We live in a society where it is not uncommon for teens and college students to work at least one minimum wage job at some point during their youth. Whether it be in fast food or retail, these jobs are some of the best places to learn how to deal with people. Why? Because we deal with some crazy people with unreasonable requests, yet all we can say is "I understand you're upset but..." only to get yelled at more. If only we could say what is really on our minds.

We don't make the prices so please don't yell at us for them.

We are basically the middle man. We have no control over any of the prices and frankly you yelling at us over them isn't going to change them. Maybe next time you should look at the price before deciding to buy whatever it is you're buying.

The customer is NOT always right.

You using that phrase to get what you want just makes us less likely to do everything we can to help you. Especially when you order vanilla ice cream in the drive thru that three people heard, but then insist that you said chocolate. Because three people are completely wrong. Our bad.

Don't mess up the clothes.

We spend quite a bit of time making sure that clothes are all folded and piled neatly. Sometimes it'll take us 30 minutes to an hour to do it just so you can come and rip out a shirt from the bottom causing the pile to collapse. And then dropping the shirt you pulled out on the top.

We are closing in 5 minutes. Get. Out.

If you're one of the people that goes into a place of business five minutes before, chances are the employees kind of hate you. At this point, all we want to do is close and go home. There's a lot of work that goes into closing and we have to wait until you leave to do it. So please, get out!

Don't be a jerk.

Everyone has bad days, I get that, but you shouldn't make someone else's day crappy just because yours was. You also should not belittle, speak down to, or be rude to the people that are handling your sale or your food. Think about that for a second. We handle your food. A lot could happen with that...

There's plenty of other things that could be on this like having your method of payment ready when you've been waiting in line forever. However, for the sake of this not turning into a rant, I'll end it here. Remember this next time you're dealing with someone who doesn't get paid enough to put up with your crap.