The results also indicate that expression of dissatisfaction, especially by high-status customers, is damaging to employees’ self-esteem. As social status affects the weight attributed to feedback, negative feedback provided by a high-status customer posits a stronger threat to employee self-esteem. These results suggest that frequent interactions with customers who are dissatisfied with the employee’s service performance might engender long-term outcomes, such as reduced self-esteem (Shao and Skarlicki 2014) and burnout (Han et al. 2016).