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[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago

I love that this story is getting so much attention. What an extremely unpleasant person!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I feel bad that people like this are reinforcing the stereotype about the name Karen.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

When I worked retail I had a manager called Karen and she's pretty good, both as a person and as a manager. Some sort of karmic balance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I hope anytime someone asked for the manager you said, "I'll go get the manager, Karen."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

my auntie Karen smokes hash and lives in the rockies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

She sounds cool..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

She constantly asks to see the manager so she can get them baked

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Had to see the manager so much decided to just do it herself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I hate myself for laughing at this.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 21 hours ago

There are some great gems from this trial. This lady sounds not only lazy, but also extremely unpleasant to be around. I imagine she still feels wronged and will never change and grow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Karen went full Karen and the judge wasn't having it. Lovely. As a bonus, every employer who googles her during the hiring process will never hire her, so she's just tanked her employment prospects forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

MFW her name is literally Karen. 🤦

As a rule I don't like using a person's name as a derogatory word but come the fuck on. 🙄😕

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago

The example offered was when Conaghan wrote "whiz" in a coworker's card then claimed another colleague was copying her when they used "whizz" in a different card.

This story just gets better and better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

40 allegations, this person sounds like a liability.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

I always thought “are you taking the piss?” meant “are you being sarcastic?”. TIL

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

It sorta is, it's more like "are you even taking this seriously?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No, you’re right. That is what it means.

The sentence mentioning it in the article was weirdly worded. It wasn’t making any claims about the definition of the phrase, just when it was used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I think it depends on whether Karen knew she didn't work very hard, in which case her statement about doing "all the hard work" would be sarcasm.

However, given the other examples in the article I'd say she truly believed she did all the work - and therefore her statement was not sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Are you taking the piss, Karen? 😂