Tax Exempt
Tax exempt people are notoriously rude. Sometimes they're polite, but most are very, very rude about it. Yesterday I had a new variation on the tax exempt rudeness:
Customer [hopefully]: Do you have a teacher's discount?
Me [apologetically]: No, I'm sorry, we don't.
Customer [petulantly]: Well, at least don't charge us sales tax. [pause] We're from Alaska.
What threw me was how quickly her attitude changed. She went from being perfectly pleasant and polite to demanding and rude in just a few seconds!
posted by mamurd @ 1:49 PM
2 Comments:
Your customer lost track of how lucky she is to live in Alaska. How about these for responses:
"If you don't like our sales taxes, then you'd better not visit England, where they charge 17%!"
Or, "Be glad you don't have to pay our property taxes on top of our sales tax!"
Or, "Whine, whine, whine. Not only do you not have to pay sales tax in Alaska, but the state pays you to live there each year!"
All true, BTW.
A manager at my old job used to say to Oregonians: "So, if you get in a car accident, will you call the Oregon State Patrol?"
Oregonians really are the worst about it. They feel so entitled!
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