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Whenever I've had anyone, in whatever my occupation at the time, get unreasonably demanding of me and suggest they have some right to their behavior because they "pay my wages," I've responded that he ain't paying me enough to take his ration of ****.
The customer is always the customer, but that doesn't mean he's always right. Some people are just more trouble than they're worth.
It is a shame that a few bad apples really can ruin a bushel. Most customers are somewhere between kinda okay and fine. And the outliers are that you get a few really nice understanding people and few wild complainers who are completely irrational or outright and aggressively rude, etc.
It is the latter that can completely defined your experience that day or in that job. By the numbers, I found most customers were fine, but the few really bad ones were the reason I left retail a long time ago and swore never to work directly with the public again.