'She doesn't understand how the workforce operates': Off-duty waitress gets intercepted by a Karen while grocery shopping, lands devastating roast

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    Rectangle - Posted by u/Misty5054 20 hours ago Well this happened S Ô
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    Font - I have a stomach bug and needed crackers and ginger ale so I went to karen paradise, you know the store with the blue vest. I am wearing pajama pants, big baggy t-shirt, a face mask, and my Pokémon house shoes. I absolutely didn't look anything like an employee.
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    Font - I grabbed a cart to lean on it, I quickly grab my stuff and on my way to checkout I remembered I don't feel like cooking for my kids so I stopped to get a couple chickens and a salad for them. The deli is crazy busy. A woman mentions how busy they are and I just nod, she
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    Font - then asks what I'm going to do about it. I look down at my clothes and everything in my cart and again at my clothes, I told her I didn't work there. She said "Oh I know, I have seen you at (name of restaurant I work at) working. All food places are the same so just help
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    Font - them out." I asked her where she works and she gave me the name of a doctor's office, I told her "Wonderful! I have a stomach bug and don't feel like going all the way to my doctor and since you work for a doctor that means you can give me something for my
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    Font - stomach." She said she isn't a doctor and stormed off saying she was going to call my boss to have a word with her about me refusing to do my job. Some people are so idiotic it's mind blowing.
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    Font - AlleyCat2022.5 hr. ago Did she really expect you to get behind the deli counter and start taking orders from customers? What world does she live in?
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    Font - Peet1076. 20 hr. ago Nice reply, got the point across. I can't even imagine how her brain works...
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    Font - Misty5054 OP · 20 hr. ago My son asked me what I would have said if she said she didn't work (which is what i expected), I would have told her that explains why she doesn't understand how the workforce operates.
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    Font - Most people like her are so detached from the real world, since they have lived in their protective bubble for so long, they have no idea how the world around them works anymore.
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    Font - Fluffy-Doubt-3547 19 hr. ago "Your employee was at Walmart and didn't do their job!!" x boss pinching self to make sure it's not a dream x "...what?"
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    Font - Waifer2016 19 hr. ago The crazy thing is, there is a story in IDWHL where a guy went to the movies on his day off from his job at a grocery store. Some Karen demanded he serve her and when he refused, she complained to his actual boss who GOT MAD AT HIM!!
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    Font - Actually said he represented the store everywhere he went even on his days off. Popular opinion in the comments was movie Karen was friends with guys boss
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    Font - Outrageous-Second 792 18 hr. ago I had this happen to me years ago too! I was at a restaurant with my family having dinner and a lady comes up to me and asks me if I work at (huge department store chain name).
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    Font - I said yes, so she asks me to put a specific item on hold for her for a few days. I very politely told her that I was not working that day, or the next, and since I was not at work, she would need to go to the store herself and have it put on hold (if it was even in stock). She got upset and complained to my boss who told me that regardless of
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    Font - whether or not I am working I represent the company, that I had no business telling her no, and I could've called the store to have someone working put the item on hold for her. I told him that unless I would be getting paid for working off the clock, it was more than reasonable that I even had a conversation where I offered
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    Font - her a solution while I was out to eat with my family. afterwards he tried to create a policy where even if we weren't on the clock we still had to provide customer service to people who recognized us... For some bizarre reason, one anonymous call to employee relations nipped that in the butt.
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    Font - Misty5054 OP. 15 hr. ago My boss tells people flat out that when we clock out we are on our own time and she doesn't own us.

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