the story about the helicopter mom is funny. I was a child during the 50's and 60's and we went outside and did things on our own in my small town. everyone know who you were anyways and if you got in to trouble not only would you get a talking to by the people who saw you do it but also your parents.
#4: OP was wrong about only one thing - it wasn't the youthfulness of the CEO that made him entitled, it was the sense of power he felt over those he had hired and could fire at a whim. That type of entitlement has no age restrictions.
I guarantee you he was born rich, never worked a day in his life until daddy made him CEO, and bullying people somehow makes it easier to convince himself that he earned the position.
The CEO calls and begs for a new appointment. "Ok, but I need to explain that my rates have tripled, and I expect payment in advance." Defeated the CEO agreed. I smiled and said "Excellent, would you like some coffee with that?"
the thing is often with privet schools. those parents are also paying very very much money. And own even more. So for the school they might not have the budget to get in to a legal battle with said parent.
@@sirBrouweryeah I doubt that he has more money than the combined total the school receives from him and other parents. Even then they literally have the advantage. They can get his children taken away
Story 4 - Situations like that really make you want to tell people like that CEO to ‘SHUT UP AND LISTEN FOR 5 SECONDS!’ But thankfully OP had the boss on his side and never went back.
I work in software development... I can tell you that the domain is bogus as soon as you work with big client and big money. Because the client is big, is often seller to seller who make the contract. Than, it comes to our hand, we look at it, talk TI to TI (if the client actually has some TI.. not always the case) and both know that we are about to do is wrong. And try to talk to the client you lowly developper!! First, we don't talk the same langage. So, it's a manager that will do the transation. If we are lucky, this manager is awesome and know how to make the translation. If we are even more lucky, he doesn't have to talk to his own manager that will than talke to a manager manager on the client and etc... and it won't take 3 week before having a first meeting because they don't understand the issue.... Sometime, I feel we are alien that do alien technology. Client know they need it, but don't understand it!
The CEO clearly wasn’t used to people telling him no. It’s clear he was on a power trip and wanted to flex it on some “lowly employee” especially since he refused someone else to make him his coffee when offered.
Story 4: That's the great thing about being retired -- assuming one has enough savings set aside. OP had absolutely no need to be on that job site. He was there doing them a favor. When the CEO disrespected him, OP was completely free to walk out the door and never look back.
Story 1 - Hopefully the teacher who was there did file a report on that guy because he does sound unhinged. And I definitely agree on the ‘Snap your fingers in my face, and you’ll lose them’ comment. I myself don’t take kindly to that and I know a few folks who don’t either.
@ He probably would’ve made some comments either way, only about how OP is not ‘good at her job’ because she can’t get her kids ready on time or something like that.
So you cannot accept that someone closes their own door on you (gently) claiming attempted assault, but you have no problem threatening to hit them in the face. Stupid Karen.
Story 3 - That’s the thought process of Karens. Misinterpret one thing for another then get super pissed when it’s NOT what they want, threaten to fire someone/everyone, then wound up making a total ass of themselves.
I worked in a small IT start up company. Coffee was free and it was a great place to work until shortly after I left. BUT on one thing the owner was emphatic. "If you drink the coffee you can make the coffe." And don't take the first co[ and make the rest of the pot weak. And YES HE DID ALSO MAKE THE COFFEE. He was a techie. He wrote the software we sold. And he hated meeting like my direct supervisor. The place was close to perfect. And the place had a wickedly great sense of humor.
OP had every right to _actually_ slam the door in her face. Should have told the HeliMom she was being trespassed and if she did not leave immediately, OP would call the cops.
Kids pick up story: If some jerk followed me out to my car while I had two little kids in my care, yeah, I'd be using my phone to call the police. Who knows what that psycho would do? Kids in park story: After I had GENTLY closed the door on Karen, I would have very loudly thrown the deadbolt. Community garden story: Personally, I think it would be cheaper to buy organic vegetables at a high-end market than to hire a professional gardener. Inventory system story: I wonder how long that CEO stayed CEO after his board of directors discovered the reason they lost so much money is because he was an ass to the ONLY contractor that had a chance of fixing their system. Hardware story: Of course Chad can't read. If he could he'd have looked at the signs at the end of each aisle and gone to the one that said "tools". Once he entered there would be yet another tool in the aisle.
Story 4 reminds me of a story from some years ago where foreKaren at a renovation fired the one guy that was qualified to do a specific historic building maintenance task. As in, the story was a bit vague on the exact specialty so as not to doxx the specialist. I don't think I caught the final update but there was not enough crow the company could eat with foreKaren around, and the specialist wouldn't tell them "fire foreKaren and I'll come back" so I think they had to hire someone they had to pay for travel and lodgings.
It was a long story, with multiple updates, which unfortunately had to be finished by the writer's spouse since he died toward the end of the story (or so the posts said). I'll try to condense it to the essentials. Set-up is in the UK and a Grade 1 Listed building which is under renovation by a large company owned by three people. One of them is the boss in question. A renovation guy is hired to perform some very specific restoration to a historical part of the building which means that it MUST be done using period-correct tools and methods ONLY. The guy hired to do it is the only one currently available. "Boss" is rude to renovation-guy, ordering him to get him a coffee. Reno-guy says "not my job" and it winds up with "boss" ordering reno-guy off of the site. Site manager is in a panic, understandably. "Boss" refuses to apologise, leading to reno-guy staying off the job until he doesn't have time to complete before his next scheduled job it even if he did return. The company decides to bring in a guy from another country to finish reno-guy's job. He's the wrong guy, who does the job wrong, because the technique he uses is for a different style of building. Reno-guy has kept in contact with the company's other workers and knows all of this, so he reports the problem. Company gets everything they've done closely inspected. Lo and behold, not only is this job done wrong, but the "boss" also ordered the removal/destruction and rebuilding of an architectural feature of the building which he had no business even touching without permission. Both company and "boss" get hit with absolutely massive (almost crippling) fines as well as having to remove and re-do everything according to period correctness, which is massively expensive in and of itself even without the fines. "Boss" gets "asked" to sell out his interest in the company to the other two owners and "retire" from the company. One assumes that the amount he got in payment was adjusted by the current company value after expenses and fines. There's also a sub-plot about the foreman being fired for "not warning" the "boss" and legal action for unfair dismissal.
That retired IT story reminded me of that scene in Fight Club, where they trapped that commissioner (or whatever) in the men's room, and tell him something like how they take away his garbage, cook his food, and watch him while he sleeps... "Do not f**k with us!" 😂
2nd story: Oscar Wilde quote: "Everyone is a source of happiness. Some bring happiness wherever they go, others bring happiness WHENever they go." Karen was of the latter sort.
Story 4: This guy really making other people grab his coffee? No man, get your own coffee like the rest of us. He needs to understand that there are consequences for his actions
With that second story, I'd probably go around the neighborhood myself, asking if they'd been faced with a crazy woman coming to their house and telling them how to parent their own children. Specifically doing it to end up at the crazy woman's house and act like I don't recognize her, and complain about her from my point of view. The CEO one - I'd have warned him that while he might be joking, one of the younger 'f'ing idiots' he does that to might take it to a lawyer. He MIGHT want to think about his hazing ...
Story Four: I think it's not so much "Young" talking, it's "Privileged Nepo-Baby" talking. The kind of guy who sees anyone who works for a living, anywhere at all, as someone BENEATH them. That attitude comes from a lifetime of housekeepers & gardeners being the ones doing things around the house & private school.
Spent 15 minutes silently following someone instead of asking for help right away and probably another 10 minutes arguing about it, when he could have walked through the store and found them on his own in 5. Lol
Loved the A-Hole Tax story, caused by a blustering ignorant CEO. I was once in a DIY store, looking for a straight piece of wood about 8 foot long. I had picked out about five pieces of wood that i had put on the floor as all were rwisted, certainly not straight. I was interupted by a shouting man demanding to know what what the effing hell was i doing? I thought, well, two can play at that game, so he, having sworn at me, i answered in kind, shouting to the passing crowd, that ACTUALLY I WAS LOOKING FOR A STRAIGHT PIECE OF WOOD, BUT AS WAS OBVIOUS BY MY RESEARCH, WHICH WAS ALL OVER HIS FLOOR, THAT I COULDN'T FIND ANY, SO WAS GOING TO ALTERNATIVE PLACE TO FIND SOME! And with that, i left, leaving an entire rack full of wooden batons on the floor. He had a hissy fit as i left.
Story 4: it’s nothing to do with the CEO being young, he’s been brought up and shoe horned into that position. Seems like he’s not worked his way up. Those types come in all ages. Story 5: I will never get why people expect shop staff to approach them. If you need help, ASK for it, POLITELY.
Story 1: I suspect there may be a cultural dissonance at work. Some men have been raised that women, especially those in care roles are no more than servants to be ordered. Or worse, exploited in various ways. I was part of onboarding new medical residents every July, and did some teaching about hygiene, odor control, and especially attitude and conduct. Tough old ICU nurses did not tolerate the slightest misbehavior.
You always carry a whistle around so that way you can whistle in front of this Karen maker stop yelling in your face that are those kinds of people. I know somewhere there's a lot of law saying that you can't use whistles on certain things but that would be one of the occasions I think they'd make an exception to the rule.
Story 2. Iv'e had something like that happen to me when I was 16 and lived in a good sized subdivision in the 90s. An entiled woman who would be a problem for everyone living there. Did not like that I an teen answer the door instead of my parents who worked and did not get home to 7pm each night and was cooking dinner. EW did report this to the police who did check thing out. And when it was not a problem. Ew did get two expensive citations for missuse of emergency services and lying to police in a sorn statement.
used to drive a school bus, the first year I drove the last run was a private school bit if an attitude. but another driver told once they had expected her to be responsible for a sack full of bingo cash. Nope.but. you put it there I am not going to stop anyone who tries to take it
Story 4 - My mom’s like that. She’s never upgraded any of her work computers because ‘the programs work fine so there’s no need to upgrade’. Well unfortunately she had to because a wind/thunder storm we had during the summer this year caused two of her computers to crash. Luckily everything was saved and (after a few weeks) the programs work great on the new computers.
I'd rather see the CEO get fired than have OP not return to fix their software. It isn't the employees' fault that their boss is a jackwad. It's obvious the CEO doesn't give two thoughts to his employees. I feel sorry for anyone having to work under him.
Story 2. I used to live with my grandma. I have no children. I had a neighbour knocking on our door several times a day for a week because of "my children " running amok in the neighbourhood. I've never seen or heard the kids miss behaving. Occasionally a few happy squeals or the usual complaining over others not following the games rules, skinned knees causing ww3 etc usual preteen kids playing nicely noises. So I don't know what this crazy lady was talking about. She eventually DEMANDED to know which kid was mine (which was kinda creepy tbh) she would NOT listen to the fact non of them were mine. Many of the children would come to show my grandparents their new toys or ask for a cup of water or use the loo. Not so often it was obnoxious or anything but my grandparents had lived there forever. Most of the parents on that street grew up playing with my dad and uncle. They all knew them and that they were safe people. Seems she saw me putting a sticking plaster on a scraped knee (they came to the door and asked for one) assumed the kid was mine because we are both mixed race. Like wtf? She didn't even live on our street. It ended when I asked for a welfare check on her because either she's racist, rude, stupid and hated the sound of happy children or was off her rocker...possibly both. Funny enough she stopped knocking after that...😂 As a side note I asked around and she never asked anyone else on the street just me and grandma...literally the only house on the street without kids 😂
Story 1: "Sir, can you read English?" "Read the words printed on my shirt." "Do these words match the ones printed on the front of this building?" "Nope...because I don't work here." Story 3: Karen was confusing a Community Garden with a farmer's farm where a farmer grows & harvests the veggies...takes them to the market to sell. Karen is NEVER the farmer. Story 4: Yeah...make another appointment. Sure...I'll come back...a couple days after Fuck You (with the appropriate finger presented proudly of course). Story 5: See Story 1 :)
Story 3: For a moment I thought that woman had stolen and transplanted vegetables from other people's plots. But it doesn't sound like has the first clue how to garden, much less transplant produce and keep it alive.
Story 4: It' be even more gloriously petty if OP offered to fix the old system after they started installing the new system, just to rub salt in the wound.
The last story almost sounded like he was trying to get her alone somewhere, that and he followed her around for 10 minutes without looking up at the isle signs, a few red flags to consider there!
Threatening Karen: As soon as she threatened to assault you. You should smile at your kids. To let them know what you were about to do. Then you drop to the ground and start yelling how you were assaulted. When police show up. Let your kids "on their own with no prodding" tell police how they heard Karen threaten to assault you. Then you fell to the ground. EFF her.
I would hope that there was something bold in the contract for the plots that if you don't use it you lose its kind of language so that way she can't complain when there's nothing growing.
I would love to know where this idea came from that alleged employees are required to serve people even while on break or off the clock. Not only is that something they are not required to do but it's something that can get places in trouble to my understanding. How do people get to this point where they are that uninformed about how jobs work?
@@JamesDavy2009no overtime, no 40 hour work week instead a 160 hour work month and no social security. Gonna be great, hope everyone is grinding their axes
Story 3 - Karen whale about not having her vegetable like the garden was the only way for her to have it (to expensive at the grocery). At least, it's how I understood it. And than, she pay a professionnal to make her garden pop up? What the point of having a garden if you don't take care of it your self if you can afford to actually buy from farm market (cost surely less than paying a professionnal to attend and do the garden)? I guess it's a good way to brag at your friend "Hey guys! Look at my garden! The tomatoes are so big! You won't have that at the grocery! Check the plant on the other dude garden : not as big as mine!" ... But again, a person that is so much in her emotion that just don't listen or try to have an explaination. They ask for it, but they don't allow it!
Op with the helicopter Karen in her neighborhood needs to get a doorbell camera and tell her kids that the minute they engage any time with a person like that they need to start filming and calling the police. Also I would report her to the police for being very policing of neighborhood of other kids around their cuz that's suspicious behavior that she's stalking these other kids and telling people non-related to them what's going on.
Dude, if you don't ask people directly that you need help they're not going to help you. Also get your eyes checked because I'm not anywhere involved with this company if you can see my uniform is not having any branding on it to the store.
Once, I mistook a fellow customer for a staff member at a supermarket. Upon realizing my error, I simply said, "I am so sorry, my mistake." In such situations, that's all that needs to be said.
It would be funny if in the last story there was a plot twist where the dude was just awkwardly trying to hit on OP, and he bought sandwiches there every weekday for the next month until he realized he blew it with his first impression.
7: 44 haha.. What?! Karen: "your kids should not be alone at the park" Me: "oh shuut.. How young are the see kids? I was alone at the playground since I was 7 years old!" 🤦🏾♂️
Story 1: The Karen needs to learn how to listen better; he was told by 2 different people that OP didn't work for the school, yet he ignored them. I wonder if his lack of listening skills gets him in trouble with other things that happen in his life (and perhaps might be the reason why he had arrived so late on this particular day?) Story 2: I love that this Karen expects OP to parent someone else's kids. Usually, Karens don't like it when people try to do that, but that might just be because the advice is normally directed at them. Also, wtf, closing the door is attempted assault now? Since when?! Also also, I feel targeted regarding her remark about 'you shouldn't be sleeping while your kids are at the park', but not for me but for my mom who worked nights and let us hang out in the park behind our house while she slept. Story 3: Of course she thought that everyone would plant her veggies and do the work for her. Either she was willfully ignorant or not paying attention, but the result sounds like a her problem. At least she solved it, though it obviously cost her more than she initially expected. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Story 4: The CEO is a fucking garbage human being. "I want HIM to get me a coffee, because I'm a power-tripping asshole!" Glad OP stood his ground, because this CEO sounds like he only recalls his manners with people who can do something for him. As much as it would serve the CEO right if OP didn't return, I don't think the manager or the rest of the staff should suffer for it. Story 5: Yet another Karen who doesn't listen properly. Even being told that OP doesn't work here, Chad is so stuck on this employee hitting his cart that he has lost his mind. Love the ending of this story though, it sounds like something I would have said.
with the community garden. now that the lady has hired a professional gardener for her plot. I can see that she maybe even helping the others. As when you have a gardener that enjoys his/her job they are very much open about sharing there knowledge both in techniek and botanically.
I received a call from an old employer. They couldn’t get through the audit. The controller quit after being called incompetent by the auditors. 🤣 It was a senior management position and I had retired to a different state. I told my old boss who was a board member I would be willing to get them through the audit if I could work remotely and they paid me an obscene amount of money 💰. They tried to offer me less money. Boss said not to insult me. I told him that was a good call since I would just walk.
Ok 4th story: this is the 2nd time in the span of 7 days that I find a story with the following points: 1- OP with a particularly hard to find skill set is hired by company to do very important job as a 3rd party contractor. 2- A-hole CEO mistakes him for employee and tries to get a coffee. 3- OP says no 4- Boss gets angry and tells OP to GTFO. 5- OP asks him to repeat that a second time. 6- Boss repeats it, OP leaves, que instant regret, yada-yada
*Fourth Story:* Ho, boy! If you've ever worked in IT, you've no doubt had something similar happen. Maybe not that dramatic, maybe not by the CEO, but the cubicle convicts and even execs treat even in-house IT folks like garbage until they need them. Contractors? I spent three years as such before quitting IT altogether but the stories I could tell. Like the CTO who didn't realize formatting his flash drive containing his presentation "to run on his company computer" would erase everything on it (he used Macs, they used PCs).
Last story, when I worked at a place that had the same colour polo shirt as a big grocery store. A customer asks me where something was. I said I’m sorry I don’t know, he said why not. I said I don’t work here. I said look, I worked at a laundry. He said well why are you wearing it in here. I said because I’m doing my shopping after work like many others here. 🤦♀️
Yea, some of these stories involving kids are why School staff and others should be allowed to carry anywhere and everywhere. They are examples of adults who are a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the children.
Yeah that Karen's not going to make any money as far as saving for herself for these vegetables unless she's like an organic only kind of person that's the only way it would justify hiring a professional gardener to do your gardening. You're probably going to pay twice as much you would normally pay for any vegetables at any higher and grocery store.
I don't get the whole "organic" malarkey. Fruit and veg are fruit and veg no matter who's growing it. It's all just a marketing scam that people with more dollars than sense consistently fall for.
Story 4 - I bet the CEO is the same tightwad that refused to upgrade their systems to current. I guess he'll have to shell out money to do that now, on top of his ahole tax!
Story 1 - The moment he started following OP should have called the cops and let them hear him shouting at her in the background.
the story about the helicopter mom is funny. I was a child during the 50's and 60's and we went outside and did things on our own in my small town. everyone know who you were anyways and if you got in to trouble not only would you get a talking to by the people who saw you do it but also your parents.
The moment he started following OP, she had the moral right to mace him (I don't know about legal right... probably?).
@Mooskym - probably not a good idea to spray mace around near two small children, though.
@@nigeldepledge3790 Shit, you have a point.
Noted: call cops on speaker
#4: OP was wrong about only one thing - it wasn't the youthfulness of the CEO that made him entitled, it was the sense of power he felt over those he had hired and could fire at a whim. That type of entitlement has no age restrictions.
I came in to say this.
I guarantee you he was born rich, never worked a day in his life until daddy made him CEO, and bullying people somehow makes it easier to convince himself that he earned the position.
Honestly, people like this ruin the potential future of genuinely youths by giving us the bad reputation(I'm 25 if that counts)
The CEO calls and begs for a new appointment. "Ok, but I need to explain that my rates have tripled, and I expect payment in advance." Defeated the CEO agreed. I smiled and said "Excellent, would you like some coffee with that?"
Why didn't the school administration do anything? That man was harassing a stranger in front of children. Don't they have laws against that?
the thing is often with privet schools. those parents are also paying very very much money. And own even more. So for the school they might not have the budget to get in to a legal battle with said parent.
@@sirBrouwerthey said prestigious so it might not he provate
@@sirBrouweryeah I doubt that he has more money than the combined total the school receives from him and other parents. Even then they literally have the advantage. They can get his children taken away
@@sirBrouwer BTW, a privet is a shrub used to grow hedges.
Well it's a school. As far as they're concerned, it's not wrong to initiate hostilities, it's only wrong to defend yourself.
Story 3: How much you want to bet she’s also claiming to have grown those veggies all on her own.
Story 2: This is a Karen with too much time on her hands if she's trying to cause drama over some kids crossing a street.
Shes on entitlement and need to lay it off
Also like in their own words "don't tell me how to raise my kid entitlent"
“I see them here all the time”. “Why are you spying on my house?”
I'm not on OP's side regardless, you don't leave preteen children at the park alone in this day and age.
@impishrebel5969 bruh there pre teens. What are we gonna do keep em inside? If there was an issue the parent would go with them.
@@impishrebel5969What's your address? If you're imprisoning teenagers in your basement I'd like to order a wellness check at minimum.
That coffee-loving ceo learned the difference between someone who has authority and someone who has power.
Story 4 - Situations like that really make you want to tell people like that CEO to ‘SHUT UP AND LISTEN FOR 5 SECONDS!’ But thankfully OP had the boss on his side and never went back.
Maybe it's a rose-colored memory, but I don't remember WindowsXP having a fraction of the problems of Windows10 or 11.
I work in software development... I can tell you that the domain is bogus as soon as you work with big client and big money. Because the client is big, is often seller to seller who make the contract. Than, it comes to our hand, we look at it, talk TI to TI (if the client actually has some TI.. not always the case) and both know that we are about to do is wrong. And try to talk to the client you lowly developper!! First, we don't talk the same langage. So, it's a manager that will do the transation. If we are lucky, this manager is awesome and know how to make the translation. If we are even more lucky, he doesn't have to talk to his own manager that will than talke to a manager manager on the client and etc... and it won't take 3 week before having a first meeting because they don't understand the issue.... Sometime, I feel we are alien that do alien technology. Client know they need it, but don't understand it!
The CEO clearly wasn’t used to people telling him no. It’s clear he was on a power trip and wanted to flex it on some “lowly employee” especially since he refused someone else to make him his coffee when offered.
@@condorboss3339by the end of XP it became super easy to exploit. The problems with W10 were mostly because it stopped being so insecure.
Story 4: That's the great thing about being retired -- assuming one has enough savings set aside. OP had absolutely no need to be on that job site. He was there doing them a favor. When the CEO disrespected him, OP was completely free to walk out the door and never look back.
The staff at the daycare needed to have the guy suspended or removed from the daycare for the fact that he treats people like that.
Last story OP had the perfect comment when she saw Chad again. Love it!
Story 1 - Hopefully the teacher who was there did file a report on that guy because he does sound unhinged.
And I definitely agree on the ‘Snap your fingers in my face, and you’ll lose them’ comment. I myself don’t take kindly to that and I know a few folks who don’t either.
So if his kid was got ready first, that wouldn’t be favouritism?
@ He probably would’ve made some comments either way, only about how OP is not ‘good at her job’ because she can’t get her kids ready on time or something like that.
So you cannot accept that someone closes their own door on you (gently) claiming attempted assault, but you have no problem threatening to hit them in the face. Stupid Karen.
Story 3 - That’s the thought process of Karens. Misinterpret one thing for another then get super pissed when it’s NOT what they want, threaten to fire someone/everyone, then wound up making a total ass of themselves.
And then they show how much money they have by hiring someone to do the work instead.
@ That too.
First story: "you're not favoring my child?! That's favoritism!!!"
Reeeeeee 😂
Pot meet Kettle bruh
@@Silver_wind_1987_ Beware the Karenosaurus Rhee!
@@Some_Guy_6 🤣🤣🤣🤣 not the reeeeeee
I worked in a small IT start up company. Coffee was free and it was a great place to work until shortly after I left. BUT on one thing the owner was emphatic. "If you drink the coffee you can make the coffe." And don't take the first co[ and make the rest of the pot weak. And YES HE DID ALSO MAKE THE COFFEE. He was a techie. He wrote the software we sold. And he hated meeting like my direct supervisor. The place was close to perfect. And the place had a wickedly great sense of humor.
Story 2 - I’d like to see Karen confront the blonde kid’s parents and then find out one’s a bouncer and the other’s a cop/lawyer.
I too hope their much, MUCH less forgiving then OP
@ Yes!
OP had every right to _actually_ slam the door in her face. Should have told the HeliMom she was being trespassed and if she did not leave immediately, OP would call the cops.
@ That’s what I would’ve done, after telling her to ‘piss off’
Kids pick up story: If some jerk followed me out to my car while I had two little kids in my care, yeah, I'd be using my phone to call the police. Who knows what that psycho would do?
Kids in park story: After I had GENTLY closed the door on Karen, I would have very loudly thrown the deadbolt.
Community garden story: Personally, I think it would be cheaper to buy organic vegetables at a high-end market than to hire a professional gardener.
Inventory system story: I wonder how long that CEO stayed CEO after his board of directors discovered the reason they lost so much money is because he was an ass to the ONLY contractor that had a chance of fixing their system.
Hardware story: Of course Chad can't read. If he could he'd have looked at the signs at the end of each aisle and gone to the one that said "tools". Once he entered there would be yet another tool in the aisle.
That's mean tools are helpful unlit Chad; say sorry to the tools
My kids didn't look both ways when they crossed the street. Of course, being the last house on a dead end street helps. 😂
S1: "Sir, I think YOU should be a student here. Maybe you'll learn how to READ this time through."
Final Story - Really? That Ahole followed OP around for 15 minutes just to know where the hammers are?!
He's as smart as a bag of hammers. Can't expect too much.
That one had an extra little "umph" too it that goes beyond "I don't work here lady" and lands firmly into "lets never meet" territory.
if he spent time looking for the hammers, he would have found them much sooner
Since OP was female, he was probably going to hit on her and made up the hammer excuse
I was going to laugh if she said while he was following her, they'd passed right by the hammers.
Been a while since Fluff’s done an “IDon’tWorkHere” video. And as usual the stories did not fail to make me laugh at Karen stupidity
Story 4- I'm all about that level of petty... Op is great in my book
Story 4 reminds me of a story from some years ago where foreKaren at a renovation fired the one guy that was qualified to do a specific historic building maintenance task. As in, the story was a bit vague on the exact specialty so as not to doxx the specialist. I don't think I caught the final update but there was not enough crow the company could eat with foreKaren around, and the specialist wouldn't tell them "fire foreKaren and I'll come back" so I think they had to hire someone they had to pay for travel and lodgings.
It was a long story, with multiple updates, which unfortunately had to be finished by the writer's spouse since he died toward the end of the story (or so the posts said). I'll try to condense it to the essentials.
Set-up is in the UK and a Grade 1 Listed building which is under renovation by a large company owned by three people. One of them is the boss in question. A renovation guy is hired to perform some very specific restoration to a historical part of the building which means that it MUST be done using period-correct tools and methods ONLY. The guy hired to do it is the only one currently available.
"Boss" is rude to renovation-guy, ordering him to get him a coffee. Reno-guy says "not my job" and it winds up with "boss" ordering reno-guy off of the site. Site manager is in a panic, understandably.
"Boss" refuses to apologise, leading to reno-guy staying off the job until he doesn't have time to complete before his next scheduled job it even if he did return.
The company decides to bring in a guy from another country to finish reno-guy's job. He's the wrong guy, who does the job wrong, because the technique he uses is for a different style of building. Reno-guy has kept in contact with the company's other workers and knows all of this, so he reports the problem.
Company gets everything they've done closely inspected. Lo and behold, not only is this job done wrong, but the "boss" also ordered the removal/destruction and rebuilding of an architectural feature of the building which he had no business even touching without permission.
Both company and "boss" get hit with absolutely massive (almost crippling) fines as well as having to remove and re-do everything according to period correctness, which is massively expensive in and of itself even without the fines.
"Boss" gets "asked" to sell out his interest in the company to the other two owners and "retire" from the company.
One assumes that the amount he got in payment was adjusted by the current company value after expenses and fines.
There's also a sub-plot about the foreman being fired for "not warning" the "boss" and legal action for unfair dismissal.
That retired IT story reminded me of that scene in Fight Club, where they trapped that commissioner (or whatever) in the men's room, and tell him something like how they take away his garbage, cook his food, and watch him while he sleeps... "Do not f**k with us!" 😂
2nd story: Oscar Wilde quote: "Everyone is a source of happiness. Some bring happiness wherever they go, others bring happiness WHENever they go." Karen was of the latter sort.
Story 4: This guy really making other people grab his coffee? No man, get your own coffee like the rest of us.
He needs to understand that there are consequences for his actions
A-hole Tax is non-refundable. Karma doesn't need the receipt.
In the brief time on site, the IT support found no "Fs" in his inventory.
With that second story, I'd probably go around the neighborhood myself, asking if they'd been faced with a crazy woman coming to their house and telling them how to parent their own children. Specifically doing it to end up at the crazy woman's house and act like I don't recognize her, and complain about her from my point of view.
The CEO one - I'd have warned him that while he might be joking, one of the younger 'f'ing idiots' he does that to might take it to a lawyer. He MIGHT want to think about his hazing ...
OP should have told the CEO to apologize and get OP a coffee before he would consider coming back now or ever.
Story Four: I think it's not so much "Young" talking, it's "Privileged Nepo-Baby" talking. The kind of guy who sees anyone who works for a living, anywhere at all, as someone BENEATH them. That attitude comes from a lifetime of housekeepers & gardeners being the ones doing things around the house & private school.
Spent 15 minutes silently following someone instead of asking for help right away and probably another 10 minutes arguing about it, when he could have walked through the store and found them on his own in 5. Lol
Loved the A-Hole Tax story, caused by a blustering ignorant CEO. I was once in a DIY store, looking for a straight piece of wood about 8 foot long. I had picked out about five pieces of wood that i had put on the floor as all were rwisted, certainly not straight. I was interupted by a shouting man demanding to know what what the effing hell was i doing? I thought, well, two can play at that game, so he, having sworn at me, i answered in kind, shouting to the passing crowd, that ACTUALLY I WAS LOOKING FOR A STRAIGHT PIECE OF WOOD, BUT AS WAS OBVIOUS BY MY RESEARCH, WHICH WAS ALL OVER HIS FLOOR, THAT I COULDN'T FIND ANY, SO WAS GOING TO ALTERNATIVE PLACE TO FIND SOME! And with that, i left, leaving an entire rack full of wooden batons on the floor. He had a hissy fit as i left.
First story, the response to him should have been "I don't work here you rude arrogant bastard"
Story 4: it’s nothing to do with the CEO being young, he’s been brought up and shoe horned into that position. Seems like he’s not worked his way up. Those types come in all ages.
Story 5: I will never get why people expect shop staff to approach them. If you need help, ASK for it, POLITELY.
Story 4 was so satisfying to me. I’m always hearing stories about entitled boomers,when entitlement can be blamed across the generations.
Story 1: I suspect there may be a cultural dissonance at work. Some men have been raised that women, especially those in care roles are no more than servants to be ordered. Or worse, exploited in various ways. I was part of onboarding new medical residents every July, and did some teaching about hygiene, odor control, and especially attitude and conduct. Tough old ICU nurses did not tolerate the slightest misbehavior.
Yeah certain types of men who believe in certain beliefs under the roof of a certain fiction fearing building
You always carry a whistle around so that way you can whistle in front of this Karen maker stop yelling in your face that are those kinds of people. I know somewhere there's a lot of law saying that you can't use whistles on certain things but that would be one of the occasions I think they'd make an exception to the rule.
Story 2. Iv'e had something like that happen to me when I was 16 and lived in a good sized subdivision in the 90s. An entiled woman who would be a problem for everyone living there. Did not like that I an teen answer the door instead of my parents who worked and did not get home to 7pm each night and was cooking dinner. EW did report this to the police who did check thing out. And when it was not a problem. Ew did get two expensive citations for missuse of emergency services and lying to police in a sorn statement.
used to drive a school bus, the first year I drove the last run was a private school bit if an attitude. but another driver told once they had expected her to be responsible for a sack full of bingo cash. Nope.but. you put it there I am not going to stop anyone who tries to take it
Story 4 - My mom’s like that. She’s never upgraded any of her work computers because ‘the programs work fine so there’s no need to upgrade’. Well unfortunately she had to because a wind/thunder storm we had during the summer this year caused two of her computers to crash. Luckily everything was saved and (after a few weeks) the programs work great on the new computers.
I'd rather see the CEO get fired than have OP not return to fix their software. It isn't the employees' fault that their boss is a jackwad. It's obvious the CEO doesn't give two thoughts to his employees. I feel sorry for anyone having to work under him.
My favorite genre on this channel is back.
I don't know how any of these victims don't respond with a very forceful "f*ck off or I'm calling the cops".
Story 2. I used to live with my grandma. I have no children. I had a neighbour knocking on our door several times a day for a week because of "my children " running amok in the neighbourhood. I've never seen or heard the kids miss behaving. Occasionally a few happy squeals or the usual complaining over others not following the games rules, skinned knees causing ww3 etc usual preteen kids playing nicely noises. So I don't know what this crazy lady was talking about. She eventually DEMANDED to know which kid was mine (which was kinda creepy tbh) she would NOT listen to the fact non of them were mine. Many of the children would come to show my grandparents their new toys or ask for a cup of water or use the loo. Not so often it was obnoxious or anything but my grandparents had lived there forever. Most of the parents on that street grew up playing with my dad and uncle. They all knew them and that they were safe people. Seems she saw me putting a sticking plaster on a scraped knee (they came to the door and asked for one) assumed the kid was mine because we are both mixed race. Like wtf? She didn't even live on our street. It ended when I asked for a welfare check on her because either she's racist, rude, stupid and hated the sound of happy children or was off her rocker...possibly both. Funny enough she stopped knocking after that...😂
As a side note I asked around and she never asked anyone else on the street just me and grandma...literally the only house on the street without kids 😂
Wild that the story 4 OP would blame the CEO's entitlement on his being young and not on the fact that he's a FREAKING CEO.
Last OP really brought the hammer down on that fool…
Happy Sunday, everyone. I hope that everyone is ready for the work week ahead.
Story 1: "Sir, can you read English?" "Read the words printed on my shirt." "Do these words match the ones printed on the front of this building?" "Nope...because I don't work here."
Story 3: Karen was confusing a Community Garden with a farmer's farm where a farmer grows & harvests the veggies...takes them to the market to sell. Karen is NEVER the farmer.
Story 4: Yeah...make another appointment. Sure...I'll come back...a couple days after Fuck You (with the appropriate finger presented proudly of course).
Story 5: See Story 1 :)
And where was the complaint against the school.
I’m so glad my personality doesn’t put up with stupid people in life.
4th story: The CEO apparently thought that he was the reincarnation of King George III.😂
These entitled twits and "no, no, _YOU_ have to help me" 🤦♂
I would just repeat, "Why ME?!"
Story 3: For a moment I thought that woman had stolen and transplanted vegetables from other people's plots. But it doesn't sound like has the first clue how to garden, much less transplant produce and keep it alive.
Story 4: It' be even more gloriously petty if OP offered to fix the old system after they started installing the new system, just to rub salt in the wound.
The last story almost sounded like he was trying to get her alone somewhere, that and he followed her around for 10 minutes without looking up at the isle signs, a few red flags to consider there!
Yeah, very fishy. It sounds like he was just covering up his own actions.
Threatening Karen: As soon as she threatened to assault you. You should smile at your kids. To let them know what you were about to do. Then you drop to the ground and start yelling how you were assaulted. When police show up. Let your kids "on their own with no prodding" tell police how they heard Karen threaten to assault you. Then you fell to the ground. EFF her.
I would hope that there was something bold in the contract for the plots that if you don't use it you lose its kind of language so that way she can't complain when there's nothing growing.
I would love to know where this idea came from that alleged employees are required to serve people even while on break or off the clock. Not only is that something they are not required to do but it's something that can get places in trouble to my understanding. How do people get to this point where they are that uninformed about how jobs work?
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@@JamesDavy2009no overtime, no 40 hour work week instead a 160 hour work month and no social security. Gonna be great, hope everyone is grinding their axes
Honestly 11 and 12 is old enough to be able to go to a park literally across the street especially in a group
Story 3 - Karen whale about not having her vegetable like the garden was the only way for her to have it (to expensive at the grocery). At least, it's how I understood it. And than, she pay a professionnal to make her garden pop up? What the point of having a garden if you don't take care of it your self if you can afford to actually buy from farm market (cost surely less than paying a professionnal to attend and do the garden)? I guess it's a good way to brag at your friend "Hey guys! Look at my garden! The tomatoes are so big! You won't have that at the grocery! Check the plant on the other dude garden : not as big as mine!" ...
But again, a person that is so much in her emotion that just don't listen or try to have an explaination. They ask for it, but they don't allow it!
Karens love to peacock.
14:12 Ha! Someone hasn't worked fast food
Yay! Love my Dark Fluff!! Look forward to it everyday it pops up!
And story 3 is longer because her gartner is a great guy and helping everybody at the garden.
Story 4: Reminds me of the Listed Building contractors tale. Don't P-off the only guy who can do the job.
Op with the helicopter Karen in her neighborhood needs to get a doorbell camera and tell her kids that the minute they engage any time with a person like that they need to start filming and calling the police.
Also I would report her to the police for being very policing of neighborhood of other kids around their cuz that's suspicious behavior that she's stalking these other kids and telling people non-related to them what's going on.
that last story, should of named that chad "hammer head"! XD
Hooray, new Darkfluff video
Dude, if you don't ask people directly that you need help they're not going to help you. Also get your eyes checked because I'm not anywhere involved with this company if you can see my uniform is not having any branding on it to the store.
Once, I mistook a fellow customer for a staff member at a supermarket. Upon realizing my error, I simply said, "I am so sorry, my mistake." In such situations, that's all that needs to be said.
It would be funny if in the last story there was a plot twist where the dude was just awkwardly trying to hit on OP, and he bought sandwiches there every weekday for the next month until he realized he blew it with his first impression.
7: 44 haha.. What?!
Karen: "your kids should not be alone at the park"
Me: "oh shuut.. How young are the see kids? I was alone at the playground since I was 7 years old!"
🤦🏾♂️
11:24
I agree. Poor her. She deserved better. My only question now is why she didn't do the better that she deserves.
Story 5: Dude!!!!
Last story, dumber than a bag of hammers
Story 4: Grandpa energy all the way teaching a toddler a very important lesson about manners!
Love to listen, love the stories but I LOVE the background and the changing of season!!!!!
Crazy jogging stroller lady story- she deserves an anonymous wellness check at 3am for the next few days.
Story 1: The Karen needs to learn how to listen better; he was told by 2 different people that OP didn't work for the school, yet he ignored them. I wonder if his lack of listening skills gets him in trouble with other things that happen in his life (and perhaps might be the reason why he had arrived so late on this particular day?)
Story 2: I love that this Karen expects OP to parent someone else's kids. Usually, Karens don't like it when people try to do that, but that might just be because the advice is normally directed at them. Also, wtf, closing the door is attempted assault now? Since when?! Also also, I feel targeted regarding her remark about 'you shouldn't be sleeping while your kids are at the park', but not for me but for my mom who worked nights and let us hang out in the park behind our house while she slept.
Story 3: Of course she thought that everyone would plant her veggies and do the work for her. Either she was willfully ignorant or not paying attention, but the result sounds like a her problem. At least she solved it, though it obviously cost her more than she initially expected. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Story 4: The CEO is a fucking garbage human being. "I want HIM to get me a coffee, because I'm a power-tripping asshole!" Glad OP stood his ground, because this CEO sounds like he only recalls his manners with people who can do something for him. As much as it would serve the CEO right if OP didn't return, I don't think the manager or the rest of the staff should suffer for it.
Story 5: Yet another Karen who doesn't listen properly. Even being told that OP doesn't work here, Chad is so stuck on this employee hitting his cart that he has lost his mind. Love the ending of this story though, it sounds like something I would have said.
with the community garden. now that the lady has hired a professional gardener for her plot.
I can see that she maybe even helping the others. As when you have a gardener that enjoys his/her job they are very much open about sharing there knowledge both in techniek and botanically.
OP in the last story seriously served him breakfast, lunch and dinner karma ❤❤❤❤
I received a call from an old employer. They couldn’t get through the audit. The controller quit after being called incompetent by the auditors. 🤣 It was a senior management position and I had retired to a different state. I told my old boss who was a board member I would be willing to get them through the audit if I could work remotely and they paid me an obscene amount of money 💰. They tried to offer me less money. Boss said not to insult me. I told him that was a good call since I would just walk.
21:32 Male Karen, you mean a Daren!!
No, Karens are Karens no matter the gender if they're that entitled.
Ok 4th story: this is the 2nd time in the span of 7 days that I find a story with the following points:
1- OP with a particularly hard to find skill set is hired by company to do very important job as a 3rd party contractor.
2- A-hole CEO mistakes him for employee and tries to get a coffee.
3- OP says no
4- Boss gets angry and tells OP to GTFO.
5- OP asks him to repeat that a second time.
6- Boss repeats it, OP leaves, que instant regret, yada-yada
Karen: what are you gonna do about this?
Me: tells her to get off my property and literally slams the door on her
*Fourth Story:* Ho, boy! If you've ever worked in IT, you've no doubt had something similar happen. Maybe not that dramatic, maybe not by the CEO, but the cubicle convicts and even execs treat even in-house IT folks like garbage until they need them. Contractors? I spent three years as such before quitting IT altogether but the stories I could tell. Like the CTO who didn't realize formatting his flash drive containing his presentation "to run on his company computer" would erase everything on it (he used Macs, they used PCs).
Lovely stories 😅
Pepper spray, pepper spray, everyone should carry pepper spray at all time
Story 4: security risk….RUN!!!
Or better yet, that’s $275/hr
I can only imagine what the CEO would say that to the area corporate representative LOL
Last story, when I worked at a place that had the same colour polo shirt as a big grocery store. A customer asks me where something was. I said I’m sorry I don’t know, he said why not. I said I don’t work here. I said look, I worked at a laundry. He said well why are you wearing it in here. I said because I’m doing my shopping after work like many others here. 🤦♀️
Of course it’s favoritism, and so is the Dad having a favorite, as does most every other parent!
Karen fails to realise she is PART of the community. Did she think that everyone else there were supposed to grow vegs for her?
So happy I don't work with customers...
Yea, some of these stories involving kids are why School staff and others should be allowed to carry anywhere and everywhere. They are examples of adults who are a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the children.
Nice pitcher of ice cold water to the face as soon as you opened the door….screw that person
Story 4: I'm the OP of this one and I _seriously_ fail to understand how you concluded that I'm 70 years old, lol. I'm not.
Yeah that Karen's not going to make any money as far as saving for herself for these vegetables unless she's like an organic only kind of person that's the only way it would justify hiring a professional gardener to do your gardening. You're probably going to pay twice as much you would normally pay for any vegetables at any higher and grocery store.
I don't get the whole "organic" malarkey. Fruit and veg are fruit and veg no matter who's growing it. It's all just a marketing scam that people with more dollars than sense consistently fall for.
Story 4 - I bet the CEO is the same tightwad that refused to upgrade their systems to current. I guess he'll have to shell out money to do that now, on top of his ahole tax!
#2: Another one where OP should have told her to get off her property NOW.
I were OP I'd make the company draw up a contract to fix their system and make them pay extra to fix it.
Yeah, no, preteens at a park alone? OP was the laissez-faire parent to the helicopter parent.