Pet Store Employee Stops Karen From Torturing Starfish

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Eric Lund
May 23, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

Having a saltwater tank isn't as easy as throwing some salt and water together in a jug like it's Kool-Aid and calling it a day. Karen wasn't having all this "responsible pet owner" talk, so this employee stepped in to show her exactly what she'd need to take care of a starfish. Of course, Karen didn't take kindly to this employee who didn't want her to slowly torture a starfish to death. Will the Karen customersof the world ever learn their lesson? Doubtful.

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    Font - Posted by u/cyberdizzy 22 hours ago O 2 21 e18 S 10 92 E 10 a You want a starfish? Okay. oc M I used to work at a well known petstore a few years back and was the person my coworkers came to for any type of aquatic/reptile/aviary/small animal advice. This isn't really a big event like a lot of the stories I read on here but this always makes me laugh to think about so I figured I would share it. TL;DR at the bottom
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    Font - I'm in the back room cleaning out the cricket bins when one of the newer employees came up to me looking really frustrated. After talking about it I learned there was a woman on the floor who wanted to purchase our chocolate chip starfish but apparently knew nothing of salt water tanks and was being unreasonable and had gone through 2 other associates already. I hated doing crickets so I gladly traded handling the Karen over that and made my way to the floor.
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    Font - Karen: Finally someone else who might actually HELP me. I want this one here. (I looked in her cart and noticed a small box of aquarium salt and a 5 gallon tank) Me: Sorry you were having trouble ma'am, since I'm just walking into the situation though we have a few questions we like to ask people before selling them live animals so I'll just run through those with you quick so we can get you on your way! Karen: -over exaggerated sigh- fine whatever hurry up Me: Perfect! What size is the s
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    Font - Karen: LIKE I WAS TELLING THE OTHER KIDS I DONT HAVE ONE ALREADY CANT YOU PEOPLE LISTEN. I have this one in my cart and the salt RIGHT HERE. I'lI set it up when I get home, I WANT THIS STAR FISH FOR MY KIDS. (That was literally all she had in her cart, ignoring the fact that she was trying to cram the ocean into 5 gallons, she had no filters, heaters, substrate, hides, NOTHING) Me: Got it. So ma'am the issue is you need to have your aquarium set up ahead of time before you purchase fish a
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    Font - (She follows me to the tanks and I point out a 55 gallon tank) Karen: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THE STAR FISH??? No. I want this 5 gallon. Me: Well unfortunately that is not an option. You'll also need more then just a tank and some salt. Karen: FINE WHAT DO I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE?
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    Font - Here's where the malicious compliance kicks in. I grabbed another cart and started grabbing all the basics you need to start a salt water tank, which for those of you who don't know that is everything BUT cheap. She was following me around and kept trying to yell at me but anytime she would say something I'd interject with a "OH this tubing is on sale! Good for you!" Or "OH your children will love this substrates color!" and she would just get redder and redder in the face. About half way
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    Font - TL;DR a Karen wanted to put a starfish in a 5 gallon tank with some salt in it. After telling her she needs more then that to start a salt water tank she told me to get her whatever she needs to get out of there. I did exactly that and she left half way through when the total hit about $500 Edit: wow this blew up! Thank you all for the rewards and kind words. I have two things to say, one is just a fun fact for you for if I had sold her the star fish and the other is a fun fact about me.
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    Font - First, star fish can be a slight pain to manage because they're quite sensitive, there is a very strong possibility that if I had sold her the animal in that 5 gallon tank, and it didn't die immediately from the fairly obvious reasons, that it would have ripped itself apart limb by limb until its eventual and inevitable death. Secondly, I have a lot more of these wild stories from this pet store job and other jobs like it and I decided to make tiktoks of them so that everyone can laugh. I
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