My mother told me a story of someone she knew in our old affluent neighborhood. This woman had hired a European craftsman to do some work at her house. When he was done he started detailing the work he'd done, details of the bill, things she'd need to know for future maintenance, etc. About 5 sentences in she interrupted him with "Can't you speak better English?! I can hardly understand you!" At this he replied "You don't understand my English? Okay, then we speak French", and started all over in French. She interrupted him again, "I don't speak French" "Okay, so we speak German." "But I don't speak German." "Okay, so we speak Spanish." "But I don't speak Spanish." "Okay, so we speak Greek." "But I don't speak Greek." This went on through 7 languages. Finally after suggesting the 7th language he just stared at her. She had to ask him to continue in English.
@@kranberry3318 It appears he was a polyglot. Not that there isn't work involved, but some people's brains are just set up in such a way that learning languages seems to come naturally to them. And yes, European craftsmen with high level disappearing old world skills (in some areas of the U. S. anyway) can practically write their own ticket. There's fewer of them every generation. This was 4 or 5 decades ago now. I'm sure he's passed on.
@@kranberry3318 Well remember that people in Europe live within a couple days travel of literally dozens of different languages and dialects. If you do business in Switzerland you can expect to need to know German, French and Italian as well as English, just for one example. Americans are not more ignorant, they just don't come into contact with foreign languages so they don't get the opportunity for immersion or anywhere near the same level of personal day to day experience. You an drive for a week in North America and expect to easily find people who speak your language on the other end of the journey. That's not impossible in europe but it's trickier which means any middle class traveler in europe will pick up a few words in a number of different tongues just so they can do business..
For story 2, I hate it when I hear/read that a Karen doesn't give raises to the employees who work their butts off, but to her friends in the company all because "We're besties!!" That Karen got what she deserved.
Sounds like the superintendent of schools in my hometown. Only he refused to allocate any budget to replace the *painfully* outdated books and broken gym equipment but gave *himself* a thousand dollar raise. Because he's "indispensable."
@@brigidtheirish"Indispensable", my ass! This so-called "superintendent" needs to be arrested and fired. No one is above the law, not even superintendents.
@@Arcader-cs9bs Honestly agree, since this is the same superintendent who refused to *allow* the local notary public to notarize my transcript (I was home-schooled starting in 7th grade) which he *shouldn't have been able to do* and *could* have resulted in me being kicked out of college if I hadn't managed to score so well on both the ACT and PSAT. No idea *how* he's managed to keep his job for so many decades, but this is the same school district that had a high school teacher who was more interested in hanging out with the boys in class when Mom went to school there and was *still* teaching there when I was growing up. One of my aunts was so fed up with him that she *purposefully* got most of the answers wrong on a test and he *still* gave her a passing grade. We think because he was afraid of failing a known brilliant student.
My entitled sister was always trying to put me down, and bitching, "You think that you're so smart!" I tested out of a three year engineering course when I was 20. My high school tried to push in into Law or Medicine, telling me that Electronics was a waste of my intelligence. They couldn't understand why I had no interest in opening the envelope with my score from an IQ test. That was over 50 years ago. Some of my design work is aboard the ISS, so I don't feel that I wasted my working life.
i would have loved the email saying instead of "we regret to say you are not worth it" it says " we are happy to announce that your application gave us the biggest laugh, with your experience, patronised attitude, and over expectation's of worth, and have such framed it to allow all to laugh at"
That was legit a scene in The Drew Carey Show. It’s on TH-cam. I can never hear that song again without thinking of Drew Carey doing a victory dance and backflips in celebration of Mimi-his hated rival and coworker-being fired.
Its been many years ago, but when something similar in the office department of the company where I worked, a spontaneous party broke out. The company president happened by and was thunderstruck. He had no idea.
@@Playingwithproxies Whatever court it is, thatq douche had NO GOOD REASON to keep deflecting responsibility to cover repair costs that his company had ALREADY PROMISED to handle.
@@jordanhunter3375 also, the power suit lady ended paying 500 bucks instead of the 2500 for emotional damage and tons of wasted legal time. That's why she still has a job, and moron don't.
I find it hilariously ironic that the first Karen calls the Spanish guy uneducated when he obviously took the time necessary to learn English fluently. I bet she only knows English and even considers learning another language to be beneath her because she expects everyone else to speak English for her.
Anyone who can speak more then 2 languages is already a super power reminds me of another post where OP spoke 5 language and refused to speak English and just kept switching language just to piss off Karen
I'm an American, but my family is heavily military and we moved around a lot when I was young. So, this afforded me opportunities most kids/people didn't get, including travel to other countries and around the US. That said, I know English, German and Spanish (though the last two are a bit rusty). I'm currently learning Japanese for a trip I'm planning. So I love the first story! I abhor when people say that others should speak English cause they're in America or they sound "uneducated". It takes a lot to learn another language.
I want to speak other languages. But my way of learning is complicated, until it "clicks" I learn things slowly. However, language in computer, electronics, sports, history and games is above average +.
I too am/ was a military brat. I grew up in Puerto Rico a few years. My Mom was French and my 2nd wife is Italian. So I'm pretty fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian. Before I retired my boss hated me because of my language skills. But he really hated me when one day we were in the buisness/ accounting office for a meeting and I noticed one of the customers at the Customer Service Desk was trying to set up an account with us, but was deaf. I saw her trying to communicate in ASL and was getting frustrated. So I walked up to her, took off my hard hat and started signing with her, and got her set up with the Rep by interpritating for her. My Boss really hated me then. (My good friend in high school was deaf. So I learned enough to get by.) I loved all the exposure to different cultures growing up.
I'm American too. My dad was AF guard after Vietnam. My mom is from Guatemala. I was raised that if you come to the U.S. learn English. My Spanish is así así but I can get back. Especially if immersed. And I was taught knowing more than one language is a wonderful thing.
Same here. Not military but civilian. We were inSingapore and the in Vietnam. Yes, there were American civilians there during the war! I now believe every American kid should spends time out of the US…
Story 2's CEO really, really messed up bad here. Seems he hired Karen pretty much to do what he should've been doing - which was keeping an eye on his employees and making sure they were happy. Disconnecting himself from his own workforce right after hiring a completely new face that had so much power was a recipe for disaster. This could've all been thwarted if he had stayed connected. Oh well - I don't feel sorry for him or for Karen, and I'm glad the OP along with her fellow employees that found new jobs in the "Cool" company are doing well. Story 3: Whether the student was hearing impaired or not, that is an absolutely terrible teacher. You never ignore a student that's raising their hand. Sure you might get a clown or two in class that would raise their hand as a joke, but for every one clown there's ten students that actually want to learn and have legitimate reason for their hand being raised. And since the OP had no prior disobedient history, the teacher has zero excuse. If I were the headmaster I'd investigate and see if she's done this to other students.
That's... how you grow a business. You keep hiring to keep dividing your workload. As a business grows, the amount of work that goes into managing it becomes too great for one person. That's gotta be one the hardest things as a business owner. To hand over some of the controls to your pride and joy, and hope that they do well enough as you that your business continues to grow. Although yes, he should have at least kept in touch. Not just let go and forget.
@@brendenpischke6060 Missing the point. I know it's how a business grows to have more people in a supervisory position, but it's still a bad idea to completely shut yourself out of it to the point of not even realizing how demoralized your workforce has become under a particular supervisor. That's what I was getting at - he shouldn't have checked himself out to such a degree, and now he's paying the price for it.
@James Cheddar What it comes down to is: he disconnected himself. Yes, obviously a CEO's job is to hire the right people for the job, but he did not hire the right person for the job and if he had listened to his employees sooner, much of what happened would not have happened. I'm not sure how to put this statement any more clearly.
Reminds me of a party, where some drunk girl got triggered by someone "not civilized enough" (her words) to speak English. Everyone there were more or less bilingual expats. Everyone made a point to not utter a word in English for the next few hours. I heard Norwegian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and a couple of Asian languages I could not identify. Elite.
Karen number 2 got exactly what she deserved. As for story 1, my aunt knows a guy that can speak, as far as I'm aware, 10 languages. Nice guy, works as an ESL teacher during the summer, the rest of the year he's a college professor somewhere. He absolutely hates the type of people who are the usual suspect "You're in America, speak English" type.
That is a massive flex, if you can speak 10 languages fluidly I would be mightily impressed because half the time I talk so fast I can barely speak English😂
I was a substitute teacher for awhile. Every teacher had a notebook of accommodations. The first thing I looked at when walking into a classroom was the lesson plan. The second thing was notebook of accommodations: who, what, when, why, how.
My brother and I both speak fluent French. My wife and I were visiting him and his family. We were at a museum. We wanted to discuss where we were going for supper and how we were going to pay for it. We didn't want our wives involved in the discussion so we were talking in French. A woman came up to us and said, "How do you like America?" My brother tells her in a thick French accent, "We like your country very good, is wonderous to be 'ere, we are so 'appy to see USA," etc. Then my 5 year old nephew comes up to my brother and asks, "Daddy, why are you talking in that funny way?"
My daughter is 100% deaf. She was one of the first to have a cochlear implant in the USA. She is also autistic, so the input waa too much so she doesn't use it. This music teacher pisses me off. I still run into people that think the deaf community are "less than" and treat them like crap, amd that's EXACTLY what this teacher is doing.
Whenever I hear someone getting criticized for either speaking another language or having a strong accent in their English I always look at the perpetrator and say "I only wish I could speak (his or her) native language as well as they speak mine." Usually shuts the idiot up. Illegals aside, this country probably has speakers of every language on Earth as full citizens. Most of them speak English to one extent or another, excluding the very old or recent immigrants who are either too old to learn or haven't had enough time yet to learn it. They should be honored for their effort to become fully integrated in America.
i got lucky because i can hear on one side but not the other honestly i can’t wait to encounter a karen screaming at me to get my attention so i can just keep ignoring them.
@@Renville80 When everybody was masked up I discovered just exactly how much I depend on lipreading. I have a 50 dB threshold shift, meaning a sound that is barely perceptible to me is slightly less loud than a quiet office to somebody who doesn't have a threshold shift. The VA classified it as a moderate hearing impairment. I have had hints over the years, like difficulty understanding people talking to me if I was under a HVAC return or if the person was facing away from me, but it took everybody wearing masks to make me aware how much lipreading I was doing.
Love how people who speak only one language (English) judge others who know two or more just because they aren't speaking English. Like, Karen, even if they were Mexican immigrants (which she probably thought) they still know 1 more language (at the least) than you.
Those immobilizers are a hazard. Had one one time. The car would shut off for no reason and you'd have to turn the switch off and back on to get it to start again. Almost caused several wrecks. I bypassed the thing and the car never did it again.
Power suit lady sounds like the owner of the dealership I used to work for. She was AMAZING! I will *never* understand why the monolinguals think that being multilingual makes a person look uneducated. I'm sorry you're not capable of learning another language, especially when you barely have a grasp on the ONE language you know, Karen. 🙄
#1 Karen call someone «uneducated», and that person immediately put her to shame by demonstrating that he, and his girl fried, are fluent in no less than FOUR languages. That's brilliant ! #2 And... Karen will probably still be looking for a job in 2040. #3 Where I live, what that Karen teacher did would be regarded as «gross professional fault». Gross professional fault is ground for immediate termination ON THE SPOT. NO seniority consideration. No warning needed. NO two week notice. NO appeal. It's second ONLY to criminal activity on the job. Being drunk or on illegal drugs at the job is not even on the same level.
First story, that was a pretty awesome flex, and perfectly executed. Whats an even more epic flex though is when you start having a conversation in 2 different languages! Granted my husband and I can only manage this at a pretty basic level, but it is hilarious. Don't like Spanish? No problem, a French Russian back and forth it is. The last story, your mistake was buying a car from one of those places and expecting anything from them. Keep in mind these are the same places that have a GPS tracker, and kill switch installed in the car. And also the same place that will repo it for being a day or 2 late on the payment. Maybe that place is the one in a million thats actually honest, but generally you aren't even dealing with the bottom of the barrel, you're dealing with the slime under the barrel at those places.
I live in Citrus County and we have too many dealerships, not kidding. There's a section of 19 that is literally a dealership corridor. Anyway, one of the big names had its own buy here place until the road widening project forced it to close. I'm guessing it was one of the good ones because of the main dealership it was associated with.
@@marjoriejohnston4905 I guess there has to be a few out there that are decent. Most of the time though it would be the absolute last place id ever buy a car from.
@@sparkplug1018 I may have got lucky. I bought my Jeep at one of those places, put a little money into tires and some minor repairs, and I am plum tickled with the car.
I have a karen story 2 years ago A week prior to this story I got kicked in the face and a wound on my jaw had almost healed I bring my sisters to the park and 2 kids walked up to me and one had the audacity to say this to me "Wow you look ugly" It's a good time to say I have autism and major anger problems So I respond trying to not let out my anger "Look I'm just midning my own business so don't say those words to other people" Enter entitled dad. "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO HIM" I thought he was talking to his son for calling me ugly but he ran straight for me Due to being shaken by the week prior as that's how I got kicked round the face as someone ran straight for me with the same pattern So realising that run=attack I get into a defensive stance and jump off the bench backwards and this grown man Said "HOW DARE YOU TALK TO MY KI-' So I used to watch these types of videos (not from this channel) but I knew this was a karen Immediately before he finishes his sentence I say "So let's guess your the husband of the land owner and will take me court yeah yesh karen" I should also say I make fun out of situations which aren't fun Acting like I just snipes him he screamed "DOW DARE YO_" I cut him off again and get pissed So I say "LOOK IM JUST TRYING TO ENJOY MYSELF IN THE PARK MEANWHILE YOUR UGLY SINGLE ASS IS TRYING TO RUIN MY FUCKING DAY SO YOU CAN FUCK OFF" so this beast of a man legit pulls out a actual butter knife And he opened his mouth to speak but I said. "YOU DO KNOW I CAN CALL THR POLICE ON YOUR ASS AND GET YIU ARRESTED FOR THREATENING A CHILD WITH A WEAPON AND CALLING THAT A WEAPON IS AN OVERSTATEM- then the kid legit grabs me and pulls me over the bench onto them A family nearby had called thr police as soon as the moment the guy pulled thr butter knife out Atleast that's what I was told by the police when they arrived I stayed at home for this bit there was a court case Fun fact That dude had a criminal record of doing this same shit before and now this was his 2nd time and he is still in prison A 6 year sentence Now I can rest knowing I have another 4 yeas until he gets out
Dude I’m so sorry that happened to you that must’ve sucked if I was in that situation I would’ve just pretended like I ignored that kid because I don’t like dealing with people and I can’t stand confrontations I would much rather ignore a person then actually confront them head on and even though I talk a big game on TH-cam and some of the comments I’m actually a massive pansy in real life🤣
Story one reminds me of a few years ago when I went to the visitors information office in Moncton, New Brunswick, to use their computer to contact my kids. The pretty young student was talking to me in English, but when another tourist spoke in French she answered in that language. She was literally carrying on two conversations in different languageswhen a third person cam in and spoke in German! Guess what? Yes, she answered in fluent German. I left a not in the comments book(with my name and contact information) that management had certainly hired the right summer student. A few days later her boss emailed me and agreed, telling me that she spoke Mandarin as well. She was majoring in languages, of course.
CEO: “oops, forgot to check with my employees. There goes my highly regarded company that requires reputable people in the industry!” Twenty years and his brain suddenly slid out of his ear. What a waste.
I have a shift lead who I'll call SL that I work with who is from Albania. We had a customer who needed someone to speak Spanish, so I paged him. A few minutes later one of my other co-workers told me that a customer had asked him for someone who speaks Spanish and he didn't know. I told him it was OK because the customer came to me and I called SL. He said to me puzzled "SL speaks Spanish?" and I replied "Yes, he speaks seven languages" and he replied "He does?" The look on his face was so funny I just started laughing and replied "Yes, he does".
The third story really caught my interest because I have a son who also can’t here in both ears and has those implants. And this is one of the things I’ve been worried about happening to them when they do eventually start school. I did enjoy how they just sat there and did nothing. That teacher got what she deserved.
Story 1: Karen thinks that not speaking English is being uneducated, but really English is the most spoken language in the world EDIT: ok it’s the Second most spolen Language, I didn’t know that until now, but either Way it still doesn’t prove Karen’s Point
I speak 2 languages, Chinese and English. Learned both before the age of 3. Hopefully my son will also speak 2 languages if not more. If anyone ever tries to insult my son for speaking Chinese I have the perfect response: “Know anyone about his age? Don’t complain in future when my son beats (relative) out for a job, scholarship, promotion because being multilingual put him over the edge.” Luckily I live in an area where most people are bilingual and the ones who aren’t usually envy the ones who are. My husband is an elementary school music teacher. The school has a school for the deaf attached. So several of his students are deaf. There is a sign language interpreter in his classroom. My husband has also learned some basic sign language (numbers, louder, softer). Because of the deaf students he has to talk slower. He also has to teach the deaf students differently.
Certain costs, additional payments and reimbursements a business has to make are, most of the time, linked with Manager's bonus pay. So sh!t managers will try anything and everything NOT to to pay them to make themselves look good and get a larger bonus payout. However the business itself can easily be legally liable for those additional costs, so if the bosses or corporate find out they will try to fix it as soon as possible. OP in the last story was most likely a victim of this and the manager was fired for legal reasons.
Love him or hate him, in his later years Rush Limbaugh had cochlear implants. One thing he did note, somewhat frequently, was that unless he already knew a piece of music it was very difficult to hear/understand or enjoy new music due to the limited way the implants worked. Given that, I have to wonder why OP was even required to take music. Maybe it worked different for him?
Apparently Karen was unaware that a lot of classic revered artists, actors and writers spoke Spanish as their primary language. Off the top of my head I can name Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Frida Khalo and Anthony Quinn. I was a B student, even in university, and only ever got Cs in Spanish, and even I am aware of these artists. I Googled the oldest university in Spain. It is the University of Barcelona. It was founded in 1450 and still exists. It is older than all but 3 universities in the UK and 86 years older than the oldest US university - Harvard.
Her brain batteries shorted out not her eye batteries. No student should ever be ignored!! When someone says "so sue me" that is exactly what you need to do. Just make sure you have alll the necessary documents, recorded phone calls, receipts, witness statements etc for your case. You must also be prepared to present documents that may be detrimental to your case. If the court finds out you withheld something they may side with the defendants. Do NOT offer those docs unless the other side brings it up. You can then present rebuttal docs or witnesses to deal with your side of the response to their claim. Good luck all and I pray the rest of 2022 is better than the 1st quarter has been to you and yours!
Story 1: Knowing how to speak a language makes you uneducated? Karen proved that she is not qualified to judge anyone's education. Story 2: Wow, it's like undervaluing talented employees could drive them to seek out jobs where they're appreciated and compensated better.
15:37 "Okay, headmaster, this conversation can go one of two ways. One, you fire this preening martinet RIGHT THE FUCK NOW or we have a long, unpleasant conversation with lawyers about "reasonable accommodation" and "Title 9." You WILL lose, I WILL get a big pot of money, and SHE'LL probably get fired anyway because you can't afford to pay her any more."
The Music teacher must be screwing around with the Principal.Since normally discrimation of the disabled is at the very LEAST a warning if not fired right away.
regarding the ‘Cool Company’ story, it reminds me of something i heard a long time ago, “Remember the people you meet on the way up, because you’ll meet them again on the way back down “
Last story with the "so sue me" from the manager. I've done the reverse of that. I once had cellphone service with USWEST which later became qwest, then centurylink, and now lumen. I was on a vacation in NYC and the cellphone wouldn't work. I couldn't even call 800 numbers. They said some shit about fraud prevention but still refused to unlock the phone. I ended up getting a phone and service from a competitor. When the cell phone charges, including a nasty early termination fee, started appearing on my home phone bill (this was in '00), I called their help line, got nowhere, and explained: "Please make sure that you cc: your legal team. I will never pay that bill. I expect it will cost you between $5000 and $8000 (year 2000 money) just to have a lawyer represent you to sue me. bye." Three months later, the charges mysteriously vanished.
Last story: I had a friend who bought a used car from a reputable dealer. Not long after, they had issues with it. The car had to be taken in to the shop several times. Work would be done and they'd get it back. Each time, it involved either her, or her husband, dropping it off and getting home or to work. Repeat to pick up. Each time, the dealership is becoming less and less accommodating. So, one day, my friend gathered up her two pre-school children, then, went and gathered up her sister's three preschoolers and went to the dealership. For some strange reason, it only took a little over an hour and they fixed the problem! LOL
The Karen who thinks Spanish is an uneducated language reminded of an saying I've first heard from the videogame Fable 2: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than opening it and prove it". I can't seem to find a proper source for who said it first. Some say it's Hemingway, some say it's Abe Lincoln. If anyone can provide proper source, please feel free to answer this comment
Story 3: I’m only partially deaf and my teachers all understand that at the beginning of each year. then i end up in the front-right corner of the room so i can hear what’s going on, but if i don’t respond to something or i keep asking what the question was then they know i didn’t hear instead of wasn’t paying attention. no issues but it sure as hell sucks to be in the front
I have a story similar to the deaf student. Well, in regards to awful teachers.. When I was 10 years old, I was a shy kid, timid, the kind who could barely say boo to a goose, as the saying goes. I was also a slow learner, or, as some described me, had “learning difficulties” though I was not stupid by any means. It just took a while to wrap my head around things, often needed a teaching assistant in class to help me figure out the schoolwork, and was socially awkward. I had a music teacher.. let’s call him Mr F. He did NOT like me. I used to think of him as the British version of Hitler, and, funnily enough, he actually looked like him, moustache and everything! All was well, until one day, he was lecturing us about something and some other kids across the room began to whisper to each other. He overheard, and started yelling… at me. I tried to tell him I hadn’t said a word, and even a kid behind me also attempted to tell him I hadn’t been the one talking. But, he told me I was nothing but trouble, and told me to stand in the corner of the room for the duration of the lesson as punishment. A few weeks on, and I was off sick, having been in hospital with pneumonia. My first day back at school, we had a music lesson. Oh great.. a classmate I was walking to the lesson with, then decided to tell me that Mr F had set us homework about bells, and it had to be handed in that day or else. This scared me, due to my recent sickness, the fact that I knew what he was like, and the fact NO ONE had told me of this homework. No hospital or home visits to inform me and leave me with some books, nothing.. So I decided to be honest, and, still scared stiff, I approached his desk, apologised, and explained everything. Mr F: “That’s no excuse! You could have still done it in hospital! Detention after school!” Me: “For being poorly? For no one informing me? Why is it my fault?” Mr F: “Well, you should’ve come to school!” Me: “But Sir, I was ill…” Mr F: “I don’t care! Detention after school!” I was too stunned to say anything. And I was terrified of him, knowing that he wouldn’t even accept the fact that this 10 year old kid he was shouting at had just come out of hospital. I actually went home that lunchtime, still shaking with fear, told my Mum everything. She contacted the school and all they did was pull me out of detention and his music lessons permanently and gave me a free period while everyone else took their lesson. No punishment for the teacher, and he was still working there when we all moved on to a different school a few years later. He has since passed away, I’ve heard, but I will still never forgive him for how I was treated in his class. I since heard that he would single out one kid in every class to pick on and berate every chance he could. For my class this just happened to be me.
The music teacher in story 3 doesn't understand OP's artistic genius; An avant-garde masterpiece taking inspiration from John Cage's 4'33". Truly we don't appreciate the natural beauty of silence enough.
Fair warning, not a lawyer, but the single party consent thing doesn't work if it is a call in another state on the other end of the line (unless it is also single party).
I remember a time when I was in the local chinese place in my town picking up a to go order with my older brother. People were starting because he was speaking fluent chinese, and one person asked why he didn't speak English like a normal person. His response was "I taught them English. So why can't they teach me chinese."
Where I live, it's perfectly normal to hear conversations in English, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese. Other languages are also heard, only less often.
I worked in schools for 8 years and I knew of a class that had two teachers who shared the job. One of the teachers didn’t know one of the students was deaf for half the school year 🙄
CEOs who leave things in the hands of department heads, can regret that decision when they start having a high employee turn over rate. When long term emoloyees leave and not to retire, that's a huge red flag something is wrong. No department head should be allowed to make operational changes unless okayed by the CEO. A student raising their hand is a sign of respect, when they could have just spoken out and maybe interrupted the teacher speaking. And when a deaf student raises their hand it does mean something important. That teacher acted like respect was more important than the needs of the students. Only one thing wrong with her desire. Respect is a two way street. If she wants respect, she needs to give respect.
I'm a native speaker in English (US), speak, read and write German, can understand written French (sort of a requirement as most cars I've owned are gray-market French!) and, by osmosis since I am native SoCal, understand written and spoken Spanish. I love when a Mexican wants to say insulting things about me or the people around me. I simply reply to their comment in English. Usually shuts them up right away!
That's a good point, you'd think a music teacher of all people would know if one thier students was hearing impaired That's like an art teacher not knowing that one of thier students has impaired eyesight
I had an english teacher that was like that person's music teacher. My hearing is quite unstable. When the planets align I can actually hear well enough to get by without assistance (at least in one ear). But if I even just get a cold, I'm kind of screwed because I generally go almost totally deaf for a week or two and it can take months for it to get back to the best it can be. I'm also legally blind so reading lips isn't an option and I couldn't see what was on the board unless my E.A. (educational assistant) wrote it down for me. Well, my school wanted to try a new device where the teacher would clip a small microphone on their person and it would relay there voice wirelessly into an earpiece that I wore so I could at least hear them speaking. Also, I should point out that the microphone was very discreet and even had a simple switch to cut transmission if the teacher wanted to say something I didn't need to be hearing (like talking one on one with another student or another teacher during the lesson). Most of my teachers were very cool about it and my math teacher at the time was so excited about it that he actually made me feel a lot less self conscious about needing it. But my english teacher absolutely refused to use it, even after I asked, my E.A. asked and explained that I do in fact need it to function properly in her class, and the resource department of the school asked. I don't know how but she raised such a stink about it, that the school decided that I shouldn't be using it after all (a certain teacher filled me in and may have even called her a choice word while doing so). Luckily, my hearing cleared up after a few weeks that time and it turns out she was so useless that I apparently didn't need to be able to see or hear what she was saying in order to get passing grades on the assignments for the class.
story 2 reminded me of my own- I work in medical and started at 18. I'm easily the youngest of any office I join, and so am not that popular in a female lead company. (whatever its just like highschool) Since I started as a student people didn't wanna teach me much for understandable reasons, but that meant there is some stuff I never got to learn how to do, even though I wanted to. Fast forward to my secound clinic with my Karen. She started out sweet, the clinics workload wasn't that bad, I worked for a PA and the other MA was nice. I finally got to learn how to do computer stuff and they took me on with the knowledge that I was a student. well, one MA and left, and around that time Karen started pushing and pushing on me to be perfect at stuff I couldn't fix. She said she didn't like my voice and that it sounded like a 13 year old, stated that I couldn't handle certain patients (even though I came from a cutthroat clinic), got upset when I roomed a patient for her, and much much more strange things. Well, the one thing that always bothered me was ger ddefiance of teaching me how to room her doctor's patients. I wanted to learn in order to cover for her just in case, but she refused. I wasn't perf at my job either, don't get me wrong, I once even snapped at her cause she poked me just enough (she liked to touch me and sneak up on me and I have some nasty anxiety) which I apologized for. Eventually she tried to get me fired but collecting all the info on me screwing up, little mistakes. She made my life hell, and never taught me anything. But low and behold, we finally got a new MA and dear Karen, for who knows what reason, snopped through this MA's chart (which is a giant no no) and so on my birthday was fired. We had to peice that clinic back together as she never told us how to do our jobs. I respect pwople with experience, but please remember u where new once to, and now due to her I don't even wanna work there anymore.
According to my father it's rude speaking English with my siblings while he can hear us, because he can't understand us. Why the heck does he think we learned how to speak English? (besides it being a useful language?) So he can't butt in on our conversations! He has started to learn English (from watching subbed TV so it's a slow progress) we are learning Japanese and Chinese. 😂
A bit more while installing a phone in a house for a lady we started talking,she had an interesting job as a federal court translator speaking 11 languages and abel too speak,read,translate,wright,and converse in all.
With where I work at I am kinda kicking myself for not taking a Spanish class during highschool, although I want to learn a couple languages I appreciate what happened in the first story.
Working in the auto industry, buy here pay here lots are the WORST. I have STORIES from trying to deal with them - not as dramatic as OP, but still enough to say they are the worst place to deal with.
Huge music nerd, story 3 really irritated me. I'll admit I was never in any classes/ensembles with hearing-impaired people, but basically every music teacher I've ever had would have bent over backwards to help one. Arts teachers in general are, at least in my experience, incredibly understanding about challenges students face, and it's always rage-inducing to hear about the bad apples.
Language is a time-consuming and brainpower expensive skill. Those Spaniards know a minimum of four languages and therefore way smarter than Karen... People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses...
Unfortunately, for people like Karen, Spanish is not in the same level as French or German. That's because it's associated with undocumented immigrants from South of the Border by bigots like Karen!
"Well then you can quit, but I'll be sorry to see you go". Oh honey, *smirk* Yes you effing will. "Why aren't you playing the song?" But Ms So and So, I AM playing my Song. It's called "The Sound of Silence".
Hearing “speak ENGLISH” stories always boils my blood, more so since I got my degree in Linguistics, because now I can articulate WHY having that expectation is not only rude, but also idiotic. I would never wish for anyone to have this specific brand of Karen run in, but if they did, and I was in earshot…. 😤
That first story, Karen think speaking Spanish makes someone uneducated, where I bet she only speaks English, I believe ANYONE who can speak two or more languages fluently is FAR MORE educated than anyone who's only language they know is English.
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My mother told me a story of someone she knew in our old affluent neighborhood. This woman had hired a European craftsman to do some work at her house. When he was done he started detailing the work he'd done, details of the bill, things she'd need to know for future maintenance, etc. About 5 sentences in she interrupted him with "Can't you speak better English?! I can hardly understand you!" At this he replied "You don't understand my English? Okay, then we speak French", and started all over in French. She interrupted him again, "I don't speak French"
"Okay, so we speak German."
"But I don't speak German."
"Okay, so we speak Spanish."
"But I don't speak Spanish."
"Okay, so we speak Greek."
"But I don't speak Greek."
This went on through 7 languages. Finally after suggesting the 7th language he just stared at her. She had to ask him to continue in English.
That’s awesome! That guy must be so smart, knowing that many languages. I hope his job pays well. If not, he can easily get something better.
@@kranberry3318 It appears he was a polyglot. Not that there isn't work involved, but some people's brains are just set up in such a way that learning languages seems to come naturally to them.
And yes, European craftsmen with high level disappearing old world skills (in some areas of the U. S. anyway) can practically write their own ticket. There's fewer of them every generation.
This was 4 or 5 decades ago now. I'm sure he's passed on.
Oh, that's funny!!😂
@@kranberry3318 Well remember that people in Europe live within a couple days travel of literally dozens of different languages and dialects. If you do business in Switzerland you can expect to need to know German, French and Italian as well as English, just for one example.
Americans are not more ignorant, they just don't come into contact with foreign languages so they don't get the opportunity for immersion or anywhere near the same level of personal day to day experience.
You an drive for a week in North America and expect to easily find people who speak your language on the other end of the journey. That's not impossible in europe but it's trickier which means any middle class traveler in europe will pick up a few words in a number of different tongues just so they can do business..
"You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language YOU know".
For story 2, I hate it when I hear/read that a Karen doesn't give raises to the employees who work their butts off, but to her friends in the company all because "We're besties!!" That Karen got what she deserved.
Sounds like the superintendent of schools in my hometown. Only he refused to allocate any budget to replace the *painfully* outdated books and broken gym equipment but gave *himself* a thousand dollar raise. Because he's "indispensable."
@@brigidtheirish wow! Sorry to hear that
@@brigidtheirish"Indispensable", my ass! This so-called "superintendent" needs to be arrested and fired. No one is above the law, not even superintendents.
any employer/ceo with more than twice the pay than the lowest paid cleaner is stealing from their employees.
@@Arcader-cs9bs Honestly agree, since this is the same superintendent who refused to *allow* the local notary public to notarize my transcript (I was home-schooled starting in 7th grade) which he *shouldn't have been able to do* and *could* have resulted in me being kicked out of college if I hadn't managed to score so well on both the ACT and PSAT. No idea *how* he's managed to keep his job for so many decades, but this is the same school district that had a high school teacher who was more interested in hanging out with the boys in class when Mom went to school there and was *still* teaching there when I was growing up. One of my aunts was so fed up with him that she *purposefully* got most of the answers wrong on a test and he *still* gave her a passing grade. We think because he was afraid of failing a known brilliant student.
My entitled sister was always trying to put me down, and bitching, "You think that you're so smart!" I tested out of a three year engineering course when I was 20. My high school tried to push in into Law or Medicine, telling me that Electronics was a waste of my intelligence. They couldn't understand why I had no interest in opening the envelope with my score from an IQ test. That was over 50 years ago. Some of my design work is aboard the ISS, so I don't feel that I wasted my working life.
I'm sorry, what does this have to do with anything in the video?
that's so cool! good work, i hope you're happy with your life :D
@@gaurianju8250 I had the opportunity to do many interesting jobs in my lifetime. I had my first job at 13, and I'll soon be 70.
@@michaelterrell oh happy early birthday!
@@gaurianju8250 Thank you. May you have a Blessed day!
I can imagine the whole staff of Happy Place singing when Karen was sacked, "Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead".
I had the exact same thought when I got to that part!
i would have loved the email saying instead of "we regret to say you are not worth it" it says " we are happy to announce that your application gave us the biggest laugh, with your experience, patronised attitude, and over expectation's of worth, and have such framed it to allow all to laugh at"
That was legit a scene in The Drew Carey Show. It’s on TH-cam. I can never hear that song again without thinking of Drew Carey doing a victory dance and backflips in celebration of Mimi-his hated rival and coworker-being fired.
Its been many years ago, but when something similar in the office department of the company where I worked, a spontaneous party broke out. The company president happened by and was thunderstruck. He had no idea.
If $296 dollars is considered too low a drop in the bucket to sue over in court, SURELY that means it's fairly easy to pay up, RIIIIIIIIGHT!?
It’s called small claims court
@@Playingwithproxies Whatever court it is, thatq douche had NO GOOD REASON to keep deflecting responsibility to cover repair costs that his company had ALREADY PROMISED to handle.
@@jordanhunter3375 also, the power suit lady ended paying 500 bucks instead of the 2500 for emotional damage and tons of wasted legal time.
That's why she still has a job, and moron don't.
I find it hilariously ironic that the first Karen calls the Spanish guy uneducated when he obviously took the time necessary to learn English fluently. I bet she only knows English and even considers learning another language to be beneath her because she expects everyone else to speak English for her.
Anyone who can speak more then 2 languages is already a super power reminds me of another post where OP spoke 5 language and refused to speak English and just kept switching language just to piss off Karen
Exactly. Like, how many languages are you "educated" in, Karen?
(edit) And that's the exact line used in the story. Whoops lol
@@Josh_the_jester and in most countries, beeing bilingual is the bare minimum.
She equates Spanish with day laborers and others "beneath" her. She got her comeuppance.
@@Darrylizer1 not really, but it's hopefully a start
I'm an American, but my family is heavily military and we moved around a lot when I was young. So, this afforded me opportunities most kids/people didn't get, including travel to other countries and around the US. That said, I know English, German and Spanish (though the last two are a bit rusty). I'm currently learning Japanese for a trip I'm planning. So I love the first story! I abhor when people say that others should speak English cause they're in America or they sound "uneducated". It takes a lot to learn another language.
I want to speak other languages. But my way of learning is complicated, until it "clicks" I learn things slowly.
However, language in computer, electronics, sports, history and games is above average +.
Yeah learning language is not easy. Took me years to learn English and I still practice regularly because I have friends in America.
I too am/ was a military brat. I grew up in Puerto Rico a few years. My Mom was French and my 2nd wife is Italian. So I'm pretty fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
Before I retired my boss hated me because of my language skills. But he really hated me when one day we were in the buisness/ accounting office for a meeting and I noticed one of the customers at the Customer Service Desk was trying to set up an account with us, but was deaf. I saw her trying to communicate in ASL and was getting frustrated. So I walked up to her, took off my hard hat and started signing with her, and got her set up with the Rep by interpritating for her. My Boss really hated me then. (My good friend in high school was deaf. So I learned enough to get by.)
I loved all the exposure to different cultures growing up.
I'm American too. My dad was AF guard after Vietnam. My mom is from Guatemala. I was raised that if you come to the U.S. learn English. My Spanish is así así but I can get back. Especially if immersed. And I was taught knowing more than one language is a wonderful thing.
Same here. Not military but civilian. We were inSingapore and the in Vietnam. Yes, there were American civilians there during the war! I now believe every American kid should spends time out of the US…
“Speaking another language in public makes you seem uneducated”
Cue me wheeze laughing like a tea pot😂
The boyfriend handled her like a boss
Story 2's CEO really, really messed up bad here. Seems he hired Karen pretty much to do what he should've been doing - which was keeping an eye on his employees and making sure they were happy. Disconnecting himself from his own workforce right after hiring a completely new face that had so much power was a recipe for disaster. This could've all been thwarted if he had stayed connected. Oh well - I don't feel sorry for him or for Karen, and I'm glad the OP along with her fellow employees that found new jobs in the "Cool" company are doing well.
Story 3: Whether the student was hearing impaired or not, that is an absolutely terrible teacher. You never ignore a student that's raising their hand. Sure you might get a clown or two in class that would raise their hand as a joke, but for every one clown there's ten students that actually want to learn and have legitimate reason for their hand being raised. And since the OP had no prior disobedient history, the teacher has zero excuse. If I were the headmaster I'd investigate and see if she's done this to other students.
Fuck the OW bullshit. Just say "Fuck it." or "What were they thinking?!"
That's... how you grow a business. You keep hiring to keep dividing your workload. As a business grows, the amount of work that goes into managing it becomes too great for one person.
That's gotta be one the hardest things as a business owner. To hand over some of the controls to your pride and joy, and hope that they do well enough as you that your business continues to grow.
Although yes, he should have at least kept in touch. Not just let go and forget.
@@brendenpischke6060 Missing the point. I know it's how a business grows to have more people in a supervisory position, but it's still a bad idea to completely shut yourself out of it to the point of not even realizing how demoralized your workforce has become under a particular supervisor. That's what I was getting at - he shouldn't have checked himself out to such a degree, and now he's paying the price for it.
@James Cheddar What it comes down to is: he disconnected himself. Yes, obviously a CEO's job is to hire the right people for the job, but he did not hire the right person for the job and if he had listened to his employees sooner, much of what happened would not have happened. I'm not sure how to put this statement any more clearly.
Reminds me of a party, where some drunk girl got triggered by someone "not civilized enough" (her words) to speak English. Everyone there were more or less bilingual expats. Everyone made a point to not utter a word in English for the next few hours. I heard Norwegian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and a couple of Asian languages I could not identify. Elite.
The power suit lady is a total bad ass BOSS who handled the problem and got it taken care of and that made me laugh a little.
Any manager that told customer to sue while knowing that the company is at fault is bad news for the company.
Karen number 2 got exactly what she deserved. As for story 1, my aunt knows a guy that can speak, as far as I'm aware, 10 languages. Nice guy, works as an ESL teacher during the summer, the rest of the year he's a college professor somewhere. He absolutely hates the type of people who are the usual suspect "You're in America, speak English" type.
That is a massive flex, if you can speak 10 languages fluidly I would be mightily impressed because half the time I talk so fast I can barely speak English😂
I was a substitute teacher for awhile. Every teacher had a notebook of accommodations. The first thing I looked at when walking into a classroom was the lesson plan. The second thing was notebook of accommodations: who, what, when, why, how.
Ah. The language Karen. How much better it would have ended if the final interaction was Klingon curses and you were able to translate for her.
ROFLMAO
LOL!!! I love it!!!
My brother and I both speak fluent French. My wife and I were visiting him and his family. We were at a museum. We wanted to discuss where we were going for supper and how we were going to pay for it. We didn't want our wives involved in the discussion so we were talking in French. A woman came up to us and said, "How do you like America?" My brother tells her in a thick French accent, "We like your country very good, is wonderous to be 'ere, we are so 'appy to see USA," etc. Then my 5 year old nephew comes up to my brother and asks, "Daddy, why are you talking in that funny way?"
@@Ambidexter143 comedy gold!
Karen has no honour!
My daughter is 100% deaf. She was one of the first to have a cochlear implant in the USA. She is also autistic, so the input waa too much so she doesn't use it. This music teacher pisses me off. I still run into people that think the deaf community are "less than" and treat them like crap, amd that's EXACTLY what this teacher is doing.
Whenever I hear someone getting criticized for either speaking another language or having a strong accent in their English I always look at the perpetrator and say "I only wish I could speak (his or her) native language as well as they speak mine." Usually shuts the idiot up. Illegals aside, this country probably has speakers of every language on Earth as full citizens. Most of them speak English to one extent or another, excluding the very old or recent immigrants who are either too old to learn or haven't had enough time yet to learn it. They should be honored for their effort to become fully integrated in America.
most undocumented immigrants speak some English too, and they definitely understand way more than people think.
I’m running on 3 hours of sleep and DarkFluff is giving me the life and energy I needed! Thanks Fluff and Steve-O your energy boost is appreciated!
One day you guys will spell my name correctly
@@EditorStevo yes.. one day!
Unfortunately dark fluff does the opposite they keep me up all night because of the karmic retribution and sheer badassness of some of these stories
Story 3: I wouldn't mind a situation where I couldn't hear the voice of someone I find annoying
i got lucky because i can hear on one side but not the other
honestly i can’t wait to encounter a karen screaming at me to get my attention so i can just keep ignoring them.
But can you read lips through a mask? Count your blessings that you CAN hear.
@@Renville80 When everybody was masked up I discovered just exactly how much I depend on lipreading.
I have a 50 dB threshold shift, meaning a sound that is barely perceptible to me is slightly less loud than a quiet office to somebody who doesn't have a threshold shift. The VA classified it as a moderate hearing impairment. I have had hints over the years, like difficulty understanding people talking to me if I was under a HVAC return or if the person was facing away from me, but it took everybody wearing masks to make me aware how much lipreading I was doing.
15:52 good on the principal for standing up for the student, cause that shit is both inexcusable, and a perfect opening for a lawsuit.
Second story's lesson: DON'T BURN BRIDGES AND DON'T MAKE ENEMIES!
Karma spares no one.
Love how people who speak only one language (English) judge others who know two or more just because they aren't speaking English. Like, Karen, even if they were Mexican immigrants (which she probably thought) they still know 1 more language (at the least) than you.
@jamescheddar4896 They absolutely have the right to speak their own language to each other, dingus.
Those immobilizers are a hazard. Had one one time. The car would shut off for no reason and you'd have to turn the switch off and back on to get it to start again. Almost caused several wrecks. I bypassed the thing and the car never did it again.
I had one once too. Disconnected that bitch real quick after it almost made me get T-Boned.
Power suit lady sounds like the owner of the dealership I used to work for. She was AMAZING!
I will *never* understand why the monolinguals think that being multilingual makes a person look uneducated. I'm sorry you're not capable of learning another language, especially when you barely have a grasp on the ONE language you know, Karen. 🙄
Exactly. She can barely comprehend English. Or read it.
I for one would love to learn another language like Swedish or Irish that would be amazing
#1 Karen call someone «uneducated», and that person immediately put her to shame by demonstrating that he, and his girl fried, are fluent in no less than FOUR languages. That's brilliant !
#2 And... Karen will probably still be looking for a job in 2040.
#3 Where I live, what that Karen teacher did would be regarded as «gross professional fault». Gross professional fault is ground for immediate termination ON THE SPOT. NO seniority consideration. No warning needed. NO two week notice. NO appeal. It's second ONLY to criminal activity on the job. Being drunk or on illegal drugs at the job is not even on the same level.
First story, that was a pretty awesome flex, and perfectly executed. Whats an even more epic flex though is when you start having a conversation in 2 different languages! Granted my husband and I can only manage this at a pretty basic level, but it is hilarious. Don't like Spanish? No problem, a French Russian back and forth it is.
The last story, your mistake was buying a car from one of those places and expecting anything from them. Keep in mind these are the same places that have a GPS tracker, and kill switch installed in the car. And also the same place that will repo it for being a day or 2 late on the payment. Maybe that place is the one in a million thats actually honest, but generally you aren't even dealing with the bottom of the barrel, you're dealing with the slime under the barrel at those places.
I live in Citrus County and we have too many dealerships, not kidding. There's a section of 19 that is literally a dealership corridor. Anyway, one of the big names had its own buy here place until the road widening project forced it to close. I'm guessing it was one of the good ones because of the main dealership it was associated with.
@@marjoriejohnston4905 I guess there has to be a few out there that are decent. Most of the time though it would be the absolute last place id ever buy a car from.
@@sparkplug1018 I may have got lucky. I bought my Jeep at one of those places, put a little money into tires and some minor repairs, and I am plum tickled with the car.
I have a karen story
2 years ago
A week prior to this story I got kicked in the face and a wound on my jaw had almost healed
I bring my sisters to the park and 2 kids walked up to me and one had the audacity to say this to me
"Wow you look ugly"
It's a good time to say I have autism and major anger problems
So I respond trying to not let out my anger
"Look I'm just midning my own business so don't say those words to other people"
Enter entitled dad.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO HIM"
I thought he was talking to his son for calling me ugly but he ran straight for me
Due to being shaken by the week prior as that's how I got kicked round the face as someone ran straight for me with the same pattern
So realising that run=attack I get into a defensive stance and jump off the bench backwards and this grown man
Said
"HOW DARE YOU TALK TO MY KI-'
So I used to watch these types of videos (not from this channel) but I knew this was a karen
Immediately before he finishes his sentence I say
"So let's guess your the husband of the land owner and will take me court yeah yesh karen"
I should also say I make fun out of situations which aren't fun
Acting like I just snipes him he screamed
"DOW DARE YO_"
I cut him off again and get pissed
So I say
"LOOK IM JUST TRYING TO ENJOY MYSELF IN THE PARK MEANWHILE YOUR UGLY SINGLE ASS IS TRYING TO RUIN MY FUCKING DAY SO YOU CAN FUCK OFF"
so this beast of a man legit pulls out a actual butter knife
And he opened his mouth to speak but I said.
"YOU DO KNOW I CAN CALL THR POLICE ON YOUR ASS AND GET YIU ARRESTED FOR THREATENING A CHILD WITH A WEAPON AND CALLING THAT A WEAPON IS AN OVERSTATEM-
then the kid legit grabs me and pulls me over the bench onto them
A family nearby had called thr police as soon as the moment the guy pulled thr butter knife out
Atleast that's what I was told by the police when they arrived
I stayed at home for this bit there was a court case
Fun fact
That dude had a criminal record of doing this same shit before and now this was his 2nd time and he is still in prison
A 6 year sentence
Now I can rest knowing I have another 4 yeas until he gets out
Dude I’m so sorry that happened to you that must’ve sucked if I was in that situation I would’ve just pretended like I ignored that kid because I don’t like dealing with people and I can’t stand confrontations I would much rather ignore a person then actually confront them head on and even though I talk a big game on TH-cam and some of the comments I’m actually a massive pansy in real life🤣
@@Choujifangirl it doesn't matter what you think you are, you are what you make yourself
@@Hunter_anims 🤔 that’s a damn good point
Power suit lady? No wonder things got solved so fast: you don't mess with Samus Aran.
At least she only blew up a few jobs this time...
Karen: your responsibility and and abilities simply Aren't worth that much
OP: ight imma head out.
The music teacher couldn't see the raised hand of the deaf pupul because her brain run out of batteries!🤣
Story one reminds me of a few years ago when I went to the visitors information office in Moncton, New Brunswick, to use their computer to contact my kids. The pretty young student was talking to me in English, but when another tourist spoke in French she answered in that language. She was literally carrying on two conversations in different languageswhen a third person cam in and spoke in German! Guess what? Yes, she answered in fluent German.
I left a not in the comments book(with my name and contact information) that management had certainly hired the right summer student. A few days later her boss emailed me and agreed, telling me that she spoke Mandarin as well. She was majoring in languages, of course.
CEO: “oops, forgot to check with my employees. There goes my highly regarded company that requires reputable people in the industry!”
Twenty years and his brain suddenly slid out of his ear. What a waste.
When it comes to professional positions, NEVER stay at a company underpaying you, you can find the same work for more money.
I have a shift lead who I'll call SL that I work with who is from Albania. We had a customer who needed someone to speak Spanish, so I paged him. A few minutes later one of my other co-workers told me that a customer had asked him for someone who speaks Spanish and he didn't know. I told him it was OK because the customer came to me and I called SL. He said to me puzzled "SL speaks Spanish?" and I replied "Yes, he speaks seven languages" and he replied "He does?" The look on his face was so funny I just started laughing and replied "Yes, he does".
The third story really caught my interest because I have a son who also can’t here in both ears and has those implants. And this is one of the things I’ve been worried about happening to them when they do eventually start school. I did enjoy how they just sat there and did nothing. That teacher got what she deserved.
"Your responsibilities and abilities are simply not worth that much"....
Icing on the cake (chef's kiss)
Story 1: Karen thinks that not speaking English is being uneducated, but really English is the most spoken language in the world
EDIT: ok it’s the Second most spolen Language, I didn’t know that until now, but either Way it still doesn’t prove Karen’s Point
its also basically piecemeal in verbal form
Actually is Chinese
Actually Mandarin is still the most spoken language, English is the most common 2nd language.
It's not the most popular language, but it is technically the language of the world.
By population, or by area?
Pretty sure USA, Canada, Australia, etc. Cover more area than China.
Malicious compliance Is my favorite! Thanks for sharing all the stories, Fluff and Steve-O!
I speak 2 languages, Chinese and English. Learned both before the age of 3. Hopefully my son will also speak 2 languages if not more. If anyone ever tries to insult my son for speaking Chinese I have the perfect response:
“Know anyone about his age? Don’t complain in future when my son beats (relative) out for a job, scholarship, promotion because being multilingual put him over the edge.”
Luckily I live in an area where most people are bilingual and the ones who aren’t usually envy the ones who are.
My husband is an elementary school music teacher. The school has a school for the deaf attached. So several of his students are deaf. There is a sign language interpreter in his classroom. My husband has also learned some basic sign language (numbers, louder, softer). Because of the deaf students he has to talk slower. He also has to teach the deaf students differently.
Certain costs, additional payments and reimbursements a business has to make are, most of the time, linked with Manager's bonus pay. So sh!t managers will try anything and everything NOT to to pay them to make themselves look good and get a larger bonus payout. However the business itself can easily be legally liable for those additional costs, so if the bosses or corporate find out they will try to fix it as soon as possible. OP in the last story was most likely a victim of this and the manager was fired for legal reasons.
Love him or hate him, in his later years Rush Limbaugh had cochlear implants. One thing he did note, somewhat frequently, was that unless he already knew a piece of music it was very difficult to hear/understand or enjoy new music due to the limited way the implants worked. Given that, I have to wonder why OP was even required to take music. Maybe it worked different for him?
Apparently Karen was unaware that a lot of classic revered artists, actors and writers spoke Spanish as their primary language. Off the top of my head I can name Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Frida Khalo and Anthony Quinn. I was a B student, even in university, and only ever got Cs in Spanish, and even I am aware of these artists. I Googled the oldest university in Spain. It is the University of Barcelona. It was founded in 1450 and still exists. It is older than all but 3 universities in the UK and 86 years older than the oldest US university - Harvard.
That immobilizer part sounds super dangerous! Imagine going down the freeway at 70 mph and that thing activates...
Her brain batteries shorted out not her eye batteries. No student should ever be ignored!!
When someone says "so sue me" that is exactly what you need to do. Just make sure you have alll the necessary documents, recorded phone calls, receipts, witness statements etc for your case. You must also be prepared to present documents that may be detrimental to your case. If the court finds out you withheld something they may side with the defendants. Do NOT offer those docs unless the other side brings it up. You can then present rebuttal docs or witnesses to deal with your side of the response to their claim.
Good luck all and I pray the rest of 2022 is better than the 1st quarter has been to you and yours!
Story 1: Knowing how to speak a language makes you uneducated? Karen proved that she is not qualified to judge anyone's education. Story 2: Wow, it's like undervaluing talented employees could drive them to seek out jobs where they're appreciated and compensated better.
15:37 "Okay, headmaster, this conversation can go one of two ways. One, you fire this preening martinet RIGHT THE FUCK NOW or we have a long, unpleasant conversation with lawyers about "reasonable accommodation" and "Title 9." You WILL lose, I WILL get a big pot of money, and SHE'LL probably get fired anyway because you can't afford to pay her any more."
The Music teacher must be screwing around with the Principal.Since normally discrimation of the disabled is at the very LEAST a warning if not fired right away.
regarding the ‘Cool Company’ story, it reminds me of something i heard a long time ago, “Remember the people you meet on the way up, because you’ll meet them again on the way back down “
Or do not step on the people on your way up, because they are the same ones you will meet on the way down.
Last story with the "so sue me" from the manager. I've done the reverse of that. I once had cellphone service with USWEST which later became qwest, then centurylink, and now lumen. I was on a vacation in NYC and the cellphone wouldn't work. I couldn't even call 800 numbers. They said some shit about fraud prevention but still refused to unlock the phone. I ended up getting a phone and service from a competitor. When the cell phone charges, including a nasty early termination fee, started appearing on my home phone bill (this was in '00), I called their help line, got nowhere, and explained: "Please make sure that you cc: your legal team. I will never pay that bill. I expect it will cost you between $5000 and $8000 (year 2000 money) just to have a lawyer represent you to sue me. bye." Three months later, the charges mysteriously vanished.
Last story: I had a friend who bought a used car from a reputable dealer. Not long after, they had issues with it. The car had to be taken in to the shop several times. Work would be done and they'd get it back. Each time, it involved either her, or her husband, dropping it off and getting home or to work. Repeat to pick up. Each time, the dealership is becoming less and less accommodating. So, one day, my friend gathered up her two pre-school children, then, went and gathered up her sister's three preschoolers and went to the dealership. For some strange reason, it only took a little over an hour and they fixed the problem! LOL
The Karen who thinks Spanish is an uneducated language reminded of an saying I've first heard from the videogame Fable 2: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than opening it and prove it". I can't seem to find a proper source for who said it first. Some say it's Hemingway, some say it's Abe Lincoln. If anyone can provide proper source, please feel free to answer this comment
Story 3: I’m only partially deaf and my teachers all understand that at the beginning of each year. then i end up in the front-right corner of the room so i can hear what’s going on, but if i don’t respond to something or i keep asking what the question was then they know i didn’t hear instead of wasn’t paying attention.
no issues but it sure as hell sucks to be in the front
I laughed so hard when you read the comment "maybe she didn't see you because the batteries in her eyes died" about OP's implant dead batteries story😂
I have a story similar to the deaf student. Well, in regards to awful teachers..
When I was 10 years old, I was a shy kid, timid, the kind who could barely say boo to a goose, as the saying goes. I was also a slow learner, or, as some described me, had “learning difficulties” though I was not stupid by any means. It just took a while to wrap my head around things, often needed a teaching assistant in class to help me figure out the schoolwork, and was socially awkward.
I had a music teacher.. let’s call him Mr F. He did NOT like me. I used to think of him as the British version of Hitler, and, funnily enough, he actually looked like him, moustache and everything!
All was well, until one day, he was lecturing us about something and some other kids across the room began to whisper to each other. He overheard, and started yelling… at me. I tried to tell him I hadn’t said a word, and even a kid behind me also attempted to tell him I hadn’t been the one talking. But, he told me I was nothing but trouble, and told me to stand in the corner of the room for the duration of the lesson as punishment.
A few weeks on, and I was off sick, having been in hospital with pneumonia. My first day back at school, we had a music lesson. Oh great.. a classmate I was walking to the lesson with, then decided to tell me that Mr F had set us homework about bells, and it had to be handed in that day or else. This scared me, due to my recent sickness, the fact that I knew what he was like, and the fact NO ONE had told me of this homework. No hospital or home visits to inform me and leave me with some books, nothing..
So I decided to be honest, and, still scared stiff, I approached his desk, apologised, and explained everything.
Mr F: “That’s no excuse! You could have still done it in hospital! Detention after school!”
Me: “For being poorly? For no one informing me? Why is it my fault?”
Mr F: “Well, you should’ve come to school!”
Me: “But Sir, I was ill…”
Mr F: “I don’t care! Detention after school!”
I was too stunned to say anything. And I was terrified of him, knowing that he wouldn’t even accept the fact that this 10 year old kid he was shouting at had just come out of hospital.
I actually went home that lunchtime, still shaking with fear, told my Mum everything. She contacted the school and all they did was pull me out of detention and his music lessons permanently and gave me a free period while everyone else took their lesson. No punishment for the teacher, and he was still working there when we all moved on to a different school a few years later.
He has since passed away, I’ve heard, but I will still never forgive him for how I was treated in his class. I since heard that he would single out one kid in every class to pick on and berate every chance he could. For my class this just happened to be me.
The music teacher in story 3 doesn't understand OP's artistic genius; An avant-garde masterpiece taking inspiration from John Cage's 4'33". Truly we don't appreciate the natural beauty of silence enough.
Perfect timing on Darkfluff
Car dealers received their reputation the old fashioned way; THEY EARNED IT!
story 4: power suit lady sounds like she was just waiting for a reason to have him fired
i can imagine her walking to them like wide putin
Fair warning, not a lawyer, but the single party consent thing doesn't work if it is a call in another state on the other end of the line (unless it is also single party).
I remember a time when I was in the local chinese place in my town picking up a to go order with my older brother. People were starting because he was speaking fluent chinese, and one person asked why he didn't speak English like a normal person. His response was "I taught them English. So why can't they teach me chinese."
Where I live, it's perfectly normal to hear conversations in English, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese. Other languages are also heard, only less often.
Story 2: The Butt that you kick today may be the Butt that you kiss tomorrow
"Can you not hear me?" Says the teacher to the deaf kid
I worked in schools for 8 years and I knew of a class that had two teachers who shared the job. One of the teachers didn’t know one of the students was deaf for half the school year 🙄
All of these stories were very satisfying!!
"Can't you hear me?"
Saying that to a def person is wildly stupid.
CEOs who leave things in the hands of department heads, can regret that decision when they start having a high employee turn over rate. When long term emoloyees leave and not to retire, that's a huge red flag something is wrong. No department head should be allowed to make operational changes unless okayed by the CEO.
A student raising their hand is a sign of respect, when they could have just spoken out and maybe interrupted the teacher speaking. And when a deaf student raises their hand it does mean something important. That teacher acted like respect was more important than the needs of the students. Only one thing wrong with her desire. Respect is a two way street. If she wants respect, she needs to give respect.
Yeah, thank you fluff for this wonderful ending of my birthday 🥳
I love to listen to the craziness of the world from you 👍🏻
Happy birthday
Happy birthday, Elizabeth.
Happy Birthday, I hope it's been a wonderful day for you! 💐🍧
PowerSuit Lady: "my spidey senses are tingling. I smell a lawsuit. Someone get the pink slips!"
I'm a native speaker in English (US), speak, read and write German, can understand written French (sort of a requirement as most cars I've owned are gray-market French!) and, by osmosis since I am native SoCal, understand written and spoken Spanish. I love when a Mexican wants to say insulting things about me or the people around me. I simply reply to their comment in English. Usually shuts them up right away!
That's a good point, you'd think a music teacher of all people would know if one thier students was hearing impaired
That's like an art teacher not knowing that one of thier students has impaired eyesight
That teacher was violating things taught on day 2 of Teaching 101: "How not to get fired and the school sued"
I had an english teacher that was like that person's music teacher. My hearing is quite unstable. When the planets align I can actually hear well enough to get by without assistance (at least in one ear). But if I even just get a cold, I'm kind of screwed because I generally go almost totally deaf for a week or two and it can take months for it to get back to the best it can be. I'm also legally blind so reading lips isn't an option and I couldn't see what was on the board unless my E.A. (educational assistant) wrote it down for me. Well, my school wanted to try a new device where the teacher would clip a small microphone on their person and it would relay there voice wirelessly into an earpiece that I wore so I could at least hear them speaking. Also, I should point out that the microphone was very discreet and even had a simple switch to cut transmission if the teacher wanted to say something I didn't need to be hearing (like talking one on one with another student or another teacher during the lesson). Most of my teachers were very cool about it and my math teacher at the time was so excited about it that he actually made me feel a lot less self conscious about needing it. But my english teacher absolutely refused to use it, even after I asked, my E.A. asked and explained that I do in fact need it to function properly in her class, and the resource department of the school asked. I don't know how but she raised such a stink about it, that the school decided that I shouldn't be using it after all (a certain teacher filled me in and may have even called her a choice word while doing so). Luckily, my hearing cleared up after a few weeks that time and it turns out she was so useless that I apparently didn't need to be able to see or hear what she was saying in order to get passing grades on the assignments for the class.
story 2 reminded me of my own-
I work in medical and started at 18. I'm easily the youngest of any office I join, and so am not that popular in a female lead company. (whatever its just like highschool)
Since I started as a student people didn't wanna teach me much for understandable reasons, but that meant there is some stuff I never got to learn how to do, even though I wanted to. Fast forward to my secound clinic with my Karen. She started out sweet, the clinics workload wasn't that bad, I worked for a PA and the other MA was nice. I finally got to learn how to do computer stuff and they took me on with the knowledge that I was a student.
well, one MA and left, and around that time Karen started pushing and pushing on me to be perfect at stuff I couldn't fix. She said she didn't like my voice and that it sounded like a 13 year old, stated that I couldn't handle certain patients (even though I came from a cutthroat clinic), got upset when I roomed a patient for her, and much much more strange things.
Well, the one thing that always bothered me was ger ddefiance of teaching me how to room her doctor's patients. I wanted to learn in order to cover for her just in case, but she refused. I wasn't perf at my job either, don't get me wrong, I once even snapped at her cause she poked me just enough (she liked to touch me and sneak up on me and I have some nasty anxiety) which I apologized for.
Eventually she tried to get me fired but collecting all the info on me screwing up, little mistakes. She made my life hell, and never taught me anything. But low and behold, we finally got a new MA and dear Karen, for who knows what reason, snopped through this MA's chart (which is a giant no no) and so on my birthday was fired. We had to peice that clinic back together as she never told us how to do our jobs. I respect pwople with experience, but please remember u where new once to, and now due to her I don't even wanna work there anymore.
I have many stories from her honestly lol
"music teacher" don't know of a deaf student, check her qualifications
Story 3: It's more like Karen's BRAIN ran out of batteries...
Love the payback in the first story priceless
Can you just...not show up for detention? Like there's nothing making you go.
The first one had me in tears of laughter.
Name a better combination than new fluff video and lunch
Story 2 had the best ending ever!
The first story is beautifully malicious.
According to my father it's rude speaking English with my siblings while he can hear us, because he can't understand us.
Why the heck does he think we learned how to speak English? (besides it being a useful language?)
So he can't butt in on our conversations!
He has started to learn English (from watching subbed TV so it's a slow progress) we are learning Japanese and Chinese. 😂
Those that act like Karen's need to remember that at the end, we all end up in a 6x6x4' hole.
That boyfriend was AMAZING!
A bit more while installing a phone in a house for a lady we started talking,she had an interesting job as a federal court translator speaking 11 languages and abel too speak,read,translate,wright,and converse in all.
With where I work at I am kinda kicking myself for not taking a Spanish class during highschool, although I want to learn a couple languages I appreciate what happened in the first story.
Just starting to talk in two different languages fluently as a response is just greatness
wow, karen boss is much more anoying than karen customers
Great set of stories.
First story: solid gold!!!
Working in the auto industry, buy here pay here lots are the WORST. I have STORIES from trying to deal with them - not as dramatic as OP, but still enough to say they are the worst place to deal with.
Huge music nerd, story 3 really irritated me. I'll admit I was never in any classes/ensembles with hearing-impaired people, but basically every music teacher I've ever had would have bent over backwards to help one. Arts teachers in general are, at least in my experience, incredibly understanding about challenges students face, and it's always rage-inducing to hear about the bad apples.
Language is a time-consuming and brainpower expensive skill. Those Spaniards know a minimum of four languages and therefore way smarter than Karen...
People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses...
Unfortunately, for people like Karen, Spanish is not in the same level as French or German. That's because it's associated with undocumented immigrants from South of the Border by bigots like Karen!
"Well then you can quit, but I'll be sorry to see you go".
Oh honey, *smirk* Yes you effing will.
"Why aren't you playing the song?"
But Ms So and So, I AM playing my Song. It's called "The Sound of Silence".
The deaf kid should've just told that rude teacher he was playing John Cage's 4'33" 😄
Hearing “speak ENGLISH” stories always boils my blood, more so since I got my degree in Linguistics, because now I can articulate WHY having that expectation is not only rude, but also idiotic. I would never wish for anyone to have this specific brand of Karen run in, but if they did, and I was in earshot…. 😤
Story 1: OP should have turned to the Karen before leaving and, in passing, just said 'Oh, you have a little something on you teeth.' 🤣
That first story, Karen think speaking Spanish makes someone uneducated, where I bet she only speaks English, I believe ANYONE who can speak two or more languages fluently is FAR MORE educated than anyone who's only language they know is English.
Love the first story! I would've done the same 🤣 but with Korean and mandarin currently hooked on French