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'Not the best way to get great customer service': 18 one-star reviews from Karen customers, plus responses from restaurant owners
Every so often, one feels the urge to write a review of a local restaurant online…
If you're a good customer and a decent human being, you likely feel this urge when you want to shine a light on great food, great service, and all-around great vibes. Those kinds of reviews can boost the online profile of a small place and can really help draw in customers.
Now, if you're an entitled Karen customer, you may feel the urge to write an online review because you just have to air your grievances to the ether and potentially ruin someone else's livelihood in the process. Occasionally, you may be a decent human who receives bad service, but before you go into full Karen mode, think twice and ask yourself who you're serving here. Are you genuinely trying to share insight to other customers or are you just trying to start a fight or be petty? If the answer to that question is the latter, perhaps consider meditating or taking a bath to blow off some steam rather than try to disparage someone's name.
Keep scrolling below for these funny restaurant reviews along with the savage responses from their owners. For more, check out this compilation of useless jobs.
'They wanted to show off': Food processing CEO tries to show off new safety system to higher ups, cause a spill that takes 48 hours to clean
This CEO is about as foolish as you can get. You don't have to tell that to his employees, like u/Chairfighter, who have to put up with his shenanigans no matter what the cost. They just have to roll their eyes and do what the higher-ups say.
While CEOs and COOs get paid many times more than their employees, they probably don't know very much about the day-to-day life of an employee at their company. Many CEO take long vacations, spend their days on the phone, schmoozing with clients at lunches, or "working remotely" (but we all know they're not really working). Meanwhile, the employee who's making 5% of the CEO's salary is hard at work doing the things that keep the company running. Everyone has their own job to do, but the CEO can't pretend that they know as much as a factory machine worker when they just don't have that same skillset.
Scroll down to read a truly excellent story of some very mess malicious compliance. And after that, read about the funniest sleepwalking or sleeptalking incidents people have ever witnessed, such as: "One kid shouted 'I SEE THE LIGHT!' and then sleepwalked into a wall."
'You get paid more than I do. You figure it out': Sick employee pressured to come in after manager can't find coverage
Calling out sick when you need the money is not something employees want to do. Of course, most managers don't even consider this. They just assumed that the sick employee is just lazy, when in reality, it often takes a lot of effort and strength to admit to oneself and to others that you're not well enough to do your job today.
As for how this manager reacted to an employee's health update, it should be up to the manager to find last-minute coverage; that is, after all, a manager's role. Employees, especially sick ones, should not be held responsible for contingency plans. If an employee calls out sick and the whole workflow suffers because of one day, that is more reflective of the manager's disorganization than anything else.
Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about the most useless, high-paying jobs
'We're all just a missed paycheck away': Empathetic social worker finds a squatter living in their crawlspace, they shock the neighborhood by helping the homeless person get back on their feet
Empaths are built different. Empathetic people see a bird with a broken wing on the sidewalk and they risk avian flu, skin scabies, or a peck to the eyeball to scoop it up and save it. They see a living thing in need, desperate for their assistance, and they don't hesitate to take action. Like the social worker in this next story who shocked the neighborhood when she went out of her way to help a downtrodden fellow human being who was not only trespassing but invading her home.
For most of us, finding out that there's a person living in our crawlspace under our home is an unsettling thought. In a lot of states in the US, just the idea of another person camping out on your land is enough to earn a vicious reminder about the 14th Amendment's property rights. But this woman not only found a squatter on her premises but living–rather, camping–underneath her house, and instead of freaking out and being reactive, she showed that we could all do better to help out our fellow humans. As all empaths would, this woman didn't retaliate with violence or fear, but she responded in kindness, helping the person get back on their feet instead of shooing them away.
Read on for the heartwarming story of human empathy that can remind us all that we're all just humans living on this rock in space together–what do we have to lose by being kind?
Group project partner refuses to do any of the work, even when the member doing all the work falls ill:'He acted as if he was entitled to get an A like I did'
That kid in your group project who didn't do any of the work, instead deeming their membership to be enough contribution to qualify them for a good grade, gives off exactly the same energy that a lot of managers do… taking credit for the success of their subordinates' efforts purely by merit of their presence. In fact, a lot of them probably go on to be managers who do this, their confidence propelled by that earlier undeserved success with a lack of effort or accountability.
Disappointingly, this phenomenon isn't just isolated to grade school or the workplace. If you choose to continue on the academic route too, group projects are just preparing you for your lab work in grad school, at which point the professors will be the ones taking credit for your work, leaving your name off of any papers they publish even when you make significant, sometimes vital, contributions to them. Maybe this is why they assign group projects to their undergraduates, adjusting them to the possibility that others will take credit for their work early on.
When this student's group project partner refused to do any of the work, leaving them to do all of it even after they were hospitalized and unable to move forward with the project, they ensured that they weren't going to share their grade. However, the professor unfortunately stopped short of failing them on the project altogether.
'One phone call to the CEO later, she's in his office': Car dealership tells customer that only the CEO can authorize her request, she refuses to back down
Don't mess with this "frazzled momma!" Moms get things done, as this car dealership was about to find out firsthand.
It's a longstanding tradition at car dealerships to have to haggle with the salespeople. But you wouldn't think you'd have to keep haggling just to get your car fixed! After you buy a car, a lot of dealerships offer regular maintenance checks for free, as well as having a shop you can bring your car into if it starts having issues. It's a little way to show customers your appreciation…but one dealership seems to take issue with this approach. Another nice thing dealerships offer is that if your car does break down or need maintenance, they might offer you a loaner car. That way, you can still drive to work or to pick up the kids or wherever else you might need to go. So it's strange that u/bigjont's sister had such a hard time retrieving her loaner car from the dealership. You can read the whole story below, as well as a few other great stories from commenters who also had strong women in their lives who wouldn't put up with anyone's nonsense.
Up next, this fashion-critiquing Tiktoker didn't realize who she'd mocked until she showed up at a job interview to realize she's "seeing the consequences of her actions."
'We [don't] need your sob story': Entitled mom tries to force her kids on a friend's 'adults only' birthday party by guilt-tripping the host, gets shown the door
This entitled mom decided that it was her prerogative to totally derail another person's 'adults only' birthday party, defying the invitation's only rule by instantly forcing her kids on the whole group. Lucky for the birthday boy, the host wouldn't accept her pushy behavior and instantly set the record straight.
No matter how fiercely you love your kids, it's always nice to have an adults-only night every once in a blue moon. It's not that parents don't LOVE listening to Cocomelon songs 24/7, it's just refreshing to let loose, reminisce on debaucherous past lives, and throw around a few curse words without feeling guilty.
When an old friend got stationed abroad, the rest of his buddies at home counted down the days until his return. Every time he got leave to return to his hometown, the group would get together and have a bash in his honor. Well, this year, the host decided to make it an 'adults only' party–a change-up from his usual family-friendly BBQs–and the whole crew was excited for an excuse to get a little more rowdy. All except one, very entitled mom…
Keep scrolling to read how one parent decided that everyone's night of freedom would be forfeited because she didn't feel like calling a babysitter.
Extreme weather sweeps family's bench swing into their neighbor's yard, neighbor puts up 'no trespassing’ signs and begins to use their bench swing so they can't retrieve it
Extreme weather is always against you, but having entitled neighbors makes matters much worse.
Usually, if your property is misplaced for whatever reason, you'd hope that you can count on your neighbors' cooperation to help right these wrongs. I mean, in what world would stealing one's property be a good thing? There are laws in place that should protect you if this happens to you, but for some odd reason, the family in this story's neighbor is getting away with keeping a bench swing that does not belong to them. What's worse, is that they are facing the bench swing toward the family's house, where they'll soon be able to see into the yard as the leaves from their tree fall this autumn.
The neighbor in question has called the authorities on this family for unwarranted reasons, especially because the family was simply trying to find and retrieve their belongings that got swept away as a result of a flood that occurred in their neighborhood. Though the authorities are aware of this situation, the family feels at a loss. Seeking advice, the family just wants their bench swing back without escalating the feud further. Scroll to read the entire story.
'My girlfriend might have been Quiet Fired': Barista calls out pay discrepancy, boss cuts her hours to zero and ghosts her
This guy's girlfriend better start looking for a new job as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, there were red flags long before she was "quiet fired." First, there was the fact that when she applied for her current barista position, she was promised free meals that were automatically deducted from her paycheck. Those "benefits" were taken away from employees soon after her hiring, but she noticed something strange about her subsequent paychecks. It turns out that they were still deducting the lunch money from her checks well after the benefits were removed. When she called her boss out on this shady behavior, he barely acknowledged it but then decided to cut her hours to zero when he released everyone's shift schedules the following week. Of course, he attempted to ghost her when she followed up.
Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about useless high-paying jobs.
Roommate locks her food in a pantry after discovering someone keeps eating it behind her back, entitled roommate gets offended: ‘You're treating me like a child'
Anyone who has ever lived with another person had to deal with some kind of drama related to food. It is simply unavoidable. We are all so specific about our food, what, when, where, and how we eat, so when someone else gets thrown into the mix, chaos is bound to ensue.
There are a few different approaches when it comes to food in a shared space. You can either buy everything together and split the costs, you can share nothing and have each of you buy their own food and keep it completely separate from each other, or you can try the method of completely winging it, and randomly buy and share the food without keeping accounts. Yet, no matter which path you choose, you can expect drama to follow.
The roommates in this story chose to keep their food separate from each other, but there was one roommate who decided to simply eat whatever she wanted, no matter whose food it was. It got to a point where she ate her roommate's prepped meals, which was the final straw before that roommate decided to start locking away her food.
Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a boomer manager who got told what he was really worth by an annoyed employee.
'No one knew how Frank kept his job': 15+ Incompetent coworkers who kept their jobs no matter what
We can't all be top performers at our jobs. Some people will be the absolute best at what they do, though most will be somewhere in the middle. Then there are the people who are so bad at their jobs, so breathtakingly incompetent that it genuinely makes you wonder how they've kept their job this long.
It doesn't make sense how some of our coworkers can continaully do a very poor job at their actual job, and yet remain tin he position and even get raises or promotions. Sometimes they're nepo babies, and if you're the boss's kid, the expectations are going to be pretty low. But others are just regular employees, according to the folks who replied to u/lcasey14's question for the r/AskReddit community.
One person shared that their coworker often takes off Mondays. And Fridays. And sometimes both days in a single week. They can't fathom how this dude is still employed! Is he maxing out his PTO, or has he found a loophole? No one knows for sure…
Up next, this IT employee didn't have to disrupt a retail store with their work, but a store manager refused to help until, "A cashier bursts into the room, panicked… lines are getting backed up."
‘Get to class’: Student forced to retake science credit at new school, gets even with principal by turning his science teacher against him
It's usually not a good idea to get on the principal's bad side, but this high school student was more than justified.
After having to endure a move from California to Louisiana during his senior year, this student was told by the principal that he was being forced to retake a science credit because of a logistical error. It didn't matter that he had already taken the course before; this principal would not budge. Thankfully, the experience of having to retake this course was slightly easier given that the student's science teacher was a good guy. On one fateful day, five minutes before the start of class, the teacher gave the senior money to grab him water from the vending machine. As fate would have it, the principal caught the student and assumed that he was a troublemaker trying to skip class. This time, however, the student was able to get his science teacher to come to his defense.
Shoutout to all the teachers out there who are willing to defend mistreated students! Keep scrolling below for the full story from the student's point of view. For more, take a look at this post about a different feud between two neighbors.
Boomer manager reprimands employee for failing to complete a task, despite him providing no guidance on how to do it, employee quits on the spot: 'This is why you are on the verge of bankruptcy'
Employees who decide to quit their terrible jobs often face the dilemma of – on what terms do they want to leave said jobs? Sometimes, all you want to do is tell your soon-to-be former manager just how awful it was working for them, and air out all the reasons they made you hate the job. However, you might not want to burn any bridges and leave on bad terms, because you never know when you might run into those people again, or if you ever find yourself in need of something from them, so saying exactly what is on your mind might not be the best approach to the situation.
The employee in this Reddit story didn't mind burning bridges when they left their job, mainly because their manager was doing the exact same thing. In a heated exchange of texts between OP (original poster) and their boss, both of them said some really savage things to one another, which led to OP's inevitable resignation. Then OP decided to also share their manager's current work situation, which made them feel really good about themselves…
Scroll down to read the whole dramatic tale. After you are done, click here for a story of an entitled hotel guest who got what they were after.
'One kid shouted 'I SEE THE LIGHT!' and then sleepwalked into a wall': 20+ Hilarious things people said while sleeptalking
These people have said some pretty hilarious things while sleep-talking, and their friends or spouses overheard them!
It seems like every family has at least one person who sleepwalks or sleeptalks, and the rest of the group gets to make fun of them. It's just one of the enjoyable parts of living with people. It's highly amusing to watch someone who's clearly asleep stumble around or shout random nonsequiturs. For the people in these stories, they got to witness some hilarious moments that they'll remember for a long time to come.
One person found their husband asleep with his arm in the air, and as they approached him, he announced that, "I like your bones." Another person overheard their brother sleep shouting "Stop brushing my teeth!" Most dreams don't make much sense anyway, since it's just random neurons firing in your brain, creating nonsensical adventures for you as you slumber. That only makes it funnier to hear these dreams make their way into the real world! Check out a bunch of funny anecdotes below from people who overheard their spouses, siblings, roommates, or family members yapping in their sleep.
Up next, read a handful of tales from retail workers who can't get their customers to understand them, like one frustrated worker who insisted "I didn't make your drink wrong, Amy."
‘I have 5 managers all making over $100k who all have the same job title’: Top 20+ useless but high-paying jobs
Now, what does one have to do to be considered for one of these positions? As much as we all enjoy criticizing folks who get paid a fortune to do next to nothing, it wouldn't hurt to get a taste of how the other half lives, would it?
There were a few industries in this list that came up multiple times, so clearly, more than one individual feels the same way about people who work in finance, consulting, or corporate middle management. Someone in the comments section phrased it in the best way when they said that if your job is to essentially track the progress of the folks below you and report it to one person directly above you, then your job probably shouldn't exist. No one's naming names here, but we all have worked with folks whose responsibilities exemplified that exact description.
Keep scrolling below for this collection of high-paying useless jobs, and who knows? Maybe we'll all be lucky enough to have one of these jobs one day. For more compilations like this, here is a list of poorly spelled job postings!
Woman stands firm and says no to free housing after sister’s dream vacation leaves her homeless
Your family should always come first in your priorities. Having said that, is it your duty as a family member to encourage and assist them in all of their endeavors, no matter how foolish they may be?
The story below is an account of a frustrated sister. The original poster (OP) worked very hard to ensure that she lived in a beautiful house and had a nice life. Her sister, on the other hand, made the decision to travel with her entire fortune and even sold her house to earn the additional cash. But now, years later, the sister is begging OP to provide her and her family (husband and two children) with a place to live since she is unable to continue living the nomadic lifestyle that she has fought so hard to maintain. OP, who adores her sister, refuses to host her family for free because she doesn't think she should have to bear the consequences of her brother-in-law's and sister's poor choices.
That being said, be sure to read the story below if you're interested in finding out how the sister reacted when OP declined to provide her with free housing! After you're through, don't forget to read the story of the man who kicks out his aunt during a storm after she criticizes his home, only for her to return seeking shelter!
Bride uninvites 25 family members from her halloween-themed "Corpse Bride" wedding after they try to usurp her theme 6 weeks before: 'I told them fine and canceled everyone['s] invitations'
There are plenty of types of weddings: bad weddings, good weddings, traditional weddings, and untraditional ones… those at traditional locations and those taking place on the tops of mountains and places you generally might not ever expect; there are also those that go all out and those without any manner of ceremony whatsoever.
No matter what the difference one thing generally remains certain: The wedding is for those being married and a chance for their loved ones to witness and celebrate their joining. It is not for the guests themselves, making it uniquely one of the few events that one can be invited to where they don't have a place of honor and are, frankly, of little importance. Really, you're there to eat food and drink and celebrate, and as long as you're comfortable and taken care of, there's really not a whole lot else you should be concerned about. Unless you're in the wedding party itself, you're entirely expendable to the proceedings, so if you're making trouble before the event even begins, it stands to reason that you might just be asked not to attend at all.
Without a doubt, standing up to your family when they insist on imposing their beliefs upon your life is difficult to do, especially when the family seems to be decidedly and unanimously against you. Most of us would probably just roll over in this situation, but this bride was determined to hold her "Corpse Bride" Halloween-themed wedding how she had dreamed and planned. She shared her experience with this online community, wondering whether or not she was in the wrong for her broad-sweeping dismissal of dissenting guests.
'A cashier bursts into the room, panicked... lines are getting backed up': IT employee tries to avoid shutting down retail registers, oblivious manager refuses
These retail shoppers had an especially memorable shopping experience thanks to one store manager who couldn't be bothered to do her job.
When you're shopping, waiting in line can be irritating. If there aren't enough cashiers, you might have to wait there for quite some time. Some stores manage to bring in enough cashiers to make the line move quickly. Others have shifted to the self-checkout method, which can be a real drag if you have tons of items to scan all by yourself.
However, these shoppers encountered a particular problem while they were shopping one day. As u/DistrictEquivalent79 explains, they were always moving between different stores doing IT jobs. On this fateful day, this employee was called to replace a server at a retail store. They knew exactly what they were supposed to be doing… but a manager decided to be as impolite as possible, insisting that she needed to eat her lunch before she could manage the situation. She paid the price for this, as you can check out in the story below.
Up next, check out these utterly baffling home design choices, like one person who "spent $15,000 on this kitchen…It's been on the market for 415 days."
‘Are you serious?’: Front desk clerk refuses to refund entitled guest whose ID and reservation don't match, guest throws a fit, leading manager to cave in and refund him anyway
Anyone who worked in retail or any customer service job knows that the sentence – 'The customer is always right' could not have been further from the truth. Not only is the customer not always right, but the customer is often very very wrong.
The real meaning behind this sentence is that you should make the customers feel like they are always right, so they will end up leaving the business happy. However, that is not an easy task to do, especially when what the customer asks for is against policies and rules you have no authority to change.
The front desk employee in this Reddit story feels pretty outraged by how their manager decided to treat an entitled guest at the hotel. The guest came to the front desk demanding things the clerk could not do for them and eventually asked for a refund on their already used room. While the guest was throwing a fit in front of the clerk, the manager was on the phone hearing the whole ordeal, which is why the clerk was really mad when they learned that the manager decided to give the guest their refund anyway. Luckily, the clerk has one more card up their sleeve…
Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a company that refused to give their employees the money they are owed.
Employee prohibited from booking own travel and takes revenge by instructing company travel agency to book the most luxurious flights and hotels, tripling the costs
Humans are often creatures of habit, meaning they like things done a certain way even if it doesn't make sense or is financially beneficial in the long run.
The story below is an account of a frustrated employee. The original poster (OP) had been employed by the same business for a considerable amount of time. He must occasionally fly for work-related meetings as part of his profession. Therefore, OP prefers to usually plan the trip on his own, without the assistance of a travel agency, in an effort to save money. But as of late, the company has implemented new guidelines mandating that the worker make travel arrangements through the corporate travel agency. The company maintained in its stance and asked OP to graciously comply, despite OP's numerous pleas.
But, instead, OP devised a cunning scheme to teach them a lesson they would never forget. So be sure to read the story below if you're interested in learning how OP got his revenge! Additionally, after you're through, don't forget to read the story of the man who, after his aunt criticizes his house during a storm, kicks her out!
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