21 Of The Most Entitled Things People Have Ever Witnessed At Work

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article with pictures of entitled employees, customers, and bosses. People who read that post shared their own stories of dealing with entitled people at work. The bar for my faith in humanity was already pretty low by geeEEEEEEzzzzzz.

Submissions from this Reddit thread have also been included.

1.“I once brought in tea for my boss because he had a bad day, and I wanted to do something nice. From then on, whenever he saw me, he would yell ‘tea’ and would demand that I make tea for him. I quit a few months later.”

— Anonymous

2.“Hospital discharge coordinator here: Had a middle management person call and tell me he’d buy me an espresso drink if I would discharge a medically complex patient before a certain date. 1. I don’t discharge patients; doctors discharge patients (said patient was not medically stable for discharge). 2. I am a professional person who takes pride in my work, which I perform for wages and self-satisfaction. To try and tempt me with an espresso drink is freaking insulting.”

— madeleinemagillb

3.“When I worked at Best Buy, we had a girl quit after her second day because she found out she had to vacuum her section at the end of the night. Apparently, she didn’t ‘do’ vacuuming.”

—u/schaudhery

4.“I work at a high-end buffet here in Vegas. You get seated, are told to wait, I come up and greet you, explain our offerings, go over the drink menu, take a drink order, and then inform you to help yourself while I get the drinks. As I stepped away, I heard a kid about eight or so say, ‘So I have to get my own food?’ Mom said yes. Kid said, ‘I told you we should have brought Michael with us.’ Mom said, ‘NO, I told you before, we’re not bringing our butler on vacation.’ I was five feet away, and this was clear as day. That kid was 100% not joking one bit. He really wanted his family butler to be on vacation so he wouldn’t have to walk to a buffet and get his own food. I’m not insulting the little dude for having one baller lifestyle, but holy fuck that was a mindfuck of a conversation to hear.”

— u/buffetserver

5.“My last experience with an entitled customer was when I was working at a mom-and-pop shop. I had spent at least $50 of my own money buying trick-or-treat candy. Mind you, this was a minimum wage job in 2006. Anyway, the first customer of the day comes in, looks around, waltzes up to the register, says ‘trick or treat,’ grabs THE ENTIRE BUCKET of candy, and sashays her stank ass out the door.”

— CourtesyFlush

6.“Building service guy at my work took off the free pad and tampon dispenser, replacing it with a sign that said ‘It can’t be that big of a deal to wait until you get home to get another one, right?’. Yeah, TSS ain’t that big of a deal at all🙄.”

— Anonymous

7.“My wife ‘fluffs’ the tip jar by putting in a dollar or two before her shift. She caught a co-worker trying to take her dollar right before they changed shifts. So now, she puts an origami dollar bill in the jar so everyone knows it’s hers.”

— prokitten497

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8.“I worked in a pet boarding facility, and sometimes the customers would bring in pastries or donuts to thank the staff for taking care of their pets. A woman brought in a box of really fancy cupcakes for us, and my coworker brought her husband and three kids (who were picking her up after her shift) into the employee break room. They all took two cupcakes each. That left only one cupcake for the other eight employees that were there. Her husband and kids didn’t work there wtf.

— charmingowl72

9.“Entitled customer at makeup counter. She was bitching at me while testing a lipstick. This was the old days when you could just pull out a lipstick and put it on your mouth. She was so busy bitching while she was putting it on that it broke off and fell in her mouth. She had to ask me to get her a tissue so she could spit it out with her mouth full of lipstick used by many others. I slowly walked to the tissue box. I will never be in customer service again. I hope it made her sick. Customers treat you like crap.”

— Anyonmous

10.“There was this girl who started working at the store where I worked, and one night, we were scheduled to work together in the same area. People who work in an area together usually talk while performing the menial tasks, so I figured I would get to know her. She explained she was a former model, and she seemed super prissy. Not to insult her character, but it explains why she said what she did. Imagine a typical conversation where you’re trading stories and comparing, but every time I would talk, she would say, verbatim, ‘Yeahhhhh, but I don’t really care about that’ and ‘I don’t really want to hear about that’ with no proposed alternatives to the conversation or anything. It screamed, ‘I’ll talk, you’ll listen, and nothing else.'”

— u/IsolatedThinker89

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11.“We have a genuinely awesome crew, and days and nights are about 75% great people. When I started four years ago, it was owned by a family who owned 16 stores, knew our names, and gave Christmas presents. Two years ago, a huge company bought us out, slashed labor, raised prices, and gave us unattainable goals. They held a company-wide contest to lower drive-thru times and increase positive customer comments. We absolutely busted butt for a month and came in on top. Our ‘prize’ for 25 adults and teens? A small bag of miniature stuffed animal keychains shipped straight from Amazon. Us managers paid to have it shipped to our regional manager with a typed note inside that said, ‘Obviously, you guys need the money more than we deserve an actual reward, so you can return this.’ I wouldn’t have even shown the contents of the box to the staff. We bought everyone Chinese food and Starbucks because they deserved it.”

— Anonymous

12.“I owned and managed a dog training business. One of my trainers implemented a squeaker to coax a dog through an agility course. One of my other trainers didn’t like the sound, so she stopped the class and grabbed the squeaker.”

— Anonymous

13.“I worked at Starbucks for eight years and did time at several locations around the area. One of my (I’M SO GLAD I CAN SAY THIS NOW) *former* coworkers was a bigoted, mid-50s retired police officer who would comp the order any time any kind of officer came through. After he left, we continued to have uniformed officers come through asking for him and belligerently demanding that their orders be free after we told them he took another job. I had a few throw their coffee back on me when I told them their total.”

— Anonymous

14.“I had to fish a used diaper out of the women’s toilet. We had baby change facilities, but this moron tried to flush it.”

— Anonymous

15.“During the pandemic, someone literally attempted to rip the mask off my face while I worked at Walmart. He didn’t know I have amazing spatial memory and used the jeans table I was working on to my advantage. I know how to fight, so I’m also a side-stepping master and used that to my advantage here. Guess who failed at ripping off my mask while hitting both ankles and shins on the corners of that table? He did, and he attempted to report me to management for that. Attempting to get an employee in trouble for avoiding potential assault is pretty entitled if you ask me. I pointed out to management that I was literally doing my job, as per video evidence. I didn’t get punished for doing that!”

— Anonymous

16.“Saw some, like, 12-year-old rich kid with his dad at Guitar Center buying like $6,000 worth of recording equipment. An item he was purchasing was on the lowest shelf, yet he snapped his fingers and pointed at it, telling an employee to ‘fetch this’ for him.”

—u/deleted

17.“Ex-friend was with me at lunch. The waiter came up to the table and she looked him up and down. She shook her head and said, ‘No… no, go get someone else, I’m not putting up with you for the next hour.’ We weren’t friends for long after that.”

— u/jippyzippylippy

18.“I work at a grocery store deli, and a coworker was once asked what the sale items were, so my coworker mentioned that all yellow signs are specials, and she pointed to the signs we have. The customer point-blank told the coworker that she has no time to look at the signs, she needs to tell her all the sales.”

— u/Mewmaster101

19.“It was my first day working in a coffee shop. I was replacing someone else, and in the confusion of the switch, I didn’t get the next customer’s order right. He looked at me angrily as I remade his order and said, ‘Should have stayed in school!’ I almost started crying, but managed to keep my composure.”

— DJBlok

20.“At my first job (Firehouse Subs), I had a guy come in, bitching that his drive through order was wrong. He sort of slammed the bag down on the counter while he was yelling, and held up the receipt to prove it. Kept shaking it, too, like I wasn’t looking. My job at the moment was just cutting and wrapping sandwiches, so I kept being like, ‘Sir, I’m really sorry that happened, but if you just go to the cashier, she’ll get you squared away.’ But he wouldn’t go. He kept yelling at me like it was my fault. Eventually, he wadded up his receipt and threw it at me. That is the only time I ever turned and walked away without another word.”

— u/motherfuqueer

21.Finally, “When I was 18, I was an assistant manager at a froyo place. All the other employees were 14-17 and in high school. I had to confront two employees after being made aware they never, ever cleaned anything (which, of course, is a sanitary violation). The employees are completely unrelated and barely knew each other outside of being coworkers. They both laughed at me and said they had maids who cleaned their houses, so they never learned how to clean. I was so dumbstruck that my jaw actually dropped.”

— u/deleted

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