r/IDontWorkHereLady - Lady DEMANDS My Scooter

what's up guys welcome to daily dose of Reddit this is your host Zach and today's subreddit is our slash I don't work here lady all right this story is called guy in armor must be in charge so a bit of backstory back in 2018 when this occurred I'd saved up quite a bit of money for my job as a shift lead in the food service industry so what did I 17 male do with that money I bought a suit of steel plate armor helmets and all something I'd always wanted to do since I knew what a night was I bought it primarily to wear at the local Renaissance Festival literally the coolest place I've ever been but took every opportunity to put it on that I could and this wasn't some Thin ceremonial or LARP stuff it was the real deal 16 gauge steel thick leather straps over a hundred pounds altogether it could stop a sword at the time and currently I stood at six feet feet 5 inches and weighed a grand total of 140 pounds soaking wet not the most intimidating on my yo but with the armor on I was scary as Freddy Fazbear who are so people are told anyway on to the story that October my mom signed my entire family up to volunteer at the nearby Hospital's Trunk or Treat the Saturday before Halloween the nights I had off from work so I suited up the rest of my family got into their Renaissance Festival costumes and off we went when we arrived we reported to the event director the real manager and were signed our duties my parents were to hand out candy from the back of their car and keep an eye on the kids walking through like most of the adults the youngest of my siblings 11 female was sent to help oversee some of the games going on inside and around the hospital and the oldest 15 female was sent with me and what was my wondrous task glorified traffic own my job was to stand at one of the entrances to the portion of the parking lot the event was taking place in and keep cars from driving through here to join the Trunk or Treat go around the hospital to the exit side of the lot and someone else will direct you further just trying to leave the hospital sorry bud you're gonna have to turn around no exit here there was another entrance but other volunteers took care of it and mine was where the line of trick trunk or treaters would wait while another group went through it did make sense to put me there though if you didn't notice the glow stick lanyard all the volunteers were wearing you definitely notice the hulking six foot five inches guy encased in reflective steel standing in your headlights and if you somehow didn't I had a much better chance of surviving getting hit so there I stand for two and a half hours directing traffic and taking pictures with a fair few of the kids waiting in line most were a bit scared of me but with some encouragement from their parents and a lift to my helmet's visor to show that I was indeed a person under all the metal they became very excited to meet a real Knight I must have felt badass man so sometime between two and a half and three hours on duty I hear a bit of yelling coming from the other parking lot entrance I didn't think much of it because there are a lot of people around being loud especially kids so I keep on keeping on then a moment later just as I finish another photo op there's a tap on my paltry shoulder armor I turn in there stands one of the volunteers from the other entrance looking a bit exasperated hey man sorry to bother you but can you come with me for a moment we could use you over here a little confused wondering if maybe someone needed a bathroom break and needed me to take over or something I said sure and followed him back as we got closer the shouting got louder and I started to make some of it out okay what the hell is going on tonight I want to leave through here the other exit goes to such and such Road and the construction there is a pain in the ass where's your freaking manager I'll make him make you let me throw this is ridiculous do you have any and blah blah blah now I see a car stopped at the second entrance and a red-faced man in the driver's seat with the window down tearing into the second volunteer traffic cone as we approached the guy who grabbed me ran ahead blocking the man's view of me as I got closer all right man he said here's the manager like you wanted about freaking time what is he an intellectually disabled individual like you two I swear to God I'll at this point the volunteer who had me follow him stepped aside and I came forward right next to the car's window the jerkwad's mouth dropped and his face went a few Shades lighter as I lumbered to a stop what's the problem here I asked finally figuring out what was going on I also made my voice a little deeper than it actually was the man just stared at me for a couple of seconds mouth a gape still not sure what was worse for him the beast in medieval armor or the fact that he saw his own stupid face reflected in my visor when he finally found his voice again he sort of pointed ahead of him and mumbled I uh I I want to leave through here because the traffic is really bad the other way because of the construction I didn't let him finish and folded my arms which wasn't exactly easy seriously you do see all the kids running around right the big line the cars the games and you still want to drive through here especially with that mouth of yours if anyone is a intellectually disabled individual here it's definitely not me or these guys I but nope don't want to hear it stop shouting at my buddies turn around and leave the way that isn't full of kids or I'll have the hospital security come deal with you I was loving this I never got to talk to people like this at my actual job without a word he rolled up his window but the car in reverse and drove away once he was gone the volunteer who grabbed me high-fived his buddy than me sorry for dragging you into this man I couldn't find the actual manager and this guy was pissed and then I saw you and I knew you would be perfect I just laughed and told him it was no trouble I was actually very enjoyable then I took a picture with the volunteers chatted a bit about my costume then headed back to my post and finished out the night content with my little revenge against all the Richard craniums in the world Ah that's funny Richard craniums get it penis heads also I S I've seen some comments that have seemed a bit incredulous about my weight in height I'm 100 serious about that when I had my shirt off you can count my ribs and see my chest move when my heart beats just one the genetic lottery for skinny jeans I guess pity I need a tightly cinched belt to wear oh it's a pun I love it thank you thank you man dude I badass um the freaking power he must have felt man jeez God can you just imagine that being in steel plate armor letting this watching this dude freaking melt into this puddle of cowardice before you I love it I love it obviously though um if I were to if I were to be like um a dude back then I'd definitely be uh uh Viking Berserker yeah I know it I'd have to be you know just get hopped up on whatever the hell they were just be weather just being toxicants or just insane focus and just freaking rush into battle and fight like a goddamn wolf sounds badass obviously I'm not capable of it but if I were to pick anything definitely be a Berserker Garrick the red just less sadistic oh quick little fact here um so if y'all were ever confused as to why Greenland is called Greenland and Iceland is called Iceland when they should be switcherooed well that's actually because of Eric the Red see he sailed to Iceland and he thought damn this place is beautiful and then he saw Greenland and saw it was just his Frozen goddamn Wasteland so this clever mother father was like you know what I'ma Do imma call Greenland Greenland even though it's a frozen Wasteland and then I'm a call Wasteland Wasteland and I'm gonna call Iceland Iceland because I want to go there and I want everyone else to go to Greenland because if you hear Greenland and Iceland you're gonna go to Greenland because it's like hey I want to go to the green Place why would I want to go to the freaking Frozen Wasteland well if you ever did that you got fooled by Eric the Red also another fun fact Eric the Red Son or Leif Erickson was the first European to sail to America 500 years before Columbus pretty cool huh small world and he was born in Iceland all right this story's called go ahead and complain they can't fire me this happened yesterday in a large box store known for their cheap prices and interesting people who shop there Walmart a bit of background I recently was outside in the cold too long and had hypothermia with other issues damn and still have very large third degree frostburns on both of my feet I have a hard time walking and it's quite painful so I was using a scooter that the store provides for customers another important thing to note is that even though I live in a cold weather State I rarely wear a coat so I didn't have a coat on or in my car didn't you just say in the same paragraph that you had hypothermia bro come on I'm driving the scooter through the store while my girlfriend is walking next to me or behind me depending on how many people are around us we're just shopping looking at things pointing things out to each other as people normally do we're about a third of the way back into the store from the entrance the doors are slightly visible but we're not right inside the entrance a woman walks into the aisle we are currently looking for something in and approaches me I quickly tried to move to the other side thinking she's gonna ask me to move but instead she looks right at me and says I need that scooter I'm a bit flustered since I wasn't expecting that at all and I'm not sure what to say and I say Excuse me while trying to figure out what's going on she responds that the scooters are for customers who need them and not for you to play around on now I'm getting irritated because who is she to say whether or not I'm entitled to use a scooter my girlfriend steps forward and says ma'am she needs this scooter if they didn't have any more at the entrance you can ask the greeter to check the other entrance which of course sets off this Karen Karen goes into full blown the customer is never wrong mode she starts demanding that I get off the scooter immediately as she wants it right now and I'm not supposed to be using it somewhere in her Ranch she says that employees aren't allowed to play on scooters and then it clicks that she thinks I work there despite the fact that I'm not wearing anything blue and I'm obviously shopping I try to tell her that I don't work there but she's too far into her rage to comprehend anything she now has her hands on the front of the scooter and is demanding to see my employee ID I back up the scooter to try to get a bit away from her and tell her again that I don't work there my girlfriend has gone to find an actual employee Karen notices that my girlfriend is gone and demands to know where she went obviously thinking she's an employee too I tell her again then that she needs to stop I don't work there and I'm not giving her the scooter I've had about enough of her and am now contemplating running her over with it my girlfriend finally returns with a store Employee Store employee asks what the problem is and Karen starts with this girl when I completely interrupt her to say loudly that I was trying to shop when this woman started harassing me and demanding the scooter I was using Karen's mouth starts flapping in the breeze as she can't believe how incredibly rude I'm being she turns to store employee and asks why I'm being allowed to use a scooter store employee tells her that the scooters are for all customers and as long as I'm not causing issues they have no reason to ask me not to Karen hears only the part she wants to and says she is causing a problem Store employee asks what the problem is and Karen replies with she won't get me the scooter I look at the store employee and ask do you know me storm employee looks confused and says no I ask do I work here still our employee is now figuring out where this is going and says no I say so I'm just a customer here shopping and Store employee confirms this Karen stares in disbelief then accuses the store employee of covering for me so I don't get into trouble she now wants to see store employees ID badge and wants a manager claiming she's gonna get us both fired I shout at Karen a little louder than I should have but I'd had enough of her that I'm not an employee and she shouldn't be harassing the actual employees either I might have called her crazy during this my girlfriend went to customer service for more backup because we weren't gonna leave this poor employee to deal with the Karen by himself she comes back with the floor manager or something similar right as I'm done telling Karen to stop harassing employees the manager has already been filled in on the entire situation and apologizes to me and says she will take care of the the situation do I need anything else I politely tell her no and thank her for dealing with the situation as we leave the aisle we can hear Karen screaming that I need to be fired while the manager tries to explain that she can't harass customers I don't think she ever got it that I didn't work there ha cool guy uh girlfriend cool guy op cool guy employee for not leaving each other to not hanging each other out to dry there we go not throwing each other under the bus then everyone would need the scooter yeah am I right probably bus crashes are rarely not bad there we go that was that made sense because I I attempted this before this time this take and it didn't make sense at all all right this story's called I don't work at this store Karen so my 25 female job whilst I was in university was as a pharmacy assistant at my country's version of a CVS where it's a big franchise chain that has pretty much everything you need to buy for personal care as well as getting a prescription filled I usually worked out on the floor helping customers find what they're looking for since a store can be quite overwhelming so anyway one Saturday I was getting ready to clock off at four as the evening staff were getting in I get a phone call at the store it's my mom asking me to buy her a particular item this was pretty common for my mom to do so I quickly look up if we have any in stock we don't because we're too small of a store to stock it however the larger store 15 minutes down the road does so I tell her once I clock off I'll quickly drive down and grab it then come home so I get to the other larger store I put on a black jacket over my uniform but it's quite warm so it's unzipped I grab a basket to do shopping plus customers will usually get the hint you're not working and leave you alone important note although every store follows a basic planogram so all the same stuff is together where you put those items in an aisle is completely up to the store so for example at my store all the baby stuff was in aisle eight at this store it was in aisle three so I'm taking longer to do my shopping because I don't know where everything is so I'm grabbing some toothpaste and get a tap on the shoulder this was a textbook picture of a Karen yo need to help me uh sorry I stopped talking and listen to me come help me find some fancy skincare item I don't no I don't understand why you're not helping me I don't work here you're wearing a uniform of course you work here I start walking away at this point this idiot starts following me you can't do this I'm a paying customer I keep walking I've grabbed everything I need so I head to the register as I'm checking out Karen has grabbed some poor pharmacist and is pointing at me saying I need to be fired I look at Karen and say I don't work at this store what part of that do you not understand Karen starts going off about how I am the worst employee she has ever seen at this store with the poor pharmacist telling her I'm telling the truth I pay for my items and walk out Karen follows me to the car park telling me she's gonna call my manager and she has high connections whatever that means I tell there one more time I don't work at the store and slam my car door and drive away little did you know her husband was the CEO of this company that's how they like to act right don't forget to like subscribe and hit that Bell to never miss an episode [Music]

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Length: 17min 30sec (1050 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2023