‘I turned to the young guy, winked and mouthed, "play along"’: 2 innocent customers getting yelled at for being ‘incompetent employees’ decide to have a little fun with this Karen

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 29, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

It's one thing if you're wearing a red collared shirt to Target and you have to keep telling people you don't work there. That one is on you. It's a completely other thing if you're dressed like you're on your way to Margaritaville in some grocery store and a Karen literally starts slapping you around for being an "incompetent employee." Like, lady… I don't even work here!

Speaking of, in the subreddit r/IDontWorkHereLady, one man shared his story of his own similar encounter. He was in his sandals and music festival tee just enjoying his retirement. He needed a new coffee pot, so was out shopping for one when he comes across a situation. A teen boy, who clearly also did no work there, was getting his behind chewed out by some random lady throwing a tantrum. She even slapped him at one point. She turned to OP and started to drag him into the situation, insisting he was the manager and this boy needed fired. Obviously, this situation was so bonkers that it felt like the perfect time to have a little fun. So OP turned to the teenager, winked at him, and started messing with this Karen. The whole scene sounds like something straight out of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. So if you like cringe humor, karma, and Karens getting put in their place, scroll on! 

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    Shopping cart - BEC
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    Font - Posted by u/Moist Quality2225 2 hours ago Not even in Holl XL So, I'm 61 years old, retired, and I live alone.
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    Font - By virtue of being 61 and retired, the garden where I used to grow my F%$&s has been paved over. So, one summer's day, I'm at my local mall looking for a coffee pot. I broke my old one.
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    Font - Now, I am wearing a spotty Folk Festival tshirt, camo shorts, and naked feet in Birkenstocks. Very managerial. Lol. So, I'm in some shop or another looking at the coffee pots. I hear raised voices a couple of aisles over. A woman's voice screaming
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    Font - words like "lazy", and "you rude brat", etc. A quiet male voice was trying to be heard and failing dismally. So, I go to the aisle. As I round the corner, I see a young guy in his mid teens, very well
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    Font - appointed in his summer clothes, with an anorexic gorgon screaming into his face. Then she upped with her hand and slapped the kid in the face! As he stood there in shock, manfully not crying, she sees me and comes charging over,
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    Font - grabs me by the arm and drags me to the kid, yelling something about "fired" and "lazy" "you're his manager" and other nonsense I didn't pay attention to.
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    Font - In the midst of the tirade, I turned to Young Guy, winked and mouthed "Play along". You see, I've been listening to these things for a while, and I've got a response ready. Oh, please let her give me a cue. And she does! She goes on and on
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    Font - about shop workers lying about not working there because they're lazy, etc. Jackpot! So I say "Ma'am, do shop workers often lie to you to avoid serving you?"
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    Font - Her: "All the time! Kids are so lazy today!" (That was the gist of it, but there was more screaming and spit) Me: Ma'am. I don't think that's laziness. I think it's because you're such and arrogant, ignorant b$%h, the Devil himself wouldn't
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    Font - have you in H!!! When you put your two feet to the floor in the morning, the Devil says "Oh God, she's up!" She looks like she's the one who got slapped. For
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    Font - have you in H!!! When you put your two feet to the floor in the morning, the Devil says "Oh God, she's up!" She looks like she's the one who got slapped. For
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    Font - the minute, she says nothing. I turn to the kid, smile and say "And now we enjoy the show." She starts buzzing around the lights! There's screaming, spit flying, things getting thrown off shelves, the whole nine yards. Me and the kid had to dodge a
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    Font - few flying objects. I just kept encouraging the kid (and Diet Medusa's tantrum) by making comments like "oooooh! Good one!" And "Missus isn't much of a pitcher, is she?" Did I mention that my F-garden has been paved over?
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    Font - By this time, a manager and a couple of security guards have arrived, and she has worked herself into a total lather. Well, ok, I helped, but she did most of the work herself.
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    Font - There is nothing sensible coming out of her at this point, just screeches and spit. I tell them what I saw, and the kid confirmed it and fills in the rest. How she had thought he worked there, wouldn't believe that he didn't, and had slapped
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    Font - him. Off we went to see the security footage. So the cops were called, she was fitted for steel bracelets, and I encouraged the kid to call his parents. They decided to press charges. I found
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    Font - out later that she was sent for a psych eval and ended up in a psychiatric hospital for a couple of months. And I got to feel all "supportive of a younger brother". We guys gotta have each other's backs.
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    Font - gaudrhin 2 hr. ago Anorexic Gorgon and Diet Medusa might be some of the best decriptors I've seen for someone like these. Two words each time, and I can see her. Nicely done!
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    Font - Otherwise-Topic-1791. 2 hr. ago WOW! Good for you! My F@#$s garden is currently being paved over. I hope I remember this for a loooong time.
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    Font - RedFive1976 · 13 min. ago "Observe the field in which I grow my f S. Gaze upon its barrenness." OP's garden of f 's has been barren for so long that somebody turned it into a parking lot.
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    Font - SRD1194 28 min. ago . OP once had f to give, but the land on which they once grew has since become a parking lot. S
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    Font - Truth8843 10 min. ago Anorexic gorgon made me spit my drink across the room. BEST NAME EVER!!! ✪✪66
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