We don’t like the Karens. The Karens are the loud, obnoxious, condescending, sometimes bigoted racists, twatwaffles that deliberately start shit because they have some kind of personality disorder.

But, what about the Karens who are legitimately being inconvenienced? The ones who go inside an establishment and expect the service they paid for but instead get the opposite? The ones who are actually right because the other party royally fucked up?

I’m that Karen. There are some things that I don’t like to waste: time, money, and energy. Most of the time, the 3 go together.

So, if I’m paying for something and you tell me it will be ready by a certain date and then you tell me it’s been delayed then I will be like, “okay…I can wait.” But, when I don’t hear from you for days without an update on my order, yeah, I’m going off. That just 1) wasted my time by having to keep following up with you instead of you doing part of your job to keep me posted; 2) wasted my money on an establishment that didn’t live up to their expectations; and 3) wasted the energy it took me to open the Mail app and try to get an update from you without sounding like I’m talking to a 5-year-old.

Or when I’m physically somewhere and I’m being inconvenienced and/or being mind-fucked, I will get in your face and I will ask for your manager so I can get in their face. Now we’re all going to have a bad day. Go grab a margarita.

Or when I’m just minding my business and you start bothering me and I don’t want to speak to you, yes, I’m going off. I don’t have an approachable face and I don’t light up the room. Why aren’t you bothering other people?

So, I stand with the Karens who have legitimate reasons to be pissed off and throw a public shit fit because they’re being fucked with. I stand with them because I know what it feels like to have some fuckwad think they can get away with inconveniencing you or just being downright rude.

I pulled a Karen today. I applied for a position that said remote in the job listing and inside the job description:

Then, they send this bullshit:

Because I’m already having a bad week, I decided to pay it forward:

Now, we’re all going to have a bad week.

And I deliberately posted the company name and the email address of the hiring team because I don’t like to handle grown ups with kid gloves.