21 Customer Service Memes for Service Industry Veterans

Those who have worked and are still working in the service industry understand people like nobody else does. Having worked as a waitress for three years in college, I know what it's like to be at the forefront of a busy dinner rush, face-to-face with some of the most impolite people you'll ever have the displeasure of meeting. Entitled customers can look at you with a straight face, call you every obscenity that your grandma would roll over in her grave hearing, and then expect 5/5 service like it's nothing. Guess what? You've got to give them 5/5 service anyway—and that, my friends, is the not-so-wonderful world of customer-facing industry jobs.

If you clicked on this article, it's likely because you have your fair share of stories to tell. The bright side of the industry is that you meet like-minded individuals who don't believe they're better than you; everyone is in this line of work for a reason, and the playing field is level. Some of the best people I've ever met were working the flat top and mixing up drinks behind the bar. Sometimes, you have to make the most of what you have—in this case, here are some memes to laugh the work woes away.