Service organizations often seek to provide high-quality service to dissatisfied customers in order to ensure the customer’s future loyalty, prevent negative word-of-mouth, and preserve a positive image (Mohr and Bitner 1995). This approach might be enacted by employees in response to formal customer complaints, stimulating the organizationally desired service performance. However, in regard to informal expressions of dissatisfaction, our results highlight the gap between the impersonal organizational perspective, and first-line employees’ actual reactions.