r/IDontWorkHereLady - Insane Principal KIDNAPS My Niece! Thinks She's a Student!

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2:00I was wearing a teal top with gray shorts and I was in a wheelchair. I had grabbed a couple of things and I was turning around to leave that aisle and as you probably expected an older lady comes up to me and she asked for help. Now I'm clearly not an employee who at this place wears black pants and either a black or tan shirts and I'm clearly in a wheelchair. The woman comes up to me and says, hey you, I need this thing. I'm up there. She then points to the top shelf like miles above my sitting height. Now I would have done it if I was whole but I have terrible balance now and I don't like this down without my crutches. So I say to her, okay, I don't think I'm going to be able to reach that at all. Like maybe you can. She then interrupts me and says, no. I don't want to find someone else. I want you to get it for me. Me being me says, how? She says, just stand up and get it. I say to her, you can see that I'm in a wheelchair, right? That's not happening. Karen says, so if you work here, you need to help customers.

3:04And I'm thinking, wow, it's still not clicking. And I say, lady, I'm actually not an, she then interrupts again and says, I said, if you work here, you should help customers. That's your job. I finally get to say to her, oh, I'm a customer. I'm not an employee. Sorry. Karen looks as if she's finally seen the light and she takes in my entire appearance. She somehow went pale and red at the same time and I'm still amazed by that feat. And then she rushed off. Okay, guys, so even if OP was an employee, like what that Karen did was such an A whole thing to do, right? Like who the heck does that? I don't care if you're a wheelchair bound. You need to stand up. I need you, someone in a wheelchair, to get something that I can't even reach. Like holy crap, guys, the ridiculous things that some people say never ceases to amaze me like they really don't. I'm a 24 year old female who lives in a retirement home. Why I live here is due to my health. I'm having issues with blood properly flowing to my brain.

4:05I also live in Canada and the whole process is taking months to properly diagnose. Now why I was allowed to move into a retirement home was because of my health and how close the hospital is. Now, it's not a normal retirement home. It's more of an apartment complex for people 60 and above. I've also not been able to do laundry for three months due to my health. I'm having issues with my balance and my husband's been doing everything around the house. On this day, I decided to try doing laundry for the first time in three months to try to build up confidence and take it slow. I start doing laundry downstairs in the shared laundry room around 9.40am. After a while, I went down to get my laundry out of the washing machine to put into the dryer and there I was met with a personal support worker with her arms crossed. A personal support worker is like a nurse that comes to your house. They do laundry and help with anything. The woman says to me, hey, you're not allowed to use this washing machine right now. I need to use this washing machine. My shift is shorter than yours and I don't have enough time. I say to her, the rules are first come for a serve for the washing machine.

5:05It says above the machine. The lady then says, who do you work for? I say to her, excuse me. She says, are you even a support worker? I tell her no, I live here. The woman says, no you don't. You're way too young to live here. I tell her I've been living here for three months now and she says, well you should know that you're not supposed to use the washing machine. Thursday at 10am is when I use it and I use it because I'm helping sick people who can't do their laundry, unlike you. I then went upstairs for 20 minutes after putting my load in the dryer and I came back down after 20 minutes to check on my load and the machine was turned off. The woman had turned the dryer off, took out all my wet clothes and put it on top of the dryer. My clothes were soaking wet. I had to sit downstairs for 40 minutes to make sure she didn't turn it off again. And that's when she saw me and she starts yelling and says, I have a short shift. I need the machines now. I say to her, your load isn't even ready to be put in the dryer.

6:06I'm finishing my load because it's soaking wet. She tells me, I've been doing this for eight years here and I've never had any issues before you came along. I tell her, you should contact the landlord then. She says, no. I'm gonna put a note on the machine stating that no one's allowed to use the machines at this time. The woman then starts slurring angrily and she's yelling. I tell her, I have a hearing disability. I don't understand you. The woman had to wait an extra 20 minutes when she could have just let me finish drying and she didn't even have a load to dry at that time either. I filed a complaint and apparently she's going to be contacted by her employer. Yeah, so I just want to say that it doesn't sound like that woman has any business working with people. Never mind caring for them, right? Because she sounds like a wonderful person. Also, I feel like Opie should start doing her laundry at 9.40 on Thursdays from now on, just despite that woman. So I work as a sampler at a large warehouse superstar. My uniform is a white polo and black pants with a blue apron.

7:06I say this because in no way do I look like I work at Target. So my story begins after work. It was about 6 p.m. and I decided to stop by Target near my work. As I was wandering, I was listening to music on some cheap $5 headphones. I was looking to see if there were any good movies for the weekend binge. And that's when this woman in her 40s comes up behind me and she chams her finger into my shoulder. I turned around and pulled out an earbud saying, oh, I'm sorry, I'll move. I say that while stepping to the side and the woman says, where are you going? You need to help me. But that I reply, I'm sorry, I don't work here. And I proceed to put my earbud back in. And that's when I don't know where she grabs the wire to my earbud and she rips it out of my ear. For context, these are $5 earbuds that I got at Walmart. The woman then says, don't give me that crap. Now stop being lazy and help me find. I stop the woman right there and say, I don't work here, leave me alone. I then go and put the earbud back in and that's when she pulls it out a second time saying,

8:08how dare you. You are fired and then she storms off. I go to put my earbud back in and surprise surprise, I couldn't hear anything from it. All of a sudden I can hear a loud voice and it's that woman again with an employee. She starts screaming, there he is, there's that man who won't help me and he called me a bitch. The employee tells her, man, he's not an employee here but I can help you. The woman says, what do you mean? He's wearing a white polo of course he works here. The employee tells her, man, all target employees wear red polos. Seeing a chance to be petty, I chimed in and said, excuse me miss, I think you need to buy me new headphones since you broke mine, ripping them out of my ear twice. Of course the woman says, I will not. And I tell her, if not, I can always press charges on assault. I'm sure there's cameras that caught the whole thing and I will call the police. At this, without another word, the woman just grabs a pair of $40 headphones, she bought them and then she throws them at me before storming out.

9:08Guys I gotta say that I am actually impressed at the fact that this woman actually replaced OP set of earbuds. Like consider that $40 A-hole tax that you had to pay for being such a rude person Karen. With that said guys, how many of you would have taken the $40 earbuds and still called the police? This took place in Germany, when my niece was visiting during her summer break. Her break where she lived always started before hours, so school was still in session. On this day, my niece and I decided to take Doggo for a walk and go to the bakery on the other side of the street of a big school complex. So I go inside, she stays outside with Doggo, and I come back out and she was gone. Let us introduce the protagonist, there's the principal, me and my niece. I then decide to call her on her cell phone and this was the conversation. She picks up saying, thank god you're calling. Now I can hear some screaming in the background. Someone was saying something like how dare you take a phone call while I'm talking to you, you're in enough trouble for skipping class, blah blah blah.

10:09As I later found out, apparently he ripped the phone out of her hand and he must have hung up. I realize what must have happened, so I go to the school to clear up this misunderstanding and go right away to the principal's office, hoping she'd be there or soon brought there by a teacher. Outside, I can already hear him screaming at my niece. She kept telling her to stop lying and I didn't even bother knocking, I just went straight inside. Seeing me, he says, who are you and how dare you just come in here without knocking? I tell him I'm the girl's uncle, what are you doing? She doesn't go to your school. He then tells me to get out of the office or the police will be called and I'll be arrested for trespassing inside a school. I tell him I'm not going anywhere, calling the cops actually sounds like a great idea. After all, you've abducted my niece and you're holding her against her will. That's when I take out my phone, calling the police to the school, saying that my niece got kidnapped. The guy starts to shout at my niece again who is in tears by now and he's screaming at me to leave or I'll be arrested. So he called the police, only to find out that I actually did call the police.

11:10Suddenly he wasn't so sure anymore and you could tell that the cogs in his head were finally starting to turn. So the police arrived not too long after and they asked us separately what the story was. So here's roughly what my niece told the cops. She told them that she was waiting outside the bakery and that's when the principal comes charging at her like a bat from hell. He then screamed at her that he's really fed up with people skipping school and he's gonna make an example out of her. Before she could get a word in edge wise, he grabs her by the arm really hard and that's what started to get him into real trouble. The cops also took her info and that's when they asked us if we want to press charges and I said just throw the book at him. The principal heard the police saying press charges and suddenly realized that he was in real deep crap so the guy comes over and says hey so this is just a misunderstanding. You have to understand that I have to be strict with people skipping school. I tell him if by strict you mean assaulting a minor by grabbing her arm, abducting her from my care and withholding her by forcing your office while screaming at her, I don't

12:10have to understand that. He then goes on and says please please you're completely blowing this out of proportion. I tell him good anybody who treats a scared 12 year old girl like that should never get to work with kids. In the end he really did lose his job. He was also forbidden to ever work with kids again and I'm glad he did. During the investigation it turned out that he'd be little kids, always took the teacher's side no matter how wrong they were and even slapped kids on several occasions. He went to court for assault and attempted kidnapping plus wrongful imprisonment and also a few more charges against students. He got two years probation and 500 hours community service with the stipulation it could be nothing that involved kids. He was also forbidden to ever work with kids again. So yeah that principle is a frickin idiot guys and this post makes me so mad that that man can be so dense to not realize that one not all kids that hang outside the bakery buy the school, go to that school and two even if they were a student from that school and they did happen to be skipping you should not be putting your hands on them and dragging

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15:20stocking shelves and recording stock in the warehouse. In this supermarket as I'm sure is the case with most others when things got busy the checkout manager would call over the speakers to request help from all the tail train staff or specific staff members by name. When this happened you normally had to drop what you were doing and just go sit at the tails until the cues were reduced. So one Saturday afternoon I heard a call for someone whose name was vaguely similar to mine. But not the same, let's say Adam instead of Andrew. Of course I paid no attention to it and I continued working on my stock check in the warehouse. When I returned to the shop floor about 20 minutes later the checkout manager marches up to me and she yells that she told me to come down and I have to do what she says. I told her I never heard her call me. At which point she says don't lie Adam you must have heard me. At this point it clicks that she doesn't even know my name. Despite me having worked there for 6 months regularly interacting with her and had my name on her list of tail train staff. So I calmly tell her that my name's Andrew not Adam.

16:22She doesn't accept this and we get into a bit of an argument where she's convinced that my name is Adam and that I'm just messing around. I told her to check with the duty manager, my line manager or any supervisors on her team because I know them all. I then walked off to resume my work and at the age of 17 it did feel a bit dangerous to walk away from a manager who is having a go at you. But I knew I was in the right and I knew I could easily get one of the other managers on my side if she tried to punish me. I worked at that place for about a year after this incident and at least once every week I would hear Adam to the check out. I knew full well that she was asking for me but I never once answered the call out out of principle. When she tried to rage at me again I told her that she didn't ask for me because my name's not Adam. After a few times she finally spoke to my manager about disciplining me to which my manager told her that she had it wrong. She then started to use my actual name after that but she spoke to me like I was a piece of dirt every time she saw me. Gotta love it when vindictive and competent people get into small positions of power.

17:24Yeah good on OP for standing up for himself guys. It also sounds to me like that woman has a little problem with owning up to mistakes because the only reason she'd keep calling OP Adam is because she doesn't want to be wrong right or maybe she was just that dumb who knows. When I was in college I worked for maybe two weeks at a clothing store that's well known for their ads with preppy, muscular college guys with no shirts on and the pretty girl next door type girls. My roommate worked there so I got a job there as well. I've never worked somewhere that was as badly managed as the store. I showed up for my shifts the first week and nobody even knew I was supposed to be there or what I was supposed to be doing. They just told me to walk around and fold clothes and never train me on anything. My roommate and I would leave and shop in the mall. Now you had to wear their clothing to work there and when I went to buy some clothes with my discount the manager another college girl just told me to take it because that's what they do. Now I'm not someone who's comfortable with stealing so I insisted on paying for my things which seemingly annoyed the manager.

18:25I ended up not going back to work after a week or two because the place was such a train wreck. I kept receiving paychecks for weeks after I quit. I called corporate and tried to explain that I didn't work there anymore but I was still getting paid for my scheduled shifts and they seemed just as confused as I was. The paychecks kept coming. I called multiple times as I was worried that they would demand that I had to pay the money back when they realized their mistake. I was getting annoyed by having to keep calling. Someone in corporate told me to just keep the paychecks and he would fix the issue. The checks finally stopped coming after at least two months of free pay and I never did have to pay the money back. Years later I received a letter from a lawyer in the mail in regards to a class action lawsuit against the company. I was entitled to money for them not paying me enough. It had something to do with them requiring employees to wear their clothing which was funny considering I knew those employees had been stealing the clothes anyways. I figured I might as well be included in the class action lawsuit as I had purchased quite a few pieces of their clothing for my short time of working there.

19:25And just to be honest I was amused by the whole thing at this point and just wanted to see what would happen. I ended up getting a hundred dollar gift card in the mail. They calculated it based on how long I was paid for my employment there. Not by how long I was actually employed there. I was like man this store really wants to keep paying me even years later. They just refused to take the hint that I don't work here. What in the world guys OP was right about that. Like what a train wreck of a store that was. Like I've never heard of anywhere continuing to pay someone for two months after they quit. I actually have a lot of jobs. I think I'm up to 5 at the moment. All 0 hours, flexible and freelance stuff. I've got to jump around a lot if I want to make full time pay. Most of my jobs involve caring for or entertaining children in some way. So there was this one little girl who I'll call Jane. She's about 6 and lives in my town. She has a few younger siblings and keeps showing up at my various jobs. We don't really know each other.

20:26I just recognize her face and she recognizes mine. Each time she finds me she gets more and more confused. So during the school holidays our interactions were sort of like week 1, I painted her brother's face at the fair. Week 2, I helped her sister choose a book at the library event. Week 3, I sold something to her mom at the shop, etc. and so on. I've never interacted with her directly but I've seen her at least once a week all summer. Each time she clocks me at a different job I can see her little rain trying to figure out why I'm also here. I think I'm starting to scare her a little. Like maybe I'm following her or something. No one else in her family seems to notice or remember me. So the town had this big event at the end of summer and I wasn't working. I was there enjoying some candy floss and just chilling out dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. I'm sitting on the benches and Jane and her family walk past and her head turns all the way around as she stares at me. I can see her little rain freaking out a little bit like why am I here too. I then give her a little wave and she waves back and off she goes.

21:28About half an hour later I'm watching the school kids perform their show and I feel a tug on my sleeve. It's little Jane and she has tears in her eyes. She asks if I can help and this is the first time she's ever spoken to me. She tells me she's lost her mom and she needs help. Well of course I'm going to help her. Having worked with kids I know the drill. I get the info we need, mom's name, what she's wearing and we find the lost children's stand and we get the staff to send out a message for mom. I assure her that mommy is looking for her too and we'll have to wait until she finds us. She's holding my hand tight and as we wait she says I'm glad you work here too. I didn't have the heart to correct her. This is such a wholesome story guys and I'm sure Jane's going to remember her encounters with OP forever. And I really do love the wholesome stories as much as the crazy Karen one guys. I'll tell you that. And now my friends brings us to another end of our slash I don't work here lady guys. I hope you enjoyed today's stories. If you did hit that thumbs up and if you're not subscribed consider subscribing so you don't miss these crazy crazy stories.

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