'I had to revoke your status': Karen demands manager run master keycard through system, manager revokes her access entirely

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    Font - The Karen of my building told me her keycard isn't working. Demanded I fixed her keycard. So I did... M OC This just happened maybe 5 mins ago and I think it's hilarious.
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    Font - I'm the facility manager for my building. Everything that happens and goes wrong, is my responsibility. So I make sure everything runs smoothly. My boss had made it clear: It's MY building and I was hired to not only keep people in line but run everything. I'm not a c <but I hold people accountable, forcibly but politely. There was no facility
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    Font - manager for a long time before I came along and both clients and employees ran amok, with no order. In the 4 months I've been here, my boss has praised my performance and has gone to bat for me countless times, she's the best boss I've ever had. I've got a firm but fair approach and my reputation reflects that.
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    Font - I've got a Karen in the building and trust me, the name stereotype applies, who's just a counselor for family services, has nothing to do with our group. She likes to complain about everything and gives my boss a headache almost daily. She shares an office with another women, who's unfortunately,
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    Font - picking up on her Karen tendencies (Karen In Training), I've been doing a keycard audit all week and I knew to leave Karen's keycard alone because she's the only Karen in the building, so her name stands out. I am missing 75 keycards, lots of former employees having all door access, dating all the way back to
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    Font - 2015. Can't have that so I deleted a lot of them, especially if it had a wacky name or just a room number. However, I did delete "KIT's" card information because it wasn't under her name. She just came to tell me her keycard wasn't working and Karen happened to be passing by and overheard it.
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    Font - I went and fixed "KIT's" keycard and we went to go check to see if it worked or not. We found Karen outside the office waiting, complaining to my boss that her keycard didn't work either. Karen wandered away and my boss rolled her eyes and I smiled and I told her I would take care of it. After checking to make sure "KIT's" keycard worked, I went
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    Font - downstairs to check the system, looked up Karen and wouldn't you know it, her keycard was completely fine. In fact, it showed she had a MASTER keycard. So I changed all of her permissions and limited her back to just her room ONLY.
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    Font - I went upstairs and got my boss's attention because her office is next door to the ladies and I mouthed LISTEN and pointed. I opened their door and was all, "hey Karen! I went and checked your keycard in the system. Everything is good to go. In fact, it said you had a MASTER key to the building and per the
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    Font - company orders, since you're not a contractor or a company employee, I can't give you that access. So I had to revoke your status to just this room ONLY. Can't have you bugging people on official business Wink Thanks for bringing your keycard to my attention." She started to object that she needed the master keycard because XYZ and I was
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    Font - all, "yeah sorry. Maybe before but I'm the facility manager and you don't need access to everything except this office and if you do, it's outside your pay grade, so you'll have to come get me. Ok? Cool thanks byyeeeeeee..." And then just closed the door on her mid sentence. My boss was quietly laughing her a s off in her office and gave me an air high
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    Font - five. TLDR: Karen complained her keycard didn't work, when it absolutely did. In fact, she had master key access and had she not said anything, would still have it but made me check and I revoked her status completely to just her room only.
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    Font - Edit: To be clear, I'm not talking down about my coworkers. They're fantastic people and no I'm not a suck up. They work in education and bend over backwards to help students and customers get the information and help they need. The building mostly got shut down and neglected and customers got lazy due to the C-word. We offer free
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    Font - classrooms to those who need it, including a computer lab, by a reservation 1st come, 1st serve basis. The problems we ran into was that the previous FM passed away suddenly and the replacement was temporary. Coupled with the C-word and this was our problem. My coworkers weren't able to enforce rules and
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    Font - regulations and rooms were left destroyed and neglected, keys stolen, etc. Since my arrival, I've enforced the rules and allowed the staff to resume their normal duties, without having to clean up after and babysit customers. Karen isn't staff, she's just renting an office. She has no business
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    Font - having access to our materials, supplies or workspaces. Especially when they're handling students private information.
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    Font - Tallguy71 2 yr. ago "And now STAY IN YOUR ROOM!" 8.4k Reply Share
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    Font - EmpatheticTeddy Bear 2 yr. ago In IT we have a saying, "All is known." In this we are referencing that we (generally) have the ability to see anything/everything you are up to (within system limits), so be careful with your demands/complaints... 43.1k Reply Share
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    Font - digitaldrummer1 - 2 yr. ago Why did she even bring it up in the first place??? 1.7k Reply Share
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    Font - mike_pants 2 yr. ago She wanted it to be a "This new facilities manager is inconveniencing all of us with their s y work!" moment. Application failed successfully. 2.4k Reply Share
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    Font - ImThe1Wh0 OP • 2 yr. ago That was exactly it. My boss said she said, "I must have done something wrong because it was fine yesterday and today it's not." Oddly enough, that was my first indication she was lying because I made
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    Font - system changes on Tuesday and today's Thursday. So if she was able to get into her office yesterday... 4 2.1k Reply Share

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