'Karma eventually caught a Karen': Top Karens of the Week (April 15, 2024)

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 15, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Maturity and growth seem to be inconceivable concepts to the Karens of the world. These strange birds lack the self-awareness and the learning skills for serious self-improvement. Instead, they walk among us looking to project their frustrations and their entitlement onto their surroundings. This unfortunately means that the sane people among us are often on the receiving end of this unnecessary wrath. 

This week, we've got Karens throwing tantrums in the office, at a Gamestop, at a cosmetics store, and at a McDonald's. In other words, the full range of the human experience is reflected in these stories. Occasionally, the entitled folks represented in these frustrating tales got their comeuppance, but in other instances, they went about their day without any proper retaliation. Hopefully, karma will come back and haunt them eventually. 

Keep scrolling below for this brand new collection of Karen stories. For more, check out this post about crazy customer service fiascos.

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  • 01
    Karma eventually caught a Karen Karen This happened many years ago, before we had the term Karen. I worked in an office that had multiple shifts which meant sharing desks. This was common in the industry I was in and I generally worked 5 to midnight so was always assigned to a desk that "belonged" to someone during the day.
    via u/Human_Type001
  • 02
    But guess what boo you don't own the desk and unless I make a mess you have nothing to complain about. Anyway, this Karen worked at the desk next to one I was frequently assigned to. And whenever I came in I'd smile and say "Hi" and she would barely grunt at me.
    via u/Human_Type001
  • 03
    Only once did I have to use her desk and it was literally only for an hour because the person who's desk I was at came in earlier than expected and she only knew because I was still working there when she came in and I was finishing up a double shift so I was very tired (5pm to 8am) but tried to smile and say "Hi" and all she did was pick up the garbage can and start shrieking that there was "a back layer of waxy paper from a sheet of labels in the recycling can and it can't be recycled!!!" She
    via u/Human_Type001
  • 04
    I just ignored her behavior. The next time I was assigned to her neighbor's desk I again smile and say "Hi" and she didn't even grunt just got up and walked away. It was the end of her shift so I figured she left. Well it turned out she went to the ladies room before leaving. Came back to her desk to get her things before leaving and as she turned to walk away I saw the GLORIOUS KARMA. Her skirt was fully tucked into her granny and pantyhose. It was an awful sight to see and I honestly don't kno
    via u/Human_Type001
  • 05
    GameStop Karen AKA "Customer thinks he knows better." A wild (male) Karen story with a satisfying ending! My friend and I decided to stop at a GameStop while we were out of town to look for a certain game.
    via u/WaywardMama47
  • 06
    When we got inside I hopped in line (to ask a worker) and my friend started browsing. There were two people in front of me looking annoyed and then there was Karen at the register taking up the attention of both workers who also looked annoyed. "I've been coming to this store for YEARS." He barked at the them. "They've ALWAYS done it for ME!" The manager essentially told him that all GameStops have the same basic rules and he couldn't just give this guy a discount. It could actually cost him his
    via u/WaywardMama47
  • 07
    The Karen was asking for a price match with the same item at Best Buy. However, the one employee rung it up at that price AND put the Pro Member discount on top of it. (Which took like $7 extra dollars off.) The manager told the worker that they can't apply that discount on top of a price match. Well, wild Karen goes off. "I WANT TO SEE YOUR PAPERWORK! SHOW ME WHERE IT SAYS YOU CAN'T DO THAT!! I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR YEARS, YOUR GOING TO LOOSE MY BUSINESS IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME THIS AT "X PRICE"
    via u/WaywardMama47
  • 08
    The manager walks off and returns with some papers. He stands there and reads through the pages and then smiles. "Oh! Actually, not only can I not apply a discount to a price match, we are not allowed to price match at all at this location." He proceeds to hand the papers over to Karen who's now hemming and hawing and steaming from the ears.
    via u/WaywardMama47
  • 09
    The workers help the line that has piled up while Karen reads over the papers multiple times and realizes he's not going to get the thing he wanted unless he pays full price. So in the end, the thing he wanted would have cost him well over $200 instead of $170, because he wanted it for $163.
    via u/WaywardMama47
  • 10
    TLDR: Male Karen at GameStop holds up line and demands discount on top of price match only to "shoot himself in the foot" by making the manager realize he can't actually price match.
    via u/WaywardMama47
  • 11
    Hand Cream Karen A popular cosmetics store is closing in my country. I went in yesterday after hearing of the closure to stock up on some hypoallergenic items, not knowing that they were already running their clear out sale making everything 75% off. To say the store was picked over was an understatment. It was do near empty. I was lucky that they still had inventory on exactly what I wanted.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 12
    When I got to the front of a very long queue a wild Karen appears. Cutting in front of the line that is no less than 10 deep, she demands that they look in the back for a rose scented hand cream she was unable to find on the sales floor. The woman at the counter assured her that all the inventory they had was out on the floor and that if she was unable to find the item, they were sold out.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 13
    A normal person would accept that a store, with mostly empty shelves probably does not have the inventory to fill those shelves. Not a Karen. She understood, "We don't have it" to be the start of the conversation. The associated called out next, and as I approached the counter Karen held out her arm to block me and said, "I'm not done yet".
    via u/RubixRube
  • 14
    Karen is insistant that they find her item and will not take no for an answer. She continues to badger the employee pulling out winning lines like, "It's the only item I can use", "You had it yesterday", "I have been a customer for years", "This is the third store I have been to", they employee with each statement re- itterates what you see is what we have. Still not satisfied, Karen of course asks for a manager, refusing to move until the manager appears.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 15
    At this point, I say to her, "Could you please step aside while you wait so the line can progress." This was met with her rudely telling me to "Mind my own fo business". I have done my time in retail and live for the moment when somebody pulls out an F bomb, and I am sure the associate having enough, was also happy to ask at this point that that she leave the store immediately for being rude to other customers.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 16
    Unfortunately, a Karen only has one mode and that is escalate. I have now commited the cardinal sin of making a reasonable request of a Karen and have inadvertantly made myself a target too. She then turns back to me and yells "See what you have done?, I am just trying to get some help here. Now they are throwing me out because you couldn't keep your mouth shut. If this was somebody in trouble, you would probably mind your own business, but no, you have to be a because I am just trying to get so
    via u/RubixRube
  • 17
    A few of the customers in line join in calling her a Karen and noting she was in fact the one who was unable to keep her mouth shut. This only emboldened her to champion for her right to rose scented hand cream. She then begins to berate every customer who dared question her approach to the situation. Everybody is a I, everybody needed to shut up. We just didn't understand customer service.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 18
    Finally the manager appears, with the full bin of reamining hand cream. They had no less than 5 other varieties, just no rose. The manager is offering alternative from what limited stock they had in a futile attempt to de-escalate. However Karens don't understand de- escalation. Now Karen is already shaking made over $3 hand cream, and proceeds call the manager stupid for not understanding rose, and then helpfully spells out R-O-S-E.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 19
    The manager again says,. "We are out of stock." Noting she has offered alternatives, and if none are suitable there is no further assistance they can provide. She tucks the bin under the counter and then says to Karen "if there is nothing else we can help you with today, you need to leave before we are forced to make you leave".
    via u/RubixRube
  • 20
    Finally accepting defeat, Karen leaves, not before knocking several products off a display table on her way out. I use thier hand cream, it's pretty good. I prefer the vanilla scent as the rose smells almost as as Karens attitude.
    via u/RubixRube
  • 21
    Male Karen threw a handful of coins at me at McDonald's. This story happened when I was 20 and worked in a McDonald's while studying at university.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 22
    I was shy and inexperienced of human nature, and it was my first job in the restaurant industry. McDonald's probably was a bold choice for a girl like that, but despite the humiliation and suffering, I'm glad I chose it because it made me tough.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 23
    One day on my second week of working there, I finished my shift at 10 pm. In my country, most companies paid their workers that day so everyone paid in cash with big banknotes, so in the last hour of my shift, I was struggling with giving back the change. My cash register mostly consisted of 50$ and 100$ notes or 1-5-10-25-cents. And of course, everyone rushed to spend their hard-earned money on McDonald's.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 24
    A guy in his late 30s or early 40s, with a full business attire, walked in at around 9:50 pm. He only asked for that small ice cream in a cone. It was 1$ when this happened, and he paid with a banknote which is worth about 50$ here. I asked him politely if he had a smaller banknote. He replied with a simple no. Until that point, there was nothing about him that screamed Karen.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 25
    I could give him back 40$ in banknotes. I told him I could only give him the last 9$ in coins since there were no banknotes left in my cash reg. He let out a very annoyed reply, but I thought it was and directed at the situation and not me.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 26
    I started counting the 9$ to him in cents. I could only give him back the last 1$ in 5 and 10 cents. I accidentally gave him 0.95$. I didn't realize it until he said: "This is just 8.95$" I immediately replied "I am very sorry" and gave him the last 5 cent. I thought that was the end of it. That is when he started screaming from his lungs with a bright red face:
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 27
    "DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH STEALING FROM ME? YOU ARE NOT GONNA TAKE AWAY MY MONEY" I looked up shocked, trying to process what was happening. He was screaming so loud that the whole McDonald's went silent and they were all staring at us. I told him "I am sorry, it was not intentional, I just miscalculated the coins." He continued screaming.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 28
    "YOU ARE NOT GONNA SCAM ME! AND WHAT THE FARE THESE COINS? GIVE ME BANKNOTES" and he threw all the coins from his grip at me. I stood there humiliated, intimidated, 50 people staring at me. I could only say: I don't have banknotes. He replied: I what you have, get me banknotes from somewhere.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 29
    That is when the manager arrived to my station. He was the good guy manager thankfully. He took over the situation, gave him his change, and firmly told him that cashiers can not leave their station and can only handle the money that is in their register, and it is very unlikely someone would steal 5 cents. He dropped his brave screaming attitude now, that the manager wasn't a 20 year old girl. And left.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111
  • 30
    Before that incident, the only conflict I had was when my mum was mad at me for not tidying my room, so that was a lot for sure, I remember I walked home crying and shaking. Never saw him again after that.
    via u/Ok_Ambassador_9111

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