'You're a terrible manager!': Karen accosts random dude after incorrectly assuming he is the restaurant's manager, gets served

It turns out we might not be very good at doing a job that isn't actually ours, and that shouldn't come as much of a surprise, except to people like this Karen who refuse to listen to you when you tell them that you don't actually work there. Sure, we've all probably mistaken a complete stranger for an employee of the establishment we're patronizing, but continuing to insist that they must work there and are doing their job poorly after being corrected is downright insane.

This college student found himself in a Karen's crosshairs when she mistook him for the restaurant's manager. When she insisted, he decided to play her game and have a little fun with it. The college student went on to share his experience with Reddit's r/idontworkherelady subreddit community. This subreddit is a haven for stories where innocent bystanders and other customers have been mistaken by someone who assumes that they are an employee. This often paves the way for some great stories about Karens and Kevins and gives people in the service industry a great source of entertainment. 

Read on for the student's account of events. When you're done here, see this dude who was fired from a store where he didn't even work.

'To use the disabled lift, please come upstairs': 30 People who had just one job and still goofed it up

Jobs, how do they work? These people made various levels of mistakes that they really should have caught before it went out to the public. 

Below are 30 people who had just one job to get right, and they couldn't even do that. The funniest versions of this to me are translators or transcribers who messed up. There are people who were writing copy, needed translation to another language, and somehow that never happened. Then you end up with TV captions of a person who says a Korean word, and the subtitles just read, "speaks Korean" instead of actually saying what the guy was saying. 

That's a tiny goof — but there was one furniture store that wrote a sentence in English, then below that reads, "the same text but in Arabic," in Arabic. That's a big facepalm right there. Hopefully anyone who could read it got a good laugh out of their editing lapse. 

Next up, this boss insisted his employee keep cooking until closing time — and he reminded the employee over and over, until the employee agreed to do just that. 

'I have no wish to be in her good books anymore': Employee turns down former boss's repeated requests for help

This boss can't let her old employee go. It's time for both of them to move on. 

U/YlvaNietzsche asked the r/AmItheA**hole community a question they had regarding their boss. For some reason, even though this employee departed the company, their boss is so insistent that they keep on helping. 

Each industry is different in regards to prior jobs. In some industries, it's incredibly important to keep a strong network of colleagues and bosses who can vouch for you as you advance in your career. For others, though, you might need your former boss to recommend you, but you might not talk to them besides that. It definitely doesn't hurt to have a former manager on your side to tell future employers about your workplace skills and the things you excel at. Regardless, this person doesn't want to help their boss, and to use their words, "I have no wish to be in her good books anymore."

In the comments, people assured the OP that they weren't in the wrong. Check out the entire story for yourself below. After that, these hair stylists, barbers, and customers shared the worst haircuts they've ever experienced, from fried hair to bowl cuts and more. 

'You've been given [...] 10 chances to keep your job when you should've been fired': Manager sends unhinged text after employee refuses to cover his shift

This general manager may have been on his way out, but he's going to regret sending that text. Sometimes, people feel that they can say whatever they want just because they're in a position of power. We know all too well at this point that this line of thinking is not only flawed but also asking for trouble. If you're the kind of boss who puts that toxic energy out into the universe, then you're also the kind of person who makes enemies very easily.

 

That's what happened when this general manager sent an unhinged text message after he tried (and failed) to get an employee to cover two hours of a shift. The employee simply said they needed time to think about it and check their schedule, but that comment was enough to make the general manager lose it. He sent a long essay of a message threatening their future employment status and accusing the employee of always thinking about themselves and never picking up any slack. Mind you, this was not the truth; it was merely uninhibited outrage that the manager didn't get exactly what he wanted.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more posts like this, here's one about a shady person from HR who changed the specifics in an employee's signing contract.

‘Don’t mess with my laundry': Resident bleaches neighbor's clothes after they mess with her laundry, neighbor moves out

Doing laundry in your own building is super convenient unless you have a pesky neighbor trying to save a few bucks. In this case, OP was living in an apartment building with too few laundry rooms. There was only one single washer/dryer set per floor with about 12 units in a 3-story building. OP went about doing their laundry, until one day they found their soapy load on the floor of the laundry room with the final minutes of their cycle counting down. To say that they were livid would be an understatement. But because OP was afraid of conflict, they didn't say anything… at first. Well, they didn't exactly say anything after it kept happening, either, but they certainly took action. 

Once OP found out who exactly kept leaving their sopping-wet clothes on the floor, they hatched a petty plan for revenge. Scroll down to read all about the petty details. For more, here is an employee who drove 9 hours out of state for a new job, only to be told to work immediately, which prompted them to drive 9 hours straight home without giving notice.

'I armed a multi-million dollar financial nuke': Worker quits and goes full scorched earth on the way out

It's always a good policy in life to take the high road, but when that's not an option, the low road will do just fine—just make sure to set fire to every metaphorical bridge you might cross along the way. 

This full scorched earth policy isn't the way you should normally go about doing business; for one thing, it's (usually) unethical, and it's not going to make you many friends or get you very far. For that reason, you should always aim to leave things on good terms when you leave a job—you never know where the road might lead in the future. Even if you don't need the reference—and will never return to that company—you never know when your reputation for being difficult to work with might precede you.

Still, sometimes you're left with no option, like in the case of this worker who learned they were making half the market rate for their job, which prompted them to go full "Oppenheimer" on the company on their way out the door by arming "a multi-million dollar financial nuke." They shared their experience on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, telling in a very lengthy post how they managed to enact one last act of revenge on their employer.

Once you have finished here, check out this client who refused to pay a developer that proceeded to dismantle their entire life.

'That is so selfish of you!': Karen neighbor gets mad at farmer for harvesting their crop that she wanted to steal

In kindergarten, you learn that you can't have something just because you want it. Like when you wanted Stewart's red ball, but he refused to share, after taking it anyways and subsequently refusing to apologize, you probably found yourself in timeout in a tiny chair in the corner as negative reinforcement of the fact that you shouldn't take things that aren't yours… Wherever you are now, we hope you're doing well, and we hope that Stewart is no longer having to fend off bullies who want to take his toys.

Maybe some people just missed kindergarten or something because, for some reason, they still don't seem to get it. The sheer audacity of these people will never cease to amaze you. Just when you think you've seen and heard it all, another person comes along and demands something that they blatantly have no right to... This Karen actually demanded the literal fruits of her neighbor's labor. No, this is not an idiom—although the irony is palpable… The only idiom here is the Karen herself.

Read on to see the farmer's narrative of events; she shared her story with a popular online community seeking to share her bewilderment at her neighbor's behavior. Next, see this neighbor whose property line dispute ended up revealing that his house was over it.

20 Red Flags in Job Interviews That Made People Walk Away

Everyone has a mental list of red flags to bear in mind when walking into a job interview. You might even keep a physical list with you at all times. That list might include a list of preferred benefits (healthcare, PTO days, etc.), a base salary requirement (they better be upfront about this one!), or even buzzwords that provide a window into a toxic work environment (anyone who utters "we're really like a family here" is a potential employer to walk away from immediately). This collection of job interview red flags made folks walk away on the spot, and if they didn't, they certainly regretted not doing it then and there.

 

The stories certainly bring me back to being fresh out of college and completely naive about how to advocate for myself in the workplace. Little did I know at the time, but I was conditioned to think that I could only be so lucky if anyone wanted to hire me at all. I didn't take pride in my skill set, and I certainly didn't feel like the reverse dynamic (i.e. that a company could be so lucky to have me on their payroll) was a possibility. Like many adults who become disillusioned with the workforce very quickly, I came to understand that gratitude for being there can blind you from seeing what a potential employer is putting on the table.

 

Keep scrolling below for these red flags. When you're finished, here's a story about a front desk agent who walked out mid-shift.