r/EntitledPeople - Karen Slaps Me When I REFUSE to OBEY HER! I'm an Off Duty Cop.
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- r/entitledpeople - OP, an off duty cop, is shopping one day when an entitled Karen approaches her, demanding to be served. When OP tells her she doesn't work there, the entitled Karen freaks out an it gets worse! Subscribe for future stories!
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Entitled People Stories in this episode of r/entitledpeople:
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0:28 - Story 1 (u/BakingGiraffeBakes)
4:59 - Story 2 (u/VladVlad666)
8:33 - Story 3 (u/kytulu)
11:34 - Story 4 (u/djtheleo)
19:35 - Story 5 (u/LucyAriaRose)
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Story 1: it's an easy solution. HR says they can't "prove" he stole OPs lunch. Then ask "then what is your case for accusing me of deliberately poisoning him?" The only way HR can "prove" OP tried to poison him is for him to admit he ate out of OPs lunch box.
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I came here to say this!
I doubt the one who ate OP's Lunch would claim he did steal it since he would be ratting on himself.
I'd go to the police and try to have the thief charged with theft.
" Well, it was obviously intent, since you left if in a work fridge...also, you implied intent of sharing, or you would have your own personal fridge."-HR
We have an update for story 5. Marrowshard (the original OP for the post, Lucy compiled her posts into a BestofRedditorUpdates post) talked to her family about the issue and the AItA post she originally made (where everyone outright called her husband an A-hole). Her daughters apologised while husband is stuck with preparing dinner. His lack of finesse and variety eventually made him realise what Marrow has gone through and he apologised to her. Marrow's family since adopted a schedule and ruleset for cooking - and one of the rules is "NO gagging, "faces", or complaining".
I love this for OP. I hope her daughters are able to relearn how to behave towards someone who is doing them a favour. It particularly annoyed me that her hubby was mansplaining at OP that she was doing the cooking all wrong & it was all her fault, while not knowing the first thing about it. Glad he still has to cook some of the time. He didn't realize how good he had it & how extravagantly he was being catered to...
This happened to me once, i never wanted to cook again, i can understand kids, but adults should at least be supportive, ive since changed households and my new family will at least try it and thank me for trying even if no one likes it
Thanks for the update! Somehow the injustice of that one bothered me more than most stories.
Calling someone who _chooses_ a *frozen pizza* a "picky" eater was extremely gracious of Marrowshard.
I'm autistic, and like many on the spectrum I have some extra sensitive senses, for me it is touch and taste. Certain foods set off my taste buds to an alarming degree, one of these was onions. When one of these things grazed my tongue it was like someone jabbed a hot poker onto it. I can taste a single onion sliver mixed into a meaty double quarter pounder. So as a kid, when mom made recipes that involved these things, I would end up spending most of the meal trying to dig these things out. The funny thing is, I actually like onion flavoring, but the onion itself is what set me off.
When I got old enough, I helped mom make meals and it turned out I was pretty good at it, probably due to my sensitivity. Eventually she even figured out how to adapt her recipes so she would get the flavoring she wanted without the onions. Dad ate anything and never complained, but he never cooked anything that wasn't on the grill; and after a few misadventures of mom asking him to watch over a pot of beans while she went to the store or browning some ground beef...it became clear why he was banned from the kitchen. A lot of work goes into planning meals and trying new recipes, and it is disrespectful to behave as this lady's family did. Whenever my mom tried something new and I didn't like it, I usually told her the things that I did like about it and thought about what could be changed or substituted to make it work better...and a lot of the time the experimentation worked out.
Right, because gagging is something controllable. That's a stupid rule, you can't expect people to just suppress a friggin' reflex.
Last story has an update if I remember right. The husband learns how hard the cooking is. And everyone starts taking turns to cook. The 10 year old gets help from the adults and enjoys it because they’ll be like, “yes chef.” But they’re all happier now and less picky
Thank you for the update!
That's great. It's exactly what I was suggesting... adults and 17 year old take turns preparing food so no one is stuck doing it all the time AND people maybe gain a little more appreciation for the work it takes.
That's good. That's what they should be doing. I started learning how to cook because of this exact reason and now as an adult, I'm happy my mom did this
I only know how to cook a couple things, but I learned them because my parents insisted on teaching me how. Boiled eggs from my father, salmon patties from my mother.
That's the way to go. Patience in the face of such ingratitude only makes it worse.
That HR woman should've known better then to side with the food thief otherwise she wouldn't have gotten fired with the food thief.
My father said: The last idiot isn't born yet.
@@Remoniq there's one born every hour
@jericho-garry Whoever said HR was a woman? I didn't hear the word "She" when OP was talking about HR....
@Brooke K I suggest another listen.
Love make you stupid.
Story 4: To quote Shrek 2, she has the right to remain silent. What she lacks is the capacity.
LOL! That doesn't make Donkey a Karen, does it?
@@nancyomalley6286 not really, Karens think that everyone is their servant, whereas Donkey is just that friend or coworker who can't keep their mouth shut
@@nancyomalley6286 it actually makes Karen a donkey 😂
@@crimsonmaelstrom573 LOL! And another word for donkey is "a$$"
A donkey/ ass is smarter than some people.
Story 2: If a house isn't part of an HOA, then the HOA has no control over said house, simple as that. It doesn't matter what OP does with the house, HOA is powerless to do anything with it.
The HOA idiots are criminal thugs, and need sued into oblivion.
And maybe OP should introduce a pig farm into his property. Feed them human food scraps, makes them really stinky! 😡
Also, in most North American jurisdictions you cannot sue to change a condition or fact that existed prior to moving into a property. This is a long-standing practice that originated to prevent people in new subdivisions harrassing farms that were there before the subdivision was built.
Time to start a pig farm.
HOAs should be powerless period
@@reconnert4498 as a European, the whole concept of HOA‘s with quasi-jurisdiction and basically the power to create their own laws is so far removed from anything any reasonable country would ever allow.
Bullshit like this can really only exist in the US.
When you say the Karens are special, you're right. Karen's are very special, they've got the Karenovirus
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I feel like we are laughing to keep from crying from the proliferation of this particular kind of mental illness. Really! It can't be healthy to have so many people like this walking around among us.
You mean Karenitis?
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Pizza story.... Big BRAVO to the boss!
Cop story... "You're wearing the store uniform! Why are you carrying a gun!?" 😡
Picky eating story.... I agree with OP. If they want to be that picky they can make their own meals. That crap wouldn't fly in my parents' home when I was young!
Last Story: My sister's husband and son started complaining about the food she was cooking. She got tired of cooking and then hearing complaints. She actually flipped the dinner table upside down and then destroyed her kitchen. Her husband and son now eat without complaining plus they clean up after meals.
So sorry your sister was treated that way by her own family but I’m glad she was fed up enough to set them straight 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Huh....serves them right. If you don't like the food at home , you should start cooking your own meals
With the huge order and no tip, I had something similar happen at about the same time, late 2000 or early 2001. Drove delivery for a local chicken chain. That night was stupid busy. 3 drivers total, including myself. 68 deliveries for 1 driver, 38 for the other and 69 for myself. The 3rd guy was called in as an emergency. End of the night, we all cash out. Guy with 68 runs had maybe 2 bucks in tips, the called in guy had 15 bucks, and lucky me was short 14 cents. Boss gave the fill in guy 30 bucks and we each got 50 bucks apiece plus 24 piece buckets of chicken plus sides to take home.
Story 1: amazing how stupid the thief and HR person are. Did they honestly thought that a write up and firing would solve everything because said employee can easily sue for unlawful termination which is something the HR lady should have been aware of.😂
This is what happens when an HR Dweeb and a Food Thief are screwing on the side. Both got their "just desserts"!
This is why I suspect that story’s made up by someone unfamiliar with HR rules.
That's why she had to terminate before the boss got back. Risky move, but it would have worked on 90% of employees.
@@scottgrohs5940 Yes, I was caught on, "we can't prove he stole your lunch." Well, then how can you claim it was my lunch that made him sick, if he didn't take my lunch? Either he stole the lunch, or he didn't eat OP's lunch. I can't think of a clearer way to say it.
Oh, now it's clear...HR Lady and the Lunch Thief were in cahoots! Hence how they were both let-go.
story 5, I’m happy that wife finally stood up for herself. If they don’t like it they can make it themselves. The husband is a grown adult so he can make his own food. To have your partner cook for you and then to just complain about it? like so ungrateful.
She was basically raising two children, and one husband. He’s a big boy that can make something he wants for a change. Unless he wants his baby bottle and his binky since he’s acting like a damn baby.
My partner and I have similar likes and dislikes. There's one thing that we differ on, and I'm careful on it: my preferred spice level gives him bloody noses. Even if something doesn't taste spicy to me (such as some chili I made), it can seriously get to him. Otherwise, he's super appreciative. If I do accidentally add too much spice, he still appreciates the effort I went to.
When I cook for both of us, my partner will eat at least a little of what I made. Though he'll usually refuse to eat a lot as our diets are different, due to the fact I'm gluten intolerant and he wants to make sure I have food to eat
With a husband and a 17 year old there's no reason for OP to cook dinner every night anyway. They should be sharing that task especially if the family don't appreciate her efforts anyway.
Growing up my dad insisted that all of us boys knew how to cook (and clean). Which meant far more than frying a couple eggs, boiling hotdogs or other easy things. His premise was that if we were out on our own and no wife or girlfriend, we could put together a decent meal, and not need to go to a restaurant to eat. As a result I'm not exactly a slouch, but also I'm by no means anywhere close to a gourmet chef. That skill served me well when I was on my own, years before I met my other half, she was happy to know that I knew how to fix a meal. Which I did more than a couple of times. Of course there were things that I could make, she couldn't and vice a versa. My dad also had a policy that if you didn't like what was being put on the table, then you could go somewhere else to eat. Which I did once due to not wanting to eat chicken, which is a story in itself, and I'd not eat chicken for about fourteen years.
Story 2: here in NC, there was a pig farm down in the middle of the state. Area around it was sold and developed. The pig farm had been there for several generations and met state and federal guidelines (in case you didn't know, pig farms stink really, really bad). The pig farm was told by the courts to make the ponds (that evaporate the water from the waste) better. They did. Then they were told it wasn't good enough. Eventually, the pig farm was made by the courts to cease operations. These people knew there was a farm there when they built and when they moved in and then actually WIN. Farmers in the state were pissed as hell.
Oh, yes, family friends had a pig farm that we visited occasionally when I was a kid. OMG the stink! 🤣🤣🤣
Without knowing the full story, I will hazard a guess that the lawyers for the neighbors found technicalities in the farming regulations that they used to batter the pig farmer into submission.
That is OUTRAGEOUS! If you don't want to smell pig stink all the time, the solution is simple, DON'T MOVE NEXT TO A PIG FARM! The pig farm was there when the developers bought the land -- if they didn't bother to visit the area, that's on THEM. The pig farm was there when people moved into the developments -- if they didn't bother to visit the area before they put down their down payment, that's on THEM! So why were the PIG FARMERS punished? THEY were totally within their rights!
I'm a vegetarian, but I also really respect the hard work & values inherent in farming. This really ticks me off!
The same sort of things happens with small airports that cater to general aviation. The area around the airport is developed, people buy houses near the airport and then they whine about the noise from airplanes taking off and landing. Eventually the airport gets shut down. It sucks, but such is life in the United States.
In legal terms it’s called “moving to the nuisance.” Have fun reading the pro-developer judicial opinions.
#1: My first response was to call the boss and complain about HR. Good Boss! #2: In a rural area, A tractor in the front yard IS an attractive lawn ornament. It's lucky for them taht OP does not run a pig farm.
Story 5: As someone who has a strong interest in cooking and trying new things, I feel so bad for OP. If I was one of her daughters, I’d happily eat every meal she makes because it sounds delicious. You’re right- what the husband and girls are doing is beyond picky eating. I really hope OP regains her passion for cooking and baking someday.
one thing i've learned about picky eaters just tell them. if you don't like what i'm cooking. cook for yourself or starve.
I went through this ONCE. I threw out the dinner I made and microwaved some oatmeal, announcing “this is what’s for dinner if I ever hear yuck again”. What I had made was a vegetarian lasagna, since it was Lent.
It reminded me of an old L. Sprague DeCamp/Fletcher Pratt short story I read years ago about a women who gained the favor of a witch doctor who blessed her with the ability to cook perfectly - everything she made was "Cordon Bleu Haute Cuisine" and her unappreciative husband only wanted "no-class trailer-park cooking"...
Basically, OP did it to herself by catering to their every whim for years. She could have and should have put a stop to that years ago.
I don't understand why OP is expected to prepare dinner every night. One of the kids is 17 and she has a husband. Why can't they share the cooking chore? Then the other two can see that it's not easy to make everybody happy every time.
story 1: HR was not impartial, but trying to kill him? How? By eating OPs food? Is that not an admission he was eating someone else's lunch?
Ikr.
HR was also a complete idiot..."we can't prove he tried to steal your lunch", then how the heck can you prove it was OPs lunch that poisoned him if you can't even prove he ate the lunch in the first place?
@@xxmension04xx47 exactly this. The audacity
And if he didn’t steal his lunch how did he poison him?
My mom was a fabulous cook and her 3 sons loved her cooking. One time mom asked dad how he liked the food that night. He replied “I ate it didn’t I?” He paid for it for weeks! He liked to say he often got a fork in the back of the hand reaching for that last pork chop.
Story 5: "You got two choices for dinner. Take it or leave it." Totally NTA, if they're that picky, let the lot of them fend for themselves.
As a picky eater, I completely agree. If you don’t like the food served to you, make something else and don’t complain. I get so embarrassed when I can’t bring myself to even try to eat something new, so I end up apologizing profusely for disrespecting their cooking because I have the palate equivalent to a soggy saltine.
My mother used to say that to us all the time. This is what I am serving you for dinner, if you don't like it, get your own.
I'll admit, I'm kinda picky myself (I have ADHD and Aspergers, I'm aware Aspergers is called something else, IDGAF), but thing is, if it's something I won't eat, but everyone else will, I make something for myself that I will eat
Even when my wife has cooked something that didn’t turn out so well, I would never have the entitled callous attitude of this husband and you’re damn straight our future kids will be taught to appreciate their mother’s efforts too!
I know, right? If someone makes the effort to cook for you, you eat at least some of it & you thank them for it, even if it's not your favourite, or it's a bit overcooked, or whatever your issue with it is. If you aren't appreciative, you're asking not to be cooked for anymore! I learned this lesson from growing up with a dad who always ate my mum's cooking, never complaining, whether it was the meat & two veg type of meal he likes best (in which case he always remembered to tell her how good it was), or some new foreign or vegetarian experiment she was excitedly trying. End result -- after over 60 years, they're still married & she's still cooking dinner for both of them on all but one or two nights a month...
Always respect someone who makes for you. They spent their time & effort to make you something to sustain you.
That last story: if you don't like what i make, make your own dang food! And on top of that, clean up your own dang mess after- it ain't like they're toddlers!
Hubby can just continue eating his damn frozen pizas, even when he works late! Seriously, that poor woman has THREE kids!
Last story has a positive update, after a while of cooking and getting the same reaction from the daughters husband apologized and recognized they were all being ungrateful and had to do better. Oldes daughter stared learning how to cook and husband an her are beings more receptive and less picky. Youngest is still a work in progress
I loved the detail that the youngest likes cooking because they all help her and respond with "yes chef"
What about them scallops? I hope they aren't being donkeys!
Story 1 is why I started to really spicy my food up. I ended up liking it like that, enough that push others away from taking it.
During my IT career, I either kept my lunch (canned or nonrefridgerated) locked in my desk drawer. Also sometimes I ate at the building cafeteria, or a run to a fastfood joint.
Would not work in the city I live in, with the average person here complaining that the fast food is always not spicy enough.
I work as a driver for Domino's and I sometimes bring back a pizza for myself as dinner and lunch for the next day. Almost always gone by the time I wake up in the morning, until I started bringing my own spicy concoction of a pizza back with me instead of standard pizzas. I'm the only one in my family that likes really spicy food, although my older brother has recently tried it and liked it, he at least has the courtesy to ask before taking it though.
I don't steal other people's lunch, but if I did, your strategy would cure me in a hurry. LOL!!!
The last story made my actual blood boil. In my family you eat what is served and say thank you. This mom deserves better.
When I grew up, my parents insisted I eat a little bit of everything served, no matter how much I disliked it. The only thing I got out of was asparagus because I had an allergy to it.
She got better.
If the HR cannot prove that the coworker stole your lunch, than by the same assumptions they cannot prove you tried to harm him!🤷🏻♂️
“I AM THE LAW!!!!!!”
-judge dredd
Fortunately karen and her sisters are not judges in the mega cities. Nor do they have the lawgiver guns…
Story 5: this one hits home, because for the first year of my living with my now wife, I was the husband- I was super picky, and did not like anything other than basic junk- beef, breaded chicken (fried or baked) and potatoes. At the end of our first year, she had the same reaction, she was hurt and done. Difference is I grew the hell up, realized how I was making her feel, and have spectacularly broadened my food choices (still don't like leafy greens, but I shut up and eat them, cuz, kids now). Husband of this story needs to follow my example and man the F!@# up!
I _despise_ a picky eater. I'll cook for vegans, vegetarians, gluten intolerant people and omnivores (carnivores, too, if they pay for their own meat), even for people who "don't like tomatoes/chicken/spicy food"; but they only get _one_ special request: after that, they go hungry.
The first time I ever went to a restaurant without my parents, I had NO idea how much of a tip I was supposed to leave. I'd heard people say "keep the change", so I figured that was what a tip was supposed to be. When I found out it was supposed to be 15% for decent service I was MORTIFIED. I have not tipped less than 20% since, even when service is slow. That shit became a core memory for me.
Same, 20% is a minimum for me, I'll often do more if they're busy and the poor server is being run ragged. It's a crummy job and I know a lot of people are jerks and tip less when the server isn't available every second for them.
When I was growing up, my parents always tipped 10% on the rare occasions we ate out, so that's what I started out tipping when I was young & first paying for meals on my own. After a few years of seeing people I ate with tipping much less or not at all, I thought that was so rude that I made up my mind to not eat out unless I could afford to tip at least 15%. After a decade or so, I learned how poorly paid many servers are & what shit they sometimes have to put up with, & bumped it up to 20%. I know it's annoying to have to do the math & I wish they'd just include it with the price of food, but I always budget for the tip, because it's not fair to the servers, otherwise!
@@starrywizdom Cost + tax + tips? Where I'm from, tax is included in the price and tips are voluntary, not mandatory. You would have to pay me US$1 million to come to the States.
@@JamesDavy2009 Tips aren't mandatory in the US, it just makes you feel like an ass when you don't give them, which is unfair because these businesses need to start paying their employees a living wage. The tax included in the price display does sound nice though, gas is about the only thing over here that does that.
@@meh2510 I totally agree that they should pay a living wage. I would add if their business model is underpaying staff, they shouldn't operate. My opinion: if people are going to Karen out over the lack of a tip, the only tip I would give them is the other kind of tip-advice.
*We're investigating you for attempting to poison your co-worker* - "Uhm they stole my lunch, it's always spicy" - *You have no proof of that* - "how do you have proof then?" - *Wait.. that's illega-*
Story 1: Yeah, one of the reasons i ate spicy as hell food at workplaces where my food is accessible is because of people like this.
Stories 2 snd 3: Screw HOAs in general.
Last Story: That Shepard Pie sounds yummy. I'd eat so much of that.
Our state has right to farm laws. The HOA would not know what hit them if they tried that here. Where I grew up a hospital tried it and now there is a farm in the middle of their parking lot.
What do those people who don't want to look at farms expect to eat if they get rid of all the farms?
@@starrywizdom Marshmallows.
Story 2: If the HOA sent the "fines" to OP through the USPS mail they committed a Federal felony each & every time. OP just needs to inform the Post Master and they will handle it.
Story 5: OP is NTA. Ain't no way I would have put up with that shit for TWENTY YEARS! I have done almost all the cooking in my family and never had this kind of behavior from them.
I can not convey how obsessed I am to get my daily dose of dark fluff. It's not just the stories he picks but it's his story telling skills that improve over time
Story 1: If HR can't prove the guy stole the food from OP's cooler then they also can't prove Op's food was meant to make the thief sick! The only way that claim sticks is for the thief to admit to his thievery & that gives OP the opportunity to press charges against both him & HR for condoning theft.
That last one I heard before. They ended up setting up turns for making supper so everyone got involved and they were much more appreciative of mom’s cooking afterwards.
As for the last story: I‘m positively appalled by the husband and the kids. They are old enough to know some manners. And, as a man in my mid-30‘s and rather enthusiastic (and, dare I say, not completely untalented) home cook, I love tasting new foods, trying new recipes, broaden my pallet and enjoy both preparing and eating lovely meals. One of my best friends, he‘s a few years younger, even meet on a semi-regular basis to cook together. We have prepared family meals for both his and my family, just enjoyed a nice evening drinking copious amounts of beer with our dinner, we have made a 3 course meal for his then-fiancée‘s scout group (both vegetarians and non-vegetarians, and picky eaters in both groups). We managed to prepare something everyone enjoyed (something his fiancée didn‘t think to be possible) - but everyone came back for seconds.
We do that, and we succeed in that, because we both cook quite well, we both take pride in our cooking, we adapt to circumstances and cater to picky eaters as far as possible without ruining the whole thing, and we let people be infected by our enthusiasm.
That evening was one of the coolest I ever experienced, and I love it when the people I cooked for are well fed and satisfied. I can also live with criticism, when I didn‘t match their taste or I made mistakes. But I would be devastated, and certainly would have long given up cooking, when everyone, especially those I care about, always nitpick or even gag over my food - especially when it‘s perfectly fine.
Really, I can relate to OP. And her husband in particular is a special specimen of entitled arse.
When I was starting High School, my Mom decided she wasn't going to cook anymore. Dad, my brother, and I stepped in, and we actually got pretty good.
Cooking is an essential life skill.
i’m an extremely picky eater myself (probably due to autism lmao), so ive turned down a lot of food when i was younger, and the things i will eat are still extremely limited, but especially the dad in the last story really acted entitled. like if he keeps turning down the food (esp without at least trying something) then it’s on him to cook, it’s on him to try and find a compromise (and to set an example to the kids)
I also have autism and used to be a picky eater. Well, still am, but less so than I was as a child. Some food is just so extreme or the textures are very extreme that I really just rather not eat it as it gives me a feeling I need to throw up. I have learned to eat a lot over the years though but at least as you said, try! Honestly, when I cook for myself I just make something simple. Like a chicken wrap. Which is a wrap, with chicken in it. Nothing else :')
My autistic teens will turn down something if they dislike the smell, or it looks unappealing. They will try new foods if they are in the frame of mind to try new foods, which is more likely to be on their terms, not me pushing it.
I would mention that food theft falls under petty theft to HR. If someone purposely steals food at work it should be an immediate firing. Get them arrested for petty theft.
I have alot of dietary restrictions and what I bring is safe for me to eat. It is hard to stay within my restrictions even at restaurants sometimes.
17:19 I love the "you have the right to remain silent" as it sometimes means a cop is saying "STFU or its gonna get worse for you
My mom is a picky eater, but I've made it very clear to her that I will fix what she asks for but if she changes her mind or suddenly doesn't like it she's on her own. She has to find something else for herself
The last story has an update:
The husband gets a dose of reality, the kids (with some reddit advice to OP), become involved with meal prep, and the whole family starts respecting OP better.
My summary seems reductive, but the details are more satisfying, and well worth the read if you want to go digging.
Story 1 - When the HR director started talking about a lawsuit, I'd have told her, "Two can play that game!" Evidently, OP felt the same way. Good job, OP!
Story 2 - I come from a long line of farmers, so once again... good job, OP!
Story 4 - "10-15, Karen". Or as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltraine used to put it, "Cuff 'em and stuff 'em!"
Story 5 - I can sympathize with picky eaters, being somewhat picky myself. That being said, there's no use being rude about it. I do most of the cooking in my house because my schedule is more flexible than my wife's. If she constantly complained about my cooking, I'd tell her in a minute to do it herself. Thus, I can't blame OP for doing the same to her husband.
I used to be a picky eater when I was a kid but my dad talked me out of it. Also, not everyone has the luxury of having choices of what to eat.
Hey me too. Except for my Dad talking me out of it. He was picky too. However I managed to change myself on my own. Not really sure how though. One day I just decided that I would give anything and everything an honest try. Now it is more of a challenge to find something I don't like.
Op should have filed charges for trespassing then sued for harassment.
Story 1: we had a lunch thief at my last employer; interestingly enough, my lunch was never stolen. Apparently, no matter how good my lunch smelled, the very idea that it might contain tofu, lentils, barley, kale, a whole lot of spices, and almost never any meat, my lunch was deemed "unstealable"! 😂
Yeah, kale is a deal breaker for many people!
@Darrylizer1 actually, I think it was the tofu that offended our resident thief. We only found out who it was after he left, and he *hated* tofu!🤣
@@bdnightshade Haha! Now I like tofu, kale on the other hand. But I can say I've never eaten anyone else's lunch.
#1 Here, we have a stealing guy and aw bunch of spineless enablers as HR crew. In a case like that, the faulty HR guy need to get fired. And... That's exactly what happened.
#2 HOW can OP «damage» the properties that where built there well AFTER OP's property ? Going to court, I would include a firm demand for the complete DISSOLUTION of that HOA. An Ab Initio dissolution, meaning that it would need to reimburse ALL of the collected HOA fees to the owners.
#3 An $0.87 tip... For an order of a few $100's ? That's worst than cheap. Even in 1960.
#4 Karen taking a plea deal ? Why would she ? After all, as a typical Karen, she's ALWAYS right and she can't loose that trial.
#5 In that story, there are THREE massive A-holes, and OP is NOT one of them.
In the pizza delivery story, my son can relate. He delivers pizzas now, loves it better than his past jobs and actually makes more money doing it and with much less stress. He learned this past superbowl Sunday never to say he has been busy. On one of his deliveries, the person he gave the pizzas to asked if he been busy so far. My son reaponded yes it had been a busy night so far. Hearing that, the person then said "cool so that means we don't need to tip you then." My son was not happy. He still had a good night for tips, but he was quite annoyed that not only did they not tip him anything, they used the fact it was a busy night to justify it. Had nothing to do with the fact they were cheapskates. Oh no, wasn't because of that.
Story 1: I would love to had seen the thief try and sue OP, the face on the judge for how dumb it was would be priceless.
I feel for the mom in the last story. I suffer from severe anxiety and depression and some days I struggle to just through. My picky family has driven me to the brink, to the point I no longer cook for them. They have plenty of supplies to make on their own now. I feel like a bad mom, but my mental health matters too.
Story 5: I feel horrible for mom! I've never had a shepherd's pie and it sounds so good!
Years ago, when I was married, I was unemployed for a little while. During that time, I did EVERYTHING around the house so my husband could come home and have nothing to worry about. I would text him and ask what he wanted for dinner, so it would be ready by the time he got home. He would get mad because I text him every day and that I didn't have a job. I get it. We have 2 children together and he was the only one working. BUT, dishes were clean every night, laundry was done, folded and put away, floors swept and mopped, cats boxes cleaned out, counters and table tops wiped off, kids rooms picked up(by me) trash taken out ( by me) bathrooms cleaned, etc. Of course, that all stopped when I found employment.
Then it turned into, "how come you don't cook or clean anymore?" He had gotten use to everything being done by me and I was always griped at for not having a job. Now that I had one, I was being griped at for not doing everything. Needless to say, we ended up getting divorced. Not because of that, there were many other things going on, that weren't right. It was toxic.
I know it's not the same but I know how it feels to do your best and not be appreciated for the efforts.
Shepherds pie is made with minced lamb, hence the name. Cottage pie with beef.
Maybe first op should request a meeting with hr and entitled co-worker, make the same lunch entitled co-worker ate (no variations), pass out sample plates to hr, have them taste it, bring in entitled co-worker, have him taste a small bite and ask if this is what made him sick.
HR lady firing OP in having a spicy lunch...
HR: Hell Resources
I can sympathize with the last story. To a degree. I am autistic, I also have food allergies. Being autistic, there are foods that the colour, the texture, the smell turn me off. Being allergic means there are things I just simply can't eat. I have to avoid onions. Really any foods that are in the same family with onions, like garlic, and sage is actually poison to me. It eventually just ended up with me making my own food, and my mom understanding that I simply could not eat everything she makes. i try things, sometimes it is good, sometimes it makes me sick.
I made a meal that I enjoyed, and made her sick so... eh. (she knows that if she puts mushrooms in the meal I WILL find them curse you mushrooms you nasty death flavoured grossness)
My teens are like this, but without allergies. New foods are tried on their terms. As long as it looks and smells appetising, they'll eat it.
I was screaming this before I heard the actual update from the FIRST story I was like why is HR taking this guy's story and what is up this should be a writable offense what what is its firing crap? And then I'm like dude the HR lady's got to be banging this guy and lo and behold the HR lady was banging that guy! LOL what did they think was going to happen that OP was just going to let this go? Like not sue them for wrongful dismissal? Like were they serious? That whole story is just ridiculous😂😂
“That’ll learn them.” LOL!! I freaking can’t! 😂😂😂😂😂
It's a catch 22 situation. In order to get someone in trouble for spiking their own food, the perpetrator must first confess to stealing the food.
Oh, they're special allright, special need of medical help in some form.
I feel bad for OP in story number 5. I’m a picky eater myself but I would still eat something someone made simply because I know they took time out of their day to make it. I may not like it but I’ll eat it out of respect
I'm the same way. You can be picky without being rude!
I feel so bad for whoever has to bail out Story 4's Karen.
"So.. you... took a police officer's wallet. and put it in your purse and then slapped him. After he told you he was an officer, showed you a badge and had a gun on his hip."
"HE';S LyIIIInG"
Some say she still thinks he's lying to this day.
Being an ex-Taxi Driver I can believe the Pizza Delivery Driver on his 87 Cent tip. I always found that people with money sure don't like being separated from it, and it was always the Customers I picked up from Council Estates and Rental property that tipped the best. As for that poor Wife, If I turned my nose up at anything my Wife cooked for me, I would finish up wearing it or it would go straight into the Dog's bowl. I took my Father's advice when I was single, "Find a better cook than your Mother, then marry them." My Mother was a great cook but I managed to find one a little better and been happily married 45 Years.:)
That last story, that didn't fly in my house. If you don't want what's for dinner, you can go make a sandwich or bowl of cereal or go hungry, those were the choices. For my kids, I did make them different things to eat because they are as different as night and day, and they always ate it. Now I know everyone's dietary requirements are unique, so I'm glad I did. However, my husband was NEVER ungrateful like that. In fact, he's always been better at cooking than I am, and I make him cook the meat when he's home. It's fine, because he likes to do it, and I pay attention and learn. If he ever treated me that way, he knows damned well that I would NEVER cook for him again, because when I'm done, I'm freaking done, and I am a stubborn bitch. She is NOT the a-hole, and her kids are old enough to cook for themselves, period. I was making my own food at 7 years old because both my parents worked, so they need to suck it up, grow up and do it themselves! They can watch TH-cam and learn, which is more than we had in the 70's!
For the 5th story the person needs to discipline their children, either “if you don’t eat it you starve” or “you don’t leave the table until it is finished” rules. The husband is an a-hole though
It's hard to ask your children to behave well when the other PARENT won't even behave well! "Mom, why does DAD get to say yuck & make faces & complain but we don't? Why do we have to eat when you make or nothing, but he gets to nuke a frozen pizza? That's not faaaaiiiir!"
That's not discipline, that's borderline child abuse. The "You don't leave the table until its eaten" punishment does NOT work, and leaves you as the a-hole. Whether they are messing with you or genuinely don't like it, you'll find them being sick or sullenly staring at a meal getting colder and colder in front of them. Or they slip it to the dog.
If you stand over them and MAKE them eat it, they will hate you for the rest of their lives, or have traumatic food issues.
It's a two-way process, finding out what your kids eat. Asking "What's wrong with it?" is the first step. You can then avoid giving them food that isn't square, or eggs, or liver.
"Try it first..." is another move.
My daughter hates bananas, right from birth, she'd spit out any food with banana in it. Without words, she would inform you if any manufacturer had slipped banana into their product...
I was the same with eggs, as an infant, until my baby-sitting grandmother force-fed me a boiled egg. I was fighting a severe food allergy for the next two days until my body got rid of the offending poison. In neither of those cases would "You'll sit there until you HAVE eaten it!" work.
OP & cooking for her family:
If you don't like my cooking, make your own food- done, over, finished!
All three of them are old enough to make food for themselves.
First story. Sounds like spicy lunch will get half the pay saving from dropping the food thief. No company wants the liability of dishonest people.
First story: OP needs to report the HR dept to their superiors for harassment and causing a hostile working environment. They are clearly favoring the lunch thief
1. HR lady will find that she'll probably never be ablrle to get another HR role anywhere. Gross misconduct in protecting an office thief and sacking one of the victims because the food they stole made them ill.
Story 1: Whish that woman from HR and that jerk who stole OP's lunch got a more tougher punishment.....still I doubt that jerk is EVER gonna steal food again.
Story 2: the line "He restrained himself from using buck shot to register his opinion of trespassers." That line made me laugh plus the whole "I will let my grandfather loose with his double barrel" was chuckle worthy.
Story 3 that pizza shop boss is the best sort of boss to have especially when he stood up for his delivery drivers 👍👏👏👏👏. And story 5, this lady is definitely NOT THE AH. Seeing that non of them appreciated any of the meals that she cooked for them
Story 4:
Cop: "I'm a cop."
Karen: "Stop lying! And why do you have a gun?!"
All of the necessary information was presented in no uncertain terms, but acknowledging it would have meant admitting her first assumption was wrong, so she made something up and stuck to it even as she was being arrested. Some people shouldn't be allowed outside unsupervised.
In the last story, OP needs to divorce her child husband. It is not worth feeling degraded especially by her whole family because they either don't want what is on the menu or it wasn't made to their very particulars. There is no way a husband should make his wife cry the entire night unless he is either dead, dying, or injured to the point where he is at risk of dying.
Story 5: I’m honestly surprised that she hasn’t up and left yet. She should just walk out of that household because they CLEARLY don’t appreciate her at all
If they can't prove somebody stole and ate your food.... even though they claimed they were poisoned by eating it, then they have no proof you were trying to kill him
Oh wait. I looked up the last story. And OP did update. Her husband had a mental breakdown over the kids not liking his mediocre food, and finally admitted to being in the wrong. Now the whole family takes turns cooking, and they have a rule of no gagging or yuck faces at the table.
The girlfriend from the third story reminds me of my wife:
"We (mostly her) are spending too much so you need to get another job."
"I already have a full-time job."
"But I'm studying for my future dream career."
"Three hours a week."
Story 4: it's hilariously crazy how so many Karens, when faced with obvious facts, would still rather die on the flimsy hill they're standing on than admit for one second they were wrong. Their meager pride and ego are just that fragile.
87 cents SPLIT BETWEEN THE TWO DRIVERS! 🤬 And no, 87 cents wasn't a good tip in 2000. Hell, it wasn't even a good tip in the 80s!
Story 4: I love that even after being arrested and handcuffed, Karen still thinks the "employee" is pretending to be a cop, I can literally hear her in prison and still claiming that he's not a cop.
Story 1: For one thing I don't want to get married to a lunch thief. Who knows if my children gets fed with food swiped from the office fridge?
Story 2: If you can't stand living near a farm, it's best not to stay there, especially if the farm has been there for GENERATIONS. And, oh: the phrase "Know your role, and shut your mouth" applies there.
How is simple robbery a felony charge in the first place???
I hope Karen’s sentence included mandatory anger management and a psychological evaluation.
Last story: as someone who loves to cook, I feel for OP. That’s beyond sad to watch all your hard work be wasted all the time. Though I think OP needs to do what my mom did to my sister and I when we tried being picky eaters. We had two choices, go hungry, or eat what was in front of us. We couldn’t use the allergy excuse, because mom knew our allergies. We caved. Mom 2 children 0. 😂
When we were kids there were only 2 choices for food in our home: eat it or leave it.
Agreed, so glad that first story had a happy ending.
When ever my mom cooks something I don't like, I eat
Either close my mouth and eat. Or find something else. But I always compliment the food.
I remember a development built next to a farm. there was absolutely nothing they could do about the wonderful smell that permeates the development when the fields were fertilized with manure.
How discouraging to have a family who refuses to eat almost anything. I would have been out of there, years ago, and left all these brats to cook their own meals.
In the words of my mother "You eat what I make, or you don't eat".
Wait, what? If the dude didn't steal the lunch, how is OP supposed to have poisoned him?! Do they accuse him if force-feeding the guy or what? 😅
If I was going to lose my job because a lunch stealer couldn't handle what I brought for lunch, I would wreak some havoc.
I would never willing move somewhere with an HOA. I would be in a constant battle with them.
Wow on the 3rd story that's a damn good manager
What i learned from lunch thief stories. Get a locking lunch box. Yes those are a thing.
My grandmother did the cooking for our family when I was growing up. She had one rule: Eat what is there or go hungry! There was no snacking, making a sandwich, going out for a burger or pizza. When we HAD to eat different foods, we usually found that we liked them.
Last story - if I remember rightly, the story ended with the husband and each kid being in charge of dinner X nights a week (my memory fails me) and learned first hand how much work OP was putting in, and how rude and ungrateful they were being. I think it made a huge difference in their attitudes to OP.
I’m recalling a similar even crazier story. The OP had a meal with a sauce with peanut butter in the recipe and the food thief had a nut allergy. The whole thing might’ve been a lot simpler but the food thief happen to be closely related, (daughter I think,) to the highest ranking person on staff.
He had no way of knowing that she was the food thief, or that she would take his food, or that she even had a nut allergy but the boss still tried to blame OP responsible for his daughter’s hospitalization. Saying he should’ve put an allergy warning on his own lunch!
Last story: On the one hand, they might have serious sensory issues. I speak from experience when I say how much it limits your diet, and how scared it can make you of trying new foods, knowing that if your body doesn’t like it you’ll either be out the money at a restaurant for food you can’t eat or you’ll have to find some way to explain to the chef that you can’t eat what they made without sounding rude. I actually *do* have a single pasta sauce from a single brand that I eat, because all others taste “off” and ruin the meal for me, and I still have to strain all the chunks out. If one of the girls was sick after eating, it really sounds like she might have sensitivities, and those can often be genetic.
ON THE OTHER HAND! This is the single rudest, most entitled way of handling that, and most people I know with taste & texture sensitivities learn to cook their own “same foods” (foods they know their bodies can handle) so that they don’t stick others with having to work around their issues. That anxiety I mentioned is very much about not wanting the chef to feel unappreciated when you *can’t* eat what they’ve worked hard on, and there’s a special kind of awful in finding yourself at a big table stacked high with food everyone else is enjoying when you can’t eat *any* of it.
Expecting your spouse to cook everything for you all the time only to complain both when it’s not what you wanted *AND* when it’s “too much of the same” is some of the most entitled behavior I can imagine. Tell this manchild that if he has so many issues around food, he needs to see a specialist or take a cooking class, and that as an adult it is no one’s responsibility but his own to manage his life.
If I could handle it at fucking 9, he can handle it at whatever-age-he-is. If he can’t, tell him you need couples’ counseling because clearly this is a breaking point. If he refuses *that,* tell him you’re not his kitchen slave and call a fucking lawyer.
Story 2/3: I *_LIVE IN A_* _HOA_ and they are 100% Amazing! I’ve never had a single issue with them, Thank God. I hope I never come to hate HOA’s like so many do.
There’s good ones and there’s bad ones.
I used to be a pizza delivery driver. That crappy tip for large orders is standard. It's unbelievable, but OP's story is exactly my experience.
🤣🤣regarding lunchbox...I need to that and put ghost peppers. That cop has more patience then I do.😂
Story 1: glad the HR woman got sacked as well as the thief. I also hope that other prospective employers got to find out *why* they had been fired...
"He ate your food so it's your fault he's been 'poisoned' but you can't prove that he took your food." WTF?
Story 2: How about some cows and chickens closer to the fence???? Other livestock could make there complaints skyrocket suddenly because the legal land owner felt like moving the cows!!!
Pigs. Pigs are best for that because of the stench. Cows don’t stink that bad.
Nope, pigs......
Yeah; pigs! 🐖💩=😵💫🤢
Last story: my mom and dad used to tell my sister and I “If you don’t like what we cooked, you can go to bed hungry.” We learned quickly to eat what was put in front of us no matter what. OP needs to find a new family who will appreciate her efforts.