Karen Has Rude Outburst, Employee Watches Her Ruin Her Car

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Eric Lund
Oct 27, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

It's bad enough to have a customer yell at you while you're working. It's even worse to have a customer of another retail store entirely yell at you and demand you fix their problem when you truly can't.

Reddit user u/shroutm posted to the subreddit r/IDontWorkHereLady to share exactly this kind of story. As the user explains, they work at a tool store that just so happens to be located directly next to a supply store for farms and ranches. Sure, it's the same storefront, and as the Redditor notes, both store's employees wear similar uniforms, but when an angry customer pulled up and demanded help purchasing animal bedding from the other store, u/shroutm couldn't help. That answer wasn't good enough, though, and the customer in question made a world of trouble for herself by wasting time — and her SUV's fuel and battery — by berating someone who couldn't help her in the first place. Luckily for us, the employee stuck around to watch her own comedy of errors unfold to great comedic effect.

For more Karen content, check out this wild post about a woman who lost it on a teenager who dared to drink complimentary coffee while on the job.

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    Font - O r/IDontWorkHerelady · Posted by u/shroutm 3 days ago O 2 5 2 3 5 A 6 42 I don't work there Karen XXL After I retired, I took a part time job at a tool store, mostly to get the employee discount. This store was right next door to a popular farm and ranch supply store. There was a deep overhang in front of the stores, and the other store kept large bags of animal bedding and such beneath the overhang, but only on their side.
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    Font - One day, after my shift ended, I was hanging out in front of the store before bicycling home, talking on my phone. Karen pulls up in a nice SUV with a trailer, shoves a receipt in my face, and rudely demands I load a dozen bags of animal bedding for her. I tell her I do not work at the farm and ranch supply store, but will gladly call them to ask for help for her. Now, to be fair, the tool store and the supply store both had blue shirts, but each had the store names prominently embroidere
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    Font - I politely point to the name on my shirt and again say I do not work for the supply store, and it is not my job to load their products. Again I offer to call them and ask for help for her. She storms off towards the front door to the supply store, yelling about how I should get a haircut, and she is going to get me fired, I said "Good luck with that, lady!" which really, really pissed her off. Her SUV was idling rather roughly this whole time. Eventually, she comes back with one of the ma
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    Font - you guessed it, her SUV dies for lack of gas. She goes back inside, and I see her leave with a plastic gas can and start hoofing it to the gas station a couple blocks away. Meantime, her SUV is still switched on, and her dome light is getting dimmer, and dimmer, and dimmer. I guess someone could have shut the driver's door, but I sure didn't feel like doing it. Having nothing better to do, I stayed to watch the show I knew was about to unfold. After a good hour, she staggers back with the
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    Font - Then she tries to start the SUV, and of course, it will not turn over. Some kindly old man stops and asks if she needs a jump, and gets out his jumper cables. After a few minutes, the SUV turns over, but will not start. It seems it is one of those that needs a fuse removed and the engine cranked for a while to pressurize the fuel injection lines after running out of gas. I try to tell her this, but she starts screaming at me again, and called me some rather uncomplimentary names. Fine, Ka
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    Font - When a tow truck finally arrives, the driver hooks up his jumper cables, removes the fuse, and cranks the engine for a while. He replaces the fuse, and starts it, to the accompanyment of huge clouds of smoke. He smells the gas can, and it seems she had bought diesel fuel instead of gasoline. He tells her he will need to tow the SUV and it will need the entire fuel system flushed. She screams that I should pay for it, since it was still somehow my fault. With that, I headed for home on my
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    Font - ChrisHannard - 3d · edited 2d I would have biked to the nearest convenience store and come back with a big ol' bag of popcorn. 941 Reply Share rhymes_with_chicken - 3d If he was really on the ball, he could have gone to the same gas station as her to get the popcorn, passing her both ways. 530 J Reply Share shroutm OP · 3d I haven't worked there for a few years due to health reasons, but I will admit that scenario never ocured to me! heh heh
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