Basically it meant: "If the customer wants a left-handed widget, painted purple with pink polka dots, SELL them left-handed widget, painted purple with pink polka dots!
Oh silly Karen, if you are such a devil fearing Christian woman, what are you doing in a video game shop with all of that fantasy role playing, monster killing, pagan story driven, skin tight female armor wearing, and oodles of merchandise with evolution based battle creatures and world creation characters. Here's a hint, the X on that X-box controller your kid is playing is not a slightly inverted cross.
Maybe Gids are Out there If the Pentagram did Work. Wikipedia says it's an old sign for Gods. Just a Joke, Karens stupid mind couldn't have come Close to Understand any Kind of Symbol.
Op has made it clear that he isn't part of a devil worshiping religion. which means this symbol wasn't religiously protected. his workplace should not have allowed him to wear it, knowing that a huge percentage of the population would be offended or would avoid the store because it looked like there was a devil worshipping crazy person working there.
I ran into Story 4 when I worked at The Home Depot, in their Tool Rental department. A custom came in looking for information on the proper tools to complete some project. My department head tried to help him, but he refused to listen to her and started asking me the questions. After every question, I would turn to my department head, right next to me, and listen to her answer before reciting it back to the guy. He progressively got more and more agitated with every question and suggestion.
That is the best type of semi-malicious compliance. They can hardly complain since you're just doing your job to the best of your ability, and part of that involves asking someone who knows better than you do. 😆
When I was in college, I was working on a degree for work and had to take some introductory classes because of how long I had been out of school, I had a class project for an art class that required sewing. I went to a nearby Walmart to get the material, thread, and a sewing machine. When I went to check out the cashier looked at the sewing machine and said "Your wife is a really lucky lady to have you purchase a machine like this." I just looked at her and replied "I'm NOT married, this is for me to sew with." the look on her face was one of pure shock, and then said "I did think men YOUR AGE knew how to use a sewing machine. (I was in my late 40s) A male customer behind me looked at this 20-something young lady and responded with "I'm in my 70s and I do more sewing with five different machines than my wife, I mend all our clothing and make curtains, table runners, table clothes, and some clothing that we sell at flee markets." The cashier rang both of us out without another word to either of us other than what was absolutely necessary. As we walked out I saw a manager walk over to the young lady and figured they talked about what happened.
Story 5: This is what happens when you get too petty. Karen decided to make OP take the long walk back, and by then, it was past closing time for OP and Karen couldn't do jack about it. After all, "Policy is important, right?"
I'm really glad I finally glad I got to see an update to this story! Saw the original maybe about a month or so ago without the update... not that I thought he'd get in trouble or anything but it's just one of my more favorite "up yours karen" stories I've heard in a while lol
I wear a pentacle because I'm Wiccan. If someone said they didn't want me to do something because of it and accused me of being satanic, I would have told them they can just leave. You don't want to be helped because of the symbol of faith someone's wearing, you can bugger off and get your stuff elsewhere. Stores have the right to deny service, and religious discrimination is as good a reason as any to do so.
A "good" pentagram stands on its pointy feet which means it's connected with the Earth and its goodness. A "bad" pentagram is the exact opposite. A line under a pentagram indicates the Earth so you can tell if it's good or bad. And SUPERNATURAL was a great show.
Doesn't it heavily depend on the context or what it's supposed to do? Some need to point in a certain direction, some need to be drawn a certain way, etc
@mbyerly9680 The inverted pentagram is not bad. Only satanists that have hijacked it, just like they did with the Cross of St Peter, the upside down cross.
One of my kids worked at game store when he was in his late teens. He has a ton of stories about dumb customers. For example, customers who try shopping after the store is closed and are shocked when they see everyone going home.
I am a wine consultant at one of the largest liquor stores in the country. 50,000 square feet and our wine department is almost half of that. We were open on Christmas Eve until 6 pm last year. We had all these people coming right before close to buy, because God forbid anyone plan ahead. You know Christmas is on the same day every single year. It's kind of hard to miss. Anyway, we were calling out over the loudspeaker for the shoppers to finish up and get to the registers because, we wanted to get to our Christmas plans. I leave the store, having to push the sliding doors open manually. As I walk out, the sliding doors close again and, as they are shut off don't open. This woman comes up to the door and is frustrated that it doesn't open at 6:05 on Christmas Eve. I told her the store was closed and she turns to me and goes, "REALLY?" Very huffy about it too. I guess only certain people get to be with families on National holidays!
The full saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste". As in I don't care if I don't like, if they're buying I'm selling. Not all this bull.
Story 2: Mail Pick-Up... "I'm not leaving until you fire that employee." (In a Union shop, with more regulations, procedures, complaint departments, etc. than you can imagine.) "Okay." Postmaster (knowing that he cannot fire the worker) closes the wicket and walks back to his office. Time passes. Public postal service area closes for the day. Security ushers man out the door, still complaining that he won't leave until "that lazy worker" is fired.
Story #1: a little fun Fact for Holier-than-thou Karens....in the early middle ages, the pentagram was a Christian symbol for either the Star that announced Christ's birth or the Five Wounds of Christ.
Not only that but the symbol that people refer as a pentagram, five pronged star in a circle, is actually a pentacle: a pagan/wiccan symbol of protection
I have been a local church pastor for about 30 years now. In one of my congregations, I had a postmaster as a congregant (well, two, in two different towns, but let's talk about one for a moment). By the time I knew him, he was retired (his wife and him gifted my eldest with a HUGE!!!! fluffy lamb. It is literally 5 feet tall (she was 1 at the time, she is 19 now and still has that lamb--it went to university with her). Anyway, his post box was #1 [anywhere, zip code, USA]. He told all of his drivers that they had to deliver to each and every house (this was rural, so the classic bread loaf boxes), plus or minus 5 minutes (exceptional weather excluded). They were on schedule. That served a couple of purposes. 1) the mail got delivered on time. 2) the post person knew the habits of the person, and when something wasn't right (rural, small town, everyone knows everyone's business), the post person could call for a check up. In my family, we have a tradition of tipping our post, garbage, recycle, water delivery folk. I am far from rich, but a tip is always a great thing. I now live in suburbia and we have one of those shared post boxes. Mine is Unit 2 (of 3) box 6. I can't tip my post person because they have never come to my door. It is sad.
Karen: GET ME A WOMAN, YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IRONS! Doreen: umm well..... it's got a handle.....aaand a cord with a plug.....and it... gets....hot....? We stan Doreen, queen of knowing nothing about irons 😂
14:37 More and more people need to be reminded that the full phrase was "The customer is always right in matters of taste" which was meant to mean that they know what sort of product they prefer.
That last story really makes me wonder if there are people in this world who simply cannot function outside of policy. Or maybe I'm giving that Karen too much credit and she just gets off on enforcing any policy that will inconvenience people she sees as beneath her.
To be fair if the 2 pieces of mail were for the same thing then it would make sense to wait for both to show up since you don't know how busy it will be and they did say it was a city post office.
Fluff, maybe you should put the word out that pentagrams are protection against Karens. Just imagine EVERY Walmart and Target employee wearing a pentagram necklace or bracelet. The only problem with that is it might ruin another sub-reddit; I Don't Work Here Lady! LOL!!!
Story three is a perfect example of why you shouldn't careless escalate a situation. She called the police on a petty matter but then gets buthurt when their victim does just that to her.
Story 1: *SIGH* The pentagram wards off evil, it's not satanic! Story 3: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! That Karen is a pretty vindictive person! Story 4: Never thought I'd hear about inverse sexism, but there you are!
@@SonsOfLorgar Generally, yes, but most sexism is directed at men discriminating women. This instance was a woman discriminating a man, hence why I mistakenly said "Inverse"
As a postal worker myself. The post master is not always around. If they are EVER around. No we do not need to take any Ignorance from anyone but it depends on your station supervisor. You can get a supervisor that doesn’t take your side when the customer is wrong. They will tell you that you must give the customer curtesy even when the customer doesn’t. A customer put in a complaint against me because I told her the international piece she was sending was to big to be sent as a regular letter and she got mad at me for telling her that her words were “she always did that”. I said ok I’m just telling you it’s to big so it may come back to you and she told me with much attitude to send it. I said ok the attitude isn’t needed and apparently that was wrong to say to her. She asked my name I gave it and she put in a complaint but lied and said I was rude to her and yelled at her and wouldn’t listen to what she wanted. Thank god I have a great supervisor because she asked me what happened and I told her the truth. Other things happened at my location but story’s for another time. All that said post masters are not always around and available. Good thing she had someone who had her back.
Story 4: I work at a dry cleaning/laundry plant. Our owner helped develop one of the main ways to dry clean and knows every machine in the plant from the ones that helped clean up after the Montreal fire, to the smallest electric iron top to bottom, and he helped install most of them in the plant, so he knows his irons and his power tools
The Iron Story reminds me of a guy in my company who told his female colleague "That´s Man´s work", reffering to a maschine he was working on,.... and she just looked at him, smiled and asked: "Whow, amazing.... you did this with your "-insert men´s reproductive organ-"???" and then she walked over to my maschine and started working there to show him a "better" way.... while i was roling on the floor laughing^^
Story 3: If the owner gave the okay, then what's the issue, Karen? It ain't your pecking business. And the irony where she broke rules while complaining that OP was supposedly breaking rules (OP wasn't)
I love you more Fluff!!!! Supernatural is my favorite show!!! And pentacles/pentagrams are indeed symbols of protection. I'm Pagan/Wiccan. I wear one everyday. I also have the Supernatural Anti-demon possession symbol tattooed on my left wrist.
Very similar experience to the first story. It was around 2001. I am weird, goth and very into black metal. I wear makeup. Lots ov black, leather, spikes and an upside down cross necklace. And a skirt. I am a guy. And a very happy and manic person with a lot ov energy and I was raised to be very respectful and nice to strangers. This family walks in and I greet them warmly. They smile but they do not say anything. After a couple minutes ov staring at the menu above my head and back to me they speak amongst themselves for a bit. This little girl steps up and orders and asks me about some items. She was very sweet. The family orders but give me weird aggressive stares and do not say a single thing back while I make small talk (sandwich artistry is boring otherwise), other than their items. So I get the hint. They don't like me. I see their cross necklaces. The whole family are wearing them. They sit down to eat. Minutes later the little girl comes up and buys two cookies. The guy next to me tells me to go ahead and give them to her for free, and so I do. She goes and sits down. Not even ten seconds go by before mom stands up and starts to yell at me and accuse me ov flirting with her little daughter! I actually laughed out loud when she yelled that at me. There were at least a half a dozen other occupants eating inside that were all watching. She started ranting about how I was Satanic and blah blah blah. The guy next to me told the lady to shut up and get out. He gave his daughter the cookies because it was almost close anyway. Told them I was a great person and being Satanic was not illegal. And on their way out he mentioned not to bother contacting the owner and bitching because he Was the owner. Always respected that man so much more after that. He was a great guy. Screw that mother! Her kids seemed sweet, however, so I hope they turned out to be wonderful humans. Hope her husband got a divorce now that those kids are out ov their house by now. *Edit* typos
I'm Wiccan... people always assume Pentagrams and Pentacles are EVIL... but if you look into old Church architecture you'll notice they've used these in their builds... as protection against Evil... I love using this fact and posting pictures of those churches with my overly Christian family members who think I'm worshipping the Devil LOL, it's a great way to tick them off and to shut them up about my Paganism :)
I’m Pagan not Wiccan, as much as I don’t “force” people to understand me and never even want to talk religion to anyone really, I find it funny how many people forget about the past, and most call anything that’s not christen is called a “myth” or Devil worship?!?
I'm a Christian (I'm spiritual, but believe in God if that makes any sense), but don't believe in going to the big churches... but I even laugh at the idiots that say Halloween is a "satanic" holiday. I'm like do you even know where it started from??!! 😂😂😂
@@bionicmaleficent I grew up in an overly religious Christian family, the kind that would speak gibberish but would call it speaking in "tongues" and we weren't allowed to watch TV or listen to music because we were told it was "Satan's Airways" and because of how I was raised I turned away from that lifestyle and studied many religions until I found the one that actually spoke to who I truly am and ever since then have been "preached" at by my family who still are in that overly religious lifestyle. Not saying Christians are bad or anything but the way I was raised it turned me away from that. I have friends who are many religions including some actual Satanist and the funny thing is my Satanist friends are more accepting than my Christian family members... although my Christian friends aren't like my Christian family members thank goodness. I love my family but I'm tired of them pushing their beliefs on others and demanding I or anyone else obey them because they're soooo "Godly". I believe everyone has a right to their own beliefs, their own paths without feeling like they need to hide who they truly are to others
Something similar to the 4th story happened to me. I used to sell fabric and a customer wanted to know how much she would need to make a particular set of curtains. I worked it out for her at which point she said she would like to speak to a female colleague as they know more about this sort of stuff. Not a problem I asked one of my female colleagues to help the lady when she had finished with her customer and moved on to the next one. A few minutes later my colleague asked me across the table how to work out how much fabric was needed
I love story 3 this happened in Poland. And I love the ending with calling the police for the bag of rubbish with her name and address inside. I'm imagining the police turning up at her new premises lolololol. her reputation would go downhill bc of her own spiteful last word.
As a former USPS employee, (except I was a mailman, AKA "street walker" and not a clerk) I got a kick out of the second story! (p.s. Another nickname for mailmen is "mail escort")😉
Customers can be weird about judging employees solely on their appearances. I used to work with a nice, very personable Native guy who was excellent at fielding customer questions and I had multiple people insist that I help them instead because they thought he was lazy. (My general response was to look over at him and ask the exact same question so that he could answer it. Even though I usually knew the answer and was, admittedly, only doing it as a subtle way to call them out on their nonsense.) I've also seen female employees at comic/nerd stores get snubbed by customers who assume they can't know anything about comics.
First of all...The Customer is Always Right is a FAILED business model that needs to be deprogramed from peoples brains....second of all, I must be REALLY spoiled, because my customers are wonderful people that FAR outnumber the occasional difficult one.
The original saying is that the customer is always right in matters of taste, for example, if I want to buy a lime green sweater to go with my purple jeans, thats my prerogative.
No, it's not. That's NOT the entire phrase nor what it means. "The customer is always right....in matters of taste " is the whole phrase and is true. You stock what is in demand. That's what it means.
I love compliance stories and it reminds of my friend Dave, back in 1965. In 6th grade, Dave loved machines and liked tinkering on his old lawn mowers. He was constantly adjusting them then doing neighbor lawns for tips, to give them a workout. He also liked hanging out in the local clock repair shop watching the old expert at work. One day a boy from another class was showing off his new Timex, then sold it to Dave for $5. Dave popped off the back showing me the beautiful works and it was obviously an expensive watch for a kid. Fast forward to Monday and Dave was in near tears when he explained his problem. The kid's parents were furious and demanded Dave give back the watch. He then held up a small bag. Dave had tried disassembling the watch and couldn't put it together again. I looked at the watch then I asked, "Did he give you back the $5?". I was told, "No, he spent the money". We somehow managed to tuck all the parts back into the case and Dave later presented the watch to the kid.
Story 3 - I don't know how it is in Poland but the places I've lived in New Zealand, you'd have to pay the local Waste Management company if you want them to come out and pick up something up on anything other than a scheduled collection day (hell, they charge you if you put the stuff in your own car and drive it to their Refuse Centre) so OP was probably out of pocket getting a truck to come and deal with the bed, so her getting the cops to come and then being deliberately spiteful... I don't see any reason why he should accept her apology.
Way back, I used to work at a big box store. Most of the managers that worked there were jerks and constantly gave me crap about the silliest things. One day, I decided to take my break time to study company policies. I did this everyday for about a month. Now educated on company policy, I commenced with my MC. Every time they would try to make me do things that violated policy, I would inform them what and where they could find in the company policy where they couldn't require me to perform whatever that particular task was. I personally love when I can use a written rule against tyrants that try to break the rules. There's nothing quite like beating the snot out of someone with the rule book. They can't fight what's in black and white...
Second story, there was no reason to accept the fake apology. She obviously only regretted the consequences, not her actions, she would do it again... to a different person
Policy Story: Karen forced OP to follow Policy because she could. She has Power and WILL use it... To bad for her, OP can also use it against her... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Yeah if you know that a technician is coming the last thing you want to do is piss him off or try and slow them down in some way. Especially if your job depends on their expertise.
I'm retired USPS and the job I hated the most in our very large, upscale PO was working the Dutch Door. I would get "blessed out" four or five times a day for things like: "Where's my letter that I sent the power company yesterday?" I learned early on to never stand between a retired person and their mail box.
As a customer who has been next in line, I can tell you customer is seldom right in a dispute and I will, and have, stand up for you, loudly, when you are right! Maybe being 75 y.o. makes me cantankerous, in your favor.
when i worked retail - a coworker threw me under the bus - so as soon as i got off the clock - i put the coworker in THEIR place - i told coworker that you NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER throw your coworkers under for ANY reason - throwing CUSTOMERS under the bus is fine - throwing MANAGEMENT corporate AND local level under the bus is absolutely fine as well - but NEVER your coworkers BECAUSE if you do - your coworkers will NEVER trust you EVER EVER AGAIN
First story, HOLY HELL I hate people like that Karen. Me and my wife are both Christian but we also wear symbols of other religions on our necklaces. For my wife (as she's of Nordic decent) likes to wear a Mjölnir pendant (she also likes to put acorns on our windows to ward off lightning). as for me I have a jade carving of my "spirit animal" given to me by an Inuit holy woman. And on top of that I have my Go'en (5 yen coin, but go'en also means "Good Fortune") which was blessed by a Shinto priest. Personally I love faith, but religion is where people screwed up. Religion has rules and laws, faith is simple love, nothing more, nothing less.
I'm an atheist but have distant Scandinavian ancestry. On my chest, I have a Mjolnir tattoo colored in the transgender flag. I also want to get a valknut done in the rainbow Pride flag and a vegvísir on my upper right arm.
I'm a Southern Baptist Christian with Scottish, Native American and German ancestry. I actually like applying the Celtic tree of life into my own beliefs and I kind of see eagles/owls/wolves symbolically in Christianity too.
The iron story. I really really wish that companies would start to train their operatives to lose that 'customer is always right' mentality, given how many times it has been proved that that is not the case.
When they were coming up with slogans, they thought "The customer is always stupid so sell them expensive junk that breaks quickly and needs to be replaced" was a little bit too much on the nose so decided to go with something that stroked their mark's egos instead.
Story 1- Karens are SO obsessed with superficial things. I keep a pentacle necklace in a certain pocket of my purse for holy days. In my purse so I don't lose it, because my desk is extremely cluttered and I already have a necklace I can't find because I'm so disorganized, I don't need to lose any more of them! But just because I don't usually wear it- because my family is all devout Christian and I hang out with them a lot and don't want to make waves- she'd have been fine with me handling her stuff. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. OP may only have been wearing it as an aesthetic choice, not even for religious reasons. And even if it were for religious reasons- it's a free country. Within reasonable bounds we can all say, do, and believe what we like, and no one else has any business trying to interfere with that.
Story 3: technically OP didn’t break any rules because they called the owner of the spot they put their bed in beforehand. As well as checking with a member of the community council to make sure that it was okay. So OP was actually well within the rules
Thank you for saying that Dark Fluff! The pentagram is used for protection!!! 🧙♀️ Mostly for keeping away bad energies, but they can be used to wars off Karens and their negativity. 😆 We use other symbols for summoning and possession, but it's never the pentagram. 😅
"retail would be the perfect job if not for the customers" is something i live by lol however a customer to me is a person wanting to buy stuff but id rude, a regular is someone who's nice and i get alot of them
Yeah, wasn't even "mansplaining" because he was giving out useful information on that particular models pros, cons, and needs. He wasn't giving her an overly simple and insulting pitch like "Hot irons smooth wrinkles." Lol, I think I just "mansplained" mansplaining.
Title should read "Petty Karen calls 911 on Me for Littering, so I show her what a REAL Karen does!" I mean, that wasn't malicious compliance, that was the gunfight at the O Karen corral!
Unionised workers cannot be fired just because the supervisor or manager says so. They need to bring up to the Union and have a good reason why that employee needs to be let go. A worker getting fired just coz a customer demands it is considered Wrongful Termination.
11:15 OP should have given the Xaren from Hell, a parting present. A tube of estrogen cream and a large raw Cavendish/ Robusta. Discl: Not a general remark but aimed at the Xaren in the story
The retail story…. Yes we all loved our job. But we always teased about having our own “Purge Day”. One day a year we wanted to prove THE CUSTOMER IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!
If I have to go somewhere to pick something up (Mail, Package, Prescription Medication etc.), I ALWAYS take my KOBO Ereader with me so I have something to do while I'm waiting patiently for the workers to find whatever I'm there to get... I don't complain about how long it's taking, I don't snarl at them to hurry up and if I have to ask how much longer, it's ALWAYS done Politely and Respectfully because I'm parked in a 15 min. pickup/loading zone and need to know if I have to move before I get a Ticket... Same for Wait Staff/Servers, unless they're blatantly being rude or Lazy, I will be Polite to them and if I do need to make a complaint, I quietly and Politely ask a different staff member to speak to the Manager (letting them know I'm not asking to complain about them) and explain my problem with the person that served me...
Nevertheless OP was in the wrong when he said "It's just mail". A postal worker should NEVER cop that attitude and that Postmaster was way out of line for cultivating that attitude in his Post Office.
It's true. I worked at Home Depot for years. I was a *major* source of knowledge as our plumbing, garden and paint department ... and moderately knowledgeable on Lumber/Millwork. The amount of sexism/dismissal/"Go find me a man. I need to talk to someone who knows what they're doing."
Pentagrams are abstract representations of the universe in its totality, the five points representing the four elements (observable states of matter for ancient peoples) and the fifth immaterial element: anima/soul/the principle of animation. This was the magical instrument of the earth element in European magical traditions, representing the world as the stage one which all the elements performed. Most often during conjurations of spirits, the magician would stand inside the pentagram, representing a sanctified or normal world, and the spirit would stand at or stalk about the edge, unable to enter the world as they were unnatural or abnormal. What we get in most media today is the less common summoning of demons _inside_ the circle, which I've only found myself in the _Liber Juratus_ when you dig a hole in the middle to act as a door to Hell. The summoning the spirit inside the circle is more common for summoning angels, so that you do not offend them by profaning them with touching the unclean normal world. In short, Pentagram as ward has more to do with describing a natural world to which they are not part, and therefore cannot enter.
Story 2: customer was dealing with the Feds. Imagine if he was dealing with a State employee, then he would be royally, and quite possibly permanently, screwed over.
Fun fact... Karen is actually an acronym *K* now your rights *A* ccuse everyone *R* equest a manager *E* scalate to authorities *N* eglect Reason The more ya know!
Concerning story #4, it reminds me of what would happen when it comes to computers and talking to my rl friends Tyler and America. The *real* expert on computers/computer programs isn't Tyler, it's his wife *Dr.* America (one of her degrees is in computer science, plus she teaches CS iirc.) Knowledge isn't gender-specific, Karen-ness isn't gender-specific, either! And knowledge/Karen-ness isn't species-specific (a dog will have its spcialties and a cat will have *its* set...)
That last story, the way I would have gone about it would probably would have been something like, “If I have to go back to the office and get my badge, it’ll be time for me to clock out, and I’m not allowed overtime. Your call.”
I was a very small boy when I started helping my mother with the ironing by dampening clothes with a sprinkler head stuck in a Coke bottle. I graduated to ironing my own shirts. Permanent Press put an end to that, but I still have a few items I iron occasionally. I was using my late MIL's iron, so old that the cord was fabric-covered. I found a much nicer one with retractable cord at the Goodwill Thrift shop.
You are right Dark Fluff, I don't care if someone is male or female, as long as they can help me out in the store its fine. That Karen was just being sexist against men and I don't know why. Shame on her.
That is better than my mail, every parcel delivery for my trailer court get's delivered to my place and only my place so I have to then deliver everyone's mail to them, which really sucks when the person on the other end of the trailer court orders over 100 pounds of canned dog food.
No. The customer is NOT always "right". The actual quote is "The customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE".
Basically it meant: "If the customer wants a left-handed widget, painted purple with pink polka dots, SELL them left-handed widget, painted purple with pink polka dots!
But but but... what if the customer doesn't taste good?
@@Panthera_pardus_ Add more salt.
@@Chuckf66 _unladylike snort_
@@Panthera_pardus_ Try Franks Red Hot. I heard that shit goes on everything!!
I remember people calling DOOM a satanic game, a game where you kill demons with a shotgun and chainsaws, purging demonic presences to move forward
OP: Wears a pentagram
The Demon Karen: _hiss_
Oh silly Karen, if you are such a devil fearing Christian woman, what are you doing in a video game shop with all of that fantasy role playing, monster killing, pagan story driven, skin tight female armor wearing, and oodles of merchandise with evolution based battle creatures and world creation characters. Here's a hint, the X on that X-box controller your kid is playing is not a slightly inverted cross.
Don’t you mean crucifix?
The person in the story was wearing a pentagram,not a crucifix.
Maybe Gids are Out there If the Pentagram did Work. Wikipedia says it's an old sign for Gods. Just a Joke, Karens stupid mind couldn't have come Close to Understand any Kind of Symbol.
Op has made it clear that he isn't part of a devil worshiping religion. which means this symbol wasn't religiously protected. his workplace should not have allowed him to wear it, knowing that a huge percentage of the population would be offended or would avoid the store because it looked like there was a devil worshipping crazy person working there.
Fluff: "I don't care if you're a dog or cat..."
Me: "Or a sheep?"
I ran into Story 4 when I worked at The Home Depot, in their Tool Rental department. A custom came in looking for information on the proper tools to complete some project. My department head tried to help him, but he refused to listen to her and started asking me the questions. After every question, I would turn to my department head, right next to me, and listen to her answer before reciting it back to the guy. He progressively got more and more agitated with every question and suggestion.
That is the best type of semi-malicious compliance. They can hardly complain since you're just doing your job to the best of your ability, and part of that involves asking someone who knows better than you do. 😆
Lol! Well done, General_Kitorou!
When I was in college, I was working on a degree for work and had to take some introductory classes because of how long I had been out of school, I had a class project for an art class that required sewing. I went to a nearby Walmart to get the material, thread, and a sewing machine. When I went to check out the cashier looked at the sewing machine and said "Your wife is a really lucky lady to have you purchase a machine like this." I just looked at her and replied "I'm NOT married, this is for me to sew with." the look on her face was one of pure shock, and then said "I did think men YOUR AGE knew how to use a sewing machine. (I was in my late 40s)
A male customer behind me looked at this 20-something young lady and responded with "I'm in my 70s and I do more sewing with five different machines than my wife, I mend all our clothing and make curtains, table runners, table clothes, and some clothing that we sell at flee markets."
The cashier rang both of us out without another word to either of us other than what was absolutely necessary.
As we walked out I saw a manager walk over to the young lady and figured they talked about what happened.
OP didn't break any rules. OP had permission from two separate people. OP was in the clear. Karen got what Karen deserved and then some.
Story 5: This is what happens when you get too petty. Karen decided to make OP take the long walk back, and by then, it was past closing time for OP and Karen couldn't do jack about it. After all, "Policy is important, right?"
Haha! Bravo, OP! 😎
I'm really glad I finally glad I got to see an update to this story! Saw the original maybe about a month or so ago without the update... not that I thought he'd get in trouble or anything but it's just one of my more favorite "up yours karen" stories I've heard in a while lol
Yup. Karen done played herself there.
Yeah, we've all watched the video...
You are absolutely right!
I wear a pentacle because I'm Wiccan. If someone said they didn't want me to do something because of it and accused me of being satanic, I would have told them they can just leave. You don't want to be helped because of the symbol of faith someone's wearing, you can bugger off and get your stuff elsewhere. Stores have the right to deny service, and religious discrimination is as good a reason as any to do so.
A "good" pentagram stands on its pointy feet which means it's connected with the Earth and its goodness. A "bad" pentagram is the exact opposite. A line under a pentagram indicates the Earth so you can tell if it's good or bad. And SUPERNATURAL was a great show.
A point-down pentagram is NOT necessarily "bad", not sure where people are getting that idea.
A point-down pentagram is NOT necessarily "bad", not sure where people are getting that idea.
A point-down pentagram is NOT necessarily "bad", not sure where people are getting that idea.
Doesn't it heavily depend on the context or what it's supposed to do? Some need to point in a certain direction, some need to be drawn a certain way, etc
@mbyerly9680 The inverted pentagram is not bad.
Only satanists that have hijacked it, just like they did with the Cross of St Peter, the upside down cross.
One of my kids worked at game store when he was in his late teens. He has a ton of stories about dumb customers. For example, customers who try shopping after the store is closed and are shocked when they see everyone going home.
Oh that happened to me one time 😂 me and the register guy was to busy chatting about games when the time slipped it was awesome
In the hell that is retail, that kind of thinking is more common than you might believe.
I am a wine consultant at one of the largest liquor stores in the country. 50,000 square feet and our wine department is almost half of that. We were open on Christmas Eve until 6 pm last year. We had all these people coming right before close to buy, because God forbid anyone plan ahead. You know Christmas is on the same day every single year. It's kind of hard to miss.
Anyway, we were calling out over the loudspeaker for the shoppers to finish up and get to the registers because, we wanted to get to our Christmas plans. I leave the store, having to push the sliding doors open manually. As I walk out, the sliding doors close again and, as they are shut off don't open.
This woman comes up to the door and is frustrated that it doesn't open at 6:05 on Christmas Eve. I told her the store was closed and she turns to me and goes, "REALLY?" Very huffy about it too. I guess only certain people get to be with families on National holidays!
@@trgoohileshea2820 Ahhh the wonderful world of retail. So glad those hell days are long ago in my past.
The full saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste". As in I don't care if I don't like, if they're buying I'm selling. Not all this bull.
OMG He mentioned Supernatural. I don't know why I got excited. I just did. 😂
I love the stories where the management/supervisors support their staff when Karens and Kevins want good staff fired for doing their job.
Story 2: Mail Pick-Up...
"I'm not leaving until you fire that employee."
(In a Union shop, with more regulations, procedures, complaint departments, etc. than you can imagine.)
"Okay." Postmaster (knowing that he cannot fire the worker) closes the wicket and walks back to his office.
Time passes. Public postal service area closes for the day. Security ushers man out the door, still complaining that he won't leave until "that lazy worker" is fired.
and ends up catching a Federal Case for Trespassing on Government Property
@@JohnH20111 Yeah, you could get a lot of really nasty fallout from that sort of foolishness.
Bitches over three minutes, then wastes a half hour. 😅
Story #1: a little fun Fact for Holier-than-thou Karens....in the early middle ages, the pentagram was a Christian symbol for either the Star that announced Christ's birth or the Five Wounds of Christ.
When worn with the point up, yes. When worn with the point down facing, it was seen as demonic.
Not only that but the symbol that people refer as a pentagram, five pronged star in a circle, is actually a pentacle: a pagan/wiccan symbol of protection
Superstition cares nothing about history, facts or logic.
I have been a local church pastor for about 30 years now. In one of my congregations, I had a postmaster as a congregant (well, two, in two different towns, but let's talk about one for a moment). By the time I knew him, he was retired (his wife and him gifted my eldest with a HUGE!!!! fluffy lamb. It is literally 5 feet tall (she was 1 at the time, she is 19 now and still has that lamb--it went to university with her). Anyway, his post box was #1 [anywhere, zip code, USA]. He told all of his drivers that they had to deliver to each and every house (this was rural, so the classic bread loaf boxes), plus or minus 5 minutes (exceptional weather excluded). They were on schedule. That served a couple of purposes. 1) the mail got delivered on time. 2) the post person knew the habits of the person, and when something wasn't right (rural, small town, everyone knows everyone's business), the post person could call for a check up.
In my family, we have a tradition of tipping our post, garbage, recycle, water delivery folk. I am far from rich, but a tip is always a great thing. I now live in suburbia and we have one of those shared post boxes. Mine is Unit 2 (of 3) box 6. I can't tip my post person because they have never come to my door. It is sad.
Karen: GET ME A WOMAN, YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IRONS!
Doreen: umm well..... it's got a handle.....aaand a cord with a plug.....and it... gets....hot....?
We stan Doreen, queen of knowing nothing about irons 😂
14:37 More and more people need to be reminded that the full phrase was "The customer is always right in matters of taste" which was meant to mean that they know what sort of product they prefer.
That last story really makes me wonder if there are people in this world who simply cannot function outside of policy.
Or maybe I'm giving that Karen too much credit and she just gets off on enforcing any policy that will inconvenience people she sees as beneath her.
On the post office one.. she mentioned needing to go to the older storage area. Apparently it was so time sensitive it had been there a couple days.
To be fair if the 2 pieces of mail were for the same thing then it would make sense to wait for both to show up since you don't know how busy it will be and they did say it was a city post office.
I winced irl when he mentioned the hundreds of wifi connections that poor laptop was trying to connect to, top to bottom. Ooh, poor laptop.
Fluff, maybe you should put the word out that pentagrams are protection against Karens. Just imagine EVERY Walmart and Target employee wearing a pentagram necklace or bracelet. The only problem with that is it might ruin another sub-reddit; I Don't Work Here Lady! LOL!!!
Story three is a perfect example of why you shouldn't careless escalate a situation.
She called the police on a petty matter but then gets buthurt when their victim does just that to her.
Story 3: I would've made Karen's life hell and refused her apologies too. She doesn't deserve any mercy.
Just don't call it "God's work" as OP did. That was pretentious BS. Jesus advised to "turn the other cheek".
@@jamesweekley1087 True...But which cheek? He gave her the back cheeks to kiss instead.
@@jamesweekley1087 idk god send 2 female bears to maul I think 40 kids for harassing a man
@@richardinman4091 XD
my philosophy is “If You Want Mercy, Then Take Your Ass To Church, Son”
Story 1: *SIGH* The pentagram wards off evil, it's not satanic!
Story 3: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! That Karen is a pretty vindictive person!
Story 4: Never thought I'd hear about inverse sexism, but there you are!
4 isn't inverse anything, it's just plain old sexism. (The term is direction neutral)
@@SonsOfLorgar Generally, yes, but most sexism is directed at men discriminating women. This instance was a woman discriminating a man, hence why I mistakenly said "Inverse"
@@davido.1233 That wasn't a mistake.
Inverse: opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or effect.
@@SonsOfLorgar You're not making any sense at all, mate.
Love that you watched Supernatural!
if you got permission to put your old bed that was going to be put in the trash anyway, she was in the wrong
As a postal worker myself. The post master is not always around. If they are EVER around. No we do not need to take any Ignorance from anyone but it depends on your station supervisor. You can get a supervisor that doesn’t take your side when the customer is wrong. They will tell you that you must give the customer curtesy even when the customer doesn’t. A customer put in a complaint against me because I told her the international piece she was sending was to big to be sent as a regular letter and she got mad at me for telling her that her words were “she always did that”. I said ok I’m just telling you it’s to big so it may come back to you and she told me with much attitude to send it. I said ok the attitude isn’t needed and apparently that was wrong to say to her. She asked my name I gave it and she put in a complaint but lied and said I was rude to her and yelled at her and wouldn’t listen to what she wanted. Thank god I have a great supervisor because she asked me what happened and I told her the truth. Other things happened at my location but story’s for another time. All that said post masters are not always around and available. Good thing she had someone who had her back.
Story 4: I work at a dry cleaning/laundry plant. Our owner helped develop one of the main ways to dry clean and knows every machine in the plant from the ones that helped clean up after the Montreal fire, to the smallest electric iron top to bottom, and he helped install most of them in the plant, so he knows his irons and his power tools
The Iron Story reminds me of a guy in my company who told his female colleague "That´s Man´s work", reffering to a maschine he was working on,.... and she just looked at him, smiled and asked: "Whow, amazing.... you did this with your "-insert men´s reproductive organ-"???" and then she walked over to my maschine and started working there to show him a "better" way.... while i was roling on the floor laughing^^
Story 3: If the owner gave the okay, then what's the issue, Karen? It ain't your pecking business.
And the irony where she broke rules while complaining that OP was supposedly breaking rules (OP wasn't)
Bravo to OP! I too, as a certified Auld Phart and Curmudgeon Extraordinaire, can be vindictive. I applaud what OP did. 😎
It's almost always that way withthesepeople, "Rules for thee, but not for me!"
I love you more Fluff!!!! Supernatural is my favorite show!!!
And pentacles/pentagrams are indeed symbols of protection. I'm Pagan/Wiccan. I wear one everyday. I also have the Supernatural Anti-demon possession symbol tattooed on my left wrist.
Glad you reposted story 2. I’m a postal worker and there are idiots like that Karen that the clerks deal with.
Very similar experience to the first story.
It was around 2001.
I am weird, goth and very into black metal.
I wear makeup. Lots ov black, leather, spikes and an upside down cross necklace. And a skirt.
I am a guy. And a very happy and manic person with a lot ov energy and I was raised to be very respectful and nice to strangers.
This family walks in and I greet them warmly. They smile but they do not say anything.
After a couple minutes ov staring at the menu above my head and back to me they speak amongst themselves for a bit.
This little girl steps up and orders and asks me about some items. She was very sweet.
The family orders but give me weird aggressive stares and do not say a single thing back while I make small talk (sandwich artistry is boring otherwise), other than their items.
So I get the hint. They don't like me. I see their cross necklaces. The whole family are wearing them.
They sit down to eat.
Minutes later the little girl comes up and buys two cookies. The guy next to me tells me to go ahead and give them to her for free, and so I do.
She goes and sits down.
Not even ten seconds go by before mom stands up and starts to yell at me and accuse me ov flirting with her little daughter!
I actually laughed out loud when she yelled that at me.
There were at least a half a dozen other occupants eating inside that were all watching.
She started ranting about how I was Satanic and blah blah blah.
The guy next to me told the lady to shut up and get out. He gave his daughter the cookies because it was almost close anyway.
Told them I was a great person and being Satanic was not illegal.
And on their way out he mentioned not to bother contacting the owner and bitching because he Was the owner.
Always respected that man so much more after that. He was a great guy.
Screw that mother!
Her kids seemed sweet, however, so I hope they turned out to be wonderful humans.
Hope her husband got a divorce now that those kids are out ov their house by now.
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I'm Wiccan... people always assume Pentagrams and Pentacles are EVIL... but if you look into old Church architecture you'll notice they've used these in their builds... as protection against Evil... I love using this fact and posting pictures of those churches with my overly Christian family members who think I'm worshipping the Devil LOL, it's a great way to tick them off and to shut them up about my Paganism :)
I’m Pagan not Wiccan, as much as I don’t “force” people to understand me and never even want to talk religion to anyone really, I find it funny how many people forget about the past, and most call anything that’s not christen is called a “myth” or Devil worship?!?
I'm Celtic pagan and it's always very very funny to point stuff like this out to them
Pentacles. Sounds like a sex organ on a deep sea creature.
I'm a Christian (I'm spiritual, but believe in God if that makes any sense), but don't believe in going to the big churches... but I even laugh at the idiots that say Halloween is a "satanic" holiday. I'm like do you even know where it started from??!! 😂😂😂
@@bionicmaleficent I grew up in an overly religious Christian family, the kind that would speak gibberish but would call it speaking in "tongues" and we weren't allowed to watch TV or listen to music because we were told it was "Satan's Airways" and because of how I was raised I turned away from that lifestyle and studied many religions until I found the one that actually spoke to who I truly am and ever since then have been "preached" at by my family who still are in that overly religious lifestyle. Not saying Christians are bad or anything but the way I was raised it turned me away from that. I have friends who are many religions including some actual Satanist and the funny thing is my Satanist friends are more accepting than my Christian family members... although my Christian friends aren't like my Christian family members thank goodness. I love my family but I'm tired of them pushing their beliefs on others and demanding I or anyone else obey them because they're soooo "Godly". I believe everyone has a right to their own beliefs, their own paths without feeling like they need to hide who they truly are to others
Something similar to the 4th story happened to me. I used to sell fabric and a customer wanted to know how much she would need to make a particular set of curtains. I worked it out for her at which point she said she would like to speak to a female colleague as they know more about this sort of stuff. Not a problem I asked one of my female colleagues to help the lady when she had finished with her customer and moved on to the next one. A few minutes later my colleague asked me across the table how to work out how much fabric was needed
Back in the 1950s, my father ironed for his frat brothers for spending money. I think it was 10 cents for shirts and 15 for pants.
I love story 3 this happened in Poland. And I love the ending with calling the police for the bag of rubbish with her name and address inside. I'm imagining the police turning up at her new premises lolololol. her reputation would go downhill bc of her own spiteful last word.
As a former USPS employee, (except I was a mailman, AKA "street walker" and not a clerk) I got a kick out of the second story!
(p.s. Another nickname for mailmen is "mail escort")😉
"Package Carrier"
Pony Express
Clifford Clayborn
Flufftime is the best time.
Best time of the day 🙂
Have a great day everyone.
Customers can be weird about judging employees solely on their appearances. I used to work with a nice, very personable Native guy who was excellent at fielding customer questions and I had multiple people insist that I help them instead because they thought he was lazy. (My general response was to look over at him and ask the exact same question so that he could answer it. Even though I usually knew the answer and was, admittedly, only doing it as a subtle way to call them out on their nonsense.) I've also seen female employees at comic/nerd stores get snubbed by customers who assume they can't know anything about comics.
Thanks for the stories DF. I love the ones where the complainer sticks it to themselves
First of all...The Customer is Always Right is a FAILED business model that needs to be deprogramed from peoples brains....second of all, I must be REALLY spoiled, because my customers are wonderful people that FAR outnumber the occasional difficult one.
The original saying is that the customer is always right in matters of taste, for example, if I want to buy a lime green sweater to go with my purple jeans, thats my prerogative.
No, it's not. That's NOT the entire phrase nor what it means. "The customer is always right....in matters of taste " is the whole phrase and is true. You stock what is in demand. That's what it means.
@@carlablair9898 and that the shop will look at customer demand and stock products to meet that demand.
Supernatural is one of my favorite shows.
Y’all Store number five I love it when Karen’s get Malicious compliance slaps right in the face Best laugh ever 😂😂😂😂
Since when does a uterus endow a woman with the mystical power of understanding certain household appliances?
I am a GIRL because I REFUSE to be a woman if THAT'S the direction they're going in.
I love compliance stories and it reminds of my friend Dave, back in 1965. In 6th grade, Dave loved machines and liked tinkering on his old lawn mowers. He was constantly adjusting them then doing neighbor lawns for tips, to give them a workout. He also liked hanging out in the local clock repair shop watching the old expert at work. One day a boy from another class was showing off his new Timex, then sold it to Dave for $5. Dave popped off the back showing me the beautiful works and it was obviously an expensive watch for a kid. Fast forward to Monday and Dave was in near tears when he explained his problem. The kid's parents were furious and demanded Dave give back the watch. He then held up a small bag. Dave had tried disassembling the watch and couldn't put it together again. I looked at the watch then I asked, "Did he give you back the $5?". I was told, "No, he spent the money". We somehow managed to tuck all the parts back into the case and Dave later presented the watch to the kid.
Story 4 - any ex-serviceman knows a lot about irons. Oh, the irony...
Story 3: Karen may have won the battle but she lost the war, and her land
Story 3 - I don't know how it is in Poland but the places I've lived in New Zealand, you'd have to pay the local Waste Management company if you want them to come out and pick up something up on anything other than a scheduled collection day (hell, they charge you if you put the stuff in your own car and drive it to their Refuse Centre) so OP was probably out of pocket getting a truck to come and deal with the bed, so her getting the cops to come and then being deliberately spiteful... I don't see any reason why he should accept her apology.
Story 2: imagine his love life. Him & his partner just finish doing it…
Partner: omg that’s it?
Jerk: it was 3 minutes, that’s sooo long.
Partner needs to go to the post office and get a "package deliverer."
Way back, I used to work at a big box store. Most of the managers that worked there were jerks and constantly gave me crap about the silliest things. One day, I decided to take my break time to study company policies. I did this everyday for about a month. Now educated on company policy, I commenced with my MC. Every time they would try to make me do things that violated policy, I would inform them what and where they could find in the company policy where they couldn't require me to perform whatever that particular task was. I personally love when I can use a written rule against tyrants that try to break the rules. There's nothing quite like beating the snot out of someone with the rule book. They can't fight what's in black and white...
Second story, there was no reason to accept the fake apology. She obviously only regretted the consequences, not her actions, she would do it again... to a different person
Policy Story: Karen forced OP to follow Policy because she could.
She has Power and WILL use it...
To bad for her, OP can also use it against her...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Yeah if you know that a technician is coming the last thing you want to do is piss him off or try and slow them down in some way. Especially if your job depends on their expertise.
It's been a day. Your voice makes the mundane juicy. Thank you
I'm retired USPS and the job I hated the most in our very large, upscale PO was working the Dutch Door. I would get "blessed out" four or five times a day for things like: "Where's my letter that I sent the power company yesterday?" I learned early on to never stand between a retired person and their mail box.
I hate the phrase "the customer is always right" because they are not. The customer is right when the customer is right. Otherwise they are wrong.
As a customer who has been next in line, I can tell you customer is seldom right in a dispute and I will, and have, stand up for you, loudly, when you are right! Maybe being 75 y.o. makes me cantankerous, in your favor.
they are WRONG even when they are RIGHT
when i worked retail - a coworker threw me under the bus - so as soon as i got off the clock - i put the coworker in THEIR place - i told coworker that you NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER throw your coworkers under for ANY reason - throwing CUSTOMERS under the bus is fine - throwing MANAGEMENT corporate AND local level under the bus is absolutely fine as well - but NEVER your coworkers BECAUSE if you do - your coworkers will NEVER trust you EVER EVER AGAIN
That actually saying is the customer is always right in matters of taste but Karen's managed to chop the last part to make it work for them
First story, HOLY HELL I hate people like that Karen. Me and my wife are both Christian but we also wear symbols of other religions on our necklaces. For my wife (as she's of Nordic decent) likes to wear a Mjölnir pendant (she also likes to put acorns on our windows to ward off lightning). as for me I have a jade carving of my "spirit animal" given to me by an Inuit holy woman. And on top of that I have my Go'en (5 yen coin, but go'en also means "Good Fortune") which was blessed by a Shinto priest. Personally I love faith, but religion is where people screwed up. Religion has rules and laws, faith is simple love, nothing more, nothing less.
I am born Christian and have Viking ancestry including Ragnar Lothbrok and have both Mjolnir and Odin on the same necklace
I'm an atheist but have distant Scandinavian ancestry. On my chest, I have a Mjolnir tattoo colored in the transgender flag. I also want to get a valknut done in the rainbow Pride flag and a vegvísir on my upper right arm.
I'm a Southern Baptist Christian with Scottish, Native American and German ancestry. I actually like applying the Celtic tree of life into my own beliefs and I kind of see eagles/owls/wolves symbolically in Christianity too.
FEED STEVO I BEG OF YOU
Yeah feed him to the wolves!
And give him some pets. He's a good boy. 😎
You know Stevo is a fictional character right?
The iron story. I really really wish that companies would start to train their operatives to lose that 'customer is always right' mentality, given how many times it has been proved that that is not the case.
When they were coming up with slogans, they thought "The customer is always stupid so sell them expensive junk that breaks quickly and needs to be replaced" was a little bit too much on the nose so decided to go with something that stroked their mark's egos instead.
Story 1- Karens are SO obsessed with superficial things. I keep a pentacle necklace in a certain pocket of my purse for holy days. In my purse so I don't lose it, because my desk is extremely cluttered and I already have a necklace I can't find because I'm so disorganized, I don't need to lose any more of them! But just because I don't usually wear it- because my family is all devout Christian and I hang out with them a lot and don't want to make waves- she'd have been fine with me handling her stuff. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. OP may only have been wearing it as an aesthetic choice, not even for religious reasons. And even if it were for religious reasons- it's a free country. Within reasonable bounds we can all say, do, and believe what we like, and no one else has any business trying to interfere with that.
Story 3: technically OP didn’t break any rules because they called the owner of the spot they put their bed in beforehand. As well as checking with a member of the community council to make sure that it was okay. So OP was actually well within the rules
Thank you for saying that Dark Fluff! The pentagram is used for protection!!! 🧙♀️ Mostly for keeping away bad energies, but they can be used to wars off Karens and their negativity. 😆 We use other symbols for summoning and possession, but it's never the pentagram. 😅
"retail would be the perfect job if not for the customers" is something i live by lol however a customer to me is a person wanting to buy stuff but id rude, a regular is someone who's nice and i get alot of them
Yeah, problem with retail and customers is that usually the only customers who are memorable are those you want to forget.
Darkfluff: *Says anything positive about supernatural*
My spouse: HE SAID SUPERNATURAL! HE IS NOW MY BEST FRIEND!
Loved all five stories. Karma perfection!
Iron story.... Rabid Karen didn't like OP "mansplaining". 🙄
Fellow hater of vaginas. I too am woman hater.
*IN YOUR FACE AMBER HEARD*
Yeah, wasn't even "mansplaining" because he was giving out useful information on that particular models pros, cons, and needs. He wasn't giving her an overly simple and insulting pitch like "Hot irons smooth wrinkles."
Lol, I think I just "mansplained" mansplaining.
😂
Title should read "Petty Karen calls 911 on Me for Littering, so I show her what a REAL Karen does!" I mean, that wasn't malicious compliance, that was the gunfight at the O Karen corral!
I'm a Super Natural fan too, D- Fluff 😊👍
"I don't care if you're a dog or cat"😂😂😂 hey, a lot of times those can be easier to deal with right? 🤷♀️ (imo)
Unionised workers cannot be fired just because the supervisor or manager says so. They need to bring up to the Union and have a good reason why that employee needs to be let go. A worker getting fired just coz a customer demands it is considered Wrongful Termination.
11:15 OP should have given the Xaren from Hell, a parting present. A tube of estrogen cream and a large raw Cavendish/ Robusta.
Discl: Not a general remark but aimed at the Xaren in the story
Once again fluff lifts my day.
I love malicious compliance 😊
The retail story…. Yes we all loved our job. But we always teased about having our own “Purge Day”. One day a year we wanted to prove THE CUSTOMER IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!
Wait, are we talking about pentagrams or pentacles as signs of protection? There is a significant difference.
If I have to go somewhere to pick something up (Mail, Package, Prescription Medication etc.), I ALWAYS take my KOBO Ereader with me so I have something to do while I'm waiting patiently for the workers to find whatever I'm there to get...
I don't complain about how long it's taking, I don't snarl at them to hurry up and if I have to ask how much longer, it's ALWAYS done Politely and Respectfully because I'm parked in a 15 min. pickup/loading zone and need to know if I have to move before I get a Ticket...
Same for Wait Staff/Servers, unless they're blatantly being rude or Lazy, I will be Polite to them and if I do need to make a complaint, I quietly and Politely ask a different staff member to speak to the Manager (letting them know I'm not asking to complain about them) and explain my problem with the person that served me...
Nevertheless OP was in the wrong when he said "It's just mail". A postal worker should NEVER cop that attitude and that Postmaster was way out of line for cultivating that attitude in his Post Office.
I'm a Pagan and wear a pentagram: I'd have got that Karen on "freedom of religion".
It's true.
I worked at Home Depot for years. I was a *major* source of knowledge as our plumbing, garden and paint department ... and moderately knowledgeable on Lumber/Millwork.
The amount of sexism/dismissal/"Go find me a man. I need to talk to someone who knows what they're doing."
Pentagrams are abstract representations of the universe in its totality, the five points representing the four elements (observable states of matter for ancient peoples) and the fifth immaterial element: anima/soul/the principle of animation.
This was the magical instrument of the earth element in European magical traditions, representing the world as the stage one which all the elements performed. Most often during conjurations of spirits, the magician would stand inside the pentagram, representing a sanctified or normal world, and the spirit would stand at or stalk about the edge, unable to enter the world as they were unnatural or abnormal.
What we get in most media today is the less common summoning of demons _inside_ the circle, which I've only found myself in the _Liber Juratus_ when you dig a hole in the middle to act as a door to Hell. The summoning the spirit inside the circle is more common for summoning angels, so that you do not offend them by profaning them with touching the unclean normal world.
In short, Pentagram as ward has more to do with describing a natural world to which they are not part, and therefore cannot enter.
Wait wait wait how can a PENTAGRAM a thing with POINTS have a CIRCLE?
@@SLOTHSRIDEUNICORNS the classic pentagram is a five pointed unicursal star set inside a circle.
Supernatural!! So many people think pentagrams are satanic. Its so stupid.
Story three and five- I have also out karened a Karen.... Sometimes that's the only way to get them to understand that they need to chill.
Story 2: customer was dealing with the Feds. Imagine if he was dealing with a State employee, then he would be royally, and quite possibly permanently, screwed over.
Fun fact...
Karen is actually an acronym
*K* now your rights
*A* ccuse everyone
*R* equest a manager
*E* scalate to authorities
*N* eglect Reason
The more ya know!
I heard that it depends on how many points is facing up for the pentagram
Yes... 1 point up is good (right side up), 2 points up is bad (up side down). Just like the cross turned up side down is bad.
@@tracybarber-kier1669 yup I agree just forgot to write it, my bad.
@Tracy Barber-Kier OR maybe it's an URN?
Where does this idea come from? The pentagram can be "good" either way up, and can be used for "bad" either way up.
@@Coyleravane the two points up represents the devil, 2 horns, the 2 points midway are the pointed mustache, the one point down is the goatee.
Not wearing a name badge has an impact in a person's ability to do their work. Got it.
Thank you again!
I was in the post office when I got the news that grandpa took a turn for the worst and I was respectful to my rude af cashier even then
The iron expert turned around and looked at that lady like, "You Couldn't Live with Your Own Failure, Where Did that Bring You? Back to Me"
Concerning story #4, it reminds me of what would happen when it comes to computers and talking to my rl friends Tyler and America. The *real* expert on computers/computer programs isn't Tyler, it's his wife *Dr.* America (one of her degrees is in computer science, plus she teaches CS iirc.)
Knowledge isn't gender-specific, Karen-ness isn't gender-specific, either! And knowledge/Karen-ness isn't species-specific (a dog will have its spcialties and a cat will have *its* set...)
If you want to be heavy handed with enforcing the rules, don't be surprised when the shoe is on the other foot that they will return the sentiment.
That last story, the way I would have gone about it would probably would have been something like, “If I have to go back to the office and get my badge, it’ll be time for me to clock out, and I’m not allowed overtime. Your call.”
I was a very small boy when I started helping my mother with the ironing by dampening clothes with a sprinkler head stuck in a Coke bottle. I graduated to ironing my own shirts. Permanent Press put an end to that, but I still have a few items I iron occasionally. I was using my late MIL's iron, so old that the cord was fabric-covered. I found a much nicer one with retractable cord at the Goodwill Thrift shop.
Story 4: It's always great when someone quotes Randall Graves.
2:13 imagne complying to that I would never had done that
Story 3 is hilariously petty
You are right Dark Fluff, I don't care if someone is male or female, as long as they can help me out in the store its fine. That Karen was just being sexist against men and I don't know why. Shame on her.
That is better than my mail, every parcel delivery for my trailer court get's delivered to my place and only my place so I have to then deliver everyone's mail to them, which really sucks when the person on the other end of the trailer court orders over 100 pounds of canned dog food.