As far as the manager chewing out a customer by mistake, I would definitely report that to corporate. That was absolutely inexcusable, and the only way they will know they have a terrible manager is if people tell them about their experiences in the store.
I'd definitely have done what Fluff recommend and then, once he fails to find me in the system, smile smugly and say "Now, what are you going to do to stop me taking this to Corporate and the Press? Personally, I think both you AND your bitch paying for my shopping will do for a start..."
That is exactly what I would have done... especially since I could get their name from the other associate... and would complain about how I was verbally assaulted by their power-tripping wife before being harrassed by the manager, and how the manager doesn't even know who their employees were. And how if I was an employee I would have grounds for a wrongful termination.
@@caburg93 Don't need the recording, head office has access to all the camera recordings, and can simply look it up. most of those cameras also record audio as well, especially the ones near the checkouts, to handle disputes. Manager would be fired for cause, and the wife will be banned as well.
Right? I was just about to comment that. Sounds like they treat their staff like garbage. Corperate wont care if the employees complain, but if a customer calls & says a manager screamed in their face for not allowing his wife to verbally abuse a customer?? Dude would get in so much trouble
We could write a song about that: Did she ever return? No she never returned! And her fate is still unlearned! Maybe we could get the Kingston Trio to sing it.
@@theplaintech Why not a limerick? There once was a lady named Karen Whose shopping cart was barren She asks for dog food Was directed to aisle 62 And she wanders like a clueless heron.
Story 5: If someone spoke to me like that lady did, with the Autism comment, she would've gotten a verbal dress-down. As for that manager, he can go screw himself with a 10-foot pole covered in razor blades.. There is no chance I would've let that manager and his wife even feel like they won. My first question would've been "What's my name?" After the manager's ears start smoking I would've added "How can you fire me if you don't even know who I am?" Once the manager is completely red in the face I would've capped it off with "Read my lips: I have never worked, nor will I ever work, for you! Get me YOUR superior NOW! You and your wife have been absolutely disgusting, and You need to be dealt with!" You wanna try and dress me down for doing nothing? Perpare to lose your job! Yes, I know I sound like a Karen here, but when it comes to insults to Autistic individuals like myself, I ain't letting that slide, not a chance in heck.
Oh boy, I have zero tolerance for people using Autism as an insult. I probably would've done one of two possible things. 1. Lost my shit and have a full blown meltdown and they would be getting a full verbal beat down. 2. I would have a full emotional meltdown. Crying, ect.
@@christopherhatty5086 Same here. Ableist comments should be treated with the same stigma as the N-word in the U.S. It's pretty much happened nowadays with a word beginning with "R" that means hindered/held back.
Honestly, if someone made that Autism comment, I'd have loudly said "Are you insinuating that I'm a [R-word]?!" and if that idiot confirmed that, that lady would have dressed down for not just making such an infinitely disgusting comment, but even go so far as to rip them a new butthole by telling how they're stupider than a person with Autism if they can't tell the freaking difference between a customer from an employee, and if she brings her Husband as the manager of the place, I'd be tearing that idiot a new one from there and reporting him directly to his superiors informing of customer abuse because he's confusing a customer for an employee.
In the fifth story, the idiot manager said that the customer is always right? That's when I would have said "great because I'm a customer, and now you are gonna be a former manager because I'm reporting you to your boss idiot."
They forget the second half "The customer is always right... in matters of style." the choice of what taps, what colour or style... they are right to control that. right about all things? nope.
The customer is always right started to stop being a thing like 20 years ago, once people got tired of customers taking advantage of that. Stores, managers and employees are over the customer is always right bullsh!t and having to just bend over and take what ever abuse a customer feels like dishing out. Any place that still pacifies customers like this are only hurting their staff that had to deal with it
*Story 4: I Lived over a quick stop store and when they were closed, on occasion someone would walk around to the back and knock on the door that goes to the apartment upstairs. I only rented the apartment..I had nothing to do with the store, but this one guy wouldn't believe me. He said I just don't want to open the store to sell him something! Absurd. He said he's calling the cops because only the owners of such stores live above the store, or they use it for storage, and since I am up there, I MUST be the owner or up there illegally....and I said okay and closed my door. Never heard from him again and no cops came. Idiot.*
Wow! I didn’t know it was illegal for a store owner to close a store and not open it for some random dude who demanded it. Learn something new everyday. 😂
I swear to god, one of these days we'll have a story that goes ''A Karen murdered my entire family, got me fired from my job, and set my house on fire with my partner and dogs inside because I breathed her way in a store'' but when police officers ask them if they want to press charges they'll still go ''Nooo 🥺''. It's really starting to get on my nerves
Yes ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS press charges. I don't care how much you don't want to deal with it but the only way these people will learn is to hit em where they care which is in the bank acct by paying fines and court costs and going to jail taking away their freedom for even the smallest of time and also the humiliation of being arrested and dragged out of the place they were just throwing their tantrum while everyone their watches.
Right like a Karen is just going to do the same to someone else but if u press charges then they probably won't it well help u and next next person dealing with them
Story 5: Wow, for once a Karen was actually telling the truth about being a manager's wife! If I'd been in OP's place, I would have asked the manager, very loudly, "I work for you? What's my name then?" And when he couldn't answer, I would have found some way to make fun of his brainlessness...if he had hair, saying his wig was overheating his tiny mind, or if bald, saying his hair simply couldn't hang around a head so empty. Then would tell him, very slowly, to listen very carefully in a way his little brain could understand...I...don't...work...here. Before walking off.
I would further escalate this to district manager demanding he be demoted because he was letting his wife abuse customers or something. You know just to prove the Karen a liar. I am sure OP in Story 5 isn't the first to be a victim of Karen, and if OP doesn't do anything, then they wouldn't be the last.
No, no, no.. if he's too stupid to know you don't even work for him, don't let him off the hook, double down: "You're going to fire me? I'd like to see you try, considering you obviously don't know who I am, or who I _actually_ do work for. But rest assured, I will be informing my supervisor about your behavior today." (I mean, you're probably gonna tell everyone at your actual workplace about the story anyway, so it's not technically lying, but let the guy sweat a bit wondering about who you really were and what sort of power you actually might have over him that he doesn't know about, because he doesn't actually know who you are...)
Story 5: OP.....you're an idiot for playing along, what you did just reward their horrible behavior. Never "play along", that shit needs to be reported. Seriously it's just as bad as not pressing charges on entitled morons who commit assault. 🙄
I probably would have defended myself with equally disgusting language as used by the Karen. I do NOT let people scream at me and cuss me out for merely existing
Sadly, both the manager and his horrid wife came away thinking they'd 'won' the encounter and were in fact rewarded for their awful behaviours as bad manager and bad customer
would have told them both they only have 2 brain cells to work with as a couple, and if they put them together they could figure out. I DO NO WORK HERE!!
As a quilter, I am livid that anyone would treat a quilt so shamelessly! If a quilt is already compromised, you don’t just throw it around! It could have damaged it further. I wouldn’t have helped her either after that treatment to the quilt and the lady! I might have considered taking it and never giving it back, though. 😂 Story with the nasty manger and wife: oh, I would definitely make a stink with corporate! The fact that this manager doesn’t even know he yelled at a customer and allowed his wife to call her a b*tch proves he’s got no business being in authority any where. He should definitely loose HIS job for that!
Story number 5, I would have been on the phone with corporate in the parking lot. If that is how they treat employees, corporate needs to know. The fact that they treated a customer like that should be the end of that manager's employment.
Another thing for story 1 is to never assume someone is going to catch something if you yell catch at them. I’ve been beaned in the head and beaned others in the head because of this.
No corporation should have a manager like that, orange themed or not. I'd have done everything in my power to make sure he is at least demoted. He is a liability because he may take it to far and cause a lawsuit.
I can't understand how people can't seem to understand that store uniforms consist of more than just colors, even managers who should know who are working for them
My respons to the Karen invasion would be. "Oh great, the hazmat team is finally here. You're an hour late. You'll find the the protective gear behind third door down. Get to work, I'm not $1,000 an hour for you to stand around and scream."
Story 3: loved the ageist snark, especially the line about getting back to the rest home before they notice you are gone (although I’m technically a senior citizen). Did not love the fact OP didn’t press charges. They will never learn unless there are consequences.
Regardless of age, press charges, they may get away due to a possible dementia or Alzheimer's plea. But press charges, they are definitely competent to know what they were doing.
Home Depot story. I would have asked manager how incompetent he was since he didn't know his own employees, handed him the screws I was going to purchase, told him "Sure, I'll leave your store, you just lost a customer forever. Stock those back on the shelf and you'll be hearing from both my lawyer and corporate."
There is a difference between when you should treat someone with respect and when you need to advocate for yourself against someone who doesn't know what respect is.
@lancerevell5979 yeah but treating people like a basic human being is the bare minimum people seem to think is respect. No that's treating someone like they are not a piece of unvalued trash!
Story 3: OP probably wanted to make reporting easier for the policeman. If I was working in security I'd do my best to be in good terms with the police, that might be very beneficial one day.
I would have said this to the Police Officer, "I don't only want them trespassed, but arrested for threatening me if they ever get out of jail." I would not let them have a chance to come after me again.
Story 1: I think my limit was 5 carts just because I was stressed, and bringing that order to the lot helped calm me down. The worker was confused for a second, though. Story 5: Because he had aided his wife to violate the Disability Act, I would have escalated it to the district manager and demanded he be fired and his wife be told that it's her fault.
It's not possible for the wife to violate the ADA, because she doesn't actually work for the company (she's technically just another customer). Even if she did, just calling someone names who doesn't even work there (and it sounds like probably wasn't even autistic either) couldn't be a violation anyway. That's just not how the law works. Sure, you could still register a complaint about the manager's wife harassing other customers in the store, and him supporting her actions, and the higher-level managers might or might not care, but nobody actually broke any law here, and there's no legal basis for claiming anything of the sort.
@@foogod4237 while true, the fact that she used that to herrass OP and then to get her husband (the manager) to fire them would be probable enough for a civil suit to claim that he vouched for her words, taking on the weight of them as his own. And his weight in this matter holds the weight of the store. At the very least, it would highlight that the manager is promoting the abusive nature of his wife to a level beyond any legal sense that can be defined as "reasonable," which is another basket of trouble Mr. Ego Trip put his company in... Either way, OP was poised to actually give a voice to the manager's victims and have both members of the couple feel the consequences of their entitlement. That is what I am aiming for, as it will hopefully save so many others in the future.
@@wolphin732 No, you really can't (and no she didn't). That's not how employment contracts, corporate accountability, or employment/disability law actually work at all...
I've heard a few Manager 'Fires' Customer stories, they are unaware the customer it does not work there either. Only once or twice has such a customer asked the manager if they even knows who they are. Years ago when I was in college, nearby a police academy, once a year FBI agents would come up and train rookie police on interrogation techniques, witness scenarios, etc. Our college dramatic department would provide actor volunteers to go over to act in these impromptu scenes. The rookie or rookies would be given a situation, and the actor would also be aware of the situation, and they essentially would improv the scene. The rest of that particular class would be in an adjoining room, watching via a TV monitor. One of my scenes had me sitting in a [makeshift] park. Two cops, a male and a female, approached me as I'm sitting on a bench, essentially and literally only minding my own business. They decide to play good cop, bad cop. Big mistake. The female sits next to me, her legs crossed casually, almost looking like she's flirting. The male cop, standing over me decides to play major macho guy. I was not wearing my glasses for the scene, and is neither of them introduced themselves, I had to lean way over to look at the woman's name plate. Without meaning to, it looks like I was gazing directly (and quite closely), at her chest. She laughed, and I leaned back and I said "Oh, your name is [name]..." [Gales of laughter from everyone watching next door, particularly as clearly the two were letting me do what I was doing.] The male cop decides to take charge of the situation, and begins aggressively conveying that they got a report of somebody exposing themselves, and indicating a clipboard he was holding, accused me of being that person. I did it a little Stan Laurel facial expression of baffled surprise that I suspected would get a laugh (which it did from the next room). I'm well experienced with Lying Cops, so I asked, "You have my information there?" Guy cop: "That's right." _"Everything_ about me?" "Yep." I stared at him and after a pregnant pause, I simply asked, "What is my name...?" The next door room erupted, seeing I was running rings around this bravado cop. With nothing else on which to go, the two cops took my arms, and simply began to drag me away, as I calmly said, "Aren't you supposed to read me some sort of rights...?" Those two did not get high marks for that scene.
There was one grocery store that was on my way home. The shirt I wore at work looked almost exactly like the one at the grocery, and when I would stop there on the way home I would often be asked store questions. But never once, when I told them IDWHL, did anyone get upset, or not believe me. Guess I was lucky.
I’ve never had anyone go ballistic either when mistaken for a store employee. I had a VERY nice lady offer to help me because I was in a wheelchair, though! She was just a customer too. We had a very nice chat about helping others whether they ask for it or not…just because. Nice lady. I’d hoped to run into her again, but never did.
Story 5, I'd go psycho Karen on this Karen of a manager. Agree with his wife that the store only hires aholes and what she said because they made him a manager. Ask him how he can be this rude, stupid, and abusive towards someone he thinks is an employee. Ending with how his behavior only makes it even more clear his wife keeps his tiny man parts in her purse. Before leaving the store and calling corporate on him and his wife. No one deserved to be forced to take abuse from people customer or manager and a tongue lashing of that level is the least they both deserve.
Home Depot story: his wife would’ve been given a cement facial and her simp husband would’ve followed behind. Being disgusting to people and saying that shit isn’t acceptable. If you beat them, you’ll send a message
And then you would have caught two assault charges. I agree that she was a bitch but you can't put hands on people because you don't like what they're saying.
But then again you would also be arrested so there’s that but still I wish there was a law that passed that it would be considered acceptable to verbally or physically punish people that have wronged you without any recourse as long as you claim self-defense
Story 3: I don't really see what stalking someone to this extent would accomplish without consequence, but I guess it worked before for them or something
In the one with the manager's wife: I would have reported that manager to corporate. He has shown that he thinks it is okay to verbally abuse the staff, and sees nothing wrong with his wife insulting them.
I don't have an "I don't work here" story because I am invisible. I'm not even joking. I have to say that it does have it's advantages. Disadvantages too. But not as many.
OP with the target Karen is SCARY. Don’t get on his bad side! I absolutely love these DarkFluff Reddit stories, and they make my day when Karen’s get destroyed
That very last story was PRICELESS. I’ve always wanted to do that to customers…..oh wait, I HAVE, twice! I worked in retail/commercial auto parts for 3 decades.!I’ve FIRED 2 customers before. I only had to explain it to 1 of my bosses because the same boss realized that 2nd time (because of how RIGHT I was the 1st time and my attitude) I must have had a good reason for my actions and he never said a word to me about it. That was extremely great, but I got so worked up that 2nd time I was just about to explode on this dude! If would have 1 more thing then physically assaulting him would have probably occurred in his death. Then I’d have gone to prison so I’m REALLY glad that he didn’t.
Never give a Karen the satisfaction of winning, even if it's fake and especially if you're pretending to be an employee. That person in story 5 was only catering to that manager and his wife's entitled ego
Story 5, OP should have said "ok, if you want to fire me, lets go to your office and you can find my employment paperwork and sign it off". Let him waste some time figuring that one out.
Story 5: I would get that moronic manager's name, find HIS supervisor, and report him. If he is the highest level there, then get the corporate number off the internet or find who the district manager is . Stupid manager
I definitely would go on Yelp and tell my experience at the home Depot and that how the manager has a wife that is like the most obnoxious queen bee of them all and how her husband treated me thinking that I was another employee when I was obviously not.
Studio Story: If OP can afford it, they might want to think about having a "storm door" made from 1/4 inch think slats of steel or aluminum spaced to allow ventilation but to close together to allow even a small child to get in with a lock on the inside so the solid door can be left open, but the entry is still secure...
They are squaters. They don't fix or pay anything and just destroy everything before breaking and entering another house to leeche of. They should get an actual job and pay there rent like everyone else in my opinion.
Story 5 - ought to have put whatever they were buying down on the floor and congratulated the manager on losing a customer. Also reminded him that if he knew 'hiw to treat customers' he would not have shouted at one to begin with.
Story 5, if this was in California the employer is legally required to give you your final paycheck upon termination so it would have been fun to give that as an excuse to go back to their office and make them look like a fool when they can't find you in the system.
Story 2 and 5. I don't understand why on earth you'll let these Karens get away with a sense of winning the discussion. In both cases someone pretended to be an employee when they didn't work there.
The response to Story 4 about taking the quilt anyway reminded me of a long-running joke from the popular 2000 RPG Baldur's Gate where a nobleman mistakes your character for a servant and hands off his Golden Pantaloons for cleaning with special instructions for care. Your character can choose to keep the essentially unusable item or immediately return the item to its owner who will berate you for doing a bad job and tell you not to expect a tip, after which you gain maybe 100 XP.
I own my own business and like OP in the last story. I do everything. I crochet dolls. I have had to, on more than one occasion, tell people to get the hell out of my shop for their rude, Karen-like behavior. Ill have to use the line about "the 3 of them" the next time. That was frickin hilarious!!
Story #5 - OP never should've played along. OP should've recorded the minute the woman said her husband is the manager, then contacted corporate. The woman and her manager husband are using his position to bully people, and that ain't right!!
So many retired people have way too much time on their hands. Most old people (I'm 61 so I can say this) have the attitude that they are right simply because of their age. I have met very few older people that are pleasant to the neighbors and don't enforce laws that don't exist.
In the 4th story, I would've put the SCREWS (lol) to that manager, so to speak and did what was suggested, and went with him to the back office with my ID just so I can see his face go from smug to ghost white when he realizes that I'm a customer and not an employee. Then, report him corporate for abuse of power.
Story 3 Inner monologue: okay, calm down, don't escalate things Actual conversation : hey gramps get back to the nursing home Inner monologue : nailed it
Story 1: The best solution I've seen is in Germany. All the carts are locked together at the front of the store. If you want a cart you have to put a 1 Euro coin to unlock it. When you're finished, you take the cart back and push its chain into the lock on the cart in front and get your 1 Euro back. No carts all over the place!
As to the first story op should have stayed there to give a statement when the truck owner called the police. As to the old idiots that stalked op to his place of employment he should have pressed charges to teach them a lesson. As to the home Depot story op should have left without the screws and called corporate to complain about that manager and say how upset she was from the abusive manner she was treated with and it's very disturbing how that manager doesn't know who his staff members are and that he would allow his wife to abuse staff because he is the manager.
"the customer is always right? Can you write that down please? Thank you. Now, you see, I'm a customer and a very rude manager just accosted me because his wife was rude to me while I was being a customer and she didn't appreciate a customer was not at her beck and call. I want this manager fired. Will you fire yourself? Oh, and btw, I'd very much like your corporate number and your identification for the report I'm about to make."
In the story with the Home Depot manager, I am disabled and rarely go out but I have recording apps on my phone. I would have been ready after the incident with his wife and then recorded his tirade and then forwarded it to corporate. Workers have a hard enough time with Karens now and to have a Karen manager with a Karen wife in your face daily that’s a nope.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Story #5 I would ABSOLUTELY have recorded that shit... THEN I would've contacted home office and turned in that "manager"!!! I use that term VERY LOOSELY! NO GOOD manager would behave that way!!! Last Story... 👏👏💙👏👏 That guy is my damn HERO!! WELL DONE SIRE.. WELL DONE❣️
Before sending the abusive Karen off to the other side of the store, it would have been good if the hero had "identified" himself by some obscure name. "The item you want is in aisle 63. And my name is Belkar, in case you have any further problems." Just to sow a bit more confusion when Karen tries to complain about him, and make her look even more obviously crazy.
Wow, we got a double I don't work here in the second story, that was cute. But my favorite was the last story, where OP finally gets to tell a rude AH to eff off.
Having worked in retail for 2 years, I do not accept “the customer is always right” bullcrap. 9 times out of 10, they don’t know what they’re talking about. If the customer was always right, they should be the ones working retail since they project the idea that they know everything They don’t….
May I just toss in an observation here? Seniors do not deserve respect - and many seem out to demonstrate that fact daily. What EVERYONE deserves is common courtesy, until such time as they demonstrate that they do not. Respect is earned through what a person does, and how they act toward others, not a 60th or 70th birthday. That's all!
Home depot store: I'd call his district or regional manager (corporate) and let them know how badly the manager treats their customers. then I'd make sure to mention how hubby served in the Military and how I'd be telling all his friends (who are also Veterans) to avoid the store.
Story 6: have a chain saw in the back room with no blade, when someone comes in, walk out with a mask on and the thing running, see how fast they run out. if anyone calls the cops, tell them you have no idea what they are talking about.
Story 2: I would treat that Karen as if she worked there, treating her as she did that poor young lady. I would yell at her to go back to work or she would be fired and I would cut her off with the same insults she used and worse just to have her taste the same medicin so to speak. Story 6: I would say: How did you get in here we're going to gas this building for roaches.
Last story: I imagine something like the old “Trunk Monkey” clips to handle these idiots. Better yet hire an old retired Drill Sergeant. No patience for fools and absolutely no filter. 😂
Story 5--how I'd handle it: First off, when the manager said "Come here," I would not have gone over. If crazy manager forced the interaction, I'd just let him rant and when he finished talking I'd say "So, are you done talking? Good, now you're going to listen. First of all, you need to apologize to me. Second, I will need your name, the name of *your* supervisor and your supervisor's direct line." Then I would complete my purchase, and head home and immediately send emails to the CEO, the executive VP for customer experience, the regional president, and any other chain-of-command above the crazy manager that I could identify. Because not only is crazy manager wrong for verbally abusing a customer, he and his wife also would have been wrong if they *had* verbally abused an employee (and the fact that they both were willing to verbally abuse someone they *thought* was a customer suggests that they are in the habit of verbally abusing employees).
Ahem! Excuse me! I used to repair grocery store point-of-sale registers and would have the entire lane torn apart with the scanner out of the slot, and mindless karens would start unloading their cart expecting to be helped. I'd explain that the lane is broken. They wouldn't have it. I would have loved to start the belt and watch all the groceries dump into the hole on the counter! The best way to rid the karens was to say the register is adding wrong or the discount was broken before moving.
Always press charges, they won't learn if you don't.
True but sometimes the hassle isn’t worth it.
@@LoveOnTheInsidex3yeah it depends on how bad the situation is
They still won't. They will never learn
@@LoveOnTheInsidex3It’s ALWAYS worth it to save others who can’t defend themselves. Your answer shows just how lazy and self serving you are.
@@ReaperlifeV1They learn when they are in jail plenty well. Stop making excuses.
As far as the manager chewing out a customer by mistake, I would definitely report that to corporate. That was absolutely inexcusable, and the only way they will know they have a terrible manager is if people tell them about their experiences in the store.
That never helps
@@JustinAdamson270 Unless you mention taking it to Court and the Press, then, they'll bend over backwards to help
I'd definitely have done what Fluff recommend and then, once he fails to find me in the system, smile smugly and say "Now, what are you going to do to stop me taking this to Corporate and the Press? Personally, I think both you AND your bitch paying for my shopping will do for a start..."
@@flashstudiosguy not even then
Just tell the manager give you your last paycheck and let’s do the termination paperwork right now
Story 5: How about filing a Complaint specifically against the Manager for Harassing Customers
That is exactly what I would have done... especially since I could get their name from the other associate... and would complain about how I was verbally assaulted by their power-tripping wife before being harrassed by the manager, and how the manager doesn't even know who their employees were. And how if I was an employee I would have grounds for a wrongful termination.
@@wolphin732I would have hoped to have the forethought to start recording... would be delicious to send it to corporate, and maybe post it online 😂
And allowing his wife be be abusive to the customers as well!
@@caburg93 Don't need the recording, head office has access to all the camera recordings, and can simply look it up. most of those cameras also record audio as well, especially the ones near the checkouts, to handle disputes. Manager would be fired for cause, and the wife will be banned as well.
Right? I was just about to comment that. Sounds like they treat their staff like garbage. Corperate wont care if the employees complain, but if a customer calls & says a manager screamed in their face for not allowing his wife to verbally abuse a customer?? Dude would get in so much trouble
I would have contacted Home Depot corporate. That manager is allowing his wife to abuse customers and employees alike. He'd get canned asap. 😂
All customer service people should be legally allowed to verbally backhand bad customers 🥃
I prefer the Forehand...
Holding a Sledgehammer...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
As Al Bundy used to say, "Five across the eyes!" 😡
Forgot backhand, pepper spray
Pretty sure that won't lead to abuse. Yeah. Sure.
Forget virtually.
Story 1: they say she is still wandering the Walmart looking for aisle 62 🤣
We could write a song about that:
Did she ever return?
No she never returned!
And her fate is still unlearned!
Maybe we could get the Kingston Trio to sing it.
@@theplaintech Why not a limerick?
There once was a lady named Karen
Whose shopping cart was barren
She asks for dog food
Was directed to aisle 62
And she wanders like a clueless heron.
@@JamesDavy2009 Thumbs up for a good effort. I'd still like a song though.
@@theplaintechyeah me too, I wonder how long this ideas going to bug me before I finally managed to forget about it.
Story 5: If someone spoke to me like that lady did, with the Autism comment, she would've gotten a verbal dress-down. As for that manager, he can go screw himself with a 10-foot pole covered in razor blades.. There is no chance I would've let that manager and his wife even feel like they won. My first question would've been "What's my name?" After the manager's ears start smoking I would've added "How can you fire me if you don't even know who I am?" Once the manager is completely red in the face I would've capped it off with "Read my lips: I have never worked, nor will I ever work, for you! Get me YOUR superior NOW! You and your wife have been absolutely disgusting, and You need to be dealt with!" You wanna try and dress me down for doing nothing? Perpare to lose your job! Yes, I know I sound like a Karen here, but when it comes to insults to Autistic individuals like myself, I ain't letting that slide, not a chance in heck.
That’s not being Karen. That’s giving just desserts to abusive people.
Oh boy, I have zero tolerance for people using Autism as an insult. I probably would've done one of two possible things.
1. Lost my shit and have a full blown meltdown and they would be getting a full verbal beat down.
2. I would have a full emotional meltdown. Crying, ect.
I agree, I have autism myself, and this infuriates me to no end.
@@christopherhatty5086 Same here. Ableist comments should be treated with the same stigma as the N-word in the U.S. It's pretty much happened nowadays with a word beginning with "R" that means hindered/held back.
Honestly, if someone made that Autism comment, I'd have loudly said "Are you insinuating that I'm a [R-word]?!" and if that idiot confirmed that, that lady would have dressed down for not just making such an infinitely disgusting comment, but even go so far as to rip them a new butthole by telling how they're stupider than a person with Autism if they can't tell the freaking difference between a customer from an employee, and if she brings her Husband as the manager of the place, I'd be tearing that idiot a new one from there and reporting him directly to his superiors informing of customer abuse because he's confusing a customer for an employee.
In the fifth story, the idiot manager said that the customer is always right? That's when I would have said "great because I'm a customer, and now you are gonna be a former manager because I'm reporting you to your boss idiot."
Stupid manager is gonna get a painful dose of karma. 🤨
Don't ever give them any satisfaction as if they won, and always press those charges. Always. They'll never learn otherwise.
"The customer is always right blah blah blah." "And if I worked here, I'd probably give a shit."
They forget the second half "The customer is always right... in matters of style." the choice of what taps, what colour or style... they are right to control that. right about all things? nope.
The customer is always right started to stop being a thing like 20 years ago, once people got tired of customers taking advantage of that. Stores, managers and employees are over the customer is always right bullsh!t and having to just bend over and take what ever abuse a customer feels like dishing out. Any place that still pacifies customers like this are only hurting their staff that had to deal with it
@@gothgirl4evr881 I heard that line from a nearly-90-year-old cartoon.
@@wolphin732 or in matters of taste
As someone who has a form of Autism and has a disabled sister, i would have told both of them to do some impossible acts on themselves.
*Story 4: I Lived over a quick stop store and when they were closed, on occasion someone would walk around to the back and knock on the door that goes to the apartment upstairs. I only rented the apartment..I had nothing to do with the store, but this one guy wouldn't believe me. He said I just don't want to open the store to sell him something! Absurd. He said he's calling the cops because only the owners of such stores live above the store, or they use it for storage, and since I am up there, I MUST be the owner or up there illegally....and I said okay and closed my door. Never heard from him again and no cops came. Idiot.*
Wow! I didn’t know it was illegal for a store owner to close a store and not open it for some random dude who demanded it. Learn something new everyday. 😂
I swear to god, one of these days we'll have a story that goes ''A Karen murdered my entire family, got me fired from my job, and set my house on fire with my partner and dogs inside because I breathed her way in a store'' but when police officers ask them if they want to press charges they'll still go ''Nooo 🥺''. It's really starting to get on my nerves
Yes ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS press charges. I don't care how much you don't want to deal with it but the only way these people will learn is to hit em where they care which is in the bank acct by paying fines and court costs and going to jail taking away their freedom for even the smallest of time and also the humiliation of being arrested and dragged out of the place they were just throwing their tantrum while everyone their watches.
I like your story. Could you provide a petty revenge story to that (just like Reddit does)?
Right like a Karen is just going to do the same to someone else but if u press charges then they probably won't it well help u and next next person dealing with them
ikr? these people who don't press charges are so cowardly.
Story 5: Wow, for once a Karen was actually telling the truth about being a manager's wife! If I'd been in OP's place, I would have asked the manager, very loudly, "I work for you? What's my name then?" And when he couldn't answer, I would have found some way to make fun of his brainlessness...if he had hair, saying his wig was overheating his tiny mind, or if bald, saying his hair simply couldn't hang around a head so empty. Then would tell him, very slowly, to listen very carefully in a way his little brain could understand...I...don't...work...here. Before walking off.
I would further escalate this to district manager demanding he be demoted because he was letting his wife abuse customers or something. You know just to prove the Karen a liar. I am sure OP in Story 5 isn't the first to be a victim of Karen, and if OP doesn't do anything, then they wouldn't be the last.
No, no, no.. if he's too stupid to know you don't even work for him, don't let him off the hook, double down:
"You're going to fire me? I'd like to see you try, considering you obviously don't know who I am, or who I _actually_ do work for. But rest assured, I will be informing my supervisor about your behavior today."
(I mean, you're probably gonna tell everyone at your actual workplace about the story anyway, so it's not technically lying, but let the guy sweat a bit wondering about who you really were and what sort of power you actually might have over him that he doesn't know about, because he doesn't actually know who you are...)
Story 5: OP.....you're an idiot for playing along, what you did just reward their horrible behavior. Never "play along", that shit needs to be reported. Seriously it's just as bad as not pressing charges on entitled morons who commit assault. 🙄
I'd let him dig his own grave them inform him I want to talk to corporate right now....I'm a customer.
I probably would have defended myself with equally disgusting language as used by the Karen. I do NOT let people scream at me and cuss me out for merely existing
Story 5: OP is the one buying screws, but the manager and his wife are the ones with screws loose that need replacing.
Sadly, both the manager and his horrid wife came away thinking they'd 'won' the encounter and were in fact rewarded for their awful behaviours as bad manager and bad customer
Story 5 has me livid that they let those AHs think they won! I'd demand his name and cause a scene! Then contact corporate. That was unacceptable.
I hate those type of stories, seriously. They just end up feeding into their entitlement.
would have told them both they only have 2 brain cells to work with as a couple, and if they put them together they could figure out. I DO NO WORK HERE!!
As a quilter, I am livid that anyone would treat a quilt so shamelessly! If a quilt is already compromised, you don’t just throw it around! It could have damaged it further. I wouldn’t have helped her either after that treatment to the quilt and the lady! I might have considered taking it and never giving it back, though. 😂
Story with the nasty manger and wife: oh, I would definitely make a stink with corporate! The fact that this manager doesn’t even know he yelled at a customer and allowed his wife to call her a b*tch proves he’s got no business being in authority any where. He should definitely loose HIS job for that!
Agreed and agreed! My quilt now!!!💁🏾♀️
ALWAYS PRESS CHARGES!!!
#5: "Manager, HOW STUPID ARE YOU? YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR STAFF???"
Seriously. Correct answer was "what's my name?"
Story number 5, I would have been on the phone with corporate in the parking lot. If that is how they treat employees, corporate needs to know. The fact that they treated a customer like that should be the end of that manager's employment.
Another thing for story 1 is to never assume someone is going to catch something if you yell catch at them. I’ve been beaned in the head and beaned others in the head because of this.
A trolley is one hell of a beanball.
Story 5. I won't play along. Threaten corporate police. You just fed them and didn't stop them
Fr op felt so proud, like why? You did the opposite of what you should’ve done
No corporation should have a manager like that, orange themed or not. I'd have done everything in my power to make sure he is at least demoted. He is a liability because he may take it to far and cause a lawsuit.
I can't understand how people can't seem to understand that store uniforms consist of more than just colors, even managers who should know who are working for them
Same here.
My respons to the Karen invasion would be. "Oh great, the hazmat team is finally here. You're an hour late. You'll find the the protective gear behind third door down. Get to work, I'm not $1,000 an hour for you to stand around and scream."
Story 5, Home Depot: I would go to Corporate and tell them everything, word for word.
He would be demoted if not fired if it was Home Depot.
Story 3: loved the ageist snark, especially the line about getting back to the rest home before they notice you are gone (although I’m technically a senior citizen). Did not love the fact OP didn’t press charges. They will never learn unless there are consequences.
Regardless of age, press charges, they may get away due to a possible dementia or Alzheimer's plea. But press charges, they are definitely competent to know what they were doing.
16:36 call corporate and get that manager fired. What if he treats other workers like this or even worse
He's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Doom on them! 😡
Op in Story number 3 went above and beyond in order to keep the peace and not let it escalate. He should get a medal
Never let Karen off the hook. ALWAYS press charges.
Home Depot story. I would have asked manager how incompetent he was since he didn't know his own employees, handed him the screws I was going to purchase, told him "Sure, I'll leave your store, you just lost a customer forever. Stock those back on the shelf and you'll be hearing from both my lawyer and corporate."
Nah. Walk out with the screws. That's what you went in for.
@@sarumano884 Yeah. Add shoplifting charges to yourself. That sounds really bright.
I only go to HD if I must. I've never had a bad experience at Lowes.
There is a difference between when you should treat someone with respect and when you need to advocate for yourself against someone who doesn't know what respect is.
My Dad always told me, "Respect is earned, not given for no reason."
@lancerevell5979 yeah but treating people like a basic human being is the bare minimum people seem to think is respect. No that's treating someone like they are not a piece of unvalued trash!
Story 3: OP probably wanted to make reporting easier for the policeman. If I was working in security I'd do my best to be in good terms with the police, that might be very beneficial one day.
I would have said this to the Police Officer, "I don't only want them trespassed, but arrested for threatening me if they ever get out of jail." I would not let them have a chance to come after me again.
Story 1: I think my limit was 5 carts just because I was stressed, and bringing that order to the lot helped calm me down. The worker was confused for a second, though.
Story 5: Because he had aided his wife to violate the Disability Act, I would have escalated it to the district manager and demanded he be fired and his wife be told that it's her fault.
Being autistic, YEP!
It's not possible for the wife to violate the ADA, because she doesn't actually work for the company (she's technically just another customer). Even if she did, just calling someone names who doesn't even work there (and it sounds like probably wasn't even autistic either) couldn't be a violation anyway. That's just not how the law works.
Sure, you could still register a complaint about the manager's wife harassing other customers in the store, and him supporting her actions, and the higher-level managers might or might not care, but nobody actually broke any law here, and there's no legal basis for claiming anything of the sort.
@@foogod4237 You could say that since she had powers of hiring/firing and employee discipline, she was representing the company.
@@foogod4237 while true, the fact that she used that to herrass OP and then to get her husband (the manager) to fire them would be probable enough for a civil suit to claim that he vouched for her words, taking on the weight of them as his own. And his weight in this matter holds the weight of the store.
At the very least, it would highlight that the manager is promoting the abusive nature of his wife to a level beyond any legal sense that can be defined as "reasonable," which is another basket of trouble Mr. Ego Trip put his company in... Either way, OP was poised to actually give a voice to the manager's victims and have both members of the couple feel the consequences of their entitlement. That is what I am aiming for, as it will hopefully save so many others in the future.
@@wolphin732 No, you really can't (and no she didn't). That's not how employment contracts, corporate accountability, or employment/disability law actually work at all...
Back in the '70s, I had a full grown moose try to get into out TV studio during a live newscast. Even it had more sense than that Karen!
Honestly more surprised she wasn't lying about being the manager's wife.
I'd tell the manager, "I'm a customer and I'm calling corporate to see if I can get you and your wife fired."
I've heard a few Manager 'Fires' Customer stories, they are unaware the customer it does not work there either. Only once or twice has such a customer asked the manager if they even knows who they are.
Years ago when I was in college, nearby a police academy, once a year FBI agents would come up and train rookie police on interrogation techniques, witness scenarios, etc. Our college dramatic department would provide actor volunteers to go over to act in these impromptu scenes. The rookie or rookies would be given a situation, and the actor would also be aware of the situation, and they essentially would improv the scene. The rest of that particular class would be in an adjoining room, watching via a TV monitor.
One of my scenes had me sitting in a [makeshift] park. Two cops, a male and a female, approached me as I'm sitting on a bench, essentially and literally only minding my own business. They decide to play good cop, bad cop. Big mistake. The female sits next to me, her legs crossed casually, almost looking like she's flirting. The male cop, standing over me decides to play major macho guy. I was not wearing my glasses for the scene, and is neither of them introduced themselves, I had to lean way over to look at the woman's name plate. Without meaning to, it looks like I was gazing directly (and quite closely), at her chest. She laughed, and I leaned back and I said "Oh, your name is [name]..."
[Gales of laughter from everyone watching next door, particularly as clearly the two were letting me do what I was doing.]
The male cop decides to take charge of the situation, and begins aggressively conveying that they got a report of somebody exposing themselves, and indicating a clipboard he was holding, accused me of being that person.
I did it a little Stan Laurel facial expression of baffled surprise that I suspected would get a laugh (which it did from the next room).
I'm well experienced with Lying Cops, so I asked, "You have my information there?"
Guy cop: "That's right."
_"Everything_ about me?"
"Yep."
I stared at him and after a pregnant pause, I simply asked, "What is my name...?"
The next door room erupted, seeing I was running rings around this bravado cop.
With nothing else on which to go, the two cops took my arms, and simply began to drag me away, as I calmly said, "Aren't you supposed to read me some sort of rights...?"
Those two did not get high marks for that scene.
If that Karen destroy position ever opens up... we've been training under the tutelage of the Dojo Master Al Bundy...
There was one grocery store that was on my way home. The shirt I wore at work looked almost exactly like the one at the grocery, and when I would stop there on the way home I would often be asked store questions. But never once, when I told them IDWHL, did anyone get upset, or not believe me. Guess I was lucky.
I’ve never had anyone go ballistic either when mistaken for a store employee. I had a VERY nice lady offer to help me because I was in a wheelchair, though! She was just a customer too. We had a very nice chat about helping others whether they ask for it or not…just because. Nice lady. I’d hoped to run into her again, but never did.
@@little1942thank you for educating her instead of getting mad!
Story 5, I'd go psycho Karen on this Karen of a manager.
Agree with his wife that the store only hires aholes and what she said because they made him a manager. Ask him how he can be this rude, stupid, and abusive towards someone he thinks is an employee. Ending with how his behavior only makes it even more clear his wife keeps his tiny man parts in her purse. Before leaving the store and calling corporate on him and his wife.
No one deserved to be forced to take abuse from people customer or manager and a tongue lashing of that level is the least they both deserve.
Home Depot story: his wife would’ve been given a cement facial and her simp husband would’ve followed behind.
Being disgusting to people and saying that shit isn’t acceptable. If you beat them, you’ll send a message
And then you would have caught two assault charges. I agree that she was a bitch but you can't put hands on people because you don't like what they're saying.
But then again you would also be arrested so there’s that but still I wish there was a law that passed that it would be considered acceptable to verbally or physically punish people that have wronged you without any recourse as long as you claim self-defense
Story 3: I don't really see what stalking someone to this extent would accomplish without consequence, but I guess it worked before for them or something
I think they assume being old and elderly would work in their favor. But they could have done this way back when and not got in trouble.
EM:"This is not how we treat customers..."
OP:"So why are you treating a customer--me--like this?"
In the one with the manager's wife: I would have reported that manager to corporate. He has shown that he thinks it is okay to verbally abuse the staff, and sees nothing wrong with his wife insulting them.
I don't have an "I don't work here" story because I am invisible. I'm not even joking. I have to say that it does have it's advantages. Disadvantages too. But not as many.
Gonna be honest. I lose all empathy i had for the OP if they dont press charges. They haven't learned anything and will likely do it again.
OP with the target Karen is SCARY. Don’t get on his bad side! I absolutely love these DarkFluff Reddit stories, and they make my day when Karen’s get destroyed
Sometimes, Karens' husbands are just as bad as their B wives
Ikr????
Generally these Karens keep yheir hubby's balls in her purse. 🙄
Story 5: A call to corporate.
If I'm fired where I don't actually work, I'll do what someone did - ask for my final pay and go!😂
That very last story was PRICELESS. I’ve always wanted to do that to customers…..oh wait, I HAVE, twice! I worked in retail/commercial auto parts for 3 decades.!I’ve FIRED 2 customers before. I only had to explain it to 1 of my bosses because the same boss realized that 2nd time (because of how RIGHT I was the 1st time and my attitude) I must have had a good reason for my actions and he never said a word to me about it. That was extremely great, but I got so worked up that 2nd time I was just about to explode on this dude! If would have 1 more thing then physically assaulting him would have probably occurred in his death. Then I’d have gone to prison so I’m REALLY glad that he didn’t.
Never give a Karen the satisfaction of winning, even if it's fake and especially if you're pretending to be an employee.
That person in story 5 was only catering to that manager and his wife's entitled ego
Story 5: why is op so proud for their dealing of the situation? All they did was give the manager and crazy Karen what they want 💀
Story 5, OP should have said "ok, if you want to fire me, lets go to your office and you can find my employment paperwork and sign it off". Let him waste some time figuring that one out.
Also it was hilarious how op in the last story finally got to tell off an abusive a hole.
Story 5: I would get that moronic manager's name, find HIS supervisor, and report him. If he is the highest level there, then get the corporate number off the internet or find who the district manager is . Stupid manager
I definitely would go on Yelp and tell my experience at the home Depot and that how the manager has a wife that is like the most obnoxious queen bee of them all and how her husband treated me thinking that I was another employee when I was obviously not.
One star is way too high a rating for that place.
HD district manager
Home Depot: I'd leave to immediately get on the corporate page, and report that entire incident with the manager's full name & all.
Studio Story: If OP can afford it, they might want to think about having a "storm door" made from 1/4 inch think slats of steel or aluminum spaced to allow ventilation but to close together to allow even a small child to get in with a lock on the inside so the solid door can be left open, but the entry is still secure...
They are squaters. They don't fix or pay anything and just destroy everything before breaking and entering another house to leeche of. They should get an actual job and pay there rent like everyone else in my opinion.
Story 5 - ought to have put whatever they were buying down on the floor and congratulated the manager on losing a customer. Also reminded him that if he knew 'hiw to treat customers' he would not have shouted at one to begin with.
Story 5, if this was in California the employer is legally required to give you your final paycheck upon termination so it would have been fun to give that as an excuse to go back to their office and make them look like a fool when they can't find you in the system.
Story 2 and 5. I don't understand why on earth you'll let these Karens get away with a sense of winning the discussion. In both cases someone pretended to be an employee when they didn't work there.
The response to Story 4 about taking the quilt anyway reminded me of a long-running joke from the popular 2000 RPG Baldur's Gate where a nobleman mistakes your character for a servant and hands off his Golden Pantaloons for cleaning with special instructions for care. Your character can choose to keep the essentially unusable item or immediately return the item to its owner who will berate you for doing a bad job and tell you not to expect a tip, after which you gain maybe 100 XP.
I own my own business and like OP in the last story. I do everything. I crochet dolls. I have had to, on more than one occasion, tell people to get the hell out of my shop for their rude, Karen-like behavior. Ill have to use the line about "the 3 of them" the next time. That was frickin hilarious!!
"a small trollish looking woman" had me in stitches ..
That manager at Home Depot should have been reported to Corporate and told them that it’s all on camera.
Story #5 - OP never should've played along. OP should've recorded the minute the woman said her husband is the manager, then contacted corporate. The woman and her manager husband are using his position to bully people, and that ain't right!!
The guy next door should have bought OP a drink. I know I would have after seeing that he definitely deserves it.
So many retired people have way too much time on their hands. Most old people (I'm 61 so I can say this) have the attitude that they are right simply because of their age. I have met very few older people that are pleasant to the neighbors and don't enforce laws that don't exist.
In my town, we have cart corrals. Even so, most people are leaving them behind other cars or in the planters.
In the 4th story, I would've put the SCREWS (lol) to that manager, so to speak and did what was suggested, and went with him to the back office with my ID just so I can see his face go from smug to ghost white when he realizes that I'm a customer and not an employee. Then, report him corporate for abuse of power.
Story 3 - Always 👏 Press 👏 Charges! 👏 Why do people keep allowing these monsters to assault people without consequences?!? Like, OMGWTFBBQ!
Story 3
Inner monologue: okay, calm down, don't escalate things
Actual conversation : hey gramps get back to the nursing home
Inner monologue : nailed it
15:45 i would had told him get a better wife
I'm surprised he's allowed to get away with it for so long...
@@ryukaze7392me too
After telling him to retrieve his cojones from his wife's purse! 😄
@@ryukaze7392oh btw based pfp she's best
9:43 😂😂 menacingly professional in his demeanor. OP, the mad lad
Story 5: when being fired, demand severance pay immediately. You may get either an apology or some money for the inconvenience.
Story 1: The best solution I've seen is in Germany. All the carts are locked together at the front of the store. If you want a cart you have to put a 1 Euro coin to unlock it. When you're finished, you take the cart back and push its chain into the lock on the cart in front and get your 1 Euro back. No carts all over the place!
Story 5: OP clearly neededa scredriver too.
So many people around them clearly have loads of screws loose.
As to the first story op should have stayed there to give a statement when the truck owner called the police. As to the old idiots that stalked op to his place of employment he should have pressed charges to teach them a lesson. As to the home Depot story op should have left without the screws and called corporate to complain about that manager and say how upset she was from the abusive manner she was treated with and it's very disturbing how that manager doesn't know who his staff members are and that he would allow his wife to abuse staff because he is the manager.
"the customer is always right? Can you write that down please? Thank you. Now, you see, I'm a customer and a very rude manager just accosted me because his wife was rude to me while I was being a customer and she didn't appreciate a customer was not at her beck and call. I want this manager fired. Will you fire yourself? Oh, and btw, I'd very much like your corporate number and your identification for the report I'm about to make."
In the story with the Home Depot manager, I am disabled and rarely go out but I have recording apps on my phone. I would have been ready after the incident with his wife and then recorded his tirade and then forwarded it to corporate. Workers have a hard enough time with Karens now and to have a Karen manager with a Karen wife in your face daily that’s a nope.
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Story #5
I would ABSOLUTELY have recorded that shit... THEN I would've contacted home office and turned in that "manager"!!! I use that term VERY LOOSELY!
NO GOOD manager would behave that way!!!
Last Story...
👏👏💙👏👏
That guy is my damn HERO!!
WELL DONE SIRE.. WELL DONE❣️
Before sending the abusive Karen off to the other side of the store, it would have been good if the hero had "identified" himself by some obscure name. "The item you want is in aisle 63. And my name is Belkar, in case you have any further problems." Just to sow a bit more confusion when Karen tries to complain about him, and make her look even more obviously crazy.
Wow, we got a double I don't work here in the second story, that was cute. But my favorite was the last story, where OP finally gets to tell a rude AH to eff off.
If a story doesn't end up with pressing charges on the Karen it's a big disappointment.
Having worked in retail for 2 years, I do not accept “the customer is always right” bullcrap. 9 times out of 10, they don’t know what they’re talking about. If the customer was always right, they should be the ones working retail since they project the idea that they know everything
They don’t….
Rumor has, that woman is still looking for aisle 62 and has repeated walked past shelves and shelves of dog food.
May I just toss in an observation here? Seniors do not deserve respect - and many seem out to demonstrate that fact daily. What EVERYONE deserves is common courtesy, until such time as they demonstrate that they do not. Respect is earned through what a person does, and how they act toward others, not a 60th or 70th birthday.
That's all!
Home depot store: I'd call his district or regional manager (corporate) and let them know how badly the manager treats their customers. then I'd make sure to mention how hubby served in the Military and how I'd be telling all his friends (who are also Veterans) to avoid the store.
My dad a Vietnam veteran, already doesn’t shop at Home Depot because they don’t give discount to veterans whereas Lowe’s does.
@@robertgalasso9895 home depot has given us Military discounts when hubby shows his Retired Military ID
Story 6: have a chain saw in the back room with no blade, when someone comes in, walk out with a mask on and the thing running, see how fast they run out. if anyone calls the cops, tell them you have no idea what they are talking about.
Story 2: I would treat that Karen as if she worked there, treating her as she did that poor young lady. I would yell at her to go back to work or she would be fired and I would cut her off with the same insults she used and worse just to have her taste the same medicin so to speak.
Story 6: I would say: How did you get in here we're going to gas this building for roaches.
Story 6: I would've yelled "RAT" or "SNAKE" that ALWAYS gets people to clear out ASAP.
Last story: I imagine something like the old “Trunk Monkey” clips to handle these idiots.
Better yet hire an old retired Drill Sergeant. No patience for fools and absolutely no filter. 😂
Story 3: Gerald McRaney looking dude! The best description ever. 😂
I hate that the dude in the "you are fired" story played into the manager's delusion and gave him and his Karen of a wive the satisfaction.
Story 5--how I'd handle it:
First off, when the manager said "Come here," I would not have gone over. If crazy manager forced the interaction, I'd just let him rant and when he finished talking I'd say "So, are you done talking? Good, now you're going to listen. First of all, you need to apologize to me. Second, I will need your name, the name of *your* supervisor and your supervisor's direct line." Then I would complete my purchase, and head home and immediately send emails to the CEO, the executive VP for customer experience, the regional president, and any other chain-of-command above the crazy manager that I could identify. Because not only is crazy manager wrong for verbally abusing a customer, he and his wife also would have been wrong if they *had* verbally abused an employee (and the fact that they both were willing to verbally abuse someone they *thought* was a customer suggests that they are in the habit of verbally abusing employees).
Ahem! Excuse me!
I used to repair grocery store point-of-sale registers and would have the entire lane torn apart with the scanner out of the slot, and mindless karens would start unloading their cart expecting to be helped. I'd explain that the lane is broken. They wouldn't have it. I would have loved to start the belt and watch all the groceries dump into the hole on the counter! The best way to rid the karens was to say the register is adding wrong or the discount was broken before moving.
Story 2: I'm seeing Karen way out in the garden section staring at the fertilizer. ;)
In the fifth story, OP shouldn’t have played along. All they did was encourage the manager and his wife to behave like that more.
ALWAYS press charges against Karens.