Source: Reddit
As I’m walking through, I hear the dreaded harrumphing of an approaching needy wild Karen. She wasn’t looking at me, but at a teenaged girl. Now the girl was wearing jeans, jacket, handbag, and absolutely no uniform. This Karen starts whipping up a storm of demands and threats, and the poor girl looked like she was about to cry.
Something had to be done.
I decided that I’d intervene, but before I’d taken two steps, a genuine, bona-fide suit-wearing legend arrived, and… alright, I didn’t know he was a legend immediately, so I am getting ahead of myself.
Legend: (booming over Karens squawking diatribe): “What seems to be the problem?”
Karen was taken aback by his voice, but soon regained hers, and started complaining about everything the girl hadn’t done, and how she should be fired, blah blah blah.
The guy turns to the girl and says, “Right, I’m officially promoting you to a customer. You’re fired. Enjoy your shopping experience.” The girl had clearly figured out what he was doing, and couldn’t stop grinning.
The legend turns back to Karen and says (as the title suggests): “She’s fired. Happy now?”
Karen saw the girl still smiling and decided she was even less happy, nearly shouting, “but I want her to get.. (something or other) and…”
The legend stops her in her tracks, and says, “That’s a customer you’re harassing. If you continue to harass her, or ANY Other customer in this store, I’ll have those large men from security haul you out the shop.”
Karen harrumphed again, albeit more quietly, stuck her nose up in the air, and stalked off.
As she got to the end of the aisle, the teenager just burst out laughing, and it was such an infectious laugh, the legend joined in.
Brilliant!
How would you handle such a situation?
