35 Times Service Industry Workers Celebrated Moments Of ‘Instant Karma’ After Dealing With Extremely Rude Customers

They say there are no bad customers, only wrong attitudes. But anyone who's ever worked in the service industry will tell you that’s far from the truth. Customers who rant for hours on end, who snap their fingers at you, and forget to treat you as a human being are just a few things from the list. Unfortunately, dealing with irrational behaviors is nothing new, and there’s often not a thing you can do but respond in a respectful manner.

If you are lucky, though, you get to experience the moment when karma quickly catches up with extremely disrespectful people and puts them in their rightful place. Well, at least there's one thread over on Reddit full of these delightful stories.

Created by a now-deleted user, it reached out to retail and service workers: "What's the best instant karma you've seen happen to a rude customer?" The post quickly flooded with responses that prove the universe sometimes works in mysterious yet glorious ways. So, buckle up because we gathered some of the best answers from the thread. Upvote the ones you liked most and if you have a similar tale to share, tell us about it in the comments below!

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35 Times Service Industry Workers Celebrated Moments Of 'Instant Karma' After Dealing With Extremely Rude Customers Repost as I've told this story before.
It was about three years ago. An employee, we'll call him Dave, was working at my retail store when two customers walk in at about the same time, one black, one white. Dave was being trained on register after being there for only a month or so with the manager standing behind him. The two customers get to the register at about the same time, but the black man beat him there. The black man then has the audacity to ask how good the product was before he bought it, and the white man behind him said,"Do I really have to wait for this f*****g n****r to be done?" The black man was unfazed, but Dave said "Sir, please don't use slurs like that or I am going to have to ask you to leave."
White man: "Oh, big man? you going to make me leave, big man? Because I called this n****r a f*****g n****r?"
Dave(6"5'): "Yes, I am a big man, and you have to leave now."
White man: "F*****g fight me then, big man! I'll f*****g destroy you!"
Dave: "Alright, I will. Let me clock out and grab my stuff and I'll meet you outside."
The white man was a little surprised by the fact that he accepted. Dave turned to the manager and said, "Thank you so much for the opportunity, but I'm afraid I have to quit."
Manager: "Dave, I get it, but you don't have to do this."
Dave: "Yes I do."
The white man was getting himself pumped up outside as Dave clocked out, grabbed his coat and his Pepsi, and walked outside where he sucker-punched the white man in the cheekbone, sprawling him out onto the curb. Dave drove off.

TL;DR: Dave politely quit so he could knock a racist customer out with a single punch.

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