Someone on AskReddit asked for waiters/servers to share their most satisfying and savage clapbacks to unruly customers. The armies of Karens weren't ready to meet their match with these members of customer service that quite frankly, had had enough. Everyone has their breaking point, and rude customers will themselves into forgetting that eventually someone's going to check them on their entitled BS.
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Anyone who's ever muddled through working a customer service job knows how much more hellish a day can be made, when there's a wild Karen on the loose. For the rest of the people lucky enough to not have to deal with irate customers as part of their job, it's even weirder when you get the individual in a blind rage who is convinced that you work for a place you're shopping at yourself. It's a terrible combination of entitlement, rage, and stupidity. The customers are failing without even realizing it, and then when you tell them that you don't work there, they get even madder.
Oh Karen, just cause you don't have insurance doesn't mean you can rely on perfect strangers to pay for your car's damages. To make matters even better with this fine tale of Karen entitlement, it sounds like she found the original post that called her out, and wanted to sue the person over it. As it turns out, Karen doesn't have a whole lot of ground to stand on.
If you've ever worked retail or any customer-facing job, you will have met a customer who was disrespectful, entitled, treated you like an object and made some demand that store policy doesn't actually honor. With their sticky-fingered kids, boorish husbands and shrill battle cry of "the customer is always right" a Karen is a customer service person's personal nightmare. That's why we take extra joy in stories of entitled Karens who park in disabled spots and get tricked by parody customer service accounts. Oh and also when they demand their children get to taste painful hot sauce. There's a lot of fun times to be had.
There are some delusional customers out there. Luckily, sometimes bystanders have sympathy for employees who have to deal with a freaking out Karen and decide to get some petty parking revenge in response. When this guy noticed his favorite gas station attendants getting bossed around, he decided to take some extra time.
Sometimes people manage to play themselves, and the results are satisfying. Anyone who works in retail or the service industry can recall a time when they had to deal with an entitled customer. Rarely these interactions end in the favor of the employee, but sometimes they do, like this time a woman freaked out at Chuck E. Cheese, or the time this Karen ended up paying for her coupon.
Karen really played herself on this one. When a mere $10 coupon was mistakenly sent to her address, she thought it'd be a good idea to threaten the retailing company that she'd sue them if they didn't fork over $1,000 in cash. She assumed she'd scare them into complying, and she couldn't have been more wrong. There was a badass attorney with a southern drawl who was more than ready to leap at a chance to sue "Karen." And the rest is history. She ended up having to pay over a thousand bucks, all because she started up some beef over a $10 coupon.
We're big fans of seeing disrespectful customers getting taught lessons by employees, so it seems natural that if an entitled customer demands to stupidly expose themselves to a crazy hot hot sauce, you let them guzzle it down, by god. She claimed that it wasn't actually spicy to save face, but we all know she lost the battle.
When this parking lot "Karen" decided she'd cut a guy off who actually needed the disabled parking lot spot, he maintained composure, and took one very satisfying and clever revenge on her. To make matters even better, he waited around to hear the extent to which she proceeded to lose her shit. Let's just say she had one definite emotional explosion.
This absolute legend named his Facebook account "Customer Support" and proceeded to troll an army of angry "Karens" to oblivion. The one thing that this troll arguably overstepped on, was when he dampened the reputation of the employees in each company. They're already working hard enough as it is! Otherwise, this is pure gold.
You better believe that an older woman at a gated community club could literally get offended by the prospect of an employee grabbing a cup of coffee. We applaud such a graceful solution that left a Karen so goddamned angry over nothing but her own misplaced sense of superiority.
You know when you see #IBlameKarenFor trending on Twitter that you're about to see some hilarious hot takes on what kinds of bad stuff people can blame "Karen" for in their world. A solid starting point would be blaming Karen for a fear of short haircuts on older women very likely named "Karen." Next thing you know you'll be hearing them asking to speak to a manager.
After being put on a waiting list for way too long and seeing his wife blown off by incompetent healthcare administration, this guy took the matter into his own hands, with some creative emailing and the use of telemarketing software. The world is full of people complying maliciously, like this IT guy who came up with a masterful plan after being told he had to work on vacation.
Here are the stories of cashiers, customer service reps, delivery drivers, service people and retail workers of all stripes who had to deal with the dumbest, most irrational, and outright furious customers to grace the planet. Man, these people suck. We understand why you'd be mad if a company actually wronged you, but to make impossible demands and turn into an abusive monster is completely out of the question. Here's a story of a cashier who talked back to a Karen and lived.
Karen doesn't mess around when it comes to her milkshake! Fortunately, this example of a Karen going off, finds a happy ending in a satisfying revenge tale. We don't think she'll be stirring up trouble again anytime soon when it comes to her DoorDash milkshake delivery. Tough luck, Karen!
