'That's a rather Hot Topic': Retail employee gets revenge on entitled coworker, sparks painfully hilarious shopping pun thread on Reddit

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

May 6, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Wow… We are so sorry, but if we have to endure these puns, so do you. Some people love a punniful world, while others cringe at the painful dad-jokesque comedy. Recently, a Redditor shared a story from when they were younger and working in retail. Posted on the subreddit r/PettyRevenge, the story is about a toxic coworker she had. She said that this coworker was lazy and always going MIA during important shifts. She would frame other employees to get in trouble for her wrongdoings and would find sneaky ways to earn other employees commissions. A true entitled Karen worker thinking they deserve more than their constituents. A class story that always boils our blood. Her petty revenge, was to simply dish out the same energy to that toxic coworker. So when she found out how she was stealing other people's commissions, she found a way to do the same to her, etc.

The story is short and sweet, but still quite satisfying—the bad coworker got a taste of her own medicine. However, it's not the Karen vibes that have us cringing the most this time, it's the comment section bursting with shopping puns… Please scroll on and read them, don't leave us to suffer alone through this.