Working in customer facing jobs is tough for a lot of reasons. The biggest one is, of course, the fact that some customers are pretty awful. Rude and unappreciative is putting it lightly.
So when you hear a story where somebody's attempt to be extra petty toward service workers ends up backfiring on them, you can't help but laugh and cheer.
Reddit user PracticalDadAdvice posted his story to the r/MaliciousCompliance sub, detailing how a rude woman ended up biting off more than she could chew when trying to get revenge for "poor service."
"We had a client come in with a busted electronic; we fixed it up for her and gave her a decent discount on the work; her final bill for parts and four hours of labor was a hundred dollars even, discounted down from two-hundred and twenty."
"She claimed that the kid who did the work didn't know what she was doing (she did, and I had supervised her) and that the kid who helped her in the front room was rude to her (he wasn't, but she didn't like the little pride flag pin he was wearing)."
"...but pointed out that the work she had asked for was done, done correctly, and her bill was due on pick-up of the piece."
"...I told her we'd take a personal check. She wrote out a check, problem solved.
I deposited the day's checks, and got a note from my bank that one had bounced. Her check, of course."
"She rolls up into the office carrying a bag, and I knew exactly what was going on. She drops — of course — a bag of pennies on the front desk."
"She just needs to go get the rest of our 'hard-earned money' (said with a sneer, of course). The kid at the front desk looks like he's about to cry, so I stop working on the thing I'm working on and take over."
"She was expecting a bigger reaction, I think - either that or she hadn't thought this through.
Ten thousand pennies, plus the extra twenty-five dollars, weighs a lot."
"Finally, shaking and sweaty, she deposited the last of the bags on the countertop. The pennies were loose, not in coin-rolls. She'd done some work to prove her point."
"She started to realize that this was going to take a while, and tried to leave; I told her that she couldn't leave until we'd signed off on her bill... and I would inform our local constabulary if she left without paying."
"Another one of my kids, bless his heart, asked her if she wanted help carrying the pennies back to her car. She looked at all of us with a face of sheer panic, mumbled 'no, thank you, just keep them,' and bolted."
"We loaded the bags into my vehicle — we used the elevator she'd walked by a few times — took them to the bank and used the coin machine to deposit them, then wrote out a donation to our local shelter for the amount she'd dropped off."
Now there's a lesson that I didn't expect anyone to have to learn today.
