People Reveal Their Worst 'Karen' Encounters

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Oct 23, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

We all know a Karen... or if you work in retail, you've definitely been faced with one or two (hundred) over the years. You know, that crazy and entitled person who has a superiority complex and demands to speak to the manager the first second they don't get their own way. A Reddit thread asking people to share the most "Karen" thing that someone ever did to them has produced some hilarious responses and we've compiled some of the best ones below. 

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  • 01
    Trompdoy 2.2k points 8 months ago 2 When I worked at the Home Depot a Karen told me that she didn't want any black men to install her flooring. I was in charge of arranging her order and told her that we don't select which individuals exactly will install her floor and that she'll get who she gets. She proceeds to have a fit about it, demands white installers, asks to speak to my manager. I'm so glad she did, because my manager's name was Dwayne and he was a real dude. Turns out she didn't want
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    Text - deadlysyntax 520 points · 8 months ago Left her card in the eftpos machine at the McDonalds I was managing as a teenager, rang me to say I needed to drive it out to her, that I ruined her night, ruined her family's night, owed her free food and that she'll be laying a formal complaint when I refused all of the above. She showed up 3/4 of an hour later with steam blowing out her ears asking for her card back. Last we heard from her.
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    Text - Ultimosome22 1.2k points · 8 months ago That I needed to leave the gym because I made her son feel like only fat people go to the gym
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    hauteburrrito 1.8k points 8 months ago Blew up at me for ignoring her son, who was trying to hit on me by saying -konnichiwa- and calling me -kawaii-. I had never met him before and I am not Japanese. She called me a stuck-up r cist and insinuated that I should be glad he was worldly enough to "speak Asian" to me. I just responded "Sorry, no English" (they had previously heard me speaking English with my friend, I'm pretty sure) and walked away.
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    Text - cabernetcat 1.1k points · 8 months ago When I worked at a bakery, Karen bought a chocolate cupcake and ate half of it. Karen then asked if she could return her half-eaten chocolate cupcake...not because she didn't like it, but because she wanted to exchange it for half of a vanilla cupcake, "something less decadent." Like most bakeries, we did not sell cupcakes "by the half." She became offended when I asked if she wanted to purchase a vanilla cupcake.
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    andrewfoxs 357 points - 8 months ago Doctor here. I used to work in a public night shift service, kinda like an emergency room but for non- emergencies, to keep the hospitals clear of white codes (so anything from a fever to a sore throat, to prescriptions for urgent treatments), and a Karen walks in at 3am asking for a prescription for hypertension dr s, which isn't unusual, as people (old people, more often than not, but she looked 55-) sometimes don't notice they're running low. Anyway, the l
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    Text - o0quiksilver0o 2.6k points · 8 months ago · edited 8 months ago I deliver appliances for Best Buy. We had a woman call and complain that her fridge was not pre- cooled before it was delivered and that she had to wait for it to come down to temp. No one in the office was prepared for that one.
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    Scoozie 806 points . 8 months ago Came up to my register and asked for the price of a protein bar. Every item in the store had a physical price tag, because we didn't have scanners at the register. I took it from her, flipped it over, and let her know it was $2.49 before tax. She asked me how much the case would be. Normally we did discounts for cases, but they had to be ordered ahead of time, so I started explaining we couldn't do a discount unless - she cut me off aggressively and hissed "I di
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    Text - MadameMothman 621 points · 8 months ago Asked for my manager's personal cell phone number to complain that I (seven months pregnant at the time) would not carry a refrigerator (that she had not paid for in the cost of her room) up to her second story room (we did not have an elevator), rather than just accept an upgrade for free because she didn't want to unpack her stuff. She refused to believe we had rooms without fridges and I was just being fat and lazy. When I refused to give her the
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    lamenite 460 points - 8 months ago edited 8 months ago I used to work retail, so I have come across my fair share of Karens. They were a huge reason why I went back to school and no longer work as a cashier. Anyways, one day while I was manning the registers with a few other coworkers of mine, I had a massive nosebleed right as I was finishing a transaction. I grabbed a tissue and quickly excused myself to run to the restroom so I could try to get it to stop bl ding; this meant that I couldn't s
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    ChickenPicture 155 points - 8 months ago I was a supervisor at Cost Plus World Market, a Karen comes in one night pushing a cart full of obviously used throw pillows and asks to return them. Of course she has no receipt, and instead wants us to just "look her up in the system". Except she refuses to provide her information for us to try to look her up. She starts yelling at my cashier and that's when I stepped in to tell her very politely and calmly that she either needs a receipt or needs to pr
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    Text - Doogie34 307 points · 8 months ago My sister in law is the biggest Karen I've ever met, complains in almost every restaurant we have gone to, but this one time they were moving house and my bro asked me to help, I was staying at their place for the delivery truck that was to arrive early in the morning, we were having drinks and my bed / mattress was on the living room floor, at around 1:15 I said I think I'm going to go to bed. She replied are you kicking me out of my own living room, no
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    gotteemboi 939 points 8 months ago Worked at a grocery store and a coworker put a 99¢ sticker on my shirt. We were 2 of maybe 5 employees so we were all good friends and everything is funny when you gotta pass time on a shift so I just left it there. Some woman came through my line and asked me why I had a sticker on my shirt and I just kinda laughed it off. She asked if I thought it was funny and I was like "not really but sorta". she asked if my coworker put it there to which I responded yes.
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