Ice Cream Karen throws tantrum over not getting exact change: 'Yes, I want my penny back!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 29, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

There are some principles that are worth standing one's ground on and others where it's probably best not to engage further. Unfortunately, the ability for the Karens of the world to pick and choose their battles is not really existent, as they seem to be in battle mode 90% of the time.

This Karen was asked if she wanted exact change back after ordering an ice cream milkshake at a well-known establishment. There was a shortage of change and the server was instructed by his manager to ask customers if they needed pennies back. Of course, this enraged the Karen, who then proceeded to complain about the way in which the Redditor prepared her milkshake. She even went so far as to complain to corporate after the manager intervened to deescalate the encounter.

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    To this day, I will always know that a small cyclone (now called a frenzy) from Friendlys was $3.69 in 1999.
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    You see, I was working the ice cream area during a weekend day when Karen walked up and wanted a small cyclone. During that time, the store manager told us to ask if people wanted pennies back since there was a shortage. After
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    taking Karen's order, she gives me $5. This means that I have to give her a penny, a nickel, a quarter and a dollar. I asked if she wanted her penny, to which she put her hands on her hips and huffed, "YES, I WANT MY PENNY BACK!".
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    Now, to make a cyclone, I needed to mix soft serve ice cream with the fillings and then insert this special spoon into a custom mixer.
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    This spins the spoon and mixes everything up (super wasteful). There was one issue with this: sometimes the spoons would break
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    (this was new technology at the time). After a few times of having to throw out the product (because there could be plastic chunks when the spoon breaks), we took to just spinning by hand.
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    I make her ice cream and then hand it to her. She complains that I didn't use the mixer and demands I use the spoon mixer. So I take it back, hook it up, and spin it (making sure I count out how long we are supposed to spin so she can't complain about that).
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    This makes a mess (oh yeah, it also made a mess when doing this), and I need to wipe down the cup.
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    When I handed it back, I missed a spot, and she used a napkin to wipe it down. She asks for another napkin. At that point, Mary, a waitress, steps in front of the computer, which had the napkins on a shelf underneath. I asked Mary if she could pass me one and hand it to Karen.
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    She now demands to see my manager. So I call the shift manager Maggie over and I step out of view. Mary joins me as well since she is curious as to what this woman's problem is. She
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    goes off about how unprofessional I was. I was begging to keep the penny as a tip, I didn't use the mixer properly, I handed her dirty ice cream and I was to the nice waitress. Maggie calms her
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    down and gives her a refund to get Karen to leave. On my next shift, Maggie came over and told me that she called corporate to complain
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    about me. Maggie had my back after she and Mary spoke with the corporate overlord. Nothing else came about from it except for all of us now mimicking the noise the machine makes so people would be none the wiser.
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    DRG_Gunner 7 days ago Could your management have just raised the prices by a penny?
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    mariam67 7 days ago I'll never understand how people can live with themselves after going out and trying to ruin someone's livelihood over absolutely nothing.
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    manchuck OP. 7 days ago I wasn't too worried about getting fired for it. I was working past 11 on week nights and the General manager was just adjusting the clock in and out.
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    He tried to fire me after my mother told me I had to stop since my grades starting dropping. I clocked out at 10 on Sunday and left. The next day he said. I I have to fire you because you disobeyed me. I
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    asked him if he really wanted to go down that road because I'm a minor and can't work past the. After that he left me alone
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