'One of them called the cops': Repairman gets mistaken by entitled Karen for store employee, Karen calls the police after getting denied service

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 22, 2022 2:00 PM EST

Think about how much money you could make from selling "I Don't Work Here Lady" shirts! This thread, which was posted to Reddit's r/IDontWorkHereLady subreddit by u/Znolk, serves as a brand new installment in the never-ending story of entitled customers exhibiting wildly rude behavior. 

 

This repairman travels to stores to fix point-of-sales machines. Not only did he receive a lot of shade from this particular store's manager and store owner, but also he had to tell various customers over and over again throughout the day that he didn't actually work there and couldn't ring them up. Even when the station in which he was working behind the counter had a sign explaining it was out of service, he was still bothered and bothered and bothered. It turns out one of these crazy customers interpreted the clarification that he didn't work at the store as justification for calling the literal police on him. The logical leap from "I don't work here" to calling the cops is one that only true Karens can make.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, take a look at this one about an entitled and ungrateful coworker.

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    Font - Someone called the police because I didn't work there. L So I have one of those technician jobs where I go all over and work on point of sale machines. I often get mistaken for someone that works at the store because I'm behind the counter. Normally people are understanding but not at this store. When I arrived at this store I was greeted by the manager and owner of the store because they have been having issues with a bar code reader. The problem was there was nothing I was really able t
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    Font - We had been having this issue for months and as techs we were not giving any way to fix it. I had the manager and owner threatening to get me fired because I don't want to do my job (they didn't like me already because of something that my coworker told them months earlier when I was still in training) I was pretty frustrated just minutes after walking into the store. I spent about 4 hours in this store doing everything to try and fix this issue. This store has a big island in the middle
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    Font - and would point to the cashiers. As I'm about to wrap up for the day I notice 6 police officers come into the store and start talking to the manager. I didn't catch the whole conversation but I did hear the cop ask are you sure that everyone behind the counter is supposed to be there. The manager said yeah those are my 2 clerks and he's the tech trying to fix the problem. They were there for about 15 minutes and never said anything to me. Tldr I went to fix a broken machine, got my job th
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    Font - Bonus story. I was at another store and I lady came up to me and tried to have me ring her up. When I told her that I don't work there she apologized and joked about it with me. She then had the brilliant idea of me getting a shirt that says I don't work here lady.
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    Font - Tarvos0 19 hr. ago edited 14 hr. ago Seems wild to me there isn't atleast a "register closed" or "down for service" sign you can just put down at the station you are working at. Hell, bringing your own would fix most of your issues. Edit: guys, I get it. Customers are dumbf 5. You don't have to tell me your life story to know that. Reply Share 438
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    Font - Znolk OP 19 hr. ago That store had one up but people just see someone behind the counter and think I should be helping them instead of doing anything else. 362 Reply Share
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    Font - RawbeardX 20 hr. ago I like the other store lady 417 Reply Share
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    Font - Xalenn 19 hr. ago . A friend of mine used to have to a similar job, going to stores repair/upgrade/replace point of sale equipment like scanners or cash drawers.... He had an orange vest that said Repairman on it just so people wouldn't ask him for help 128 Reply Share
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    Font - PianoManGidley. 18 hr. ago What kind of dumbas calls the cops for something like this instead of just finding a manager?! Also, I'm curious to learn more about the beef that manager and employee had against you from when you were still in training. Were you just being slandered? 100 Reply Share
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    Font - or Znolk OP 17 hr. ago It was just the manager and store owner. I knew they didn't like me but the rest of the employees were awesome. I would actually go to that store as often as I could just to hang out with a couple of them. That being said they had a crazy daisy chain of about 5 surge protectors plugged into each other and had about 6 fridges running off of that plus some signs and some of our equipment in there. They were having issues with our equipment not working right and my cow
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    Font - 01 Aniline_Selenic. 14 hr. ago I have a similar position, but we aren't 3rd party. We are internal hires only that came from the retail/DC/Help Desk side of the company. Our uniform are completely different from the store-side, IT plastered all over our uniform, badge, equipment. I'll be knee deep in a POS rebuild, equipment and cables scattered around me, laptop in hand, and of course someone will want to checkout with me, even though the register next to me is open. I haven't had anyone
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    Font - 91 supmister 14 hr. ago . Ooof. I train baristas for other companies that use our coffee and sometimes that means I'm behind the counter with them. I don't wear a uniform and constantly get interrupted by customers ordering from me/us during training. One time I had someone call the security guard on me because I told them I don't work there, I was just setting up for our training and the barista I was training had to run to the back for something. Security guard comes around and rather t
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    Font - mr-louzhu 10 hr. ago Working in retail will teach you that a significant portion of the population is a) completely oblivious to their surroundings, b) oblivious to the fact that you are a human being not their personal servant, c) humorless holes.
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    Font - Lion Maru67 11 hr. ago SIX cops? That seems... excessive.
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    Font - Dalton387 10 hr. ago Seems like that would be a big enough recurring issue that they'd get you a company shirt or vest that says "Repair Technician" in large letters on it.
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