'I honestly don't work here': Karen refuses to believe total stranger isn't her grandmother's nurse, keeps ordering her around

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 6, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Hospitals can be tense environments for anyone, but this entitled Karen took way too much of her stress out on an innocent bystander. The Karen was looking for her grandmother's nurse so she could get a sponge and a cup of water, but she was clearly so desperate that she ended up convincing herself that a complete and total stranger was the nurse assigned to her grandmother all this time. Ah, what the mind can do to an anxious individual!

The stranger tried to reason with the Karen and explain to her that she was not, in fact, her grandmother's nurse, to no avail. The lady merely continued to order her around until the stranger ended up having to fetch an actual nurse to do the job. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the funniest reactions from folks in the comments section.

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    Her: "yes you do, I know all the nurses and you do." Me: "ah no, I honestly don't work here" Her: “then why are you wearing that thing on your head?"
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    A woman refused to believe my friend wasn't a nurse. People are so weird!
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    + ܩܘ 4:2731 Active Now So I have my AirPods in. Got my cup of coffee in one hand and my off brand Stanley in the other. Walking down the hall. Minding my business. Lady steps out and goes "maam, my grandma needs a sponge and cup of water." Me: "ah I don't work here" Her: "yes you do, I know all the nurses and you do." Me: "ah no, I honestly don't work here" Her: "then why are you wearing that thing on your head?" Me: "my headband? I wear it to keep the hair off my face" Her: "so can you get her
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    ܩܘ ]31] 4:28 ← Active NOW work here" Her: "then why are you wearing that thing on your head?" Me: "my headband? I wear it to keep the hair off my face" Her: "so can you get her a cup of water and a sponge?" Me: "sure" I walked down to the nurses station and tell the nurse. She goes I gotcha. This family member was ● bent on me being a nurse here. Like lady I don't know what you're but can you share? 4:15 PM The people you meet and the places you go I guess. That's so weird!
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    Tylenol187ForDogs • 5d ago Ah yes. The most well known piece of a nurse uniform, the headband.
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    Equinsu-Ocha • 5d ago Once you have service face it doesnt matter what you wear. Im at target in jeans and a metallica shirt and still get bothered.
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    Wanderluster621 • 5d ago . If she knows all the nurses, why TF didn't she know your friend wasn't one? Could it be bc Miss Karen just assumes everyone but her walking the halls of a hospital works there? Smh.
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    _typhoid_mary 5d ago lol I work as a tech in a hospital and people go ballistic that I am not a nurse and cannot help them with their medication, food, health plan, insurance, etc. I had one lady refuse bloodwork until I explained her insurance breakdown to her that was pulled up on her phone.
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    If people are nice and have questions or it is something simple I can help with, absolutely. If they have more specific questions about bloodwork and lab testing, I will do everything in my power to break it down as long as people are kind. Being a Karen gets you nowhere in healthcare.
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    5d ago When I was a nursing student, I stopped by the hospital my grandmother was in to bring her some food. I made the mistake of still being in my scrubs from clinicals that day. A lady stopped me and said I needed to look at her family
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    member. I explained from the get go that I was a student nurse and didn't work there and I had just left school and was only stopping by to see my grandmother. She insisted that i "would do" and I told
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    her that I was not yet qualified to assess anyone alone. I told her I would stop by the nurses station tho. She rolled her eyes and said "well if you can't even look at her then I'd hate it for your patients if you actually finish school." Like maam, what you're asking me is illegal
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    Free_Dependent_... . 5d ago You should've told her to grab another random person, insist they are your manager, and put in a complaint.
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    lexisauce · 5d ago I would have said "sure" and go on about my day lol
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    hog_heaven_... OP. 5d ago I forgot to say in the original post that my friend was visiting her grandfather, who had surgery two days ago.
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    linkheroz • 4d ago I'd have just said "sure" then walked away lol
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    imsowhiteandnerdy . 4d ago "So can you get her a cup of water and a sponge?" "Sure, that'll be $4,000.00" (Hospital prices, y'know)
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