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'Karen thanks me and hangs up. It was so satisfying': Cashier has one-on-one conversation with demanding customer who doesn't recognize her voice

This is one of the reasons why being a manager is an amazing job. If you've ever worked retail, you know that dealing with irritating customers is par for the course. As a cashier, you'll spend your whole shift ringing people up, and a percentage of them are going to be crabby. So if you become a manager, you get to avoid the cash register more often than not. Along with a nice raise, it's a satisfying feeling to know that you only have to deal with customers when they're asking for a manager .…
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Restaurant serves entitled Karen after she writes scathing 1-star-review over $2 dispute, provides hard evidence and turns public discourse against her: 'Below is the truth along with supporting evidence...'

This restaurant brought receipts—literally, when serving this freshly-baked smackdown of a belligerent local Karen who left them a scathing review on a community group. The post got “around 300 comments,” prompting the restaurant to reply. They gathered timestamped screenshots of the encounter along with the actual receipts of the Karen's transaction in order to refute her claims and turn the tide of public discourse against her. When you seek to publicly humiliate another person or organizatio…
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entitled customer wreaks havoc on employee right before close, employee gets justice when customer realizes that he'll be stuck at the store for 30 minutes

Customer harshly requests a product manual to be printed at check-out right before the store closes, gets owned by employee when he realizes it's 650 pages

“… the husband looked smug[ly] at me, probably feeling like he had won over the big man.”
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karen attempts to commit credit card fraud using her mother's card, employee claps back but the entitled karen tries again the next day

‘Get bent, Janet’: Hotel customer attempts to rent a room with absent mother's credit card, employee flags her but she tries again the next day

She swears up and down that “no other hotel has EVER had a problem” with her using a credit card that doesn't match her identity.
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'There will be no more exchanges': Customer tries to return 24 "spoiled" salads

This deli manager is pretty fed up with her customer's repeated attempts to get free food . Everyone needs to eat, and not everyone can afford to do so. That's why there are food pantries and resources for those who need them. Some people who are having trouble making ends meet go to food pantries to stock up on basics, and then go to the grocery store to buy whatever else they can afford. But this customer seems to want free food from a grocery store… which aren't exactly known for doling out…
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‘Only 3-5 students still showed up’: Formidable college professors try to snap at student by making attendance non-mandatory, lose 90% of their class

‘Only 3-5 students still showed up’: Formidable college professors try to snap at student by making attendance non-mandatory, lose 90% of their class

Don't mess with college kids.
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‘I [gave] Karen a cheerful wave on my way out’: Woman throws tantrum through the drive-thru window at a fast food joint, so patient customer inside gets her order first

‘I [gave] Karen a cheerful wave on my way out’: Woman throws tantrum through the drive-thru window at a fast food joint, so patient customer inside gets her order first

Funny how some people don't understand that a little kindness and patience can get you a very long way…
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Employee refuses to give into Karen coworker's demands to show up early for unpaid work: '[I] do not work for free'

Employee refuses to give in to Karen coworker's demands to show up early for unpaid work: '[I] do not work for free'

Showing up early for work is a personal choice. If it makes it easier for you as the employee to have a few extra moments in the workplace to center yourself before getting started with your daily tasks and responsibilities, that makes total sense. However, if you're someone that can show up right on time and get started immediately, that works too. No one can say anything otherwise. Remember that: if you're being pressured to show up early to work, it's time to pull out that contract and advoc…
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‘She’ll find a way to blame the customer before taking accountability’: Gen X employee avoids the blame when she messes up and puts it on her coworkers, gets called out

‘She’ll find a way to blame the customer before taking accountability’: Gen X employee avoids the blame when she messes up and puts it on her coworkers, gets called out

Coworkers can be a dream or a nightmare, no in-between…
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‘All I did was make small talk’: Landlord's wife goes ‘unhinged’ on tenant for high school-level drama, tenant has enough and starts packing

‘All I did was make small talk’: Landlord's wife goes ‘unhinged’ on tenant for high school-level drama, tenant has enough and starts packing

The rent is too high these days to be forced into petty drama.
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entitled Karen duo pester retail employee and inconvenience ‘nice lady’ customer, preventing her from checking out and making the employee walk in mental circles

‘Two Karens, one transaction’: Retail employee gets the two-for-one Karen special, one who assumes seasonal Halloween decor is wicked and another who doesn't believe in patience

What did Halloween ever do to you, Karen?
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'I honestly don't work here': Karen refuses to believe total stranger isn't her grandmother's nurse, starts ordering her around

'I honestly don't work here': Karen refuses to believe total stranger isn't her grandmother's nurse, keeps ordering her around

Hospitals can be tense environments for anyone, but this entitled Karen took way too much of her stress out on an innocent bystander. The Karen was looking for her grandmother's nurse so she could get a sponge and a cup of water, but she was clearly so desperate that she ended up convincing herself that a complete and total stranger was the nurse assigned to her grandmother all this time. Ah, what the mind can do to an anxious individual! The stranger tried to reason with the Karen and explain…
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‘We fired… A customer!’: Arts and crafts store employees share times they had to ban customers who were regular Karens

‘We fired… A customer!’: Arts and crafts store employees share times they had to ban customers who were regular Karens

Arts & Craft stores seem to attract a lot of Karens…
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'[They] were just abhorrent': Raucous family of Karens makes server cry at restaurant, kind customers come to her defense

'[They] were just abhorrent': Raucous family of Karens makes server cry at restaurant, kind customers come to her defense

There is nothing worse than watching an unruly customer take their unnecessary frustrations out on an innocent server, as if it's part of their job to deal with abhorrent individuals. In short, it shouldn't be, and nine times out of ten, if you're a bystander in this situation, you can do more than stay out of the fray. Here, we have a kind Midwestern family who went out to a nice dinner at a local steakhouse. Their meal was practically ruined as a result of the family of Karens nearby, who mad…
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entitled airplane Karen causes seating fiasco when woman's assigned seat is between Karen and her husband, gets accusatory and downright nasty as a result

Airplane Karen complains through entire 5-hour flight because woman was sat between her and her husband, accuses woman of 'cheap[ing] out’ on flight tickets

I'm sorry, I didn't know you owned the plane!
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Entitled Karen tries to steal neighbor's 80 lb bag of sand: 'She says it’s free and I say it’s not'

Entitled Karen tries to steal neighbor's 80 lb bag of sand: 'She says it’s free and I say it’s not'

Nosy neighbors are known to be envious of lots of items belonging to other folks in the neighborhood, but sand is not typically one of those items. This Redditor and her husband kept an 80 lb bag of sand on their parking strip and had been meaning to move it for quite some time now but hadn't gotten around to it just yet. Still, it shouldn't have been an issue considering the fact that it was still very much on their own property. Cut to one random morning when the Redditor's husband noticed so…
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