A Karen thinks I know nothing about business because I'm a woman and demands to be served by a man,

but I am the department manager. So when a man does come to serve her, he has to come to me because

I'm his manager, and the Karen did not like that one bit. Here's what happened.

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I work in a hardware store and a woman who is one of our customers demanded to speak to a male

employee because she thought that I couldn't do my job. So I maliciously complied.

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notifications. This happened 16 years ago. When I was about 20 years old, I was a department

manager in a big box hardware store. People said I acted 25, but I didn't even look 18.

As a young female, I saw my fair amount of discrimination, but the worst always came from women.

This is the story of one such woman. I managed the paint department. I had to re-associate

to work for me. They love me as a boss because I bought them in department radio,

took the shifts they didn't want, worked Friday clothes, and Saturday mid, so my two younger guys

could have time to have fun on Friday nights, and the older gentleman took early Saturday morning

so they could sleep off their fun. In trade, I gave the older gentleman his ideal schedule.

My team was awesome. One day, I was in the department alone and a lady came up and asked me where

she could find the five gallon oil-based primer. I let her know that my location didn't carry the

five gallon size of that primer. She told me that we did and said that it was shelved right there,

suggesting that I was too stupid to remember. Her husband gave me an apologetic look. I let her know

that another location had what she was looking for, and that it was in fact in that exact location

at that store. She let me know how stupid she thought I was for thinking that she could mix

up stores. Then she began yelling and loudly insisting that I get a man out there to help her

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