'Garbage manager, garbage store': Rich Karen breaks store rules, pushes employee, manager steps in and sides with Karen

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 7, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

No amount of wealth should excuse any customer from the rules. Unfortunately, there are plenty of entitled rich folks out there with "influence" who seem to think otherwise. 

 

This Karen, of course, was one of those entitled rich folks. She waltzed into a retail store, completely bypassing the employees on her way to the changing room. The common procedure at the store is for employees to ask customers how many items they are bringing in and to press their bags to censor as they come in. When a young teenage girl working at the store confronted the customer, she would end up being shamed for following the standard procedures outlined by her manager. On top of that, Karen pushed the employee and numerous staff members and customers witnessed it. When the manager intervened, they ultimately sided with Karen because evidently, she was friends with the owner of the chain. 

 

Here's the cold, hard truth: regardless of who you know, everyone should have to follow the rules. Furthermore, no one should get away with inappropriate behavior like pushing an employee against a wall. The manager is lucky if they don't end up getting sued down the road. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more posts like this, here's a story about a server who had to pay more than $500 because of a group of customers who "dined and dashed."

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    Font - "Whenever she comes, we are supposed to ignore the protocol"
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    Font - Entitled Karen pushes a teenage girl trying to do her job M This happened at work today. I work part time at a popular clothing store in my country. The customers are usually entitled women who come and spend their husbands money and their whole personality is that they are rich. It's a sort of type of women here. They have those huge plumped up lips from fillers (often a dead giveaway of how they act) and they are so used to people kissing their butts that whenever someone doesn't, they
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    Font - Me and a group of girls were working at the changing rooms and a procedure we have there is to ask people how many things they are bringing in and to ask them to press their bag on a sensor to detect if they have something from the store in their bags. This woman with a attitude and the already mentioned huge lips just walks by the station and nonchalantly starts heading for the changing rooms. We've all been sick of entitled people the whole day, so one of the girls shouts out to her and
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    Font - Girl: Excuse me ma'am, how many things do you have on you!? Ek: Come and count them(in a tone) Girl(who is already supper annoyed): Alright I will! 0 We are all a little flabbergasted by this already and the girl starts to follow the woman. A few seconds later the girl comes back all rilled up and talks in the walkie-talkie Girl: Can the manager and security guard come to the women's changing rooms right away.
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    Font - We all stare at her shocked and ask her what happened. She tells us that she came up to her changing room where the woman had already placed her things in and as she was about to head in, the woman pushed her and started cursing her out. She told her she would be calling security and the woman replied that she will call the manager. The girl answered that there is no need because she will be calling her. In short, the manager shows up and she tells us that the woman is a friend of the dir
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    Font - We were told that whenever she comes we are supposed to ignore the protocol and just let her pass with no questions asked. How ridiculous. In the end the girl was told to go take a walk and come back in 15 minutes so the woman will finish and leave. No satisfying resolution, but there was nothing we could've done.
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    Font - Kindness-mattters 8 hr. ago What the absolute fr 269 Reply Share
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    Font - Sea_Disk_7270 OP. 8 hr. ago It was wild, this one lady saw the whole thing and was looking in disbelief with her hand on her chest and mouth opened 219 Reply Share
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    Font - Reddoraptor 6 hr. ago If she pushed the employee, that's battery, call the cops, especially if you have the area on video and it was recorded. Sounds like someone may also have decided to allow this person to steal, interestingly. 141 Reply Share
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    Font - winterworld5618 hr. ago Oh Ono. The woman physically the girl. She should've gotten the police involved. 135 Reply Share
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    Font - walker_strange. 8 hr. ago Yeah, I had stuff like this happen to me to as security. Like, ignore every rule they tell you because that guy is rich, because that woman is famous... what's the point in having rules and security then? 106 Reply Share
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    Font - Head_Razzmatazz7174. 6 hr. ago I've had managers on a very few occasions tell me that the person is VIP. I don't care who they are, rules are rules, and everyone gets treated the same. Did I get a lecture? Yes. Did that stop me from questioning people? No. I have no patience with managers that bend over backwards for VIPS just because of their status.
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    Font - lesboraccoon. 6 hr. ago ngl if i was the girl i would've quit the moment i was told that woman was being put above the person she just
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    Font - lisalef 6 hr. ago I'm sorry. If I ran a store and one of my friends came in And treated my staff like that, we'd have serious words.
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    Font - goddessofspite - 5 hr. ago I'd be arranging a walk out. The director might be ok with his staff being shoved around by some but when the press want to know why all his staff walked out he won't like it then and neither will she.
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    Font - peepeebongstocking. 6 hr. ago Garbage manager, garbage store. A workplace that won't protect its staff is worse than useless.
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