First story reminds me of a particular cold response from a photographer. She was helping out a friend on their wedding day, free service, just pay for the physical photos, great deal! Problem was both bride and groom treated photographer friend like scum, denying her a plate for food, no restroom break, not even water. In the end, photographer went up to both of them, demanding a glass of water and a chair to sit on for 15 minutes because she's been on her feet for hours. They tell her she is working, therefore no breaks. Photographer simply shows them her camera, then select the 'DELETE ALL' option. Every photo of the wedding gone for good. Groom's face went white, bride goes nuts, threatening to sue her. However, no payment, no contract, no basis to sue. Photographer went home, blocked both of them.
Re: last story. I have a neighbor who owns some acreage behind my and a couple other neighbors homes. Some years ago one particular neighbor who wasn't worth spit at taking care of his own property, started complaining about the brush and such behind his place on my neighbors land. Now, this bit of land behind his place is virtually worthless as it harbors sinkholes, so we neighbors get rid if our yard waste down there, with the owners blessing, of course. Well, Mr. complainer finally complains one time too many about it, so land owner told him not to worry about it, he'd havew some people down ther in a couple weeks putting up hog fence, and the hogs would clean the place up. That was the last time Mr. complainer said a damned word about it.
Last story. I think the family members begged for a discount so they can sell the house at original value so they can get a profit and afford a house closer to the city. Glad op got the house back.
I bet this was purely a cash grab, which is why they said they could only get half the funds. They were relying on him being generous, so they could double their money and using "family" as a mechanism of guilting him.
True retail story, I worked for a large security concern, that specialized in hospital, shopping mall, and residential security, one year at Christmas, we were having staffing issues, at one of our retail accounts, located in a mall, in a high crime area, located at the opposite end of the county, from where I lived, ( about a 1 1/2 hour drive) I didn't want to make the commute, as I was short on cash ( and gas) but the boss was insistent, so off I went, the client required me to take a post, at the entrance to the store, and not to move from it. ( in the managers words, " don't move from that spot, don't even move a muscle, not even to blink") so as I stood there, a woman walked up, and proceeded to remove my badge, from my shirt! I was startled by her boldness, and asked her , " excuse me, what do you think you're doing? " the woman acted startled, stammering " I thought you were a mannequin" and ran off, some people.
Story 1: "I'm sorry that people like you exist" is the closest thing to an apology OP needed to give to the customer. Not sure how that would go over with OP's management, though.
Story 1 - Having worked retail for more than seven years, I'm fairly certain that there are a disturbing number of customers who have this opinion (store employees are often treated like robots, complete with the shock that you might need such things as food and breaks or water on a hot day), but I've never seen/heard one of them actually *say it outright* like that...wow...
I'm not an OSHA worker or anything, but that would be a violation for that kind of thinking. If she were working retail and had someone say that to her, a barrage of cuss words would be going at them like machine gun fire!🤣😂😆 Am I right?
First story even FEDERAL labor laws disagree with Karen about bathroom breaks at the very least ask a number of large companies that have found this out the hard way
Great tactic w/ the hogs in the last story. That definitely would've drastically reduced the value of the home the evil family member was hoping to make off the sale. What a jerk move! It'd be like (using easy numbers) getting a $100,000 home for $50,000, then turning around in hopes of selling it for $110,000 (because, appreciation). The threat of hogs brought that back down to $50,000. Smart bro!!
I've had a variation of the first story. I work catering events. We had one big one. We show up to work, and we are informed by the lady running it that "you are hired by us. You are not allowed breaks, nor can you eat." Was an all-day event. The second she left, our boss in charge turned to us and said "sneak food any chance you can get, take restroom breaks whenever you want. If they complain, I'll file a counter complaint." And we did, all day long. The lady was fuming mad, and actually threw at least 3 people off the event. One was a pregnant woman who sat down for a minute.
Ever noticed how the vast majority of these cases, come from Karens and not Kevins. When I look at the entitlement that women frequently express these days, it's hardly surprising.
First of all, tell her she is not your boss, you work for 'x' company, secondly, tell her that her demands break quite a number of labour and federal laws. Third, get your boss to ask her to put it in writing! Alternatively, you can just tell her to fro.
@@stoopingfalcon891 this was years ago, and trust me, we all gave her the finger any chance we got. I managed to "acquire" a whole pizza to share with some of the people I worked with. Others grabbed grilled brats and burgers.
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RE : FIRST STORY ; If it was me I would have chased after her yelling in as high a pitched voice as I could do !!!!"SEEK , LOCATE , EXSTREMINATE , SEEK , LOCATE , EEXXXTERNINATE"!!!! !!!!"YOU WILL OBEY THE DALEKS!!!! " OBEY"!!!!"OBEY"!!!! !!!!"OBEY"!!!!"OBEY"!!!!
Pig poo takes on the smell of whatever they've eaten. We raised a couple of hogs a year for meat (I still won't eat pork). We used to feed ours table scraps to supplement the hog feed and kept the hog pen way away from the house. Smell was awful.
Story 1: As someone who has worked in the food industry over 35 years, you'd be surprised how many customers (and some managers/owners) have the same reaction.
The ONLY reason I'd EVER be at the feet of a Karen is is I tripped and fell and even then, I'd make the best of it by tying her shoelaces together while she's screeching at me to ... Then I'd try to painfully drag myself off the floor and hope my Shoulders and Hip choose to let me climb to my feet (they don't always cooperate, which is why I tend to use a Mobility Scooter when I can...I CAN walk, I just don't like to due to discomfort)... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Not human when working story: I would have told Karen to leave, she was no longer welcome in the store and would be refused service, now and in the future. PERIOD!
It probably would've taken more time for OP to do that than if they'd just gone to the restroom though. Plus the customer would have absolutely been just as, if not more, irrate about the entire situation if OP did do that.
I worked retail for a short period of time about a million years ago. It was awful. I never encountered the wretched customers or managers that are slithering around the shops these days. Ooof.
@@philiprice7875 I was actually quoting the TV Show Archer. Archer says the quote, and Lana corrects him that its Dogs, and he responds "Whatever Farm animal of war!"
I can't speak to other countries, but at both state, and federal levels in the USA, its a legal o obligation to allow employees to use the restroom reasonably as needed. 🤣 Everyone old enough to work learns this FAST. 🤣🤣🤣
People who dehumanize retail employees also dehumanize other kinds of people - African Americans, Indigenous, LBGTQ+, disabled, women children, etc. Anyone that could be seen as lesser is used to boost their perceived status. They usually treat animals even worse
Sounds like the story I heard where the HOA that was formed from a community that was built right next to a farm who had a business he was running that wasn't what the land was zoned for. But the HOA didn't like what he was doing. So he closed down the business that the HOA asked him to close down through legal action and then brought pigs in which the land was zoned for. The moral of that story is to be careful what you ask for.
This last story where the hogs weren't deployed would pair nicely with another story where hogs were deployed. I think it involved a store owner getting even and driving customers away from someone he'd had trouble with.
There have been at least 2 others that I can recall. One was someone who bought a strip of land next to a rancher to build a house on, found the ranchers fence was a few inches over their side and rather then talk to them, tried to do everything by suing them. The rancher set a hog farm right next to the property line and set up the manure pile right there until they left, then removed it for the much nicer new purchasers. The other one, was someone who owned a piece of land he wanted to build a little Huntin' and Fishin' store on for his retirement. The land was next to a restaurant and the owner wanted to expand it onto the piece of land, but was rebuffed. When the owner of the land applied for a "change of use" permit, from farming to commercial, the restaurant owner got his family to block the application (his BiL, I think, worked in the planning dept) to make it impossible, to try and force the landownder to sell it to him cheap. He used the farming status of the land to open a hog farm on it, and basically closed the restaurant down by driving the customers away. He then bought the restaurant, opened his store and ended up owning both.
@@jcorbett9620 I forgot about the house story. Now I need to make a playlist that includes the three. This one, because of that last line, has to be the last on the list.
I work retail in a more basics category and 1st story Karen is the kind of person who couldn’t get anything during the 2020 lock down example Decent customer : do you have xyz ? Me : No promises but if you get here before 730 tomorrow I might have 1 I can set aside for you Jerk customer: I need xyz! Me : what we have is what we have, I don’t know what’s on the truck, or if we will get a truck . JC : I need 10! Me : it’s limit 1 and I don’t know if we’ll have any , and I won’t have the time to hold product in the morning sorry ( go back to being busy with something else )
When selling anything for cheap, make it written in the contract that if they want to sell, the previous owner has the right to buy it back at same price. With houses you can put on a "clause" o property (Couldn't find the proper word..)
My father said this in regards to a seating arrangement ,"the one s that care don,t matter cuz the one,s that matter don,t care !! It applies to many situations
"negotiated 3 weeks holiday" !!!??? That is a horribly low amount of holiday - in Europe 4 weeks is the norm. and employees who have been in the company a while get extra days - I was getting 6 weeks annual holiday (national holidays were on top of this) at my last company before I left and started my own business.
Three weeks paid vacation? Blimey, that's less than usual amount where I live. I once had to cut back to three from four on changing employer "because that was the union standard", and thought myself hard done by.
Anytime you get the 'employees aren't people' spiel from a customer, just walk away. Only people have developed communication skills, so if you aren't a person then clearly you cannot communicate with them.
last story, happened to us too. my grandma gave her sister a big chunk of our land so she could move here and build a house because her hubby was dying and supposedly had less than a year to live. they promptly turned about and sold the land for a massive profit and stayed where they were. never spoke to them again. sometimes family sucks.
What is it with Karens? If they are in the grocery store, they think THEY are the only people in there or at least the only ones who are important and everyone else needs to step aside until they have done all their shopping and selected the choice items and left, and then us lesser mortals can sort through what is left. If they are in a restaurant, they can scream and curse at the wait staff because the wait staff is just there to fulfill their every need and they are somewhat less than human and don't have feelings anyway, so it is perfectly all right to scream at them. If they are driving, all the other cars need to head for the ditches and wait while Karen goes unimpeded through the traffic and gets where she is going because her time is the only time that is important. If their child wants something, every other child needs to hand over what the Entitled Child wants because Karen's kids are more deserving than the children of anyone else. If they see that you have something and they want it, they think you should just give it to them, or they are quite willing to just take it from you. If they catch you breaking some rule (maybe a rule only THEY know about) it is up to Karen to let you know that what you are doing is not acceptable. In short, Karen is the only person in the universe who is important, and she has the leading role and all the rest of us are just bit players who provide her with whatever it is she needs to live her charmed life. I repeat. What is it with Karens? BTW, I LOVE the story about the hogs. The guy not only didn't have to deploy the hogs, he didn't even break a sweat. WELL DONE!
There is a very bizarre and archaic business idea that when an employee is working they are part of the business or "part of the whole" and not an individual or person when on the clock. This ended in something like the 50's or 60's when Unions started to become commonplace in all businesses and not just industrial settings. So all workers have legal rights not to be abused by employers. I guess there are still a-holes that think this is the case. 🤦♂😲
I find it a bit confusing when an obviously masculine voice recounts a story in the first person ("I", "me", etc) but it turns out towards the end to be about a female.
Does anyone else HATE when they post the main story last like I’m not here for the rest of the garbage but I may stay if the first story is good enough I just close out if it isn’t the story posted but wanted to hear this one
You're not human when you're at work you're not allowed to use the bathroom eat or drink yeah that would be a federal crime your customer was an insane person
"Not a person"? Phone routing voice: I think you said "You are a pleasant person" "Is that right? [No! I said you shouldn't take bathroom breaks when you're supposed to be working!] "I heard you say "You need to have bathroom breaks when you are working" Is that right? Or just Purposely mishear or misunderstand every bitchy thing said. "You should be fired!" "No, I'm not tired at all, thanks for asking" "I want you to get the manager!" "Yeah. He really is the best manager"
Ahhh you Americans... Thinking 3 weeks holiday a year is a good perk. As opposed to in the UK/Europe where that's usually considered illegally short of holiday by a week for full time employment...
If anyone ever says "You are not a person" the best response is to just start making retarded animal noies, "Wleth thinths Im noth a person, bark bark bark, meow hiss... now leave".
We had a temp worker except her name was Jennifer. Our hospital was had installed a new electronic patient record computer system and Jennifer was very skilled in it. Our CIO was very cheap and underpaid all staff and received bonuses for keeping staff salary down. Jennifer was extremely skilled and was very friendly to the programmers she worked with. She takes to the Director and CIO about a raise. The yelled at Jennifer that she needed to be here for two years before a raise. Well the other bigger hospital system in the same city was installing the same electronic patient computer system and happened to locate the new data center about five miles away. A week later Jennifer found one of the best programmers crying in the women restroom. She was also turned down a promotion and salary increase after be promised it would happen. Answer was no money in the budget. The CIO’s answer to all promises. Jennifer waited about a week and went out for drinks after work. Well the other hospital IT executives were at the same bar. They knew Jennifer and sat down. They told the unhappy programmer they wanted to hire her triple the salary and same vacation time and a bonus after six months. That hospital IT knew how cheap that CIO was and how Hospital senior executives thought IT was just a big accounting machine. Jennifer real profession was as a finding the best IT talent for a company by being hired in. Within five months almost 50% of the best IT programmers quit because they found out how underpaid they were. Since the State is right to work a employer or employee can be fired or quit at any time.
First story reminds me of a particular cold response from a photographer. She was helping out a friend on their wedding day, free service, just pay for the physical photos, great deal! Problem was both bride and groom treated photographer friend like scum, denying her a plate for food, no restroom break, not even water.
In the end, photographer went up to both of them, demanding a glass of water and a chair to sit on for 15 minutes because she's been on her feet for hours. They tell her she is working, therefore no breaks. Photographer simply shows them her camera, then select the 'DELETE ALL' option. Every photo of the wedding gone for good. Groom's face went white, bride goes nuts, threatening to sue her. However, no payment, no contract, no basis to sue. Photographer went home, blocked both of them.
That's supremely awesome.
I would have loved to have seen that.
What a shitty "friend", garbage human being who's probably never worked a customer service job in her life. Same with her hubby.
It amazes me how something like this can get that far without the person realizing who their friends are not.
And that is Anti Karen 101. Say goodbye to your wedding day memories!
@@rogerramjet6429 Wondering if the photographer took a picture of their faces to keep for herself? 😂😲
Re: last story. I have a neighbor who owns some acreage behind my and a couple other neighbors homes. Some years ago one particular neighbor who wasn't worth spit at taking care of his own property, started complaining about the brush and such behind his place on my neighbors land. Now, this bit of land behind his place is virtually worthless as it harbors sinkholes, so we neighbors get rid if our yard waste down there, with the owners blessing, of course. Well, Mr. complainer finally complains one time too many about it, so land owner told him not to worry about it, he'd havew some people down ther in a couple weeks putting up hog fence, and the hogs would clean the place up. That was the last time Mr. complainer said a damned word about it.
"You're not a human when you're at work."
"At least there are times when I am."
“Deploy the hogs.” Is my favorite line from this channel I just imagine Mabel pines with an army of Waddles.
Last story. I think the family members begged for a discount so they can sell the house at original value so they can get a profit and afford a house closer to the city. Glad op got the house back.
I bet this was purely a cash grab, which is why they said they could only get half the funds.
They were relying on him being generous, so they could double their money and using "family" as a mechanism of guilting him.
@@rogerramjet6429 100% agree.
No doubt
True retail story, I worked for a large security concern, that specialized in hospital, shopping mall, and residential security, one year at Christmas, we were having staffing issues, at one of our retail accounts, located in a mall, in a high crime area, located at the opposite end of the county, from where I lived, ( about a 1 1/2 hour drive) I didn't want to make the commute, as I was short on cash ( and gas) but the boss was insistent, so off I went, the client required me to take a post, at the entrance to the store, and not to move from it. ( in the managers words, " don't move from that spot, don't even move a muscle, not even to blink") so as I stood there, a woman walked up, and proceeded to remove my badge, from my shirt! I was startled by her boldness, and asked her , " excuse me, what do you think you're doing? " the woman acted startled, stammering " I thought you were a mannequin" and ran off, some people.
Story 1: "I'm sorry that people like you exist" is the closest thing to an apology OP needed to give to the customer. Not sure how that would go over with OP's management, though.
Likely it would’ve been easy to refuse service, depending on local laws. That is what I would’ve done.
Story 1 - Having worked retail for more than seven years, I'm fairly certain that there are a disturbing number of customers who have this opinion (store employees are often treated like robots, complete with the shock that you might need such things as food and breaks or water on a hot day), but I've never seen/heard one of them actually *say it outright* like that...wow...
I'm not an OSHA worker or anything, but that would be a violation for that kind of thinking. If she were working retail and had someone say that to her, a barrage of cuss words would be going at them like machine gun fire!🤣😂😆 Am I right?
GO Charlie!!
First story even FEDERAL labor laws disagree with Karen about bathroom breaks at the very least ask a number of large companies that have found this out the hard way
Good morning RedWheel
Happy Hump Day everyone
Great tactic w/ the hogs in the last story. That definitely would've drastically reduced the value of the home the evil family member was hoping to make off the sale. What a jerk move! It'd be like (using easy numbers) getting a $100,000 home for $50,000, then turning around in hopes of selling it for $110,000 (because, appreciation). The threat of hogs brought that back down to $50,000. Smart bro!!
Charlie saw the barrel that the company could be bent over and took the golden goose opportunity. Well played,Charlie, well played.
Europe is amazed that Charlie thought 3 weeks' holiday was a good deal!!!
I've had a variation of the first story. I work catering events. We had one big one. We show up to work, and we are informed by the lady running it that "you are hired by us. You are not allowed breaks, nor can you eat." Was an all-day event. The second she left, our boss in charge turned to us and said "sneak food any chance you can get, take restroom breaks whenever you want. If they complain, I'll file a counter complaint." And we did, all day long. The lady was fuming mad, and actually threw at least 3 people off the event. One was a pregnant woman who sat down for a minute.
Ever noticed how the vast majority of these cases, come from Karens and not Kevins.
When I look at the entitlement that women frequently express these days, it's hardly surprising.
First of all, tell her she is not your boss, you work for 'x' company, secondly, tell her that her demands break quite a number of labour and federal laws. Third, get your boss to ask her to put it in writing! Alternatively, you can just tell her to fro.
@@stoopingfalcon891 this was years ago, and trust me, we all gave her the finger any chance we got. I managed to "acquire" a whole pizza to share with some of the people I worked with. Others grabbed grilled brats and burgers.
@@aleisterblacke Ahhh. 'acquired pizza'. Somehow those always taste better! 👍
Most bosses of "charlie" won't let their ego go and run the company into the hole first or pay 3 times what they were paying out orginally
Happy hump day everyone. Thanks for sharing RedWheel. Please stay safe.🏴😷😁👍.
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice!
FYI. Red wheel is by far my favorite thread to read. Good stories, well written, no BS, I don’t think I could be happier. Thanks very very much. Oh, and I have eyesight issues and it’s really great to be able to read the text. That’s definitely a dealbreaker for me. Many thanks
It's one of the very few channels that I click the like button before I even read/hear the stories 👍😊
I'm also happy with the Font size thanks for bringing it to my attention!
@@stoopingfalcon891 Me too!
RE : FIRST STORY ; If it was me I would have chased after her yelling in as high a pitched voice as I could do !!!!"SEEK , LOCATE , EXSTREMINATE , SEEK , LOCATE , EEXXXTERNINATE"!!!! !!!!"YOU WILL OBEY THE DALEKS!!!! " OBEY"!!!!"OBEY"!!!! !!!!"OBEY"!!!!"OBEY"!!!!
You could add "YOU ARE THE KAREN...THE ENEMY OF THE DALEKS!!!"
@@tgant2000 🙀 HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA 😺
i have GOT to remember that
dont believe in God but i am praying to everyone of them i will get the chance to use it
WE LOOKED AT AN OLD PIG FARM FOR SALE. EVEN AFTER YEARS OF VACANCY YOU COULD STILL SMELL THE PIGS IN THE HOUSE
Piggies do smell!!
Pig poo takes on the smell of whatever they've eaten. We raised a couple of hogs a year for meat (I still won't eat pork). We used to feed ours table scraps to supplement the hog feed and kept the hog pen way away from the house. Smell was awful.
I can totally vouch! My uncle and aunt raised hogs when they were living, and boy! Do those hogs *STINK!!!* 😵🤢😫😖☠
From the last story: That is what happens when you poke the bear. First he gets angry, then he gets hungry.
1st story: I would've told her "Then go find an actual human to annoy."
Story 1: As someone who has worked in the food industry over 35 years, you'd be surprised how many customers (and some managers/owners) have the same reaction.
First story, right after Karen said "you are not a person" to just deny them service, tell her to be rude in some OTHER store.
The ONLY reason I'd EVER be at the feet of a Karen is is I tripped and fell and even then, I'd make the best of it by tying her shoelaces together while she's screeching at me to ...
Then I'd try to painfully drag myself off the floor and hope my Shoulders and Hip choose to let me climb to my feet (they don't always cooperate, which is why I tend to use a Mobility Scooter when I can...I CAN walk, I just don't like to due to discomfort)...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Not human when working story: I would have told Karen to leave, she was no longer welcome in the store and would be refused service, now and in the future. PERIOD!
Yeah, kick her to the curb.
First story: it's dangerous to only have one person working in the store
Here in Australia it's illegal and a health and safety violation, for good reason.
On the Second Story, way to go Charlie show them what you can do and what's your worth and what it will be like without you. Great job.
Concerning the first story. If you need to leave the store unattended, just lock the door and put a note with the time saying will be right back!
It probably would've taken more time for OP to do that than if they'd just gone to the restroom though. Plus the customer would have absolutely been just as, if not more, irrate about the entire situation if OP did do that.
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I have seen/heard many stories where hogs were a secret weapon - works every time.🐖🤣 Bacon, anyone?
who ever 1st used hogs as a weapon is either
A) rich or
B) serving time for "crimes against humanity"
"You heard the General! DEPLOY THE HOGS!!!...." cue dramatic music...
Good morning RedWheel thanks for sharing the stories. Hope you have an awesome day
I worked retail for a short period of time about a million years ago. It was awful. I never encountered the wretched customers or managers that are slithering around the shops these days. Ooof.
Cry Havoc and let loose the Hogs of War!
puns like that should be a crime (because i didnt think of it first)
@@philiprice7875 I was actually quoting the TV Show Archer. Archer says the quote, and Lana corrects him that its Dogs, and he responds "Whatever Farm animal of war!"
I can't speak to other countries, but at both state, and federal levels in the USA, its a legal o obligation to allow employees to use the restroom reasonably as needed. 🤣 Everyone old enough to work learns this FAST. 🤣🤣🤣
People who dehumanize retail employees also dehumanize other kinds of people - African Americans, Indigenous, LBGTQ+, disabled, women children, etc. Anyone that could be seen as lesser is used to boost their perceived status. They usually treat animals even worse
Love how Karens always think they claim whatever they want and they don't realize how much trouble their going to be in
Sounds like the story I heard where the HOA that was formed from a community that was built right next to a farm who had a business he was running that wasn't what the land was zoned for. But the HOA didn't like what he was doing. So he closed down the business that the HOA asked him to close down through legal action and then brought pigs in which the land was zoned for. The moral of that story is to be careful what you ask for.
This last story where the hogs weren't deployed would pair nicely with another story where hogs were deployed. I think it involved a store owner getting even and driving customers away from someone he'd had trouble with.
There have been at least 2 others that I can recall.
One was someone who bought a strip of land next to a rancher to build a house on, found the ranchers fence was a few inches over their side and rather then talk to them, tried to do everything by suing them. The rancher set a hog farm right next to the property line and set up the manure pile right there until they left, then removed it for the much nicer new purchasers.
The other one, was someone who owned a piece of land he wanted to build a little Huntin' and Fishin' store on for his retirement. The land was next to a restaurant and the owner wanted to expand it onto the piece of land, but was rebuffed. When the owner of the land applied for a "change of use" permit, from farming to commercial, the restaurant owner got his family to block the application (his BiL, I think, worked in the planning dept) to make it impossible, to try and force the landownder to sell it to him cheap. He used the farming status of the land to open a hog farm on it, and basically closed the restaurant down by driving the customers away. He then bought the restaurant, opened his store and ended up owning both.
@@jcorbett9620 I forgot about the house story. Now I need to make a playlist that includes the three. This one, because of that last line, has to be the last on the list.
When you are at work YOU DO NOT BREATHE! Breathing is a luxury!
Good afternoon from the UK Red wheel 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
What part of the UK?
Cheshire.
“Don’t eat, drink, or use the bathroom for 8 hours??? GET…OUT! And don’t ever come back!”
I work retail in a more basics category and 1st story Karen is the kind of person who couldn’t get anything during the 2020 lock down example
Decent customer : do you have xyz ?
Me : No promises but if you get here before 730 tomorrow I might have 1 I can set aside for you
Jerk customer: I need xyz!
Me : what we have is what we have, I don’t know what’s on the truck, or if we will get a truck .
JC : I need 10!
Me : it’s limit 1 and I don’t know if we’ll have any , and I won’t have the time to hold product in the morning sorry ( go back to being busy with something else )
I love those pig stories 🤣! They win the war every time!
i like it too, but going HOG WILD will be the better in the end.
Yeah, they'll stink out everyone around! 😖😫😵🤢 Bleah!
get the UN to broker peace between Arabs and Israel saying make peace or grow pigs
When selling anything for cheap, make it written in the contract that if they want to sell, the previous owner has the right to buy it back at same price. With houses you can put on a "clause" o property (Couldn't find the proper word..)
TIL - Pooping is a luxury...
Love he background! And the stories!
🔥🔥🔥🧙🏻♂
1st story: How do you stop being human when you work? Maybe Karen should see how long she can hold it.
My father said this in regards to a seating arrangement ,"the one s that care don,t matter cuz the one,s that matter don,t care !! It applies to many situations
Last story. Why am I hearing Frau Farbisina from Austin Powers screaming " RELEASE THE HOGS"?
After listening to so many stories it seems hogs are the answer to a lot of problems
It's BACON!!!
"Negotiated 3 weeks of holidays a year" WTF?? The LEGAL MINIMUM here is 4 weeks.
I’ve had two customers call me a bitch and one threatened to punch me. Some people just treat you like a retail slave.
"negotiated 3 weeks holiday" !!!??? That is a horribly low amount of holiday - in Europe 4 weeks is the norm. and employees who have been in the company a while get extra days - I was getting 6 weeks annual holiday (national holidays were on top of this) at my last company before I left and started my own business.
Oh my god, that logic in the first story
Three weeks paid vacation? Blimey, that's less than usual amount where I live. I once had to cut back to three from four on changing employer "because that was the union standard", and thought myself hard done by.
Good for op brother plan to get house back
Anytime you get the 'employees aren't people' spiel from a customer, just walk away. Only people have developed communication skills, so if you aren't a person then clearly you cannot communicate with them.
The moral of the last story, is never ever do favors for family, they'll all screw you in the end
so do I
last story, happened to us too. my grandma gave her sister a big chunk of our land so she could move here and build a house because her hubby was dying and supposedly had less than a year to live. they promptly turned about and sold the land for a massive profit and stayed where they were. never spoke to them again. sometimes family sucks.
It's not wanting to be important that causes the problem it's the delusion that your importance is more than anyone else...
Charlie had the manager by the short hairs. Nice way to get hired and paid more money.
DEPLOY THE HOGS!!
Love the logistics story. I did that for many years, so it was neat to hear a story about
A couple of repeat stories today!
What is it with Karens? If they are in the grocery store, they think THEY are the only people in there or at least the only ones who are important and everyone else needs to step aside until they have done all their shopping and selected the choice items and left, and then us lesser mortals can sort through what is left. If they are in a restaurant, they can scream and curse at the wait staff because the wait staff is just there to fulfill their every need and they are somewhat less than human and don't have feelings anyway, so it is perfectly all right to scream at them. If they are driving, all the other cars need to head for the ditches and wait while Karen goes unimpeded through the traffic and gets where she is going because her time is the only time that is important. If their child wants something, every other child needs to hand over what the Entitled Child wants because Karen's kids are more deserving than the children of anyone else. If they see that you have something and they want it, they think you should just give it to them, or they are quite willing to just take it from you. If they catch you breaking some rule (maybe a rule only THEY know about) it is up to Karen to let you know that what you are doing is not acceptable. In short, Karen is the only person in the universe who is important, and she has the leading role and all the rest of us are just bit players who provide her with whatever it is she needs to live her charmed life. I repeat. What is it with Karens?
BTW, I LOVE the story about the hogs. The guy not only didn't have to deploy the hogs, he didn't even break a sweat. WELL DONE!
I'm amazed you work at a place with no restroom
Um .... what has the headline "New Neighbour Karen Claims My House" got to do with any of the three stories recounted here??!
There is a very bizarre and archaic business idea that when an employee is working they are part of the business or "part of the whole" and not an individual or person when on the clock. This ended in something like the 50's or 60's when Unions started to become commonplace in all businesses and not just industrial settings. So all workers have legal rights not to be abused by employers. I guess there are still a-holes that think this is the case. 🤦♂😲
The last day I worked retail was like my last day in San Quentin.
I love your presentation of these stories, all but the last one was new to me. Great work, thanks for the entertainment!
Man you got to love those object lessons humbled manager is able to learn more.
Title of video is deceiving.
Always. But has a good narrator.
You should have told her she can leave the store and never come back
Seriously sad Country . We can get 4 weeks annual leave and 10 days sick leave
I have worked retail in many places and you meet so many Karens and kens
Why didn't Charlie negotiate a proper vacation? Nobody only gets 3 weeks these days.
I find it a bit confusing when an obviously masculine voice recounts a story in the first person ("I", "me", etc) but it turns out towards the end to be about a female.
Does anyone else HATE when they post the main story last like I’m not here for the rest of the garbage but I may stay if the first story is good enough
I just close out if it isn’t the story posted but wanted to hear this one
No. Actually, it's a very common literary device.
You're not human when you're at work you're not allowed to use the bathroom eat or drink yeah that would be a federal crime your customer was an insane person
The teaser fails to match ANY of the stories.
Enough with the clickbait already, RedWheel!
How about you get off the drugs.
"Not a person"?
Phone routing voice:
I think you said
"You are a pleasant person"
"Is that right?
[No! I said you shouldn't take bathroom breaks when you're supposed to be working!]
"I heard you say
"You need to have bathroom breaks when you are working"
Is that right?
Or just Purposely mishear or misunderstand every bitchy thing said.
"You should be fired!"
"No, I'm not tired at all, thanks for asking"
"I want you to get the manager!"
"Yeah. He really is the best manager"
It seems a lot of property issues on this channel are solved with pigs or hogs
Good morning Redwheel. Thanks for the stories. Have a great day. Work smarter not harder pays off.
Too fun, excited for the post
"Deploy the hogs." 🤣😂🤣😅
Ahhh you Americans... Thinking 3 weeks holiday a year is a good perk. As opposed to in the UK/Europe where that's usually considered illegally short of holiday by a week for full time employment...
click bait and i cant understand why? I liked it but still click bait
I would have LOCKED the door ! Back in 5 min.
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Title is misleading
Good Morning Redwheel have a great day 👍 Have a great day everyone 👋🤗
misleading much?
If anyone ever says "You are not a person" the best response is to just start making retarded animal noies, "Wleth thinths Im noth a person, bark bark bark, meow hiss... now leave".
Good stories but another example of you not having a story that matches the thumbnail
We had a temp worker except her name was Jennifer. Our hospital was had installed a new electronic patient record computer system and Jennifer was very skilled in it. Our CIO was very cheap and underpaid all staff and received bonuses for keeping staff salary down. Jennifer was extremely skilled and was very friendly to the programmers she worked with. She takes to the Director and CIO about a raise. The yelled at Jennifer that she needed to be here for two years before a raise.
Well the other bigger hospital system in the same city was installing the same electronic patient computer system and happened to locate the new data center about five miles away. A week later Jennifer found one of the best programmers crying in the women restroom. She was also turned down a promotion and salary increase after be promised it would happen. Answer was no money in the budget. The CIO’s answer to all promises.
Jennifer waited about a week and went out for drinks after work. Well the other hospital IT executives were at the same bar. They knew Jennifer and sat down. They told the unhappy programmer they wanted to hire her triple the salary and same vacation time and a bonus after six months. That hospital IT knew how cheap that CIO was and how Hospital senior executives thought IT was just a big accounting machine.
Jennifer real profession was as a finding the best IT talent for a company by being hired in. Within five months almost 50% of the best IT programmers quit because they found out how underpaid they were. Since the State is right to work a employer or employee can be fired or quit at any time.