worked in retail or jobs where i deal with annoying entitled people directly for my entire life, since 14, but something rubs me the wrong way about the karen meme. i think its that it feels like a cover for social systems breaking down + pathologizing expecting a social contract
this is probably my least popular opinion. dont get me wrong, ive had "those customers" in my life for over ten years all the time, but it feels like they are lumped in now with people who are rightly complaining about general social decay that is actually frustrating and bad
like yeah if youre angrily sending back a salad because it has kidney beans instead of white kidney beans ur whack but at the same time all expectations of expecting some level of function from evil corporations that we tolerate is not a bad thing and is an unrelated phenomenon
just feel like somewhere there is some CEO or person responsible for making sure extremely basic things in society work who is cackling maniacally that his psy-op of getting people to write off all complaints about things like this has been successful beyond his wildest dreams.
