Daddies Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Karens in the Shipping Department

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We’ve been experiencing a bizarre cold cloudy wet spell for the last week or ten days, and it got so cold that I wondered whether there might be one last opportunity [which in fact there was] for some shipping.

I contacted a shop with the only known supply of a certain label in the entire country.

I paid for it on Wednesday, May 24th.

I respectfully requested shipment on Thursday, May 25th [although even just shipping on Friday, May 26th wouldn’t have been all that bad].

In the meantime, I assumed everything was going well.

Then I got an email today, informing me that Karen & the gang had decided to hold back the entire shipment over the Memorial Day weekend, and the wine wasn’t shipped until Tuesday, May 30th [the seventh day after I had made payment].

If it had been shipped as I had requested, then it would have arrived by Thursday, June 1 [when we’re still expecting to have cold cloudy weather in the 70s].

Instead, the shipper is telling me that the wine won’t arrive until Tuesday June 6th.

In the interim, the shipment will likely spend the weekend in a metropolitan area such as Memphis, Tennessee, where the weekend temperatures are forecast to be 93°F on both Saturday the 4th & Sunday the 5th.

The only reason I can possibly figure that folks hire Karens as staff would be because if you were to leave Karen at home with the kids, then she’d likely murder them, cook their corpses, and serve them to you as dinner.

This Karen phenomenon is destroying our society.

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If you’re shipping any method other than next day air directly to a ups or FedEx customer center you should just assume a high risk of heat damage.

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You seem a bit confused. It appears that it’s the buyer not the shipper who’s named Karen.

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This seems like our very own version of Wine Berserkers AITA.

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This thread is about the entitled vs. the allegedly incompetent. The seller isn’t remotely a Karen, but given that the term refers to White women who use their privilege to defend agressions against people of color and not merely someone who thinks himself entitled, it doesn’t apply to the buyer either. There is no need to de-nature this particularly pointed term of abuse into a simple term of insult.

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LOL’ed at Loesberg playing Captain-Save-A-Shlyukhe-Slur.

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I can’t tell if this post is a joke or not??

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I just checked my panties just to make sure.

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Agree with the above sentiment. Can we give the whole term “Karen” a rest. There are entitled, spoiled, narcissistic individuals of every race, color, and creed in my experience. They are not confined to Caucasian women. This generalizing term, is in my opinion, racist. There you go.

As to shipping concerns, if you want to roll the dice at this time of year, you should be prepared to specify next day shipping and eat the cost. Otherwise obtaining an item that has to be plucked out of inventory, packed, and shipped out without clear freight mandates is a gamble. I do understand that you spoke in a “respectful” manner to the store staff with your wishes. It is unfortunate that they responded with a C+ effort instead of an A. With any luck, the packing was good and the wine will have not been excessively heated. Might be a good time to pull a cork early as see what the deal might be…

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I understand the frustration, but the reality of wine logistics don’t always allow a store to ship an order immediately after it is received. The wines may be in a warehouse, there may be a whole shipping queue ahead of that order, etc.

Shipment seems to have gone out in a fairly timely manner, albeit it seems like you missed the shipping window. I usually request retailers hold shipments on all my orders when we get to May, but that’s just me. If you want to take advantage of a narrow shipping window, it’s always best to call the store or leave in some shipping instructions in the order notes.

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We’ve had a wonderfully cool late spring here at altitude (the high plains/front range) and I also gave some thought to some “late” wine orders/shipping, but ultimately decided any/all of it can wait until the fall. If I die before then, oh well.

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I’m fine with retiring the slur. But Nathan wasn’t doing that. He was misusing it, which continues its dissemination, which, again, is not about mere entitlement or Nathan’s comp!aint would fit the bill.

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I agree with the misuse. But how is the slur different than using the “N” word. Poor taste. NO matter how you use it.

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Karen is different from the N-word because we say (or type) Karen but don’t say (or type ) the N word. They are not the same.

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I’m equally frustrated by incompetence especially around not following clear instructions. But if you are going to blast someone for it, it helps to know the definition of the words you are using so you don’t end up being the one that looks incompetent.

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Equating Karen with the n-word is a very Karen thing to do. It’s egregiously wrong and entitled to do so. Please reconsider your position.

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I had high expectations, but this escalated even quicker than Nathan’s regular threads. Impressive!

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Big stretch there buddy!

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There’s a much, much longer and nastier history to the N word. “Karen” doesn’t carry anywhere near the baggage of the N word.