r/IDontWorkHereLady - Karen wouldn't leave me alone because she thought I was the manager...

what's up guys welcome to daily dose of Reddit this is your host Zach and today's subreddit is our /i don't work your lady all right this story's called thank you mister kilt so I started reading this sub and it brought back some events which I thought had long been buried in the dark recesses of my memory used to work and owned an annual event several years ago and we had just finished up for the year and I was finally on the long drive home where Abed and several fuzzy blankets were waiting for me after almost five days of hurting cats and volunteers and putting up with the headaches that go with the insanity I was happy but drained as well as slightly thirsty and wanting a small boost of energy so I pull into a gas station to grab some drinks and snacks for the trip ahead as I am walking in I see a car parked outside with an Indiana license plate as story takes place in Virginia but I have family from Indiana so it was an interesting sight note so the first thing I hear as I walk into the store is a Karen asking loudly where the oh wow dispenser is I still don't know how she got four syllables out of the three letters that make up the word pop at this point let's introduce you to our cast karen dressed as only a karen can be i think it was her first time leaving the midwest store employee look of panic and bewilderment on his face dressed in a red polo with the red company logo stitched on in black and black pants me exhausted slowly rebuilding the threads of sanity and decency that i had lost over the weekend running on about 20% and slowly climbing I'm wearing my usual clothing when I'm dealing with my event so I'm wearing it employee blue polo with my events name in red as well as my lanyard from the event and a brown survivor utila kilt hi to all who know me as a note I have two different badges attached to my lanyard one was our events generic staff and the other was a badge identifying me as the owner of said event I keep both to not draw too much attention to myself as people react differently to a generic staffer than an owner anyway back to the story at hand so after listening to Karen's mangled attempt at the English language I walk over to where they are talking ma'am I don't know what you are asking for starting to look more panicked and terrified I want to know where the pop dispenser is the veins in her forehead are starting to show sorry to interrupt I know that this stores layout isn't the best but you can find the soda machine around the corner just past the restrooms as I point in the general direction finally someone who speaks English and she stomps off me to the store employee never encountered someone from the Midwest I see pop is their generic term for Coke he looks relieved and scurries back to the register to assist some people waiting in line I feel a bit better and continue on my shopping and sanity and decency levels at 25% now in a happy world this would be the end of it but we all know different I'm now looking through the drink coolers in trying to decide what I want to keep me hydrated on the ride home I had two bottles in my hand and saw another option which looked much better so I decided to put the ones in my hand back when Karen comes marching up to me with the storm clouds of an angry category Karen trailing in her wake there is no upper 10 on the dispenser and I don't see it anywhere what kind of store is this anyways and where is the cherry mash that lazy boy up there didn't know what I was talking about I look at her and disbelief I'm sorry what that lazy son of a Beckel dairy and just told me he didn't know what sharing mash was he must be some kind of idiot now tell me where the cherry mash is Jannetty indecency levels 15% and dropping I utter the magic words to carry ma'am I don't work here Karen looking like she's about to turn into the Hulk then why and Jesus says name did you help that lazy son of biodegradation alia why are you putting drinks back in the cooler sanity and decency levels 5% and plummeting she now takes her finger and starts jabbing my badge hanging from my chest I see that your staff here she was using a very mocking tone for the word staff I'm the customer you need to treat me right at this point my sanity and decency level skipped right past zero at loop Risha speeds and I now lost it I'm a large six foot one three hundred plus pound person for those who've met me no I try and be kind and easygoing in my day-to-day life and I don't like to throw my weight around or try to intimidate anyone without cause Karen has just succeeded in something that few have been able to do in the past which is to get me to the point where I'm annoyed I flip my badge over so that it shows owner and straightening up and projecting myself at my full size and in a voice which can get several hundred people to stop and listen madam I have an odor you've cost enough of a headache to everyone in this store please apologize to them and leave and like a six-year-old to nose they've been busted by the school principal and is awaiting their mother to come pick them up she mutters a quick and meek sorry in bolts out of the store I take a deep breath and deflate grab my drinks and head up to the counter the poor store employee is looking at me like a deer in headlights he rings me up and I pay and get ready to walk out of the store as I get ready to leave good day sir thanks you too and cheer up it only gets worse epilogue a few months later I'm travelling to a meeting for my event I stopped off at this same store to pick up some drinks I'm in my kilt but this time I have one of my t-shirts from my event on Holi babe it's mr. kil really where I want to get his autograph store manager then proceeds to tell me what happened after I left it seems that it was only the second day that store employee was trusted with Manning the store without someone else being there and was already nervous about it our adventure happened with less than an hour to go on his shift it also turns out that the store manager had walked in behind me and watched the whole thing shortly after I left he went to the back and made sure that he had the security footage saved as he wanted to watch and laugh about it later next thing he sees that there are now two squad cars sitting in his parking lot and there are now two police officers talking to the store employee with Karin standing off to one side is there a problem yes Karin here claims that she was assaulted by your employee and the owner of the company officer I'm not sure how that is possible because the owner is at corporate up in Pennsylvania so why he showed me his badge and it said oh no on it store manager holding the nametag he was wearing ma'am well did it look something like this Wow not exactly oh and we like to follow me I'll be happy to show you the security footage Karin watching the footage of when I walked into the store yeah that's him that's the person who said he was the owner I only did that he's the owner of this store I agree what makes he is so sure first off he's walking in through the front of the store most employees will come in the back secondly if you look at the logo on his shirt it's fun event that happened last weekend and finally ma'am he wearing a kilt at this point officer 1 and store managers start chortling she turns to officer - oh what a kilt it's a traditional Scottish garment they get to the point where she is poking me in the chest in my reaction ma'am as you can see on the tape there was no assault on either store manager or mr. kilts part and filing a false report is a crime he turns the store manager from what we've seen Karen has assaulted mr. kilts would you like to press charges on his behalf Karen then proceeds to spin a web of bullsh nazil store manager really doesn't want the hassle and the officers let her go with the warning once they leave in store employees replacement has arrived store manager calls him back into his office and discusses the events store employee was relieved to know that he did nothing wrong and that he wasn't gonna get fired over the event he was then able to handle the job with ease and joked with his boss about having a mr. kilt day thanks for reading notes one for those unaware in the u.s. there are several generic names for carbonated beverages and depending on where you grew up is how you refer to it as for why I was wearing a lanyard and badge in the first place I was packing up and throwing stuff in my truck for the drive home and it was loose so I placed it on my neck and forgot about it three utila kilts are one of the most wonderful garments one can own hey I'm all for functionally comfortable in stylish clothing um that's why I'm all for the Hawaiian shirt keeps you cool keeps you looking cool and they're cool a quote I like to use a lot on this channel um is a from Gaeta in that show Dave the trip ain't on you it's in you that could be very inappropriate I'm just realizing but it ain't also the best regional term for soft carbonated drinks is pop hands-down I'm sorry call me a Karen with its pop this story's called I used to work here but not anymore so this is a story from 2014 when was a leasing agent working at an apartment complex first some backstory I happen to work where I lived and while this may sound convenient and I guess it was it wasn't when neighbors realized who I was it was common for neighbors one in particular to knock on my door in demand I fix something or that I take care of something for them anywhere from fixing their AC to lowering their rent I'd explain that I'm just a leasing agent I can't fix crap and have no authority whatsoever and while I have endless stories of people's stupidity I was rarely able to do anything other than smile and nodding kiss their feet eventually it came to pass that I stopped working there and just became a regular resident of that godforsaken place which meant I no longer had to be nice I gotta be honest I was excited freakin elated at the prospect of my dip Dookie neighbor knocking on my door late in the evening I could not wait to tell her to go love herself sure enough one day about a month or so after I was done working there I get an aggressive knock on the door and I who is actually giddy but also angry at the same time I had two years worth of leasing agent aggression to get out anyway here's how it went excuse me I put in a work order for my fridge about a month ago it's making a noise and you need to fix it right now because I can't sleep with that terrible noise me joyous at the prospect of her setting herself up so perfectly is that so well again I cannot fix it you'll have to call the office tomorrow in the meantime how can you hear the fridge over your own bowls OOP excuse me I'll have you fired for speaking to me like that how dare you blah blah blah blah good luck jackass I don't work there anymore and for the thousandth time when I'm not at the office I can't do jack crap to help you because I'm just a goddamn leasing agent who doesn't fix crap doesn't have the power to change your rent and most importantly doesn't give two craps about your fridge being loud when you are the one being obnoxious so shut the front door and leave me alone dumbass neighbor red and flustered she tried to cut me off but I just got louder well I'm definitely calling your boss and having you fired I can't believe this she stormed off upstairs she lived above me and I heard stomping around and slamming bear in mind is she'd been a total schlong to me every time she came over the others who bothered me at least were nice when I explained to them why I couldn't help she was always loud obnoxious and an absolute prick when she'd come to bug me so anyway I get a call from my old boss the next day which was wonderful cuz at first she was like so I heard from dumbass neighbor that you use some inappropriate language and were rude to her that's unacceptable she just busted out laughing this neighbor was constantly causing ruckus making complaints being a schlong to all the staff and my old boss was just happy for me saying god I'm jealous you have no idea how much I want to do that to people but we just have to freaking smile and take and what was it like so yeah we had a laugh about it that was a nice aftermath to that and that lady moved out later that year and I did the following gear I hope you enjoyed reading that as much as I enjoyed living it and if you know of a good sub to share leasing agent stories please let me know cuz I've got real doozies for example the time a resident asked me to take pictures of him for OkCupid Thanks must have felt pretty good um I know for a fact that I'd love to cuss out some hotel guests some people are jerks man this story's called Karen follows me into the men's restroom a few weeks ago I was visiting my local big-box bookstore looking for good clearance items before the store closed permanently the dead Moloch was attached he was being demolished the store has no dress code but the employees do wear lanyards and I wasn't so I was browsing around my preferred sci-fi section when I realized I needed to use the nearby restroom so I headed in that direction which happens to also be next to the mid store customer service counter Karen notices me positions herself directly in front of me and blocking my path to my urinary destination I don't know why you don't keep that desk staffed but I really need your help finding my book are you gonna help me or not not I say remembering the urgency of my business and I step around her with a variation of I don't work here continuing to my destination thinking that will be the end of the encounter it's not to be I hear her voice rising in pitch and volume on its way to full Karen Banshee as she literally follows me into the men's restroom and I'm convinced she was about to grab my arm and pull me around to face her being conscious of social norms about public exposure I made it into a stall and locked the door for privacy that didn't stop her from knocking on the door and threatening to get me fired before she heard the really solid stream hit the water and I'm convinced realized for the first time what it was she had done I heard her embarrassed sounding squeak huff and she hightailed it out of there I finished my thing and washed my hands and came out to witness her being escorted out of the store by a properly lanyard bid the employee I only caught the tail end of the conversation where Karen stated she was never coming here again and the employee had the classic response neither am i we're closing I'm curious as to what universe following a person into the restroom to Pastor them is a good idea because it's definitely not this one I figured it out it must be the same universe where that Karen's brain is because it obviously isn't this one don't forget to Like subscribe and hit that Bell to never miss an episode [Music]

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Length: 17min 55sec (1075 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 08 2020