I like most of the customers but some of them are really uncomfortable to talk to (just very disagreeable people), and the supervisor always makes some excuse and leaves me to deal with them. What gives?

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Maybe it's a backwards compliment in a way?

^^ yeah...like you are so good at handling those types of customers, that you get them all!

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