Exactly. Many times a PTSD episode will force the person to completely freeze or roll into a ball (or in worse situations, go catatonic). But many will relive what caused it and go into self preservation mode. And simply put, when you're dealing with someone who was taught to kill, it can turn deadly for whomever causes their episode to surface, and the person won't even know what they did during their episode.
My grandfathers had ptsd so I understand War flashbacks are no joke Soto the fool who did something that stupid to a military veteran she is dead lucky the dude got the man off her because things would never end well for her
It doesn’t matter what your intentions are when you trigger that person. It doesn’t matter if all you wanted to do was yank them back to you to yell and whine. As far as we’re concerned, you’re here to kill me and I have to kill you first so I don’t die. Thankfully I’m pretty easy to stop, but most others - ESPECIALLY vets - are a lot harder to shake out of their episode. Mine is just from being strangled and almost dying (twice) so it’s not like I’m reliving war where I don’t notice someone yelling to stop because the scene I’m in is supposed to sound chaotic. My incidents were traumatic because I was alone and there was no one to save me. So as soon as someone yells or something, I don’t see another target, I see a possible rescue. Then I transition into the “catatonic silent panic attack can’t breathe or speak” response. I remember once that happened in music class or something in HS. (My NDE’s happened when I was very young.) Thankfully I didn’t try to kill anyone when I was triggered and skipped violence straight to panic attack, because that’s also a possible outcome. I couldn’t speak for like half an hour or something. When I’m in the thick of it, I cannot perceive anything around me bc all I can see and hear is events replaying over and over and over. I had one friend who could pull me out of those. Thankfully, we had that class together, so she got me through it. I was in touch with reality, not stuck in a replay, could breathe well enough but still struggling, but I couldn’t speak for the rest of the class period. Half an hour or something thereabouts. Fortunately, she and I had also been teaching ourselves a little ASL out of a dictionary just for fun. I was able to sign to her what I needed. Best possible outcome tbh. Anyway yeah don’t trigger people they can kill you if there’s no one capable of stopping them
I knew a guy who claimed he was an ex-Navy Seal he got into a argument with a co-worker who weighed 100lbs if his clothes were wet and got roundly ass whipped by this guy.
@@robertbode2716 nope, I knew a guy. As in personally knew a guy. Not knew a guy who knew a guy. Guy was a white piece of shit too. A real braggart and an uneducated idiot.
Story 3: I have a friend that was in some Spec Ops unit. Highly trained in CQC. Someone scared him once & he hip tossed them onto the ground into a choke hold. No warning either. Fastest thing I ever saw. PTSD is no joke.
I watched an interview with a Marine who had just gotten back from a tour of the jungles in Southeast Asia. He went home to his mom's trailer. She made him a place to sleep in the living room floor. As some point during the night she got up to adjust the thermostat. She stepped over her son to get to it. When he woke up his mom was on the floor and he was on top, choking her. He had reacted in his sleep. If someone hadn't intervened, Karen would have been in much worse shape.
Yep. Childhood friend of mine had a step dad who had shell shock (I will NOT use the pussified terms people make up to make this horrible condition sound better) after serving in Vietnam. He went to wake stepdad up, touched him lightly. Next thing he knew, he was on his back with stepdad strangling him with one hand and a fist raised to punch him in the face.
Story 3: I am a combat vet and have had a few nasty experiences over the years. I don’t do 4th of July much anymore because of the fireworks but I had some friends talk me into it a few years back. They said they would be careful and warn with the fireworks going off, and it was a great evening of food and friendship…. until one of their neighbors thought it would be funny to chuck an M-80 (loud firecracker if you aren’t familiar) over behind my chair. I bolted up and just about jumped him before they got to me, but that was it for me for the night. I think a lot of people don’t realize the depths of ‘invisible trauma’ like that. A lot of stories in these subreddits talk about abuse survivors, veterans of one service or another, or crime victims, all reacting to something and a ‘Karen’ giving them crap for it. Just because you can’t see the scars, Karen, doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Sorry for the rant…
I can't imagine. I'm the type of person who likee to cross boundaries when it's safe mentally and physically for someone and in a respectful way. However, I know when there are boundaries not to cross, and when I don't know about something like a trauma, or how it is to live with, I shut it and don't do anything that can trigger something like that.
Story 3 - I am SO happy somebody recognized what was going on and helped the guy out of his PTSD episode and that the woman got arrested. These can go SO wrong for the victim of PTSD
For story three: Ignoring the end of the story, if some woman waltzed into a pharmacy asking for ways to drug her kid, clearly stating she doesn't care was it is, I'd be calling the police for a welfare check
Don't get me started on people who come into a pharmacy and ask those of us who aren't pharmacists what drugs are best for what ailment. I work in a retail pharmacy and have done both front-end and pharmacy duty. Back when I was a front-end cashier, I had this one guy ask me where laxatives were. I led him to the digestive aisle and showed him where the laxatives were. Then he asked me which one was the best. How the hell should I know? I'm not a pharmacist or doctor! I don't know shit about shit that makes you shit!
From her behaviour, I'd hazard a guess that she was on something illegal which means that she very possibly had it on her, which would have led to a very fast loss of her child to the authorities once they searched her during processing at the police station.
Story 3: I get that Karen was probably worried about her kid, and it put her on edge, but that doesn't excuse berating everyone and pulling on some guy's lanyard, choking him. That's trouble
I have seen plenty of concerned parents (at least here in Canada) and the kid comes first, lines be damned. I remember once seeing a young couple rush their kid into a walk-in clinic cause their doc was too far away... the receptionist actually got my doc away from the patient he was seeing to check on this kid... not one person complained. I doubt that Karen was very concerned about her kid more than annoyed she had to parent.
I am a 27 year U. S Army retiree who started his Army career with Vietnam and ended it with Operation Desert Storm. Over the 27 years I was wounded twice and I have severe PTSD. If I had been the veteran she attacked, it is entirely possible that they would have been taking her body to the morgue instead of taking her alive to the police station.
Spam is a popular, high-theft item, as with other canned meats. I remember reading in the news about those smash and grab crime rings targeting those. I think it was either in NYC or SF. Also, the PTDS gentleman...he was trying to get away from the situation, and the woman essentially choked him with his lanyard! Being choked is horrid, and, in a normal situation is bad enough, and I would have fought tooth and nail to get rid of the person doing that to me.I can't even imagine how someone with PTSD would be feeling, but I totally understand the reaction.
Story 5: Yoooo OP is THE REAL MVP my man just lookin out for overworked people who need help and doing what needs to be done just to help. He deserves the best in life!!!
Story 4: Yeah, nobody wants THAT attitude in a workplace. It would've been a nightmare. Hopefully this experience taught her a lesson and made her improve her attitude so people would hire her
I know someone like her and I can tell you what happened. Person: So how did the interview go. Entitled moron: The interviewer was a man, they didn't like me because I'm too much of a strong woman and that intimates them.
Once saw this with my own eyes. My boss was interviewing people to hire someone to a vacant managerial site. How unprofessional is to show themselves like you just jump from the bed without a shower, disheveled and cig smelling. Another woman came yelling orders to the employees like she was actually hired to the position. She dared to tell my boss many things have to change here because she doesn't like this and that. My boss waited for a karen's pause and told her he didn't like her attitude and how nastiness like yelling to the employees are completely banned here. He showed her the door. Horrible woman.
I once went to an A&W, got my food and then headed off to the bathroom, of course like most fast food places, even the men's room only has one stall, sadly it was plugged and I needed to use it. The staff were rather busy with a number of customers so I figured what the hell and used the plunger to unclog the VERY nasty toilet, did what I needed to. on my way out the apparently only male employee was about to go in and take care of it, told him it was taken care of. He asked me why and my only answer was "it's a toilet, anyone can do that." poor guy was grateful and surprised.
Story three: The veteran won't get in any trouble as Karen is the one that started the whole thing. Also her husband won't do a damn thing for her after hearing what she did since military officers have huge respect for Veteran so when he hear what his wife did to an Army Vet he won't do anything and might seek a divorce lawyer since I don't think he want to stay married to a woman that attack an Army Vet.
@@jonathanwilliams1065 Nope. Canada has strict gun control law where you can't open and conceal carry. You still can own guns you just can't carry it with you unless you are going to a shooting range where you are legally allowed to shoot your gun, but your gun must not be loaded and the ammo must be in a separate container from the gun when traveling to the said range. You can defend yourself physically you just can't defend yourself with a firearm.
@@KingOfYamimakai you also can’t buy, sell, or transfer guns in Canada by decree of the dear leader now If you use even slightly more force than necessary prosecutors will pounce even in the US Now maybe if this incident happened out west he’d be ok but if he’s where 90% of Canadians live, and he killed her, the idiots there would totally make an example of him or just offer to have a doctor kill him, probably both
The Lawson story was so sweet. I really don’t understand Karen’s. I was taught to respect others. Especially people who work hard, for little pay, ie dishwashers, cooks, janitors, wait staff, etc. You couldn’t keep a business going without them. Here’s hoping for 2023 we can treat people the way we would like to be treated. Thank you Fluff
Story 3: This can happen with PTSD and also with people with sever anger control issues, I've seen it happen and have had this happen to me as a teenager because I was part of youth group that tried to help us with those anger problems. It's really like getting a switch flipped in your head, you literally get turned off and your body begins to act more on instinct. I think it was explained to me that the rush of adrenaline just kinda takes over? Idk cus its been over ten years since that conversation. Anyway, the point is that when this happens the target of that person's rage is in serious danger, even if the person whose raging seems to be non-threatening. In my case I was a small girl who barely weighed more than a large dog most of my life, and even I could cause some serious damage. That man who intervened literally saved that Karen's life, an assumedly athletically built man with combat experience would of killed her if no one had stopped him.
Exactly you do not mess with PTSD especially PTSD in regards to war because veterans were trained to kill and if their PTSD comes back they can easily kill a mothertrucker without even realizing that they actually killed a mothertrucker
I know what you mean all too well. Don't have to be military trained to snap like that. Lemme set the scene. I was 17 (am 41 now), had anger issues and to boot, I had just lost my mom to cancer. A class bully who was a bit bigger than me was trying to comfort me when I went back to school by slapping me on the shoulder each time he passed next to me in class. After the 3rd time I asked him to please stop. He didn't. The 5th time tbh all I remember is his hand touching my shoulder and I just reacted. I got up, lunged for his throat with my dominant hand, put my leg behind his to make him lose balance and I slammed him on the desk in front of mine. Didn't even take 5 seconds and I was choking him with both hands before I even understood what happened. I was put in detention for attacking another student but when the truth came out and others from my class corroborated my side of the story I was let off detention with a warning. But it set the tone to not mess with me which in a sense I was grateful cause all I wanted was to be left alone. I always hated to be touched by strangers since I was young so it didn't help either.
I think all job interviews should go like this. You never know who you are hiring until you see how they treat others. It would definitely weed out troublemakers before they become a problem.
I swear, if someone bashed their cart into mine while yelling, “I need deodorant!”, I would have given an obvious sniff in her direction, make a face and say, “You most certainly do!”
Last story reminds me of when I worked at a 7-11 while in the Navy Reserve. I quit after going back to full Active Duty, I swung by while still in uniform just before the normal 2nd shift would take over, (I used to work 3rd) and the manager told me that "Bill" was late and could I run the register and help while he counted and signed in the new cigarette cartoons. I smelled and winked at the regular customers, who smiled, some even softly chuckling under their breath at the situation, About a third or more stayed around to see how long it was before "Bob" realized his mistake. It actually took "Bob" 10 to 15 minutes (sorry, I know it was over 10 minutes, but this happened in 1985 so I've forgotten exactly how long it was) before he realized that everyone was smiling and took a good look at me in my summer whites! I shipped out soon afterwards, but I imagine it was a Long time before the regulars let him forget that mistake.......
First story: OP missed a golden opportunity. When Karen shouted, "I need deodorant!" OP should have loudly said, "You sure do! Do you always smell that bad? I've smelled dumpsters that weren't as bad as you." Then hold his nose and given her the sourest face he could manage.
Story number 3: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Karen messed around and she found out. Hopefully her baby daddy cuts ties and gets full custody of their child. She's obviously an unfit mother.
About a decade ago I went shopping at Walmart with the mother of my grandkids. She took the top off of two bottles of Dawn dish soap to top one off. I walked towards her when she was midway through and the second I saw what she was doing I changed directions pretending I don't know her. I never went shopping with her again. It really pissed me off. I'm not a thief and I can't stand people who are.
Story 4: TBH, I kinda like when stories like that happen to the boss. Both because it gives the boss a first-hand account rather than having Karen calling the staff a liar, and cause entry-level staff might not be equipped to handle a Karen professionally yet.
Leave military personnel alone no matter what branch they’re in lay one hand on them and results could be dangerous. PTSD is a serious illness and needs to be carefully monitored
Story 1. I work security at Target and part of my job is actually figuring out where to put cases and stuff like that. Laundry detergent is a very high-theft item (easy to re-sell online) and people will literally grab like 10 of them put them into a cart and run out the door with them.
1st story: Why do karens ALWAYS assume ANYONE in a store, whether they are in uniform or not is an employee? 2nd story: Another one? PTSD from your neighbors? Are your neighbors terrorists? 3rd story: Karens always forget surveillance cameras exist The military takes months to turn civilians into soldiers but turning soldiers into civilians takes longer. MUCH longer 4th story: Karma is a bitch
How can you fill a cart with Spam? I have never seen that much Spam on a grocery store shelf. Now, I have never been in a Costco or Sams Club, so maybe they have enuf to fill a cart, but not ANY of the typical grocery stores or even a Super Walmart with that much Spam on a shelf.
I remember hearing something about how people wound up so hooked on Spam over in Hawaii that they lock it up the same way they do with drugs/electronics, so that sounds pretty believable.
@@tinydancer7426 When I worked at Publix we occasionally had special deals, 2 for ones or whatever would get their own special dump bin near the front doors that were filled separately from the actual shelf (Which would also have the item) So in that case if spam was on sale there would be enough cans in those bins to fill a basket in a half or so. No idea where Op here worked but that's a potential option
Regarding a story number 2, we could have some "I don't work here lady" reddit stories, but they'd all be nice because the person needing help would say, "Excuse me, I'm in need of help. Would you be willing to help me?" and the person questioned would say "Certainly, with what help are you in need?" The questioner would receive help and everything would be wonderful. I would like to hear more of those type of stories.
I have watched so many stories, I ask a person if they work there even if they have a badge saying they do. I make errors the other way, but at least the person gets to speak and not feel threatened.
Me: Listens to the 4th story Also me: This wouldn't be the 1st time I've seen a Karen below her chances at getting a job because she was being a B to someone who ended up being the person who was going to interview her LOL 🤣
that fart on the first story is absolutely "fired" edit/add: The pharmacy story, in Thailand if you go to pharmacy you don't really need prescription, you can simply ask if it's light stuff (flu, fever, headache, small bruise/cut), but with prescription would be lot better
Job interview Karen. Her life is a movie. One in which she's the villain/monster who badly underestimates who she's dealing with and then wonders why she gets her butt kicked.
I love the phrase, "I'm in your care," at the end of that last story. It's a great way to remind people that they do have a responsibility to treat others well, while at the same time giving your target the opportunity to live up to your heightened expectations for their compassionate efforts on your behalf. After all, most folks often end up living up to--or down to--whatever you expect of them!
Story 1-Apparently OP hasn't been to San Francisco, or New York City lately. Since the DAs no longer take shoplifting seriously, lots of stuff gets locked up. The pro(yes, professional) shoplifters have been known to come into a drug store with an empty trash bag, fill it with merchandise, and leave. Even toothpaste gets locked up!
In graduate school there was this new assistant professor who was nasty and abusive to the students. What she didn't realize was that one of the students was taking down all the nasty things she said to the students in her class. When the woman came up for tenure, this student sent an open letter to every faculty member which had all these quotes in it. The last sentence read , "Is this the kind of person you want as a colleague for perpetuity?" She didn't get tenure, but was put on "probation." A week later I overheard her actually yelling at the head of the department over it. I thought, "Well, good, that's the end of her." And it was.
We really need an early warning system for approaching Karen's. Something like the theme from Jaws Lawson used to be here in Ohio. My husband wonders if the stores in Japan stock the very tasty onion dip.
My standard response when some jerk says I need something is to tell them that people in hell need ice water, but they aren't getting it and neither are you.
I worked at a Walgreens for a little while, and I work the night shift and you wouldn't believe how many people would come in and put carts in carts full of our laundry detergent, and then literally run out of the store with them, and tried distracting the me because I was the one who would ring people out while the other person would go out with the containers of laundry detergent like carts full. I'm literally talking like 234 carts full and we weren't allowed to do anything about it and they would get away with a lot of it. I don't know why people would steal it and I'm guessing once you're still in larger quantities maybe it's worth more, but why laundry detergent of all things because of stolen I guess like other things that would've been worth more. I don't know why laundry detergent I don't understand it but literally that's why it's locked up.
These people baffle me; the one time I got confused for an employee I just said IDWH and she said "oh sorry" and left, and two times I thought someone was an employee it went the same but in reverse. They must have a screw loose.
Ref: The Karen in the Pharmacy? I remember a story from LONG ago where some jerk was going to play a practical joke on a NAM vet and scare him? The jerk wound up dead from a broken neck! Messing with military people is a VERY BAD idea!
I've never had a "I don't work here" moment, or at least not like these nut jobs, I've been in a few stores and had people ask if I worked there. but after saying "sorry, nope" they just went about their way looking for an actual employee. None of this crap of calling me a liar and insisting I help them or call a manager. On occasion I've even helped people get stuff off a top shelf but I'm pretty sure they didn't confuse me as a worker there, just someone who happened to be near enough to help and they asked very nicely.
Story 3: So basically don’t trigger someone’s PTSD in any way, shape or form. But if you do, your either gonna be scared for your life or insta-knocked out. Yes, there will be a high chance of you dying too, but we did warn you.
I agree, I can't get enough of these stories either! It does make me concerned though, like it's sad that people mistake customers as employees so often that there's an entire sub dedicated to it. I doubt there's that many employees out there pretending to be a customer.
I got mistaken for a librarian the other day. She asked if I worked there, and it was understandable that she would think that. It’s winter but we parked in the heated underground parking lot and left our jackets in the car. And I was in the little kid section without a little kid, mine being with their father over in the little kid play section as I was on my way to a different part of the library. So I said, sorry but no. And like a normal person she went, oh I’m sorry. And walked away. Which was a little too bad because right behind her was the info desk for the children’s section with a librarian at it but she was gone before I could say anything. She was very quick. I looked over at the desk to see if someone was there and looked back to tell her and like a ghost she was gone
6:13: Now That's a good idea. You don't use OC or a TASER or a baton as your first line of defense. Use a hand-held boat horn in the assailant's ear, and yell. "Get away from me!" One advantage is that you will cause permanent hearing loss of your assailant.
Story number four: Talk about stepping in it. Karen made a fool of herself in front of the person who could have hired her. Let this be a lesson: You never know who is watching you or who you're talking to.
You know, when a Karen throws their jacket at you thinking you're an employee, you should just leave with their jacket since they were so nice to give it to you!
I work at Walgreens in the front end of the store as a cashier. And many times a customer will come up to me with two bottles of cough syrup for example and ask me which is better. The stock answer is to tell them to go ask the Phamacist because we can't give medical advise to anyone. We are just a store workers.
I got asked that question a lot when (many long years ago) I was working as a shelf stocker and box-boy. My answer generally became "I can't tell you the best, but I can tell you the most popular" because I knew how much and how often I had to re-stock the various products.
If I was a Manager and a Karen tried to get me to fire someone who CLEARLY doesn't work there, here's how I'd handle it; Said with a sympathetic smile: "Listen, I know Casual Friday is a thing and all" And then yelled full force in her face: "BUT TODAY ISN'T CASUAL FRIDAY! NOW EITHER STOP HARRASSING CUSTOMERS OR YOU'LL GET A FREE SET OF HANDCUFFS, COURTESY OF [LOCALPOLICEFORCE]!!" Also, they probably locked up the Spam to stop me bulk buying, I LOVE the stuff! 😂
Story 2: I, too, am 5 ft. nothing, on a good day (on a bad day I cannot straighten up taller than 4'10") so I search for taller employees and customers. I always tell the other customer that I know they don't work there but.... I also frequently ask the spouse of the tall customer if I can borrow their tall person. It's always non threatening because even though my hair is largely more pepper than salt, last year I turned 71 and I am usually on an electric scooter provided by the store. (bad knees, bad back and breathing problems.) I have not had such a request denied. Ever. Not even when I was young.
I've had a reverse "I don't work here" while browsing in a store for Xmas gifts for my nieces at a game store saw a woman with a list who looked out of her element. I offered some assistance, saying while I don't work here but I might be able to point here in the right direction since all the employees were busy. She had a list of things her nephew liked but said she had no idea what a "Demon Slayer" I pointed her to some nearby merch for it, and some more I had earlier while browsing. Said our goodbyes leaving her to make her choice while I went up to the cash with my items now that the line had thinned.
The last story: I find myself doing the same in restaurant/food service situations, especially if someone in my group gets sick at a club or something. I am almost always the one to go to the bar and grab a wet bar towel to clean up since usually bartenders/cocktail waitresses are not fond of mopping up sick and it earns points that sometimes can really help out (like getting vip service at the bar and such). Don’t drink much anymore so I haven’t found myself called into the ‘puke police force’ in a while. Somehow I don’t miss it.
I was in a shopping centre with my brother. I went to clothing shop and found a top I wanted to try. He went to a girl and asked where changing rooms are. She looked around confused and pointed us towards them. The whole day afterwards he was mortified that he asked a customer for changing rooms direction lol
The locked up detergent made me think of something from my childhood. Some 35 years ago, back when I went to primary school, there were a shop next to the school. The older students were allowed to leave the school and go and buy candy during breaks - untill this took place at least. These guys had a kind of competition going in their breaks about who could steal the biggest and most bulky items. The area behind the store was littered with stolen items they had discarded because they didn’t want them. It all culminated when one of them was caught with a family size box of laundry soap almost half as big as he was, that he was trying to hide under his winter coat while trying to look inconspicuous.
kudos to the OP that waved to the karen that was escorted out of the shop. the story with the karen at the pharmacy kind of reminds me one I had as a child. I wouldn't claim to have PTSD but I had been bullied for years so I tend to react fast when something scares me. it was still dark and somebody put his hand on my shoulder while shouting my surname. next thing I remember, he was on the floor with severe pain on his back, neck, head and the arm I was holding with my hands. we were close to school so I helped him walk and he was checked to see if there was any serious injury. there wasn't (fortunately) but, he never again got within reach of my hands. even less from behind me. I get glad each time a karen doesn't get a job. the only job they should have is working on the streets, at night, in provocative clothes. last story is priceless. good people still exist. although, it would had been extra nice if the OP offered to train that employee so he can be more efficient.
That Japanese man is blessed by an ex-worker of his company, and had the kindness of a Japanese worker to apologize for OP's mistaken identity. This is what I'd like to hear more from the service industry.
As always you leave us with a warm fuzzy story which makes me in a better mindset after the head shaking crazies!!! This is why we love your work❣️❣️❣️
Wow. I can understand being worried about a sick child, but that doesn't give someone the right to mistreat employees and put your hands on another person, especially if they are suffering from PTSD. That's just asking for trouble.
Story 2 fun fact: even in germany, grocery store chains have uniforms with name tags, and they are rather distinctive (the uniforms, not necessarily the name tags), so for anyone being able to confuse a customer with an employee is baffling.
actually the spam makes sense to me, i live in an area with high homeless population, and a friend of mine manages a grocery store tells me about all the homeless people stealing almost any canned goods, apparently a can of spam and a loaf of bread can feed some people for around a week
Why don't I get these interactions? The times I get mistaken for an employee somewhere I'm shopping it's just "Sorry, I don't work here." "Oh, okay, sorry for the mistake."
Re: Stealing Spam. In the UK people often take the little metal key on the side of the tin of spam used to open it. This fits perfectly into the supermarket trolley coin release lock thingys, and saves you having to fish around for a coin when you need a trolley.
Whenever someone tells the store of an old Karen who stomps the only thing I see in my head is the image of a skunk doing their little threatening stomp thing.
In Hawaii it’s a staple and highly portable, easily accessible and therefore a major target for the people who shoplift to eat since it’s not a cooking required source of protein. It’s also a target stateside in places. But from what I understand it’s usually the homeless that steal it
I live in Delaware, on the East Coast of the mainland, and I've never seen SPAM in lock boxes at any store. At my work, we save those boxes for fragrances and some other high-risk items. On one hand, shoplifting is small potatoes compared to the real theft: That of surplus value from labor. On the other hand, there's three basic rule of life: Don't lie. Don't steal. And don't date your coworkers.
Spam may be cheap and is often the butt of jokes, but because it's cheap and in a small can, that makes it easy to shoplift and it will provide a meal or two if you're not choosy. Given how grocery prices (especially meats) have risen over the last couple of years, yeah, I can see Spam being a target for thieves. I simply do not understand how people can misidentify workplace uniforms/workers. Yeah, I get that some companies have similar colors, but the logos/names are usually very different. And for the people who aren't wearing anything close to any kind of uniform, well that's just stupidity and laziness on the part of the person demanding help. PTSD story: This is exactly why you DON'T touch/poke/slap/grab/punch other people in a public setting. Not everyone will curl up crying in a ball to let you do whatever you feel like to them. Some people have a very strong, well-honed, the best defense is an overwhelming offense fight reflex and not all of them are (ex)military. My only problem with the Lawson story is if the store's managers/corporate check the camera recordings and see a non-employee doing employee tasks and something turned up missing or not done right, it could cause problems for both the actual employee and OP.
Last story: I don't know about other countries, but in the US what OP did would be a huge liability issue, and the worker would not only be fired but likely sued for letting a non-employee perform employee-related tasks. Another issue is that the manager is now going to expect that single employee to get everything done solo when the work obviously requires 2 people at least.
I've lived in Japan for almost a decade. I seriously doubt this story. Nobody ever yells on a convenience store. Except for an occasional drunk grandpa, people are extraordinarily polite and queue up quietly and efficiently. Even teens. And the delivery guy most certainly would never yell.
The security locked Spam is probably a picture from Hawai'i. Spam is insanely popular on the Big Island, to the point that there were thefts based solely around the product. Locked Spam like that picture are not unheard of.
