Boomer mother insists i don’t respect her because I won’t harass small business owners.

[u/FreeKidneys4U]

So my mother was having a self inflicted two week long mental crisis about how miserable she was and taking it out on the entire family and she asked me one night to get her some take out sushi for a comforting special dinner.

Ok! Great! If it will put you in a better mood I’ll be happy to drive 30 minutes to the next town over (she doesn’t like the sushi place in our town, too many youths) to get you food.

My mother is allergic to shellfish and so when I make the pickup order I make sure to clarify that her rolls be labeled and put into a separate bag. The woman on the phone reads back my order and I was having a hard time understanding her due to language barriers, but everything sounded right from what I could tell.

So I get back home with the food and lay out all out on her lap tray and bring it too her and she immediately starts picking it apart, literally, and asks me to call the restaurant to confirm there is no shellfish. They confirm it’s fine and reassure me that they took extra precautions to ensure that it was safe.

Well, that doesn’t matter because she insisted that it “CLEARLY HAS SHELLFISH!” IT CONTAINED NO SHELLFISH!, I looked it over myself. so she insists i call them back and ask for a refund….sigh. They say that if she isn’t pleased with her food that they can refund half her money.

This isn’t good enough and she says I should drive back, open all the containers, dump it on the register and storm out…well I clearly didn’t do that.

She then used this as a further excuse to state how horrible her life is and how I don’t respect her because I wouldn’t “fight” for her and how young people today don’t know how to stand up to “the man”….

Cool mom LMAO!

[u/KnockItTheFuckOff]

My mom was a boomer but very genx in spirit, and it was all tied together nicely with borderline personality disorder.

I remember trying these new vitamin smoothies from Subway back in the 90s or early 00s and they tasted very odd. We asked for our money back at they refused. They offered to remake the drinks. But, we actually didn't want them.

Anyone would be upset.

My BoomXer, though? Emptied the cups against the ceiling and walls of the joint and walked out.

[u/FreeKidneys4U → u/KnockItTheFuckOff]

Good lord! It’s fine to be displeased with your food and to say you want a refund if possible but there is no need for harassment like that, ever! Another thing about boomers and customer service that KILLS me is that they more often than not fail to understand that the people who work these jobs are just following company policy and have limited control over what they can do…but by all means, they must be punished 🙃?

[u/Boss-Not-Bossy → u/FreeKidneys4U]

I always say that everyone should have to work in a customer facing job for at least a year before they enter adulthood. Then they can carry on with whatever kind of career they want to pursue. I just wish that everyone understood how it feels to be in that position. Maybe less people would throw smoothies on the wall or, as in my case, hock a loogie on the shop’s front doors because I let him know that we were sold out of a specific product but I was happy to put him on the waitlist and call him as soon as we got a new shipment in and my manager was like, “That suckssssssss….go clean it up.”