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Drunk Man Calls His Mom After Bartender Denies Him A Drink, The ‘Karen’ That Comes Is Even Worse
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Drunk Man Calls His Mom After Bartender Denies Him A Drink, The ‘Karen’ That Comes Is Even Worse

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People who work in a customer facing environment are, unfortunately, often used to dealing with the absolutely worst customers out there. Add alcohol to the mix and you truly have a horrible entitlement cocktail. But once you mix in a Karen and her adult children, the whole experience becomes almost farcical.

A bartender shared her experience with the “Karen” mother of a particularly drunk man, who had taken offense that she refused to keep serving him. We reached out to the bartender in the story via private message and will update the article when she gets back to us.

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    Anyone who has worked in customer service has encountered the dreaded “Karen”

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    But one bartender had the bizarre experience of a Karen who was making demands for her drunk son

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    For those of you who are, perhaps, blissfully unaware, a “Karen” is a person, typically someone middle class with a serious attitude. They can normally be found (like in this story) harassing a service worker with demands, opinions and requests for a manager. This tends to be followed by statements like “do you know who I am?” or strange references to important connections this person supposedly has.

    This sort of entitled customer insists that they are simply always right and will berate the employee until they summon a manager. After all, they are 100% right and a higher-up will see it immediately. When this, inevitably, does not work out, they will turn to “invoking” corporate or really whatever higher up authority will fix their issue.

    Generally, this does not work and is a waste of everyone’s time. After all, why would an employee try a little extra to solve the issue of someone who is just downright rude and horrible? However, none of these facts have seemed to be effective at getting “Karens” to perhaps lose a tad of their unearned entitlement and to be a bit nicer. Some entitlement can be chalked up to poor communication, but this is rarely the case when it comes to just doing business.

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    While generally, a Karen is thought of as a woman, there are ample examples male “Karens” out there. Elon Musk has, at various times and by various groups, been called the “space Karen.” There have been some proposed male alternatives to “Karen,” including “Ken” and “Kevin,” but ultimately, none have truly stuck.

    That being said, this particular woman truly took it further than many “Karens” before her. She has decided to go on a crusade for her full adult son who has gotten himself entirely drunk. Instead of actually looking after him or thanking the bartender who is making sure he doesn’t go too far, she has concocted some sort of points system by which to argue that he should keep drinking. However, a classic part of being a “Karen” is simply not seeing employees as people.

    She even goes as far as to invoke some sort of mystical “Steve” as a name that is supposed to scare the bartender. This, obviously, does not work at all, but it’s a clear example of a person being so far gone in their entitlement that they truly can not understand what is good for them. For better or worse, most customer service jobs do at least help the employee build a tolerance towards this sort of nonsense.

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    Readers were surprised by the lad and his mother

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    Michelle C
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least I'm not alone...had a dude at a bar call his mom to confront me because I didn't want to talk to him. When he wouldn't let up and wanted to know why I said that it was because his eyes were too close together. He stormed off and came back with his mom AND dad to curse me out and my crew wasn't having it...long story short....BEST.BAR.BRAWL.EVER!!!!!!!

    Papa
    Community Member
    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mother sounds like the kind that goes along with her son to job interviews, and then berates the company for not hiring him.

    Batwench
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is actually illegal in the UK to serve drunk people “ Under the Licensing Act 2003, it is an offence to knowingly serve alcohol to a drunk person, or to obtain alcohol for a drunk person on a licensed premises”. The more you know.

    Donna Peluda
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    7 months ago

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    Sounds like the same as the gamble aware BS. m55, whole bottles (28 mesures) never got cut off.

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    Michelle C
    Community Member
    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least I'm not alone...had a dude at a bar call his mom to confront me because I didn't want to talk to him. When he wouldn't let up and wanted to know why I said that it was because his eyes were too close together. He stormed off and came back with his mom AND dad to curse me out and my crew wasn't having it...long story short....BEST.BAR.BRAWL.EVER!!!!!!!

    Papa
    Community Member
    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mother sounds like the kind that goes along with her son to job interviews, and then berates the company for not hiring him.

    Batwench
    Community Member
    Premium
    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is actually illegal in the UK to serve drunk people “ Under the Licensing Act 2003, it is an offence to knowingly serve alcohol to a drunk person, or to obtain alcohol for a drunk person on a licensed premises”. The more you know.

    Donna Peluda
    Community Member
    7 months ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    Sounds like the same as the gamble aware BS. m55, whole bottles (28 mesures) never got cut off.

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