I'm essentially the manager of the managers; I almost never take the calls at work (too much else to do) but sometimes if it's real busy, few people are out, I jump on for a couple to help clear them out. Got a real "Karen" on the phone, demanding everything under the sun and completely ridiculous (wanted to return an order she placed almost a year ago). I firmly told her no. She asked for a manager, I informed her they're all busy right now, she said she wanted to speak to THEIR boss then, I said "that would be me." After a moment of shock she asked to speak to MY boss, to which I said "the owner of the company? He's in the office next to me and he says we're better off without your business, we will be blocking your number, have a nice life."
Karen: can i talk to your manager? Manager: the manager? now that's a name i haven't heard for a long time... Karen: do you know him? Manager: well of course i know him, he's me.
I was co-heading the security department of an anime convention, and there was a call over the radios about some young guy, obviously drunk, yelling and throwing things in a large communal area. I arrive as backup for the person who made the call, and we approach the kid. My partner asks all the standard questions, does he have a room at the hotel, does he have ID for that open container at his feet, does he know that the county we're in has declared that it is illegal to have open containers in public spaces? Instead of answering any of those questions, he becomes every more irate, and starts squaring up to my partner, sprinkling in Japanese expletives, and calling us Gaijin (because two white guys in Flyover, USA are definitely foreigners). Now, our policy was to never initiate physical contact with a congoer, and even then, only defend ourselves if we felt our safety was truly at risk. Since most of us had military and professional security experience, that bar was generally very high. He attempted to push past us, and when that failed, he tried to turn around and leave, only to find himself surrounded by the remainder of my team. More expletives, this time adding in a few choice words in Korean, as well. Then he explained that all of us Gaijin were discriminating against him, and he wanted to talk to somebody in charge. One of the guys laughs, and says, 'hey Chef, he wants to talk to ya!' I clear my throat, flip over my badge to the side that says 'department head' and say, "I'm the head of security, and you have two options: give me your badge and call somebody to pick you up, or I can call the local PD, they come pick you up for public intoxication and possibly underage consumption, and you get trespassed from both the convention and the hotel for a year. Your choice." Ended up having to call the cops, they were feeling generous and convinced him to get in a cab, which only drove about 50 feet before he tried to action-hero dive out of the backseat right in front of the cops that were talking my report on the incident. He didn't go home that night.
This isn't really an "I AM the manager" moment but it's close. My aunt is the stereotypical Karen, worse, actually. She took care of a young 19 year old girl who was just taken out of an abusive relationship, unfortunately though, my aunt, who we'll call Karen, didn't think of it that way. As a matter of fact the only reason she kept the young girl, who we'll call Amy, was for free house labor and babysitting services, and was very ungrateful to Amy too. Karen would badmouth her constantly, it didn't matter if Amy was there, she'd still call her lazy, ungrateful, weak, and just about every name in the book. Eventually, it turned into an all out screaming match just about every weak. Amy said herself that there was more screaming and fighting than the last abusive relationship she was in. My great grandfather decided to put an end to it, he offered Amy a place to stay under the condition that she cleans her own messes. Amy, of course, took the offer. Karen on the other hand, was not happy about it at all, she screamed and claimed how she was innocent and everyone was "skewing" her name. I didn't mention this earlier, but she's a complete physcopath, she actually has a history of causing physical harm to her disabled husband while screaming at him for not letting her go shopping at the mall because they had to pay rent, yes, she's that bad. About a month later she came to me, trying to hire me as a "private detective" for a reason which was unmentioned but obvious. I told her that I only investigate actual cases, of course though, she went on and on about how it was an "actual case" and she needed to talk to "my boss" about this, she told me to get "my boss" for her. I told her I would and just sat there, thoughtfully. When she asked why I didn't get up I ignored her. She kept asking over and over, each time getting more agressive, I then looked up and told her that "my boss" said no. She was enraged and stomped out of the room. I honestly don't know what she was thinking, I only investigate unsolved cases out of sheer boredom, heck, the police won't even grant me access to the evidence. What on earth makes her think that I'm Sherlock Holmes and what makes her think that that's even a case to begin with?
I was a manager in a tool store, but we selled common itens like bathroom baskets, plastic and metal trash cans, wire shelves, and so on. However, one of the nearby stores was a store that sold hygiene and cleanliness products, and also, like us, trash cans and baskets. One of their baskets was SIMILAR to one of our own but in a relative low price compared to ours. She *allegedly* negotiated a discount with the store, and fucking demanded that we did the same price as them. I said that what we could do was a 5% discount. She wanted more, and said "thats it? I want to negotiate with the manager." I said that I was the manager, and said that as a MANAGER, my limit was 10%. But I could TRY to give her more, if she said what was original price of the basket, and how much discount she got. She *allegedly* forgot, saying that she will check it out again, and If their price was higher, she would come back to us, but instead of calmly walking away, she fucking stormed off, as if we said something about her hair or clothes. Never heard of her again but I doubt that she bought the basket there as well, as much as I doubt the store would have lowered too much the price, since their system of discount was pratically similar to ours (workers had X discount percentage, while manager had a higher amount of discount to give). This is one of my daily stories, everyday a new Karen and Kens appeared. Every. Single. Day. To this day I say: everyone who says "I love dealing with customers/people" never dealt with people enough. Or probably never worked retail.
When I was a 10, I LOVED hide and seek. I was at the park once with my sister and our friend, he showed me how to get under some places because of a hole. When I was seeker, I had trouble finding my sister. So I got every single kid in the park. 20. Kids. Looking for my sister. They were seekers undercover. All he parents watching me giving orders to their kids like I was in the army. "You, blue jacket, go over to the pole." "Red shirt, go to the slide." IT was awesome. My sister met one of the kids and said "Do you know where the seeker is?" And the kid, looked her dead in the eye and said with the biggest smile "i....I am a seeker. We all are" and she just said the biggest NOPE she ever did in her life. Let's just say every single friggin kid had never ran so fast to one spot to yell "FOUND YOU" best part was they all let me walk into the little circle theyd formed around her like I was some God or something and I tapped her forehead and said "your the seeker now" and all ran. She looking beyond terrified and confused, I had told them to do it as a joke, didnt know they'd actually do it. They were 8 and 9 with one kid being 12. The parents just witnessed some little girl get surrounded like some summoning ritual and scream to the top of their lungs "it found you" and me just bopping her. Best. day. Ever.
I run a vape store... I am the only male employee, girlfriend fills in when that vape life gets too hard and I need a day off... I get a lot of idiot customers that seem to think they can return shit they bought six+ months ago, used heavily, and smoked meth out of, for a full cash refund... Justification most often given? 'I bought it from your boss last week he said to bring it in if anything went wrong!!' and 'The other guy told me it had a warranty'. My stock response is to be very, very polite and tell them I can't help them, but if they come in tomorrow and see my manager he can help them out for sure. They come back the next day only to see me, and be told, slightly paraphrased 'I'm the only mafucker that works here, your a liar, fuck off'. You would be blown away by how many of them straight up don't recognize me and deny I was the guy they lied to the day before. If you can't respect customer service people enough to not lie to us, we have plenty of ways to fuck back, and they almost all involve you wasting your time while we get paid.
Why is it that karens go off on employees but act completely powerless before a manager? Like the second you bring out the manager they just shrivel up
Peace is a lie, there are only karens. Through karens, i gain yelling Through yelling, i gain complaints Through complaints, i gain power Through power, i gain termination The karen shall free me The employee code. May the workforce be with you.
I can't imagine what is going through someone's mind to insult a retail worker by saying "they can't get a better job". Or something similar. If something goes wrong for me when shopping, I'll ask for a manager, but there's no need to tick off the person I first interacted with. If possible, I'd MUCH rather get the lower-level worker on my side before bringing in the manager. I mean, shouldn't my goal be to get my problem sorted, not to piss and moan?
If you get the chance to say “I AM the manager” do a cackling evil laugh before it and you’ll gain feelings only a god could feel, but only for a few seconds.
One was last year we had no manager it was 2am and a guy asked for our manager my response was “Sir I am the closest thing to a manager the only other people here are someone who can’t clean the grill and the other is 16 and having a mental breakdown.” We stared at each other for a while then he said “fine” and sped out of the driveway
If I ever get to be a manager and this stuff happens, I shall replay "okay, I shall pull the manager by his ear" walk away a few steps, grab my ear, and walk back.
I remember when my manager was dealing with some jack ass, and he pulled the "I know the owner" bull shit and my manager asked what his name was. The man said Burt, the owners name was Ernie.
My old job I hated and I was a day away from quitting (for a million reasons) and I was not having a good day. I was a young teen and I was managing for some reason with two older new people and some girl walks over and hit me with the where’s your manager. I responded that would be me and she scoffed and said you look a bit too young to be a manager and I was like ya know what your right one second I walked in the back took off my apron and hat and walked back out and said hi how can I help you and she responded by saying I hope it was worth your job and I said if you don’t like me then come back when the general manager is here and she said ima tell him to fire you and I was just like hehe I’m quitting tomorrow good luck.
i mean, have you seen videos where people have a meltdown in a mcdonalds? Sure there are fakes, but kinda hard to tell since the truth is more bizarre than fiction
12:40 I would have emailed his boss about that one and I would have asked my supervisor or whoever if I could send them a video and proof that the VP was in the wrong.
Also very low-rung manager for a customer service-heavy business (basically just someone to keep the building from falling to shit during real-manager downtime). One day, a customer waits the full duration of their allotted time to finally tell an employee (Emp A) who had been servicing them for said duration that something wasn't working and it was "broken" since before their allotted time began, berating Emp A all the while for "ignoring the obvious problem". Emp A informs a relevant employee (Emp B), who proceeds to investigate. Upon reaching the customer, Emp B is then also berated for their alleged incompetence at maintaining the equipment and also their lack of response to the "obvious problem". Emp B attempts to explain to the customer that there is no problem, and that the equipment had not begun operation because it required a physical acknowledgement that the customer has read and understands the rules (a button), which Emp A assures was explained to the customer during the customer-to-employee assignment stage. I verified as much after a quick perusal of camera footage. Customer denies it, as usual, and that's when I show up. I arrived with a typical customer-service-smile and "how can I help?" demeanor but was met with a hand in my face and told by the owner of said hand, the customer, not to butt in just so we can "gang up on her so she can't get a word in". I take a step back and tell her "Ma'am, you nearly hit me. If you continue this aggression, I will consider it an act of violence and I will be forced to ask you to leave." The customer swivels her head around like an owl scouting for prey and yells in my face all sorts of profanity and posturing and, somewhere amidst the bile that was now beginning to disrupt the business as other customers were becoming visibly uncomfortable, she said the magic words... "Crawl your bitch ass back there and bring me your manager!" My whole body relaxed; my shoulders dropped, my neck loosened, my eyes no longer felt like they wanted to break free, and I smiled. "I am the manager. Yes, I. Am. The. Manager. Now that I have your attention, please leave. You are no longer welcome on our property. You are disrupting my business and costing me money. You chose to ignore the clear direction my employee gave you. You wasted your own time and now, because you can't follow directions, you've wasted all our time. This is not a discussion. This is not a debate. You are wrong and unwelcome. If you refuse to leave, I will be forced to call the police. The door is this way..." I took several steps toward said exit and pointed at it. Her: "I'll be calling corporate!" Me: "This is a family-owned business. Get out. This is your final warning." I begin to pull my phone out of my pocket and she finally waddles out. One of the real managers (GMs) calls me the next day and demands answers. I give them my take on it and then direct them to the other two employees for corroboration. We're all on point and my GM leaves it at that. The customer tried returning during a time my GM must have told her they'd be in, but didn't know I would be there as well. She tried spinning bullshit until I suggested to my GM reviewing camera footage, which was actually at just the right angle that it looked like she did in fact physically assault me. My GM relays this to her and asks if she'd like to turn this into a legal issue. She deflates and my GM tells her in the most double-speak way someone with over a decade of experience in customer service could to basically go fuck off in a deep, dark hole and stay there. I gave my GM a hug.
Tl,dr Customer ignores directions. Wastes her time thinking something is broken when it isn't. Is a nasty piece of shit the whole time. Here Comes A New Challenger. I tell her to fuck off. She comes back. GM tells her to fuck off harder. Happy ending.
@@Jaydennn0001 What exactly would I post as a pfp in that situation? Her face? That'd easily identify me and violate at least a couple privacy policies just off the top of my head. Also, I could just share a link to a picture of any angry Karen-looking woman and that would prove nothing. I don't think you thought that comment through.
When I was working at Jack in the box last year there was a period where we didn't even have a manager. People didn't even know what to say when they asked for them and there was no one.
Weird story but I remember when I was about 8 I had went in McDonald’s with my dad I asked if I could have a lemonade, he said no so the cashier just put in a fries and cheeseburger. But the nice women gave me a free lemonade. It was so cool that she actually gave it for free
12:56 something similar happens like that on another post, this guy was talking about this existential question and what he thought the author meant, after the other guy told him what he really thought it meant the other guy stormed on him and started swearing at him and stuff, the guy then told him that he knew what the author meant as HE WAS the author lmao
If you're trying to sneak candy or something into the movie theater, okay, but don't expect to be able to bring in a giant ice cream sundae...I mean, come on! You've got to be able to be discreet about it. Me and my parents have snuck in candy, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King, and Chinese (chicken on a stick and crab rangoon) all on different occasions
I wish I'd told my horrible ex to shop at the clothing store where everything was final sale. She constantly went out and bought clothes only to return them within the week because she couldn't actually afford them but would still buy more clothes that same week.
Not the same but reminds of when a relative of mine was in a bit of a pickle financially and asked his bank for a loan, he got straight declined and staff were a bit shady with him. A couple months later, he goes into the same branch and the same lady notices 6 figures in his account and offers him the world (including a loan... Go figure?).
I worked at a place called popcopy once and somebody asked to see the manager and I was like I am your f****** manager homes! what? you're done! get out!
Karen: In the Name of the Galactic Manager Coalition led by Karen, you are under arrest. Manager: Are you threatening me, master Entitlement? Karen: The Coalition will decide your fate. Manager: I *_am_* the Senate. Karen: -not yet- oH SHIT
Where I work I’m the employee who does the things no one else likes to do and I gotta say I’m not starting to believe in karma cuz nothing has happened
When I worked in call center I also got a lot of shitty people on the phone. I wish I had a boss who came in and told them off for being shitty people. I quit instead.
Once at my Job, I work in a Cafe, a woman started to argue with me about some petty crap, she asked me if she can talk to my Boss. I just smiled and awnsered Im the Boss right now, she just left after :D. Talked to my actual Boss ehen he came back, we had a good laught
her: "I wAnT tO sPeAk To YoUr MaNaGeR"
"ok ill go grab them then."
*does a quick 360*
"well hello there"
General Kenobi
StheH4x0r don’t you even think about doing the scene
StheH4x0r you’re a bold one
or
me: "ok I'll go get the manger" *puts different hat or some other clothes item on*
"hello how can I help you ma'am?"
I would do that 😂
Manager: No, I am the manager.
Karen: No.. that’s not true! That’s impossible!
*karen melts*
Not yet
Manager: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Ayyy bruh
@@anonymousperson1706 Karen: NOOOO! NOOOOO!
Stupid people: flips manager off without knowing
Manager:uno reverse card
Ending story in a nutshell:
Y E E T U S D E L E T U S
LMAOO
First story ending was a power move.
Absolute
didn't know old karens existed, thought they die after there 30th b-day.
(im joking btw)
They flexed on that lady lmao
That made up for all the crap I took working at McDonald's for 6 years 🤣
Des Tree you poor soul. Glad you made it out alive
I'm essentially the manager of the managers; I almost never take the calls at work (too much else to do) but sometimes if it's real busy, few people are out, I jump on for a couple to help clear them out. Got a real "Karen" on the phone, demanding everything under the sun and completely ridiculous (wanted to return an order she placed almost a year ago). I firmly told her no. She asked for a manager, I informed her they're all busy right now, she said she wanted to speak to THEIR boss then, I said "that would be me." After a moment of shock she asked to speak to MY boss, to which I said "the owner of the company? He's in the office next to me and he says we're better off without your business, we will be blocking your number, have a nice life."
🤣🤣 nice
Damn dude, that's what they call a game owner move (?
But who manages the manager of managers? SOME ULTRA BEING THAT LIVES IN ANOTHER DIMENSION
Mission Passed.
+ Respect.
Fucking hell, what business is this? Would love to go there.
Karen:your manager will decide your fate
Manager:I AM THE MANAGER
Karen:not yet
Manager:it’s treason then
Eady Ants does a full 360 corkscrew mid air
Eady Ants what?
Jakub Jajdelski 720*
@@jakubjajdelski826 Whilst screaming like he had just stubbed his toe on a scolding sharp object
*autistic battle cry*
Secretaries have more power over bosses. They are the reason everything moves. If they say no, its a no. lol
pff,
boss: *asks secretary to do thing*
secretary: "no"
boss: "You're fired then"
secretary: *surprised Pikachu face*
NDT_DYNAMITE 😂😂😂😂
@@ndt_dynamite2247 "wait that's illega-"
boss: no its not.
Karen: I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER!!!
Employee: I am the Manager
(Iron Man by Black Sabbath plays)
Karen: can i talk to your manager?
Manager: the manager? now that's a name i haven't heard for a long time...
Karen: do you know him?
Manager: well of course i know him, he's me.
I was co-heading the security department of an anime convention, and there was a call over the radios about some young guy, obviously drunk, yelling and throwing things in a large communal area. I arrive as backup for the person who made the call, and we approach the kid. My partner asks all the standard questions, does he have a room at the hotel, does he have ID for that open container at his feet, does he know that the county we're in has declared that it is illegal to have open containers in public spaces?
Instead of answering any of those questions, he becomes every more irate, and starts squaring up to my partner, sprinkling in Japanese expletives, and calling us Gaijin (because two white guys in Flyover, USA are definitely foreigners). Now, our policy was to never initiate physical contact with a congoer, and even then, only defend ourselves if we felt our safety was truly at risk. Since most of us had military and professional security experience, that bar was generally very high. He attempted to push past us, and when that failed, he tried to turn around and leave, only to find himself surrounded by the remainder of my team. More expletives, this time adding in a few choice words in Korean, as well. Then he explained that all of us Gaijin were discriminating against him, and he wanted to talk to somebody in charge. One of the guys laughs, and says, 'hey Chef, he wants to talk to ya!' I clear my throat, flip over my badge to the side that says 'department head' and say, "I'm the head of security, and you have two options: give me your badge and call somebody to pick you up, or I can call the local PD, they come pick you up for public intoxication and possibly underage consumption, and you get trespassed from both the convention and the hotel for a year. Your choice."
Ended up having to call the cops, they were feeling generous and convinced him to get in a cab, which only drove about 50 feet before he tried to action-hero dive out of the backseat right in front of the cops that were talking my report on the incident. He didn't go home that night.
Nice
:")
Wow. Literal weeb trash
That story just kept getting wilder and wilder.....
@@CaptainManaFruit did you just fucking insult my man you fucking normi
This isn't really an "I AM the manager" moment but it's
close. My aunt is the stereotypical Karen, worse, actually. She took care of a young 19 year old girl who was just taken out of an abusive relationship, unfortunately though, my aunt, who we'll call Karen, didn't think of it that way. As a matter of fact the only reason she kept the young girl, who we'll call Amy, was for free house labor and babysitting services, and was very ungrateful to Amy too. Karen would badmouth her constantly, it didn't matter if Amy was there, she'd still call her lazy, ungrateful, weak, and just about every name in the book. Eventually, it turned into an all out screaming match just about every weak. Amy said herself that there was more screaming and fighting than the last abusive relationship she was in. My great grandfather decided to put an end to it, he offered Amy a place to stay under the condition that she cleans her own messes. Amy, of course, took the offer. Karen on the other hand, was not happy about it at all, she screamed and claimed how she was innocent and everyone was "skewing" her name. I didn't mention this earlier, but she's a complete physcopath, she actually has a history of causing physical harm to her disabled husband while screaming at him for not letting her go shopping at the mall because they had to pay rent, yes, she's that bad. About a month later she came to me, trying to hire me as a "private detective" for a reason which was unmentioned but obvious. I told her that I only investigate actual cases, of course though, she went on and on about how it was an "actual case" and she needed to talk to "my boss" about this, she told me to get "my boss" for her. I told her I would and just sat there, thoughtfully. When she asked why I didn't get up I ignored her. She kept asking over and over, each time getting more agressive, I then looked up and told her that "my boss" said no. She was enraged and stomped out of the room. I honestly don't know what she was thinking, I only investigate unsolved cases out of sheer boredom, heck, the police won't even grant me access to the evidence. What on earth makes her think that I'm Sherlock Holmes and what makes her think that that's even a case to begin with?
who's joe?
If I read 1 more karen joke, I am getting the manager...
Here is another for you www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/fd89io/actual_idiot/fjgdfam/?
Renato G. Pecli BAKANA
Rude Customer: LET ME SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!
Manager: *Eyes glow*
I was a manager in a tool store, but we selled common itens like bathroom baskets, plastic and metal trash cans, wire shelves, and so on. However, one of the nearby stores was a store that sold hygiene and cleanliness products, and also, like us, trash cans and baskets. One of their baskets was SIMILAR to one of our own but in a relative low price compared to ours. She *allegedly* negotiated a discount with the store, and fucking demanded that we did the same price as them.
I said that what we could do was a 5% discount. She wanted more, and said "thats it? I want to negotiate with the manager." I said that I was the manager, and said that as a MANAGER, my limit was 10%. But I could TRY to give her more, if she said what was original price of the basket, and how much discount she got.
She *allegedly* forgot, saying that she will check it out again, and If their price was higher, she would come back to us, but instead of calmly walking away, she fucking stormed off, as if we said something about her hair or clothes. Never heard of her again but I doubt that she bought the basket there as well, as much as I doubt the store would have lowered too much the price, since their system of discount was pratically similar to ours (workers had X discount percentage, while manager had a higher amount of discount to give).
This is one of my daily stories, everyday a new Karen and Kens appeared. Every. Single. Day.
To this day I say: everyone who says "I love dealing with customers/people" never dealt with people enough. Or probably never worked retail.
The head office dude who pulled out the ladder will forever have my respect
its actually a woman, but ye respect++
When I was a 10, I LOVED hide and seek. I was at the park once with my sister and our friend, he showed me how to get under some places because of a hole. When I was seeker, I had trouble finding my sister. So I got every single kid in the park. 20. Kids. Looking for my sister. They were seekers undercover. All he parents watching me giving orders to their kids like I was in the army. "You, blue jacket, go over to the pole." "Red shirt, go to the slide." IT was awesome. My sister met one of the kids and said "Do you know where the seeker is?" And the kid, looked her dead in the eye and said with the biggest smile "i....I am a seeker. We all are" and she just said the biggest NOPE she ever did in her life. Let's just say every single friggin kid had never ran so fast to one spot to yell "FOUND YOU" best part was they all let me walk into the little circle theyd formed around her like I was some God or something and I tapped her forehead and said "your the seeker now" and all ran. She looking beyond terrified and confused, I had told them to do it as a joke, didnt know they'd actually do it. They were 8 and 9 with one kid being 12. The parents just witnessed some little girl get surrounded like some summoning ritual and scream to the top of their lungs "it found you" and me just bopping her. Best. day. Ever.
CARTOON_GAMING _GIRL that’s what you call natural leadership you didn’t mean to actually do it but u created a army
you frickin legend
This brings back so many good memories about my childhood 😂
CARTOON_GAMING _GIRL and I think you just earned my respect.
@@Slender_Man_186 oh cool, I earned slender man's respect!
*I am the senate*
So~ who support your votes???
Vote: i'm the #Manager... 😂
I run a vape store... I am the only male employee, girlfriend fills in when that vape life gets too hard and I need a day off... I get a lot of idiot customers that seem to think they can return shit they bought six+ months ago, used heavily, and smoked meth out of, for a full cash refund... Justification most often given? 'I bought it from your boss last week he said to bring it in if anything went wrong!!' and 'The other guy told me it had a warranty'.
My stock response is to be very, very polite and tell them I can't help them, but if they come in tomorrow and see my manager he can help them out for sure. They come back the next day only to see me, and be told, slightly paraphrased 'I'm the only mafucker that works here, your a liar, fuck off'. You would be blown away by how many of them straight up don't recognize me and deny I was the guy they lied to the day before.
If you can't respect customer service people enough to not lie to us, we have plenty of ways to fuck back, and they almost all involve you wasting your time while we get paid.
Company owner terminates clients account, add note to file: "Customer is an asshole. Do not reinstate account -Boss" hahaha! Brilliant!
Karen: The manager will decide your fate.
Employee: *I AM the manager*
Why is it that karens go off on employees but act completely powerless before a manager? Like the second you bring out the manager they just shrivel up
Peace is a lie, there are only karens.
Through karens, i gain yelling
Through yelling, i gain complaints
Through complaints, i gain power
Through power, i gain termination
The karen shall free me
The employee code. May the workforce be with you.
What scares me about the "I know the owner!" gambit is in order for them to do that, that means it's worked before.
I can't imagine what is going through someone's mind to insult a retail worker by saying "they can't get a better job". Or something similar. If something goes wrong for me when shopping, I'll ask for a manager, but there's no need to tick off the person I first interacted with. If possible, I'd MUCH rather get the lower-level worker on my side before bringing in the manager. I mean, shouldn't my goal be to get my problem sorted, not to piss and moan?
If you get the chance to say “I AM the manager” do a cackling evil laugh before it and you’ll gain feelings only a god could feel, but only for a few seconds.
“I want the manager!”
“And I..am..the manager”
One was last year we had no manager it was 2am and a guy asked for our manager my response was “Sir I am the closest thing to a manager the only other people here are someone who can’t clean the grill and the other is 16 and having a mental breakdown.” We stared at each other for a while then he said “fine” and sped out of the driveway
Some karen: **LET ME SPEAK WITH YOUR MANGER!?!**
Me: *Right back at you buckaroo*
Why are there so many Karens in this World?
If I ever get to be a manager and this stuff happens, I shall replay "okay, I shall pull the manager by his ear" walk away a few steps, grab my ear, and walk back.
Karen: Tells the manager she wants to speak to the manager.
The manager: Pillar Men theme starts playing.
I remember when my manager was dealing with some jack ass, and he pulled the "I know the owner" bull shit and my manager asked what his name was. The man said Burt, the owners name was Ernie.
The first manager deserve a flippin gold medal
Final Story
When you're overleveled and start dicking around with the loweer leveled enemies. Then suddenly the final boss appears
Yup
Always have an evil laugh before telling someone you’re the manager.
'hella old woman'
👵🤣
Sheev Palpatine: I AM the senate
Imagine one going to the office for the manager and coming back out with a tag that says manager or saying "yes, you called for me?" 😂
The first story had this best power move I've ever seen😂😂😂
Time Travelling Managers are epik
My old job I hated and I was a day away from quitting (for a million reasons) and I was not having a good day. I was a young teen and I was managing for some reason with two older new people and some girl walks over and hit me with the where’s your manager. I responded that would be me and she scoffed and said you look a bit too young to be a manager and I was like ya know what your right one second I walked in the back took off my apron and hat and walked back out and said hi how can I help you and she responded by saying I hope it was worth your job and I said if you don’t like me then come back when the general manager is here and she said ima tell him to fire you and I was just like hehe I’m quitting tomorrow good luck.
Nobody ever has successfully persuade a manager that his / her way was ineffective.
I wonder how many reddit storys ive seen that are fake
H M M M M
Don’t matter to me they’re entertaining regardless
Liam Welsh yea, i agree
i mean, have you seen videos where people have a meltdown in a mcdonalds? Sure there are fakes, but kinda hard to tell since the truth is more bizarre than fiction
12:40 I would have emailed his boss about that one and I would have asked my supervisor or whoever if I could send them a video and proof that the VP was in the wrong.
16:11 if he actually signed with "-boss" that's hilarious. It seems like something chrollo would do when giving an order to the phantom troupe
I would come up with something stupid but I'm to lazy
Same
Also very low-rung manager for a customer service-heavy business (basically just someone to keep the building from falling to shit during real-manager downtime). One day, a customer waits the full duration of their allotted time to finally tell an employee (Emp A) who had been servicing them for said duration that something wasn't working and it was "broken" since before their allotted time began, berating Emp A all the while for "ignoring the obvious problem".
Emp A informs a relevant employee (Emp B), who proceeds to investigate. Upon reaching the customer, Emp B is then also berated for their alleged incompetence at maintaining the equipment and also their lack of response to the "obvious problem". Emp B attempts to explain to the customer that there is no problem, and that the equipment had not begun operation because it required a physical acknowledgement that the customer has read and understands the rules (a button), which Emp A assures was explained to the customer during the customer-to-employee assignment stage. I verified as much after a quick perusal of camera footage. Customer denies it, as usual, and that's when I show up.
I arrived with a typical customer-service-smile and "how can I help?" demeanor but was met with a hand in my face and told by the owner of said hand, the customer, not to butt in just so we can "gang up on her so she can't get a word in".
I take a step back and tell her "Ma'am, you nearly hit me. If you continue this aggression, I will consider it an act of violence and I will be forced to ask you to leave."
The customer swivels her head around like an owl scouting for prey and yells in my face all sorts of profanity and posturing and, somewhere amidst the bile that was now beginning to disrupt the business as other customers were becoming visibly uncomfortable, she said the magic words...
"Crawl your bitch ass back there and bring me your manager!"
My whole body relaxed; my shoulders dropped, my neck loosened, my eyes no longer felt like they wanted to break free, and I smiled.
"I am the manager. Yes, I. Am. The. Manager. Now that I have your attention, please leave. You are no longer welcome on our property. You are disrupting my business and costing me money. You chose to ignore the clear direction my employee gave you. You wasted your own time and now, because you can't follow directions, you've wasted all our time. This is not a discussion. This is not a debate. You are wrong and unwelcome. If you refuse to leave, I will be forced to call the police. The door is this way..."
I took several steps toward said exit and pointed at it.
Her: "I'll be calling corporate!"
Me: "This is a family-owned business. Get out. This is your final warning."
I begin to pull my phone out of my pocket and she finally waddles out.
One of the real managers (GMs) calls me the next day and demands answers.
I give them my take on it and then direct them to the other two employees for corroboration.
We're all on point and my GM leaves it at that.
The customer tried returning during a time my GM must have told her they'd be in, but didn't know I would be there as well.
She tried spinning bullshit until I suggested to my GM reviewing camera footage, which was actually at just the right angle that it looked like she did in fact physically assault me.
My GM relays this to her and asks if she'd like to turn this into a legal issue.
She deflates and my GM tells her in the most double-speak way someone with over a decade of experience in customer service could to basically go fuck off in a deep, dark hole and stay there.
I gave my GM a hug.
Tl,dr
Customer ignores directions. Wastes her time thinking something is broken when it isn't. Is a nasty piece of shit the whole time. Here Comes A New Challenger. I tell her to fuck off. She comes back. GM tells her to fuck off harder. Happy ending.
@@eechee2979 nice story and nice pfp
@@Jaydennn0001
What exactly would I post as a pfp in that situation? Her face? That'd easily identify me and violate at least a couple privacy policies just off the top of my head. Also, I could just share a link to a picture of any angry Karen-looking woman and that would prove nothing. I don't think you thought that comment through.
@@eechee2979 dude, that comment wasn't sarcasm. I love one piece and your story was also good.
@@Jaydennn0001
Oh, profile picture!
"pfp" is also redditspeak for "picture for proof".
My apologies.
thelast one is the best one ever LMAO
That last one was just a flex.
When you take 3 gummy vitamins instead of 2.
When I was working at Jack in the box last year there was a period where we didn't even have a manager. People didn't even know what to say when they asked for them and there was no one.
Last one was best one. 😂💥
A+ for the thumbnail. No amine, not to cheesy, gets the point across yes amusing. Nice.
That last one was amazing
Karen:I WANNA SPEAK TO THE MANAGER!
Manager:I AM the M A N A G E R
Weird story but I remember when I was about 8 I had went in McDonald’s with my dad I asked if I could have a lemonade, he said no so the cashier just put in a fries and cheeseburger. But the nice women gave me a free lemonade. It was so cool that she actually gave it for free
12:56 something similar happens like that on another post, this guy was talking about this existential question and what he thought the author meant, after the other guy told him what he really thought it meant the other guy stormed on him and started swearing at him and stuff, the guy then told him that he knew what the author meant as HE WAS the author lmao
15:45 I take offense at that, as a 13-year-old girl myself.
If you're trying to sneak candy or something into the movie theater, okay, but don't expect to be able to bring in a giant ice cream sundae...I mean, come on! You've got to be able to be discreet about it. Me and my parents have snuck in candy, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King, and Chinese (chicken on a stick and crab rangoon) all on different occasions
I wish I'd told my horrible ex to shop at the clothing store where everything was final sale. She constantly went out and bought clothes only to return them within the week because she couldn't actually afford them but would still buy more clothes that same week.
First story was the best story here :)
Loved that first story!
The last guy was such a baller I'm getting all splooshy.
The last one is a hero.
Loved the last story
The last one was awesome
Thank you for making content, these are good posts. Other reddit youtubers upload trash ask reddits.
Not the same but reminds of when a relative of mine was in a bit of a pickle financially and asked his bank for a loan, he got straight declined and staff were a bit shady with him. A couple months later, he goes into the same branch and the same lady notices 6 figures in his account and offers him the world (including a loan... Go figure?).
i liked the story where the boss asked the secretary to do something and the secretary refused so the boss walked the away
Customer: Be an asshole to an ISP tech help guy
ISP Owner: Give me the headset
Customer: Why do I hear the boss music?
2:10 To be fair, the customer may have thought it was a similar product.
I just got promoted to shift lead manager now. I'm so freaking nervous now. ;-;
The only one powerful enough to defeat a karen
The last one. Yes, you are the boss, boss
7:27 fucking brilliant lol
Palpatine: I AM the manager
that last one
Thank you for not having a stupid intro or outro.
15:51
I feel attacked
I am a 13 year old girl xD
I worked at a place called popcopy once and somebody asked to see the manager and I was like I am your f****** manager homes! what? you're done! get out!
Karen: In the Name of the Galactic Manager Coalition led by Karen, you are under arrest.
Manager: Are you threatening me, master Entitlement?
Karen: The Coalition will decide your fate.
Manager: I *_am_* the Senate.
Karen: -not yet- oH SHIT
This thumbnail got me
The only reason why I keep comming back to this is because of them epic thumbnail
That thumbnail is _sending_ me
16:16 great boss!
That last story xD
I wish the owner of my ISP would do this to a few of our customers....
Where I work I’m the employee who does the things no one else likes to do and I gotta say I’m not starting to believe in karma cuz nothing has happened
I wanna work for the boss in the last story lol
Not nearly enough "I know the owner" type stories :(
The thumbnail is hella epic. Fuck yeee
Saying i am the manager is like saying i am god just the less powerful one
When I worked in call center I also got a lot of shitty people on the phone. I wish I had a boss who came in and told them off for being shitty people. I quit instead.
15:45 I need a manager
Owner no I’m going to help you
I love sweet justice
the thumbnail xD
Once at my Job, I work in a Cafe, a woman started to argue with me about some petty crap, she asked me if she can talk to my Boss. I just smiled and awnsered Im the Boss right now, she just left after :D. Talked to my actual Boss ehen he came back, we had a good laught
I love doing this to horrible costumers
Hippity hoppity. Get the fuck off my property.