October 26, 2025 at 1:35 pm

Woman Works At A Bookstore And Despises Working On Sundays Because She Has To Deal With Customers’ Strange Behaviors And Demanding Requests

by Heide Lazaro

Man and woman reading a book inside a bookstore

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Working on weekends suck for many people.

This woman works at a bookstore, where Sunday is the busiest day with too few staff.

She encountered different kinds of customers, and some have very demanding requests.

Her day only grew stranger as more customers tested her limits and assumptions.

Read the full story below for all the details.

Sundays SUCK!!!

I so very, very despise working Sundays.

At our bookstore, Sundays have the fantastic “advantage” of being busy.

With very needy, demanding customers, while at the same time being understaffed.

We open with 3 people and a manager.

This woman described her coworkers and managers.

One of the openers has this “lovely” habit of disappearing until her register shift two hours later.

Disappearing Coworker called off yesterday, supposedly in the hospital for the next five days for a minor issue.

So, we’re down a person.

Luckily, LazyCoWorker comes in an hour early, so at the very least, he can answer the phone.

Normal Sunday Manager is on vacation, so we have Night Manager filling in.

Night Manager spends all day working on orders in his office.

We get shorted on the local Sunday paper.

She encountered some stubborn senior citizens.

Cue angry senior citizens acting as though this is: a) my fault.

And b) I can magically pull a Sunday paper out of thin air.

Quietly Crazy Lady wants every book on Native Americans we have in the store.

She throws a strange quiet temper tantrum when she sees that this equals 1 1/2 shelves.

She pulls the entire Native American section off the shelves and leaves it strewn all over the coffee table nearby.

She also noticed a guy used the bathroom despite the “Out of Order” sign posted on the stall.

Some guy comes up to tell Awesome Male CoWorker that a toilet in the men’s room isn’t working.

Coworker goes to check it out.

This jerk has removed the out-of-order sign from the stall and crumpled it up.

Then, he did no. 2 in the broken toilet.

A religious woman accused her of being pregnant out of wedlock.

Random Religious Woman attempted to read me the riot act “for being a teen pregnant out of wedlock.”

I politely point out to her that I am 30, married, and that my husband and I are financially secure.

She accuses me of lying because I’m not wearing my wedding band.

Apparently, according to her, women in the final weeks of pregnancy do not have problems with fingers swelling.

And wearing said band on a chain around your neck “doesn’t count.”

She said there were more that she didn’t list down.

Ugh, there were more!

But I already feel like I’ve written a book.

How was everyone else’s day?

Let’s find out what others have to say about this.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

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Lol. This person gives their honest opinion.

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Here’s a valid point from this one.

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Short and straightforward.

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Nobody wanted to go to a hardware store on a Sunday, says this user.

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Some days at work truly test your patience and professionalism.