If you’re a college student, chances are you have worked in customer service at some point to pay for your beer, cigarettes or other vice of choice.

This week celebrates National Customer Service Week. Thank you, Hallmark! Assembled below are the top ten worst customers to grace your place of employment, from mildly irritating to the intolerable.

10. The talkative older man

Ahh, the old man is quite deceptive. Entertaining at first, but his overfriendliness loses its novelty after four stories about WWII, 18 pictures of his grandchildren and a rundown on his personal itinerary for the weekend.

9. The cheapskate

Come on lady, it’s going to be the same price no matter how many times you ask the cashier to ring it up. If she had pockets in those tapered, purple pants she might have the extra 51 cents to cover it.

8. The giant group

They come to restaurants at the busiest times asking for a 25-top without a reservation and walk into stores and systematically unfold every T-shirt in sight.

7. The cell phone talker

Is it possible to hold two conversations at once? Who hates this customer more: the person on the phone or the employee trying to sign him or her up for an EZ-Saver card?

6. The ex-employee

Although no longer employed there, he or she drops by the establishment three times a week, walking around like he or she owns the place. No one cares how the pyramid scheme and online girlfriend are doing.

5. The latecomer

It’s like clockwork. In the final two minutes before the store closes some lady with no intention to purchase walks her slow butt around the store 35 times delaying the first beer of the night by 15 minutes.

4. The bargain hunter

Everyone knows that this customer spends his or her Friday nights clipping coupons, usually to save 15 cents on something like a can of poisonous spinach.

3. The snobby chick

Those stilettos might make her five inches taller, but she needs to stop belittling people.

2. The creeper

Instead of leaving the check on the table, this customer insists on delivering it straight to the server. The hand on the shoulder during small talk is questionable, but the hand on the lower back is vomit-inducing.

1. The personal peeve

Something about this customer is really bothersome. It might be the googly eye, rank coffee breath, mysteriously dirty hands or the fact that it looks like her eyebrows were drawn on with magic marker. After working in customer service a while, sometimes every customer is enough to drive an employee crazy.

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