People Share The Most Entitled Behaviors They Have Seen Other People Do

There are a few select individuals who walk around as if they own the earth, as if they have the planet’s title deeds locked up in their lockers. For the rest of us mortals, who are aware that the world is a shared space, we call those people “entitled jerks”, or better yet, “Karens”. 

Read these stories shared by people all around the world detailing their experiences with these entitled individuals. Some of these encounters might flat-out leave you stunned. 

1. "If you fly, I'll buy."

A couple of years ago I had a study group going for a college course. We were usually together for 3 or 4 hours, so it was common for someone to volunteer to go get food for everyone. 

Since they were the person getting us food, we would all kick in a little extra so that the person getting the food didn't have to pay for theirs. Colloquially, "If you fly, I'll buy."

So one day, one of the girls in the group announces she's going to Dunkin' Donuts about an hour into the study session. I look up and say, "Ooh, I'll buy if you fly," she looks at me like I've grown an extra appendage and scoffs, in this disgusted tone, "I don't bring food to other people. Servants do that."

Remember, we'd all been doing this for each other for weeks now. She knew it was a thing. I was completely floored.

PM_ME_COLOR_STORIES

I saw a 12-year-old rich kid with his Dad at Guitar Center buying like $6,000 worth of recording equipment.

An item he was purchasing was on the lowest shelf, yet he snapped his fingers and pointed at it, telling an employee to “fetch this” for him.

[deleted]

My Ex-friend was with me at lunch. The waiter came up to the table and she looked him up and down. 

She shook her head and said, "No... no, go get someone else, I'm not putting up with you for the next hour."  

We weren't friends for long after that.

Jippyzippylippy

There was this girl that started working at the store I worked at and one night we were scheduled to work together in the same area. People who work in an area together usually talk while performing menial tasks so I figured I would get to know her.

She explained she was a former model and she seemed super prissy. Not to insult her character but it explains why she said what she did.

Imagine a typical conversation where you're trading stories and comparing but every time I would talk she would say, verbatim, "Yeah, but I don't care about that" and "I don't want to hear about that" with no proposed alternatives to conversation or anything. It screamed, "I'll talk, you'll listen, and nothing else"

IsolatedThinker89

Back in the day when I first began to do fieldwork, I met someone who just got his Ph.D. (and truly felt like he was the man). While we were out there, an old friend who he hadn't seen in years came up to him and greeted him using his first name. 

He stopped the person in the middle of their sentence and said "Excuse me, my name is Dr...___ and he was absolutely serious.

This was about ten years ago and I now have a Ph.D. but I wouldn't imagine doing that to anyone. The only people who refer to me as Dr are my students (if they don't use professor) or if I am at a conference or something and that is fine by me.

Suchascenicworld

My husband and I host high school-age exchange students in Canada. The students come from different places in the world. We had this one boy from Southern Italy and when he was about 2 weeks in, we had this conversation:

Him: My sheets haven't been washed yet.

Me: Have you washed them?

Him: No

Me: Well that's probably why they haven't been washed. 

Him: The housekeeper does that.

The weird thing is that he did his clothes laundry, he hung up the sheets because he didn't know how to put them back together. Needless to say, he learned how to do laundry properly, and make a bed, and left to go home with some basic cooking skills and a couple of recipes in his pocket.

The kid was a brat but his willingness to learn these things made us have the patience to teach him. This year he left home to go to University and sounds like some of these skills are working out for him.

TRNLJ6

“I should have your laptop. You’re sick. You’ll never use it.” 

This was my ex-friend telling me, someone who was on her (my) thirtieth round of chemo, that she (Ex-friend) should get my new laptop that was sent to me by a charity run by my hospital.

PurpleMerple

I work at a grocery store deli and a co-worker was once asked what the sale items were, so my co-worker mentioned that all yellow signs are specials, and she pointed to the signs we have.

The customer point blank told the coworker that she had no time to look at signs she needed to tell her all the sales.

Mewmaster101

I was riding the metro in Kuala Lumpur during the morning commute and this family gets on with a bunch of luggage. They were probably headed to the airport. 

They proceeded to pile up the luggage at the door to prevent people from getting on or off, presumably because they knew that the car would eventually be packed at that hour.   

People getting off had to cross into the adjacent car.

Tablair

I work at a high-end buffet in Vegas. You get sat and are told to wait, I come up and greet you, explain our offerings, go over the drink menu, take a drink order, and then inform you to help yourself while I get the drinks. 

As I stepped away one time I heard a kid about 8 or so say, "So I have to get my own food?" Mom said yes. The kid said, "I told you we should have brought Michael with us." Mom said, "NO, I told you before, we're not bringing our butler on vacation."

I was 5 feet away and this was clear as day. That kid was 100% not joking one bit. He really wanted his family butler to be on vacation so he wouldn't have to walk to a buffet and get his own food. I'm not insulting the little kid for having a baller lifestyle, but that was a crazy conversation to hear.

Buffetserver

I used to live near a very affluent area, and many of the most convenient grocery stores were just inside said area. A friend of mine was staying with us for a few weeks and would occasionally stop by said stores on her way home from work.

One day, while she was at the self-checkout a woman came up to her telling her to bag her groceries. My friend politely told her she didn't work there. The lady then insisted that my friend did indeed work there, and demanded she bag her groceries citing the way she was dressed. 

For reference, at the time she was working as an intern at a local engineering firm so her outfit was professional, and not at all resembling the uniform of the store.

Eventually, this lady's tantrum caught the attention of an actual employee, who then had to tell the woman SEVERAL times that my friend was not an employee of the store. At which point the woman said something along the lines of "Well she should have just bagged my groceries anyway".

TehAsianator

It was my first day working in a coffee shop. I was replacing someone else, and in the confusion of the switch, I didn't get the next customer's order right.

He looked at me angrily as I remade his order and said "Should have stayed in school!" I almost started crying but managed to keep my composure.

DJBlok

A customer and her kid were checking out at a major retailer where I work part-time. The cashier who was checking them out was a younger girl.

The kid was about 6-8 years old. He had something in his hands that the mom was buying and the cashier offered to ring it and give it back to him.

The kid said, "You better or I'll have your job."

The mom said, "Don't be like that (Johnny), she probably needs her job."

Gertrude_is

My older sister (about 12 or 13 at that point) and my dad were out buying her some new winter shoes. My sister locked her eyes on a pair of Converse boots almost instantly, and my dad suggested at least looking around some more if she found something even nicer. 

To that my sister just said in a very matter-of-fact way: "Remember, you're just the wallet."

Nowadays if someone from the family takes someone else shopping to buy them something it's "tagging along as the wallet".

Fenrilas

My mom had a friend who ended up marrying a rich guy and acting like she was hot stuff for it. She once asked us if she had given us some random kitchen appliance she had gotten rid of. 

When my mom replied no this woman dead ass said "Oh, I must have given it to one of my other poor friends."

WrathChild94

My flatmate was screaming at her parents over the phone for not buying her Airpods for Christmas. She's 18 and she gets about 3500 pounds a month.

She has been stealing her cancer-ridden mother's pain medication. 

[deleted]

I worked at a slightly upscale clothing retailer this past holiday season. My job was to take clothes to the fitting room for customers/clean the saleroom. In the saleroom (where some items were still -$100) a woman was talking on speaker phone with a friend loudly, picking things out to look at and throwing them on the ground if she didn't want them. 

I had to go around picking things up after her because every time I offered to put things back she'd say "no thank you," hold onto them for a few minutes, then throw them on the floor!

So many entitled customers were at that store, but that lady took the trophy.

Bananicula

I was at my friend’s house one night spending the night and having a good time when out of the blue he asked "What's it like being worthless with no money?”

I of course spent the night and went home the next day and then cut all communications.

I_want_dinonuggets

At my first job, I had a guy come in, shouting that his drive-through order was wrong. He slammed the bag down on the counter while he was yelling, and held up the receipt to prove it. He kept shaking it, too, like I wasn't looking. 

My job at the moment was just cutting and wrapping sandwiches, so I kept being like, "Sir, I'm really sorry that happened, but if you just go to the cashier, she'll get you squared away."

But he wouldn't go, kept yelling at me like it was my fault.

Eventually, he wadded up his receipt and threw it at me. That was the only time I ever turned and walked away without another word.

Motherfuqueer

This just happened the other day, at airport security, a woman tried to get through security before getting her boarding pass from the airline desk. 

She said "Can't you just let me go through first" and "Can someone go get it for me" and "Why can't I just get on the plane " the whole time talking to who I assume was her friend. 

I could not believe it.

Rangoranger39

Years ago as a teen, I used to volunteer at the animal shelter. I’d clean out cages, empty litter trays, clean all the dishes, feed the cats, and give them a fresh litter tray. And sure, it would sometimes be messy, especially if one of the cats was ill and had diarrhea. That’s a lot of cleaning and disinfecting. I never minded because I loved working with cats and I still do.

We get this new volunteer one day and I’ve got to show her the ropes. 

She immediately decided that she couldn’t possibly touch a litter tray because they were ‘dirty’, so stood by the sink and watched me scrub around two dozen trays.

She did nothing at all the entire time she was there. I asked her why she was here if she wasn’t going to help out.

Thankfully that was her only ever shift.

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Working for a non-profit that helped our local community’s homeless population, I was always surprised at the amount of people who had particular ideas about what kind of help we should provide them. 

A woman showed up during off hours at night frantic because she and her children had nowhere safe to sleep. There were 3 of us still there, and we decided to stay and try to help.

We had worked out a special rate with a local motel for short-term placements with children. We offered her 3 nights there while we worked on more long-term options. 

She got absolutely irate that we would put her in a motel instead of one of the town’s nicer hotels. Sure, the motel wasn’t fancy, but it was clean and safe, and we had housed several families there successfully in situations like these. 

She decided to leave because she had a friend with a couch. I liked her kids though. They were sweet and seemed to take care of each other. I originally thought mom needed a DV shelter but ended the night wondering if she had some mental health issues that needed to be managed and wishing she would have stuck around long enough for us to help her sort things out.

Frankiesaypanic

I was chaperoning my friend because she wanted to see some guys (who I didn't really know) but knowing that her mother wouldn't allow her unless she was with me. We arrived at the convention and met the guys. They were all obnoxious.

I didn't want to stay long and my head was hurting so I told my friend after 5 hours that I wanted to go back home and that she needed to come with me because we were also approaching curfew (which was 7 pm as we were only 15).  

 She just straight told me to my face, "I get that you're jealous of me but don't spoil my fun". 

I just left her there after that because she was actually being an idiot all day long to impress those guys despite taking my whole day, paying for our tickets, and lying to her mom and mine, so well good riddance.

[deleted]

When my mom was on vacation in Greece (years before I was born) there was a couple who was mad about how the people there could not understand/speak German. In GREECE.

My mom was actually embarrassed to be German and apologized to the owner of the shop they were in. 

But the whole thing had a funny twist.

Turns out the shop owner could actually speak perfect German. She just pretended she couldn't understand the couple to annoy them

Oquana

At the college where I worked, a student from Puerto Rico told a story about how she wanted to attend our institution from an early age. She was accepted and excitedly began her first few days on campus, a predominantly white and wealthy college.

In the dorm, one of her floormates stopped her in the hall and asked her what days she cleaned their rooms and if she also did their laundry. The woman was devastated and almost dropped out, but she persevered and graduated in four years.

[deleted]

I was working at a ladies' underwear boutique as a sales assistant. My boss had made it clear that I'm not supposed to spend too much time with one person and I needed to be available to help others and watch the entrance. 

This woman came to ask me where a product was, so I helped her find it. She told me to hold her bag and put it in. 

So I did, but it quickly became clear she wanted me to follow her around, hold the bag, and put items in for her. 

I politely explained that I needed to watch the front entrance and handed her bag. She picked up the bag, dropped it on the ground, and left.

Programinator

My well-off relatives bought their son a fifty thousand-dollar car before he was old enough to drive. 

He told them he didn’t like it and wanted a different one. They’re going to keep the car as an ornament in the garden and get him any car he picks.  

Xamidimura

I was building storage cabinets in someone's garage. I knocked on the door and asked if I could use the restroom. 

The lady responded that they didn't allow "workers" to use their bathroom, but there was a gas station down the street.

I went to the gas station alright, after I packed all my tools and didn't come back.

RonSwansonsOldMan

When I was 18 I was an assistant manager at a froyo place. All the other employees were 14-17 and in high school. I had to confront two employees after being made aware they never, ever cleaned anything (which of course is a sanitary violation). 

The employees are completely unrelated also, barely knew each other outside of being coworkers.

They both laughed at me and said they had maids who cleaned their houses so they never learned how to clean. I was so shocked my jaw actually dropped.

[deleted]

My elderly parents took us all on a nice beach vacation. One evening we went to a gorgeous restaurant overlooking the water. It was a fancy place which was super expensive.

My niece opens up the menu and sincerely whines in a loud voice, “I was told there would be crab legs!”

Jackof47trades

An ex-friend of mine is on dating apps and uses men to get free dinner and drinks (sometimes claiming she accidentally left her wallet at home).   

She refuses to go anywhere where she can’t get expensive food and wine because she says,

 “I am expensive”

Yayas333

My ex-girlfriend and I just got back to our hotel after a wedding. I asked her not to make too much noise as it was in the middle of the night and she was drunk and loud. 

She turns to me and says, “I don’t care, I can pay everyone’s salary here with my Hermès shoes.”

Shamefully it took more than that for me to break up with her.

Supladoman

I work at a restaurant as an expo and one time someone snapped their fingers at me because their server was busy with another table. I gladly helped the people and they laughed at me for trying to be helpful.

I work in a tourist-oriented town. 

I hate it so much.

[deleted]

I tried on some clothing in a dept store recently. The women's fitting room was full, so I used the teen one.

While I was in there I overheard two bratty little girls with their mom buying them clothes.

While Mom was bringing them more stuff to try the girls were cursing her and calling her stupid. 

Their mom just took it and carried on. As soon as I could leave I cried.

Bebe_Bleau

I’m on an airport shuttle heading through Los Angeles. We are dropping folks in an upscale neighborhood. A Hispanic woman gets off the bus at a very fine home. As the doors close an older lady says, “Obviously a domestic. She certainly doesn’t LIVE here.” 

As my jaw drops one of the other riders tells her how rude she was. I had never seen anyone dismiss a fellow human as that old lady did. I was sure glad the other rider called her on it while I was still in shock.

Cranberry58

My friend's son is exactly 1 year younger than my son. She complained that children's clothes are so expensive and they need new outfits and shoes every 3 months (her son was 6 months old).

I said I'd be happy to pass on some of my son's clothes as he grows out of them. She said, "Second-hand items are disgusting. I can't demean my son by dressing him in someone's sloppy seconds".

ShoelessJodi

There was a time that I worked at a dry cleaner shop, and a guy came to pick up his shirts and was pissed off that the plastic bag that covered them "wrinkled" his shirts

"I don't want to brag but I make a lot of money and spent over $200 a piece for these shirts, I expect better quality from your service!" he said.

Jamesshithead

I was going to a football game with my grandpa and his friends. These friends live in the "million dollar" part of Seattle and are pretty well off themselves. 

We are all sitting at a table for breakfast when I hear the wife say "I don't know why kids these days are so mad about student loans, just work and pay it off in ten years like I did" with my grandpa quickly agreeing.    

That took all I had to not reply "Okay boomer".

thepepperspray

In college when I was doing laundry. This girl had one hoodie she was washing and when she went to switch it from the washer to the dryer she squeezed all the water out from the hoodie on the floor! I felt so bad for the lady who had to clean it. 

The way the laundry room was left with detergent everywhere and lint all over the place. Some college students do not respect others.

Hoosiergarbage

I work at a hospital where a decent number of Saudi Arabian princes and princesses go. The whole family of 5 stayed in the US for 3 months with their sister, because none of them had jobs or had to work. 

They would call the nurses into the room to hand us trash to throw away. There was a trash can 2 feet away from them. They were otherwise needy but nice. They didn’t mean it in a demeaning way, I think they had just never been in a situation where they didn’t have servants around to hand trash to.

Pigeonpot

I met a guy at a college party, he said he crashed his 4th car, and that he was mad at his dad for not buying him a 5th. These were brand new cars, each of them over $50,000.

 He said, and I quote, "I'm not getting a job until my dad buys me a new car, I've earned it." 

Its_Irrevelant

I went to high school with two very wealthy twins. They were both very spoiled, and their parents got them whatever they wanted. No matter the cost. When they turned 16, they both got super expensive souped-up trucks (if you’re from the South you probably know exactly what kind of truck I’m talking about).

Anyways, one of the twins crashed his and totaled it after a few days. His parents wouldn’t pay for a new one because trucks like his are INSANELY expensive. He decided that if he couldn’t have a truck, neither could his brother, so he crashed and totaled his brothers.

Hushablush

During school lunch, there was a kid sitting next to me. He decided in his brain that he deserved more food than others. 

He yelled for a while until he got up and complained to the nice lunch ladies about not having enough food. Yet everyone knew he had more money than pretty much everyone. 

He felt entitled to more food and cheaper prices than everyone else. 

LORDBEERIS4

This girl broke my heart and rejected me for someone else. About a month later she wanted to drive around with me and one of her friends. 

They talked the whole time about how all the guys at her work wanted her and how she went on a date with a guy, not the one she rejected me for. 

It turns out they just wanted a ride to her house.

Trevor-On-Reddit

When I was in my early twenties a friend of mine dated a guy whose family was mega-loaded. For his birthday his grandpa gave him a car out of his personal collection. It was a 65 Mustang cherry red with chrome and original parts. 

It was his grandpa's first car and his grandpa said he'd never sell it, but he no longer had a driver's license and was pleased that he and his grandson could both drive the same first car!

Within 24 hours this boy completely totaled this car and his explanation was "Well, the old man shouldn't have given me a used car! I wouldn't have crashed it if it was a brand new one!"

TrueFakeAdult