r/Idontworkherelady Power Tripping Security Guard Tried To Steal My Car

welcome to our slash i don't work here lady where opie has an encounter with a security guard who's on the world's biggest power trip our next reply is from happy man cry ever since kovid i've been really careful going to the grocery store masks gloves full-length clothing the works back in april and may our local qfc used to have workers to spray and wipe down carts but after a few months they stopped and now there are self-serve wipes available for all customers to disinfect their card if they want well apparently some people didn't get the memo multiple times now someone has mistaken me for an employee while i'm wiping my cards can you do this one next or are those clean but then they look closer at me and apologize usually i just brush it off with a laugh living in a predominantly white neighborhood as a person of color gives you a thick skin until today first while i'm wiping down my card there's a sudden yank on my cart and it hits my arm i look up to see a middle aged lady trying to pull away with my cart her mask is below her chin out of instinct i grab the other side and pull back this surprises her and she looks up but doesn't let go excuse me what are you doing karen doesn't respond and yanks again let go please the karen stops yanking but doesn't let go either after a 10 second staring contest she says i need a clean card then get one yourself i'm in a hurry there are wipes right behind you well can't you clean another one i don't work here she gives me an angry stare and doesn't let go i need this one now at this point the card is no longer clean but dang it it's the principle of the thing years of letting it go is also bubbling to the top now as i stare into the face of this entitled woman who has likely gotten her way all her life not this time f off lady step away from the card and get your own and put your mask back on she finally lets go by pushing the card back towards me grabs another one and loudly complains all the way back to the store later i see her getting stopped by the manager and arguing about keeping her mask on as a conflict of first person i felt really proud of standing my ground and i had to post this as soon as i got home our next reddit post is from skullshardagall so my wife's christmas present was a gift card to a well-known sporting goods store to get herself new shoes we went in today and at the front of the store was a few of those arcade one-up machines that have become popular lately i asked my wife if she'd be okay with me playing some pac-man instead of helping her find shoes she agreed and don't worry i use hand sanitizer before and after playing while i was in the middle of my game i was approached by another guy i'm in my late 20s he's older than me but i don't think he could have been older than 45 he casually walks up to me and says having a good game yeah actually i'm not doing too bad i bet it plays terrible compared to the real thing actually no you'd be surprised it's pretty darn close really yeah the code's the same and the picture is pretty clear so the only thing to worry about is input lag and that's really low wow i didn't realize these were so good too bad they only played one game actually this one has about 10 games installed really i lose intentionally so i can give them the grand tour of the machine yeah see when you boot it up you can pick between all the games and if you want more these things are really easy to modify to add more you can modify these yeah in fact these arcade 1up machines are popular choices for arcade enthusiasts who want to play a game but don't want to build their own cabinet because these are affordable and leave a small footprint in your house so the price is fair i certainly think so i mean speaking for myself i built my own cabinet i pull out my phone and show them my pictures but overall mine cost a bit more than this one does so if you don't want to build one and you're okay with the limitations this one gives you i think it's worth it he pauses for a moment and thinks you know what i want one this was pretty cool to hear but it crossed my mind that he might have thought i was an employee trying to pass a sale on him that's great sir but i should warn you i don't actually work here see my wife needs shoes and i'm just playing games to pass the time he didn't seem to mind i'll go find someone to help me buy this thing he turns and leaves and calls behind his shoulder have a good game that was about 10 minutes ago as i'm writing this he and an employee are busy loading the box into his truck our next reddit post is from carl schwarzenegger this was about 12 years ago so i was about 20. i was on the phone with my then wife and walking through target doing some christmas shopping i was also wearing a dark blue polo shirt and charcoal slacks relevant for later as i'm walking through the dvd section two older women are seemingly trying to find something as i walked past i hear sir sir i'd kept walking because i figured it wasn't directed at me i was on the phone and doing my own shopping i found what i was looking for so i loop back the other way to head to another section of the store i worked at a restaurant at this time and i also hate being in stores in general so i was walking pretty quickly i hear behind me excuse me sir this kind of stopped me in my tracks and i turn and this woman is looking at me and says can i get some help over here i tell my wife to hold for a second i go over to see what she wants she tells me she's looking for some kind of lamp so i tell her the lamps are in the decor section not in the dvd aisle weird right and then i continue my call with my wife and my shopping i passed the lady one last time as i'm leaving the store this time i'm no longer on the phone well i found what i was looking for it wasn't where you said it was i was sincerely confused by this woman first off she was in the decor section where i had directed her and second if she had found what she wanted why even comment so it's at this point i finally decided to tell her ma'am i don't work here i'm sorry i didn't help you better she stood there blank-eyed and confused you don't no ma'am you haven't ever noticed the employees here all wear red shirts and khakis or that i was on my cell phone have a good day ma'am i'm glad you found your lamp and i laughed our next reddit post is from internal use in this story i'm a female and i was 24 at the time this happened over the course of a few weeks about two years ago i was working as a construction and design engineer for hospitals i provide plumbing and air conditioning i work for a company that's hired by the hospital not for the hospital itself my company had been hired to do an emergency room renovation for an old hospital and the plans for the existing building were really old or damaged or just didn't exist anymore as the lowest person on the totem pole i got the fun job of going out of the hospital to document and investigate the existing building that required lots of going up on ladders and looking above the ceiling to track down pipes and ducts and such because this was an emergency room and therefore active 24 hours a day we had to time our investigation for non-busy times namely 3 to 7 am in the middle of the week i was also working my normal office hours during this time so for all these interactions i was exhausted and just didn't care so on to the story i had parked in the hospital parking garage on the top floor so i could be out of the way of patients and visitors i'd finished early because an emergency had come into the emergency room and i had to get out of the way i had some extra time so i decided to close my eyes for a bit while driving to the office when i was woken up by a tapping on my window a man was peering in the window we'll call him parking dude i waved at him thinking he was just making sure that i was alright he gestured for me to roll down my window so i cracked it to hear him better he gruffly declared that employees are to park in the back lottery on the street if that's full next time i'll have you toad he then turned and marched back to his golf cart which he blocked me in with as i called out i don't work here he left i left and i went to work thinking it was a one-time deal little did i know over the next few visits i came back to my car to find increasingly angry parking tickets about parking and employee parking from now on these tickets were printed on standard a4 printing paper and were very obviously homemade they had a blurry hospital logo and terrible word art parking enforcement written across the top the notes threatened booting towing and demands for my supervisor's name so i could be reported i wish i still had them to share with you my coworkers and i had quite a laugh over them i even left a note on my dash saying that i wasn't an employee and the next ticket had a rant about lying and said you'll be written up for lying once i get your supervisor's name then one morning i came out to find the peaking dude waiting for me he had blocked my car with this golf cart and was grinning at me like the cat who got the cream i walked up to him and he said employees have to park in the back lot you're in so much trouble i demand to speak to your manager yeah he really said that give me your name and number in the department you work for i won't let you leave until you give me your manager's name he did have my car locked in i tried to explain that i wasn't an employee and pointed out my outfit work boots jeans safety glasses a tool belt with flashlight tape measure lasers and a clipboard with my drawing plans and i told them that this is where the hospital administrator told us to park but he insisted that my disguise wasn't going to trick him and he demanded to speak to my manager i was so exhausted and i wasn't really up for arguing so i just pulled out my business card and my boss's card and handed them over i had already told my boss about it and he just told me to ignore it because he had already confirmed with the hospital that that was where i was supposed to park this dude pulled out his phone and called my boss to report me my boss an older gentleman who was also president of the company later told me that he told pkingdo that he had to let me leave or he was calling the cops when the dude hung up he told me i'm letting you leave this time but next time you park here i'll boot your car and find your real manager's number and report you some trick with your friend won't work he got in his golf cart and zoomed away luckily my boss found this whole thing hilarious about a week later i went back and after i finished my work for the day i headed back to my car to find that he had sort of done what he threatened [Laughter] there was a thick chain looped around the handle of my driver's side rear door and the cinder block all tied together with a large padlock i knew this guy was a bit nutty but i also figured out that he didn't have any real authority so to find this half clever half poorly thought out ball and chain attached to my car was a bit of a surprise now i got into engineering because i like solving problems and this wasn't a particularly complex problem i simply rolled my back window down and lifted the cinder block and excess chain into my car and then drove away [Laughter] i passed peeking dude on the way out and to say that he was shocked was an understatement and i gave him a jaunty wave as i drove by it was a cold drive back to my office with the window open but it was well worth a look on his face when i got to the office i had to go in and sign out the bolt cutters and was followed by a parade of my co-workers who had to see it for themselves i had to go back one more time and i was eager to see what parking dude might do after his last plan failed i came out to find that he had tried the chain and cinder black strategy again this time he had wrapped the chain around the bottom of the wheel a few times and had the cinder block tied pretty close to the wheel in the chain through the handle again it was definitely changed in a way that would take a lot more ingenuity to get out of or a pair of bolt cutters that i hadn't returned to the office you know just in case i cut through the chain unchained the car and then loaded the whole contraption into my trunk peeking dude must have been harassing some other person because he only pulled up as i was backing out of the spot he blocked my car again with his cart and jumped out he came to my window and i did roll it down just to see what he had to say hey hey where are the chains how did you get loose this is stealing i'll have your job for this i never did hear the rest of the rant as i yelled magic and i'm not an employee during one of his pauses for breath and i drove around his card and left it was the most dramatic exit of my life and it will probably never be topped that was my last day there and i've since gotten a new car so i'm not sure if i'll ever run into peeking dude again i'd like to think that he's still puzzled over how i managed to unchain my car my boss did logic complains but i don't think anything came of it anyway that's my i don't work here story hope it was worth a read this guy sounds like one of those types of people who gets the slightest amount of power and it goes straight to their head he didn't really care about where you parked he just cared that you told him to do something and you didn't do it and that hurt his widdle ego also i'm not sure about the legality of what that guy attempted but i feel like he has to be breaking a law you can't just chain someone else's property so they can't leave that feels like basically theft right our next reply is from hyper mushroom bow when i was 17 i worked at mcdonald's now the fact that the mcdonald's uniform is black and red and the walmart uniform is blue has little bearing on this story because as we all know the only colors a karen can see are beneath me and my reflection so i went to walmart after i finished my shift at mcdonald's i was still in uniform and my hair was a mess so i still had my mcdonald's hat on i swung by electronics to check out the games and while i was looking at them there was a 10 year old kid and his mother talking to an employee about what game he wanted to get i overheard their whole conversation while looking at the games myself he wanted a pokemon game but he didn't know which one to get it was between ruby and emerald the kid was clearly into pokemon but this was his first time getting one of the games because he just got his first game boy and he could only get one his mom clearly had no idea and the employee a very pleasant older gentleman who clearly didn't know anything about pokemon were trying to puzzle out the difference between the two games i loved the kids enthusiasm and totally understood his anxiety about wanting to get the right one and since i could see his mother and the employees struggling i went ahead and politely interjected myself as a big fan of the games i knew an unhealthy amount about them i explained the difference between the games and answered his questions about them and he ended up going with emerald after the very relieved adults headed off to the register to check out i was about to leave when an older woman with her husband got my attention and asked i need help with the tvs i responded sorry i don't really know anything about tvs well why not aren't you expected to she huffed back i realized that in spite of my uniform she thought that i was an employee so i laughed and told her sorry i don't work here i work for mcdonald's she huffed again and said well you were helping those people just a minute ago yeah because i knew the answer and was able to help she snorted well why would you do that if you don't work here i was genuinely baffled by the question and i just looked at her and said to be nice well i don't know why you would do something like that i just stared at her like how do you even respond to that after a moment of silence she finally asked so can you help me with the tvs or not i just said no one walked away i don't quite understand what about basic human kindness is so confusing but there it sits but the little boy got his torchic and at the end of the day that's what really matters ah yes everyone remembers their first starter mine was bulbasaur what about yours let me hear from you down in the comments 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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Published: Fri Jan 22 2021