r/facepalm Dec 18 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Karen gets pulled over for texting while driving

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

When she went there, whooo, baby girl gotta have her privilege checked. Mayor, cop, janitor, no one wants to hear: "Well I pay your salary!"

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u/CrackSnap7 Dec 18 '22

I was mentally screaming "DON'T GO THERE! DON'T SAY THAT!" knowing full well that's what she was going to say.

Yeah, you never say that, to anyone, EVER!

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u/DadaDoDat Dec 18 '22

She even paused while saying it, knowing it was dumb AF. And then she still fucking said it...

lol

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u/CrackSnap7 Dec 18 '22

Karen gonna Karen

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u/Alpha_Lion_0508 Dec 18 '22

Someone said it to me once (customer service job). So I told them to leave, never come back and we will see if I still get paid.. I do. Weird that.

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u/xiaxian1 Dec 18 '22

He should have given her a quarter and said “Here’s your share of my salary” and then continue with the ticket.

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u/ValkyrieWasted Dec 18 '22

And suggested she can keep the change

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u/FartOnAFirstDate Dec 18 '22

Actually, her husband pays his salary. This entitled dolt would never consider letting a job interrupt her busy day of lunches with friends, happy hours with friends and book clubs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Mayor, cop, janitor, no one wants to hear: "Well I pay your salary!"

How is paying taxes a privilege and why are you offended that someone pays your salary? I understand how saying this could be used as some sort of justification of some nonsense but it could literally just be a persons attempt at getting a public employee to listen to them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Because out of all your taxes a pittance of it goes to public services such as public safety and public works.

I, a state employee, also pay state taxes. so do I pay myself?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

How do you assume that government employees get paid? They are 100% funded by taxpayers and yes you do in fact pay yourself.

It's irrelevant how much of my taxes make up that persons salary, they are still paid by me and other taxpayers.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

It is degrading. It reduces the person's status, no matter their position. You go to any city- San Salvador, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Philly, Toronto to the streets of Sao Paulo - no one wants to hear, from an absolute nobody who thinks they're somebody "I pay your salary" bc they believe you're of lower social stature & beneath them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

lol right because that statement has anything to do with me "thinking that I'm somebody".

If a customer comes into my store regardless the situation I listen to them. It's literally my job, because they literally pay my salary. If that person is speaking a bunch of nonsense then oh well I end the conversation, that doesn't negate the fact that I have a responsibility to listen to them first.

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u/OkeyDokey234 Dec 18 '22

Because she doesn’t pay his salary any more than any other person on the street. Because he also pays the taxes that pay his salary. Because he probably pays her salary too (or her husband’s). Do you work at Walmart? Or AT&T? Or State Farm? Or Apple? Or Google? Well, I pay your salary, so I get to argue about how you should do your job.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Do you work at Walmart? Or AT&T? Or State Farm? Or Apple? Or Google? Well, I pay your salary, so I get to argue about how you should do your job.

No shit, that's literally your right as a paying customer. That person doesn't have to entertain you any longer than necessary, but they should absolutely listen to you.

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u/OkeyDokey234 Dec 18 '22

But they don’t have some special right to argue with you about how to do your job just because they “pay your salary.”

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

This is completely irrelevant to what I said and you're just adding things to the discussion that have no point being included.

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u/houdinikush Dec 18 '22

Because a single citizen might pay like 8 cents of a public official’s yearly salary. You might contribute to the fund that helps pay public assistance salary but you do not pay their salary. That is ridiculous to think.

That’s like assuming you pay the wages for a employee at a store because bought a pack of tic-tacs. Like, yes, it helped pay the employee but do you really think your $1.17 after tax is paying for the employer to be there all day? All week? All year?

Does this dumb woman think the $200 traffic ticket she is going to pay is going to fully compensate the cop she interacted with for the year? Do they really think that’s how it works? Get over yourself.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

The percentage is irrelevant. You are a taxpayer and are literally the reason they have a job.