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What’s Been Your Worst Customer Service Experience?

I have two contenders. One was when I ordered three glass nesting tables (I was off my meds) and FedEx delivered 93 pounds of glass smithereens to my front porch. It took a three-week concerted email and phone campaign before they came back and took it away. The other was at Walmart. I left a bag of purchases there (for my husband's birthday) and when I went back the woman in customer service wanted to know not only what was IN the bag, but the titles of the books and what was written inside the cards. I think she was off her meds too.
SolitaryPanther · 36-40, M
@Mamapolo2016 ha ha ha wow
Jeephikelove · 51-55, F
Too many to mention, customer service has gone out the window and ran away with common sense.
SolitaryPanther · 36-40, M
@Jeephikelove So true, and it's everywhere even nice places.
Jeephikelove · 51-55, F
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
That's a tossup between trying to get a Blue and White cab to pick me up (which they never did, I ended up cancelling) and the last time I got my hair cut at Great Clips.

The customer service agents at Blue and White kept stringing me along, telling me that there was a cab just 15 minutes away, until someone was finally honest with me and told me that there wouldn't be a cab coming for at least three hours because of the bad weather. The one who finally told me the truth was a kid who couldn't have been a day over 16. He was very patronizing and made it clear how stupid he thought I was to have thought that a cab was ever going to come.

As for the woman who cut my hair at Great Clips, when we were going to the sink where she was going to cut my hair, she pulled on it very hard, and I could feel some of my hairs popping out of my head. I asked her to please be gentle and not pull so hard, but she said, "With hair this long, I have to pull hard, and some hairs are going to come out." She was very rough with me when she was combing out my hair, and she insisted on parting it in the middle when she cut it, even though I asked her to part it on the left side, directly over my left eye. She said I could part my hair wherever I wanted after she had finished, but that she had to part it in the middle because that was best. And she said she didn't have time to be gentle with me because she had another customer coming soon. However, she did have time to take a personal call, which took about 25 minutes, during which I had to sit perfectly still while I waited for her to come back. Then, when she finally came back, she chattered away to her coworker, who was cutting someone else's hair, and she ended up cutting off several more inches than I wanted her to cut off.

I went back several times to complain and asked for the manager, but they said the manager wasn't in and they didn't know when he would be in, and they had no phone number where I could reach him. So they took my name and phone number and told me that he would call me, which he never did. Needless to say, I haven't been back.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@SolitaryPanther Yeah, that was pretty bad. I don't know, I think the woman just didn't see me as someone deserving of respect. It's sad, because I had always had such a good experience at Great Clips until that happened.
SolitaryPanther · 36-40, M
@TeresaRudolph71 Wow it was Great Clips! I would have thought they’d be more professional due to it being a chain.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@SolitaryPanther Yeah, it used to be much better. I'm beginning to wonder if it was just that one person who was bad, or if things have gone downhill and I'll just have to spend a lot more money at fancy salons in the future.
Cantsayno · 56-60, M
Comcast Cable company. All there customer service is in India. My last time I talked with them , I said forget it I’m going with DirecrTV !!!!
11knaves11 · 41-45, M
No disrespect but I just couldn't understand this dude and it got so bad I just started laughing and hung up
juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F
I've had some shocking experiences
ozgirl512 · 26-30, F
@juiceyangel333 fly was undone?
juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F
@ozgirl512 haha doubt it
ozgirl512 · 26-30, F
@juiceyangel333 just a thought ... ;)
PrivatePeeks · 26-30, F
An Indian guy who mumbled everything incomprehensibly. It all sounded like "moom boom loom loom goom"
juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F
newgirl · 56-60, F
Best Buy. Screwed everything up with my kitchen appliances. Never again will I shop there.
SW-User
A generally rude cashier
SW-User
Talking to my ISP for over an hour on the phone to get my service transferred to my new residence only to have them not do it and have no record of the conversation. IiNet not mentioning any names 🙄
SW-User
I think all 10 of my top 10 worst customer service experiences have been with Comcast

 
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