I will say this; anybody who rams me deliberately with a cart or grabs me aggressively is going to get flattened. I’m too old and cranky to put up with that kind of behavior.
I work for a bank, and I just live for hearing some Karen or Kevin screech "I'll take my millions to another bank if you don't do as I tell you!" "NOW!!!" During the screeching, I can see that they might only have, oh, say, $14 or so between all of their accounts. It's everything I can do not to laugh. And the ones who DO have money, by that time I don't care at all about what they want, or if they take their business elsewhere. I will do the bare minimum to get them out of there. Have a good day! 🤣😂
The moment someone rams a cart into my gut, I’m getting out my phone and calling the police. I’m not engaging with the assaulter, and I’m putting my own cart between us as I go to customer service.
I'd yell as loud as I could if she lost her f**king mind. Let the rest of the store know. Then again, I live in Germany. Here someone yelling would draw much more attention to the matter since it has never happened before in my life. At least not intentional. Crazy woman.
Hearing these I'm so glad my recent "I don't work here" was kinda wholesome. I was at a Halloween Store (and for reference 99% of my wardrobe is black and Halloween decorations are more like everyday decor) well I had my headphones in so I guess it looked like I had a head set on and a guy walked up talking to me and I pulled out my head phones and he's like "oh wait yoooooou don't work here do you?" We share a chuckle and since I pretty much had the store memorized I ended up showing him the isle he needed. You were cool werewolf paws guy.
As a Walmart employee, and shopper at Walmart for basically my whole life, it blows my mind how people can be so insistent that "you work here, you should know where everything is." Next time you're in there, just try to count how many different products there are on any given aisle. I can tell you, it's several hundred to potentially thousands of products, depending on the size of the items/facings in any given aisle. It's not unreasonable to not know where x very specific product is even in your own department, let alone the whole store. If it's something general like "where's milk" or "where's dog food" that's fine and any employee who has been there longer than a week or two should know that. But asking a produce associate where something like a specific brand of gluten free pasta is and expecting them to be able to take you there immediately without asking any coworkers or consulting their app to find it in the store is ridiculous.
@@merlinathrawes746 honestly 😂😂 like I'm a bakery/deli associate but I worked produce today and had a lady get super nasty with me because she asked where the fruit trays were, I pointed to where they have been for the last 2 years I've worked at the store, and she was like "well there aren't any there so are you out?" I told her I guess so but I just got over here 20 minutes ago so I don't know for sure. She was super rude and nasty and stormed off after talking to me like Im an idiot. Apparently a few days ago they switched the grapes display case with the fruit trays, which I found out like 15 minutes later 🤷♀️idk how I was expected to know that when it's not my department and the fruit trays had been in the previous area for at least 2 years prior and never changed spots. I wish people would just be more polite to the store employees.
I Work as an cashier in a small store, and I don't know where specific things are. I can tell costumers in wich area/ aile they can look, but rarelly the exact spot.
I went to Walmart a couple days ago and I saw recognized someone shopping who I know is an employee there, so I left him alone because I am sure he has enough stress without someone bothering him on his off time
Never bother trying to explain anything to a rabid Karen. She simply lacks the two warm braincells needed to process it. Best to just let her embarrass herself.
You're right. To me, "Lady" implies respect. After all, the MC doesn't say "Karens and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce..." Although it's becoming more and more likely.
Exactly. Being female does not make a woman a lady. A lady is dignified, respectful, and carries herself with high esteem and has high esteem for others.
As soon as Karen hit her hand on the metal stand, I figured she was gonna call assault. I've heard so many Karen stories by this point, that it's pretty easy to predict their behavior. xD
There must be a special kind of stupid gene out there that some people have to think that they a divine right to treat retail and service employees with such blatant disrespect up to and including physical violence.
Another story I’ve seen a few times saw Karen in court for assault, and when she claimed that she thought that the OP in the story worked where the incident occurred, the judge yelled, “That makes no difference, you don’t get to put your hands on people!”
I work in a weed dispensary in Canada, 90% of customers are normal. The remaining 10% are either grumpy or dangerous. I've had a man crack one of our windows (we have privacy stickers on the windows to prevent kids from seeing in, so the crack isn't seen outside), and the worst bit was when a man spit in my manager's face when we asked for ID to enter the store
@@paul16451 Oh my store used to sell Karen-like costumes so I got the wig and bought some clothes and dressed up as a Karen for the day. The customers, my co-workers, and my bosses love it.
As a 6'5 guy myself, I can empathize with the OP in the first story. I also have no problem helping people get stuff from high shelves in stores I don't work at. I've been fortunate enough to avoid any in-person encounters of the Karen variety, though I've dealt with more than my fair share of them over the phone in various call center jobs over the years...
Same I'm 6'6" and help the vertically challanged in stores as well. 🤣 Never have had the chance to deal with a karen to date...but then I have a 6 or 7 inch long beard and look rather imposing even though Im generally a pretty friendly guy.
I’m a puny little 5’11” but have occasionally helped people get things from the top shelf. But now that I have knee and back trouble I have trouble getting things from the bottom shelf (or if I drop something) so have asked shorter people to help me in those situations. It takes all kinds!
#3 - Oh police really love it when you tell them they are not allowed to arrest you or you scream 'no' when they pull out the cuffs. Makes for great stories after shift or at the diner.
The Walmart I worked at always told us to make sure that we removed our name tags when we were on break or off duty. It saved confusion at other local stores, the majority of which had similar colored uniforms. Fortunately, as a stockman (shopping cart wrangler), I only had to wear a polo. We were allowed to wear jeans because khaki pants were less insulated in the Montana winter weather.
Karens decide that you work there when: You're stocking shelves (even if you're just putting something back) You're helping another customer You're wearing earbuds You're wearing ANY kind of uniform You're talking to another employee And once she's decided that you work there, her mind CANNOT BE CHANGED. In her world, SHE would never put anything back. SHE would never help a customer. SHE would never be friendly with an employee. And NOBODY wears uniforms unless they work there. And because she's the most important person in the World, her opinions must be universally shared by everyone else.
You forgot one: "You're existing in the store" Sometimes that's all it takes to make a Karen think you work there. Karens think the world exists just to serve her!
Story 3 and 4: Don't assault police because you will lose and get a felony charge along with ruining your life since a criminal record will screw your life in so many ways.
Who has access to your arrest record? Cops of course, but also the HR dept of present or future employers, Admissions Office of the college or university you have applied to, loan officer at the bank, management office where you want to rent an apartment, your psycho soon to be ex-wife's divorce lawyer.... you get the idea.
Love the last story! If I ever work at customer service and quit and interact with one of my regular Karens after I quit, I would definitely try to do what OP did!
@@lorirommel519 Happened in a petsmart! If it were like, an Ulta or somewhere maybe I could see the mistake, since I wear solid black, but, petsmart???
Waiting for my turn to get mistaken for an employee at the grocery store. When they tell me that they are going to tell my manager, I’m just going to tell them to go for it and good luck with that. Just have to remember not to be wearing my actual work uniform while shopping as that could cause an issue.
"You will help me, because you know things." "75 bucks an hour, paid in advance. No proration and our business is done the moment you leave the store."
I do not understand how so many people can get grabbed, hit with carts, have things thrown at them, not to mention being hit and kicked, and they just stand there baffled. If somebody has already hit you, you don't need to know their motives or whether they had a bad childhood or just a lousy breakfast. What do DO need to know is how to fight back, punch them in the face, break arms, whatever it takes. When it's fighting they want, make them regret it. Like that movie with Sean Connery as a mobster where he says the great line "They send one of yours to the hospital; you send two of theirs to the morgue" not necessarily kill them but dammit people, stop being doormats and fight back.
Personally, if I were rammed by a shopping cart, I would have hammed it up, falling over and screaming that I was assaulted. I would bet you any sum of money that the Karen would have booked it away from me lol. I don't care if I was a customer or employee, I would have done it either scenario. Edit: I find it funny that Fluff did a PSA about about imposter spam, and 2 hours later I get exactly that lol
@@autonomouscollective2599 Some of them deliberately do it to weed out the people who are smart enough to spot their scam, so they only get the idiots who can be "taken" for all they're worth.
On last story I work as a service tech and constantly go into various hardware stores for small parts like wires, pipe, light fixtures, etc So needless to say there are several employees at those stores that see me on a regular basis One day I was looking at some wire connectors and happened to help a woman who was trying to fix a power cord at her home amd I explained how to do it safely and showed her the tools and plug she'd need Right after that I had not 1 but 2 wild Karens stalk me as I went back to grabbing the parts I needed. One upon realizing I wasn't an employee apologized -- but I did point her to what she needed -- the other went rage mode when I said I didn't know when their next truck was arriving. I explained (and yes wearing a company shirt) that I just happened to know some of the stuff due to my job. She flipped apeshit when I walked away from her
@@Serai3 I’m so sorry for your lack of literacy but read what OP said again. OP said nothing about himself. By the customer just leaving, it teaches Karen to continue her abusive ways. Next, she’ll move onto her next victim sooner and more aggressively. Maybe the next will be you? Or someone you love? It has NOTHING to do with the story but about morality. That may not be something that a self-serving person would understand, though.
@@darlenefraser3022 Sooner or later this Karen will find herself wearing steel bracelets as a fashion accessory and being carted off to jail wearing an orange jumpsuit.
For people with social anxiety: Whenever you go out, especially if you have to shop at places like MalWart or GetTar, etc., carry either a loud whistle or air horn with you at all times. When someone like a Karen comes at you, just blow like crazy. Firstly, it will distract the Wild Karen and, secondly, it will call the attention of an employee/manager to come to your rescue.
@Darkfluff, you have two of the Army Values that i personally live by every single day, Honor and Integrity, and for that, you definitely have earned my utmost respect
NEVER EVER GIVE A KAREN WHAT SHE WANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And when one commits assault (like ramming someone with a grocery cart), she needs to be arrested!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7:13 bear in mind that she just admitted to assaulting OP with a cart, and now she wants a non-worker fired. One customer assaulting another could get a person banned from the place, and I believe most likely that she was already banned to begin with.
S4: These karens who just grab people really piss me off because I can recall shopping and some woman asking me questions and then grabbing me when I turned to walk away. Those stupid women regretted putting their hands on me and even begged me to not have them charged for assaulting me. Placing your hands on a federal employee is a big no-no. You bet your arse I pressed charges.
Best thing to do is IGNORE these crazy elderly karens who think you're an employee. When they touch you out of frustration FREAK OUT. They piss themselves and flee, trust me.
"What would your boss think of you wasting 15 minutes making small talk to customers?" I'd have said, "Since I'm not on company time or company property, I don't see how it's any of his business."
If you frequent enough youtube forum posts you see tons of similar posts. I flag them for as long as my interest in doing such hold, but they're clearly bot posts so it is like fighting a deluge with a kiddy bucket.
@@Derekloffin Yep, they are all bots. The only time a real person gets involved is if you message the telegram or whatsapp or whatever account they list. If you have the time to do that, you can waste their time (I gave a couple of them Homer Simpson's address and bank account information, poor Homer). But that takes time I don't often have. Banning the bots from youtube is basically whack a mole. The bot just immediately creates a new account.
My bf and I had to go shopping about a week ago and a random lady asked, almost sheepishly, for help from my boyfriend. I could tell he was about to say he didn't work there when she says. "You seem to be very tall, and I am not, would you be so kind as to help me get (item I forget) off the top shelf? I would be so very grateful." My boyfriend and I chuckled, and he helped, I couldn't help but laugh more saying that I ask him to do things like that all the time because I am also vertically challenged compared to him.
I’m petty enough that if someone was being so clearly disrespectful at the beginning I’d let them think I was an employee just long enough so they were humiliated in the end. Make them think twice in treating an actual employee that way😁😂.
I have ADHD and I also have OCD, however I have learned that it is not my job to rearrange things like shelves, clothing racks, latticing the ties in the menswear department, refolding Tee shirts pants and shorts or sweats, or arranging the cereal box's by size, or fronting anything (cans juice Dairy)in the supermarket!! It's not my job to make their displays look pretty! Not only is it either gonna get destroyed again really quickly, or it's gonna turn into a KAREN STALKER situation!! SO NO !NO ! If they don't see you "working", It's just ONE LESS REASON FOR THEM TO BE COMPLETE SCUMBAGS , SCREAM AT YOU , AND THEN CALL YOU a "LAZY LIAR "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😆🤣🤣
If someone rammed me with a shopping cart, the next words out of their mouth had better be a sincere apology for not paying attention. If they made it clear they had done so *deliberately* I'd be pressing assault charges. No ifs, buts or maybes. That's not something someone should ever get away with.
One thing I’ve learnt from listening to these stories is this. If you are a manager or law enforcement officer and you are called to the “scene” with a Karen involved, the easiest way to identify the actual guilty party/Karen is because She/He will be the first person to speak to you, often loudly and often interrupting anyone else that’s trying to talk.
Ok Dan I agree with you 100% if some self entitled person attacks me for no reason they are going to eat dirt and hit the ground before they know what was happening
there was an actual employee in a Walmart near us that had a customer break her ankle. The employee was stocking from a cart that had a lower shelf about ankle height and the Karen decided that the cart was in her way and smashed it out of her way with her shopping cart (didn't ask for it to be moved or try and gain the employee's attention in any way)
If someone just says "ahem" or clears their throat at me, I'm ignoring them. I don't respond to that, at all. And I'm never polite to people like this. I will straight up tell them to fuck off. I'm normally nice, there has been more than one occasion where I've helped out old ladies reaching things (since I'm also rather tall). Ask nicely, and if it's something I can easily do like that I'll gladly help even if I don't work there.
If someone rammed a cart into my side just to get my attention, I would've went off of the lady. I don't care if it's at the place where I work at or if I do get fired. She had no right to ram a cart into her. I probably wouldn't do that. But still
With that bank story, I think it belonged more in r/entitled people. They security person Did work there, their role there was acknowledged, as well as their "rented" status. The rich Karen was just demanding people who weren't present and demanding the bank operate while it was closed. It's not like she demanded the security operate the till or assumed some random pedestrian was on their way into the bank to work. She just demanded what wasn't available.
To the bank Karen, I use to work at a bank and one day they needed help at another branch is the richest area of the state, about an hour and a half drive. I was to help them out for 3 days and we had a guy call in and complain about our sprinklers. They were on a timer and he demanded we change the time they went off because they got his car wet when he drove by and went to work in the morning. Dude wasn’t even a customer. Bank actually changed the timers. I was dumbfounded
I still dont understand how people can be so willing to hit, kick or run over employees.... I know, they dont consider them as people... But those karens must know assult is illegal. Even on animals.
To the comment on story 4: She did not stop, when OP got flustered, because that was what she was looking for; people like that thrive on the power they have over others.
Story 4: I love how a commenter response to the story and couldn't agree more. Lucky your superior was understanding and let you have the rest of the day off. The entitled lady's no doubt got in serious trouble for leaving her kids in a car for long period of time too.
As a bank employee, I can tell you that nobody reads signs. At all. Actually, it's not just bank customers. I've worked customer service for about half a decade and no customers reads the signs. The amount of customers that rattle locked doors, ring bells, and knock on the glass right next to the "closed" sign is astonishing.
I know I've said this before but has there ever, *ever* been an actual employee who pretended "they don't work there"? Because I don't believe there has.
As a former store worker i quite a lot told rude people to shop elsewhere. Shop that is well off don't care about single rude customer shopping elsewhere
As someone who worked at a grocery store for a few years back in high school it’s hard to unlearn habits, I sometimes catch myself fronting shelves (pulling product to the front of a shelf when it’s half empty and all in the back) I’ve had a few people see this and assume I work there…luckily when I tell them I don’t work there they actually listen and go on there way, but now I kinda want to run into a Karen just for a fun story
0:28 There's SO MANY comments getting the same spam comment from OTHER TH-camrs as well. Including me!JESUS CHRIST why are their so many bots and spam comments!? 😬😳😠
There needs to be legal protections for employees against these types of entitled people. Why should a business let these customers do what they want and get away with it just cause they're customers and the employees can't say anything without being scared of being fired? If a customer is being rude to the employees maybe they need to be banned as a way to screen out the types of customers allowed in an establishment and not until after they assault an employee or another customer.
One of these days, anyone in an aisle with another person who clears their throat is gonna get, "I don't work here", even if they were just clearing their throat.
had a dude ram me with a cart once in Walmart. I was lookin at MTG cards in a Black Tee with a green day jacket on. I just tipped his cart over grabed the cards i wanted and walked away. What makes it funny was there was an officer there that watched the whole encounter and he told the dude to just pick up his buggy and walk away as "it looks like she let you off easy"
She rammed that woman in her stomach with her cart?! What if she had been pregnant? That could have been so bad if she was…. Why don’t Karen’s think of anything other than their entitlement? Ugh I hate people 😑
Karen: "You're not allowed to arrest me!" Me: "He's a cop, bitch. He's allowed to arrest anyone who commits a crime. And you assaulting him is a crime." I love it when rich people find out that their money doesn't make them immune to consequences.
One lady followed me around and rammed me 3 times, then got escorted out of the store, where she had already been banned. Apparently, she was just crazy. It hurt me and I am older, too.
If someone rammed me with a cart, I'd push it aside, tipping it over if possible to let them know they fucked up and I'm rightfully pissed. Then again, that may land ME in trouble if anything were to break.
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I will say this; anybody who rams me deliberately with a cart or grabs me aggressively is going to get flattened. I’m too old and cranky to put up with that kind of behavior.
Amen!
I'd be using my foot to shove it right back where it came from
@ DAN....Good for YOU! The entitled idiots seem to forget that the CAMERAS are gonna tell it all!
I may not have a purse to clobber the bitch, but I do have a leather (real leather) chained wallet. With enough coins in it I could use it as a flail.
I would have had her charged with assault.
After listening to these, when a cashier says the textbook "have a nice day" I now say "may you have an uneventful shift."
In food, retail, and emergency services, you never provoke the gods like that. You never say quiet, smooth, uneventful, or slow.
I work for a bank, and I just live for hearing some Karen or Kevin screech "I'll take my millions to another bank if you don't do as I tell you!" "NOW!!!" During the screeching, I can see that they might only have, oh, say, $14 or so between all of their accounts. It's everything I can do not to laugh. And the ones who DO have money, by that time I don't care at all about what they want, or if they take their business elsewhere. I will do the bare minimum to get them out of there. Have a good day! 🤣😂
Story 4: It costs you $0 to not lay hands on anyone, especially managers. Assault only guarantees serious trouble, either from managers or cops.
Hu didn't think it would be this easy to find the scammer
@@roterex9115 ikr. It has to be a bot. That or a brave person
@DarkFluff FOUND THE SCAMMER!
Bidoof
@@king_Arbok good bidoof.
The scammer thing has been happening all over TH-cam please be safe and wary of them guys
Also, report them at every turn.
Yes....I get all kinds of idiots trying to get me to use what'sapp or telegram! I do not even TEXT on my phone! Fat fingers and small letters!
They’ve been on instagram a lot to
yeah, i got a LOT of them "replying" to my comments on "the rad brad".
How do we even know this is the real darkfluff?
The moment someone rams a cart into my gut, I’m getting out my phone and calling the police. I’m not engaging with the assaulter, and I’m putting my own cart between us as I go to customer service.
I'd yell as loud as I could if she lost her f**king mind. Let the rest of the store know.
Then again, I live in Germany. Here someone yelling would draw much more attention to the matter since it has never happened before in my life. At least not intentional. Crazy woman.
Hearing these I'm so glad my recent "I don't work here" was kinda wholesome. I was at a Halloween Store (and for reference 99% of my wardrobe is black and Halloween decorations are more like everyday decor) well I had my headphones in so I guess it looked like I had a head set on and a guy walked up talking to me and I pulled out my head phones and he's like "oh wait yoooooou don't work here do you?" We share a chuckle and since I pretty much had the store memorized I ended up showing him the isle he needed. You were cool werewolf paws guy.
@ ASH...A polite interaction for the both of You!
"I have millions in this bank." "No, the manager stole it and went to Tahiti."
That is a funny comeback
As a Walmart employee, and shopper at Walmart for basically my whole life, it blows my mind how people can be so insistent that "you work here, you should know where everything is." Next time you're in there, just try to count how many different products there are on any given aisle. I can tell you, it's several hundred to potentially thousands of products, depending on the size of the items/facings in any given aisle. It's not unreasonable to not know where x very specific product is even in your own department, let alone the whole store. If it's something general like "where's milk" or "where's dog food" that's fine and any employee who has been there longer than a week or two should know that. But asking a produce associate where something like a specific brand of gluten free pasta is and expecting them to be able to take you there immediately without asking any coworkers or consulting their app to find it in the store is ridiculous.
Considering how every few months Walmart rearranges the store, it's hard to see how the actual employees keep track of things.
@@merlinathrawes746 honestly 😂😂 like I'm a bakery/deli associate but I worked produce today and had a lady get super nasty with me because she asked where the fruit trays were, I pointed to where they have been for the last 2 years I've worked at the store, and she was like "well there aren't any there so are you out?" I told her I guess so but I just got over here 20 minutes ago so I don't know for sure. She was super rude and nasty and stormed off after talking to me like Im an idiot. Apparently a few days ago they switched the grapes display case with the fruit trays, which I found out like 15 minutes later 🤷♀️idk how I was expected to know that when it's not my department and the fruit trays had been in the previous area for at least 2 years prior and never changed spots. I wish people would just be more polite to the store employees.
I Work as an cashier in a small store, and I don't know where specific things are.
I can tell costumers in wich area/ aile they can look, but rarelly the exact spot.
I went to Walmart a couple days ago and I saw recognized someone shopping who I know is an employee there, so I left him alone because I am sure he has enough stress without someone bothering him on his off time
@@MadameMeowth you are my favorite kind of person. Keep being you!
If the woman in the first story was being nice, I'd hate to see what her being mean would look like!
Never bother trying to explain anything to a rabid Karen. She simply lacks the two warm braincells needed to process it. Best to just let her embarrass herself.
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The strain on her face must have been obvious...lol.
I'll never understand why anyone refers to these creatures as "ladies".
I agree. Females or women yes but they are not ladies.
You're right. To me, "Lady" implies respect. After all, the MC doesn't say "Karens and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce..." Although it's becoming more and more likely.
Lol
Exactly. Being female does not make a woman a lady. A lady is dignified, respectful, and carries herself with high esteem and has high esteem for others.
As soon as Karen hit her hand on the metal stand, I figured she was gonna call assault. I've heard so many Karen stories by this point, that it's pretty easy to predict their behavior. xD
For what it's worth, story 4, I wouldn't be surprised if she lied about the kids in the car thing just to slap on another level of entitlement.
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Yes, if she had, she would have been arrested for that as well.
If the idiot in story 4 left her kids in the car while she went in she could be and should be arrested for child endangerment!
There must be a special kind of stupid gene out there that some people have to think that they a divine right to treat retail and service employees with such blatant disrespect up to and including physical violence.
Is it normal for Karens to excuse their behavior by saying "I thought he works here" As if that makes it okay?
Unfortunately.
She considers employees as slaves.
Yeah, after listening to my fair share of these stories I can confirm, they do excuse their behavior that way quite often
Corporate only cares about money, not their employees. It's BS and why I could never work with the public.
Another story I’ve seen a few times saw Karen in court for assault, and when she claimed that she thought that the OP in the story worked where the incident occurred, the judge yelled, “That makes no difference, you don’t get to put your hands on people!”
I work in a weed dispensary in Canada, 90% of customers are normal. The remaining 10% are either grumpy or dangerous. I've had a man crack one of our windows (we have privacy stickers on the windows to prevent kids from seeing in, so the crack isn't seen outside), and the worst bit was when a man spit in my manager's face when we asked for ID to enter the store
The only thing that scares me more than Halloween is Karens screeching and demanding a manager. *shudder*
Think about working a Walmart on Halloween. Then you'd be getting both in the same package.
@@jamesweekley1087 I work retail at a Halloween theme store. I totally understand. I meant my original comment to be a joke.
Is it weird when I think how great a costume that would make?
@@paul16451 Oh my store used to sell Karen-like costumes so I got the wig and bought some clothes and dressed up as a Karen for the day. The customers, my co-workers, and my bosses love it.
As a 6'5 guy myself, I can empathize with the OP in the first story. I also have no problem helping people get stuff from high shelves in stores I don't work at. I've been fortunate enough to avoid any in-person encounters of the Karen variety, though I've dealt with more than my fair share of them over the phone in various call center jobs over the years...
Same here. I'm 6'4" and occasionally help shorter people. I have never encountered a rabid Karen in a retail business.
Same I'm 6'6" and help the vertically challanged in stores as well. 🤣
Never have had the chance to deal with a karen to date...but then I have a 6 or 7 inch long beard and look rather imposing even though Im generally a pretty friendly guy.
I’m a puny little 5’11” but have occasionally helped people get things from the top shelf. But now that I have knee and back trouble I have trouble getting things from the bottom shelf (or if I drop something) so have asked shorter people to help me in those situations. It takes all kinds!
As someone who does need the occasional help with help getting thing from the back of the top shelf thank you all.
As a disabled vertically challenged person, I thank you for your assistance.
Touching a stranger, especially if suddenly and/or agressively is an open invitation to get hurt.
#3 - Oh police really love it when you tell them they are not allowed to arrest you or you scream 'no' when they pull out the cuffs. Makes for great stories after shift or at the diner.
Story 2: “I don’t work here, and I’m calling the police for you assaulting me!”
All of that paperwork would have been worth it to watch that lady get arrested. 😂
Oh heck yea!
The Walmart I worked at always told us to make sure that we removed our name tags when we were on break or off duty. It saved confusion at other local stores, the majority of which had similar colored uniforms. Fortunately, as a stockman (shopping cart wrangler), I only had to wear a polo. We were allowed to wear jeans because khaki pants were less insulated in the Montana winter weather.
Karens decide that you work there when:
You're stocking shelves (even if you're just putting something back)
You're helping another customer
You're wearing earbuds
You're wearing ANY kind of uniform
You're talking to another employee
And once she's decided that you work there, her mind CANNOT BE CHANGED.
In her world, SHE would never put anything back. SHE would never help a customer. SHE would never be friendly with an employee. And NOBODY wears uniforms unless they work there.
And because she's the most important person in the World, her opinions must be universally shared by everyone else.
You forgot one:
"You're existing in the store" Sometimes that's all it takes to make a Karen think you work there. Karens think the world exists just to serve her!
@@nancyomalley6286 They seem to think that the rest of the human race is put on this earth just to serve them as slaves.
"I'm taking my business someplace else." Oh, thank you.
Is that a promise?
Story 3 and 4: Don't assault police because you will lose and get a felony charge along with ruining your life since a criminal record will screw your life in so many ways.
Karens assault cops because.... you know ... it always works out so well for her! BEAHAHAHA....! 😆
Who has access to your arrest record? Cops of course, but also the HR dept of present or future employers, Admissions Office of the college or university you have applied to, loan officer at the bank, management office where you want to rent an apartment, your psycho soon to be ex-wife's divorce lawyer.... you get the idea.
@@davidbriggs6086, whoever pays the fees will have access! 🤷🏼♂️🤔
@@davidbriggs6086 that sounds like a data protection nightmare.
Love the last story! If I ever work at customer service and quit and interact with one of my regular Karens after I quit, I would definitely try to do what OP did!
Story 1: I've been in OP's shoes, I've somehow been mistaken as an employee while wearing a Johnny the Homicidal Maniac t-shirt and fishnets.
Wow. Just ... wow. I assume this didn't happen in a Hot Topic store, then?
@@lorirommel519 Happened in a petsmart! If it were like, an Ulta or somewhere maybe I could see the mistake, since I wear solid black, but, petsmart???
I mean the fishnets would sell it for me
Photos?
Waiting for my turn to get mistaken for an employee at the grocery store. When they tell me that they are going to tell my manager, I’m just going to tell them to go for it and good luck with that. Just have to remember not to be wearing my actual work uniform while shopping as that could cause an issue.
I'd tell her, "I retired in 2014, I am my own 'manager'!" 😆
"You will help me, because you know things."
"75 bucks an hour, paid in advance. No proration and our business is done the moment you leave the store."
I do not understand how so many people can get grabbed, hit with carts, have things thrown at them, not to mention being hit and kicked, and they just stand there baffled. If somebody has already hit you, you don't need to know their motives or whether they had a bad childhood or just a lousy breakfast. What do DO need to know is how to fight back, punch them in the face, break arms, whatever it takes. When it's fighting they want, make them regret it. Like that movie with Sean Connery as a mobster where he says the great line "They send one of yours to the hospital; you send two of theirs to the morgue" not necessarily kill them but dammit people, stop being doormats and fight back.
Personally, if I were rammed by a shopping cart, I would have hammed it up, falling over and screaming that I was assaulted. I would bet you any sum of money that the Karen would have booked it away from me lol. I don't care if I was a customer or employee, I would have done it either scenario.
Edit: I find it funny that Fluff did a PSA about about imposter spam, and 2 hours later I get exactly that lol
Isn’t it good to know you’re not just some ordinary winner - you’re a _great_ winner.
Seems English isn’t this scammer’s strong suit.
@@autonomouscollective2599 Some of them deliberately do it to weed out the people who are smart enough to spot their scam, so they only get the idiots who can be "taken" for all they're worth.
On last story
I work as a service tech and constantly go into various hardware stores for small parts like wires, pipe, light fixtures, etc
So needless to say there are several employees at those stores that see me on a regular basis
One day I was looking at some wire connectors and happened to help a woman who was trying to fix a power cord at her home amd I explained how to do it safely and showed her the tools and plug she'd need
Right after that I had not 1 but 2 wild Karens stalk me as I went back to grabbing the parts I needed. One upon realizing I wasn't an employee apologized -- but I did point her to what she needed -- the other went rage mode when I said I didn't know when their next truck was arriving. I explained (and yes wearing a company shirt) that I just happened to know some of the stuff due to my job. She flipped apeshit when I walked away from her
Story 1: Yeah I agree all he did was make her feel like she won and encourage her to keep doing that.
I was looking for this comment! 💯 Exactly!
So he should have endured more abuse just to make you feel good about the story? Grow up.
@@Serai3 I’m so sorry for your lack of literacy but read what OP said again. OP said nothing about himself. By the customer just leaving, it teaches Karen to continue her abusive ways. Next, she’ll move onto her next victim sooner and more aggressively. Maybe the next will be you? Or someone you love? It has NOTHING to do with the story but about morality. That may not be something that a self-serving person would understand, though.
@@darlenefraser3022 Sooner or later this Karen will find herself wearing steel bracelets as a fashion accessory and being carted off to jail wearing an orange jumpsuit.
@@audreyricci6383 I just hope that r/slash gets the story! 😝
For people with social anxiety: Whenever you go out, especially if you have to shop at places like MalWart or GetTar, etc., carry either a loud whistle or air horn with you at all times. When someone like a Karen comes at you, just blow like crazy. Firstly, it will distract the Wild Karen and, secondly, it will call the attention of an employee/manager to come to your rescue.
@Darkfluff, you have two of the Army Values that i personally live by every single day, Honor and Integrity, and for that, you definitely have earned my utmost respect
ALWAYS PRESS CHARGES FOR ASSAULT WHEN A KAREN GRABS YOU!!! If you don’t they will continue to do that to other people.
NEVER EVER GIVE A KAREN WHAT SHE WANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And when one commits assault (like ramming someone with a grocery cart), she needs to be arrested!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You do that" is politespeak for "go away and never bother me again." Even autistic me has managed to learn that much.
7:13 bear in mind that she just admitted to assaulting OP with a cart, and now she wants a non-worker fired. One customer assaulting another could get a person banned from the place, and I believe most likely that she was already banned to begin with.
You aren't the only one OP who loves the candy conversation hearts. I love them too🥰
S4: These karens who just grab people really piss me off because I can recall shopping and some woman asking me questions and then grabbing me when I turned to walk away. Those stupid women regretted putting their hands on me and even begged me to not have them charged for assaulting me. Placing your hands on a federal employee is a big no-no. You bet your arse I pressed charges.
Story 1,2,3 and 4 - Far better to keep silent & be thought a Karen than to open your mouth & remove all doubt!
Best thing to do is IGNORE these crazy elderly karens who think you're an employee.
When they touch you out of frustration FREAK OUT.
They piss themselves and flee, trust me.
Story 4 : in Thailand, we have a newly viral phrase that said "Having mother only when you're ready"
11:47 not allowed to arrest? Throwing a purse at a cop is disorderly conduct. He has full well all the right to arrest her.
"What would your boss think of you wasting 15 minutes making small talk to customers?"
I'd have said, "Since I'm not on company time or company property, I don't see how it's any of his business."
Story 1. I just wish as he quit the others understood and went into drama mode, making it clear they were making fun of Karen.
I love those little hearts.
I like them, but they’re very sweet so I can’t eat too many.
I knew that was a scammer. I was actually just about to tell you about it so you'd know
Bruh you a troll *salutes*
Every single time I post on youtube, on any channel, I get at least one of those. I report them, but youtube doesn't care to do anything about it.
@@StormsparkPegasus *oof*
If you frequent enough youtube forum posts you see tons of similar posts. I flag them for as long as my interest in doing such hold, but they're clearly bot posts so it is like fighting a deluge with a kiddy bucket.
@@Derekloffin Yep, they are all bots. The only time a real person gets involved is if you message the telegram or whatsapp or whatever account they list. If you have the time to do that, you can waste their time (I gave a couple of them Homer Simpson's address and bank account information, poor Homer). But that takes time I don't often have. Banning the bots from youtube is basically whack a mole. The bot just immediately creates a new account.
After a rough day I love to watch darkfluff
Fluff thanks for entertaining me and making me think a little less about my moms cancer🥺🖤
Fuck Cancer! I hope she makes it!
I have also spotted this spammer in several comments. How brazen can this bot be?
My bf and I had to go shopping about a week ago and a random lady asked, almost sheepishly, for help from my boyfriend. I could tell he was about to say he didn't work there when she says. "You seem to be very tall, and I am not, would you be so kind as to help me get (item I forget) off the top shelf? I would be so very grateful." My boyfriend and I chuckled, and he helped, I couldn't help but laugh more saying that I ask him to do things like that all the time because I am also vertically challenged compared to him.
I’m petty enough that if someone was being so clearly disrespectful at the beginning I’d let them think I was an employee just long enough so they were humiliated in the end. Make them think twice in treating an actual employee that way😁😂.
Re: Story 2
Karen: **rams me with her cart**
Me: **Anger issues activate**
Karen: "Oh poop."
I have ADHD and I also have OCD, however I have learned that it is not my job to rearrange things like shelves, clothing racks, latticing the ties in the menswear department, refolding Tee shirts pants and shorts or sweats, or arranging the cereal box's by size, or fronting anything (cans juice Dairy)in the supermarket!! It's not my job to make their displays look pretty! Not only is it either gonna get destroyed again really quickly, or it's gonna turn into a KAREN STALKER situation!! SO NO !NO ! If they don't see you "working", It's just ONE LESS REASON FOR THEM TO BE COMPLETE SCUMBAGS , SCREAM AT YOU , AND THEN CALL YOU a "LAZY LIAR "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😆🤣🤣
If someone rammed me with a shopping cart, the next words out of their mouth had better be a sincere apology for not paying attention. If they made it clear they had done so *deliberately* I'd be pressing assault charges. No ifs, buts or maybes. That's not something someone should ever get away with.
One thing I’ve learnt from listening to these stories is this.
If you are a manager or law enforcement officer and you are called to the “scene” with a Karen involved, the easiest way to identify the actual guilty party/Karen is because She/He will be the first person to speak to you, often loudly and often interrupting anyone else that’s trying to talk.
Ok Dan I agree with you 100% if some self entitled person attacks me for no reason they are going to eat dirt and hit the ground before they know what was happening
in story 1, asking Karen to think is like praying for snow in the middle of summer!
Not going to happen!
Bank story: I bet that woman with “millions” was overdrawn. Lol
Karen: GET.ME.YOUR.MANAGER
Hero: Do you know who I am!?! I am YOUR manager Karen, you’re fired for harassing customers! You will leave this store NOW!
there was an actual employee in a Walmart near us that had a customer break her ankle. The employee was stocking from a cart that had a lower shelf about ankle height and the Karen decided that the cart was in her way and smashed it out of her way with her shopping cart (didn't ask for it to be moved or try and gain the employee's attention in any way)
If someone just says "ahem" or clears their throat at me, I'm ignoring them. I don't respond to that, at all. And I'm never polite to people like this. I will straight up tell them to fuck off. I'm normally nice, there has been more than one occasion where I've helped out old ladies reaching things (since I'm also rather tall). Ask nicely, and if it's something I can easily do like that I'll gladly help even if I don't work there.
If someone rammed a cart into my side just to get my attention, I would've went off of the lady. I don't care if it's at the place where I work at or if I do get fired. She had no right to ram a cart into her.
I probably wouldn't do that. But still
With that bank story, I think it belonged more in r/entitled people. They security person Did work there, their role there was acknowledged, as well as their "rented" status. The rich Karen was just demanding people who weren't present and demanding the bank operate while it was closed. It's not like she demanded the security operate the till or assumed some random pedestrian was on their way into the bank to work. She just demanded what wasn't available.
To the bank Karen, I use to work at a bank and one day they needed help at another branch is the richest area of the state, about an hour and a half drive. I was to help them out for 3 days and we had a guy call in and complain about our sprinklers. They were on a timer and he demanded we change the time they went off because they got his car wet when he drove by and went to work in the morning. Dude wasn’t even a customer. Bank actually changed the timers. I was dumbfounded
I still dont understand how people can be so willing to hit, kick or run over employees....
I know, they dont consider them as people...
But those karens must know assult is illegal. Even on animals.
To the comment on story 4: She did not stop, when OP got flustered, because that was what she was looking for; people like that thrive on the power they have over others.
Story 4: I love how a commenter response to the story and couldn't agree more. Lucky your superior was understanding and let you have the rest of the day off.
The entitled lady's no doubt got in serious trouble for leaving her kids in a car for long period of time too.
As a bank employee, I can tell you that nobody reads signs. At all. Actually, it's not just bank customers. I've worked customer service for about half a decade and no customers reads the signs. The amount of customers that rattle locked doors, ring bells, and knock on the glass right next to the "closed" sign is astonishing.
I know I've said this before but has there ever, *ever* been an actual employee who pretended "they don't work there"? Because I don't believe there has.
🎶 It's Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma to Karen!🎶
Hey fluff instead of us having a wonderful day I hope you have one instead!
👊👊👊👊🥹
SCAMMER!
The more assets you own, the more vulnerable you are.
It would be funny if it turned out that Rick Karen was not rich
They rarely are, their more often just spoiled and/or entitled
As a former store worker i quite a lot told rude people to shop elsewhere. Shop that is well off don't care about single rude customer shopping elsewhere
How is it that Karens who are normally incapable of distinguishing employees from customers always seem to be able to find the manager?
As someone who worked at a grocery store for a few years back in high school it’s hard to unlearn habits, I sometimes catch myself fronting shelves (pulling product to the front of a shelf when it’s half empty and all in the back) I’ve had a few people see this and assume I work there…luckily when I tell them I don’t work there they actually listen and go on there way, but now I kinda want to run into a Karen just for a fun story
Yeah I remember this person going around scamming people they even tried doing it to me but I was a lot more smarter than that
Oh, boy, here we go.
Ramming the woman with a cart is assault! That woman is lucky to not have been taken by the cops!
Oh boy. Someone rams a cart into me on purpose, they're getting it rammed right back.
0:28 There's SO MANY comments getting the same spam comment from OTHER TH-camrs as well. Including me!JESUS CHRIST why are their so many bots and spam comments!? 😬😳😠
5:00 "...you know the little candy hearts that nobody seem to like?" I like them, I'm also one of the few people who actually like candy corn.
(I also like NECCO wafers, (especially the liquorice flavored ones). They are basically made of the same thing as those candy hearts.)
If you boast about your money, you have no money. Wealthy people will never let you know how much they're worth
Anyone, anywhere shoves a grocery cart at me gonna have fun trying to get themselves untangled from the cart. 🤭🤭🤭🤭
Story 4:
Yea OP, "a big store with smaller stores inside" is a mall. A "Supermarket" is a singular large store - think Walmart.
#2: Press charges!!
I listen to these while I do homework or work on my YT channel… great job guys
There needs to be legal protections for employees against these types of entitled people. Why should a business let these customers do what they want and get away with it just cause they're customers and the employees can't say anything without being scared of being fired?
If a customer is being rude to the employees maybe they need to be banned as a way to screen out the types of customers allowed in an establishment and not until after they assault an employee or another customer.
Remember kids, ALWAYS press charges on Karens if given the opportunity to do so. It's your civic duty.
One of these days, anyone in an aisle with another person who clears their throat is gonna get, "I don't work here", even if they were just clearing their throat.
Karen: (hits her hand off metal shelf) FIRE HER!! SHE DID THIS TO ME!!
Me: (internally) Umm...Ma'am...
YOU DID THAT!!!!
had a dude ram me with a cart once in Walmart. I was lookin at MTG cards in a Black Tee with a green day jacket on. I just tipped his cart over grabed the cards i wanted and walked away. What makes it funny was there was an officer there that watched the whole encounter and he told the dude to just pick up his buggy and walk away as "it looks like she let you off easy"
She rammed that woman in her stomach with her cart?! What if she had been pregnant? That could have been so bad if she was…. Why don’t Karen’s think of anything other than their entitlement? Ugh I hate people 😑
Karen: "You're not allowed to arrest me!"
Me: "He's a cop, bitch. He's allowed to arrest anyone who commits a crime. And you assaulting him is a crime."
I love it when rich people find out that their money doesn't make them immune to consequences.
I hate it when Karens are led to think they got their way
One lady followed me around and rammed me 3 times, then got escorted out of the store, where she had already been banned. Apparently, she was just crazy. It hurt me and I am older, too.
If someone rammed me with a cart, I'd push it aside, tipping it over if possible to let them know they fucked up and I'm rightfully pissed.
Then again, that may land ME in trouble if anything were to break.
The universal reason that people don't work customer service anymore: CUSTOMERS. 😬😂
Lady, no one keeps “millions” in a bank! They invest it. Only a limited amount of money in your bank account is FDIC insured.