Story 3: So when you hit people, they might be mad enough to hit back? You'd think an adult would have learned this at some point, but apparently some people missed the lesson.
I once saw that 'sitting on the floor rummaging the games' scenario years ago. Girl had been sitting on the floor doing exactly that for about ten mins, when pipsqueak Darren looms over her, screaming about ' get off your ass and do your job,' et al. So she gets up off her ass... all 6ft 6in of her, turns to him and quite politely asks, 'and what would that job be?' Darren exits stage left, leaving behind a bunch of customers reduced to helpless laughter.
In the US there is no excuse or reason to strike or slap another person unprovoked regardless of if they work somewhere or not. It's a criminal offense. Thank god for surveillance cameras.
Usually I hate the blood thinners I am taking, however if someone is stupid enough to lay hands on me, there will be evidence. Bright bruise, bordering on hematoma, type evidence. My cat bumped my glasses a couple of weeks ago and it looked like I went a few rounds in the ring. I usually just want to roll my eyes when people are overreacting, but I would love to try my acting chops in a situation like that. Lol
A lot of people hate the spread of cameras due to privacy concerns but I personally love how it suddenly makes all of these he said-she said cases so clear when there's video evidence
one time I was at a thrift store that let the employees wear whatever, they just needed a vest. Some older women kept asking me about dresses, I told her sorry I don’t work there. Yk what she did? She apologized and left. That’s how easy it is. Idk how ppl can’t do that
Last Story: Why would ANYONE, even someone drunk, abuse someone who is preparing something they intend to ingest? Pharmaceutical chemist here asking...
Story 4: OP needs to marry that man, like tomorrow. Or today if the courthouse is still open. Did a cape suddenly appear when he did that? He's the hero we all need.
That man just blew that man-baby out of the ocean in a way that I actually don't think it's possible XD. Wait hold on... Tall and big man with a beard... Is that man Kratos in disguise? XD
Story 5: I really hate this behavior. Like, harassing employees and acting like they own the place because they're customers. Trust me, they have no idea how much some employees would love to slam them into the wall, knock their teeth out, or let out all the anger verbally
I work in a major retail pharmacy chain and would love nothing more than to do just that to all the Karens, Kens, and other entitled shits in between and beyond that we get. At my store, it's gotten to a point where we need armed security. I'd be happy with the higher-ups getting former Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Spetznaz, IDF, et hoc genus omne to provide that service for us. As long as they're the meanest, toughest-looking motherfuckers around, I'm for that.
I'm still waiting for that story to be told here. Surely there's ONE former service person who finally snapped and slammed some Karen's face into a countertop or something.
@@thatjeff7550 Never heard such a story before and I'm not gonna do it myself😂 But I am a smartass sometimes, so I make sure to get small victories like that when I can😇
@@christinevanrooij8061 I used to work retail. Been there and done that! (No, I never actually slapped a customer, but I certainly wanted to do it many times!).
Okay, THAT made me burst out laughing! That is the perfect way to deal with a Karen, only better response I can think of is: I’m sorry, I am not a slave
I was at a store, wearing clothes that looked nothing like employees' uniform, and a Karen came up to me and asked where something was. I told her I didn't know and to ask an employee. "But you are an employee!" I assured her that I didn't work there. "Of course you work here, now where is the whatever?" I couldn't resist. I told her that if it was up her butt eating a ham sandwich then she'd know where it was. She threatened to have me fired. I told her good luck trying to do that because I was retired. I then walked away with her screaming curses at me. An employee came to me and asked what was going on and I told her that some harpy was having a mental breakdown. I continued on my way.
My wife and I had two babies. I can confirm that they are the manager. Oi! They are the manager! I don't miss diaper duty, feeding duty, sleeping on the futon duty, chasing them out the dog door duty... They are a bit older now so the workload is a bit lighter.
Self defence is not "equal force" it is the reasonable but not excessive force necessary to end or prevent an impending attack (legally worded this way in most civilised countries).
On the first couple of stories, I had to stop and write this down, I was getting PISSED, karen's and Ken's NEED TO KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF OF PEOPLE, before they land in jail or the morgue, they will piss off the wrong person one day.
I believe that its technically common law larceny since that requires only that the item belong to someone other than the accused. That said, I doubt you could get the police to enforce it in most jurisdictions unless you had already paid for the goods.
Story 3: Not really sure where people and their galaxy brains learned the idea that slapping people would do any good. It doesn't. It does the opposite
Not only am I glad to hear OP pressed charges, I'm glad to hear he smacked that Karen in response to her physical assault. I've long said that if you lay hands on my without provocation, I'm fucking launching you. In this day and age of crazy Karens like this, you never know if they have a weapon and if they intend to cause you severe harm, so the moment one lays hands on me my aim would be to take them down and make sure they weren't going to get back up to come after me.
Not the only one, but yeah it's rare it seems. I remember one story where a girl was in Yankee Candle and had her hood pulled when she tried walking away. Her knee jerk reaction was to swing around and ended up backhanding the woman with a candle still in her hand. Granted it wasn't intentional, but the woman got hit in the mouth with a glass candle. Clearly she had it coming lol (cue the song from _Chicago_ )
"THIS is my manager. Talk to him all you like! But I'm telling you flat-out that even if you're willing to change his poopiest diapers, he's NOT gonna fire his mother! At all, EVER."
I really don't understand how some in these stories seem to just not be able to grasp that people can help others or put things back on the shelves without being employed. Like have they never picked something up of a rack, see they don't want it, then put it back? Do they just throw what they don't want onto the floor? The "making a sale" line in one story confused me too. Because...unless that store is unlike any of the thrift stores I am aware of, they likely do their sales at the registers like any other stores. There is no "making a sale" like you are a traveling salesman or something. Nor do I understand the people who think that employees are still required to work for people while on break and for some reason want to harass them into doing it instead of going to where actual on duty employees are. I can't understand the obsession with getting one particular person they assume is an employee to do stuff for them to the point of ignoring the fact that being on break means they aren't on duty to assist them. Their own logic doesn't work. Like if you think they are on break why are you going to them instead of someone you know is working? It doesn't make sense
"Do they just throw what they don't want onto the floor?" In some cases, yes. I've actually seen it happen. Or they just stash the item wherever in the store, which is particularly troublesome when it comes to items that need to be kept cold/at a certain temperature in a grocery store. The amount of waste that happens, because some idiots leave perishable foods in places that they shouldn't is astounding.
I cannot remember how I came to find Dark Fluff. I listen almost daily. The stories are captivating, fun to listen, and usually have a good lesson to learn in the end. I also enjoy hearing common sense comments at the end of each story. The narrator has the absolute best voice ever. He is easy listening, has great tone, with emphasis at all the right spots. A master story teller; keep it coming!
My airport story: I work for TSA, I'm out front smoking. This guy pulls up, gets out of his, still running car, and tells me to go park it for him. I tell him I don't do that I'm security. He yells "you work for the airport, park the damned car!, and leaves. I throw the keys on the front seat, of the still running car, and go back to work.
How is a car running when you throw the keys onto the seat? I thought that the car’s keys would need to be in the ignition for the car’s motor to be functioning… Just saying…
If someone puts their hands on me they had best be ready to tote an ass whoopin' is all I'm saying. Going hands-on is permission for me to defend myself with force.
I don't understand... In every case where the aggressor/Karen is screaming "Do you want me to talk to your manager?", why don't they just reply"YES. Please go get the manager." Cut them off right at the start.
I had a interesting encounter with another woman shopper in the grocery store today. I was wandering form aisle to aisle, window shopping to see if anything might catch my eye, with me instantly deciding that I couldn't live without it. One of the aisles was littered with those annoying cardboard floor displays that eat up room in the aisle making it difficult to generally navigate down the aisle. While looking at stuff on the shelves, I pulled over close to the shelves and in the process of backing up to get around the cardboard display, I bumped into the cart of a shopper behind me. She made a wise crack about "drivers not watching while they back up" and I apologized for not turning on my backup beeper cuz it was broken and I didn't want to say "beep, beep, beep" cuz I don't like nets dropping on me from above (we were giggling like a couple of silly teen age girls). All, was good. The, we kept passing each other in other aisles, making wise cracks as we met (again, giggling). Then as I pulled out of the self checkout area, who do I meet, but my giggler ..... again we were throwing wise cracks back and forth as we rolled out of the store. And as we rolled across the parking lot to our cars, we chatted about the price of chicken and how the price of eggs has soared ..... and she said, "We, I hope the chickens get something out of the profits" ..... so which I said, "Well, it's a sure bet the dead ones won't" .... and she gave me a weird look ..... then the conversation rolled over to me mentioning mentioning the slaughtering of .... maybe millions of chickens ..... do to the avian flu that has swept thru the commercial chicken flocks ..... she was not aware of that ..... more giggling ...... then I asked when she would be going to the store again ...... didn't ask her what time, but I just might run into her again if I go to the store this Friday ...... it was the flip side of a Karen encounter. 😄
In reference to the lady in the bar. The only thing that could have been richer would have been the obnoxious group going into the bar where she IS the bartender, and her summarily telling them that they were banned from the establishment and would under no circumstances be served.
5:26 GL: "Sir, we don't allow people to abuse our customers like this, I'm going to have to ask you to leave if you don't stop." OG: "She's not an employee." GL: "Even if she did work here we don't allow people to abuse our employees either."
How the hell does a stroller with a baby in it, wearing something yellow that's not the rental uniform while holding a coffee and reading stories off your phone, and a blue beanie instead of a blue VEST equal "hey I work here, come harass me"? 😂
Anyone who tries to get someone fired because they’re not getting their way should be fired from their job and how they treat people and other places of business
When i was in a police academy i went to walmart and had so many people ask for help because they thought i worked there. I was wearing black pants and a dark blue polo with my last name on the breast pocket and police cadet on the back.
If a police officer asks you if you want to Press charges ☺️😂😻 you always say yes always when a Karen or the male version Kevin. If people don't how are they to learn to be better humans 🙂🤣😂😻
So satisfying to see a slap-happy Karen get slapped back. I'm really surprised it doesn't happen more often. How is retaliating not everybody's initial reflex?
Depends on the place. I have work at two places (not warehouse or freezer) that allow me to wear a cap. One place had to be their issue cap since it was a stadium if you chose to wear one. The other was retail halloween store as long as it doesn't cover your entire face. I have also work at a summer camp wear as long it's appropriate around kids you can wear it. I have a neat collection of baseball caps to wear for each day.
Story 5: "Oh, cooooome ooon. You really think I'm that stupid?" OOOOOOOHH HELLLLLLL YEEEEEEEAH. And calling that rude customer "stupid" is very lenient of me--I'd rather call that rude customer "Moron."
I was a manager at a store when some old dude started yelling and power tripping, "I'm going to call your district manager " I took my name tag off and handed it to him, "Spell my name right" I turned to walk out and he started running his mouth again, I spun, "I don't have a name tag, which means I don't work here. Go F yourself." Turned in my keys and went home.
I bet the Best Buy employee secretly appreciated OP’s fiancée pretending he thought blue jacket bully was an employee. Blue jacket bully probably didn’t treat the employee well either.
Even in my worst days when I am dead tired and not wanting to do anything but crawl into my bed I would never ever ever EVER be impolite to another person ever because that’s the way my mama and papa taught me and if your kind of people they will return the kindness
Story 2 - Normally, if people threatened to call the manager on me, I would probably just shrug and say, "Knock yourself out." In this situation, I'd have handled it a little differently. When the guy demanded, "Why won't you help me? Is it because I'm a man?", I'd have paused and looked him over. Then I'd have given him a smug grin and said, "Nope, that ain't it!" Story 5 - "Do you think I'm that stupid?" I'd have said, "Yep", and walked away.
Finally, someone finally pulled the Uno reverse card on a karen just to give them a taste of their own bs. That fiancé from story 4 is a god damn hero.
Here is one for you, not quite under the i don't work here, but nearly. In 1960 in our local Co-op store in Kent in England a man walked into the tv area, with a white coat and a clipboard. He asked for help with five large televisions, which got carried out to his waiting van. They got loaded on board and he drove away. About two hours later a panicked manager was looking for the man who didn't work there as he had brazenly stolen the tvs and they had helped him. I thought it was hilarious. He didn't work there, just everybody presumed he did.
Story One: When Karen said "Don't talk to me unless it's to say thank you" I thought he was going to clamp his mouth shut and refuse to say anything else to her ever again.
man tall people helping out shouldn't be weird. as a short person who has been a spectacle while climbing shelves to get something off the top shelf i wish more folks were like that. I literally once had people clap at the sight of me knocking something off the top shelf and catching it in the air perfectly because I'm so used to being short af and getting my own shit by shaking the shelves.
1:30 Oh! I would thank Karen alright, in a condescending tone. My thank yous are usually like 🖕🏻, "Yes. Thank You, Very Much! Now you can leave!!" She would have most likely smacked me right there, and I would have called assault and harassment, doing a reversal of "I want to speak to your manager about your ill-temper and lack of professionalism! You are going to be fired, and most likely thrown out!
Years, years ago I was in a local fast food place and the customer at the counter was raising hell. Screaming, cursing, slamming his hands down - all because they were making fresh tortilla chips and it would be about 5 minutes. The individual behind them was a motorcycle rider and had their helmet in their hand... And proceeded to slam the helmet down on the top of the angry patrons head knocking him out cold. He just turned around and walked out as one of the employees handed him a big bag of of food and told him to take off.
I love when people try to invade personal space and get up into my face: I just throw up on them and say sorry, their face smells bad and caused my gag reflex to act up xD
I finally realized why I prefer the company of animals more than I do people! Some people are totally clueless in their realm! Animals are NOT clueless in their realms!
I love how Op's BF stuck it to the guy in Story 4 at Best Buy x'D He pulled the same stunt on him and he was like ???????? I wonder if that dude thinks about it ever.
On the car rental issue, I to had something like that happen to me in an airport while waiting for my boarding notification. I almost went to jail but as in the case of your posting and mind this is in the mid 70s so in early to do it, proved that not only was I in a military uniform, but this woman slapped me first. I put her on the floor and sat on her waiting for security to show. almost missed my flight overseas too because of the nitwit
Your fiancé handled it perfectly, if that happened to my wife… I would’ve just grabbed him and dragged him outside by his jacket and beat the brakes off of him
Am I the only one when at a store the second someone tries to talk to me I scream to gtf away from me and threaten to send their insides home to their shitty mother.
11:08 " Are you going to help me or just waste my time?" It is funny that he asks that question because the truth is his assumption makes it so that he is wasting his own time.
