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Okay...so my new name is Super Karen. :D :D :D

馃様馃様馃様 I have just HAD the last nerve rubbed the wrong way by a horribly rude woman over at the food pantry, so...I wrote a letter to the Director. I am now almost all Karened out.

Those of you who know me, know that I have been trying to get food boxes for people who live in my building who are living with food risk.

If the people who live here in my building HAD cars, they would drive over to the food pantry, pick up their own food, and no one would ever give them a problem. They would just receive food, without the rudeness.

We have disabled people living here, people whose income is below the poverty line, and...in general people who don't have enough food. But they can't drive over to the food pantry. It's quite a drive.

This woman has MOCKED me for calling in special diet requests on food orders, she has shorted us time and time again, forcing me to drive back on the following day when there are no strong backs to pick up the heavy boxes, just me.

And this time, she told the guys from my church who pick up the food that we should not RELY on it.

I've had it. We are not beggars who need to be kicked before we are allowed to have our bread. We are good people, trying to help others who REALLY need help.

I hope and pray that the Director has some influence, and can give this rude, rude woman a dope slap.
JohnnyNoir56-60, M Best Comment
She sounds like a real piece of work. And I applaud your efforts in taking care of others.
4meAndyouF
@JohnnyNoir Oblivious...and unkind.
JohnnyNoir56-60, M
@4meAndyou wrong person for that job. And you're only a Karen if you wear ill fitting clothes, a bad hair style and there's video
JohnnyNoir56-60, M
@4meAndyou and we'll have to do something about rubbing that wrong nerve the right way

MoonlightLullaby41-45, F
Aww, my heart cries for you and yours. Your kindness knows no bounds and you shouldn't be slighted for it. Especially not when you're following through with what the program is designed for. And to not rely on it? It's food, ffs, and we all rely on it. I know she's speaking of the system, but that's why the system itself was created and exists. As a person with food allergies/disorders, the audacity to bring up "special diets" goes through me.

I hate when people who lack empathy and have power trips get involved with public service; volunteer at that. I'm sorry you're having to fight this when your heart is in the right place. Not just this instance, but also those where others have placed unfair burdens on you when it comes to the physical demands. Have faith that your church will stand behind you and I'm gonna bet they will because of your generous and heartfelt spirit.

Peace be will until then, sweetheart 馃拹馃尶
MoonlightLullaby41-45, F
@4meAndyou So you think she's on a power trip because, in her mind, she's better than? Or using this as a means to hoard for the shelter? I'm a little slow today.鈽猴笍馃き

Sidenote: Thanks for the kind words. I love you too, my sweet friend. But I'm [i]far[/i] from loved by everyone.馃槈馃か
4meAndyouF
@MoonlightLullaby Well...all right. Let's call it, "loved by 99%"...馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ I just think this woman is MEAN. She obviously thinks extra work for her while filling food boxes, looking for foods for people on special diets, is a subject for mockery. She basically sneered at one of our people who used to give me a full grocery list and ask for anything on it that she could get. I don't think they prepare enough boxes, and I think this woman hoards boxes so that she won't have to fill more. On Fridays, the trucks arrive and take away fruits and veggies that they haven't distributed for the pigs in the area...so I don't know why they don't want to give the food to us. I guess we aren't as important as the pigs.
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Heartlander80-89, M
Little things that go unnoticed by most of us are sometimes huge obstacles to marginalized or compromised people and can have crushing impact on them and undermine their sense of well being. Rude people who act like they are doing poor or handicapped people people a big favor and think it's their job to dish out negativity really need to go work elsewhere, even if they are volunteers working for free.

Transportation can be a huge issue for people without automobiles and/or no go-fers to go to the store for them. Like how much food can an elderly person carry if they have to walk back and forth in all kinds of weather to a supermarket that's 10 blocks away? How much food could even a young person handle on that 10 block trip if they also had to carry a toddler? Imagine all that with a physical handicap?

God bless you for your efforts to be the connector. I've had enough insight to understand the challenges.

A personal experience had me running an outreach program in a housing project about a dozen years ago. Our first presentation program was scheduled for like a Sunday afternoon. The day before the very same facility had a visit by Santa Clause. Attendance for Santa's appearance was in excess of a thousand. For our program, we had a crowd of 11. We pondered that imbalance for quite a while. What did Santa have that we didn't? Santa arrived with a bag of cheap plastic toys, but we had a message that would possibly add years to their lives. So why was Santa a bigger draw than us? Easy! Santa delivered hope and love. It wasn't the cheap plastic toys. Santa made people feel good, feel important, feel loved. Over the next few months we managed to swell our attendance to a couple of hundred. How? We did what Santa did. We shrouded our pitch in love and hope.
sladejr56-60, M
She really is in the wrong job - holding out food as a weapon

You could tell her she's like Stalin during the Holodomor
SumKindaMunster51-55, M
@sladejr "The Holodomor"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
sladejr56-60, M
@4meAndyou What a great spirit of charity! God bless her! 馃槆
sladejr56-60, M
@SumKindaMunster thanks. I knew I didn't have it totally right
Musicman61-69, M
Kick her to the curb and get a real person in there. I hope she gets fired! 馃槨馃槨馃槨馃槨馃槨 Wrong is wrong!
sladejr56-60, M
@4meAndyou

Park her on a desk in the middle of the highway!
Musicman61-69, M
@sladejr During a blizzard! 馃槨
sladejr56-60, M
@Musicman Not enough traffic moving fast in a blizzard 馃槇
TheOthetAcc36-40, M
I don't know, but I [i]think[/i] a Karen is one that exacerbates a minor situation. You appear to be rightly annoyed. You're doing good in the world. Stay awesome.
cherokeepatti61-69, F
@4meAndyou sounds like a superhero character, hehe.
4meAndyouF
@cherokeepatti Well, I am willing to become Super Karen, in the right cause...馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ
cherokeepatti61-69, F
@4meAndyou Better get your tights & cape ready then.
Ferric67M
she needs a big dope slapping intervention
4meAndyouF
@Ferric67 YES!!!! SECOND BEST COMMMENT!!!!
Primnproper56-60, F
She sounds like the equivalent doctors receptionist here in the UK, that puts you through a questionnaire and an assault course before we can get a doctors app. They鈥檙e like little hitlers here.
4meAndyouF
@Primnproper That was the word I wanted to use...but even though she is shades of hitler, I can't say that she is there yet. She is just...rude and controlling...over people who NEED food.
Primnproper56-60, F
@4meAndyou our doctors receptionists here can be atrocious. It鈥檚 so wrong to be so unhelpful to people that really need the help especially where foods concerned in these times.
BizSuitStacyM
Unacceptable behavior.
WillaKissing56-60
By the way You are not a Super Karen!!!!!!!!! I would say Super Compassionate and Caring and Loving of your fellow humans, but definitely not a Karen or Super Karen.
4meAndyouF
@WillaKissing 馃ス馃ス馃ス馃ス馃ス馃ス DON'T be so sweet and nice to me!!! You are making me cry, and that screws up my sinuses...馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ

THANK you.
WillaKissing56-60
@4meAndyou Well, Well, dang it mop the floors, go to your room your grounded, did this help your sinuses?

PS: You're the sweet one!
4meAndyouF
@WillaKissing Yes, that helped...馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ馃馃馃
You were not being a Karen. Hope your letter does some good and they correct her bad behavior.
Adrift61-69, F
It sounds to me like the woman is a super Karen.
Let me guess, she drives a BMW or big SUV, parks her car in spots clearly marked as reserved for someone else, and pats herself on the back for volunteering at the food pantry.
4meAndyouF
@Heartlander The fellow who RUNS the food pantry is VERY nice. He has been working there for almost 2 years now since the previous food pantry manager left, and he seems to just put up with this woman, and doesn't say anything.
Heartlander80-89, M
@4meAndyou Once promoted it's difficult to un-promote a bad egg. When you do, that person may become resentful and want to poison the well for everyone.
4meAndyouF
@Heartlander She is definitely a poison pill.
This. This why I worry about the weaponisation of the word 'Karen'.

I remember you putting about your Charitable work on a post of mine- it was certainly an encouragement for me and no doubt many others too!
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@TheOthetAcc Ofcourse OP is not a Karen, she helps people.

The woman OP is dealing with is being super rude, especially as it is charitable work.
WillaKissing56-60
I hope so too for all those you try and help.
4meAndyouF
@WillaKissing That is VERY sweet and kind of you to say. THANK you!!!
WillaKissing56-60
@4meAndyou You are quite welcome.
4meAndyouF
@WillaKissing 馃馃馃
sladejr56-60, M
I 鈾ワ笍 super duper Karens!
4meAndyouF
@sladejr Thank you!
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4meAndyouF
@icedsky Wouldn't THAT be nice. I don't think she is doing community service for the courts, however, because one day I called in, and she was answering the phone in the office. That was almost the last time anyone ever answered the phone over there.
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