What's sad about the hayride is that the children reached out to a stranger for comfort instead of their daddy. Tells a lot about the children's trust in their parents.
Yep... it's worrysome! Depending of a certain number of fact, the neighbord clining could actually be a nice thing! But, by the description, I guess OP wasn't interested!
Hotel story: She took WAYYYY too long to call security. The foot in the door stunt was a big red flag. Once she got the door closed, the next thing was to call security, not continue to pack. Even if the guy stopped pounding on the door, he could have been waiting to ambush her when she left the room. Her even considering to show that her key wouldn't work was stupid.
@@crisvanfan Because in today's world, women have to be smarter than that. If she had been attacked, someone first thing would have asked her, why didn't you call security sooner?
Never interact with somebody who acts like that. Get in your room, lock the door and call security!! You're lucky to have escaped him. The saying "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" should warn you!!!
"you're lucky! I almost threw your food in your face." "You're equally lucky, Sir." "Oh? How do you figure?" "Because if you'd thrown my food in my face, you'd have shiny steel bracelets on your wrists. Because i would have called the cops and pressed charges for mischief, battery, assault, and destruction of personal property." Mic drop. For the hotel room key creep, keep in mind that devices exist that can clone a hotel room key. I believe the Flipper Zero can do it fairly easily. He could try the key next door, copy the key into whatever device he has, give you back your key, then use his clone of your key to let himself in at some hour when you would possibly be asleep, and do something horrible to you. Bullet dodged.
The hayride story...the scariest part is that even if the OP has been an employee they were still a stranger to those kids, and the parents. They just ignored their kids, letting them cling to someone they don't know. Anything could have happened and those jerks wouldn't have had the presence of mind to even register it until after the fact. Disgusting.
It's really telling that those girls clung to a stranger rather than their own mother and father. That shows how little attention their parents are paying attention to them.
@@davidhamm7909 ha cute. A hayride is done around Halloween. People put bails of hay on a trailer or even in the bed of a truck and take riders around a planned out route, where actors lay in wait to scare the riders.
@@davidhamm7909 There are two different kinds of hayrides. One's like what you described and ones like the one in the story. The ones I know most are the ones in the story. It's a Halloween activity where you ride on a trail and actors lay in wait to scare you. As far as I know, I think they aren't allowed to actually touch you, though. I've only been on a hayride once.
Spit is on the harmless end of schmoo people might put in your food if you act like you are a terrible and entitled excuse for your species. One of the funny things about food service on the low end of the spectrum (fast food) is that as a customer you have NO IDEA if the employees you are treating like vermin are already planning to quit, just waiting for some a55ha+ or +hund3rcun+ to perform their special Karen/Kevin magic. Treat those in menial jobs with respect. It takes so little effort and makes everyone’s day less 5h1++y.
Story 3: Karen may have had a sour relationship with a vendor in the past, but that doesn't mean she can just bully the next vendor. That treatment is an easy ticket to a demotion or termination
Sounds like Sarah was getting a power trip telling her what her boss said 🤦♀️ "I'm just the messenger, I can't be in trouble for telling you what to do because I'm just following orders even though I don't need to keep talking about it after delivering the message!"
Karen was probably being a Karen to the previous vendor which is why the relationship was likely sour. It wasn't the previous relationship that caused her to bully, it was because she was a Karen.
Story 3 (MaiTai_): one tactic would be to simply walk out. If physically prevented, that's a perfectly valid reason to call 911. Otherwise, deal mockingly with petty dictator Karen upon return.
OP and OP's Boss should have reported Karen to the Store Manager about her Hostile and Abusive Attitude as well as her Harassment... I would have... And denying Breaks is a violation of State Law...
More importantly, they're not store employees, so she can't determine the break policy. A call to her general manager or district manager or whoever with an explanation that she's risking the store not being supplied by this vendor would likely put an end to it.
If someone called me a lazy employee at a place I don't work at, I would reply very loudly with: "I'm not a lazy employee. I'm a lazy customer!" Store managers and supervisors have zero authority over vendors. Fostering a bad relationship with vendors is never a good move.
I just keep wondering: the KM keeps saying OP is *not allowed* to leave the building without her permission. Who needs permission? Preventing me from doing so is called false imprisonment.
Forget if it was a Reddit story or IRL (I think I heard it second hand IRL) but this one supermarket manager got fired after (I think) the Pepsi vendor refused to service their store due to the way their rep got treated by the manager.
The last one. The worst part wasn't the entitlement, it was the fact their children were scared scared and they laughed it off. No inkling inside them to want to protect them from being traumatized. I can't imagine doing that to my kids.
@@gorilladisco9108 umm what is? Because I'm a millennial and I don't go traumatizing my kids. Letting your kids get traumatized because you wanna have fun is not a millennial thing, it's a crappy parent thing. Seen it in all generations of parenting age.
Story 1 - I'd have told that idiot, "In other words, you came this close to buying yourself a ticket to jail." Story 4 - Oh, where do I begin? I've stayed in hotel rooms numerous times, and I've accidentally locked myself out a few times (yes, I'm somewhat absentminded). Never have I gone to another guest and asked to borrow their key (unless it was my wife or someone else with whom I was sharing the room). I always went to the front desk or some other hotel staff. When that clown kept insisting that OP give him her key even after she said she didn't work there - wow! That raises a HUGE red flag. I'd have told him to go away before I called security, and if he didn't, I'd have made good on my threat. I don't know what his purpose was, but I strongly suspect he was up to no good.
Story 1: And that’s the kind of guy who would be waking up missing a few teeth after throwing food in my face. Like grandpa always said, “That’s the kind of thing you do and get your teeth knocked down your throat for it.”
Story 3: Whenever OP decides to confront that Karen manager, she should be recording the whole thing. This woman needs to be caught with her own words so there's no chance to deny it. And we always ask this question, but how do people like this even become managers? Where I work, we don't consider promoting or even HIRING people who we suspect will create a toxic work environment.
story 3, the 2nd interaction. "well seeing you're not my manager, nor is she, she can take it up with my boss, and you don't get a say. Please go on and go back to YOUR job, which is not my boss"
Story 3 - OP should have asked for Karen's direct supervisor there and then when that receiving dock person tried 'enforcing' Karen's rules because you can bet that there are no such policies within the company. Also, that dock person is a moron if they can think they can enforce such rules on people that dont work for their company, they are as bad as Karen and should be disciplined for not going over Karen's head and dealing with it.
Story 1: Wow! Some people! Honestly, if I were OP in that situation, I would have told the guy, “ Excuse me, I may not be an employee of this place, but even if I WAS, I wouldn’t serve you if THIS is how you’re going to act! “
Story 4 - At first I thought that the guy was either drunk, on drugs or something because he was being an idiot but after hearing the update I’m thinking he wasn’t a guest at all and was trying to get into OP’s room to either rob her or worse. OP dodged a massive bullet there.
Or, better yet, OP should have called their supervisor as instructed by said supervisor, and perhaps spoken to the witch's supervisor/manager as well. Hopefully, OP's supervisor will have contacted the store's corporate offices and reported the problem with the store manager's delusions of authority over anyone who was not a store employee.
Story 3. The "messenger" I would just say You can take a message back to your manager that I am not under her control, and just letting you know I will be back after I have a lunch and walked out, not listening to the orders which they have no right to do. I would give a heads up to my boss though...
Story 4: Good on OP to not give the keys at all because who knows what could have happened. Hopefully the guy has been banned because he could've hurt someone if this is how he acted.
I work as a waiter and if a customer said that to me on my break I would have said “and you’re lucky because if you threw my food in my face, then I’ll oblige with throwing my fist in yours”
I think its safe to say the dude in the 4th story wasn't actually a guest at the hotel, even if you had misplaced your key you can just get a copy from the front desk
Not if your name isn't associated with the room. You can't just walk up to the desk and ask for a key to any room you want. You have to be able to prove you belong in that room. Source: I work the night desk at a hotel.
*Hotel Story-* *She took way too long to call security!!!* With my experience, I know _never_ to accommodate/entertain anyone like that!!! If there’s a problem, *CALL POLICE!!!*
#3 - OP's boss needs to sever the relationship with Karen's store. Let's see how they like not carrying any Little Debbie or Nabisco products for a month. Why in the world anyone in grocery management thinks they can tell a vendor rep anything but where to put carts or which endcap to use is beyond me!
If somebody was being an entitled jerk to an employee, even if they didn't throw food, they would either take my advice and leave, or I would be spending some time as an honored guest at the County Jail.
*Story 5* Those parents were horrible and I'd like to give _them_ something to scream about. Total disregard for their children's feelings and safety, considering they let the kids cling to someone they just assumed was an employee. This does show me that my mom wasn't the only parent that ignored their kids and avoided actual parenting when it mattered though. I empathize with those kids so much.
Never ever get close to another guest door in this situation, he could have easily had someone in that room who could have grabbed you. If someone is being pushy like this, call security immediately.
NEVER, EVER OPEN A DOOR WHEN SOMEONE IS POUNDING ON IT!!! Call out through the door asking who there and unless they identify ID themselves as Law Enforcement (and show it and their Warrant through a Window or peephole), NEVER OPEN THE DOOR!!! Call Security or the Police instead to deal with the person at the door!
I used to work in a hotel. We were not allowed to let people into their rooms if they got locked out. Safety reasons. It is also why we put our carts in front of the doorway so someone wouldnt wander in the wrong room on accident OR to let the occupants know we were in there cleaning.
At the manager who isn’t OP’s boss: “GET OFF MY BACK!” “You CAN’T tell ME what to do so BACK OFF!” Record yourself in this situation too. Even if it’s “illegal” you need protection from the evidence you’re not lying about what happens. You can be strident and very assertive about your job duties to someone bullying you to do someone else’s job. Can’t get fired, not by the boss I heard on the phone. Screw that manager.
Who takes young kids to haunted attractions like that? Especially when they are clearly not ready for it....at least go for one of the kid friendly ones.
First story: Pushing food into someone's face regardless if they are employed at the restaurant or not is still battery and assault and has the same consequences.
What I don't understand is why OP#4 didn't call security the moment she got her door shut. I'd have been on the phone to security or 911 or somebody the very instant I got free of him.
As someone who worked 5 seasons in a massive Spooky place (multiple haunted houses, rides, beer gardens and roamers, etc) it's absolutely ridiculous how entitled people are. They get scared and then they get *mad* they got scared and then quite often they get aggressive/violent. We couldn't even have security at the park, we had to have multiple sets if legit *cops* on standby for the staff UGH
Hotel key story: Nope. If you're banging on my door, I don't answer. I call the front desk. If that doesn't work, I call the cops. And if there was another exit, why didn't OP just keep acking and leave by the other exit? You don't need to prove anything to this person.
Story 3: I used to be a retail merchandiser, and this story is the craziest thing I've ever heard. I honestly expected it to be a customer story because that's not unusual. I wore a smock in a color I promise none of the employees at any store I serviced ever wore. But I also wore a name tag. So, despite the name of my company being on me and my boxes, I occasionally had to use the "I don't work here" line. Honestly, if I could work fast enough and it paid more, I would have kept doing it. Coincidentally, I left the job right before COVID started. So I probably would have been laid off or fired. (It wasn't a food or essential product. So the job wouldn't have been worth the risk.)
Story 1 - "You DO know throwing my food on me would be assault, and I COULD call the cops on you, right?!" Story 2 - why didn't they port dad's old number over to the new phone???
The smart phone story. If it were me and I got so many to be motivated, I might return the messages to say that "I" have retired because "I" contracted an incurable STD and am forced to "retire".
Story 4 (Iwishthiswasanonymou): Oh, wow, I would've called hotel security as soon as he wouldn't remove his foot ... after trying my hardest to break his foot with the door, that is.
#3: The thing this manager fails to realise is that her store is SAVING money by have the vendor there. If her power trip causes the vendor to take her location off their service list then she'll need to schedule extra staff to do that job. If she's really applying this to all vendors that's going to add up quickly. Not to mention that her staff won't be motivated to make fancy displays so sales could also go down. #5: The good news is that if OP is at all interested in neighbour girl he's going to look absolutely golden. Comforting three people at the same time? taking care of kids that aren't his? Remaining polite despite everything? Absolute keeper.
Story 3. She wants to play games. Tell her next time your not allowed to take your brake you will call the police to report your being held against your will by her.
Second Story reminded me of the song Ironic by Alanis Morrisette. Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye He waited his whole damn life to take that flight And as the plane crashed down, he thought "Well, isn't this nice" And isn't it ironic, don't you think?
Story 2: He should have told the message senders that this was his new number and that any further harassment would mean him forwarding ALL CONTENT to the police :) Story 3: OP could have just told Sarah that Karen has no authority over OP or her breaks and that OP is going to lunch and will be back in an hour. Then just walk away. Story 4: Always call the front desk for security if anyone attempts to enter your room (or keep your door open) without your permission...it is a felony crime to do this.
Story 2: I can relate to this. Years ago, I moved to a new state and got a new phone number. If you switched 2 of the digits around, it was the number of a massage parlor, and no, not for legitimate physical therapy. I kept getting calls from guys trying to make appointments. For a while I did give them the correct number to call after telling them that they had reached a wrong number, but I'm a woman, and don't approve of prostitution, so I made several complaints to the phone company, and was finally given a new number. I found out in the news a short time later that the place was raided by the police. I actually knew where it was, because it was on a local highway, and had a sign out front advertising massages. Unfortunately, the replacement phone number also had issues. Debt collectors kept trying to reach the former holder of that number. Had I changed the number again so soon, I would have had to pay a fee, so I quickly learned to ignore calls from unknown numbers.
Story 2 - Poor dad? The dad was an idiot for, 1) thinking smart phones had anything to do with prostitution; 2) waiting weeks to change his number; and 3) you've always been able to still get basic flip phones - my mom still uses one.
yeah for Story 3? I'd have just straight up told Sarah "Karen has zero authority over me and cannot tell me what to do. I'm taking my lunchbreak regardless of what Karen has to say about it. you cannot and will not stop me from leaving for my break, so I'll be back when my lunch break is over." and then walked my happy little ass out to take the lunchbreak. messenger or not, they can find out too if they try and stop me.
story 3: Call the boss to warn him that sh*t's about to go down because of Karen, then call corporate and say that the manager of XYZ store insists vendors don't get breaks and only she can let them leave, and since she's not here, I'm being prevented from leaving to take a break. If they won't do anything, then the next step is calling the cops for wrongful imprisonment.
Let’s leave all the lazy employee stuff on the shelf. How would that guy feel if he was on his government mandated lunch break and someone thought he was being lazy so threw his food in his face? I used to work for a big grocery chain. And I would have had to completely change my clothes on my lunch or break if I didn’t want to get stopped by a customer. Management was all “You have to take your lunches and breaks on time or the labor bureau will fine us!” And then the next minute, “I saw you turn down a customer who asked for help, you have to HELP the customer!” Okay which trumps which?
Story number 2 happened to my late mother with a land line phone over 20 years ago. She got a new silent number. All good for a few weeks. She then started getting the phone calls like the ones in the story once or twice a week. My sister would answer the phone and tell them they had the wrong number. Some of the men were extremely rude when told that. We discovered by doing a search of the yellow pages that a brothel had a similar phone number, so similar that if someone rang mum and accidentally switched the last 2 digits around they would have rung the brothel. When one man rang, mum decided to play along when he asked the ages of the ladies working there. Mum replied “I’m 75, will I do?” Mum said he hung so fast. My sister answered the phone another time and tired of getting abuse on the phone she told them that were closed due to an outbreak of STDs and hung up. Mum applied for a new number but had to endure these calls until it was changed.
Story 3: Karen's really going with "I don't care what your contract and the contract between our companies say, I'm the boss here so you have to do whatever I say!". She's gonna piss off her own bosses when OP's boss decides to void the contract because of repeated breaches
Story 3: Sadly I've witness something like that while I worked at blue shirt/khakis mart. While the grocery co-manager was on VK. The dry goods manager went on tyrade trying to flex their nonexistent authority over grocery venders. Which ened when grocery co-manager caught them and was fired on the spot. Story 5: Where I grew up at sadly had neglectfull parents who took ther to young kid on a scary hay ride left them with what they thought was one the people who worked there So they could enjoy the ride without their kid ruing it for them by screaming all the time. Thankfully a actual staff member caught the person trying drag the kid off to do unmentionable things. The child predator was arrested and prosecuted for trying to kidnap the kid and other charges. The neglectfull parents did get in trouble too for abandoning their kid with that stranger. It later was revealed that they would do that all the time when they wanted to go have fun somewhere. In the end CPS did take the child away to live with more responsible family members.
The smartphone-old dog thinking= should of taken the phone to the police dept., see if they wanted comp. him for the phone, he could get enough money to get another one. lol For the police they would have a easy sting... cause most places prostitution is illegal!
That guy's story in the hotel is a lot more plausible than people might think. But OP should have gone ahead and called the front desk and security right after he had done that with putting his foot in the door. Or even better she could have gone ahead and called them when he first started pounding on her door.
smartphone one.....that is when you notify the police...that would be a huge sting operation for catching the customers in some areas...lol room key. ...call front desk on him putting foot in door immediately
It's unpleasant for women period, I swear I have to tell people no 15-20 times and they still don't know what that word means. I had to tell a dude that just walked into my apartment the other day to get out 7 times and it still took grabbing a weapon for him to understand that get out actually means get out. I think it's become a game for dudes to see how many different phrasings of "no" "no thank you" "stop" etc. they can collect like pokemon cards.
Story 2 - Um...it IS OP and his mom's fault at least for his dad getting a smartphone (not the working girl part). They could have had him get a flip phone at the phone store. They still sell them for parents who don't want to immerse their children into the world of smartphones yet.
OMG that old man should have taken payment up front and then met with the horndogs who couldn't understand no. Maybe a few really good laughs would have made him less grumpy.
Story 3: OP should've talked with her manager, to talk with Karen's manager, to pretend to consider cutting ties with the store, as well as contacting all of their vendor friends to consider the same, as long as Karen's behavior continues. Then the store managers will tell her to straighten out her act, because they would really rather to keep all their vendors than one atore manager.
That last story... I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from telling those parents something like "No, I REALLY don't work here -- see, they won't hire people on the child sex offenders registry!" with a huge, lecherous grin on my face. This is why you can't take me anywhere...
The smart phone story: Had I been the grandson, I'd have taken some (fully clothed) pictures of my grandfather in various poses and then taught him how to send them to the johns.
Story One: Almost thirty years ago I worked at a fast food place just out of high school. One day I was working a very long shift (twelve hours) with only one half hour break for lunch. So here I am trying to eat and this utter @#%% decides he wants a refill on his drink and aggressively insisting that I need to go get it for him. He tried to complain to the manager when I refused but she wasn't having it, since it would have been a violation of federal labor law for me to assist off the clock.
14:45 (Story 4): in the good ol' days✻ of Vegas, the hotel "fully addressing the issue" would have meant AD woke up the next morning in the middle of the desert, without shoes. If this was his first time, that is. ✻ probably _mostly_ fictional, but fun to contemplate.
I had a bit of an opposite situation to the second story. I was the one messaged by a prostitute by wrong number. I suddenly started getting texts of her nudes. Looked about mid 20s with tattoos. I awkwardly told her I think she had the wrong number. She responded by saying "Fuck! I messaged the wrong boy!". But then she kept sending me more pictures, and kept trying to entice me to meet her. I told her I was a boring 36 year old man who really doesn't give a crap about a younger woman coming on to me. But she didn't stop. I ended up having to block her number.
First story... A good retort to his wanting to assault an employee with food: "and by the end of today, you and your bloody nose would be in a jail cell with Bubba!"
Story 3 don’t argue with the lady, there’s no point. You know your job so you don’t need to explain it to her just walk out the door and let your boss know the crazy lady might be calling. I’m pretty sure she hears enough from her that she’d ignore any complaints she gets. Story 4 why was she trying to explain to the guy who put his foot in the door to prevent her from closing it? Repeatedly slam to door on his foot until he gets the hint.
Story 2 (GWheels): I wonder whether police ever intentionally get the former phone numbers of prostitutes, just to catch johns soliciting prostitution, without the police having made any sort of action that could constitute entrapment.
I will never understand how some people can treat anyone so terribly. EVERYONE deserves to be treated with respect. Especially people you expect help from.
Story 1 imagine saying that thinking it’s perfectly fine when if on the other foot. The dude would have been as pissed as a kicked hornets nest. What happened if they were deaf and couldn’t hear and got assaulted by him for no reason. Some people do not need to be out in public.
If I see someone pounding on a door and then they start pounding on mine, I'm calling security right away. PO is lucky they didn't get assaulted or worse.
With only one exception all the service I've had in restaurants has been good. But I've seen a number of rude customers. I think servers should get a lot of respect, they are doing a job that's very difficult. That jerk in #1 should have been tossed out of the place. And it's customers like that have me placing little faith in online reviews. I have seen bad reviews of my favorite place to eat, and I KNOW the place is not like the customers described. Their food is always good, and I'm there often enough to know the servers and know they are polite.
Hotel story: Oh, babe… this wasn’t just because of the AVN awards. This can happen at pretty much any hotel, at any time. This must be a young woman. On my first international trip, I traveled with a group of girl friends and a group of guy friends. On our first night in London, we all went down to the hotel bar. We started talking and drinking with some other hotel guests, as you do. At some point, we ladies are getting a little tired, and decide we are gonna take our last drink up to the room (all the girls were staying in a separate room on a different floor from the guys). When we announced this to the guys, one of them said, “You’re gonna take your drinks to bed? Wooo! Party in room 405!” That’s when all the girls mean mug him, pull the guys aside, and explain that they are never to say our room numbers out loud in public.” They apologize, but sort of insist we are over reacting. Out of an abundance of caution, when we get to the room, we lock the door, tie a knot in the chain to make it shorter, and push the desk up against the door. Sure enough, a few hours later, there is a wiggle of the door knob, then a light knocking and mumbling, then a pounding, then kicks and screaming. We had called security at the wiggle. Security didn’t come. We call again. No one comes. We call again, and they call our guy friends’ room and try to send them up. Only one wakes up and comes, sees that the guy has basically broken our door in half, and goes down stairs to get someone to help. The hotel staff refuse, at which point, my friend asks them to open the bar back up and give him two beers. He then comes back up to the room and bribes the drunk man we’d be drinking with earlier away with more booze. The whole process took over half an hour. Nearly 45 minutes of this man hacking away at our door, screaming “Ladies! LaaAAAaadies! Let me in, ladies! Let me in you fucking teases! Let me in or I will make you let me in!” It was terrifying and enraging all at once. By the end, 4 of us in that room were pushed up against the door, holding the barricade. The 5th friend was on the phone, begging the hotel to call police or send security. My most badass friend had even broken a leg off a chair, ready to swing if he got through. The next morning, all the guys apologized to us. They hadn’t even locked their own door that night, they were so drunk. For the rest of the month abroad, they did not repeat their mistake. Although, I don’t think they all grasped that this man meant us real harm; one or two felt it was just because he was blind drunk. 🙄 Now obviously, we were not the only people on our floor that night, and thus, not the only people who called the front desk. By that afternoon, we got word from hotel management that the entire night team had been fired for refusing to help, and putting other guests in danger. We were refunded for our 3-night stay, and the door was fixed by the next night.
1) Oy, what a total AH. 2) Dad is dumb, but it's good the problem was resolved and he finally recognized it was not the fault of the phone. 3) This obnoxious, overstepping, power-tripping manager needs to be reported to her higher ups to let them know the problems she is causing by her harassment that is causing bad relations with the vendors. 4) Creepy, creepy, creepy. This is when to slam the door on his foot and call the front desk. It was stupid of OP not to call the desk and report this rather than having to listen to him banging on the door and then to engage with him again. About time finally calling for security. After update: It's good this guy got removed and OP did not come to harm. I hope this was a lesson to handle any future problems better. 5) Ya, not a fun time.
I would have soon as I closed the door lock the door. I would have called down the front desk explain them what's going on and had Security deal with him.
What's sad about the hayride is that the children reached out to a stranger for comfort instead of their daddy. Tells a lot about the children's trust in their parents.
Yep... it's worrysome!
Depending of a certain number of fact, the neighbord clining could actually be a nice thing! But, by the description, I guess OP wasn't interested!
True but this OP needs a bigger backbone. She completely ignored the fact the parents referred to her as an employee before the ride started.
Hotel story: She took WAYYYY too long to call security. The foot in the door stunt was a big red flag. Once she got the door closed, the next thing was to call security, not continue to pack. Even if the guy stopped pounding on the door, he could have been waiting to ambush her when she left the room. Her even considering to show that her key wouldn't work was stupid.
Perhaps she wasn't thinking clearly why are you blaming her
@@crisvanfan they did not say if he did something bad it would have been her own fault
@@crisvanfan Because in today's world, women have to be smarter than that. If she had been attacked, someone first thing would have asked her, why didn't you call security sooner?
Never interact with somebody who acts like that. Get in your room, lock the door and call security!! You're lucky to have escaped him. The saying "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" should warn you!!!
Yeah Amber Heard.
"you're lucky! I almost threw your food in your face."
"You're equally lucky, Sir."
"Oh? How do you figure?"
"Because if you'd thrown my food in my face, you'd have shiny steel bracelets on your wrists. Because i would have called the cops and pressed charges for mischief, battery, assault, and destruction of personal property."
Mic drop.
For the hotel room key creep, keep in mind that devices exist that can clone a hotel room key. I believe the Flipper Zero can do it fairly easily. He could try the key next door, copy the key into whatever device he has, give you back your key, then use his clone of your key to let himself in at some hour when you would possibly be asleep, and do something horrible to you.
Bullet dodged.
The hayride story...the scariest part is that even if the OP has been an employee they were still a stranger to those kids, and the parents. They just ignored their kids, letting them cling to someone they don't know. Anything could have happened and those jerks wouldn't have had the presence of mind to even register it until after the fact. Disgusting.
And they didn’t even listen to OP when they said they weren’t an employee. Sound like crappy parents to me.
It's really telling that those girls clung to a stranger rather than their own mother and father. That shows how little attention their parents are paying attention to them.
What is a hayride. I’ve googled it and it doesn’t sound scary at all. Just a ride on an open trailer. 🤔
@@davidhamm7909 ha cute. A hayride is done around Halloween. People put bails of hay on a trailer or even in the bed of a truck and take riders around a planned out route, where actors lay in wait to scare the riders.
@@davidhamm7909 There are two different kinds of hayrides. One's like what you described and ones like the one in the story. The ones I know most are the ones in the story. It's a Halloween activity where you ride on a trail and actors lay in wait to scare you. As far as I know, I think they aren't allowed to actually touch you, though. I've only been on a hayride once.
"And you, Sir, were about this close to being taken to the emergency room. Don't EVER feel safe abusing anyone."
EXACTLY. Do this in a U.S. southern or Eastern European city and you got a 50/50 shot of being in a emergency room or a morgue.
Oh, if only people responded to abusers that way!
I'd omit the sir.
Calling someone a lazy employee and demanding to be waited on...is a REALLY good way to end up eating a SPIT burger, is what I think.
It's also a good way to wind up swallowing your teeth
I've worked in food service my entire life. Spitting in someone's food, no matter the offense, is a quick way to get yourself fired.
Spit is on the harmless end of schmoo people might put in your food if you act like you are a terrible and entitled excuse for your species. One of the funny things about food service on the low end of the spectrum (fast food) is that as a customer you have NO IDEA if the employees you are treating like vermin are already planning to quit, just waiting for some a55ha+ or +hund3rcun+ to perform their special Karen/Kevin magic.
Treat those in menial jobs with respect. It takes so little effort and makes everyone’s day less 5h1++y.
That's a spit burger with a 45 minute wait.
@@CloverField83And anyone who worked in a fast food knows this applies only if you get caught.
Story 3: Karen may have had a sour relationship with a vendor in the past, but that doesn't mean she can just bully the next vendor. That treatment is an easy ticket to a demotion or termination
Why didn't the vendor just go to Karen's boss instead of arguing with Sarah?
Sounds like Sarah was getting a power trip telling her what her boss said 🤦♀️ "I'm just the messenger, I can't be in trouble for telling you what to do because I'm just following orders even though I don't need to keep talking about it after delivering the message!"
Sarah is an arse. OP has no obligation. I'm walking OUT. Karen and Sarah can go to that very Hot Place. I wouldn't be back. 🤨
Because then the story would have made the story too short.
Karen was probably being a Karen to the previous vendor which is why the relationship was likely sour. It wasn't the previous relationship that caused her to bully, it was because she was a Karen.
When someone is acting unruly in the hotel, always call security first. Don't just keep packing while he's banging on the door. Call security
Story 3 (MaiTai_): one tactic would be to simply walk out. If physically prevented, that's a perfectly valid reason to call 911. Otherwise, deal mockingly with petty dictator Karen upon return.
OP and OP's Boss should have reported Karen to the Store Manager about her Hostile and Abusive Attitude as well as her Harassment...
I would have...
And denying Breaks is a violation of State Law...
More importantly, they're not store employees, so she can't determine the break policy. A call to her general manager or district manager or whoever with an explanation that she's risking the store not being supplied by this vendor would likely put an end to it.
If someone called me a lazy employee at a place I don't work at, I would reply very loudly with: "I'm not a lazy employee. I'm a lazy customer!"
Store managers and supervisors have zero authority over vendors. Fostering a bad relationship with vendors is never a good move.
Same here.
So true. We treated our vendors well.
I just keep wondering: the KM keeps saying OP is *not allowed* to leave the building without her permission. Who needs permission? Preventing me from doing so is called false imprisonment.
Threaten to throw my food over me? "Sir, that would be an assault charge and a night in jail for you!" 🤨
Forget if it was a Reddit story or IRL (I think I heard it second hand IRL) but this one supermarket manager got fired after (I think) the Pepsi vendor refused to service their store due to the way their rep got treated by the manager.
The last one. The worst part wasn't the entitlement, it was the fact their children were scared scared and they laughed it off. No inkling inside them to want to protect them from being traumatized. I can't imagine doing that to my kids.
TrAuMaTiZeD. Exactly what's wrong with millennials.
@@gorilladisco9108 umm what is? Because I'm a millennial and I don't go traumatizing my kids. Letting your kids get traumatized because you wanna have fun is not a millennial thing, it's a crappy parent thing. Seen it in all generations of parenting age.
@@selchert Traumatized by a ride? Yup, very millennial.
@@gorilladisco9108 haunted hay rides can be scary AF to little kids 🤦🏻♀️ you either don't have kids, or one of the crappy parents getting defensive.
@@selchert Yuuup, you comment as expected of millennials.
Story 1 - I'd have told that idiot, "In other words, you came this close to buying yourself a ticket to jail."
Story 4 - Oh, where do I begin? I've stayed in hotel rooms numerous times, and I've accidentally locked myself out a few times (yes, I'm somewhat absentminded). Never have I gone to another guest and asked to borrow their key (unless it was my wife or someone else with whom I was sharing the room). I always went to the front desk or some other hotel staff. When that clown kept insisting that OP give him her key even after she said she didn't work there - wow! That raises a HUGE red flag. I'd have told him to go away before I called security, and if he didn't, I'd have made good on my threat. I don't know what his purpose was, but I strongly suspect he was up to no good.
If Sarah told me that I cannot take a break without Karen’s approval, I would simply say, “watch me.”
Or buh-bye. Back in an hour.
Call the police and tell them you're being held hostage.
Yeah... watch me. Watch me never come back too.
"I want that in writing." Take it to Karen's manager and tell Karen they gave her a break when they hired her
Story 1: And that’s the kind of guy who would be waking up missing a few teeth after throwing food in my face. Like grandpa always said, “That’s the kind of thing you do and get your teeth knocked down your throat for it.”
I'd make sure he got an assault charge, a nifty pair of steel bracelets and a night in jail. 🤨
"I am just like messenger."
"Message received." then go on to do whatever you were going to do.
Exactly, it’s not your fault Sarah but I’m going on my break. If Karen doesn’t like it, she can take it up with my boss.
Story 3: Whenever OP decides to confront that Karen manager, she should be recording the whole thing. This woman needs to be caught with her own words so there's no chance to deny it. And we always ask this question, but how do people like this even become managers? Where I work, we don't consider promoting or even HIRING people who we suspect will create a toxic work environment.
story 3, the 2nd interaction. "well seeing you're not my manager, nor is she, she can take it up with my boss, and you don't get a say. Please go on and go back to YOUR job, which is not my boss"
Story 3 - OP should have asked for Karen's direct supervisor there and then when that receiving dock person tried 'enforcing' Karen's rules because you can bet that there are no such policies within the company. Also, that dock person is a moron if they can think they can enforce such rules on people that dont work for their company, they are as bad as Karen and should be disciplined for not going over Karen's head and dealing with it.
Story 1: Wow! Some people! Honestly, if I were OP in that situation, I would have told the guy, “ Excuse me, I may not be an employee of this place, but even if I WAS, I wouldn’t serve you if THIS is how you’re going to act! “
Story 4 - At first I thought that the guy was either drunk, on drugs or something because he was being an idiot but after hearing the update I’m thinking he wasn’t a guest at all and was trying to get into OP’s room to either rob her or worse.
OP dodged a massive bullet there.
We need an update for Story 3.
Story 1: And this is why I'm polite/tip to all servers since god knows how many horrible customers they have to deal with on the regular.
Or, better yet, OP should have called their supervisor as instructed by said supervisor, and perhaps spoken to the witch's supervisor/manager as well. Hopefully, OP's supervisor will have contacted the store's corporate offices and reported the problem with the store manager's delusions of authority over anyone who was not a store employee.
Story 3. The "messenger" I would just say You can take a message back to your manager that I am not under her control, and just letting you know I will be back after I have a lunch and walked out, not listening to the orders which they have no right to do. I would give a heads up to my boss though...
Story 4: Good on OP to not give the keys at all because who knows what could have happened. Hopefully the guy has been banned because he could've hurt someone if this is how he acted.
OP in the last story is a miracle of medical science. Here we have a grown adult who can walk and sit upright despite having no discernable spine.
I work as a waiter and if a customer said that to me on my break I would have said “and you’re lucky because if you threw my food in my face, then I’ll oblige with throwing my fist in yours”
I think its safe to say the dude in the 4th story wasn't actually a guest at the hotel, even if you had misplaced your key you can just get a copy from the front desk
Not if your name isn't associated with the room. You can't just walk up to the desk and ask for a key to any room you want. You have to be able to prove you belong in that room. Source: I work the night desk at a hotel.
*Hotel Story-* *She took way too long to call security!!!* With my experience, I know _never_ to accommodate/entertain anyone like that!!! If there’s a problem, *CALL POLICE!!!*
#3 - OP's boss needs to sever the relationship with Karen's store. Let's see how they like not carrying any Little Debbie or Nabisco products for a month. Why in the world anyone in grocery management thinks they can tell a vendor rep anything but where to put carts or which endcap to use is beyond me!
You are the evidence of why millennials are unemployable.
A customer who would pick up my food and pitch it into my face for not serving him when I'm on my break would be hospitalized for his broken hands
And a broken face
If somebody was being an entitled jerk to an employee, even if they didn't throw food, they would either take my advice and leave, or I would be spending some time as an honored guest at the County Jail.
*Story 5*
Those parents were horrible and I'd like to give _them_ something to scream about. Total disregard for their children's feelings and safety, considering they let the kids cling to someone they just assumed was an employee.
This does show me that my mom wasn't the only parent that ignored their kids and avoided actual parenting when it mattered though. I empathize with those kids so much.
LOL I would have turned my smart phone over to the cops. Bet they would have believed it wasn't their hook up after that.
Never ever get close to another guest door in this situation, he could have easily had someone in that room who could have grabbed you. If someone is being pushy like this, call security immediately.
NEVER, EVER OPEN A DOOR WHEN SOMEONE IS POUNDING ON IT!!! Call out through the door asking who there and unless they identify ID themselves as Law Enforcement (and show it and their Warrant through a Window or peephole), NEVER OPEN THE DOOR!!!
Call Security or the Police instead to deal with the person at the door!
Karen is NOT my boss. She's my customer.
I used to work in a hotel. We were not allowed to let people into their rooms if they got locked out. Safety reasons. It is also why we put our carts in front of the doorway so someone wouldnt wander in the wrong room on accident OR to let the occupants know we were in there cleaning.
At the manager who isn’t OP’s boss: “GET OFF MY BACK!”
“You CAN’T tell ME what to do so BACK OFF!”
Record yourself in this situation too. Even if it’s “illegal” you need protection from the evidence you’re not lying about what happens.
You can be strident and very assertive about your job duties to someone bullying you to do someone else’s job. Can’t get fired, not by the boss I heard on the phone. Screw that manager.
"You are not my supervisor!" - Cheryl Tunt
@@gorilladisco9108 😂 thx that was great
Imagine if you were an employee . .....Imagine me having you charged with assault.
Who takes young kids to haunted attractions like that? Especially when they are clearly not ready for it....at least go for one of the kid friendly ones.
As. Soon as he started banging on your door. CALL. SECURITY..
First story: Pushing food into someone's face regardless if they are employed at the restaurant or not is still battery and assault and has the same consequences.
What I don't understand is why OP#4 didn't call security the moment she got her door shut. I'd have been on the phone to security or 911 or somebody the very instant I got free of him.
bet the other vendors will be squawking too all join in and get Karen fired...
As someone who worked 5 seasons in a massive Spooky place (multiple haunted houses, rides, beer gardens and roamers, etc) it's absolutely ridiculous how entitled people are. They get scared and then they get *mad* they got scared and then quite often they get aggressive/violent. We couldn't even have security at the park, we had to have multiple sets if legit *cops* on standby for the staff UGH
😂 vendors can take breaks whenever they want the store managers don't decide their business
Hotel key story: Nope. If you're banging on my door, I don't answer. I call the front desk. If that doesn't work, I call the cops. And if there was another exit, why didn't OP just keep acking and leave by the other exit? You don't need to prove anything to this person.
Story 3: I used to be a retail merchandiser, and this story is the craziest thing I've ever heard. I honestly expected it to be a customer story because that's not unusual. I wore a smock in a color I promise none of the employees at any store I serviced ever wore. But I also wore a name tag. So, despite the name of my company being on me and my boxes, I occasionally had to use the "I don't work here" line.
Honestly, if I could work fast enough and it paid more, I would have kept doing it. Coincidentally, I left the job right before COVID started. So I probably would have been laid off or fired. (It wasn't a food or essential product. So the job wouldn't have been worth the risk.)
Story 3: Power-tripping Karen is going to be fired and rightfully so, they *never* learn.
I would have said she dosen't sign my paycheck she not my boss so tell her I said to take a long walk off a short pier
Story 1 - "You DO know throwing my food on me would be assault, and I COULD call the cops on you, right?!"
Story 2 - why didn't they port dad's old number over to the new phone???
The smart phone story. If it were me and I got so many to be motivated, I might return the messages to say that "I" have retired because "I" contracted an incurable STD and am forced to "retire".
Right 👍😊
Or a return message saying the phone had been seized as evidence and they're now being investigated for soliciting.
Story 4 (Iwishthiswasanonymou): Oh, wow, I would've called hotel security as soon as he wouldn't remove his foot ... after trying my hardest to break his foot with the door, that is.
Story 4: She should have called security the first time he started banging on her door instead of trying the key on ‘his’ door.
#3: The thing this manager fails to realise is that her store is SAVING money by have the vendor there. If her power trip causes the vendor to take her location off their service list then she'll need to schedule extra staff to do that job. If she's really applying this to all vendors that's going to add up quickly. Not to mention that her staff won't be motivated to make fancy displays so sales could also go down.
#5: The good news is that if OP is at all interested in neighbour girl he's going to look absolutely golden. Comforting three people at the same time? taking care of kids that aren't his? Remaining polite despite everything? Absolute keeper.
If that first man would have thrown my food at me, he would have been charged with assault.
Story 3. She wants to play games. Tell her next time your not allowed to take your brake you will call the police to report your being held against your will by her.
I'm calling OSHA and HR about Karen's new rule, you can tell Karen that for me Sarah.
Second Story reminded me of the song Ironic by Alanis Morrisette.
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down, he thought
"Well, isn't this nice"
And isn't it ironic, don't you think?
Story 2: He should have told the message senders that this was his new number and that any further harassment would mean him forwarding ALL CONTENT to the police :)
Story 3: OP could have just told Sarah that Karen has no authority over OP or her breaks and that OP is going to lunch and will be back in an hour. Then just walk away.
Story 4: Always call the front desk for security if anyone attempts to enter your room (or keep your door open) without your permission...it is a felony crime to do this.
Story 2: I can relate to this. Years ago, I moved to a new state and got a new phone number. If you switched 2 of the digits around, it was the number of a massage parlor, and no, not for legitimate physical therapy. I kept getting calls from guys trying to make appointments. For a while I did give them the correct number to call after telling them that they had reached a wrong number, but I'm a woman, and don't approve of prostitution, so I made several complaints to the phone company, and was finally given a new number. I found out in the news a short time later that the place was raided by the police. I actually knew where it was, because it was on a local highway, and had a sign out front advertising massages. Unfortunately, the replacement phone number also had issues. Debt collectors kept trying to reach the former holder of that number. Had I changed the number again so soon, I would have had to pay a fee, so I quickly learned to ignore calls from unknown numbers.
about the op with the problem with a power tripping store manager. I wouldn't let it slide even the first time because that is setting the precadent.
Story 2 - Poor dad? The dad was an idiot for, 1) thinking smart phones had anything to do with prostitution; 2) waiting weeks to change his number; and 3) you've always been able to still get basic flip phones - my mom still uses one.
yeah for Story 3? I'd have just straight up told Sarah "Karen has zero authority over me and cannot tell me what to do. I'm taking my lunchbreak regardless of what Karen has to say about it. you cannot and will not stop me from leaving for my break, so I'll be back when my lunch break is over." and then walked my happy little ass out to take the lunchbreak.
messenger or not, they can find out too if they try and stop me.
Hotel Room Jerk: I don’t understand why OP didn’t just call hotel security the first time this man approached her🙁
story 3: Call the boss to warn him that sh*t's about to go down because of Karen, then call corporate and say that the manager of XYZ store insists vendors don't get breaks and only she can let them leave, and since she's not here, I'm being prevented from leaving to take a break. If they won't do anything, then the next step is calling the cops for wrongful imprisonment.
Let’s leave all the lazy employee stuff on the shelf. How would that guy feel if he was on his government mandated lunch break and someone thought he was being lazy so threw his food in his face? I used to work for a big grocery chain. And I would have had to completely change my clothes on my lunch or break if I didn’t want to get stopped by a customer. Management was all “You have to take your lunches and breaks on time or the labor bureau will fine us!” And then the next minute, “I saw you turn down a customer who asked for help, you have to HELP the customer!” Okay which trumps which?
Law supersedes company policy.
Story number 2 happened to my late mother with a land line phone over 20 years ago. She got a new silent number. All good for a few weeks. She then started getting the phone calls like the ones in the story once or twice a week. My sister would answer the phone and tell them they had the wrong number. Some of the men were extremely rude when told that. We discovered by doing a search of the yellow pages that a brothel had a similar phone number, so similar that if someone rang mum and accidentally switched the last 2 digits around they would have rung the brothel. When one man rang, mum decided to play along when he asked the ages of the ladies working there. Mum replied “I’m 75, will I do?” Mum said he hung so fast. My sister answered the phone another time and tired of getting abuse on the phone she told them that were closed due to an outbreak of STDs and hung up. Mum applied for a new number but had to endure these calls until it was changed.
Story 3: Karen's really going with "I don't care what your contract and the contract between our companies say, I'm the boss here so you have to do whatever I say!". She's gonna piss off her own bosses when OP's boss decides to void the contract because of repeated breaches
Story 3: that Karen boss should be fired immediately! because she won’t leave OP alone
She has quite a lust for power 🙄
Story 3: Sadly I've witness something like that while I worked at blue shirt/khakis mart. While the grocery co-manager was on VK. The dry goods manager went on tyrade trying to flex their nonexistent authority over grocery venders. Which ened when grocery co-manager caught them and was fired on the spot.
Story 5: Where I grew up at sadly had neglectfull parents who took ther to young kid on a scary hay ride left them with what they thought was one the people who worked there So they could enjoy the ride without their kid ruing it for them by screaming all the time. Thankfully a actual staff member caught the person trying drag the kid off to do unmentionable things. The child predator was arrested and prosecuted for trying to kidnap the kid and other charges. The neglectfull parents did get in trouble too for abandoning their kid with that stranger. It later was revealed that they would do that all the time when they wanted to go have fun somewhere. In the end CPS did take the child away to live with more responsible family members.
Sorry 3; id be like “okay cool, well I’m taking my break anyway and there’s nothing she can legally do to stop me so, check ya later.”
The smartphone-old dog thinking= should of taken the phone to the police dept., see if they wanted comp. him for the phone, he could get enough money to get another one. lol For the police they would have a easy sting... cause most places prostitution is illegal!
Yes.
DarkFluff saying “nudies” wasn’t on my 2024 bingo but i’ll take it
Why didn't the dad just get a new dumbphone when his first broke? Those are still being sold
That guy's story in the hotel is a lot more plausible than people might think. But OP should have gone ahead and called the front desk and security right after he had done that with putting his foot in the door. Or even better she could have gone ahead and called them when he first started pounding on her door.
I need a follow up to story 3. The GM of that store needs to get pulled in on this because that is the only way to resolve that situation.
smartphone one.....that is when you notify the police...that would be a huge sting operation for catching the customers in some areas...lol
room key. ...call front desk on him putting foot in door immediately
If it was me, I'd get on a video call when the idiot asked for one over text and scare the Crap out of him.
It's unpleasant for women period, I swear I have to tell people no 15-20 times and they still don't know what that word means. I had to tell a dude that just walked into my apartment the other day to get out 7 times and it still took grabbing a weapon for him to understand that get out actually means get out. I think it's become a game for dudes to see how many different phrasings of "no" "no thank you" "stop" etc. they can collect like pokemon cards.
You can still get non-smart flip phones.
Last Story: I would have called CPS. Kids deserve a home with parents who will assure them they are safe when they are afraid.
Story 2 - Um...it IS OP and his mom's fault at least for his dad getting a smartphone (not the working girl part). They could have had him get a flip phone at the phone store. They still sell them for parents who don't want to immerse their children into the world of smartphones yet.
OMG that old man should have taken payment up front and then met with the horndogs who couldn't understand no. Maybe a few really good laughs would have made him less grumpy.
Story 3: OP should've talked with her manager, to talk with Karen's manager, to pretend to consider cutting ties with the store, as well as contacting all of their vendor friends to consider the same, as long as Karen's behavior continues. Then the store managers will tell her to straighten out her act, because they would really rather to keep all their vendors than one atore manager.
That last story... I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from telling those parents something like "No, I REALLY don't work here -- see, they won't hire people on the child sex offenders registry!" with a huge, lecherous grin on my face. This is why you can't take me anywhere...
The smart phone story: Had I been the grandson, I'd have taken some (fully clothed) pictures of my grandfather in various poses and then taught him how to send them to the johns.
Story One: Almost thirty years ago I worked at a fast food place just out of high school. One day I was working a very long shift (twelve hours) with only one half hour break for lunch. So here I am trying to eat and this utter @#%% decides he wants a refill on his drink and aggressively insisting that I need to go get it for him. He tried to complain to the manager when I refused but she wasn't having it, since it would have been a violation of federal labor law for me to assist off the clock.
That's why break rooms exist.
14:45 (Story 4): in the good ol' days✻ of Vegas, the hotel "fully addressing the issue" would have meant AD woke up the next morning in the middle of the desert, without shoes.
If this was his first time, that is.
✻ probably _mostly_ fictional, but fun to contemplate.
I had a bit of an opposite situation to the second story. I was the one messaged by a prostitute by wrong number. I suddenly started getting texts of her nudes. Looked about mid 20s with tattoos. I awkwardly told her I think she had the wrong number. She responded by saying "Fuck! I messaged the wrong boy!". But then she kept sending me more pictures, and kept trying to entice me to meet her. I told her I was a boring 36 year old man who really doesn't give a crap about a younger woman coming on to me. But she didn't stop. I ended up having to block her number.
First story... A good retort to his wanting to assault an employee with food: "and by the end of today, you and your bloody nose would be in a jail cell with Bubba!"
Story 3 don’t argue with the lady, there’s no point. You know your job so you don’t need to explain it to her just walk out the door and let your boss know the crazy lady might be calling. I’m pretty sure she hears enough from her that she’d ignore any complaints she gets.
Story 4 why was she trying to explain to the guy who put his foot in the door to prevent her from closing it? Repeatedly slam to door on his foot until he gets the hint.
Story 2 (GWheels): I wonder whether police ever intentionally get the former phone numbers of prostitutes, just to catch johns soliciting prostitution, without the police having made any sort of action that could constitute entrapment.
I will never understand how some people can treat anyone so terribly. EVERYONE deserves to be treated with respect. Especially people you expect help from.
Story 1 imagine saying that thinking it’s perfectly fine when if on the other foot. The dude would have been as pissed as a kicked hornets nest. What happened if they were deaf and couldn’t hear and got assaulted by him for no reason. Some people do not need to be out in public.
If I see someone pounding on a door and then they start pounding on mine, I'm calling security right away. PO is lucky they didn't get assaulted or worse.
With only one exception all the service I've had in restaurants has been good. But I've seen a number of rude customers. I think servers should get a lot of respect, they are doing a job that's very difficult. That jerk in #1 should have been tossed out of the place. And it's customers like that have me placing little faith in online reviews. I have seen bad reviews of my favorite place to eat, and I KNOW the place is not like the customers described. Their food is always good, and I'm there often enough to know the servers and know they are polite.
Hotel story: Oh, babe… this wasn’t just because of the AVN awards. This can happen at pretty much any hotel, at any time. This must be a young woman.
On my first international trip, I traveled with a group of girl friends and a group of guy friends. On our first night in London, we all went down to the hotel bar. We started talking and drinking with some other hotel guests, as you do. At some point, we ladies are getting a little tired, and decide we are gonna take our last drink up to the room (all the girls were staying in a separate room on a different floor from the guys). When we announced this to the guys, one of them said, “You’re gonna take your drinks to bed? Wooo! Party in room 405!” That’s when all the girls mean mug him, pull the guys aside, and explain that they are never to say our room numbers out loud in public.” They apologize, but sort of insist we are over reacting.
Out of an abundance of caution, when we get to the room, we lock the door, tie a knot in the chain to make it shorter, and push the desk up against the door. Sure enough, a few hours later, there is a wiggle of the door knob, then a light knocking and mumbling, then a pounding, then kicks and screaming. We had called security at the wiggle. Security didn’t come. We call again. No one comes. We call again, and they call our guy friends’ room and try to send them up. Only one wakes up and comes, sees that the guy has basically broken our door in half, and goes down stairs to get someone to help. The hotel staff refuse, at which point, my friend asks them to open the bar back up and give him two beers. He then comes back up to the room and bribes the drunk man we’d be drinking with earlier away with more booze. The whole process took over half an hour. Nearly 45 minutes of this man hacking away at our door, screaming “Ladies! LaaAAAaadies! Let me in, ladies! Let me in you fucking teases! Let me in or I will make you let me in!” It was terrifying and enraging all at once. By the end, 4 of us in that room were pushed up against the door, holding the barricade. The 5th friend was on the phone, begging the hotel to call police or send security. My most badass friend had even broken a leg off a chair, ready to swing if he got through.
The next morning, all the guys apologized to us. They hadn’t even locked their own door that night, they were so drunk. For the rest of the month abroad, they did not repeat their mistake. Although, I don’t think they all grasped that this man meant us real harm; one or two felt it was just because he was blind drunk. 🙄 Now obviously, we were not the only people on our floor that night, and thus, not the only people who called the front desk. By that afternoon, we got word from hotel management that the entire night team had been fired for refusing to help, and putting other guests in danger. We were refunded for our 3-night stay, and the door was fixed by the next night.
1) Oy, what a total AH.
2) Dad is dumb, but it's good the problem was resolved and he finally recognized it was not the fault of the phone.
3) This obnoxious, overstepping, power-tripping manager needs to be reported to her higher ups to let them know the problems she is causing by her harassment that is causing bad relations with the vendors.
4) Creepy, creepy, creepy. This is when to slam the door on his foot and call the front desk. It was stupid of OP not to call the desk and report this rather than having to listen to him banging on the door and then to engage with him again. About time finally calling for security.
After update: It's good this guy got removed and OP did not come to harm. I hope this was a lesson to handle any future problems better.
5) Ya, not a fun time.
I would have soon as I closed the door lock the door. I would have called down the front desk explain them what's going on and had Security deal with him.
I would have reverse phone lookup and find anyone of those numbers being married and text screenshots to the spouse.
Vendor vs manager: what next? Will manager Karen start demanding that customers can't leave without her permission???😂😅