Entitled Customer Outraged When Retail Staff Won't Help Him After Close

Anyone who has worked retail knows how this story goes. You're weary after a long day of interacting with hordes of people and glad for the respite that closing the doors offers.

As soon as you've turned the key... A wild Karen appears. Peering in through the glass door or a nearby window, desperately trying to lock eyes with a wayward employee to trap them and pull them into their clutches. If this fails, they will launch into a siren song to the chorus of "Hello? Anyone in there? Why can't you help me?".

Usually, this ends with management getting involved to avoid an absolute shipwreck and explaining how opening hours work to the expectant.

This is how it was for u/TRTVitorBelfort, who shared this story to r/talesfromretail. This old guy was not understanding that being even one minute late after close meant that the store was closed. The employees have lives and want to go home. Your entitled ignorance is the only thing preventing that from happening. 
 

Girl Gets Revenge On Teacher Who Told Her That She Would Never Succeed in the Best Way Possible

As we go through life we're always going to find ourselves at odds with certain people. It's just in our nature. Even if you try your best to please everyone and steer clear of conflict there are always going to be those out there who object to something basal about your existence.

It might be that you offend them in some way: Maybe your beliefs and ethos just don't align with theirs. Maybe it's something you said that rubbed them the wrong way. Maybe it's subconscious and they don't like your laugh or the way your voice sounds when you talk.

Whatever it might be, there's only one way to beat these people, these - haters. By moving forward, persevering, and living your best life -being the best version of yourself that you can be.

That's what our protagonist has managed to achieve here. By living her best version of herself that she can be she has managed to stick it to someone who looked down on her.

And that's the best type of revenge there is. 

Stupid Proof That Kids Are Almost a Different Species

When you're a kid, it's very hard to understand why your parents don't want you to do certain things. And that's not just because most children are narcissistic sociopaths who completely lack the capacity for empathy. It's because kids are so dumb that everything about the world just seems so arbitrary. When you're growing up, you don't realize that someday you're gonna have people depending on you, and those people cannot afford to have you spending all your time getting your head stuck in different buckets and collecting interesting rocks. Though that would be ideal.

Kids are dumb as rocks and weird as heck. These people are expected to one day become functioning members of society, but man, junk like this doesn't inspire confidence. Okay, maybe we should cut them a little slack. How much of a chance do you have at understanding reality when everyone in your social world keeps telling you Santa is real? Maybe it's not a mystery as to why kids are so strange and dumb.

People Name The Worst Movies They Have Ever Watched

Have you ever walked out of a movie and felt utterly disrespected for the very fact that someone thought you might want to sit through it? Have you ever had a movie that you were waiting for in anticipation only to be let down from great heights?

I'm sure every one of us has a movie that we would love to tag onto this list. Mine, without doubt, is Jupiter Ascending. It is far, and above the enormous pile of garbage I have ever watched. I'm a massive fan of the Wachowski's earlier films and watched the Matrix more times than I can count as a teen, but their recent films have been imperfect. 

Nevertheless, I let myself get hyped up for Jupiter Ascending. Against better judgment. The promise of Sean Bean and a newly-awarded oscar for best actor Eddie Redmayne was too alluring. We went with a group of friends, going relatively blind to the rest of the details of the film. The bulk share of our group ended up walking out halfway through in utter dismay.

I'm a sucker for punishment and had never walked out of a film in my life at that point, so I stuck it through. My reward was a horribly CGI'd scene of wolf-man Channing Space Tatum moonwalking in a pair of space boots. Bland acting, b-movie CGI, and plot all around.

It's time to name and shame. What's the worst movie you've ever had the displeasure of viewing?

Tenant Gets Unfair Fine, Pays In 37 Installments

As mostly polite people, we put up with far too much. We pay our rent in a timely fashion, we follow rules, and we get in hardly any fistfights over buffet crab legs. But the powers that be try to take advantage of our generosity at every single turn. And what's crazy is that more often than not, we go along with it. Sometimes landlords and bosses don't realize that our polite compliance is negotiable. Sometimes it's important to show people who abuse their power that we have every right to be annoying too.

This tenant was just trying to make things more convenient for their neighbors, but management wasn't about that. So naturally, things got very inconvenient for management. Why do people have to power trip anyway? It goes to show that it doesn't take much to throw a satisfying wrench into the gears of the powers that be. For more people standing up against totally stupid fees and fines, here's a guy who got hounded for trivial debt and sent them a dime and here's a guy who mudded himself out of a BS car rental fee.

People Share Protagonists and "Heroes" Who Are Actually Problematic

Ahh the protagonist. The all important one who is the center of their universe and can apparently do no wrong. Only when you peel a few layers back do you sometimes see them for the inaffable scoundrel that they really are. 

Sometimes it's looking at it from a different perspective. When a story is presented to us through the protagonists eyes we see the filtered view of their world, and everyone is their own hero, in both reality and fiction. Sometimes past events are just mentioned offhand. Innocuous details that actually hint and sometime more sinister when put into context. 

It's no secret that every protagonist isn't a hero and the hero isn't always a protagonist. But these characters all share a commonality in that they are presented by the context of their stories to be "good' but are actually hugely problematic. There's always going to be some debate too as to whether or not a character is actually supposed to BE a hero. So feel free to debate away.