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Ive also witnessed the husband of Karen disappearing right before she goes all Thanatos on people.. Had one even apologize to me after for how his wife acted.. We got a product in for them, last one in the chain, called them three times at the number they gave.. which was the wrong number.. held it for a few days more just in case... then sold it. They came in a week later.. she got all bent. My manager was able to score one at cost from another chain store in the area whos manager gave us the sympathy discount and got it to our customer.
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Quoted: Maybe age? If I was in still in high school and an early 20s babe came and made some requests I’d try and accommodate it if I could chat her up a bit more. Once they balloon out and their tits flop they may still expect that same service...I’m not so happy to oblige when I know the answer. Who know. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 12 years in retail and the worst of the American consumer was the Middle aged white female. They are all alike, too. Is there something out there that turns normal women into Karen? Karenovirus? Maybe age? If I was in still in high school and an early 20s babe came and made some requests I’d try and accommodate it if I could chat her up a bit more. Once they balloon out and their tits flop they may still expect that same service...I’m not so happy to oblige when I know the answer. Who know. You might be on to something here. The middle age power shift happens and they can't adapt. |
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I saw a Karen lose it at the airport in Atlanta when she couldn't get her checked bags at her layover stop.
I stood and watched the meltdown while my wife and kids were walking to the next gate. |
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View Quote Shannon and Karen are approved to be used interchangeably |
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Quoted: This wholeheartedly why I believe a person should work retail for at least 6mo to a year at some point in their life. View Quote I did - an auto parts store in the bad part of a town that's mostly Section 8. On the rare occasion a decently dressed, well mannered, middle class, i.e. normal person, lost their way and came in looking for some wax or something, I'd treat them like the person who showed up to rescue me from being shipwrecked on an island populated by cannibalistic savages. 6 months is about how far I made it. |
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an old one: Karen's middle aged husband at an airport can't get what he wants. Pulls the old "Do you know who I am." Ticket agent gets on PA. " There is a gentleman here at the counter that doesn't know who he is. If anyone knows him, please inform him."
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Quoted: Quoted: A couple of months ago I had a Karen in front of me in line play the I want to speak to the manager. I interrupted her and told her the manager was Ray Charleston and I had his cell number and said he was most likely not in the office. The I turned to the cashier and said I had forgotten an item and would be right back I gave Karen MY cell number and took off. Of course she called it and from maybe 50 feet away I answered it on the 3rd ring. "Ray Charleston," I answered. After she was done with her spiel I asked her to turn her head to the left which she did. "Good. Now we have your face on our facial recognition software. You are at register 4 and we have recorded the entire conversation you had with the cashier, who happens to be my aunt by the way. Pay for your stuff and leave. You have 5 minutes. If the software picks your face up again I will have you arrested for trespassing." She looked shocked, paid and fled like the devil was chasing her. When I got back to the register the cashier looked at me and said, "The manager's name isn't Ray Charleston." She rang up my stuff and when I paid her she looked at me wide eyed and said, "That was your cell phone you gave her, wasn't it?" Seeing eye cat rides again !! I learned a lot from that little kitty. He taught me not to GAF about stupid/rude/ignorant people. If it wasn't for him I'd likely be a doddering old idiot trying to please everyone and trying to pathetically fit in. I just trolled the "my neighborhood'' forum and had about 50% of my posts deleted by the mods. Someone IM'd me and asked if I was Ken M. What to do about solicitors. Me: I just answer the door with a kukri, hack them up and throw them into the family stew pot. Her: That's cannibalism! You scare me. Me: Don't be scared unless you're a door to door solicitor. Her: You feed your family PEOPLE? Me: It cuts down on the grocery bill. I have 27 children to feed. Her: How did you get 27 children? Me: Back when you were a little girl didn't your mother ever have a little talk with you and tell you where babies come from? Her: I know where babies come from! Me: Then why did you ask? Her: They should get a search warrant and dig up your whole back yard! Me: I wish they would. It would save me a lot of digging. It's getting near time to plant my annual marijuana crop. Her: That's illegal! You can't plant marijuana! Me: With 27 kids I gotta do something to scare up a few bucks. Besides, I only sell it to adults. It saves them from having to buy it from high school kids who rip senior citizens off. |
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Quoted: As a customer.. this is also the perfect time to assert your dominance on Karen with some snarky humorous remark or comment.. or a simple "I was here earlier, they did have some, but it was gone in minutes" Save the kid.. he will become your personal retail servant for that trip. View Quote Damned right! I have done this more than once and it pays HUGE dividends. |
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I saw her cousin at IKEA last week.
She was demanding to be allowed to go into the (closed) showroom because she had driven so far. |
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Working at Walgreens from about age 17 to 23. The best way to deal with Karen's is to wait until they threaten your job, you then mention you know where they live if you become unemployed over bs. I loose my job and income you loose a house! Tends to work
Karen's suck ass Edit to add ghetto Karen is worst karen |
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Quoted: I bring funnies from my last retail jobs FB group lol. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/21179/90394893_4094587420553137_43658834380545-1327908.JPG View Quote I always wondered how far I could get up the Walmart chain. Back when Sam Wall was still alive I bet I could have gotten to him. If I started talking about bird hunting he probably would have invited me along on one of his trips. |
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I was directly in line behind Karen at Target customer service. She was ripping the Target gal a new one, and finished with "I want to see your manager"!!!. So the Target gal picks up the phone, says manager to customer service, and then looks at me and says NEXT. Now Karen had a problem, she got what she wanted, a call for the manager, but now she's holding up the line. I said "excuse me" and Karen sulked out of the way completely deflated. CSB
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Quoted: I was directly in line behind Karen at Target customer service. She was ripping the Target gal a new one, and finished with "I want to see your manager"!!!. So the Target gal picks up the phone, says manager to customer service, and then looks at me and says NEXT. Now Karen had a problem, she got what she wanted, a call for the manager, but now she's holding up the line. I said "excuse me" and Karen sulked out of the way completely deflated. CSB View Quote I love a happy ending |
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Quoted: I was directly in line behind Karen at Target customer service. She was ripping the Target gal a new one, and finished with "I want to see your manager"!!!. So the Target gal picks up the phone, says manager to customer service, and then looks at me and says NEXT. Now Karen had a problem, she got what she wanted, a call for the manager, but now she's holding up the line. I said "excuse me" and Karen sulked out of the way completely deflated. CSB View Quote Epic level Karen handling skills. Years ago I was a customer service manager for Staples. When Karen wanted to speak to a manager, guess who they called. |
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View Quote That bitch looks like a fish. |
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Quoted: That bitch looks like a fish. The fuck is it with her lower lip? |
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Quoted: A couple of months ago I had a Karen in front of me in line play the I want to speak to the manager. I interrupted her and told her the manager was Ray Charleston and I had his cell number and said he was most likely not in the office. The I turned to the cashier and said I had forgotten an item and would be right back I gave Karen MY cell number and took off. Of course she called it and from maybe 50 feet away I answered it on the 3rd ring. "Ray Charleston," I answered. After she was done with her spiel I asked her to turn her head to the left which she did. "Good. Now we have your face on our facial recognition software. You are at register 4 and we have recorded the entire conversation you had with the cashier, who happens to be my aunt by the way. Pay for your stuff and leave. You have 5 minutes. If the software picks your face up again I will have you arrested for trespassing." She looked shocked, paid and fled like the devil was chasing her. When I got back to the register the cashier looked at me and said, "The manager's name isn't Ray Charleston." She rang up my stuff and when I paid her she looked at me wide eyed and said, "That was your cell phone you gave her, wasn't it?" View Quote Well done. She has still not been back. |
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Quoted: A couple of months ago I had a Karen in front of me in line play the I want to speak to the manager. I interrupted her and told her the manager was Ray Charleston and I had his cell number and said he was most likely not in the office. The I turned to the cashier and said I had forgotten an item and would be right back I gave Karen MY cell number and took off. Of course she called it and from maybe 50 feet away I answered it on the 3rd ring. "Ray Charleston," I answered. After she was done with her spiel I asked her to turn her head to the left which she did. "Good. Now we have your face on our facial recognition software. You are at register 4 and we have recorded the entire conversation you had with the cashier, who happens to be my aunt by the way. Pay for your stuff and leave. You have 5 minutes. If the software picks your face up again I will have you arrested for trespassing." She looked shocked, paid and fled like the devil was chasing her. When I got back to the register the cashier looked at me and said, "The manager's name isn't Ray Charleston." She rang up my stuff and when I paid her she looked at me wide eyed and said, "That was your cell phone you gave her, wasn't it?" View Quote |
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Quoted: Like most people I worked a retail job when I was a teenager. It forever shaped how I interact with anybody in a retail setting, I remember the feeling of relief to this day when you got to interact with the 1 out of 10 customers who weren't rude and/or functionally retarded. I always did whatever I could to go above and beyond for them too. View Quote Same here. Customer service job at 20 changed my view forever. It's not the customer is always right, it's the customer is always stupid. Fuck I hate people because of that job. I got to see first hand how stupid and entitled most are.. it shaped me into the cynical asshole I am today lol |
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Quoted: Quoted: That bitch looks like a fish. The fuck is it with her lower lip? Somebody dick-slapped her so hard they knocked it out of alignment. |
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I saw an XL sized Karen lookalike with the stacked puffy blond bob and too much makeup at Target yesterday. I felt sorry for any employees that had to deal with her.
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I dearly want to run into one. I give no fucks, and would cheerfully go on the mother of all artfully profane tirades at her.
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Quoted: A couple of months ago I had a Karen in front of me in line play the I want to speak to the manager. I interrupted her and told her the manager was Ray Charleston and I had his cell number and said he was most likely not in the office. The I turned to the cashier and said I had forgotten an item and would be right back I gave Karen MY cell number and took off. Of course she called it and from maybe 50 feet away I answered it on the 3rd ring. "Ray Charleston," I answered. After she was done with her spiel I asked her to turn her head to the left which she did. "Good. Now we have your face on our facial recognition software. You are at register 4 and we have recorded the entire conversation you had with the cashier, who happens to be my aunt by the way. Pay for your stuff and leave. You have 5 minutes. If the software picks your face up again I will have you arrested for trespassing." She looked shocked, paid and fled like the devil was chasing her. When I got back to the register the cashier looked at me and said, "The manager's name isn't Ray Charleston." She rang up my stuff and when I paid her she looked at me wide eyed and said, "That was your cell phone you gave her, wasn't it?" View Quote Only you have the crazy-cred for such a tale. Bravo, Signori. Bravo! |
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I worked at one of the largest Wal Mart stores in the country in HS and College. it completely changed my view on people. something causes them to turn into another being when they walk thru the sliding doors. |
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Quoted: My kids bugged us to go to Target because their website said they had a nintendo switch in stock. Seeing as how we are going to kill them if we don't find something for them to do we figured we would buy it. We get there and the entire section is cleaned out. No nintendo, xbox, ps4, nothing. "Excuse me, do you have any clorox disinfecting wipes?" The poor kid she pinioned gives the expected answer: "No, I'm sorry we are out". Nice polite kid. Karen speaks again, her voice more strident, more demanding this time. View Quote Did you check if that Target also lied about having disinfecting wipes too? I can kind of excuse a store with online inventory to be out of some regular demand product where their inventory shows one or two items remaining while they are actually out (because they were stolen and not inventoried since). Proper online vendors with brick and mortar stores even alert dumb shoppers for this risk by using some visual warning (such as yellow color etc.) or alternatively replace under 5 counts with a text such as “contact store to confirm availability”. But this bullshit that they are listing panic buy items as being available and then fail to update their website regularly for actual availability of actual product, for that they deserve every irate customer tearing them a new one every time its happens. I wouldn't cry for someone even torching the whole place for that. Sure the cashier probably doesn't manage the website, but I bet the manager could call someone and get that shit straightened out right away, if they really cared about customer service and not having people drive around and risk infection to chase phantom product listings. And this applies to any disruptions in demand or supply. If you have online inventory, keep it up to date or take it down. |
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Other customers need to start telling these people they are fucked up and why. If it happened more often Karen would be afraid to make a scene. It's easy and safe to be an asshole to a low level staff member.
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Quoted: Butcher in a retail store here. I see it daily. Yeah, I'm hiding the ground beef in the back until you leave. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: Like most people I worked a retail job when I was a teenager. It forever shaped how I interact with anybody in a retail setting, I remember the feeling of relief to this day when you got to interact with the 1 out of 10 customers who weren't rude and/or functionally retarded. I always did whatever I could to go above and beyond for them too. View Quote Same |
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Quoted: Did you check if that Target also lied about having disinfecting wipes too? I can kind of excuse a store with online inventory to be out of some regular demand product where their inventory shows one or two items remaining while they are actually out (because they were stolen and not inventoried since). Proper online vendors with brick and mortar stores even alert dumb shoppers for this risk by using some visual warning (such as yellow color etc.) or alternatively replace under 5 counts with a text such as "contact store to confirm availability". But this bullshit that they are listing panic buy items as being available and then fail to update their website regularly for actual availability of actual product, for that they deserve every irate customer tearing them a new one every time its happens. I wouldn't cry for someone even torching the whole place for that. Sure the cashier probably doesn't manage the website, but I bet the manager could call someone and get that shit straightened out right away, if they really cared about customer service and not having people drive around and risk infection to chase phantom product listings. And this applies to any disruptions in demand or supply. If you have online inventory, keep it up to date or take it down. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: My kids bugged us to go to Target because their website said they had a nintendo switch in stock. Seeing as how we are going to kill them if we don't find something for them to do we figured we would buy it. We get there and the entire section is cleaned out. No nintendo, xbox, ps4, nothing. "Excuse me, do you have any clorox disinfecting wipes?" The poor kid she pinioned gives the expected answer: "No, I'm sorry we are out". Nice polite kid. Karen speaks again, her voice more strident, more demanding this time. Did you check if that Target also lied about having disinfecting wipes too? I can kind of excuse a store with online inventory to be out of some regular demand product where their inventory shows one or two items remaining while they are actually out (because they were stolen and not inventoried since). Proper online vendors with brick and mortar stores even alert dumb shoppers for this risk by using some visual warning (such as yellow color etc.) or alternatively replace under 5 counts with a text such as "contact store to confirm availability". But this bullshit that they are listing panic buy items as being available and then fail to update their website regularly for actual availability of actual product, for that they deserve every irate customer tearing them a new one every time its happens. I wouldn't cry for someone even torching the whole place for that. Sure the cashier probably doesn't manage the website, but I bet the manager could call someone and get that shit straightened out right away, if they really cared about customer service and not having people drive around and risk infection to chase phantom product listings. And this applies to any disruptions in demand or supply. If you have online inventory, keep it up to date or take it down. |
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I’ve been watching/listening to a lot of reddit stories on YouTube.
If even half of those stories are true, there’s a lot of insane people out there... people who go insane if they’re told “no”. And that’s just the stories that make it to the videos. |
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Wait... Why do Karen’s believe the distance they have traveled has any effect on a sales associate’s ability to conjure objects that don’t exist?
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12 months in a retail job and 3 years in the army or marines AFTER college.
4 years of public service will kill allot of Karens before they reach 30 You'll develop a real hatred er I mean understanding of dealing with people. |
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Quoted: A couple of months ago I had a Karen in front of me in line play the I want to speak to the manager. I interrupted her and told her the manager was Ray Charleston and I had his cell number and said he was most likely not in the office. The I turned to the cashier and said I had forgotten an item and would be right back I gave Karen MY cell number and took off. Of course she called it and from maybe 50 feet away I answered it on the 3rd ring. "Ray Charleston," I answered. After she was done with her spiel I asked her to turn her head to the left which she did. "Good. Now we have your face on our facial recognition software. You are at register 4 and we have recorded the entire conversation you had with the cashier, who happens to be my aunt by the way. Pay for your stuff and leave. You have 5 minutes. If the software picks your face up again I will have you arrested for trespassing." She looked shocked, paid and fled like the devil was chasing her. When I got back to the register the cashier looked at me and said, "The manager's name isn't Ray Charleston." She rang up my stuff and when I paid her she looked at me wide eyed and said, "That was your cell phone you gave her, wasn't it?" View Quote and |
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Quoted: My kids bugged us to go to Target because their website said they had a nintendo switch in stock. Seeing as how we are going to kill them if we don't find something for them to do we figured we would buy it. We get there and the entire section is cleaned out. No nintendo, xbox, ps4, nothing. Looks like we aren't the only ones! Oh well, we can always make more kids if we have to kill the ones we have. Since we are here, let's see if they are still cleaned out of the usual stuff and of course they are. No rice, beans, cold medicine, hand sanitizer, bleach, disinfectant. etc.. Same story as everywhere else. Then I hear Karen. She is talking to/at an employee in what starts out as a firm, controlled but civil voice. She looks to be about her late 40's/early 50's with dyed blond hair which was surprisingly NOT done in the typical Karen haircut but in a longer style. Karenoflage? "Excuse me, do you have any clorox disinfecting wipes?" The poor kid she pinioned gives the expected answer: "No, I'm sorry we are out". Nice polite kid. Karen speaks again, her voice more strident, more demanding this time. "I just looked online and it SAID you HAD some!!" Still pretending to be polite but her tone says "you better change your tune or there will be hell to pay". "No maam we are all out" "Well can you go check in the back PLEASE!?!?!" She managed to make "please" sound like "or else". Clearly, Karen had experience in these matters. "Sorry maam but all our stock is out. Whatever we have is on the shelf". You can tell the kid knows what's coming. He's met Karen before. Karen's demeanor changes. She squares off to the poor kid, points a finger at his face and says in a louder voice. "I drove all the way out here (probably 5 minutes worth of driving around here) and now you're telling me you don't have any?! This is ridiculous! I need to speak to a manager! " You could practically hear the poor kid rolling his eyes because Karen seems to think the manager can pull a can of disinfecting wipes out of his ass. Mind you this is at 1pm, the store has been open for hours and anything they had this morning is long gone. The entire world knows this, except for Karen. In Karen's world, shortages happen to other people. Karen gets what she wants, when she wants it, epidemics be damned. I would not have believed it if it hadn't happened right in front of me. Karen is real, she is out there and SHE WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER. If you encounter Karen in the wild, give Karen wide berth and leave the area. Or she WILL speak to your manager. Anybody else run into Karen today? File photo of Karen for field identification purposes. Actual hairstyle may vary: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/018/181/managerhaircutt.jpg View Quote My wife ordered some stuff from target I had to pick up Friday, and then of course asked me to check for a few things in the grocery section while I’m there. You couldn’t tell a difference from any other weekday in any other year. Nothing missing from the shelves - paper products, cleaning products, fresh groceries. |
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Karen is prohibited text on both Red Dead Online and Modern Warfare.
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Quoted: Okay, good to know we have a psycho here. View Quote I see. You think we should have sympathy for a business that has deceptive or down right fraudulent advertising. Also it apparently should have no consequences. The fact remains that people have and will continue to destroy stores that set them up like that. In a mass hysteria and panic situation the store should be extra careful not to promise to sell something that they don't have, not less careful or less within their due diligence. But eventually it's a self solving problem in a free economy, shady business will just fail and others will prosper. |
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