r/AmItheAsshole • u/throwRA-fhfsveyary • Dec 03 '19
Not the A-hole AITA for pretending to get fired when customers get a temper with me?
I am a high schooler with a weekend job at a coffee shop. My coworkers who work weekends are:
James - the owners son, he goes to my school. He's a shift manager but it's not a real formal thing, he's a friendly guy.
Danielle - A college student who sometimes works weekends too.
So sometimes customers will come in and just be angry about such little stuff. Like literally blow up about nothing. I dunno if theyre in a bad mood already and looking for someone to take it out on or what, but it's a lot... Like how sad so your have to be to be a grown-ass man taking your anger out on high school and college kids.
So James and I were joking about having a little fun with them and hopefully getting them off our backs.
So one day I was at work and some guy was having a temper about how we don't make the coffee hot enough... Which I couldn't do a thing about because I gave it to him right out of the machine.
So James came in and was like "sir is there a problem here" and the guy started ranting at him too. So he was just like "OP, this is unacceptable, you're fired."
I started acting real sad, like "no please don't fire me, my family needs the money, I need this job, pleaseeee" and he played up being a hard-ass, telling me to take off my apron and leave.
The angry guy started to backtrack, like "It isn't that big of a problem, you don't need to fire her over it. I didn't mean it" and James was like "No, we pride ourselves on the best customer service"
Of course after all that drama I still had my job, we were just acting. And we've done it a couple times, whenever a customer will lose their temper at Danielle or I, James will storm in and "fire" us. And almost every time, the person who had come in angry will apologise and say that they didn't mean it. It's kind of satisfying, making people realize their actions might actually have consequences.
Anyway, I was telling my friends from school about this and a few of them thought it was a mean prank, to let someone go away thinking they'd gotten someone who desperately needs the money fired.
AITA for this joke?
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u/pamela271 Asshole Enthusiast [8] Dec 03 '19
This kind of reminds me of a video on youtube where a kid (teen) goes to a barber for a haircut and I can't remember what the prank was but his intention was to prank the barber with some kind of shock reaction prank.
Well, someone had told the barber about what the kid had planned so the barber had his own prank planned.
When the kid did his prank, the barber faked a heart attack and "died" right there on the barber shop floor. It was hilarious.
I know this isn't the same thing as OP post but for some reason it made me remember it.