Retired now, but you pull that “I’m a cop you know”, I would have immediately pulled my FEDERAL badge and ID out and asked for his badge, ID and then gotten the nearest supervisor from the local department to launch an investigation. He would likely be suspended immediately and lose his badge after the investigation.
Friend of mine was a Deputy US Marshal in Las Vegas. Had that off duty done that to my friend, she would’ve done the same. Pulled her credentials, and he would’ve been in a world of trouble.
Story 3: Failed to call actual law enforcement to deal with D-Bag. How will they learn not to lay hands on other people if you don’t ship them off to the Pokey?
Unfortunately, if belligerent was actually a cop, especially local to that area, not calling the cops is the right self-preservation move. Cops (and as importantly, prosecutors/DAs) will cover for their own 99% of the time, even with witnesses, even with video, and this could easily have ended with OP further injured, charged, and/or harassed in an ongoing way by local police.
Story 3: Match made in hell, it appears. Karen has zero respect for anyone and everyone, and her response to not winning an argument is to sic her husband, who clearly has issues and easily gets physical to "teach someone a lesson," on other people. If he is a cop, that's definitely an easy way to lose the badge, and if he isn't a cop and is just pretending as some sort of intimidation tactic, wow what a loser.
Also I thought it was illegal to impersonate a cop. Either way, that dude dug a hole for himself but unfortunately the Manager Mealy Mouth did not want to get involved.
COP: He would get a Suspension pending investigation. Depending on past history, he could lose a grade plus end up out of a car and on a beat and/or get traffic duty or desk duty. If his record had a history of reprimands for complaints, he could get fired. It would depend on the policy and the union contract.
If he's really a cop, that's a great way to get a 6 or 7 figure settlement. If he's not a cop, that's a great way to get him a one way ticket to jail. I would tell him to mind his own business, and if he so much as touched me I'd sue the city.
Story 1 - The silent glare OP got from the security guard was because now she has to do her job now, instead sitting on her lazy butt like before or else she’ll get fired.😂😂😂😂
I've seen prison nurses like her. Threw an absolute fit because we called for an ambulance. She changed her tune mid sentence when she saw the wound on the inmate's neck. The nurses then got upset when I asked for gum, mints, or candy. The blood was so thick in the air I could taste it.
Story 3 - Wether Karens husband is a cop or not he still assaulted OP by grabbing OP by the throat and pushing him. That’s grounds for an arrest. And that manager… WTF? Was he just lazy or too cowardly to do anything because the guy said he was a cop and didn’t want to get involved?
Cowardly most likely, some just want the authority and regular duties but not when it is time to put your big kid pants on and do your duty. Lazy wouldn't have gotten involved like that and would have tried to defused the situation more
The story where OP was attacked by the supposed cop I would've said "If you're a cop give me your chief's number and let me talk to him. I bet he would love to hear how you attacked me for no reason" then I would've said to the hotel manager "As for you since you're not helping me whatsoever I won't book here again and leave a review telling how you handled this situation"
Story 3 - the fear of some nut bag obviously on something trapping them an strangling them is the kind of justifiable self defense scenario a lot of concealed carry owners prep for.
Story 2: I used to work for a (likely) much larger monitoring company. We also had the same issues, specifically because we pretended to be the installer. We also did some over the phone trouble shooting. This has happened to our operators before. Our policy was 1. to update the service ticket with **DO NOT RESPOND, THREATS OF VIOLENCE** 2. a call to the police to have them go have a chat with the customer at his house. 3. notify a supervisor of what happened. (At least at my level, lower than me you'd switch step 2 and 3. But step 2 definitely happened every time.)
In a lot of states, making such threats can be prosecuted as “Making a terroristic threat.” And where that’s true, it’s usually a very severe felony with minimum 20 years in prison without parole (at least, that’s the lowest number I remember seeing).
They'd have to have CCTV by the valet station outside to make sure no one would either steal or car or have somebody run into the building. So OP needed to get a hold of the security of the hotel and tell them what was going on and then call the police. Saying that there's a guy being belligent as well as stating he's a cop so they need to get there ASAP.
Story 5: A lot of people are that delusional and believe that they cannot be denied something they want, even if it's completely unavailable at the moment. Like, "No means 'Yes, but we don't want to give it to you'" kind of mentality. As for the escalation, it's just demonstrating how s**t their problem solving is, thinking that threats and the like is the right way to get what they want
Security guard story: Okay, I get why you didn't report the guard while your mother was in the hospital. But I sure the hell would have reported her after your mother was moved out. Alarm story: I'm somewhat surprised KD wasn't arrested for making a terroristic threat. He was on a recorded line, so the evidence was there. I hope PG has learned not to just "wish" things away because that's a good way for someone to eventually get hurt. Valet vs cop's wife/cop story: If this is real, then OP handled this completely wrong. I would strongly suspect that if this hotel has a regular valet service, then the hotel has CAMERAS pointed at the valet station. I'd also be contacting the Internal Affairs Department of the local PD to make a complaint and demand they get the footage and make a complaint against that officer. I respect police as well, but one that tries to throw his weight around like that? Absolutely NOT! The so-called manager would receive a complaint as well. Pillows and martini story: I hope that couple enjoyed the room service at the gray bar hotel.
My mom is a type 2 diabetic, but because she works a lot, she constantly forgets to eat. Either myself, my sister, or my mom's boyfriend will dropped off food to make sure she eats. She will often not take a lunch break because of how busy her job is.
That first story reminded me of this - In 2000, my mum was dying of Cancer and was in my local hospital, where I did voluntary work. I didn’t have a uniform, but I did have an NHS lanyard, which allowed me into areas that the General Public weren’t allowed. This particular evening, I wasn’t even wearing it ! Now this hospital had a ‘No Smoking’ policy but it wasn’t generally enforced to staff and patients because if one of them smoked, then you had to let them, obviously ! And it wasn’t wise to have to go all the way off the hospital premises and stand on a surrounding road, just in case there was an emergency. The staff were told, that if they were to smoke, to take their lanyards off though. So there I was, stood outside the building under a canopy due to there being heavy rain. A voice calls over the tannoy stating this is a No Smoking hospital, so I ignore it. It happens again and I ignore it again; eventually a Security Guard comes out and tells me that the G.P. can’t smoke on the grounds. I explained that I wasn’t the G.P., showed him my lanyard and that I was visiting my dying mother. He totally ignored what I said and tried to take the cigarette from my hand, at which point I shouted at him ‘When your mother is dying of Cancer, you’ll know how I feel right now !’, then walked off to enjoy my cigarette in the rain. I went back in to the ward afterwards and all the staff couldn’t believe that a staff member had shown no sympathy in the situation ! I reported the guard and he must have been reprimanded, because he didn’t bother me again after that (he also didn’t apologise) and about 2 weeks after this, my mother lost her fight and joined dad in Heaven. I gave up the voluntary work there because it reminded me of my mum too much at the time and I couldn’t do a shift without crying my eyes out. Time is a great healer and in the 24 years since then, I have become stronger though I do miss my mum very much, I’m no longer a gibbering wreck, and if my own health was better, I would volunteer again there - I still have many friends from those days that always let on to me when I’m there for medical appointments myself and it brings back all the fond memories.
Story 4: I work in medical staffing, and yes, some nurses have a high-and-mighty attitude towards nurse aides (CNA) and caregivers (CBRF), and basically bully them.
What that nurse did was amazingly nuts! What kind of nurse does that? OMG! She needed to GO! I would not want that nurse caring for anyone in my family.
As someone who worked as a security guard until I had heart failure, and I was a supervisor I would have welcomed OP telling me one of my guards had acted as she had. I would have written her up and had her removed from the site. Her incompetent actions and nasty words are disgraceful.🤬
There was a nurse at the nursing home I worked at that was just horrible. She would sit onher lazy behind, barking orders at everyone. She would watch the clock and complain if she thought people were coming back late from break. I hadn't even clocked in for my work day that started at 1PM, and it was 12:50 PM. She tried to make a rude comment to me about returning from break way to early and I told her that my work shift didn't start until 1PM. My supervisor ripped her and her supervisor a new ass that day over the nurses clock watching. People were relieved when that stopped. She got caught giving a resident the wrong medication and tried to blame another nurse that was on vacation. She was fired and arrested when she was caught taking a residents medication. If the man who owned the pharmacy hadn't called to complain about the extra medication that was being ordered for the resident she was stealing the medication from, the nursing home would've never known it.
First, thank you for posting your story. We need more people to do this because it brings awareness. Just because you're a nurse doesn't give you the right to be a Karen, dictate, and break the law. HOLY-MOLY!
I read something about how most mean girls grow up to be nurses, and bullies become cops Ironic occupations for people who lack any moral qualifications to actually do their job
Story 1 - I understand that OP didn’t want to add more drama/stress onto herself because her sick mother is top priority but I still would’ve reported that ahole security guard anyway because I wouldn’t want someone like her in charge of sick vulnerable people in a hospital.
Reporting the guard would NOT have stopped OP from visiting because that would be seen as payback for reporting the guard and no security company will jeopardize their hospital contract because of such and would tell the guards that they should focus on their job and not stop legitimate people to the hospital unless told by the hospital that person cant be there. And if the hospital told OP they couldnt be there, then she could have easily raised hell through her mother because that doesnt help with a patient's recovery and the moment litigation is mentioned hospitals cave.
Story 3, if the guy is not a cop, depending on where you are, just identifying yourself as a police officer. If you're not one can land you in jail. If he is a police officer, I would have done everything in my power to make sure that guy lost his badge, that's the kind of person that makes people say all cops are bastards. That kind of behavior is what gives all police officers a bad name and other officers need to call that out and end that behavior.
Any place that serves alcohol, like a hotel with a bar, they lose their liquor license if cops get called too much. Managers are trained to talk them out of involving cops. Also, as a witness on the clock the hotel would have to pay for the managers hours to testify since it was work related. Similarly, op can sue the hotel for the assault since it happened on the premises and they didn't respond correctly.
"Cop" story: not only would I inform the front desk, I would have called the police department myself and waited in the lobby for their arrival. I would've also requested they watch the cctv/security cameras for the valet area (any place that has valet service WILL have some sort of camera in that area). I would also insist on pressing charges.
being a security guard myself I can guarantee you that if in the first story OP did make a complaint and specifically spelled out what the guard said they would be transferred to a dead-end site... these security companies don't give a shit about truth or reality, what they care about is appearance and how the public sees them... I had one interaction with a guest who was very rude and obnoxious and I was only the best courteous you could ever be, with a witness behind me, that guy complained to the company and I got written up for it... The guy straight-up lied and said I was being rude... I got back at him for it by giving his mobile coffee business a bad review with the truth...
He can get fired for going on a power trip like this, and telling people can get his cop buddies to back him up. This cop is one of the reasons good cops get treated like garbage. I would of called the cops and I would be putting up a bad reiew up online about the manager of the hotel trying to push OP getting attacked on the hotel property. I would love to see this manager trying to explain this to their bosses, before they get fired hopefully.
For last story I used to work at a hotel in their in-house restaurant as a line cook. New years eve we'd rush close down at 11 so we could make it to the bar across the street for drinks. Bosses never worked these days and following day prep/cleaning wasn't difficult
Story #3: Yeah.. OP should have called the cops and pressed assault charges! This dude was either a cop and there fore should lose his badge or he was just bluffing to be a cop and should be arrested either way!!
8:10 Yep, that customer was dumber than a box of rocks! The threat of violence to any customer service center is always taken seriously. There have been too many people who have lost their lives to some jackass who couldn’t take ‘no.’ And seriously, *All Calls are Monitored and Recorded!* As soon as someone threatens violence, you can guarantee that the call is going to get escalated.
My dad was a cop. When my siblings and I each got our DLs he told us all the same thing: "Do not throw my name around." He said he would help us with one speeding ticket, one time, and he stuck to it. I am the only one of my siblings who never had to call that in, and I rub their faces in it all the time 😁
@sherlynsherlyn6396 I faced a ken a few weeks ago. The man was awful. Let's call the man Joe. So Joe came into the dog park while I was talking to 2 older men let's call them John and jordon who I'm friends with. Joe storms over, telling us my dog and John's dog tripped him and that he fell on his back...and got hurt. He claimed that he would put our dogs down...that our dogs were aggressive and I called my mom so my mom came and went into full momma bear mode...telling the man that if he ever acted like this again we would press charges.
Nurses can absolutely be Karens. I’ve met several in my 40+ working in healthcare. Thankfully they re few and fr between. And usually they get a comeuppance somewhere along the line 🙂
When the police shall make an arrest regardless of charges pressed, it can really hurt people who want to make peace. I know of a guy who essentially paid a hefty fine for HAVING BEEN STABBED. His wife stabbed him with a knife during a quarrel, so much that he had to call ER, who called police. The couple both wanted to make peace and let it go away. But police, despite the victim's protests, arrested the wife and released her later under a no-approach warrant. But they both did not have any other place to live and they are in one of the cities that are against short time rent. So he had to buy her two month of hotel stay on the other end of the street they live, out of his pocket, until he managed to get the protection order taken down.
My mom is a nurse/nurse manager and omg that nurse story is 100% believable, that happens a lot more than ppl realize. Karen nurses are very much a thing
Story 3 - I once had an old man with a VERY worn "RETIRED" badge (which they're not even supposed to carry) start beating on my window screaming and holding it up like it meant something 'cos he didn't like that I passed him in a marked passing zone when he was doing 20+ under. I just turned up my music and held up my middle finger in his direction while staring at the light until I could go. Was more than a little unnerving, especially as his large rings were very loud on the glass, but left no marks I could ever find. Dumbest thing is I couldn't have safely rolled down that window in the first place, as that vehicle had crank windows and he was on the passenger side.
Hey Fluff, I'm not surprised in the least that someone ran into a Karen nurse. They exist. Let me tell you about an encounter I had many decades ago before "Karen " was a thing. I was either in 7th or 8th grade, so this happened in the 70s. I had been running in the hallway at school and had a fall. I hurt my hip really badly and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance 🚑. My mother was called and she had to leave work to meet me in the hospital. This was gym day, and my next period was gym, and I needed to buy a pair of gym shorts. All my mom had that morning was quarters, so she gave me $ 4 $ ..00 in quarters. When she got to the hospital and came to see me. I was in the hallway waiting to be xrayed, and she asked me if I got my gym shorts. I told her no and reached into my pocket and handed her the quarters back. Just the Nurse Retchet walked up behind my mom and rudely tapped her shoulder. When mom turned, she said, " Give me them. Now." My mom, not knowing what was going, my mom just stood there dumbfounded. The nurse repeated herself. That's when I told my mom, " Mom, she thinks I gave you pills 💊. "My mom flipped out and reached onto her pocket, grabbed a handful of quarters, and said," You want what he gave me? Here." And she threw them in her face hard. Don't mess with my mom.
You just tell the Karen that we've had people in the past getting so drunk and wasted after midnight that they ended up either destroying their rooms or accidentally falling off the balcony if there's a balcony he said this hotel.
“County hospital which is no longer open” = Kino hospital. It has been bought by first the University, and subsequently by Banner. It has improved since those days. They still have a mental health wing.
I cracked up on the one about the guy threatening about the alarm. OP's comment, after this guy has threatened to bring a gun and shoot the place up, about calling the police "because we take threats seriously". Did that really have to be explained? LOL. Well duh!
@@mountainman5173 Ah yes, GenX, the ones always making big overblown statements in a futile attempt to fill the void of that hug and "I'm proud of you" that they never got from their parents.
Story 2: Always. Press. Charges. PG was threatened with DEATH! Immediately call the police to have him arrested for Felony Death Threats & Terroristic Threats. Never let that go. Story 3: Pull out your phone and call the sheriff's Department immediately. Aggravated Assault & Battery is a Felony charge...add in Under Color of Law and it's a Federal Felony. Story 4: OP could have gone to HR to file a formal complaint against her for attempting to force him into doing medical duties he was not trained or licensed to perform. BIG NO-NO!
Story 3: OP should have called the cops/demanded the cops be called on OC right then and there. OP was assaulted and you need to hold people accountable. Hotel had hold of their car so they couldn't go anywhere unless it was on foot.
Want to know something? I once mistook someone for an employee in a shop. (The classic case of wrong uniform, should've payed attention) Want to know what happened? I apologised when she corrected me. But then she tried to help me anyway. Karens really should try this, you know. Actually being polite! It gets way better results than their tantrums ever will. 🤣
Story 3: folks, if a cop threatens you with his or her status as a cop, over a personal issue like this, that's police corruption, plain and simple. *Politely* ask for the agency and badge number. (That's a sobering request for anyone who just needs to simmer down.) Maybe you don't want the hassle, maybe the cop's department is dirty, but filing a level-headed complaint for incidents like Story 3 might just establish a track record for the criminal that will save someone down the line.
Story 2 - I have agree with the commenter for this post, Patient Girl should have pressed charges against King DB. Threats like that are NOT to be taken lightly.
its the reason why karens dont learn anything because people dont give them consequences, they just hope the person learned a lesson, yea the lkesson is they gt away with it
@bl4ckhearts802 exactly. It sounds extreme, but what if he actually made good on his threats because he never has received consequences for his threats?
Regarding the hospital security staff in the first story, I have to say that under normal circumstances, I would fully agree with them not wanting people who don’t work somewhere to be wandering around the place in their uniform. It’s a perfectly reasonable position to take. It just so happened that OP’s circumstances weren’t exactly normal, which gives them a very good reason to do just that.
I worked as a CNA while in college for nursing. There are PLENTY of "nurse Karens" out there! Floor nurses that are getting up there in years typically get to be Karens.
While I sympathize with PG, shame on her for not pressing charges against KD. KD definitely needed to go to jail for terroristic threats, even if PG was not personally at risk but instead the innocent people who work for the alarm company physical office.
I live in a neighborhood full of cops. They have to be on their best behavior even when off duty. One neighbor told me even when he’s off duty he’s still a cop. I would have asked for the cops to be called. Had the guy been an actual cop I would have filed a complaint.
Story 2 I bet they work for a company like CentraLarm. The second I heard they worked for a monitoring company, my brain went "I know a place like that. Gave 10 years of my life to them before they tossed me aside" Pretty sure when they mentioned the clientelle that said company deals with, my brain went "Yup! I can name at least 3-4 alarm companies that fit this bill
Australian Call Centres..... So back in the day, I worked for an answering service - Hutchison Telecoms. We were only given training on how to take calls, and were "spoken to" if we didn't do it fast enough. Oh, and we are not allowed to be rude to any caller. No training on abusive callers. Only pass it up to the supervisor if its something like someone stuck in a lift, as only they had the numbers to escalate the calls to the techs. So of course, one evening, a guy calls up around 8.30pm, to the local council. I answer saying "Answering Service" and he proceeds to abuse the absolute crap out of me and threaten me. I have no idea what to do, so I try to calm him down and explain that I am the answering service. Nope. Not the first one either. The other staff, when I asked, just said to "accidentally" hang up on them and tell the supervisor the call dropped out. Oh, the supervisors also loved to walk around the cubicles, and increase your telephone volume to max (so it would be like a truck horn in your ear) when you popped out on your 10minute break (and stayed at the same station). Great place to work at.
That last story, people like that escalate because it's always gotten them what they want in the past, so they've never learned how to respond like a member of a civilized society.
15:02 A quick google search of "Can cops commit Abuse of Power" (with me having only heard the term used against politicians) revealed this gem... "The term 'abuse of power' encompasses all the ways police officers can abuse their positions by taking advantage of the very people they have pledged to serve and protect. While most police officers take that pledge seriously, there are some who abuse the power given them to fulfill selfish personal desires." This taught me 2 things 1. If this guy was a cop, what he did probably could've been considered abuse of power 2. The above definition implies that abuse of power is all about cops, so I'm now curious about if it's been used wrong when describing politicians, so another search, which took the above one and swapped out "cops" for "politicians" reveled... "A simple definition of the abuse of power is the misuse of a position of power to take unjust advantage of individuals, organizations, or governments." So ultimately, while it may not be charged very often when it happens, the term "Abuse of Power" could be applied to less obvious cases, like doctors who do a worse treatment, or don't fully treat a patient so that they'll come back for more than just basic check ups, allowing them to make more profit, or Landlords/HOA boards which micro manage residents, etc, etc.
For that last story, if the bar is forced to close at a certain time, it could be because of a county ordinance to stop selling alcohol by then. I used to live near a county that did that and they had a twenty-four hour liquor store out in the middle of nowhere along the highway because that was where the county line was and everyone from the neighboring county would have to go there after nine if they wanted any alcohol.
9:00 (Story 2): "PG was the one who would need to press any charges" If this was anywhere in the US, that is almost certainly not true. He was not only threatening PG, he was actually threatening violence against the entire office. As such, the manager or any other representative of the company entirely has the ability to press charges without PG needing to be part of it at all. In fact, in most places I'm aware of, nobody would actually need to "press charges" at all. If that sort of thing is merely reported to the police, the *police* can and will press charges entirely on their own accord. Threatening a mass shooting is not the kind of crime that police will decide to throw their hands up and ignore just because one person "doesn't want to press charges"..
Story 4: Ugh. My first jobs were as a CNA in nursing homes. The first level of nurses were LPNs (licensed and completed nursing programs) and then the next level is RN (higher education level and certification). We had what we called the RN additude. If an LPN saw a piece of trash on the floor, they would bend down, pick it up, and throw it in the trash. Issue solved in all of 2 seconds. If an RN saw a piece of trash on the floor, they would immediately stop what they were doing and go hunt down a CNA, demanding they come pick up that piece of trash this instant, regardless of what they were in the middle of doing. If the CNA was doing something that required finishing such as transferring or cleaning a resident that would take a moment to complete or at least get to a stage where it would be safe to walk away, the RN would wait, huffing and puffing that their precious time was being wasted.
If someone threatens, attacks, or even touches your, always press charges. These assholes will never learn either way. I know it's annoying but if you don't press charges then there's a high chance someone else is going to get that' person's toxic behavior and they might get it even worse.
Story 5: Karen was rude, *BUT:* Op was doing work at the hotel (unpaid!!) and the bartender _did_ serve her. Karen was wrong for the tantrum, but it was reasonable to assume that the bar was open and OP was an employee.
I used to process letters to the CEO for a major financial firm. People write the top dude when they're convinced no one else cares, and yeah, it actually can get the company's attention (tho NO, it almost never is actually seen by the CEO - do you have a clue how many crabby letters we get every day??). But once I got a letter complaining about our services on the BACK of another letter - one from a congressman to the customer, answering questions about the 2nd Amendment. Now, I know by checking that the customer is in his 80s and in the midwest, so he probably recycles every piece of paper he gets that he can use to print on, so he doesn't have to buy paper. My aged mom would do the same thing. But because it's a letter to the CEO on the back of a letter around gun control? Yup, straight to legal, who take it the same as if the old dude had actually made open threats. In the world we are living in, you absolutely cannot brush off anything that even might potentially be a threat. The one you think may not be serious could be the one who shows up in your lobby with an AK.
#4 - I'd almost bet my savings that was Keno Hospital in Tucson. Sounds about like the shenanigans that went on there from at least late seventies onward.
I understand staff wanting to keep things minimal, and not wanting to put themselves in a dangerous situation, but to say that no one touched anyone after OP was flat out attacked by the neck? I would have a personal vendetta against that manager.
Story 3: I don't think that qualified immunity covers a cop that is not on duty. That was straight-up assault. Cop or not, that guy needs to be doing some time, or suspension and anger management at the very least.
Speaking of crappy hospital security guards, heres my story: So this was last month, my grandma had had a severe stroke spanning most of her brain. After a couple days of tests the doctors confirmed that she had almost no brain function and would have to be on a feeding tube for the rest of her life. Something to note about my grandma is that she detested the thought of living with a tube, or any kind of life support. So my family all had about a week to see her before life support was turned off. So when it was time to visit I had been sick with a cold for the last week and while i didnt feel well i wanted to see my grandma for one last time, so i wore a mask to make sure that i minimized the risk of getting others sick (given that my grandma was in a hospital filled with other patients). When i was checking in the security guard laughed at me and asked if i was, "dumb enough to think that a mask would stop me from getting sick". When i hears him say that i really really wanted to argue back with him and tell him off but i was tired and already grieving the death of my grandma so i just said, "yes, yes i am." To which he laughed some more and sent me on my way. My antivax and super maga loving aunt had a fun time laughing with him about it. Anyway thanks for reading
Re the last story. I don't blame the guest for being annoyed. The poster was doing her husband's job, so it would appear she worked there and having a drink at the bar that was closed would have confused the guest as if she didn't work there, why was she allowed to have a drink and not the guest. I understand her confusion and she should have talked to the manager in a more calm way
Retired now, but you pull that “I’m a cop you know”, I would have immediately pulled my FEDERAL badge and ID out and asked for his badge, ID and then gotten the nearest supervisor from the local department to launch an investigation. He would likely be suspended immediately and lose his badge after the investigation.
😂😂😂 man would 💩 bricks
Friend of mine was a Deputy US Marshal in Las Vegas. Had that off duty done that to my friend, she would’ve done the same. Pulled her credentials, and he would’ve been in a world of trouble.
@jamesdickey9088 aka man will run...or fear life.
Yeah right. Cops wouldn't bully people unless they were sure they would get away with it.
What if he wasn't a cop, and only claimed to be one?
Story 3: Failed to call actual law enforcement to deal with D-Bag. How will they learn not to lay hands on other people if you don’t ship them off to the Pokey?
It's hilarious when someone claims they're a cop but can't prove it when a real cop shows up.
Unfortunately, if belligerent was actually a cop, especially local to that area, not calling the cops is the right self-preservation move. Cops (and as importantly, prosecutors/DAs) will cover for their own 99% of the time, even with witnesses, even with video, and this could easily have ended with OP further injured, charged, and/or harassed in an ongoing way by local police.
The cop needs charged, fired, and blacklisted.
Story 3: Match made in hell, it appears. Karen has zero respect for anyone and everyone, and her response to not winning an argument is to sic her husband, who clearly has issues and easily gets physical to "teach someone a lesson," on other people.
If he is a cop, that's definitely an easy way to lose the badge, and if he isn't a cop and is just pretending as some sort of intimidation tactic, wow what a loser.
Also I thought it was illegal to impersonate a cop. Either way, that dude dug a hole for himself but unfortunately the Manager Mealy Mouth did not want to get involved.
Also pretending to be cop isn't great once real Police show up.
@@Enki1013 It is. You can be fined and even sent to prison.
COP: He would get a Suspension pending investigation. Depending on past history, he could lose a grade plus end up out of a car and on a beat and/or get traffic duty or desk duty. If his record had a history of reprimands for complaints, he could get fired. It would depend on the policy and the union contract.
If he's really a cop, that's a great way to get a 6 or 7 figure settlement. If he's not a cop, that's a great way to get him a one way ticket to jail. I would tell him to mind his own business, and if he so much as touched me I'd sue the city.
Story 1 - The silent glare OP got from the security guard was because now she has to do her job now, instead sitting on her lazy butt like before or else she’ll get fired.😂😂😂😂
sounds about right to me
Story 3 is a case where the police ABSOLUTELY should have been called and charges pressed.
Number 3 with the nurse one. She went to the doctor to complain about OP and embarrass him, but only ended up embarrassing herself in the process.
Hospitals are obviously a place where everyone needs to work by the book. That nurse deserves more than the reprimand she got
I've seen prison nurses like her. Threw an absolute fit because we called for an ambulance. She changed her tune mid sentence when she saw the wound on the inmate's neck.
The nurses then got upset when I asked for gum, mints, or candy. The blood was so thick in the air I could taste it.
17:30 "I *will* have your job for this!"
"Ma'am, you're not qualified to do my job."
Story 3 - Wether Karens husband is a cop or not he still assaulted OP by grabbing OP by the throat and pushing him. That’s grounds for an arrest.
And that manager… WTF? Was he just lazy or too cowardly to do anything because the guy said he was a cop and didn’t want to get involved?
Cowardly most likely, some just want the authority and regular duties but not when it is time to put your big kid pants on and do your duty. Lazy wouldn't have gotten involved like that and would have tried to defused the situation more
The story where OP was attacked by the supposed cop I would've said "If you're a cop give me your chief's number and let me talk to him. I bet he would love to hear how you attacked me for no reason" then I would've said to the hotel manager "As for you since you're not helping me whatsoever I won't book here again and leave a review telling how you handled this situation"
Story 3 - the fear of some nut bag obviously on something trapping them an strangling them is the kind of justifiable self defense scenario a lot of concealed carry owners prep for.
Story 2: I used to work for a (likely) much larger monitoring company. We also had the same issues, specifically because we pretended to be the installer. We also did some over the phone trouble shooting. This has happened to our operators before.
Our policy was 1. to update the service ticket with **DO NOT RESPOND, THREATS OF VIOLENCE** 2. a call to the police to have them go have a chat with the customer at his house. 3. notify a supervisor of what happened. (At least at my level, lower than me you'd switch step 2 and 3. But step 2 definitely happened every time.)
In a lot of states, making such threats can be prosecuted as “Making a terroristic threat.” And where that’s true, it’s usually a very severe felony with minimum 20 years in prison without parole (at least, that’s the lowest number I remember seeing).
They'd have to have CCTV by the valet station outside to make sure no one would either steal or car or have somebody run into the building. So OP needed to get a hold of the security of the hotel and tell them what was going on and then call the police. Saying that there's a guy being belligent as well as stating he's a cop so they need to get there ASAP.
Story 5: A lot of people are that delusional and believe that they cannot be denied something they want, even if it's completely unavailable at the moment. Like, "No means 'Yes, but we don't want to give it to you'" kind of mentality. As for the escalation, it's just demonstrating how s**t their problem solving is, thinking that threats and the like is the right way to get what they want
Security guard story: Okay, I get why you didn't report the guard while your mother was in the hospital. But I sure the hell would have reported her after your mother was moved out.
Alarm story: I'm somewhat surprised KD wasn't arrested for making a terroristic threat. He was on a recorded line, so the evidence was there. I hope PG has learned not to just "wish" things away because that's a good way for someone to eventually get hurt.
Valet vs cop's wife/cop story: If this is real, then OP handled this completely wrong. I would strongly suspect that if this hotel has a regular valet service, then the hotel has CAMERAS pointed at the valet station. I'd also be contacting the Internal Affairs Department of the local PD to make a complaint and demand they get the footage and make a complaint against that officer. I respect police as well, but one that tries to throw his weight around like that? Absolutely NOT! The so-called manager would receive a complaint as well.
Pillows and martini story: I hope that couple enjoyed the room service at the gray bar hotel.
My mom is a type 2 diabetic, but because she works a lot, she constantly forgets to eat. Either myself, my sister, or my mom's boyfriend will dropped off food to make sure she eats. She will often not take a lunch break because of how busy her job is.
Won't she get in trouble ??
@@flamefangstar she doesn't get into trouble. Her office is aware. Plus since the busy part of the season is over she can relax now.
That first story reminded me of this - In 2000, my mum was dying of Cancer and was in my local hospital, where I did voluntary work. I didn’t have a uniform, but I did have an NHS lanyard, which allowed me into areas that the General Public weren’t allowed. This particular evening, I wasn’t even wearing it !
Now this hospital had a ‘No Smoking’ policy but it wasn’t generally enforced to staff and patients because if one of them smoked, then you had to let them, obviously ! And it wasn’t wise to have to go all the way off the hospital premises and stand on a surrounding road, just in case there was an emergency. The staff were told, that if they were to smoke, to take their lanyards off though.
So there I was, stood outside the building under a canopy due to there being heavy rain. A voice calls over the tannoy stating this is a No Smoking hospital, so I ignore it. It happens again and I ignore it again; eventually a Security Guard comes out and tells me that the G.P. can’t smoke on the grounds. I explained that I wasn’t the G.P., showed him my lanyard and that I was visiting my dying mother. He totally ignored what I said and tried to take the cigarette from my hand, at which point I shouted at him ‘When your mother is dying of Cancer, you’ll know how I feel right now !’, then walked off to enjoy my cigarette in the rain. I went back in to the ward afterwards and all the staff couldn’t believe that a staff member had shown no sympathy in the situation !
I reported the guard and he must have been reprimanded, because he didn’t bother me again after that (he also didn’t apologise) and about 2 weeks after this, my mother lost her fight and joined dad in Heaven.
I gave up the voluntary work there because it reminded me of my mum too much at the time and I couldn’t do a shift without crying my eyes out.
Time is a great healer and in the 24 years since then, I have become stronger though I do miss my mum very much, I’m no longer a gibbering wreck, and if my own health was better, I would volunteer again there - I still have many friends from those days that always let on to me when I’m there for medical appointments myself and it brings back all the fond memories.
Firstly, I am sorry for your loss.
Secondly, screw that guy if for now showing sympathy in such a situation.
*not
Story 4: I work in medical staffing, and yes, some nurses have a high-and-mighty attitude towards nurse aides (CNA) and caregivers (CBRF), and basically bully them.
There's always a pecking order, isn't there?
What that nurse did was amazingly nuts! What kind of nurse does that? OMG! She needed to GO! I would not want that nurse caring for anyone in my family.
Southern Arizona? Oh boy, I think I might know which hospital that might have been.
Story 3: Nobody touched anybody” was that manager for real?
For real life, there are eyes in the sky! Check the camera feed!
As someone who worked as a security guard until I had heart failure, and I was a supervisor I would have welcomed OP telling me one of my guards had acted as she had. I would have written her up and had her removed from the site. Her incompetent actions and nasty words are disgraceful.🤬
There was a nurse at the nursing home I worked at that was just horrible. She would sit onher lazy behind, barking orders at everyone. She would watch the clock and complain if she thought people were coming back late from break. I hadn't even clocked in for my work day that started at 1PM, and it was 12:50 PM. She tried to make a rude comment to me about returning from break way to early and I told her that my work shift didn't start until 1PM. My supervisor ripped her and her supervisor a new ass that day over the nurses clock watching. People were relieved when that stopped. She got caught giving a resident the wrong medication and tried to blame another nurse that was on vacation. She was fired and arrested when she was caught taking a residents medication. If the man who owned the pharmacy hadn't called to complain about the extra medication that was being ordered for the resident she was stealing the medication from, the nursing home would've never known it.
First, thank you for posting your story. We need more people to do this because it brings awareness. Just because you're a nurse doesn't give you the right to be a Karen, dictate, and break the law. HOLY-MOLY!
I read something about how most mean girls grow up to be nurses, and bullies become cops
Ironic occupations for people who lack any moral qualifications to actually do their job
I’m I’m gonna have my dad
Story 1 - I understand that OP didn’t want to add more drama/stress onto herself because her sick mother is top priority but I still would’ve reported that ahole security guard anyway because I wouldn’t want someone like her in charge of sick vulnerable people in a hospital.
I’m thinking she’ll do it again and maybe get reported.
Agreed - but I also understand just not having the bandwidth to deal with with it at that time.
Reporting the guard would NOT have stopped OP from visiting because that would be seen as payback for reporting the guard and no security company will jeopardize their hospital contract because of such and would tell the guards that they should focus on their job and not stop legitimate people to the hospital unless told by the hospital that person cant be there. And if the hospital told OP they couldnt be there, then she could have easily raised hell through her mother because that doesnt help with a patient's recovery and the moment litigation is mentioned hospitals cave.
It’s always the worst people that have jobs like this! They have no empathy and are just dead inside.
Story 2: PG Should have pressed charges instead of letting the Belligerent caller get away with threats of violence
Story 3, if the guy is not a cop, depending on where you are, just identifying yourself as a police officer. If you're not one can land you in jail. If he is a police officer, I would have done everything in my power to make sure that guy lost his badge, that's the kind of person that makes people say all cops are bastards. That kind of behavior is what gives all police officers a bad name and other officers need to call that out and end that behavior.
99.5% of. Cops give the good ones a bad name
Any place that serves alcohol, like a hotel with a bar, they lose their liquor license if cops get called too much. Managers are trained to talk them out of involving cops. Also, as a witness on the clock the hotel would have to pay for the managers hours to testify since it was work related. Similarly, op can sue the hotel for the assault since it happened on the premises and they didn't respond correctly.
"Cop" story: not only would I inform the front desk, I would have called the police department myself and waited in the lobby for their arrival. I would've also requested they watch the cctv/security cameras for the valet area (any place that has valet service WILL have some sort of camera in that area). I would also insist on pressing charges.
7:42 Would the company have his address? Threatening to commit violence, even if you don’t intend to do it, is a crime.
being a security guard myself I can guarantee you that if in the first story OP did make a complaint and specifically spelled out what the guard said they would be transferred to a dead-end site... these security companies don't give a shit about truth or reality, what they care about is appearance and how the public sees them... I had one interaction with a guest who was very rude and obnoxious and I was only the best courteous you could ever be, with a witness behind me, that guy complained to the company and I got written up for it... The guy straight-up lied and said I was being rude... I got back at him for it by giving his mobile coffee business a bad review with the truth...
He can get fired for going on a power trip like this, and telling people can get his cop buddies to back him up. This cop is one of the reasons good cops get treated like garbage. I would of called the cops and I would be putting up a bad reiew up online about the manager of the hotel trying to push OP getting attacked on the hotel property. I would love to see this manager trying to explain this to their bosses, before they get fired hopefully.
For last story I used to work at a hotel in their in-house restaurant as a line cook. New years eve we'd rush close down at 11 so we could make it to the bar across the street for drinks. Bosses never worked these days and following day prep/cleaning wasn't difficult
Story #3: Yeah.. OP should have called the cops and pressed assault charges! This dude was either a cop and there fore should lose his badge or he was just bluffing to be a cop and should be arrested either way!!
Story 5 (last one), I wonder if Karen got her martini & extra pillows in the jail cell??!!😂😂😂
8:10 Yep, that customer was dumber than a box of rocks!
The threat of violence to any customer service center is always taken seriously. There have been too many people who have lost their lives to some jackass who couldn’t take ‘no.’
And seriously, *All Calls are Monitored and Recorded!* As soon as someone threatens violence, you can guarantee that the call is going to get escalated.
My dad was a cop. When my siblings and I each got our DLs he told us all the same thing: "Do not throw my name around." He said he would help us with one speeding ticket, one time, and he stuck to it.
I am the only one of my siblings who never had to call that in, and I rub their faces in it all the time 😁
Op shouldve pressd charges and if that guy is a cop hop
Story 3: Absolutely no heroes in this one.
If these stories have taught me anything it's to always press charges
I can’t wait to share a story with you on what happened to me. I faced an insane Karen. I love your videos. Now I have an experience I can share now.
So submit it to him. I'd love to hear it
Same honestly
Me too, hope to listen to your story soon
@sherlynsherlyn6396 I faced a ken a few weeks ago. The man was awful. Let's call the man Joe. So Joe came into the dog park while I was talking to 2 older men let's call them John and jordon who I'm friends with. Joe storms over, telling us my dog and John's dog tripped him and that he fell on his back...and got hurt. He claimed that he would put our dogs down...that our dogs were aggressive and I called my mom so my mom came and went into full momma bear mode...telling the man that if he ever acted like this again we would press charges.
@@iononcantomascrivo how do I submit it?
Nurses can absolutely be Karens. I’ve met several in my 40+ working in healthcare. Thankfully they re few and fr between. And usually they get a comeuppance somewhere along the line 🙂
There's a video out there about the Mean Girl to Nurse pipeline.
When the police shall make an arrest regardless of charges pressed, it can really hurt people who want to make peace. I know of a guy who essentially paid a hefty fine for HAVING BEEN STABBED. His wife stabbed him with a knife during a quarrel, so much that he had to call ER, who called police. The couple both wanted to make peace and let it go away. But police, despite the victim's protests, arrested the wife and released her later under a no-approach warrant. But they both did not have any other place to live and they are in one of the cities that are against short time rent. So he had to buy her two month of hotel stay on the other end of the street they live, out of his pocket, until he managed to get the protection order taken down.
My mom is a nurse/nurse manager and omg that nurse story is 100% believable, that happens a lot more than ppl realize. Karen nurses are very much a thing
Story 3: OP should have called the cops on the guy who assaulted him.
Story 3 - I once had an old man with a VERY worn "RETIRED" badge (which they're not even supposed to carry) start beating on my window screaming and holding it up like it meant something 'cos he didn't like that I passed him in a marked passing zone when he was doing 20+ under. I just turned up my music and held up my middle finger in his direction while staring at the light until I could go. Was more than a little unnerving, especially as his large rings were very loud on the glass, but left no marks I could ever find.
Dumbest thing is I couldn't have safely rolled down that window in the first place, as that vehicle had crank windows and he was on the passenger side.
Hey Fluff, I'm not surprised in the least that someone ran into a Karen nurse. They exist.
Let me tell you about an encounter I had many decades ago before "Karen " was a thing. I was either in 7th or 8th grade, so this happened in the 70s. I had been running in the hallway at school and had a fall. I hurt my hip really badly and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance 🚑. My mother was called and she had to leave work to meet me in the hospital. This was gym day, and my next period was gym, and I needed to buy a pair of gym shorts. All my mom had that morning was quarters, so she gave me $ 4 $ ..00 in quarters. When she got to the hospital and came to see me. I was in the hallway waiting to be xrayed, and she asked me if I got my gym shorts. I told her no and reached into my pocket and handed her the quarters back. Just the Nurse Retchet walked up behind my mom and rudely tapped her shoulder. When mom turned, she said, " Give me them. Now." My mom, not knowing what was going, my mom just stood there dumbfounded. The nurse repeated herself. That's when I told my mom, " Mom, she thinks I gave you pills 💊. "My mom flipped out and reached onto her pocket, grabbed a handful of quarters, and said," You want what he gave me? Here." And she threw them in her face hard. Don't mess with my mom.
You just tell the Karen that we've had people in the past getting so drunk and wasted after midnight that they ended up either destroying their rooms or accidentally falling off the balcony if there's a balcony he said this hotel.
That violent husband sounds EXACTLY like a cop.
“County hospital which is no longer open” = Kino hospital. It has been bought by first the University, and subsequently by Banner. It has improved since those days. They still have a mental health wing.
18:27 the dr lost his patience....
There's a joke in there some where
I cracked up on the one about the guy threatening about the alarm. OP's comment, after this guy has threatened to bring a gun and shoot the place up, about calling the police "because we take threats seriously". Did that really have to be explained? LOL. Well duh!
3rd story: I don’t care if he was a “cop”. He touched me, his family has a funeral. Period.
Another wild Mr Overcompensation appears.
r/iamverybadass
I understand why you would defend yourself
Exactly. Badge or no, touch me unprovoked, and I end it. And from a couple of replies in here... you don't know GenX very well. 😅
@@mountainman5173 Ah yes, GenX, the ones always making big overblown statements in a futile attempt to fill the void of that hug and "I'm proud of you" that they never got from their parents.
12:05 That would be a really small gift. 😂 Couldn’t resist!
Story 2: Always. Press. Charges. PG was threatened with DEATH! Immediately call the police to have him arrested for Felony Death Threats & Terroristic Threats. Never let that go.
Story 3: Pull out your phone and call the sheriff's Department immediately. Aggravated Assault & Battery is a Felony charge...add in Under Color of Law and it's a Federal Felony.
Story 4: OP could have gone to HR to file a formal complaint against her for attempting to force him into doing medical duties he was not trained or licensed to perform. BIG NO-NO!
Story 3: OP should have called the cops/demanded the cops be called on OC right then and there. OP was assaulted and you need to hold people accountable. Hotel had hold of their car so they couldn't go anywhere unless it was on foot.
Want to know something? I once mistook someone for an employee in a shop. (The classic case of wrong uniform, should've payed attention) Want to know what happened? I apologised when she corrected me. But then she tried to help me anyway.
Karens really should try this, you know. Actually being polite! It gets way better results than their tantrums ever will. 🤣
I love listening to IDWHL stories on here, I usually sleep to these stories after dark. Thanks, Dark Fluff. 🤗
Fluff coming in clutch! Be safe yall❤ appreciate you so so much
Story 3: folks, if a cop threatens you with his or her status as a cop, over a personal issue like this, that's police corruption, plain and simple.
*Politely* ask for the agency and badge number. (That's a sobering request for anyone who just needs to simmer down.)
Maybe you don't want the hassle, maybe the cop's department is dirty, but filing a level-headed complaint for incidents like Story 3 might just establish a track record for the criminal that will save someone down the line.
Story 2 - I have agree with the commenter for this post, Patient Girl should have pressed charges against King DB. Threats like that are NOT to be taken lightly.
its the reason why karens dont learn anything because people dont give them consequences, they just hope the person learned a lesson, yea the lkesson is they gt away with it
@bl4ckhearts802 exactly. It sounds extreme, but what if he actually made good on his threats because he never has received consequences for his threats?
I'd think that security guard needs a course about listening
I would have told the cop that this isn't a donut shop.
Regarding the hospital security staff in the first story, I have to say that under normal circumstances, I would fully agree with them not wanting people who don’t work somewhere to be wandering around the place in their uniform. It’s a perfectly reasonable position to take. It just so happened that OP’s circumstances weren’t exactly normal, which gives them a very good reason to do just that.
I worked as a CNA while in college for nursing. There are PLENTY of "nurse Karens" out there! Floor nurses that are getting up there in years typically get to be Karens.
I love this genre, it's really entertaining for me.
Story 1: Guards like this just make the rest of us look bad and keeps the stigma going that all guards are lazy. Boils my blood
7:42 Time to get police involved? These days you can’t take threats like that lightly.
While I sympathize with PG, shame on her for not pressing charges against KD. KD definitely needed to go to jail for terroristic threats, even if PG was not personally at risk but instead the innocent people who work for the alarm company physical office.
I live in a neighborhood full of cops. They have to be on their best behavior even when off duty. One neighbor told me even when he’s off duty he’s still a cop. I would have asked for the cops to be called. Had the guy been an actual cop I would have filed a complaint.
Problem is, a cops idea of "good behavior" is that of a bully and thug. If they are not attacking your rights, they are attacking someone else
Story 2 I bet they work for a company like CentraLarm. The second I heard they worked for a monitoring company, my brain went "I know a place like that. Gave 10 years of my life to them before they tossed me aside" Pretty sure when they mentioned the clientelle that said company deals with, my brain went "Yup! I can name at least 3-4 alarm companies that fit this bill
5th story: I would imagine that the place where they spent the night was far less comfortable than the hotel, and it didn't offer drinks. 😅
I bet they didn’t get their extra pillows there either.
Fun fact!!!! Last story…..they blankets in jail….no pillows though 😢😂❤
Final Story - Yeah Karen sounds like she has an alcohol problem.
Australian Call Centres..... So back in the day, I worked for an answering service - Hutchison Telecoms. We were only given training on how to take calls, and were "spoken to" if we didn't do it fast enough. Oh, and we are not allowed to be rude to any caller.
No training on abusive callers. Only pass it up to the supervisor if its something like someone stuck in a lift, as only they had the numbers to escalate the calls to the techs.
So of course, one evening, a guy calls up around 8.30pm, to the local council. I answer saying "Answering Service" and he proceeds to abuse the absolute crap out of me and threaten me. I have no idea what to do, so I try to calm him down and explain that I am the answering service. Nope.
Not the first one either. The other staff, when I asked, just said to "accidentally" hang up on them and tell the supervisor the call dropped out.
Oh, the supervisors also loved to walk around the cubicles, and increase your telephone volume to max (so it would be like a truck horn in your ear) when you popped out on your 10minute break (and stayed at the same station). Great place to work at.
Nurses can be the biggest Karens
The reason the people in the last one escalated so badly, is because of the alcohol. Drinking=stinking thinking
That's 12-Step speak. Cultist.
3rd story - op should have called the police as soon as they went inside
That last story, people like that escalate because it's always gotten them what they want in the past, so they've never learned how to respond like a member of a civilized society.
15:02
A quick google search of "Can cops commit Abuse of Power" (with me having only heard the term used against politicians) revealed this gem...
"The term 'abuse of power' encompasses all the ways police officers can abuse their positions by taking advantage of the very people they have pledged to serve and protect. While most police officers take that pledge seriously, there are some who abuse the power given them to fulfill selfish personal desires."
This taught me 2 things
1. If this guy was a cop, what he did probably could've been considered abuse of power
2. The above definition implies that abuse of power is all about cops, so I'm now curious about if it's been used wrong when describing politicians, so another search, which took the above one and swapped out "cops" for "politicians" reveled...
"A simple definition of the abuse of power is the misuse of a position of power to take unjust advantage of individuals, organizations, or governments."
So ultimately, while it may not be charged very often when it happens, the term "Abuse of Power" could be applied to less obvious cases, like doctors who do a worse treatment, or don't fully treat a patient so that they'll come back for more than just basic check ups, allowing them to make more profit, or Landlords/HOA boards which micro manage residents, etc, etc.
For that last story, if the bar is forced to close at a certain time, it could be because of a county ordinance to stop selling alcohol by then.
I used to live near a county that did that and they had a twenty-four hour liquor store out in the middle of nowhere along the highway because that was where the county line was and everyone from the neighboring county would have to go there after nine if they wanted any alcohol.
9:00 (Story 2): "PG was the one who would need to press any charges" If this was anywhere in the US, that is almost certainly not true.
He was not only threatening PG, he was actually threatening violence against the entire office. As such, the manager or any other representative of the company entirely has the ability to press charges without PG needing to be part of it at all. In fact, in most places I'm aware of, nobody would actually need to "press charges" at all. If that sort of thing is merely reported to the police, the *police* can and will press charges entirely on their own accord. Threatening a mass shooting is not the kind of crime that police will decide to throw their hands up and ignore just because one person "doesn't want to press charges"..
I had a security guard at a place I used to work who acted like that manager
Story 4: Ugh. My first jobs were as a CNA in nursing homes. The first level of nurses were LPNs (licensed and completed nursing programs) and then the next level is RN (higher education level and certification). We had what we called the RN additude. If an LPN saw a piece of trash on the floor, they would bend down, pick it up, and throw it in the trash. Issue solved in all of 2 seconds. If an RN saw a piece of trash on the floor, they would immediately stop what they were doing and go hunt down a CNA, demanding they come pick up that piece of trash this instant, regardless of what they were in the middle of doing. If the CNA was doing something that required finishing such as transferring or cleaning a resident that would take a moment to complete or at least get to a stage where it would be safe to walk away, the RN would wait, huffing and puffing that their precious time was being wasted.
Op should have press charges on the so called cop
If someone threatens, attacks, or even touches your, always press charges. These assholes will never learn either way. I know it's annoying but if you don't press charges then there's a high chance someone else is going to get that' person's toxic behavior and they might get it even worse.
Story 5: Karen was rude, *BUT:* Op was doing work at the hotel (unpaid!!) and the bartender _did_ serve her. Karen was wrong for the tantrum, but it was reasonable to assume that the bar was open and OP was an employee.
I used to process letters to the CEO for a major financial firm. People write the top dude when they're convinced no one else cares, and yeah, it actually can get the company's attention (tho NO, it almost never is actually seen by the CEO - do you have a clue how many crabby letters we get every day??). But once I got a letter complaining about our services on the BACK of another letter - one from a congressman to the customer, answering questions about the 2nd Amendment. Now, I know by checking that the customer is in his 80s and in the midwest, so he probably recycles every piece of paper he gets that he can use to print on, so he doesn't have to buy paper. My aged mom would do the same thing. But because it's a letter to the CEO on the back of a letter around gun control? Yup, straight to legal, who take it the same as if the old dude had actually made open threats. In the world we are living in, you absolutely cannot brush off anything that even might potentially be a threat. The one you think may not be serious could be the one who shows up in your lobby with an AK.
Of course some nurses are 100% Karens. Everyone who's worked in a hospital/nursing home lower on the totem pole than a nurse knows this all too well.
💯 absolutely.
A lot of people with a tiny amount of power will abuse what they have and be absolute karens to everyone they perceive as "beneath" them.
#4 - I'd almost bet my savings that was Keno Hospital in Tucson. Sounds about like the shenanigans that went on there from at least late seventies onward.
I understand staff wanting to keep things minimal, and not wanting to put themselves in a dangerous situation, but to say that no one touched anyone after OP was flat out attacked by the neck? I would have a personal vendetta against that manager.
18:30 “until the doctor lost his patience”.
Not a good thing to lose your patients in a mental ward :P
Story 3: I don't think that qualified immunity covers a cop that is not on duty. That was straight-up assault. Cop or not, that guy needs to be doing some time, or suspension and anger management at the very least.
someone tells you they're a cop get their supervisor on the line immediately
Last story: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Speaking of crappy hospital security guards, heres my story: So this was last month, my grandma had had a severe stroke spanning most of her brain. After a couple days of tests the doctors confirmed that she had almost no brain function and would have to be on a feeding tube for the rest of her life. Something to note about my grandma is that she detested the thought of living with a tube, or any kind of life support. So my family all had about a week to see her before life support was turned off. So when it was time to visit I had been sick with a cold for the last week and while i didnt feel well i wanted to see my grandma for one last time, so i wore a mask to make sure that i minimized the risk of getting others sick (given that my grandma was in a hospital filled with other patients). When i was checking in the security guard laughed at me and asked if i was, "dumb enough to think that a mask would stop me from getting sick". When i hears him say that i really really wanted to argue back with him and tell him off but i was tired and already grieving the death of my grandma so i just said, "yes, yes i am." To which he laughed some more and sent me on my way. My antivax and super maga loving aunt had a fun time laughing with him about it. Anyway thanks for reading
I would make a stink to the security company about how this security guard has no empathy whatsoever and is lazy as f.
ALWAYS PRESS CHARGES!
17:00 “… or I’m going to get the doctor.” Why? I’m not sick.
When I went to the Reading hospital the security officer saw this and he got me a wheelchair and wheeled me into the hospital to a nurse's station.
Story 2; I totally agree with AsocialReptar!
Re the last story. I don't blame the guest for being annoyed. The poster was doing her husband's job, so it would appear she worked there and having a drink at the bar that was closed would have confused the guest as if she didn't work there, why was she allowed to have a drink and not the guest. I understand her confusion and she should have talked to the manager in a more calm way