Store employee assaults me? That's a lawsuit, guaranteed. And there's no laughing that off, at the bare minimum that employee needs to be fired if he thinks he can treat other workers like that.
You ever notice how easy it is to get people to help you when you say something like, “Excuse me, sorry, do you think you can help me with something? It’s on the top shelf, and I can’t reach.” Instead of snapping at them like a dog and being a jerk to someone whose only crime is being in your general vicinity when you were in a foul mood.
I KNOW, RIGHT?????????? My mum is literally a little old lady, having lost a lot of height in the last decade. She's always telling me how kind store employees & random strangers are with helping her reach things off store shelves that are now too high for her. "Excuse me, please" is SO easy to say; the only reasons for snapping your fingers are if you're grooving to music or playing a part in West Side Story. If someone has on headphones, assume they shouldn't be bothered & find someone else! The only reason for tapping someone with headphones on the shoulder to get their attention would be something like if the building you're in is being evacuated & they don't seem to notice...
Not necessarily. My Karen encounter involved some jerk who was too busy talking with some chick to bother to take a few steps aside so that I could get to the tomato sauce on the shelf he was leaning up against. Since the fool condescendingly told me to wait, I did so while leaning up against the shelf across from him while loudly playing a game on my phone. The guy eventually got fed up, but then later, while standing behind me in the line at checkout, he had the gall to accuse ME of being entitled because I didn't wait for him to finish his conversation. So I told him that since my time was not considered to be equal to his, I shouldn't even be in the same breathing space as him. So I left the items I was preparing to buy on the turnstile and walked out of the store. I am sorry about leaving the checker (or other store employee) with the responsibility of returning those items. I was new to the whole Karen phenomenon back then, but now I'm better mentally equipped to deal with such creatures.
I have a similar story with a teacher. This is in the late 80s. My class were having a field trip at a zoo. My class are all wearing a sweatshirt with a logo of our school that helps identify us. Sounds easy? NOPE! A teacher from another school actually grabbed me, trying to drag me to another group. I kept telling her, I am NOT PART OF YOUR SCHOOL. She kept saying to me SHUT UP!! Until her supervisor ran up and said. HE IS NOT WITH US. How do you know? She asked. Look at what he is wearing!! The name of my school. She let me go, and I ran to my group. I could hear her being yelled at, NEXT TIME, ASKED IF A KID IS WITH US, OR ELSE WE WOULD NEVER LET YOU CHAPARONE A FIELD TRIP EVER AGAIN.
I'm astonished she was let off with a warning, I'm 90% sure that legally counts as kidnapping if she dragged you a certain distance away outdoors or dragged you into any room other than the one you were in indoors. That is alarmingly negligent behaviour on her part, imagine going to prison for negligent child kidnapping if that other supervisor wasn't there, she's practically inventing a new crime.
That teacher should've been in prison forever or at least get some jail time for assault of a minor and attempted kidnapping and permanently lose her teaching license.
Story 4: Yeah, there's a reason they call it "Mama Bear Mode", because when actual mama bears think their cubs are in danger, they become one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. Mrs. Davis should count her blessings that it was only her job on the line and not her life...But real talk, she should have been fired.
And considering that, for example the polar bear can weigh up to 1500 pounds that is not a mama bear that you wanna cross if you cross a mama bear that big you are getting ripped apart
Story 4: as a teacher this is beyond disgusting to me. You NEVER lay hands on a student. If a child refuses to come in and you lack the skills to get them to come in you call someone else who has the skills.
Unfortunately you are in the minority. I grew up in Ontario Canada. I have been pinned face down arms behind my back like I'm being detained dozens of times. Locked in a change room with no windows no light for the entire day. I busted the fire door down with a bench to escape that one. I was chased into the damn ceiling once by staff. I was struck many times as well. I was in a large behavior class. I wasn't a problem, I just refused to do anything. If I tried to leave they pinned me to the desk until I couldn't scream anymore. They tore my shoulder apart and taught me alot of restraint skills I ended up using on other kids that would bully me. Great plan 🎉 I'm not old... I'm 25 and not one of these teachers ever faced any reprimand. It was the method they were trained to use. I couldn't read until grade six, when my grandmother showed up one day absolutely tore the principal apart took me home and home schooled me until grade 8 when we moved to nova Scotia. More teachers are shit then are good, and it's because of the horrible state of modern parenting, combined with the unlivable wages. We filtered out so many wonderful teachers and lost them to private schools because of this.
@@FeedMeSalt if I am reading what you wrote correctly, it sounds like in general your experience wasn’t typical, that you were tracked into a different program, and considered a behavior issue, even though you weren’t actually doing bad things. Sadly lots of teachers see kids in behavior programs and assume everything is an attempt to start something. I am sure that kids in the typical program probably got away with things worse than what you got punished for just because of the program you were in.
That means if they want to buy something hideous & inappropriate that you sell, you should go ahead & sell it to them. It does NOT mean they are allowed to abuse everyone else in the store, including other customers, if they feel like it!
@@rubenjanssen8491 Yep. Once many years ago while out going to open house events I saw one place that had neon colored carpets in almost every room. Neon pink, blue, yellow, green, etc. The only rooms not carpeted were the kitchen area and the bathrooms. I can only imagine what the carpet installers were thinking.
Yea, getting headphones ripped off of your head is assault. My calm response would have immediately been,FIRST return my property, SECOND your choice lets either call your District manager or the Police. I am glad this worked out in the end.
Personally whenever I hear these stories about people ripping out earbuds or ripping off headphones warrants bodily force which will include someone getting something rammed into their face from me.
Also let's remember all the stories we've hired of awholes mistaking hearing aids for headphones. People need to lurn to keep there damned hands to them selves.
Exactly! Even just grabbing someone's shoulder lightly can be considered assault. Ripping headphones CERTAINLY count as such! It never happened to me, I never onece encountered, heard of or saw a Karen in the Wild where I live - Quebec, Canada, pretty chill place. But maybe someday it'll happen, who knows? Just been lucky so far! And I worked at Tim Hortons for years, also mcDonalds and Super C.
Story 1 - Yeah this story is not the typical ‘Idontworkhere’ story but at least the manager realized his mistake and made it right with OP, but still that’s no excuse to grab and rip someone’s headphones off of their head and then yell at them. That type of behavior is disgusting and unacceptable. Hopefully the manager got a warning or a strike for that.
I am petty enough to have taken his name and called corporate. The behavior was totally unacceptable ..... on top of not knowing what his employees look like, so he accosts a customer. And I would have told him I WILL pay for my items, thank you very much.
Rule of thumb are 1. Karens are most likely women (that's why it's Karen and not Karl) 2. Men who "Went Karen" are more likely (not all of them, mind) to realize their mistake and either apologize or scurry away.
Proper response to "Im calling corporate, u dont know who you're dealing with!" "I know precisely who im dealing with...NOBODY!!! And you're going to call corporate? Go ahead. Once they're done laughing at you, your complaint will get filed in the nearest wastebasket!"
@Vale No. Just severely reprimanded and my mom let her know if she laid a finger on me again, she'd snatch off her wig and whoop her fanny up and down the hall. She ignored me after that. This was in 1973. It's was a different time. Corporeal punishment was still aloud with parental permission. My mom never gave permission.
I've lost track of how many times teachers over-stepped their bound as a kid. I wish I had realized back then just how unfair and sometimes abusive some of them were.
The pendulum has definitely swung far the other way these days in most situations. I taught 20 years ago & things were just changing. The district told us at meetings to never ever touch students-not even a hand on the shoulder. Now it’s to the point where many teachers end up second guessing signs of child abuse for fear of getting it wrong & getting sued. Things are SO different from when I was a student 40 years ago & very different from 20 years ago when I taught. But any problem human society has will end up in the schools as they’re run by humans.
Forty five years ago I had this teacher. We called her Cleopatra because of her triangular haircut. She wasn't liked very much because of her harsh behavior against kids in general. She was prone to slap, to scream or pulling the hair of those unruly students. I don't remember if she was particularly profficient on her job. Once she slapped my younger brother really hard just because she saw he made a mistake. He was an eight-year old kid. My Mom was in full rage against that woman. Cleopatra was fired when other moms complained too.
My first grade teacher forced kids to stay seated by rubberbanding their hands together behind their back & behind the back of the chair. She did this to any kid who was too restless in their seat. Kids who spoke up forgetting to raise their hands had chalkboard erasers or wads of school paper towels rubberbanded into their mouths. I was terrified of going to school & told my mum why. She brought it up to the principal, who poo-poo'ed it & didn't believe me. So I had to continue in that classroom for the rest of the year. This was in the 1970's.
Corporal Punishment is still legal in Australia, but not in publically funded schools. There's also a sensible (in my opinion) limitation that any physical effects of the punishment must be completely gone within 24 hours, otherwise it counts as assault. OTOH, it's been shown by repeated studies that punishment does not work, except as an emergency intervention done instantly after the offense. In other words, it's not really worth using unless you're doing something like slapping a small child's hand because the child was about to touch a hot stove, or giving the child a slap on the rear for trying to run out into a street.
Story 3: when the guy asked how hard could it be to write down 4 numbers, I was expecting OP to reply “well how hard is it for you to write down the right numbers?”
You'd be surprised. Back when I was a kid back in the '80s, we had a similar situation of having an almost-identical phone number to a local grocery store (the difference being that our number ended in 10 while theirs ended in 01), and it was amazing the amount of calls we'd get from people intending to call the store (while I don't know what reactions they gave to my parents and teenage brother, they were always very understanding when I would explain the mistake to them, and I'm sure a lot of that understanding came from the fact that they could probably tell from the sound of my voice that I was a kid who obviously wasn't old enough to be working at a grocery store).
Agreed. I knew a lady whose husband worked for waste management. You know, he drove the garbage truck and picked up people's trash. Honestly, his wife was the biggest piece of trash ever and she should have been thrown in there long ago, but that's just me. It was darn good money. She never remembered his work number. He didn't have a cell phone yet. This is back in the day before it was way more commonplace than it is now. She wasted money calling information all the time to get the number to actually call him up. You know instead of actually writing down his work number and the extension so they could radio him in his truck. I told her to write it down and put it on a magnet on the fridge. She surprisingly did. The next time I was over there all of the stuff that was on the fridge was gone. She told me that her son threw a tantrum and ripped everything off the fridge and it was torn up then thrown away. Apparently her son throwing tantrums and her giving in was commonplace behavior. He was about 8 years old at the time and that kind of behavior should have been done and over with, but she was a very ineffective parent. Her failure to remember a simple phone number was the least of her problems.
I was so waiting for OP to throw Dingus' words back at him by paraphrasing: "...And I don't wanna get off my ass and answer again because you can't write one number and a name"
Story 1: I was at a restaurant yesterday with my dog (pet friendly place, but she's a service dog). I couldn't find my waiter to pay, so the manager waived our bill. It was two sides and two waters, but as he pointed out, we'd been there three times in the last four days (twice that day, once for their fundraiser and once for the mac and cheese), and three days prior for dinner.
Story 1: the manager not knowing their employee's faces... to me shows they have a huge turnover, which means they are paying their employees peanuts, and are constantly short-staffed... because they can't find enough to work at their depressed wages, to supplement the owner's inflated one.
As a retail employee, I would like to point out that no employee has any incentive to lie about working at a store. If he or she said that they do not work there, he or she does not work there
Not only that, majority of places have policies in place that if you are off the clock you cant help customers. The main reason is liability. If you help a customer while off the clock and injure them, or you get injured, the store's insurance doesnt have to cover that happening, which at the same time you then have Karen's like those you hear about who will be adamant that the person said they did work there, despite being told they are off the clock. I used to get that back when I was working retail, they didnt like it when I turned around and went "You going to pay for my three hours of wages, plus the call back rate, for me serving you while off the clock since I signed out and am waiting to be served like all other customers are, because I'm no longer on the clock." Side note: I live in Australia, the minimum shift time is to be paid is three hours, so even if you are rostered for two hours, you get paid for three, and if you get called back into work its an instant three hours at time an a half rates due to it falling immediately into OT.
Right? I get this sort of thing while on the clock at Starbucks. Sometimes we're out of product, and some people will get indignant over it, thinking we're lying. What incentive do I have to lie about being out of certain product? Especially since I'm the type of employee who will offer something else or something similar. I once had a customer cuss out one of my coworkers, and when I told her to leave she kept yelling that she did no such thing. Lady, my coworker has zero incentive to lie about you cussing him out, especially since he's one of the most happy-go-lucky dudes in the store! She left us a nasty review on Facebook, and when a coworker actually responded with the full story, she deleted the review. Sounds guilty to me
I think the only reason someone would accuse another person of working in a place he doesn't then claim he's lying is because it's something they would do. It's certainly not the kind of thing the average person would think of.
That manager committed simple battery, and wouldn't have thought twice about doing that if you were an Employee. I probably would have had him arrested.
It didn't matter if he told her or not, as far as she's concerned, everyone in the store exists to serve her; as evidenced by the fact that everyone's arguments and explanations went in the ear and out the other without once grazing against a wayward brain cell.
I'm too recognizable at my jobs but at least the customers most of the time respect when its my day off. One time I just got off the clock after doing bag checks and was doing my own shopping when a couple started to asked me questions. I'm like I'm off the clock and they go "but we just saw you at the register" I'm like yes to clock out and bag checks. Also the only thing wear over our clothes is an apron. I wasn't wearing my apron to go shopping.
Why would you say that? The Supervisor didn't double-down and kept insisting that OP was a worker even though he saw the name on the shirt, so there would be no need for him to get fired...
@@JadenYukifan28 you telling me if ur boss ripped something off ur head you would think that’s normal and okay? If so, you need to take that boot out your mouth and stop licking. Doesn’t matter if he fixed things with the customer it’s the fact that he felt comfortable enough to do that to what he thought was an employee
If you touch me or my property, especially from behind. You should be ready for the painfull dose of instant karma that follows. I will most absolutely use my right of self defence to it's fullest. EDIT : Yeah, i would file a formal complaint to his HR and call the cops for assault and theft. EDIT : We all know that if misses Davis was a man he would have been charged with attempted child kidnapping and assault on minor (times 2 OP and her brother).
Right! Talk about double standard. Side note, I'm with you on the grabbing from behind. A guy I knew in high school once randomly came up behind me during a fair here and grabbed me by the waist and a second later was holding his nose because without turning around I'd punched him in the face.
Story 4: As an early elementary school kid I often had episodes of overload/flashbacks mixed up together, and would hide in small spaces when this happened. My school's default reaction was to grab my arm and haul me out while I struggled as hard as I could. It often made my arm hurt and sometimes I had bruises. It wasn't until very recently that I realized that was a form of physical abuse. They didn't know I was autistic at the time, but they *did* know I had been a victim of CSA, and anyone with a heart would think an abused child hiding underneath furniture is probably scared and physical force would just make the situation worse.
for story 3, gotta love the bass-ackwards logic of "it's YOUR fault I called you a bunch of times, got told I had the wrong number repeatedly, & still made a fool of myself when I went to the pizza place!"
Yep - it starts getting into liability issues. If someone gets hurt, the insurance won't cover it (and in the U.S., I think the business could also get into trouble with OSHA over it).
Depends on the school, not all schools have such a policy in place. Also, dont need such policies in place for home school field trips, mother knows where you are :D
@@greatgreyowl2583 still the woman should have known how many students she had to count Make sure that they weren't losing a kid. Especially now with all this school shootings they have to make sure they account for all their kids.
@@richewilson6394 and what makes you think that this occurred recently? Given the age of op at the time, it is most likely more that 10 years ago and could easily been 30 years ago. Also it is likely there was more than one grade out at recess at the same time. She was rounding up strays and thought he belonged in difference class. And nose counts (they never did at any of the schools I went to. the bell rings the kids go in the teacher makes sure everybody goes in) in many smaller schools/towns was not common and give the size of the park she may not of known about another group kids being there.
Today, no teacher likes getting beat up or threatened and seeing the school consistently throw them under the bus. So...I have no qualms in a teacher going medieval to stay uninjured.
@@GeorgieB1965 The thing is though, that depends on who throws the first swing and what grade the child is in. Anything below sophomore year of High School, you should be allowed to grab the wrists and hold firmly, but that's it. And I also believe that cameras should be in classes and all information be released publicly for parents that have students at those schools so they know what's going on in the classrooms. It also will work for teacher-on-student abuse or student-on-teacher abuse cases. And student-on-student.
@@FederalBurroOfInvestigation Including the parent getting physical with the teacher that touched their child. She would've gotten her ass whooped in at least every metro down here.😂
Story 4. First off, as a teacher, you are not supposed to be putting your hands on a student! That is very inappropriate and can even be classified as child abuse! Second, Mrs. Davis was a school teacher...I feel so sorry for the kids in her class because if she was stupid enough to not be able to recognize that OP and his brother weren't her students, then those kids were clearly not being taught properly. Forget getting a talking to, Mrs. Davis should've been fired on the spot! The way she acted towards OP and his brother makes me believe she acted the same way to her actual students, a person like that shouldn't be an educator or even allowed near children!
@@blitzwolfmon8297 And nowadays, if you're a teacher and you get caught putting your hands on a student, you're gonna get blasted to Hell and back on social media!
I went to a private nursery school. After telling my Teacher I didn't like peas or milk she held my nose & forced fed me. I proceeded to vomit all over her. She pulled me out of my seat by my ear & threw me into the corner of our room. Standing there I thought, if you don't want to listen to me, I'll bring the big people & you'll listen to them. Unbeknownst to my Teacher, my Father was the private bus driver for the school. The next day I returned to school flanked by my Parents. The outcome... my Teacher apologized to me in front of my whole class & my Father told her if she ever made me do something I specifically said I didn't want to do again, he would have her fired. I returned the next year but she didn't. I was 4 years old.
@@dee_dee_place She freaking better not have come back after pulling that stunt! She's lucky your dad wasn't like my mom, if she found out a teacher did this to me or my sister, she'd be throwing hands!
Story 4; This story was back in the 90s when I was a kid, and I didn't see this personally because I moved the year before this story happened. But basically this really spiteful teacher I had in 4th grade blew a gasket one day and hit a student with a chair because he was acting up in class. I think it hurt the kid pretty bad, like at least cracking a bone in his face. Nasty injury, but not critical. The teacher got fired and I think she also got some sort of criminal charge too, but it was a long time ago so I can't be sure about that.
I had a second grade teach in the late '50s that would pace up and down the rows of desks. She would grab students by their arm and jerk them up out of their seat while screaming and cursing at them, that paddle them. It was a very quiet classroom, but this happened at least several times a week. We complained, but no one listened. She fell down a few steps one day, face first. She broke her thick glasses, and had a piece stuck in her eye. She was screaming, "One of you little bastards go get help!" No one moved, after months of her treats that she would beat us to death if we left the group, outside of her classroom. Another teacher opened her door because of the screaming. She told us to go get help, but no one move so she had to send one of her students to the office. She left in an ambulance, and never returned. Several teachers had her screaming that she would end us all, when she came back, so they finally fired her.
One of my uber-lib high school Social Studies teachers was once eating in a Burger King. A minor employee was cleaning windows. Teach gets huffy, grabs the spray bottle of strong cleaner, sprays her in the face! He got arrested for assault, very deservedly. 🤨
@@lancerevell5979 If someone did that to me, she would have been in the hospital, first. Liberal teachers weren't very common in the '60s, but some were just bullies. Our Wood Shop teacher would yell at a boy in our class that had learning disabilities. He was a good kid and he followed the safety rules, but the teacher hated him. He was waving his fist in the boy's face one day, telling him that he was too stupid to live. The boy had finally had enough, He punched the teacher in the nose. He ran to his office to shut off all power to the tools and called the office, demanding that he be expelled and arrested. When the two principals arrived with a couple more male teachers, he was still screaming. We were asked what happened, but no one wanted to say anything. The head Principal said, "You've never lied to me, Michael. Tell me what happened." I told him everything, then added "I would have punched him too if he did that to me!" I got a shocked look, as he asked, "What?" I shrugged, "He's supposed to teach us, not threaten or scream at us." I never liked to fight, but I didn't put up with assholes like that. I chewed out my Drill Sargent for intentionally mispronouncing my last name while I was in BASIC. I was yelling so loud that our Captain came running. When I finished, the Captain read him the riot act and told him what would happen if he did it again. Then he praised me for standing up to that idiot.
@@michaelterrell Wow!! Did that teacher have mental problems or maybe major anger issues? I can totally understand NOT helping a person whose hurt that's been treating you like crap for months but the guilt would have bugged me......for a bit. Still, this was justified. Hope you guys had gotten a very nice teacher afterward.
@@Rylosalex I think she had both. We found out later that she had taught ninth grade kids for 20 years, where she wasn't well liked. We didn't see the glass in her eye, until she was rolled loaded onto a stretcher. There were a couple students that had near homeless living conditions. She dragged one of them out of class, and to the boy's gym to force him to shower. These days, she would have gone to prison. The replacement did her best to help us catch up on things she hadn't taught. My high school gym teacher threatened to paddle me for defending myself from a couple of his basketball players. I made it clear that I would take his 16 inch paddle and break it on his bony ass if he tried. I was fed p wit he bullies, including a couple teachers. I didn't cause any trouble, but I had a horrible temper. You got to take te first swing, then I used whatever I could pick up as a weapon to defend myself I got mad one day when I was 18 and picked up the V8 engine from my '66 GTO.
@@ryukaze7392 your sarcasm isn't funny. At Walmart, working off the clock is a serious infraction of their employment rules and they will fire an employee over it. They are very clear about it.
@@cyndib511 Was it sarcasm? Its the law that employees are supposed to get a half hour lunch break and 2 10 to 15 minute breaks in an eight hour shift and the employer could be in a world of hurt if the violation is discovered. Working off the clock fits under the same category, for liability and employee compensation issues.
Story 3 -- The guy ("dingus") admitted he knew he'd been calling the wrong number all along, & he blamed the people who had that number, not himself? Why does he keep calling it if he knows it's the wrong number, particularly since he was GIVEN the right number FOUR times before OP got fed up & went with shenanigans? My dude, don't blame other people for what YOU do! In the early 90's, my landline number was one number away from the phone number of a business called "APCO Appliance Parts". In the large ad in the phone book (remember those?) that APCO had paid for, their number was misprinted -- the number in that ad was MY number, though if you looked at APCO's entry in the small print list of business numbers, it had the correct number. Getting several calls a day for this APCO place, I quickly figured out what was going on & would tell callers who asked for APCO, "The number in the APCO ad is in error -- their actual number is ------. This is a residential number." Several times I got callers who wouldn't believe me & yelled at me, & I just hung up on them, since I didn't feel like I owed them anything & they were being obnoxious. The absolute worst was a guy who kept INSISTING that I HAD to "transfer him over" to APCO, because he was on a payphone (remember those?) & didn't want to use more money on another separate call. I explained that I was completely unconnected with APCO, & that my no frills private phone line was incapable of being used to transfer ANY calls ANYWHERE, but he didn't seem to get it & kept yelling at me, so I, naturally, hung up. Amazingly, he proceeded to CALL ME BACK THREE TIMES to yell at me about what an awful employee I was & how he was going to get me fired. I kept calmly telling him that there was no further way I could help him & hanging up on him, but he kept calling back! During the last call, he'd finally figured out I had nothing to do with APCO, & so he was screaming that he was going to figure out where I lived & come rape me. That did freak me out, so I yelled "NO, YOU WON'T!" & took the phone off the hook for the rest of the day. SO, if that guy didn't want to spend another fifty cents (or whatever a payphone call cost back then) in order to call APCO directly with the correct number I'd kindly provided for him, why did he want to spend THREE TIMES that amount to unproductively yell abuse at me for his own stupidity? Once he'd realized I really had nothing to do with APCO except that my number was erroneously listed for them in an ad, why did he continue to blame ME for the situation? At least some of it was his fault, & one could argue that APCO &/or the phone company might also be a bit at fault, but surely I was an innocent party? It was one of those "Oh my fuzzy goodness, some people really are much stupider than I can even imagine" moments in my life. He could have used the money for ONE of those abusive calls he made to me to call actual APCO, now that he had their real number, & if he was that annoyed at having made the first wasted call, he could have chewed THEM out for the mistake in their ad; I'm sure the employees there were used to dealing with that. He then could have gotten whatever he needed from APCO that prompted him to call in the first place, & also saved himself some time & the price of two phone calls! What a maroon...
My second grade teacher was a menace to mentally challenged students. I of course was and still do have autism on lower end of the spectrum but still on it. I think I was talking during class and she yelled at me to shut up I teared up a bit and she walked up into my face and yelled to shut up again. So I of course started bawling her response was to take she long fake nails and dig them into my shoulder and shake me telling to stop right now. And when I didn’t stop she picked me up and pulled me out of class by my arm. She took me to the principals office and they called my mom. I of course tattled told her everything and showed her the red marks on my shoulders. My mom told them if they didn’t switch my teachers she would sue.(she wouldn’t actually as we didn’t have the money to be able to do that so this was her compromise, what they don’t know won’t hurt them
Story 4: the antagonist teacher at my elementary school was Mrs Robinson (before I understood that reference) and she tried to force-feed me an apple. It did not go well and I never trusted her after that which was unfortunate because the incident happened when I was in kindergarten and the school taught K-5 so there was a long time of avoiding her.
Story 4: I had a teacher in middle school who didn't care that kids bullied others or were kids that were bullied. I told her I was being picked on one day and she just said that's what you'll have to deal with when working with people. Lady, we are in the 6th grade, I just want to do my school work and go home.
In the last story, Karen just had to involve herself and stick her nose into something that was truly none of her damn business. Why do they (Karens) feel they can bestow their great knowledge of absolutely nothing onto people who could care less about their opinion. Then after she realizes her mistake doesn't even apologize...smgdh
@@JamesDavy2009 Yep, funny thing is from her rude comment about OP having her baby there reminds me that Karens want ALL employees to be like Robots ready and happy to serve them 24/7! Yet if stores ever DID use robot's like that, they STILL wouldn't be happy because as we know! Karen's bully employees LARGELY because they get off on being plagues on other people and feeling smug and superior! Robot's don't have feelings so they can't get their "fix" off of them! Hence they'll NEVER be happy. EVEN WHEN THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT they can never be happy!
Amazing how a little patients can save the Karen's time and headaches but they decided to make trouble because they want to make people suffered over the littlest things.
@@crucisnh wow wasn’t that amazing, I an english speaker actually understood what the person meant. Where did you get your licence to humiliate and correct some one.
@@Jarino507 then a better way of telling them. Simple patience is the correct spelling , theres to many people around that like to dig in on any mistake. Even I make mistakes. However many others use english language translators as well that often only add a word AI thinks is right
Walmart somehow attracts the SPECIAL people in life. Guess I am lucky only ever been accused of being a Target employee, 3 times in one day. Funny thing is everyone finally realized I was not an employee and asked why I helped them, my reply was you asked nice so I did what I could.
During my days in retail we always loved to say "The customer is always right, until they're not". Which is pretty much the moment they walked into the store.
Story 4: OP's mom was way too generous...much more than I would have been. I don't play around about kids...I would press charges immediately: Child Abuse & Kidnaping.
Story 2, gotta love how "it's my day off and I work nights" goes in one ear and out the other with Karens because all they care about is themselves. They think should always be serviced and can demand service from anyone. Not surprised that Karen goes to the manager about op's husband and dares to insult op with a name. Then to insult op again like it's going to help her get her way but really it only got her chewed out. The manager is awesome for chewing her out and kicking her out of the store. No surprise Karen gets mad and threatens the manager 😒. Of course she insults op more and then runs when cops show up. Karens don't realize that resisting arrest only makes it so much worse for them. Of course she was on drugs and through that she thought she was all high and mighty.
2nd story: The customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE 3rd story: had a similar problem with a local bar/restaurant when I was a kid. My dad would occasionally take orders.
3rd story: I also had a similar problem as a kid back in the '80s (it's amazing how many people seem to have faced similar) - a local grocery store had an almost identical number to ours, with the only difference was that ours ended in 10 while theirs ended in 01 (so the same last two numbers, just reversed). My older brother (who was a teenager at the time) did pretend to be the store once, and I think I'd have done something similar when answering if my voice (obviously) hadn't sounded like the voice of a kid too young to be working answering phones at a business.
someone needs to turn the tables on these "I'm the customer" Karens and tell them, "if you think you can serve better, the office is right there, go apply for a job" and instead of another "I don't work here" switch to "I won't serve you!"
Story 4: I work in a public school and from what I have seen and heard from coworkers, its one of the biggest reasons I homeschool my 4 kids. I love them way too much to subject them to such cruelty, emotionally/physically abusive indoctrination. I work nights and sacrifice sleep so I can take care of them myself during the days while my husband works.
Story 1. Oh my stars for all you know the headphones could be a hearing aid! At work (i work in a retirement home for people with dementia) one of our residents hearing aids stopped working so they had to use what almost looked like a tape deck Walkman as their hearing aid! If you yanked them off that resident she would have been very scared and now rendered deaf!
Story about one of my teachers: we had a teacher in middle school (ages 12-13), I will call him Mr. Purple. He was notorious in hating the color purple, and since it is such a weird thing to hate, I and many other students just assumed it was some weird reverse psychology thing or quirk to make him more memorable? So naturally everyone coated their stuff in purple for his class. He would sometimes just mumble about how badly he hated the color under his breath but over all it didn't effect the class. Well the year after I went to high-school, apparently a new to the district student had a purple backpack. She walked in, unzipped her bag and then got berated for a solid 15 minutes for daring to bring the color purple into his room. Apparently a student snuck out of the class and ran to get the principal and he was fired privately once he was removed from the class.
That phone number story reminds me of the house number problem my parents & I had in the city of Chicago that was identical with the police department! Wow, did we ever get the wacky calls!!! Lol! 😅
I wear my bluetooth headphones because I like listening to reddit videos like Dark Fluffs and it keeps me calm in a busy environment because I am on the Autism spectrum. I lost count the number of times people have come up to me while Im minding my business especially now that I have injured left shoulder and people proceed to touch that shoulder. Its on a sling, you would think people know not to touch.
Story 2: The mere fact that Karen snapped her fingers was ALREADY a red flag. Karens seem to think they own everyone else like dogs. And this Karen CLEARLY believed herself to be above the law. Glad that the universe reminded her it wasn't the case
Story #2: It should be noted, if an employee is off the clock, there are liability issues because he won't usually be covered by the business's insurance. So employees that are off the clock really shouldn't be working or helping anyone. Going to get a working employee to come and assist was about as much as he could do, while keeping up appearances for the business.
Story 3 - I can kinda relate to the wrong number story cause the same thing happens with my family. Only people mistake our number with the local Veterinary Clinic. When they ask for the head pet doctor or is this the Veterinary Clinic, we always (politely) respond ‘I’m sorry but you’ve got the wrong number.’ And they always say, “Whoops, sorry about that.”
Yep, had a similar problem back in the '80s, where there was a local grocery store that had almost the exact same number as ours (with the difference being that ours ended in 10 and theirs ended in 01). We didn't get calls for them all the time, but we got them often enough! (And they were apologetic whenever I'd answer the phone and explained the mistake to them, because I think my voice was obviously young-sounding enough that anyone who thought about it for a moment could realize that I was much too young to be answering the phone at a business).
That teacher was beyond wrong. I had a much different experience. And I think it helped to shape my love for reading. This was back in the sixties. I was in the third grade. Recess time came, and I took a book out with me. I think it may have been Uncle Wiggly. The playground had a lot of oak trees. And the roots of one of them made a comfortable seat. I opened up the book and got completely lost in the story. I don't know how long I read before I looked up and realized my class wasn't out there. So of course I went back in. I thought I was going to get in trouble. Nope. The teacher knew where I was, and didn't want to disturb me. She knew I would come in on my own. To this day, I still get lost when reading. My family knows that they need to get my attention before trying to talk to me.
When I was a kid our phone number was one digit off from a cab company. We would occasionally get calls in the middle of the night from someone too drunk to understand wrong number or people wanting to be picked up from the jail. My dad would just say we’ll be right there and hang up.
Story two, Karen said to OP and his Wife that they did not know who she was, but the police sure knew this Karen, Karens and Lennie's don't know how to keep a low profile in public.
Story 3 reminds me of the time my brother was living with my uncle to finish school... My uncle has 2 phone lines in his house and my brother's line had almost the same number like the pizzeria in the city had (last 2 numbers switched) and he got some calls for Pizza too. Many times telling they had the last 2 numbers switched was enough but then he had a woman re-dialing the number 4 times... (maybe hitting the "repeat call" button) and at one moment he had enough because the pizzeria was open untill 10pm and he got these calls from 9.15-9.30 pm on a school night... he told that woman that she has the wrong number 4 times in a row and he's turning off the phone now. She should be checking the number and switch the last 2 numbers instead of being lazy and repeating the call everytime... She didn't take it well and threatened to call the police. Well... my uncle works for the police in another city and my brother just said "wait a minute, police is already here, you can talk to him right now" - well in that minute it took my brother to get my uncle on the phone she already hung up and she never called again.
Oh yeah that definitely works; yelling at a kid whilst pinching his arm to stop him from crying. Scream and pinch harder! Harder!! HARDER!!!! He'll eventually stop crying after you've MURDERED HIM
I had a teacher in third grade so late 80s early 90s era. She would make us wait an hour and a half to pee. I ended up peeing in my seat and going to the nurse a few times. My mom was upset. At my next pediatrician appointment she asked him if making me wait so long could hurt me. He said yea that’s not good. And wrote a note that I must be allowed to go when I say I have to. I now know what she did is abuse. I had an English teacher in highschool that screamed at me for over 5 minutes when I asked when I could make up the work I missed from a migraine the day before. This was his usual behavior. I came in during the next migraine and threw up on his desk.
That's the way to do it. They won't let you go to the bathroom to pee? PEE ON THEM! They won't let you stay home when you're puking from a migraine? PUKE ON THEM! Some people are such assholes to anyone they perceive, even incorrectly, as "weak"...
S1: Also, the person in the "lady" position (i.e., the one doing the mistaking) realizing their mistake without "I" saying anything, that's pretty rare.
At my elementary it was my 3rd grade & p.e. teachers. The school also didn’t tell our parents or have us talk to a counselor when Mr. drill instructor had a heart attack & unalived in front of us (4th) & the 3rd graders.
I had a principal in grade school that told me I should just stick with customer service jobs and that I should never hope for anything else because it's unrealistic to think I'd do anything else.
Many of my teachers told me that I wasted too much time reading Electronics books and magazines in the '60s. I tested out of a three year Electrical and Broadcast Engineering course when I entered the Army in 1972. I was the only one to ever test out of that school. Near the end of my work life, I worked on a turnkey earth station for NOAA to cntrol their LEO weather satellites, a kU band communications system for the ISS, and two turnkey earth stations for the European Space Agency.
2nd story(i think) - i used to work retail - and the customer is NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER right - not even close - when i hear the word "service" - the first thing that crosses my minds is "stupid, lazy, entitled karen"
Back when I was in fourth or fifth grade, I was in line to leave gym class when the PE teacher hauled off and punched me in the chest, knocking me on my butt. To this day, I have no idea why but, knowing me, I was probably causing trouble. I don't remember. I got home and complained to my parents and they told me the teacher had a drinking problem and we just had to make allowances. Granted, this was around 1965, but still. In retrospect, I should have spread it all over the school that the teacher was a drunk, but it never occurred to me.
I'm from an earlier childhood time. My best friend and I went to kindergarten together, in the same class. My friend, we'll call her "Hannah", was quite the chatterbox, even talking during quiet times, like naptime. This one day, Hannah was particularly chatty, so our teacher taped her mouth shut with masking tape! Hannah was obviously very upset, crying and embarrassed. I don't remember if there was any consequence to our teacher, but Hannah's parents went to our school to angrily complain about Hannah's treatment. This was back in the bad old days, so that teacher kept her job. She traumatized my friend, and there should have been deeply consequences.
I take my baby to a library story time once a week and the local preK class comes to it as well. One of the teachers is so cold, rude and nasty to the children that I will never send my child into her class. It’s sickening
St.1: The best moments is the silent deflation of someone elses ego/crazy mistake... I've seen it twice as a "victim"... and almost an epic third time but he "forcefully" motioned me to leave the room so he could have his moment of shame alone... aaaw... I'm still sad to have been shoo'ed away and miss that near epic breakdown... He quit only a few months later.
Pizza story: I got the impression he was making the call on purpose, not accidental dialing. That kinda gets confirmed when at the end he admits to talking to the pizzaria, so he must have known the number.
How about system malfunction? OP said it was old phone, so maybe the wire is crossed or some relay need to be replaced. We have a lot of those in the old days.
I would be in jail if someone put their hands on my kid like that. That mom has some restraint, I'm surprised she didn't beat that womans ass right there in front of the cop.
The customer is always right, in matters of taste. THAT is the full saying. Most of the time customer's have NO clue what they are wanting or talking about.
Story 2: It's one of those rare "I work here, but not today" stories. And really low of Karen (though it's not unusual) to go insulting OP like that. Also, who really cares if someone is a loyal customer? You could shop somewhere once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand, or even more, but the moment you decide to cause pain and suffering to someone, see ya!
I did TV repairs back in the '60 & '70s. 'Loyal Customers were very rare. Many people called a half dozen shops. The first tech to show up got the service call. They didn't even bother to call back to cancel the other appointments. The man I worked for owned two shops, so the service truck didn't have either shop's name. Often the clerk at the main shop would see two calls to the same shop made just minutes apart.
In regards to story 3, when I was a kid (also landline days) our number was only one digit off from our local Recreation Center (gymnasium, basketball courts, indoor running track, indoor swimming pool, etc.) We were mistaken on the phone at least twice, that I know of.
For the first one, I would have just told the guy "No, you don't pay me at all." He seemed to have been stressed out and hit his breaking point. No excuse, but it's understandable.
If the hubby in second story is working at Walmart, he could get fired for working on his day off. Let her call corporate. They'll tell her they can't work off the clock.
Elementary school was a weird time, that's for sure. Worst teacher I had wouldn't help me with math. I was struggling and she said, "I shouldn't have to help you." yeah, clearly don't help the kid who can't understand this crap, all I know is addition and subtraction. now you add division with decimals and I'm lost. Most stupid teacher was not my actual teacher, but another teacher in the same grade. It was the last day of school before winter break, so my class and two other classes I think went into another classroom so we could watch a movie together. I still remember it, "Prancer." I wasn't paying too much attention to it, cause my stomach was acting up, felt sick. I asked the students to pass a message to the teacher that I needed to use the bathroom multiple times, the answer was always "No, you'll disrupt the other students watching." I tried to hold back my gut, but... well, what happened happened. I threw up, movie was canceled (not sure if it continued in another class as the carpet likely needed to be cleaned) and I went home early. Thankfully no one cared I had threw up, wasn't stigmatizes as the kid who threw up, no one cared. But hey, that's what the dumb teacher deserves. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I know this was because we were sat in rows and so me getting up would be hard as I'd have to try not to step on anyone or I'd get in their way of seeing the movie. But hey, when a kid says, "I need to go to the restroom, I don't feel good," it's cause something is wrong. Like I didn't think I was sick enough for a nurse visit, but I didn't feel good.
Store employee assaults me? That's a lawsuit, guaranteed. And there's no laughing that off, at the bare minimum that employee needs to be fired if he thinks he can treat other workers like that.
Minding one's own business is clearly a skill some people cannot master.
If it was a skill, I would have agreed with you. It is more something like common human decency that is lost.
@@pricklypear7497 That's the U.S. for you. It's like they stopped teaching kids common sense and common human decency in grade school.
They need to put that back on on the US currency. "Mind Your Business" was the original moto
@@rasczackfishes I'm for it. "In God We Trust" does not belong on a secular country's currency.
@@JamesDavy2009 it’s definitely seems that way doesn’t it
You ever notice how easy it is to get people to help you when you say something like, “Excuse me, sorry, do you think you can help me with something? It’s on the top shelf, and I can’t reach.” Instead of snapping at them like a dog and being a jerk to someone whose only crime is being in your general vicinity when you were in a foul mood.
I KNOW, RIGHT??????????
My mum is literally a little old lady, having lost a lot of height in the last decade. She's always telling me how kind store employees & random strangers are with helping her reach things off store shelves that are now too high for her. "Excuse me, please" is SO easy to say; the only reasons for snapping your fingers are if you're grooving to music or playing a part in West Side Story. If someone has on headphones, assume they shouldn't be bothered & find someone else! The only reason for tapping someone with headphones on the shoulder to get their attention would be something like if the building you're in is being evacuated & they don't seem to notice...
Even at my worst days I try to remain as kind as possible even if I feel like exploding with anger I either process it internally or write it down
I have had to seek help from taller folks quite often. I always say, "Excuse me, may I borrow your height?" It has worked every time so far. 😊
Adding a “please” at the start of the interaction and then a “thank you” at the end helps a LOT too 😀
Not necessarily. My Karen encounter involved some jerk who was too busy talking with some chick to bother to take a few steps aside so that I could get to the tomato sauce on the shelf he was leaning up against. Since the fool condescendingly told me to wait, I did so while leaning up against the shelf across from him while loudly playing a game on my phone. The guy eventually got fed up, but then later, while standing behind me in the line at checkout, he had the gall to accuse ME of being entitled because I didn't wait for him to finish his conversation. So I told him that since my time was not considered to be equal to his, I shouldn't even be in the same breathing space as him. So I left the items I was preparing to buy on the turnstile and walked out of the store. I am sorry about leaving the checker (or other store employee) with the responsibility of returning those items. I was new to the whole Karen phenomenon back then, but now I'm better mentally equipped to deal with such creatures.
I have a similar story with a teacher. This is in the late 80s. My class were having a field trip at a zoo. My class are all wearing a sweatshirt with a logo of our school that helps identify us. Sounds easy? NOPE! A teacher from another school actually grabbed me, trying to drag me to another group. I kept telling her, I am NOT PART OF YOUR SCHOOL. She kept saying to me SHUT UP!! Until her supervisor ran up and said. HE IS NOT WITH US. How do you know? She asked. Look at what he is wearing!! The name of my school. She let me go, and I ran to my group. I could hear her being yelled at, NEXT TIME, ASKED IF A KID IS WITH US, OR ELSE WE WOULD NEVER LET YOU CHAPARONE A FIELD TRIP EVER AGAIN.
I'm astonished she was let off with a warning, I'm 90% sure that legally counts as kidnapping if she dragged you a certain distance away outdoors or dragged you into any room other than the one you were in indoors. That is alarmingly negligent behaviour on her part, imagine going to prison for negligent child kidnapping if that other supervisor wasn't there, she's practically inventing a new crime.
That teacher should've been in prison forever or at least get some jail time for assault of a minor and attempted kidnapping and permanently lose her teaching license.
Story 4: Yeah, there's a reason they call it "Mama Bear Mode", because when actual mama bears think their cubs are in danger, they become one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. Mrs. Davis should count her blessings that it was only her job on the line and not her life...But real talk, she should have been fired.
And considering that, for example the polar bear can weigh up to 1500 pounds that is not a mama bear that you wanna cross if you cross a mama bear that big you are getting ripped apart
It’s about time shops put up signs stating that the customers are rarely right!!!
i agree with ya, but then we wouldn't hear these story's.
@@DMC2983NL Do you think that Karens can read and understand signs?
The full saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste only", meaning that they are right but only in what they like.
@@kaziglu8344 Sadly, most get bored after "the customer is always right" and stop reading, That's all they need.
@@kaziglu8344 A polite way of saying "There is no accounting for bad taste!"
Story 4: as a teacher this is beyond disgusting to me. You NEVER lay hands on a student. If a child refuses to come in and you lack the skills to get them to come in you call someone else who has the skills.
Unfortunately you are in the minority.
I grew up in Ontario Canada.
I have been pinned face down arms behind my back like I'm being detained dozens of times.
Locked in a change room with no windows no light for the entire day. I busted the fire door down with a bench to escape that one.
I was chased into the damn ceiling once by staff.
I was struck many times as well.
I was in a large behavior class.
I wasn't a problem, I just refused to do anything.
If I tried to leave they pinned me to the desk until I couldn't scream anymore.
They tore my shoulder apart and taught me alot of restraint skills I ended up using on other kids that would bully me.
Great plan 🎉
I'm not old... I'm 25 and not one of these teachers ever faced any reprimand.
It was the method they were trained to use.
I couldn't read until grade six, when my grandmother showed up one day absolutely tore the principal apart took me home and home schooled me until grade 8 when we moved to nova Scotia.
More teachers are shit then are good, and it's because of the horrible state of modern parenting, combined with the unlivable wages.
We filtered out so many wonderful teachers and lost them to private schools because of this.
@@FeedMeSalt if I am reading what you wrote correctly, it sounds like in general your experience wasn’t typical, that you were tracked into a different program, and considered a behavior issue, even though you weren’t actually doing bad things. Sadly lots of teachers see kids in behavior programs and assume everything is an attempt to start something. I am sure that kids in the typical program probably got away with things worse than what you got punished for just because of the program you were in.
It’s true teacher shouldn’t just assume and grab a child. It’s too bad the kids didn’t stay close to their mother where she could protect them.
@@FeedMeSalt I'm horrified reading this.
I'd have gone John Wick on her arse if she grabbed my little sister! 🤨
The full saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste only", meaning that they are right but only in what they like.
That means if they want to buy something hideous & inappropriate that you sell, you should go ahead & sell it to them. It does NOT mean they are allowed to abuse everyone else in the store, including other customers, if they feel like it!
That is the very first time I have ever heard of the whole saying. I didn't even know that there was more to the saying.
You are 100% correct. That is actually the whole thing but people tend to leave that little bit off
jup if i as the companie owner hate green and a customer DEFENETLY wants it green the costumer is right.
@@rubenjanssen8491 Yep. Once many years ago while out going to open house events I saw one place that had neon colored carpets in almost every room. Neon pink, blue, yellow, green, etc. The only rooms not carpeted were the kitchen area and the bathrooms.
I can only imagine what the carpet installers were thinking.
Yea, getting headphones ripped off of your head is assault. My calm response would have immediately been,FIRST return my property, SECOND your choice lets either call your District manager or the Police. I am glad this worked out in the end.
Agreed! Assault can NOT be tolerated. 🤨
Personally whenever I hear these stories about people ripping out earbuds or ripping off headphones warrants bodily force which will include someone getting something rammed into their face from me.
Also let's remember all the stories we've hired of awholes mistaking hearing aids for headphones. People need to lurn to keep there damned hands to them selves.
Most people first reaction would be to defend themselves if someone ripped off anything from someone else
Exactly! Even just grabbing someone's shoulder lightly can be considered assault. Ripping headphones CERTAINLY count as such! It never happened to me, I never onece encountered, heard of or saw a Karen in the Wild where I live - Quebec, Canada, pretty chill place. But maybe someday it'll happen, who knows? Just been lucky so far! And I worked at Tim Hortons for years, also mcDonalds and Super C.
Story 1 - Yeah this story is not the typical ‘Idontworkhere’ story but at least the manager realized his mistake and made it right with OP, but still that’s no excuse to grab and rip someone’s headphones off of their head and then yell at them. That type of behavior is disgusting and unacceptable. Hopefully the manager got a warning or a strike for that.
I am petty enough to have taken his name and called corporate. The behavior was totally unacceptable ..... on top of not knowing what his employees look like, so he accosts a customer. And I would have told him I WILL pay for my items, thank you very much.
@Tiny Dancer I agree- this is a time when you SHOULD go to corporate. Unacceptable on so many levels.
Rule of thumb are
1. Karens are most likely women (that's why it's Karen and not Karl)
2. Men who "Went Karen" are more likely (not all of them, mind) to realize their mistake and either apologize or scurry away.
@@tinydancer7426 That’s not petty, that’s an appropriate response. His superiors need to know how he’s treating his staff.
He did realize his mistake and didn't try to double-down afterward
Proper response to "Im calling corporate, u dont know who you're dealing with!" "I know precisely who im dealing with...NOBODY!!! And you're going to call corporate? Go ahead. Once they're done laughing at you, your complaint will get filed in the nearest wastebasket!"
My 3rd grad teacher slapped me for making a mistake in class. She hated me. My mom made sure she never hit anyone else.
She didn't get fired??
@Vale No. Just severely reprimanded and my mom let her know if she laid a finger on me again, she'd snatch off her wig and whoop her fanny up and down the hall. She ignored me after that. This was in 1973. It's was a different time. Corporeal punishment was still aloud with parental permission. My mom never gave permission.
I've lost track of how many times teachers over-stepped their bound as a kid. I wish I had realized back then just how unfair and sometimes abusive some of them were.
The pendulum has definitely swung far the other way these days in most situations. I taught 20 years ago & things were just changing. The district told us at meetings to never ever touch students-not even a hand on the shoulder. Now it’s to the point where many teachers end up second guessing signs of child abuse for fear of getting it wrong & getting sued. Things are SO different from when I was a student 40 years ago & very different from 20 years ago when I taught. But any problem human society has will end up in the schools as they’re run by humans.
Forty five years ago I had this teacher. We called her Cleopatra because of her triangular haircut. She wasn't liked very much because of her harsh behavior against kids in general. She was prone to slap, to scream or pulling the hair of those unruly students. I don't remember if she was particularly profficient on her job. Once she slapped my younger brother really hard just because she saw he made a mistake. He was an eight-year old kid. My Mom was in full rage against that woman. Cleopatra was fired when other moms complained too.
My first grade teacher forced kids to stay seated by rubberbanding their hands together behind their back & behind the back of the chair. She did this to any kid who was too restless in their seat. Kids who spoke up forgetting to raise their hands had chalkboard erasers or wads of school paper towels rubberbanded into their mouths. I was terrified of going to school & told my mum why. She brought it up to the principal, who poo-poo'ed it & didn't believe me. So I had to continue in that classroom for the rest of the year. This was in the 1970's.
Corporal Punishment is still legal in Australia, but not in publically funded schools. There's also a sensible (in my opinion) limitation that any physical effects of the punishment must be completely gone within 24 hours, otherwise it counts as assault.
OTOH, it's been shown by repeated studies that punishment does not work, except as an emergency intervention done instantly after the offense. In other words, it's not really worth using unless you're doing something like slapping a small child's hand because the child was about to touch a hot stove, or giving the child a slap on the rear for trying to run out into a street.
I always hated how they would punish the entire class because of 1 student
These OPs be letting these managers get away with crazy huge lawsuits
Story 3: when the guy asked how hard could it be to write down 4 numbers, I was expecting OP to reply “well how hard is it for you to write down the right numbers?”
You'd be surprised. Back when I was a kid back in the '80s, we had a similar situation of having an almost-identical phone number to a local grocery store (the difference being that our number ended in 10 while theirs ended in 01), and it was amazing the amount of calls we'd get from people intending to call the store (while I don't know what reactions they gave to my parents and teenage brother, they were always very understanding when I would explain the mistake to them, and I'm sure a lot of that understanding came from the fact that they could probably tell from the sound of my voice that I was a kid who obviously wasn't old enough to be working at a grocery store).
Agreed. I knew a lady whose husband worked for waste management. You know, he drove the garbage truck and picked up people's trash. Honestly, his wife was the biggest piece of trash ever and she should have been thrown in there long ago, but that's just me. It was darn good money. She never remembered his work number. He didn't have a cell phone yet. This is back in the day before it was way more commonplace than it is now. She wasted money calling information all the time to get the number to actually call him up. You know instead of actually writing down his work number and the extension so they could radio him in his truck. I told her to write it down and put it on a magnet on the fridge. She surprisingly did. The next time I was over there all of the stuff that was on the fridge was gone. She told me that her son threw a tantrum and ripped everything off the fridge and it was torn up then thrown away. Apparently her son throwing tantrums and her giving in was commonplace behavior. He was about 8 years old at the time and that kind of behavior should have been done and over with, but she was a very ineffective parent. Her failure to remember a simple phone number was the least of her problems.
I was so waiting for OP to throw Dingus' words back at him by paraphrasing: "...And I don't wanna get off my ass and answer again because you can't write one number and a name"
Story 1: I was at a restaurant yesterday with my dog (pet friendly place, but she's a service dog). I couldn't find my waiter to pay, so the manager waived our bill. It was two sides and two waters, but as he pointed out, we'd been there three times in the last four days (twice that day, once for their fundraiser and once for the mac and cheese), and three days prior for dinner.
What does this have to do with story 1?
to put in contrast how it also can be done me thinks
@@thinkwithvideos3310
"and for being in possession of illegal substances" - That explains a lot.
Story 1: the manager not knowing their employee's faces... to me shows they have a huge turnover, which means they are paying their employees peanuts, and are constantly short-staffed... because they can't find enough to work at their depressed wages, to supplement the owner's inflated one.
Either that or the manager was new and hadn't met everyone yet.
As a retail employee, I would like to point out that no employee has any incentive to lie about working at a store. If he or she said that they do not work there, he or she does not work there
Not only that, majority of places have policies in place that if you are off the clock you cant help customers. The main reason is liability. If you help a customer while off the clock and injure them, or you get injured, the store's insurance doesnt have to cover that happening, which at the same time you then have Karen's like those you hear about who will be adamant that the person said they did work there, despite being told they are off the clock.
I used to get that back when I was working retail, they didnt like it when I turned around and went "You going to pay for my three hours of wages, plus the call back rate, for me serving you while off the clock since I signed out and am waiting to be served like all other customers are, because I'm no longer on the clock."
Side note: I live in Australia, the minimum shift time is to be paid is three hours, so even if you are rostered for two hours, you get paid for three, and if you get called back into work its an instant three hours at time an a half rates due to it falling immediately into OT.
Right? I get this sort of thing while on the clock at Starbucks. Sometimes we're out of product, and some people will get indignant over it, thinking we're lying. What incentive do I have to lie about being out of certain product? Especially since I'm the type of employee who will offer something else or something similar. I once had a customer cuss out one of my coworkers, and when I told her to leave she kept yelling that she did no such thing. Lady, my coworker has zero incentive to lie about you cussing him out, especially since he's one of the most happy-go-lucky dudes in the store! She left us a nasty review on Facebook, and when a coworker actually responded with the full story, she deleted the review. Sounds guilty to me
I think the only reason someone would accuse another person of working in a place he doesn't then claim he's lying is because it's something they would do. It's certainly not the kind of thing the average person would think of.
That manager committed simple battery, and wouldn't have thought twice about doing that if you were an Employee. I probably would have had him arrested.
Big mistake telling the Karen you work there, but not today. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile
It didn't matter if he told her or not, as far as she's concerned, everyone in the store exists to serve her; as evidenced by the fact that everyone's arguments and explanations went in the ear and out the other without once grazing against a wayward brain cell.
I'm too recognizable at my jobs but at least the customers most of the time respect when its my day off. One time I just got off the clock after doing bag checks and was doing my own shopping when a couple started to asked me questions. I'm like I'm off the clock and they go "but we just saw you at the register" I'm like yes to clock out and bag checks. Also the only thing wear over our clothes is an apron. I wasn't wearing my apron to go shopping.
Yes. Talk to them in basic language. Yes. No. Grunt.
They dont understand complete sentences.
Story one the supervisor needs to be fired. The fact he would do that to an employee tells me he shouldn't be in charge of others
Why would you say that? The Supervisor didn't double-down and kept insisting that OP was a worker even though he saw the name on the shirt, so there would be no need for him to get fired...
@@JadenYukifan28 he put his hands on someone else without consent, yea he doesn’t need to be supervising others
@@JadenYukifan28 because that is how he would treat an employee.
Even so, the issue was resolved so there was no harm done at all.
@@JadenYukifan28 you telling me if ur boss ripped something off ur head you would think that’s normal and okay? If so, you need to take that boot out your mouth and stop licking. Doesn’t matter if he fixed things with the customer it’s the fact that he felt comfortable enough to do that to what he thought was an employee
If you touch me or my property, especially from behind. You should be ready for the painfull dose of instant karma that follows. I will most absolutely use my right of self defence to it's fullest. EDIT : Yeah, i would file a formal complaint to his HR and call the cops for assault and theft. EDIT : We all know that if misses Davis was a man he would have been charged with attempted child kidnapping and assault on minor (times 2 OP and her brother).
Right! Talk about double standard.
Side note, I'm with you on the grabbing from behind. A guy I knew in high school once randomly came up behind me during a fair here and grabbed me by the waist and a second later was holding his nose because without turning around I'd punched him in the face.
The pizza story...the guy says "how f***ing hard is it to write down a name and four numbers?" and yet has trouble remembering just one number
Story 4: As an early elementary school kid I often had episodes of overload/flashbacks mixed up together, and would hide in small spaces when this happened. My school's default reaction was to grab my arm and haul me out while I struggled as hard as I could. It often made my arm hurt and sometimes I had bruises. It wasn't until very recently that I realized that was a form of physical abuse. They didn't know I was autistic at the time, but they *did* know I had been a victim of CSA, and anyone with a heart would think an abused child hiding underneath furniture is probably scared and physical force would just make the situation worse.
I read this on a Plaque in a bar. "The customer is always right, but we decide who is a customer."
for story 3, gotta love the bass-ackwards logic of "it's YOUR fault I called you a bunch of times, got told I had the wrong number repeatedly, & still made a fool of myself when I went to the pizza place!"
But if it's not your fault that I'm an idiot, then whose fault is it?
Actually, it's not even a matter of Company Policy about not Working Off the Clock, it's against State Law...
Yep - it starts getting into liability issues. If someone gets hurt, the insurance won't cover it (and in the U.S., I think the business could also get into trouble with OSHA over it).
"You don't know who you're messing with."
A drug addict, apparently. 😂
Underrated comment.
Those teachers are supposed to have attendance sheets before they decide to leave a place that is field trip related.
Depends on the school, not all schools have such a policy in place.
Also, dont need such policies in place for home school field trips, mother knows where you are :D
It was not a field trip for the school, it just their recess time, and they used the park as part of their playground.
@@greatgreyowl2583 still the woman should have known how many students she had to count Make sure that they weren't losing a kid. Especially now with all this school shootings they have to make sure they account for all their kids.
@@richewilson6394 and what makes you think that this occurred recently? Given the age of op at the time, it is most likely more that 10 years ago and could easily been 30 years ago. Also it is likely there was more than one grade out at recess at the same time. She was rounding up strays and thought he belonged in difference class. And nose counts (they never did at any of the schools I went to. the bell rings the kids go in the teacher makes sure everybody goes in) in many smaller schools/towns was not common and give the size of the park she may not of known about another group kids being there.
Story 4: You try that s**t nowadays and I bet you'd be lucky to still be a teacher at all. Nobody like a teacher getting physical with students.
The south worships physical solutions
Today, no teacher likes getting beat up or threatened and seeing the school consistently throw them under the bus. So...I have no qualms in a teacher going medieval to stay uninjured.
@@GeorgieB1965 The thing is though, that depends on who throws the first swing and what grade the child is in. Anything below sophomore year of High School, you should be allowed to grab the wrists and hold firmly, but that's it. And I also believe that cameras should be in classes and all information be released publicly for parents that have students at those schools so they know what's going on in the classrooms. It also will work for teacher-on-student abuse or student-on-teacher abuse cases. And student-on-student.
@@FederalBurroOfInvestigation Including the parent getting physical with the teacher that touched their child. She would've gotten her ass whooped in at least every metro down here.😂
And you don't connect that with the plague of Karens you have today?
Story 4. First off, as a teacher, you are not supposed to be putting your hands on a student! That is very inappropriate and can even be classified as child abuse!
Second, Mrs. Davis was a school teacher...I feel so sorry for the kids in her class because if she was stupid enough to not be able to recognize that OP and his brother weren't her students, then those kids were clearly not being taught properly.
Forget getting a talking to, Mrs. Davis should've been fired on the spot! The way she acted towards OP and his brother makes me believe she acted the same way to her actual students, a person like that shouldn't be an educator or even allowed near children!
Touching the students wasn't even allowed when I was in school more than 20 years ago.
@@blitzwolfmon8297 And nowadays, if you're a teacher and you get caught putting your hands on a student, you're gonna get blasted to Hell and back on social media!
I went to a private nursery school. After telling my Teacher I didn't like peas or milk she held my nose & forced fed me. I proceeded to vomit all over her. She pulled me out of my seat by my ear & threw me into the corner of our room. Standing there I thought, if you don't want to listen to me, I'll bring the big people & you'll listen to them. Unbeknownst to my Teacher, my Father was the private bus driver for the school. The next day I returned to school flanked by my Parents. The outcome... my Teacher apologized to me in front of my whole class & my Father told her if she ever made me do something I specifically said I didn't want to do again, he would have her fired. I returned the next year but she didn't. I was 4 years old.
@@dee_dee_place She freaking better not have come back after pulling that stunt! She's lucky your dad wasn't like my mom, if she found out a teacher did this to me or my sister, she'd be throwing hands!
@@dee_dee_place She should of been fired simply for touching you like she did. What is wrong with some of these schools?
Story 4: No, even back then it was inappropriate. If I was the mother and that was my kid, I'd be pressing charges for assault and kidnapping.
Story 4; This story was back in the 90s when I was a kid, and I didn't see this personally because I moved the year before this story happened. But basically this really spiteful teacher I had in 4th grade blew a gasket one day and hit a student with a chair because he was acting up in class. I think it hurt the kid pretty bad, like at least cracking a bone in his face. Nasty injury, but not critical. The teacher got fired and I think she also got some sort of criminal charge too, but it was a long time ago so I can't be sure about that.
I had a second grade teach in the late '50s that would pace up and down the rows of desks. She would grab students by their arm and jerk them up out of their seat while screaming and cursing at them, that paddle them. It was a very quiet classroom, but this happened at least several times a week. We complained, but no one listened.
She fell down a few steps one day, face first. She broke her thick glasses, and had a piece stuck in her eye. She was screaming, "One of you little bastards go get help!" No one moved, after months of her treats that she would beat us to death if we left the group, outside of her classroom. Another teacher opened her door because of the screaming. She told us to go get help, but no one move so she had to send one of her students to the office.
She left in an ambulance, and never returned. Several teachers had her screaming that she would end us all, when she came back, so they finally fired her.
One of my uber-lib high school Social Studies teachers was once eating in a Burger King. A minor employee was cleaning windows. Teach gets huffy, grabs the spray bottle of strong cleaner, sprays her in the face! He got arrested for assault, very deservedly. 🤨
@@lancerevell5979 If someone did that to me, she would have been in the hospital, first.
Liberal teachers weren't very common in the '60s, but some were just bullies. Our Wood Shop teacher would yell at a boy in our class that had learning disabilities. He was a good kid and he followed the safety rules, but the teacher hated him. He was waving his fist in the boy's face one day, telling him that he was too stupid to live. The boy had finally had enough, He punched the teacher in the nose.
He ran to his office to shut off all power to the tools and called the office, demanding that he be expelled and arrested. When the two principals arrived with a couple more male teachers, he was still screaming. We were asked what happened, but no one wanted to say anything. The head Principal said, "You've never lied to me, Michael. Tell me what happened." I told him everything, then added "I would have punched him too if he did that to me!"
I got a shocked look, as he asked, "What?" I shrugged, "He's supposed to teach us, not threaten or scream at us."
I never liked to fight, but I didn't put up with assholes like that. I chewed out my Drill Sargent for intentionally mispronouncing my last name while I was in BASIC. I was yelling so loud that our Captain came running. When I finished, the Captain read him the riot act and told him what would happen if he did it again. Then he praised me for standing up to that idiot.
@@michaelterrell
Wow!! Did that teacher have mental problems or maybe major anger issues?
I can totally understand NOT helping a person whose hurt that's been treating you like crap for months but the guilt would have bugged me......for a bit. Still, this was justified. Hope you guys had gotten a very nice teacher afterward.
@@Rylosalex I think she had both. We found out later that she had taught ninth grade kids for 20 years, where she wasn't well liked.
We didn't see the glass in her eye, until she was rolled loaded onto a stretcher.
There were a couple students that had near homeless living conditions. She dragged one of them out of class, and to the boy's gym to force him to shower. These days, she would have gone to prison.
The replacement did her best to help us catch up on things she hadn't taught.
My high school gym teacher threatened to paddle me for defending myself from a couple of his basketball players. I made it clear that I would take his 16 inch paddle and break it on his bony ass if he tried. I was fed p wit he bullies, including a couple teachers. I didn't cause any trouble, but I had a horrible temper. You got to take te first swing, then I used whatever I could pick up as a weapon to defend myself I got mad one day when I was 18 and picked up the V8 engine from my '66 GTO.
If you work off the clock, it can open a whole can of worms legally if you get hurt, so most places will not allow it.
It's right under not letting the employee take a lunch break tbh
@@ryukaze7392 your sarcasm isn't funny. At Walmart, working off the clock is a serious infraction of their employment rules and they will fire an employee over it. They are very clear about it.
@@cyndib511 Was it sarcasm? Its the law that employees are supposed to get a half hour lunch break and 2 10 to 15 minute breaks in an eight hour shift and the employer could be in a world of hurt if the violation is discovered. Working off the clock fits under the same category, for liability and employee compensation issues.
Story 3 -- The guy ("dingus") admitted he knew he'd been calling the wrong number all along, & he blamed the people who had that number, not himself? Why does he keep calling it if he knows it's the wrong number, particularly since he was GIVEN the right number FOUR times before OP got fed up & went with shenanigans? My dude, don't blame other people for what YOU do!
In the early 90's, my landline number was one number away from the phone number of a business called "APCO Appliance Parts". In the large ad in the phone book (remember those?) that APCO had paid for, their number was misprinted -- the number in that ad was MY number, though if you looked at APCO's entry in the small print list of business numbers, it had the correct number. Getting several calls a day for this APCO place, I quickly figured out what was going on & would tell callers who asked for APCO, "The number in the APCO ad is in error -- their actual number is ------. This is a residential number." Several times I got callers who wouldn't believe me & yelled at me, & I just hung up on them, since I didn't feel like I owed them anything & they were being obnoxious.
The absolute worst was a guy who kept INSISTING that I HAD to "transfer him over" to APCO, because he was on a payphone (remember those?) & didn't want to use more money on another separate call. I explained that I was completely unconnected with APCO, & that my no frills private phone line was incapable of being used to transfer ANY calls ANYWHERE, but he didn't seem to get it & kept yelling at me, so I, naturally, hung up. Amazingly, he proceeded to CALL ME BACK THREE TIMES to yell at me about what an awful employee I was & how he was going to get me fired. I kept calmly telling him that there was no further way I could help him & hanging up on him, but he kept calling back! During the last call, he'd finally figured out I had nothing to do with APCO, & so he was screaming that he was going to figure out where I lived & come rape me. That did freak me out, so I yelled "NO, YOU WON'T!" & took the phone off the hook for the rest of the day.
SO, if that guy didn't want to spend another fifty cents (or whatever a payphone call cost back then) in order to call APCO directly with the correct number I'd kindly provided for him, why did he want to spend THREE TIMES that amount to unproductively yell abuse at me for his own stupidity? Once he'd realized I really had nothing to do with APCO except that my number was erroneously listed for them in an ad, why did he continue to blame ME for the situation? At least some of it was his fault, & one could argue that APCO &/or the phone company might also be a bit at fault, but surely I was an innocent party? It was one of those "Oh my fuzzy goodness, some people really are much stupider than I can even imagine" moments in my life. He could have used the money for ONE of those abusive calls he made to me to call actual APCO, now that he had their real number, & if he was that annoyed at having made the first wasted call, he could have chewed THEM out for the mistake in their ad; I'm sure the employees there were used to dealing with that. He then could have gotten whatever he needed from APCO that prompted him to call in the first place, & also saved himself some time & the price of two phone calls! What a maroon...
I would have told the Karen at the craft store, "Look into my eyes. Do you see ANYone who gives a damn about your opinion?"
My second grade teacher was a menace to mentally challenged students. I of course was and still do have autism on lower end of the spectrum but still on it.
I think I was talking during class and she yelled at me to shut up I teared up a bit and she walked up into my face and yelled to shut up again. So I of course started bawling her response was to take she long fake nails and dig them into my shoulder and shake me telling to stop right now. And when I didn’t stop she picked me up and pulled me out of class by my arm. She took me to the principals office and they called my mom. I of course tattled told her everything and showed her the red marks on my shoulders. My mom told them if they didn’t switch my teachers she would sue.(she wouldn’t actually as we didn’t have the money to be able to do that so this was her compromise, what they don’t know won’t hurt them
Story 4: the antagonist teacher at my elementary school was Mrs Robinson (before I understood that reference) and she tried to force-feed me an apple. It did not go well and I never trusted her after that which was unfortunate because the incident happened when I was in kindergarten and the school taught K-5 so there was a long time of avoiding her.
Story 4: I had a teacher in middle school who didn't care that kids bullied others or were kids that were bullied. I told her I was being picked on one day and she just said that's what you'll have to deal with when working with people. Lady, we are in the 6th grade, I just want to do my school work and go home.
Kinda harsh, but she's not wrong.
In the last story, Karen just had to involve herself and stick her nose into something that was truly none of her damn business. Why do they (Karens) feel they can bestow their great knowledge of absolutely nothing onto people who could care less about their opinion. Then after she realizes her mistake doesn't even apologize...smgdh
The words "sorry" and "apologise" don't exist in a Karen's vocabulary.
@@JamesDavy2009 Yep, funny thing is from her rude comment about OP having her baby there reminds me that Karens want ALL employees to be like Robots ready and happy to serve them 24/7! Yet if stores ever DID use robot's like that, they STILL wouldn't be happy because as we know! Karen's bully employees LARGELY because they get off on being plagues on other people and feeling smug and superior! Robot's don't have feelings so they can't get their "fix" off of them! Hence they'll NEVER be happy. EVEN WHEN THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT they can never be happy!
Amazing how a little patients can save the Karen's time and headaches but they decided to make trouble because they want to make people suffered over the littlest things.
patience, not patients! Patients are a doctor's customers, not what you were thinking it meant.
@@crucisnh wow wasn’t that amazing, I an english speaker actually understood what the person meant.
Where did you get your licence to humiliate and correct some one.
@@nickislade5533 I think they were just trying to help, not humiliate...
@@Jarino507 then a better way of telling them. Simple patience is the correct spelling , theres to many people around that like to dig in on any mistake. Even I make mistakes.
However many others use english language translators as well that often only add a word AI thinks is right
@@nickislade5533 I think you're reading into it a bit too much...
Walmart somehow attracts the SPECIAL people in life. Guess I am lucky only ever been accused of being a Target employee, 3 times in one day. Funny thing is everyone finally realized I was not an employee and asked why I helped them, my reply was you asked nice so I did what I could.
During my days in retail we always loved to say "The customer is always right, until they're not". Which is pretty much the moment they walked into the store.
Story 4: OP's mom was way too generous...much more than I would have been. I don't play around about kids...I would press charges immediately: Child Abuse & Kidnaping.
Story 2, gotta love how "it's my day off and I work nights" goes in one ear and out the other with Karens because all they care about is themselves. They think should always be serviced and can demand service from anyone. Not surprised that Karen goes to the manager about op's husband and dares to insult op with a name. Then to insult op again like it's going to help her get her way but really it only got her chewed out. The manager is awesome for chewing her out and kicking her out of the store. No surprise Karen gets mad and threatens the manager 😒. Of course she insults op more and then runs when cops show up. Karens don't realize that resisting arrest only makes it so much worse for them. Of course she was on drugs and through that she thought she was all high and mighty.
That's why people need too keep it simple 'Sorry I don't work here.' Never give any indication that you currently or ever have worked there.
Used to work retail, a manager explained it to me like this: "The customer is always right...except when they're wrong."
2nd story: The customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE
3rd story: had a similar problem with a local bar/restaurant when I was a kid. My dad would occasionally take orders.
3rd story: I also had a similar problem as a kid back in the '80s (it's amazing how many people seem to have faced similar) - a local grocery store had an almost identical number to ours, with the only difference was that ours ended in 10 while theirs ended in 01 (so the same last two numbers, just reversed). My older brother (who was a teenager at the time) did pretend to be the store once, and I think I'd have done something similar when answering if my voice (obviously) hadn't sounded like the voice of a kid too young to be working answering phones at a business.
someone needs to turn the tables on these "I'm the customer" Karens and tell them, "if you think you can serve better, the office is right there, go apply for a job" and instead of another "I don't work here" switch to "I won't serve you!"
Story 2: I hope Karen keeps calling people those things, cause one day she'll pick the wrong one and get her teeth repositioned
I was sooo happy when he said she tried to run and the police tackled her outside the store! So here's hoping she also got some hurtful road burn!!
Or removed...!
i am sure that happen in lock up that night when she was booked.
Story 4: I work in a public school and from what I have seen and heard from coworkers, its one of the biggest reasons I homeschool my 4 kids. I love them way too much to subject them to such cruelty, emotionally/physically abusive indoctrination. I work nights and sacrifice sleep so I can take care of them myself during the days while my husband works.
What? You don't use the product you sell?
@@gorilladisco9108 of course not because schools are effing toxic
Story 1.
Oh my stars for all you know the headphones could be a hearing aid! At work (i work in a retirement home for people with dementia) one of our residents hearing aids stopped working so they had to use what almost looked like a tape deck Walkman as their hearing aid! If you yanked them off that resident she would have been very scared and now rendered deaf!
Story about one of my teachers: we had a teacher in middle school (ages 12-13), I will call him Mr. Purple. He was notorious in hating the color purple, and since it is such a weird thing to hate, I and many other students just assumed it was some weird reverse psychology thing or quirk to make him more memorable? So naturally everyone coated their stuff in purple for his class. He would sometimes just mumble about how badly he hated the color under his breath but over all it didn't effect the class. Well the year after I went to high-school, apparently a new to the district student had a purple backpack. She walked in, unzipped her bag and then got berated for a solid 15 minutes for daring to bring the color purple into his room. Apparently a student snuck out of the class and ran to get the principal and he was fired privately once he was removed from the class.
That phone number story reminds me of the house number problem my parents & I had in the city of Chicago that was identical with the police department! Wow, did we ever get the wacky calls!!! Lol! 😅
I wear my bluetooth headphones because I like listening to reddit videos like Dark Fluffs and it keeps me calm in a busy environment because I am on the Autism spectrum. I lost count the number of times people have come up to me while Im minding my business especially now that I have injured left shoulder and people proceed to touch that shoulder. Its on a sling, you would think people know not to touch.
Story 2: The mere fact that Karen snapped her fingers was ALREADY a red flag. Karens seem to think they own everyone else like dogs. And this Karen CLEARLY believed herself to be above the law. Glad that the universe reminded her it wasn't the case
Story #2: It should be noted, if an employee is off the clock, there are liability issues because he won't usually be covered by the business's insurance. So employees that are off the clock really shouldn't be working or helping anyone. Going to get a working employee to come and assist was about as much as he could do, while keeping up appearances for the business.
At least manager realized his mistake and apologized. Way to many of these stories don't go that way.
Story 3 - I can kinda relate to the wrong number story cause the same thing happens with my family. Only people mistake our number with the local Veterinary Clinic. When they ask for the head pet doctor or is this the Veterinary Clinic, we always (politely) respond ‘I’m sorry but you’ve got the wrong number.’ And they always say, “Whoops, sorry about that.”
Yep, had a similar problem back in the '80s, where there was a local grocery store that had almost the exact same number as ours (with the difference being that ours ended in 10 and theirs ended in 01). We didn't get calls for them all the time, but we got them often enough! (And they were apologetic whenever I'd answer the phone and explained the mistake to them, because I think my voice was obviously young-sounding enough that anyone who thought about it for a moment could realize that I was much too young to be answering the phone at a business).
That teacher was beyond wrong. I had a much different experience. And I think it helped to shape my love for reading.
This was back in the sixties. I was in the third grade. Recess time came, and I took a book out with me. I think it may have been Uncle Wiggly. The playground had a lot of oak trees. And the roots of one of them made a comfortable seat.
I opened up the book and got completely lost in the story. I don't know how long I read before I looked up and realized my class wasn't out there. So of course I went back in.
I thought I was going to get in trouble. Nope. The teacher knew where I was, and didn't want to disturb me. She knew I would come in on my own.
To this day, I still get lost when reading. My family knows that they need to get my attention before trying to talk to me.
When I was a kid our phone number was one digit off from a cab company. We would occasionally get calls in the middle of the night from someone too drunk to understand wrong number or people wanting to be picked up from the jail. My dad would just say we’ll be right there and hang up.
Story two, Karen said to OP and his Wife that they did not know who she was, but the police sure knew this Karen, Karens and Lennie's don't know how to keep a low profile in public.
"just write down four numbers and my name" - the guy who couldn't change ONE number
Story 3 reminds me of the time my brother was living with my uncle to finish school... My uncle has 2 phone lines in his house and my brother's line had almost the same number like the pizzeria in the city had (last 2 numbers switched) and he got some calls for Pizza too. Many times telling they had the last 2 numbers switched was enough but then he had a woman re-dialing the number 4 times... (maybe hitting the "repeat call" button) and at one moment he had enough because the pizzeria was open untill 10pm and he got these calls from 9.15-9.30 pm on a school night... he told that woman that she has the wrong number 4 times in a row and he's turning off the phone now. She should be checking the number and switch the last 2 numbers instead of being lazy and repeating the call everytime... She didn't take it well and threatened to call the police. Well... my uncle works for the police in another city and my brother just said "wait a minute, police is already here, you can talk to him right now" - well in that minute it took my brother to get my uncle on the phone she already hung up and she never called again.
The problem with the line "the customer is always right" is that it was coined by Sam Walton. The creater of Walmart.
Oh yeah that definitely works; yelling at a kid whilst pinching his arm to stop him from crying. Scream and pinch harder! Harder!! HARDER!!!! He'll eventually stop crying after you've MURDERED HIM
the lady calling OP a bimbo, id have walked up and said "maybe if you worked out more youd have gotten away" 🤣
First story: "I don't work here, and in about 5 minutes you won't either"
fun fact: "the customer is always right" isn't the WHOLE saying! It's "the customer is always right, in the way of taste."
I had a teacher in third grade so late 80s early 90s era. She would make us wait an hour and a half to pee. I ended up peeing in my seat and going to the nurse a few times. My mom was upset. At my next pediatrician appointment she asked him if making me wait so long could hurt me. He said yea that’s not good. And wrote a note that I must be allowed to go when I say I have to. I now know what she did is abuse.
I had an English teacher in highschool that screamed at me for over 5 minutes when I asked when I could make up the work I missed from a migraine the day before. This was his usual behavior. I came in during the next migraine and threw up on his desk.
That's the way to do it. They won't let you go to the bathroom to pee? PEE ON THEM! They won't let you stay home when you're puking from a migraine? PUKE ON THEM! Some people are such assholes to anyone they perceive, even incorrectly, as "weak"...
Best thing to hear after work drive home. This helps me handle my own Karen's
Story 2- my son, who is 6’6”, quite often retrieves items from top shelves. He is always kind. Heaven help a Karen who is rude to his wife🙄
S1: Also, the person in the "lady" position (i.e., the one doing the mistaking) realizing their mistake without "I" saying anything, that's pretty rare.
Stop coddling these karens!!! Throw them OUT!!!!
At my elementary it was my 3rd grade & p.e. teachers. The school also didn’t tell our parents or have us talk to a counselor when Mr. drill instructor had a heart attack & unalived in front of us (4th) & the 3rd graders.
I had a principal in grade school that told me I should just stick with customer service jobs and that I should never hope for anything else because it's unrealistic to think I'd do anything else.
Many of my teachers told me that I wasted too much time reading Electronics books and magazines in the '60s.
I tested out of a three year Electrical and Broadcast Engineering course when I entered the Army in 1972. I was the only one to ever test out of that school.
Near the end of my work life, I worked on a turnkey earth station for NOAA to cntrol their LEO weather satellites, a kU band communications system for the ISS, and two turnkey earth stations for the European Space Agency.
"Needs to mind your own business" (insert gif of Archer smacking Figgis)
Better.... Lana smacking Archer! 😆
2nd story(i think) - i used to work retail - and the customer is NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER right - not even close - when i hear the word "service" - the first thing that crosses my minds is "stupid, lazy, entitled karen"
the "golden rule of retail" is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but a theory - with ABSOLUTELY NO truth in it
I'd tell Stupid Karen if she wants to be "serviced" there's a cattle farm out west in our county. 😆
Back when I was in fourth or fifth grade, I was in line to leave gym class when the PE teacher hauled off and punched me in the chest, knocking me on my butt. To this day, I have no idea why but, knowing me, I was probably causing trouble. I don't remember. I got home and complained to my parents and they told me the teacher had a drinking problem and we just had to make allowances. Granted, this was around 1965, but still.
In retrospect, I should have spread it all over the school that the teacher was a drunk, but it never occurred to me.
Story 1: “a ruff day”? So it went to the dogs?
I'm from an earlier childhood time. My best friend and I went to kindergarten together, in the same class. My friend, we'll call her "Hannah", was quite the chatterbox, even talking during quiet times, like naptime. This one day, Hannah was particularly chatty, so our teacher taped her mouth shut with masking tape! Hannah was obviously very upset, crying and embarrassed. I don't remember if there was any consequence to our teacher, but Hannah's parents went to our school to angrily complain about Hannah's treatment. This was back in the bad old days, so that teacher kept her job. She traumatized my friend, and there should have been deeply consequences.
I take my baby to a library story time once a week and the local preK class comes to it as well. One of the teachers is so cold, rude and nasty to the children that I will never send my child into her class. It’s sickening
I love wholesome endings! That first one is so nice!
St.1: The best moments is the silent deflation of someone elses ego/crazy mistake... I've seen it twice as a "victim"... and almost an epic third time but he "forcefully" motioned me to leave the room so he could have his moment of shame alone... aaaw... I'm still sad to have been shoo'ed away and miss that near epic breakdown... He quit only a few months later.
Pizza story: I got the impression he was making the call on purpose, not accidental dialing. That kinda gets confirmed when at the end he admits to talking to the pizzaria, so he must have known the number.
How about system malfunction? OP said it was old phone, so maybe the wire is crossed or some relay need to be replaced. We have a lot of those in the old days.
You missed that when he went to pick up the order, he had to reorder and wait to get it. So of course he talked to them in person.
1st story, guy should have been arrested and fired!!!
I would be in jail if someone put their hands on my kid like that. That mom has some restraint, I'm surprised she didn't beat that womans ass right there in front of the cop.
Karen needs several truckloads of mind your own damn business!
But what else would a Karen do with her time if she's not minding everyone's business but her own?
The customer is always right, in matters of taste. THAT is the full saying. Most of the time customer's have NO clue what they are wanting or talking about.
Story 2: It's one of those rare "I work here, but not today" stories. And really low of Karen (though it's not unusual) to go insulting OP like that.
Also, who really cares if someone is a loyal customer? You could shop somewhere once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand, or even more, but the moment you decide to cause pain and suffering to someone, see ya!
I did TV repairs back in the '60 & '70s. 'Loyal Customers were very rare. Many people called a half dozen shops. The first tech to show up got the service call. They didn't even bother to call back to cancel the other appointments. The man I worked for owned two shops, so the service truck didn't have either shop's name. Often the clerk at the main shop would see two calls to the same shop made just minutes apart.
Unless the manager is a pansy and bends over backwards to the slightest costumer complaint.
Currently storming out and love these videos along with a good post-birthday video from fluff I needed
Happy Belated Birthday, Internet Stranger!
In regards to story 3, when I was a kid (also landline days) our number was only one digit off from our local Recreation Center (gymnasium, basketball courts, indoor running track, indoor swimming pool, etc.)
We were mistaken on the phone at least twice, that I know of.
For the first one, I would have just told the guy "No, you don't pay me at all." He seemed to have been stressed out and hit his breaking point. No excuse, but it's understandable.
respect is earned not given automaticly
If the hubby in second story is working at Walmart, he could get fired for working on his day off. Let her call corporate. They'll tell her they can't work off the clock.
Elementary school was a weird time, that's for sure. Worst teacher I had wouldn't help me with math. I was struggling and she said, "I shouldn't have to help you." yeah, clearly don't help the kid who can't understand this crap, all I know is addition and subtraction. now you add division with decimals and I'm lost.
Most stupid teacher was not my actual teacher, but another teacher in the same grade. It was the last day of school before winter break, so my class and two other classes I think went into another classroom so we could watch a movie together. I still remember it, "Prancer." I wasn't paying too much attention to it, cause my stomach was acting up, felt sick. I asked the students to pass a message to the teacher that I needed to use the bathroom multiple times, the answer was always "No, you'll disrupt the other students watching." I tried to hold back my gut, but... well, what happened happened. I threw up, movie was canceled (not sure if it continued in another class as the carpet likely needed to be cleaned) and I went home early.
Thankfully no one cared I had threw up, wasn't stigmatizes as the kid who threw up, no one cared. But hey, that's what the dumb teacher deserves. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I know this was because we were sat in rows and so me getting up would be hard as I'd have to try not to step on anyone or I'd get in their way of seeing the movie. But hey, when a kid says, "I need to go to the restroom, I don't feel good," it's cause something is wrong. Like I didn't think I was sick enough for a nurse visit, but I didn't feel good.
Karen in the wild just always go from bad to worse, lol, tacked, trespassing, assult and illegal drugs, bye bye wild karen..
Story 2 Companies can get in huge trouble for wage and hour violations. If you are off the clock, you are not allowed to work