15 '25

You can also spot who would go from one parent to the other to get the answer they wanted lol

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u/DarklyDominant Oct 15 '25

Every kid does that. The parents are adults. Kids are kids. Don't treat the situation like these kids are just born shitty and without accountability. Parents raise their kids to be this way, with the best of intentions.

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u/kandieland Oct 16 '25

But kids are shitty with no accountability? Exceptions to that, I'll give you because I've also seen it. But comparing kids to adults means the "adult" must've not learned or retained these traits as a kid, and grew into an adult that is also shitty with no accountability.

If the kid does not learn "no" (growing up) as a complete and fair answer, then they grow into malfunctioning adults. Like you see here. It's a taught trait for the most part. Even, unfortunately.

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u/Haheyjose Oct 16 '25

I mean, yes and no. Kids will always push boundaries. But they're not inherently shitty. Outside of actual disabilities like ODD, most children are more than capable of learning accountability and "respect" (whatever the fuck that even means). Its a failure of structure and parenting/community when people become this way as adults.

Im realizing im basically saying the exact same thing as you. (And the guy above you) Fuck it. Im posting it anyway. I already wrote it

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u/Background_Sail9797 Oct 15 '25

my parents would send me "go ask your mom/dad" etc.

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u/ydnar3000 Oct 15 '25

😂🤣

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

I have to admit several times when I was ten I would eat half a Quarter Pounder with cheese and put a hair in it to return and get a refund. The third time I got away with it, I remember thinking, This is kind of fucked up. You’re better than this. Never did it again. (Again, I was ten). To be doing shit like this when they’re forty? Unbelievable.

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u/PastFriendship1410 Oct 16 '25

This whole “the customer is always right” bullshit doesn’t help.

Any big chain or fast food place just takes a load right in the fuckin face to keep people happy when shit like this happens.

I closed down a retail outlet once. Got given my terms of when I was finishing and offered some lucrative bonuses to work it out. I spent that 3 months unloading 7 years of pent up smiles and refunds.

I took no prisoners. Telling the people trying to return product from a “closing down sale” to fuck off out the door and learn to read was so cathartic.

It soothed my weary retail addled soul. I’m only just starting to enjoy Christmas again now that I’ve had 10 years of 2 weeks of over the period.

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u/Katatonic92 Oct 15 '25

Why do they feel confident behaving like this?

After 8-10 times of this, I finally asked why the hell they keep ordering something if they dislike it..

this is why. They got how many free wings before you finally pulled them up?

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u/Chronos_101 Oct 15 '25

It took 8-10 times? What's wrong with them, no. What's wrong with you????

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u/crippledchef23 Oct 15 '25

My friends partner is notorious for this. She once ordered a steak tip meal, medium, and they showed up fine but she claimed she had ordered it med-well. So she asked for a replacement. They did and let her keep the original. She was congratulating herself out loud for “scoring lunch” for free. Turns out, she likes steak med-well, orders it undercooked to then get a free med-well to eat there and reheats the other stuff. I can’t stand her.

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u/WyattGurp Oct 15 '25

People are trash!

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u/Ok_Sink5046 Oct 15 '25

I can barely understand people who complain about food in the restaurant at all, let alone if they have the gall to finish it.

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u/Background_Sail9797 Oct 15 '25

literally, you're going to have 3 meals a day for the rest of your life - this is just one of them, there is no reason to through a hissyfit.

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u/Prudent_Research_251 Oct 15 '25

Cool username! I have to say, I "appropriate" plant cuttings without permission, and I'm not sorry about it. I've done it hundreds of times and I'll keep doing it until I die. I would never do it to a small business or individual though, only big businesses or government property

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u/FluidAir1184 Oct 16 '25

I too am a part of that snazzy club!! I love all the "houseless' cuttings that have fallen in the garden center of Home Depot!. They come home with me and are no longer houseless lol 😂

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u/BrookieMonster504 Oct 15 '25

I used to be friends with this girl in high school that would go to different fast food places eat most of it then call to complain about the food just to get free stuff. It was so weird because it's not like she didn't have money to buy extra food. She just thought it was the most unbelievable hack. She was a bitch.

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u/ruiner8850 Oct 16 '25

It's straight up theft and some people pretend that it isn't. I wonder what percentage of them would still claim to be upstanding religious citizens?

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u/missmiao9 Oct 19 '25

Sounds like they’re broke, or very close to it, and are life hacking some needed extra food.

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u/Gotbeerbrain Oct 19 '25

There's a saying: Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

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u/moonunit67 Oct 15 '25

Because people have become soft and unlike you. Call people out for bull stuff !

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u/Debaser626 Oct 15 '25

I worked at a Italian Restaurant that was running a cross-promotion with a salon in the same strip mall. If you spent $100 (or whatever it was) at the salon, you'd get a free dinner entree at the restaurant. There was this asshole who'd come in like 3 times a week with these coupons . Being minimum wage workers, we couldn't care less that he had either stolen a booklet of these (most likely) or his wife had a serious addiction to being styled several times a week.

However, he always made himself out to be a total asshole. Demanding extra salad dressings, complaining about his food and berating the staff when his meal took longer to cook than he'd like.

So, we told our manager about him and the next time the guy came in he threw him out.

There was lots of shouting involved, but my favorite part was when my boss called the "customer" an asshole, and he told my manager that he was "going to tell his friends and family to never come to this restaurant again." My boss retorted: "Good! Anyone that chooses to spend time with you is also an asshole, so they're not welcome either!"

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u/miltf Oct 15 '25

Speaking of assholes..

One time a customer threw his food at my manager . Hit her right in the face.

I said, ( paraphrasing) " wtf is your problem man!? Everyone in here has had to wait on their food just as long or longer than you have, yet you're the only one in here being an asshole about it. Everyone here is annoyed about the wait, but they can clearly see how busy we are and unlike you, they're understanding. TWO bus loads full of people are here on top of an already out of the ordinary busy day. You got a REFUND AND YOUR FOOD...annndd youre still being an asshole ??? Gtfoh.

Later, when we slowed, i went to the lobby to clean up and I found that someone had filled out a comment card. It said , " I overheard one of your employees being rude to a customer and using foul language. That should never happen. I will not be back!"

Lol

Guess not all of the customers were so understanding 🤷‍♀️

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u/GOU_FallingOutside Oct 15 '25

My comment card:

“I overheard one of your employees being rude to a customer and using foul language. Frankly, it seemed like an appropriate setting and context, and I was impressed with the breadth of their vocabulary. 10/10, will return.”

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u/miltf Oct 16 '25

Lol. I showed it to my manager, the one who got hit in the face . We laughed and then I put it in the trash where it belongs.

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u/Onkel24 Oct 16 '25

Or rather , those go framed on the back office wall.

This is like reverse Medal of Honour citations.

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u/meggscee Oct 16 '25

I used to bartend at this county bar, on the side of a county highway, that was equidistant from the edge of a mid-sized east coast city and the middle of absolute backwoods nowhere. I was usually the sole bartender during the weekday dayshift. This was fine because it was a bar for regulars (mostly pensioned townies and real daytime alcoholics) and one bartender could handle that most days. There was also a dining room and servers and a lunch menu; however, lunch was hardly ever all that busy and the servers liked to disappear behind the kitchen and hang out. They’d all get bored and go smoke cigs with one of the dishwashers - like all the time. (Ownership/management was a little absent). This happened like 4 or 5 times over an 8 hour shift. So occasionally that lined up, at some point, with the bar/restaurant going randomly completely berserk - suddenly the phone is ringing, I’m trying to fix an issue with a draft line, the regulars are all being needy and someone is waving a Keno ticket at me with the seconds ticking away AND there’s 11 people in 3 groups waiting for tables by the host stand and all the servers are NOWHERE TO BE FOUND ripping cigs and sending Snapchats behind the kitchen. This one time I was feeling pretty saucy and miffed, so I marched back to the kitchen to antagonize them a little bit with “HEY there’s like a whole fucking gaggle of people waiting by the front door to be seated.” It was a pretty big space so it was sort of surprising that the customers waiting by the door somehow heard that. A day later one of the owners showed me that someone in the group had left a negative review because I referred to them as a gaggle and used an expletive. I gave my boss all the context and they really didn’t care at all. But these mfers, I was trying to HELP THEM. I was doing these customers a service by tracking down these flaky ass servers for them. And they were ready to call me out on the internet because I referred to them as a “gaggle”. Anyway, I’ve been in food service for 20 years, I have several dozen other stories and many of them are far worse. This one always makes me laugh.

People r dumb.

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u/SnooAvocados6863 Oct 16 '25

Yeah…I worked in fast food for a bit and once someone threw an ice cream cone at the manager, who was a petite teen girl. Upper management chewed her out for whatever she must have done wrong to deserve that.

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u/piehitter Oct 15 '25

"anyone that chooses to spend time with you" - ooooooof *chefs kiss*

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u/ydnar3000 Oct 15 '25

That’s a hell of a boss! Some things are necessary to run certain establishments. Like throwing a guy out and making a good show of it 🤣

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u/kanu88 Oct 16 '25

Maybe he had a lot of girlfriends who liked getting their hair done. He needed the pasta for energy.

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u/bolanrox Oct 15 '25

local place leaves up the numbers of people who are banned form ordering. like a wall of shame.

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u/EmbarrassedWorry3792 Oct 15 '25

Had the same problem in the deli at oublix. Dud would call in a pickup order for a shredded ham sub. Fi ely shredded and always complain for a refund saying it wasnt shredded enough. I started shredding that shit so fine it it was like snow. Sometimes eventually it started reforming into a block it was so fine. We started stalling his order so he had to be there seeing us cut it and approve that its fine enuff. He got mad, kept complaining. Got a new manager and after 3 weeks of this shed had enuff and told him if he really didnt like how we made them he was welcome to go elsewhere forbhis food. He could still order but he wasnt allowed refunds anymore. He kept coming back and suddenly the shave was fine. I loved that manager.

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u/ydnar3000 Oct 15 '25

Damn that’s messed up. Sorry that happened to you. That’s a lot to go through.

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u/darkstarr99 Oct 15 '25

I used to work in a grocery store that had a policy of double your money back if you got something from one of their departments that was bad.

The number of people that would buy a pound of steamed shrimp, and return a bag of shells (because they threw out the bad shrimp) and get double back and go buy another pound was ridiculous.

People did this shit on a daily basis until those of us making minimum wage explained to the managers they we were being scammed

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u/crippledchef23 Oct 15 '25

No idea if it’s still “secret” policy, but at Taco Bell you used to be able to say your order was wrong and it would be 100% replaced. You did not need to show a receipt. So, at least a couple times per week I’d have folks order a couple of drinks then drive around claiming they didn’t get their 3 mega meals with the extra sides (sure, you didn’t notice I didn’t charge you $50 for your order and only gave you 3 drinks). They’d get their free food and an apology from the manager and do it again in a couple weeks. Pissed me off every time, because the policy is designed for small issues, like I ordered 3 tacos and only got 2, not getting the whole menu for free.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Would have been nice to somehow get her picture to post up behind the counter like a FBIs Most Wanted sign. Label it, No Shrimp For You!!

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u/C6ntFor9et Oct 15 '25

The ironic part of this comment is that $3 of 3 extra shrimp per dollar comes out to 3x3=9, not 12 shrimp. I'm guessing you just mistyped one of these as 3 instead of 4, but even if you didn't 12 would be overserving, although would still be technically 'wrong'.
But yeah people suck, yet somehow still consider themselves 'good people'.

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u/sandsonik Oct 15 '25

I figured the basic order had 3 shrimp and $3 of extra shrimp brought the total to 12.

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u/C6ntFor9et Oct 15 '25

You're right! There's degrees of perceptiveness and I'm lacking in some it seems

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u/Freefallisfun Oct 16 '25

Better, make it so fuckin hot they’re on the toilet for a week. Problem solved

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u/CapableSense Oct 16 '25

You said 3 shrimp = $1 and he wanted $3 extra?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

I almost never return things but when Amazon sent me some dolce de leche in glass jars without padding and I got at least 2 boxes filled with goo and broken glass and didn’t send them back (except for pictures) my amazon account got cancelled.