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I'm here for 5 minutes, I'm not opening up
earlier for you
XL
I recently started playing Pokemon Go again
and got into the habit of early morning playing,
just before work. I'm a big advocate of not
playing while I drive so I routinely pull
over and catch spawns of pokemon or occasionally
hit a low ranked gym or raid.
For those of you not familiar with Pokemon
Go raids, it means a special/rare or sometimes
legendary Pokemon will occupy a gym for a
limited time. Yadda yadda, I spotted on my
map that a locally owned breakfast n brew
that was also a PokeGym had a high level pokemon
about to hatch. I pop on my pokemon discord
sever and hit up some friends who are also
early morning raiders like myself.
It's a little after 6am and I'm parked outside
the closed establishment waiting for a couple
of friends to show. It being winter, I keep
my car running for warmth but the lights off.
Loud knocks on my window startle me from my
phone.
Hungry Dude: (through my window) "can you
open a bit early? Just want to grab a [pastry
name]".
I'm completely dumbfounded. Speechless would
be an understatement. I'm generally very quick
on the uptake but at that moment I could do
nothing but stare. I have absolutely no idea
what he is talking about nor could I process
the hell he would ask me that question. Must
be some nicely dressed crazy homeless person.
Hungry Dude: "...hello?"
Me: "...umm No? Go away please"
I swap screens over to my discord channel
to warn my buddies of the encounter I just
had when it Dawn's on me that I'm parked outside
of a breakfast and coffee shop that's about
to open.
Hungry Dude comes within my peripheral view
again sporting the [I-need-to-get-your-attention]
body language. It had been 5 or so minutes
since the window tap incident.
HD: "...it's just a few minutes early. Can't
you ope... " Me: "Dude! I dont work here...
I'm a customer just like you."
HD kinda looks around helpless up and down
the street, desperate to get his pastries.
By now, my buddies are beginning to pull up
to begin our raid that starts in a few minutes.
I give them a heads up in the Discord channel
that some dude asked me to open up the Breakfast
N Brew.
Hungry dude sees a new car pull up and possibly
the employee who's opening up. He gets out
of his car to head over to my buddy's car
who's been forewarned of the encounter.
HD: "umm do you work her...." Buddy: "No,
I'm waiting for it to open"
Helpless, HD does a other obviously sweep
up and down the street to no avail.
3rd buddy rolls up a few minutes later and
it's close to raid time. HD gets out of his
car sure that this new guy is the employee
he's been searching for. He's now waiting
by the door, desperate to be first in line.
In discord we are chatting away of our encounter
to buddy #3, he's laughing at all of this.
The raid starts and we are all focused on
our task of tapping the screens. HD wanders
over to buddy #3s car and actually taps on
his window because gesturing wasn't working.
HD: "can you open a bit earlier than norma..."
Buddy #3: (while rolling down the window and
not looking up from his screen) "...yeah I'll
have 1 coffee, 2 chocolate croissants and
a half dozen creamers with that.. thanks."
(Rolls up window without missing a beat) HD
just stands there, my other buddy and myself
start laughing in our cars. We heard the whole
thing.
We won our raid, all backed out one after
another and poor Hungry Dude was left standing
in the cold, waiting for the place to open.
(Apparently the employee
was late)
Cable not cancelled, attorney apologized
L
I worked in the call center for a payment
processing company. We set up small businesses
with credit card terminals, check imagers,
and payment gateway software, depending on
their needs.
Our toll-free number was one digit off the
toll-free number for a major cable TV provider.
We were used to the cable company's customers
calling us by mistake. We would just do a
cold transfer to the correct number with the
caller's permission.
One such caller would not accept that answer.
Edit: We have a specific script for exactly
this call. I started off with the script,
but veered off when it became apparent this
one caller would not be listening to anything.
Caller: I need to cancel my cable service.
You mother censored charge too much.
Me: I'm sorry, sir. We are Payment Processing
Company, not the Cable Company. I can transfer
you to the Cable Company, is that alright
with you?
Caller: Hell no! I will not be transferred.
I'm going to cut the cable going into the
box and you are going to cancel my service
and give me my money back!
Me: Sir, you need to talk to Cable Company.
We are Payment Processing Company, and we
have nothing to do with your cable service.
The phone number you need is ######, and I
can transfer you with your permission.
Caller: You have permission to turn off my
service and give me my money back!
Me: I can't do that, I don't work for Cable
Company, I work for Payment Processing Company.
Caller: You need to process my payment back
to me! Get me your supervisor! I'm going to
sue Payment Processing Company!
Me: ...you don't have an account with us,
so I cannot give you a supervisor.
Caller: I'm going to have my attorney call
you!
Me: Ok. Are you sure you don't want me to
transfer you to Cable Company?
Caller **** you! You'll be hearing from my
attorney!
He hung up.
When we have a customer mention an attorney,
we forward the call to management for review.
This guy was not a customer, but I forwarded
the call anyway. Evidently, he DID have his
attorney call us later in the day. A team
leader made the connection to my call and
took the new call. He explained that the caller
wants to cancel service with the Cable Company,
we are in no way affiliated, and the caller
refused to be transferred to the correct number.
The attorney apologized, and presumably had
to go confer with his idiot client.
Liquor Store Stoners
Quick but interesting one. I went to my local
liquor store a couple of nights ago to hunt
down some Monkey Shoulder that was on sale
for $20. I head in and this young man long
frizzy blonde hair, multicoloured sweater
and thousand yard stare watches me enter head
straight for the whiskey aisle as I walk past
I hear a " Hey, uh you work here right?".
I turn around dude is completely out of it.
I respond with " Nope sorry I just like my
whiskey". He then goes" oh cool. Uh maybe
you know where the Hennessy is then?". I point
to the cognac and wished him a nice day. Sorry
its not so dramatic. I laughed my ass off
when i got into the car though.
I know its not meta but it is requiring a
flair and not letting me pick any other.
Tried to cheer up a friend but met a Karen
instead.
XL
I'm lucky enough to have never worked in retail
or food service, but I'm definitely one of
the few.
So, when I was in high school my good friend
worked in a Baskin-Robbins for a while, and
during that time her father got into a terrible
accident and passed away.
My friend was the type who needed to be occupied
to keep going so she didn't let the devastation
consume her, which is a totally valid way
to be, so even though her boss was more than
willing to give time off, she insisted she
work shifts as usual.
So, I decided to go pay a visit near the end
of a shift on a weekend with the intention
of treating her to some ice cream and just
being together. As she clocked out and her
coworker clocked in to relieve her, a little
league soccer team walked in, which I was
told was fairly common on a weekend since
there's a complex nearby. We decided to sit
outside so the noise didn't bother us.
And in comes the Karen. She walks into the
store, sees the line of peewee players being
served and then walks right back outside and
approaches the table where my friend and I
are sitting.
My friend is still wearing her Baskin Robbins
shirt, naturally, and the lady asks her why
she's not working. Before she can even say
anything, Karen just goes on this angry tirade
about how they need help in there and she
needs to get her ice cream cake NOW and she's
just so disgusted by how lazy teenagers are
and blah blah blah people like you should
get wage cuts or get fired blah blah and then
she asks to speak to the manager, of course,
even though that wouldn't help her case at
all.
By then my friend was just looking down at
her lap and so I tried to tell Karen that
her shift had just ended, they were not short-staffed
at all, and it was simply bad luck with timing.
And I encouraged her to get the manager so
we didn't have to deal with her anymore, because
I was sure from what I knew about her there
would be absolutely no consequence for my
friend.
Karen went back inside, and from the window
I could see she looked angry and the manager
was not having any of her bullshit. The kids
looked kinda uncomfortable too, so I assume
she was asked to leave, because when she stormed
back out she shouted at us that she was "never
coming to this location ever again!!!"
I sure hope she didn't. Good riddance.
So, in the end all I did was make things worse
for my friend even though it's not my fault
if Karens decide to be Karens. I still feel
like shit for it, though. Last thing she needed
was to be harassed and told she was being
lazy.
Old lady thinks I'm her gardener.
M
I was sitting on my couch watching TV when
my parents told me to go mow the lawn. I got
out side and started to mow, then my neighbor
some old lady pushing her kid in a stroller
stood there and stared at me when I was working
after I finished that side, and I am starting
to move to the other side to mow the rest
of the lawn. The lady tells at me, she said.
"Hey where are you going, you need to finish
the lawn."
"Ummm, what I'm just trying to mow my lawn."
I said
"No that's not the lawn your supposed to mow."
She points at her lawn
"I don't work for a gardening company I'm
your neighbor."
"Yeah you do your truck is right over there."
She said pointing at the truck
Several meters away there just happened to
be a gardening truck with an industrial size
mower.
"Lady I dont work for that company, I'm your
neighbor, as I said earlier"
She was getting ready to go into a rant when
the son of the old lady came out of the house
(he was in his 30's)
"What's going on here?" He asks
"This lazy ass is refusing to do his job and
mow the lawn." The old lady said
"He doesn't work there he is our neighbor
stop harassing him." He says
This lady stomps off inside her house. And
I just finished the lawn the old lady's son
apologizes for his grandmother and goes inside.
Not that interesting of a story but it is
an I dont work here lady.
Karen goes for 2
L
UPDATE: I WON THE YETI!
After work last Friday I stopped in to the
liquor store (which is very large) to pick
up some beer and encountered my first true
Karen in the wild...
The store I typically stop at on my way home
from work has been running a contest for a
Yeti cooler for a month and I make it a point
to fill out a form each time I stop in. My
wife and i have been in the market for this
exact Yeti size for camping and I would rather
win it if I can. I do my routine of grabbing
our beer and stop at the display to fill out
an entry form, on this day there was a stocking
cart half full of cases of some random beer
near the display (might play a role later).
For reference, the employees of the store
wear clearly branded, black polos and black
dress pants. I on the other hand was wearing
a bright orange polo and khaki golf shorts.
Cast: Me - 31 years old K=Karen - around 55ish
I would guess OG=Other Guy - probably in his
30s like me
Halfway through filling out the form Karen
enters...
K - (condescending tone from behind) "Can
you help me with the beer?"
Me - (caught off guard) "Um, I dont work here..."
K - (looking at me like I just flying kicked
her toddler) "Oh! Well! (followed by some
kind of snort noise I have trouble describing)
I am sure this gentlemen is THE manager"
I think at this point she still thinks I am
an employee and OG (who is dressed in a plaid
button down and slacks and who was out of
my sight because he was also behind me like
her) is about to bust my lazy ass.
OG: (mockingly while holding a bottle of whiskey)
"I don't work here either lady..."
At this point I grab my two 12 packs in the
most obvious way as K looks at me then back
at OG and storms off muttering under her breath.
I truly think she was so dead set that we
were bad employees that I wouldn't be surprised
if there was a actual employee and/or manager
that got yelled at after I left for OG and
I's lack of service but I can't say for sure.
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