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CSR Feels: When Customers Blame You For Prices You Can't Control

This two-panel meme features top text that reads 'When the customer blames you for prices you have no power over', followed by two adjacent illustrations of a human eye. The left panel shows the blue eye in a neutral, normal position, while the right panel shows the same eye rolled fully back to show only the white sclera, conveying extreme exasperation and frustration. The joke is relatable for customer service representatives and retail workers, who are frequently unfairly blamed by customers for pricing decisions that are set by company leadership and are entirely out of the frontline worker's control.
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When the customer blames you for prices you have no power over

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This two-panel meme features top text that reads 'When the customer blames you for prices you have no power over', followed by two adjacent illustrations of a human eye. The left panel shows the blue eye in a neutral, normal position, while the right panel shows the same eye rolled fully back to show only the white sclera, conveying extreme exasperation and frustration. The joke is relatable for customer service representatives and retail workers, who are frequently unfairly blamed by customers for pricing decisions that are set by company leadership and are entirely out of the frontline worker's control.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of content posted to the Reddit Meme community, originally shared under the title 'CSR Feels'. It uses a popular drawn eye-roll reaction template, a commonly repurposed meme format used to express strong annoyance, adapted here for customer service workplace humor.

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