Dumpster diving Karen

[AkaiKitsune]

So Karen comes back saying she must have thrown her ticket out by accident and it's a big winner. Well, we already tossed the recycling.

No, she wants to go look for it in the dumpster. I explain that the dumpsters are locked. Well, I should give her the key then. I explain that I can't do that, it's a liability, and that the recycling from lotto is just tossed in loose not in a bag. "Come on, nobody has to know they never check cameras out anyway". Yes Karen they do, especially if someone gets hurt. Like if they're dumpster diving and trip, scrape their hands on our rusty as dumpster, hit their head, etc. I also point out that it's the end of the week and there's a week's worth of recycling in there so finding one slip of paper....and that there's no cameras back there so we wouldn't even know if she got seriously hurt until the next recycling dump which wouldn't be for several hours. I point out that it could mean not only my job but fines and possibly jail time and frankly I sure as hell am not risking that.

Then the classic Karen line. "I want to speak to your manager".

I point out it's two in the morning and my manager isn't here. No I can't give out her personal number. No I am not waking her up at two in the morning for her to say the same thing. I don't care if it's the worst customer experience you've had lady, believe me I don't get paid enough to care about you at all. (Not that I say that...or that it's her job to keep track of her shit. Not mine. Not the store's job either.) She eventually stomps off in a huff.

[Kristev]

You're quite right. You've no business contributing to her getting herself hurt. She can injure herself all by herself - and off your store grounds.

[Ironclad Alibi]

This reminds me of the guy that threw away an old hard drive. A few years later he realized he had some Bitcoins on it that went way up in value. He wanted permission dig through the landfill for it. He was denied.

Found the article.

James Howells' life changed when he threw out a hard drive about the size of an iPhone 6.

Howells, from the city of Newport in southern Wales, had two identical laptop hard drives squirreled away in a drawer in 2013. One was blank; he says the other contained 8,000 bitcoins — now worth about $181 million, even after the recent crypto crash.

He'd meant to throw out the blank one, but instead the drive containing the cryptocurrency ended up going to the local dump in a garbage bag.

Nine years later, he's determined to get back his stash, which he mined in 2009.

[XCashier]

Found the article.

Yikes! Seriously bad break there. Folks, pay attention to what the hell you are doing! Always check and double-check what you're about to throw away, especially when it comes to computers and other electronics.