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Man Finally Gets A GF, Best Friend’s Wife Realizes That She Might Be A “Karen”
Sometimes you meet a person, and you instantly click, which makes you wonder – why didn’t you two meet earlier? So much time wasted being apart that you could’ve spent together. And then, other times you meet a person, and you instantly know – you don’t want to encounter them ever again.
Yet, sometimes, no matter how much you don’t want that, you have to, just because they’re somehow already integrated into your life. For instance, they’re your husband’s friend’s girlfriend. Yes, that’s exactly the situation today’s post’s author found herself in. But netizens had split opinions about her attitude.
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While sometimes you click with a person you meet for the first time, others times, you experience the complete opposite reaction
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Like this woman, who met her husband’s friend’s new girlfriend and realized she wouldn’t be buddies with her
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From the second they met, this girlfriend rubbed her the wrong way
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Then, she shared her opinions about the story they were all discussing, which highlighted that she doesn’t have that much respect for service industry workers
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This only proved to the woman that while this girlfriend might make her husband’s friend happy, she would never be her friend
The OP’s husband has a best friend who has been single for a while. Finally, he found someone with whom he sees himself and introduced her to his friend and his wife, the original poster.
The woman really wanted to like his girlfriend, since she makes the man happy, but after their first meeting, she realized she’s not really looking forward to their hangouts in the future. Apparently, from the second they met, the girlfriend rubbed her the wrong way. And then, she shared her opinion on one subject that proved to the OP – they won’t be close friends.
What happened was that her boyfriend shared a story about how his mom realized a drive-thru of a chain restaurant had messed up her order. She drove to another of their locations and demanded that the order be fixed. This kind of demand seemed unreasonable to everyone, except the new girlfriend. She was convinced that the restaurant had to make the order, since it was the same franchise.
This tipped the OP off that this new girlfriend of her husband’s friend was a “Karen,” for sure, one of those who do not respect service workers. She was clearly a person who carries out all sorts of microaggressions, demands to see the manager at any slight inconvenience, belittles service industry workers or other people they deem to be lesser than them, and so on.
So, basically, the woman couldn’t see how she could be friends with this woman. Which is kind of puzzling if you really think about – if her friend chose her as his partner, shouldn’t that automatically mean they should get along? After all, if you vibe with someone, it’s rather likely that they would get into a relationship with someone on a similar wavelength.
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While in some situations that’s exactly the case, it’s not a guaranteed situation, which today’s story proves to be true. When this happens, a person should look within and evaluate why they feel like this towards their friend’s significant other – is it really about them, or are some of their own issues manifesting in this dislike?
Of course, it might as well be an issue with them. Maybe you two just don’t have any overlapping interests to bond over, or perhaps you’re just awkward people or something of that sort. Just because you don’t vibe with someone, doesn’t mean they’re inherently a bad person.
Well, we can’t really objectively say which of these applies to today’s situation, but from what the OP described, it seems like this woman is a “practicing Karen,” which is the main reason their friendship stalled.
While some netizens agreed with the original poster and her sentiments towards this “newcomer”, others thought that she made a snap judgment and didn’t try to fix it in any way, just judged a woman without knowing that much about her.
Which side do you belong to? Please, share your takes in the comments!
Some netizens agreed with woman’s opinion, while others thought she might have been to harsh to not reevaluate her snap judgement
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Janelle Collard 1 month ago
I don't know about other places, but most of the fast food places around here are franchised, and one person doesn't own all of the same kind: McD's, KFC, etc. So expecting a different location to fix your order is like buying something from Macy's and expecting Nordstrom's to fix the mistake!
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
Even if the locations were all owned by one company or whatever, they each have their own sales goals and cost budgets. At bare minimum, why would one well managed location remotely agree to make up for a poorly managed one if they each had to manage their own sales and costs? The only way I can see this working is if like a family has two locations of its own family restaurant in a small town, where maybe the other location would fix a mistake becuase ultimately it's all under the same umbrella.
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Dusty's mom 1 month ago
Thirty years working for a FF and we got this attitude a couple of times. Managers always said "no". I had a special job with their public relations and got pulled into an argument between two teachers who asked me to mediate this question. I suggested they think of it like siblings. Does someone need to atone for the mistakes of their sibling? They're related and come from the same source. Does that make the innocent sibling culpable by blo-od? Each FF restaurant has its own bottom line, and is not supported by the others in the chain. So replacing food from another in the franchise is the same as giving away freebies. Not their store, not their responsibility.
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
Her thoughts about franchises fixing other franchies' "mistakes" is nonsensical. Sure, MAYBE if every location were owned by the same person or company they would cover for each other. But, even then, each location has sales and cost goals of their own and fixing food for other locations as a matter of policy would affect their own bottom lines. If it were something like there were two locations of a micro chain in one town? Sure. But even if all the locations were under one corporate umbrella is still would not make sense to mix and match customer service like that as a blanket policy. And that's not even taking into consideration that the locations maybe owned by different franchiers. Why would one a good store agree to fix the mistakes at a poorly run store? It makes zero sense.
Janelle Collard 1 month ago
I don't know about other places, but most of the fast food places around here are franchised, and one person doesn't own all of the same kind: McD's, KFC, etc. So expecting a different location to fix your order is like buying something from Macy's and expecting Nordstrom's to fix the mistake!
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
Even if the locations were all owned by one company or whatever, they each have their own sales goals and cost budgets. At bare minimum, why would one well managed location remotely agree to make up for a poorly managed one if they each had to manage their own sales and costs? The only way I can see this working is if like a family has two locations of its own family restaurant in a small town, where maybe the other location would fix a mistake becuase ultimately it's all under the same umbrella.
Load More Replies... Dusty's mom 1 month ago
Thirty years working for a FF and we got this attitude a couple of times. Managers always said "no". I had a special job with their public relations and got pulled into an argument between two teachers who asked me to mediate this question. I suggested they think of it like siblings. Does someone need to atone for the mistakes of their sibling? They're related and come from the same source. Does that make the innocent sibling culpable by blo-od? Each FF restaurant has its own bottom line, and is not supported by the others in the chain. So replacing food from another in the franchise is the same as giving away freebies. Not their store, not their responsibility.
JayWantsACat 1 month ago
Her thoughts about franchises fixing other franchies' "mistakes" is nonsensical. Sure, MAYBE if every location were owned by the same person or company they would cover for each other. But, even then, each location has sales and cost goals of their own and fixing food for other locations as a matter of policy would affect their own bottom lines. If it were something like there were two locations of a micro chain in one town? Sure. But even if all the locations were under one corporate umbrella is still would not make sense to mix and match customer service like that as a blanket policy. And that's not even taking into consideration that the locations maybe owned by different franchiers. Why would one a good store agree to fix the mistakes at a poorly run store? It makes zero sense.
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