r/Idontworkherelady Karen Trashes My Store and Spends Months In Prison!

welcome to our slash i don't work here lady where a karen gets herself thrown in jail our next reddit post is from never ever eat pears this happened a couple of months ago backstory i'm a youth worker and part of my job involves taking clients to a bowling alley i do this a few times a week sometimes more than once a day and usually at odd times 9 am monday bowling anyone so this place is basically my second office and we have a really good relationship with the proprietors during the quiet hours they only have two staff working one in the office front desk cafe and one behind the scenes this means that often there's a bit of standing around waiting when the front of the house staff members in a different area myself and the other weekday regulars mostly senior bowlers are used to it it actually works well for me because part of what i'm doing there is teaching my clients social skills and coping strategies so having to occupy yourself and be patient and polite is a good teaching moment my client and i have finished bowling and were sitting at the cafe eating and talking quietly when a man approaches the unattended cafe and immediately starts huffing and pacing relentlessly i side item but kept talking to the kid a minute later he comes and looms over our table and says excuse me in an aggressive tone now i've got my calm neutral face on but inside i started jibbering because one i hate confrontation two this guy is actually massive three the kids i work with are the zero to kick your effing teeth and kinda kid and they often get very protective of their workers in a sweet but messed up kind of way so if this guy tries to start something there's a good chance there will be red and blue flashing lights in my immediate future yes i inquired politely keeping one eye on the kid one hand on the phone and a vapid smile on my face how about you do your epic job he leaned down over the table his breath was as unpleasant as the rest of him i was surprised because sitting at a bowling alley eating curly fries with a 15 year old at 10 a.m on a tuesday was my job and i was doing it very well thank you very much i was also alarmed because said 15 year old has become very still and very tense not good i moved back in my seat and resumed the vapid smiling oh sorry i don't work here sometimes you have to wait a minute for someone to see you and come over but otherwise maybe try the front desk well you're dressed like you effing work here he leaned over more and jabbed me he jabbed me in my chest the staff at this bowling alley wear black trousers and violently orange polo shirts that match the violently orange walls awful i'm glad i don't drink because going in there with a hangover would kill me i was wearing baggy hippie pants my purple manic pixie dream tarantula tee and a sparkly sequin backpack and a lanyard with the word staff printed on it i held up the company id card at the end of the lanyard which identified me as an employee of the non-profit i work for no sorry i work for a non-profit we're customers here now if you don't mind you're being very rude this was me trying to be a role model terrified i smiled my best everything is fine smile to the kid who was eyeing the cutlery bucket don't talk to me like that you little b word i want three beers and some effing wings he actually smacked the table with his hand i looked over to the main area oh goody he has friends i leaned back as far as i could the wall was behind me tables were on either side of me and he was blocking my exit the kid stood up this was bad a staff member spotted us and started rushing over this was good we had time for a few rounds of i want to speak to your manager and i don't work here though please let me out before the actual manager of the bowling alley reached us he pulled the guy away so i could get up but the dude wanted to speak to my manager and won't let up the manager says i'm the manager here you're her manager no she doesn't work here he says to me i want to speak to your manager now at this point i figured why not and handed him one of our company business cards and said as for my manager's name he turned away to dial the number and i grabbed the kid and whispered now watch him make a dick of himself the kid laughs and relaxes a bit and the three of us just stand in a row and watch this [ __ ] call my actual manager and complain that i wouldn't serve him beer and chicken wings my manager actually took the complaint on an official form and made me sign it when i got back to the office meanwhile the dude got banned and the bowling alley gave the kid a huge pile of free arcade tokens as an apology and i was able to get him to give me back the knife that he stole before i dropped him home when's all around and then opie adds in an edit the complaint that my awesome manager wrote was a joke and i stuck up on the staff notice sport it's written in a tongue-in-cheek way and will absolutely not come back to bite me we've all enjoyed the running joke our next reddit post is from complex river maybe 10 years ago i owned a tattoo shop that was located next door to a piercing shop i had gone next door to watch the lobby for the piercer while they ran out and grabbed some change so a karen walks in and i get why she thinks i work there because i'm sitting behind the counter i was here last week and you screwed up my piercing it's infected now and i need you to fix it i don't work here i'm just no it was you i remember your tattoos look she proceeds to show me her navel piercing swollen over with cheap sucky jewelry obviously not from the upscale shop where i was currently at and covered in yellow crust the piercer will be right back he just went no you you screwed it up and now you're going to fix it i'm not dealing with anyone else they shouldn't have to fix your mistakes i don't work here i haven't done a piercing in years i'm sure the piercer will be happy too are you calling me a liar i remember you i don't want some guy touching me mind you the only piercers who worked there at the time were men you need to help me or i'm gonna have to go to the hospital and have this thing surgically removed and then i'll have to sue you for my medical bills since i'm not a piercer i don't know for sure but that thing looks pretty gross maybe you should go to the hospital and get it checked out i'm not going to the hospital you're going to fix it you screwed it up i need this fix today okay fill out this form and we'll see what can be done i was tired of dealing with her i just wanted her to stop talking the piercing shop had a long release form that everyone has to fill out so i gave her one of those to keep her busy till the piercer returned while she was working on the form the piercer returned i explained that she was upset and had an issue with her navel and then snuck out the back door to return to my much quieter tattoo shop maybe 10 minutes pass and guess who walks into my shop i want to get a tattoo today the lady acted like she had never seen me before no mention of me being in the other shop or anything i'm sorry i'm busy today we're booked out for several months and not able to take any new clients for a while i went blah blah blah she proceeds to describe a fairly large and detailed tattoo i can't remember what i know how much tattoos cost so i don't intend to overpay there's no way i can tattoo you today and i'm about to lock up for lunch karen goes through the gate that separates the lobby from the tattoo station that sits down on my massage table and holds out 40 dollars how long do you think this will take can i use your phone i have to call my husband and tell him when i'll be home ma'am you have to leave you are not getting tattooed here today i'm not taking new clients and you've been kind of rude both here and next door and i just plain don't want your business here she holds out 40 bucks again you're not busy now so i don't see what the problem is how can you even stay open if you refuse to tattoo anyone here again she hands out the 40 we tattoo plenty of people i just won't be tattooing you you're demanding a 400 tattoo for 40 bucks when i'm already booked and you were rude to me next door please take your person leave i'm trying to get lunch before my next appointment i don't mind waiting i'm not tattooing you now or ever get your stuff and get out of my shop and don't ever come in here again at this point i picked up her tattoo reference photos and shoved them back in her purse and handed to her what the f are you doing give me my purse you're trying to rob me give me my effing money back girl call the police so i walked in the door opened it and threw her purse outside call whoever the f you want but you need to leave now she practically leapt out the front door continuing to scream about her purse the contents of which had spilled for me tossing it and on her way out she pushed me hard enough that i cut my shoulder on the corner of a vending machine in the lobby i locked the door behind her gathered my things and left on foot out the back to get lunch at the bar a couple of doors down while i was at lunch i got a notification that someone had left a review guess who it was the most insane and confusing review i've ever read my favorite parts were that i had secretly disclosed having hepatitis to her and that her nephew was going to do an apprenticeship with us but wouldn't after how she was treated the rest of it was profanity in saying my shop was dirty i'm a drug addict etc so i flagged it with google and figured that was the end of that my shop had a little enclosed patio at the front entrance with seating in a smoking area for clients as well as a bunch of potted plants and decorations when i returned i found all but one of my pots broken dirt and plants everywhere a bench thrown halfway over the fence the christmas lights have been torn down my gate had been kicked or pushed so hard that it was sitting crooked on the hinges my small window had been broken one of the letters was torn off my tattoo sign and my freaking car was keyed my car had a huge sticker for my shop and the plate was tattooing you so it was obvious who to target not a little bit keyed either this woman went freaking crazy while keying my car there was so much damage i couldn't believe she'd been able to do it in the hour so i'd been gone i was super bummed no one had seen it happening because the strip door parking lot configuration was kind of weird so i started crying i was so bummed out about my shop and the car and all of it i'm really low-key and get stressed easy and this was too much i then called the police cancelled my next appointment and went next door to visit while i waited for the cops i found out the lady had been crazy rude to the piercer as well and that he wound up kicking her out as well she wanted him to replace the awful jewelry she'd gotten to pierce with at another shop with a 150 barbell for free and became irate when he refused so i rate that she pushed all the flyers from the flyer table on the ground as she left while cussing him out so the cop showed up and took a report it takes me a while to fill everything out and he took a photo of the cut that i got from being pushed and we showed him a video of her trashing the place the cop was telling me that the report was pretty much just for insurance because we don't know who she is or how to find her when i remembered the release form part of the piercer's release form process was to take a photocopy of client id cards on the form so that's what i'd done when i was trying to shut her up we dug the release forms out of the trash and then the cops had her full name recent address phone number etc she lived not even a half mile from the shop so the cops drove to her house and arrested her she got in trouble for all of it by the time it was over she had to serve several months in jail and i assume a long time on probation and i bet she had to attend classes i don't know just to guess i got a notification several months later letting me know she'd gotten out of jail and i remember thinking man she was in there for a while the following day her husband called me to find out what the damages were so we could cover the costs by the time i added everything up it was close to five thousand dollars i was kind of a dick and taxed the f out of them and quoted him as though i'd paid people top dollar to fix all my stuff that i actually fixed like replace and set up the plants the fans etc he brought an envelope of cash in the day after i told him the cost it was weird he was a nice acting seemingly normal guy he apologized and said that she has a temper this means that karen could have afforded the jewelry she was trying to get for free and the tattoo she was trying to get for cheap i assume anyways because it seems like he just had the money laying around since he came up with it so fast but don't worry none of this stopped karen after she got out of jail for about a year my shop would get these random super weird reviews from random gmail accounts that had no other reviews i have no proof it was her but we never got bad reviews till this happened and they were all written in the same way they all just sounded like the same person wrote them some of my favorite highlights from the reviews that i am a prostitute and operate that business out of the shop that we reused needles that we did a misspelled tattoo that i sell drugs from the shop that you can find nudes of me online that we tattooed a minor without a parent that we allowed dogs in the shop that we got shut down by the health department and that i hire illegal immigrants there was plenty of other stuff and it was all pretty far out that's just what i can remember this lady would write paragraphs of weird stuff every time just rambling lunacy i was in business over 15 years that was the only karen i ever remembered having to deal with i'm sure there were a lot of other rude customers but nothing like that i wonder if she ever realized that she provided us with the information that made it super easy to track her down right after based on this karen's behavior i'm guessing that the reason why she flipped out when you threw her purse out into the street was because she had drugs in there this lady seems like she's not all there our next reply from 1 000 mile boner quick preface i was in a very serious car accident a little over a year ago this left me with some brain damage nerve damage etc throughout my days i have episodes where i get disoriented forget where i am what i'm doing what's going on around me etc i used to do heavy manual labor but i'm now working at a well-known department store with aprons of a certain citrus variety a couple of days ago i was shopping at our store with a friend in a black and orange hooded flannel i'm approached by a middle-aged man carrying a small metal piece related to light bulbs well at this certain point of our trip i was starting to have an episode my body got really hot i zoned out quite a bit and i was just overall not 100 there he asked me where i can find a replacement for this piece and i point towards the hardware department even though i was off duty not in uniform and clearly shopping myself the place where i pointed seemed to confuse him and he muttered something under his breath while giving a really puzzled look but goes anyway we go to the water fountains near the bathrooms in the back so i can get some fluids in my system and chill out a bit when we continue shopping a few minutes later who passes us none other than the puzzle-looking man complaining about stupid employees and blah blah blah oh no it's about to go down at first he stops a few feet away from me looking around clearly searching for the stupid guy who sent him over to the hardware department until he realizes i'm standing right by him he locks eyes with me and the conversation goes as follows are you the one who sent me all around the store looking like an idiot omg sorry i was confused by what you showed me it's a such and such piece why the f would you send me to the hardware aisle are you an r word or something is this one of those programs i'm sorry man i'm not even working right now i'm just trying to enjoy my day off i didn't mean to send you to the wrong place at this point another employee walks up and tries to defuse the situation seeing me their subpar mental capacity co-worker and a fuming customer in a situation my co-worker says what seems to be the problem thank god are you an r word too or do you think you can show me where i can find this he gestured to the small piece in his hand sir i understand that you can't know this but i am a bit slow at times i have fairly severe brain damage and also as i said before it's my day off i gesture at my co-workers apron when i say this the guy turned white as a ghost i kid you not white as a ghost mouth a gape it was glorious after this everything dies down a bit and i bask in the small win somehow despite the fact that he was talking to a person with brain damage he was a stupid one that was our slash i don't work here lady and if you like this content check out my podcast where i publish the exact same episodes also hit that subscribe button because i put out new reddit videos every single day

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Length: 16min 35sec (995 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 04 2021