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God Bless Karen!!!
Vanity

Posted on 02/10/2021 7:04:10 PM PST by dangus

In case I'm not contrarian enough, here goes: Karen is a hero.

Karen wants to speak to the manager. That's what defines Karen.

She doesn't want to berate some poor clerk at the register; she knows that poor 17-year-old kid has no authority. She's not going to swipe something because she feels self-justified in doing so. She's not going to get revenge by taking a crap on the heater in the bathroom. She feels, rightly or wrongly, that she has been screwed over and she demands that she be treated as a human being by a human being who is empowered to do more than stick to a script.

The Karen meme isn't defending some poor under-payed sales clerk, or exposing some white privilege. It's a rear-guard action by nameless corporations aimed at villainizing middle-aged white folk who maybe still do feel like they have the clout to be treated as human beings. That's right: clout, non entitlement.

God Bless Karen! May an army of insurrectionists Karens storm the hallways of corporate headquarters from coast to coast!


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To: albie

You’re definitely right.

I wasn’t really clear on what the point was here anyway.


21 posted on 02/10/2021 7:30:35 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: dangus

Drop dead, Karen.

CC


22 posted on 02/10/2021 7:36:34 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: dangus

I get the Karen meme but I dislike it because it’s basically an insult to middle aged white women which is what I am.

We are supposed to get bad service, get ripped off, get cheated, get swindled, get insulted and just take it or we are a Karen. I have spent a lot of time learning to assert myself and I resent the automatic label. “B***” is another one.

Now the Karen behavior that is busybody or nasty no of course I don’t support. But to complain about poor service, insist on a correct repair, or ask that something be done as promised is not WRONG. if we allow it then we are told we are suck ups or weak. We can’t win.


23 posted on 02/10/2021 7:36:50 PM PST by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Uncle Miltie

More Cowbell, less Karen.

CC


24 posted on 02/10/2021 7:38:11 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: dangus

Karen Kvetch.


25 posted on 02/10/2021 7:39:52 PM PST by PLMerite
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To: dangus
Karen is a self appointed hall monitor.
26 posted on 02/10/2021 7:41:43 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: dangus

27 posted on 02/10/2021 8:19:37 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Persevero

Good post. Thanks,


28 posted on 02/10/2021 8:39:33 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: dangus

It’s grown from a mildly amusing meme about overcomplainers into an attack on all middle aged white women who have traditional expectations of behavior and service. I don’t use it.


29 posted on 02/10/2021 8:46:32 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: KarlInOhio

ISWYDT


30 posted on 02/10/2021 8:56:45 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: dangus

When I know I plan on taking up a grievance I usually very nicely ask whomever answers the phone to put me with somebody who gets paid to deal with unhappy customers. I’m not gonna take it out on somebody who probably makes just above min wage. I also tell them I will let any higher ups know what good customer service I received from them.

Trust me if I need to speak to somebody higher up it is not for any petty reason.


31 posted on 02/10/2021 9:16:46 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: dangus
I don't WORK HERE lady!!!
32 posted on 02/10/2021 9:23:11 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: hoagy62
‘Karen’ is likely a raving liberal Demonrat.

Conservative women are much nicer and more circumspect.

AND a conservative woman who decide she needs to bring up a problem does so because it is a problem, not something she has created herself, and when she does she will do so in an intelligent and logical manner with a suggested solution fair reasonable for all concerned, which does not involve firing an innocent employee who had just been following policy, or was actually another customer like her.

33 posted on 02/10/2021 9:23:43 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: dangus

Babylon Bee?


34 posted on 02/10/2021 9:33:46 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: dangus

“So her real name is Karen? And all this time I’ve just known her as Hillary.”~ Slick Willie


35 posted on 02/10/2021 9:34:31 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: married21

Thank you.

These FReeper men who are saying they hate Karen’s and they are the worst and etc -

I bet they rip their wives up if they bring home sour milk and insist they take it back. Mock them for believing the car repairman and paying the bill. Berate them for failing to argue with the ref when their kid is hurt in a baseball game. Make them return all the clothes that don’t fit and get mad at them if the store won’t accept the return. Make fun of them for paying full price when it was marked down. It’s not fair to us.


36 posted on 02/10/2021 9:50:21 PM PST by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: albie
I’ve “karened” before by seeing the manager. Being screwed at a hotel or restaurant doesn’t sit well with me and I would defy anyone is more conservative than me. Complaining about being treated poorly or dealing with bad customer service doesn’t automatically make you a Karen.

Being a Karen is not about sticking up for oneself when wronged.

They are about being a bunch of meddling control freaks who can’t stand that someone is doing something the Karens don’t think they should be.

37 posted on 02/10/2021 11:23:04 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: dangus

release the karen!...


38 posted on 02/10/2021 11:50:18 PM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: albie
“Complaining about being treated poorly or dealing with bad customer service doesn't automatically make you a Karen.”

My wife helps elderly folks out. She has to deal with the bureaucracy quite a bit. She does her best to calmly explain something, but after the third time of being told to “call back” or “you need to call another number” where the person she reached just doesn't want to deal with the problem, she can put her foot down.

The latest was when the man's wife passed away, but it got into the system that they both died!

“Oh - I'm sorry - he doesn't have insurance anymore and he will need to pay it in full.”

Took awhile for them to figure out that the reason he didn't have insurance was because he was “dead”. Of course Social Security also discovered that he was “dead”.... What a mess!

39 posted on 02/11/2021 12:08:54 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: dangus
Karen wants to speak to the manager. That's what defines Karen.

She doesn't want to berate some poor clerk at the register; she knows that poor 17-year-old kid has no authority.

Where your supposition falls apart is that Karen will demand that the Manager fire the seventeen-year-old-kid for not kowtowing to her self-assumed grandiosity.

40 posted on 02/11/2021 1:00:49 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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