‘I don't care about your rules’: Karen gets banned from charity shop after she dumps her trash at their doorstep and screams at manager after they refuse to accept it as donations

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Sep 10, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

When doing something that is considered good for other people, it is often not just about the act itself, but about the intentions behind it. If all you care about is what you gain out of your good deed, then is it really a good deed at all? Yet, does it have to be pure of any selfish intention for it to have a positive effect on someone else?

When someone decides to donate some of their clothes to charity, their intentions are usually a mix of selfish and selfless. They seek a way to get rid of stuff they don't want, but they could have easily thrown them out to the trash instead of donating them. It is an act that benefits both parties, but in a way that also helps others. 

However, if one visits a charity shop and acts like they are doing the employees a favor by donating old clothes, then one might as well have thrown those clothes into the trash. Much like the Karen in this Reddit story, who could not have acted more entitled and selfish when she arrived at a charity shop to get rid of trash she didn't want to handle herself. Luckily the staff there managed to restrain her, and even get her banned permanently from the store.

Scroll down to read the full tale. After you are done, click here for a story of a family feud about children favoritism.

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    "She went as white as a sheet"
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    Goodwill Karen unknowingly explodes on manager, gets banned from store
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    I've been working as a Goodwill donation attendant for almost 4 years now, I've seen my fair share at work. But of entitled this one was too good not to share.
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    So it's Labor Day weekend, and of course, we're getting slammed with oversized donations from a parade of customers. We're understaffed, it's only me and another worker in the back, we'll
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    call her Jenny. The two of us are barely keeping up against the customers. Anyways, I lean outside to tell the woman waiting that I'll be with
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    her in a minute, but as I'm doing so, another woman (Karen), marches up to the door, shoves the other woman out of the way, and tosses a dirty vacuum at my feet before walking off.
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    Karen's car was at the back of the line. Our rules state that for customer safety and for our convenience, every customer must wait their turn, and they cannot dump their donations on the ground and leave.
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    I tell the Karen that she can't do that and that she's breaking the rules, but she just ignores me as if I'm not even there. Feeling defeated, I take her dirty (And now broken) vacuum and toss it
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    in the trash, telling Jenny what just happened. That's when I notice she's returning with more stuff. I step out and once again tell her that she cannot dump her items
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    and that she has to wait her turn like everyone else. She snaps back at me "Calm down you little ! I don't care about your rules! I'm gonna dump my here and you can't do a thing
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    about it!" She marches back to her car to get another load of stuff. While this is all going down, her husband is standing in the second lane, staring me down
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    menacingly. He looked as if he was ready to attack me at any moment, possibly trying to threaten me so his precious Karen can do whatever she wants.
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    I walk back in with Karen's donations (Which were all unsellable btw) feeling angry. Jenny witnessed Karen's outburst this time, and she's not having it. The nice lady I was helping has
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    second hand embarrassment. Then, right on cue, the wicked witch of the west marches back with her third and final load of junk.
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    I try again to tell her that she can't do this, but this time, she just ignores me completely, shoves the nice lady out of the way AGAIN, and enters the
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    production area, which is employees only, where she comes face-to-face with Jenny. Jenny tells her "Ma'am, you can't come in here..." and Karen goes BALLISTIC.
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    She throws her trash at Jenny and says "THIS IS GOODWILL, I'M GIVING YOU FREE AREN'T I!? OFF!!!" before stomping out of the building.
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    When Karen tries to leave, two more cars pull up in the line behind her, trapping her in the line. Karen is absolutely seething at this point, comes out of her car
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    over to me and barks "GO GET YOUR MANAGER, I'M GOING TO GET YOU FIRED!!!" I smugly grin from ear to ear and reply "Oh you mean THAT
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    manager? The one you just told to off?" Plot twist! Jenny is the manager. Karen goes as white as a sheet, huffs, and sheepishly walks back
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    to her car, where she awkwardly has to wait in line. Just long. enough for the security cams to get her license plates. So yeah, she's permanently banned from our store now :]
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    TL;DR- Karen cuts in line and illegally dumps her donations on the ground at Goodwill, tells my manager to off and throws trash at her, gets banned from the store
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    Catacombs3 13h ago I hope you can get her fined for dumping rubbish on private property. Some people think charity shops are a cheap way to get rid of household junk that they would otherwise have to pay for of the tip.
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    Fickle-Squirrel-4091 12h ago Depending on the laws of where you're located, your center should share her license plate with every thrift store/donation center within a 100 mile radius. But I'm petty like that ☑
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    Realistic-Animator-3 11h ago Would be fan-fing-tastic for her yo wake up one morning and find all of her 'donations' tossed in her driveway
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    Major-Check-1953 12h ago Karen just wanted to dump her broken trash without paying for junk removal.
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