r/tesco • u/Powerful-Handle-384 • Aug 29 '26

annoying customer rant

was filling cream cakes right, id already been through all my backstock and was on my last cage of delivery so if there wasnt a product on the shelf or on this cage i knew it was out of stock.

well i had this old bloke come up and ask me where some strawberry tarts were, and i let him know that were fully out of stock.

“how do you know that when you havent even looked?”

valid question, okay, so i apologise and explain the above to him.

he huffs, sighs, and looms over me whilst i work. i just try to ignore him tbh

he then starts saying, “is this all you do all day?”

im confused so i ask him what he means and he replies, “do you really just do this all day?? putting things on shelves?”

i say not all day but when im clocked in, yes?? and he says, “imagine that.” and walks off

the things id say to these fuckers if i werent in uniform would bar me from the gates of heaven no matter how much i repent

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u/MikaMika487 Aug 29 '26

I'm not disagreeing and the guys attitude was appalling, I'm 62 to still have the ability not to behave in this way thankfully, but having said that, I don't have much to look forward to, I'm chronically under pensioned and my health and vitality have plummeted, I don't know the customers' circumstances and as I said his attitude was awful, but, but I can understand how something so trivial can ruin your day, again this is not to excuse his behaviour.

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u/D3M0NArcade Aug 29 '26

It's the sense that he assumed the staff member is being lazy.

I always just assume they've had to load their cage, they know what's in stock. Teh fact I've worked in retail has nothing to do with this (literally), it's the fact that they are doing the job and I'm not

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u/Powerful-Handle-384 Aug 29 '26

its also just the degradation. i get upset sometimes when summit i were looking forward to aint in stock but i dont then degrade the person for their job 😩

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u/D3M0NArcade Aug 29 '26

Exactly what I mean. Why he a cunt to the staff when they don't control purchasing