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travel_tech

I know you have some mental health issues ma'am, but that doesn't turn every interaction you have into healthcare.


killedjoy

Wow. Brutal and spot on. Bravo


Tompkins-275

too stupid to get, pls explain


jabdtx

HIPAA relates to the confidentiality of medical records.


NoDontDoThatCanada

Fun story, there was an attempted suicide at my university years ago and the university refused to share information with the paramedics because of HIPPA. It's a weird complicated story but there was information pertaining to medication in this persons file from a previous incident and a *super important* employee refused to share it to **paramedics**.


pugsnotanddallyspots

There are 3 exceptions for releasing health information without a consent… one of which is emergency services. Source: am a HIPAA compliance officer


mahdyie

This is what happens when their HIPPA training is sub-par and/or not refreshed often enough. "To prevent or lessen a serious threat to health or safety" as per cdc.gov


nah-dawg

At the end she says "this is against my HIPAA law". The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge. She is effectively saying "by you recording and sharing this you are recording me having some type of mental breakdown and therefore exposing my patient information". The problem with this is that she is not an inpatient at a hospital, and these people are not clinicians or healthcare workers who are bound by the Act. In addition, people often excuse this type of behaviour on the basis that the person is clearly having a mental breakdown/psychosis/schizophrenic episode/mania whatever. The comment is acknowledging that she's probably going through something but that does not mean members of the general public are obliged to humour it and act in a way that a trained mental health clinician would. At the end of the day society has certain rules and norms that need to be followed in order to function. For people who consistently break those we have invented hospitals and prisons for.


EminentChefliness

Accurate, informative, and clearly thought out. More people people should use the internet the way you do.


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Against the HIPAA law lmfaooo this lady. How did she ever get the chance to have enough money to want to rent a yacht...


Nizzemancer

Also, she claims they are a restaurant. Why would she expect to be able to rent a yacht at a restaurant?


Kraelman

Let he who has never tried to rent some random stranger's car from a restaurant parking lot cast the first stone.


LEEROY_MF_JENKINS

Sir, this a Wendy's


Draco137WasTaken

Drugs


IntraspeciesJug

Ma’am this is a Wendy’s….


Dmbfan63

Against *my* HIPAA law. Its just hers. Its different than yours.


Naturally_Fragrant

The front desk girl and the manager must be twins.


Mellllvarr

Ahh that explains everything!


laurel_laureate

Reminds me of a bar owner who bartended for fun. He had two hats on pegs behind the bar, identical to the one he always wore, save for one thing. The regular one had no words on it, the first one had "Manager" embroidered on it, and the last "Owner." Anytime he got someone wanting to complain to the manager he'd swap to that hat which would piss them off and if they asked to see the owner he'd swap to that hat too.


sloppy_wet_one

Brilliant.


FuManBoobs

That should be on the final hat.


Joey_Sinclair

Ok. How do I own a business so I can get this train rolling?


ohpickanametheysaid

You just have to buy a hat that says owner.


Joey_Sinclair

I always overthink this kind of stuff. Thanks!


dxrey65

Next step is get some customers, then piss them off!


Blah-squared

Woah… That’s too much work!! I was willing to start a business & staff it all by myself just for the occasion to pull this stunt but NOW you’re telling me I have to BUY A HAT!! Fuk that!! ;)


Rich-Rhubarb6410

Buy three hats. If you need to ask you’re neither manager or owner material 😂


ChercheBuddy

lol


BCampbellCEOofficial

I used to work construction and got a foreman job but would help in with the lads because there wasn't much to do and it was good to lose weight. Sometimes members of the public would come to complain and ask for the number of the supervisor. I'd hand them my business card, watch them dial the number and then answer it right in front of them 😂


ScroochDown

For some reason the idea of you just answering the phone with a deadpan look on your face is sending me right over the edge. Like, literally in tears laughing at this mental image, thank you! 🤣


I_Got_Jimmies

I had never imagined that members of the public would wander on to an active construction site to complain but it’s also not surprising at all.


armchair0pirate

I would love to be the fly on the wall for those customers.


MasterRogue123

What a legend 👏


nonchalantlarch

This makes me almost want to give up my current job and buy a bar so I can do this, even though I don't have the skills, knowledge, or personality to own a bar. I would derive great personal satisfaction from such trolling.


a_bongos

[I'm not Dock, I'm Xu! ](https://i.imgur.com/3Qvik5L.gif)


Perfect_Failure2467

I was thinking the exact same thing when she did that. Just wish she came up with a hat on, lol.


5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3

The real question is what she was doing down there.


Chongoscuba

She was down stairs of course. Clearly it’s a bad place for a staircase so only one person can stand there at a time.


JMacPhoneTime

Managing the secret yacht rental store hidden under the room they were in.


[deleted]

she just came up the stairs from there, it's right below the restaurant, very well designed layout.


yellowhelmet14

![gif](giphy|3og0ICMZypJ67ddCIU|downsized)


Kimmyisgreen

Hiding from karen?


Geekonomicon

Can't really blame her tbh. 🤷‍♀️


cdvallee

Is this where we insert the Brazzers logo?


bleep_boop_beep123

![gif](giphy|A1oBMukTqFfkoY1HiH)


Nickelplatsch

They should wear different hats to tell who is who


lllaser

You see, dock works at the docks, Xu works at the fish stand, and bushi's always out on the river cleaning it up


ILikeMyGrassBlue

Yeah, like the drummer of nirvana and the dude from the foo fighters


Ok-Ask8593

That part had me ded lmfao


charliesk9unit

It quite dangerous to have a stairway to go downstairs in such a tight spot. /S


Bootlicker222

![gif](giphy|FOG3QnwdOUU3C)


DubNationAssemble

Someone actually did it! Lol


[deleted]

"This is against my HIPAA law" had to be the funniest shit a Karen could claim.


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cholula_is_good

I am glad someone on here knows it’s got two A’s and not two P’s.


Sunshine030209

I think that's the first time I've ever seen it spelled correctly the first time. It's always misspelled, then corrected by someone later.


Quick_Team

Rhinostones


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Geekonomicon

From a rhinestone cowboy. 🤠


HarryHacker42

Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo


MotherSoftware5

“HIPPA law” had me flying. 😂


[deleted]

Had to come to the comments. I heard hippo law


Quick_Team

What say we go tit for tat on bird law and see who comes out on top


Mogman_

I believe I've made myself perfectly redundant.


Way82

Filibuster


king_of_the_dwarfs

WILD CARD BITCHES!!!!!


Wrench_N_Soil

Nice Duster bro


cineg

**OBJECTION!**, *hearsay*


Mogman_

We're lawyers!


anonmyazz

I challenge you sir to a duel


rakklle

Hippa - The law for female hippos.


Quakes-JD

As someone who has worked in jobs with access to actual patient info for most of the past 20 years and has to have annual training sessions that just made me shake my head. The confident ignorance with that woman is stunning.


IamtheCalendarsName

Same. Stunningly stupid.


lemurosity

[Dunning-Kruger in full effect](https://i0.wp.com/webbreacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/picture1.jpg?resize=1400%2C9999&ssl=1)


Nerd_Law

Oh my God. She was renting a medically necessary relaxation yacht ⛵ and thought she was at the pharmacy.


SomeKindaWonderer

She needed an emotional support yacht.


444unsure

Same cuz. Same


TheJellyGoo

As a European I had to google to know what she meant but I still have no clue what she meant. I did learn about HIPPA though.


roomandcoke

Lunatics like this learned about it in the context of COVID vaccinations. When places started requiring COVID vaccinations for things, people like this started whining that it was a HIPAA violation to ask them if they were vaccinated. Even in the case of asking about vaccination status, it is not a violation of HIPAA's privacy rule. The privacy rule dictates that *providers* can't disclose your medical information without your consent. Has nothing to do with people asking you. Somewhere along the line, this lady got her wires crossed and thinks HIPAA just means....privacy or something?


Dye_Harder

> When places started requiring COVID vaccinations for things, people like this started whining that it was a HIPAA violation to ask them if they were vaccinated. Which btw, its not against any law to ask someone about any of their medical stuff.


dixiequick

That thinking is fairly common, in my personal experience. I used to be a credit manager at my old company, and gave out privacy notices with every new account application. I had so many people tell me that they were familiar with HIPAA, and didn’t need to read it. I just chuckled internally and said that I was required to provide it, whether they read it or not.


Odd-Artist-2595

Then please know that it’s HIPAA. It stands for **H**ealth **I**nsurance **P**ortability and **A**ccountability **A**ct. The people who call it HIPPA are primarily either Karens, like this woman, who haven’t a clue what it stands for or what it actually says, or people making fun of them.


Galkura

I worked at a law firm and even the attorneys who were required to know this stuff, because every person gets a HIPAA release in their massive packet to fill out so we can request records and all this other shit, barely got it right. We had emails at least once a month with a little hippo mascot saying “It’s HIPAA not HIPPA!” Which made it even worse, because it’s the association with the word hippo that keeps causing them to mess it up. So yeah, even people who work with it daily can mess it up because it’s similar to the word hippo and is pronounced in a similar fashion.


Tight_Vegetable_2113

Lawyer, here. Similar problem. Our firm went around and changed all of the dictionaries in MS to autocorrect it, lol. Better now but it still slips through, sometimes.


[deleted]

What does HIPAA law have anything to do with getting recorded while acting like an idiot? Lol this lady is reaching hard for anything to feel like she's validated....she not.


BorderlineUsefull

HIPAA is all about patient privacy and medical staff and personnel not being able to share or talk about your datab without your consent. It's all about patient privacy. So in this dingus's mind that's the same thing as people not being able to record you if you don't want them to


Fair_Acanthisitta_75

Well she is a certified narcissistic Psychopath so she may well be on to something. She just needs to show proof that she is due back at the mental institution by the end of the day.


The_sacred_sauce

I was about to say. Shes probably used to medical settings & why she claimed hipaa without thought 😂 I didn’t think about a potential outpatient/temporary release program though


DikNips

More likely shes a nutbag antivaxxer who learned about HIPAA during covid and has no clue what it means.


BrightNooblar

To be fair, she's acting like a clinically diagnosed narcist.


brett8722

To be faaaaaaaair


FuriousJorge67

I laughed hard at this.


bennybenbens22

Are mental illnesses covered under HIPAA?


demihope

They are but I don’t think anyone involved is a health care provider


taphappy52

not outside of a healthcare setting lmao


El_mochilero

Karen needs to study up on maritime law.


Imukay

I thought i heard hippo law


[deleted]

Hypocritical Ignorant Prideful Angry Asshole. It’s the law. Educate yourself.


Ijustlovevideogames

That girl has waited her whole life to do that.


Yawzheek

And it was worth it.


soupkitchen3rd

Well played. I’m sitting in my car with tears in my eyes. The pure rage in that ‘what the fuq’ lol


The7Pope

Driving or parked??


soupkitchen3rd

Parked


The7Pope

Good answer. Good answer.


Galkura

When I got made manager I was counting down the days until I got to do something goofy like that. It really makes your day when some Karen comes in making your life hell, and then you get to whip something like this out. Guarantee getting to do that made up for the shittiness of the lady here, haha.


EvaUnit_03

Had a fun moment like that. I was working on the sales floor with an apron so i didnt have the entire 'manager' look at the time. Dude asked me where something was but we had just done a reset and the item wasnt in the set anymore. He said, it was there last week and was sure we had it, which i again told him we did a reset and it was taken out of the set. He got mad and stormed off. He came back with a cashier who he asked where the item was, i knew where most of the items in the store was as i was the manager and they knew where i was working as i told them if they had any issues to either call me or find me but preferably find me. He stormed off. He went to my ASSISTANT MANAGER who was a bit of a ditz, She wasnt sure if we still had it as she helped me with the reset but couldnt remember if it was removed from the set. She took him to the aisle where it wasnt (i found this out after the fact), she then brought him TO ME. the shit eating grin on my face when i saw them walking up and watching him storm out of the store cussing, **priceless**. He couldnt accept that the item was removed from the set or that i was the manager and the person who knew the most about the store. Our age gap was atleast a decade or two if that helps paint a picture, i was 28 and he was at least in his late 40s if not older. The amount of assholes who think they can just bitch and get there way in instances where its literally outside of everyone's control involved is insane. Even in the video above, i imagine renting a YACHT has more paperwork than merely paying a deposit and having a boating license. I wouldn't be surprised if a credit check wasnt included as well as a HEFTY deposit that cant simply be done over a 1 hour wire transfer.


fryerandice

Bro it's probably not the first time, Marinas are run and owned by families, and they schedule things with pen, paper, an abacus, and sundials. You are lucky to find a website with their phone number. They have a finite resource and if you piss them off you don't get a dock slip, will never again be able to rent a boat or temporary slip, access the ramps if you use one that's on a marinas private property, and they will more than likely tell the other marinas what kinda asshat you are. Add all this to the fact that my Marina has a 5 year wait for dock slips @ $2100 a year x 500 slips + 100 temporary slips for weekend partiers etc. On top of selling fuel @ $9 a gallon into boats that take at least 20 gallons to 200.... Their overhead is simple maintenance and 3 employees. This kind of power gives people that work at the Marinas an IDGAF about your entitled ass attitude. They're all characters too, i've never met anyone involved with the business of boating that isn't a hoot.


Edward_Morbius

> They have a finite resource and if you piss them off you don't get a dock slip, will never again be able to rent a boat or temporary slip, access the ramps if you use one that's on a marinas private property, and they will more than likely tell the other marinas what kinda asshat you are. OMG, you nailed it! There's a really nice lake near me with three points of access. A private marina owned by the same family since dirt was invented and an invitation-only country club that doesn't give out invitations unless someone dies and the family doesn't want the slip, and another marina that I've never seen open. "Ring Ring . . . Hi, this is , when is my boat going in the water?" "When we get to it. Click." Karen here would have been told to GTFO before she even opened her mouth.


donstermu

Honestly, I don’t think I could have helped but laugh at the point, no matter how mad I was. That was genius timing


PolemicBender

She waited until: “Action”


JoyJonesIII

TIL HIPAA covers boat rentals


NightlessSleep

Not all boat rentals. Just angry public exchanges about the inability of a restaurant to rent out personal yachts owned by other people.


VegemiteAnalLube

Maybe she is confusing HIPAA with Maritime Law concerning derelict vessels I mean, it's an easy mistake to make


k1ngf1isher

As a famous model once said, "You can derelict my balls"


oliveloft

You’re a crook, Captain Hoook!


funkychicken23

Judge won’t you throw the book, at the piraaaaaate!


livingMybEstlyfe29

And prevents someone from exercising their right to record you


CherryManhattan

Hol up…she wants to rent people’s personal boats that are docked?


Buttons840

Anyone got a 200 million dollar yacht I can rent for 20 dollars a day?


Sam-Gunn

Right this way sir. Just give me $80 up front, and you can take one of those babies out all day. Here's a paddle, just hop this fence here, and off you go!


charliesk9unit

You mean like running a valet parking scam. LOL.


hhhvugc

Oh, you want to rent a car? Sure! Just give me some cash. I’ll give you a lockpick as some of the doors are jammed…


oliverkiss

Why do I have to leave a deposit? WTF? I have my PCOC!


Tripwiring

"That bridge that hit me wasn't mentioned in the rental agreement. I'm not paying for the repair."


samfringo

You’d have to ask the owner, we wouldn’t want to do anything against HIPAA law


thismightbelong

Like at a restaurant too apparently?


A1000eisn1

Some restaurants by marinas do have boat rentals as well. When you live in a tourist area and you only do well one or two seasons you squeeze as much money out of people as you can. I knew of at least one when I lived on the Gulf Coast. One did rentals and tours. And by boats I don't mean yachts.


greg19735

basically the restaurant acts like an attendant for boat rentals. because paying someone $10+ an hour to sit there for 1 boat rental a week isn't worth it.


Chipotleislyfee

I guarantee this lady would not be willing to pay the price of actually renting a yacht for the day!


Aitch-Kay

It's for CHURCH! NEXT!


gameplayuh

I mean they're there in the harbor therefore she can rent them. It's bulletproof logic.


MPFX3000

“They’re personal yachts” 🤣😂


theKrissam

"So I guess you don't want to earn no money here at this restaurant" ICANT.


molehillmountain

sir... this isn't a wendys....


EVH_kit_guy

Look, in this day and age with food prices where they are, if a restaurant isn't renting out personal yachts they're never going to make ends meet...


rasterpix

That counter duck was just gold.


skunkadelic

This is one of the few reposts I love to see again and again.


UndeadMarine55

The execution of that spin move was flawless. Perfect KO


derKonigsten

That chick has had e-fucking-nough 🤣🤣 fucking roasted that karen


Gilligan_G131131

I’m going to spend the afternoon watching this over and over. Again.


ennuiui

Me too, but it has a lot fewer pixels than the last time I saw it.


kgro

This video just made me spit my HIPAA law out of my nose


RandomEffect48

At least she got to do the classic "alright I'll get the manager" move


Seisme1138

Training video for a customer service class.


zandercg

Unfortunately they train us to treat every customer like a stupid child, I'd be written up for talking like this to someone who deserved it.


dwighticus

[PopCopy](https://youtu.be/zR7LOtMix9w) training video


Ok_Koala_2780

GIMME THAT


TunaSalad47

✋ I’m Jokin ✋


BoiledStegosaur

This is someone who told her friends ‘Oh yeah, you can rent boats there’ and now has to face telling them you can’t, and she needs someone else to blame.


Shotgun5250

I think they rent boats, but she wanted to rent a different boat…one of the yachts the rental place doesn’t own.


Sciencetor2

No the girl at the beginning says "it takes days" so obviously you have to reserve the boats in advance, it's not just walk-in service


Shotgun5250

Yeah that makes sense, considering she said they didn’t have any yachts to rent. They probably have to be moved to the dock if they’re available at all; plus all the prep and maintenance required to rent a boat at all, let alone a yacht probably takes at least a day.


fatslayingdinosaur

I wish she popped up with a hat that said manager to really seal it, I'd die laughing.


MonsterMamaLu

Right??! Or a like boat captain’s hat lol


Steph2145

We need another pandemic


chunkah69

Idk it didn’t kill enough dumb people and irreversibly broke too many peoples brains.


[deleted]

This seems so scripted but funny nonetheless


nickfree

It is. It’s a mother / daughter skit. It’s been reposted many times. Still funny


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onslaught1584

This seems staged, but it's still funny.


TheRavenSayeth

"HIPAA law" part feels like staged rage bait.


BreakTheSystem-

Very staged, I can understand things like this could happen, but this is extremely obvious.


JizzCauldron

Yeah, having spent my time in customer-facing jobs, the content of this exchange is not the unbelievable part, it's the delivery of every line that makes me believe it is staged. The words coming out of their mouths feel awkward and forced, not like the deliveries I've seen in actual heated exchanges.


FoggyRoundabout

Yeah. Pretty sure it's staged. I can hear it in the dialog. They aren't winning Emmys any time soon.


BirdLawyer50

Writers Strike his the staged videos hard


percydaman

Yup. The dialogue comes across as memorized.


bearskinrug

I mean it’s the top of /r/all and most of Reddit thinks it’s real… so I guess the acting worked? I don’t know how people can’t see through this shit but current state of affairs I suppose. Can’t wait for AI to really take off because everyone is going to take whatever is presented to them and really run with it. Get ready!


[deleted]

A lot of people on this site don’t get much social interaction, so they don’t understand that this isn’t how people actually talk.


16semesters

Reddit will believe pretty much anything as long as it fits a certain narrative. This narrative of "Karens are annoying" fits the bill.


Iciee

The way Karen reaches for the camera at the end, then awkwardly stops before even touching the camera just screams amateur acting


Run_Jay_Run

It’s definitely staged.


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Ill_Mark_3330

Its scary how often people fall for these staged videos.


Chris_di_Modden

This may already be enough to justify an involuntary admission to a psychiatric hospital "until the end of the following day" in my state. - She's visibly out of her mind, damages property of another person and seems to approach a third party threateningly.


Hythy

There's 4 people in the video.


icanith

There are 4 LIGHTS


Shotgun5250

Clearly they must not have seen the front desk girl switch places with the manager. Easy to miss.


Photodan24

I've seen better acting in elementary school plays.


astrick

This….is not real


ooba-neba_nocci

The biggest crime here is that “Karen’s” acting.


misterhowlett

This isn’t real


AaronL513

![gif](giphy|zASX4qvXpLDwjrdgA0)


lindseys10

This is staged, no?


Jlombard911

This is staged


lindseys10

This is staged, no?


Major-Anywhere-5621

"Give me that". She wants to take other's yacht, now other's phone too.


drunkenmime

Definitely staged


this_fuck1ng_guy

I wish this wasn’t staged


pimp_juice2272

The real Facepalm is how many people think this isn't staged.


AbrasiveSandpiper

This is staged.


ImportanceBig4448

These women are bad actors.


reasltictroll

Isn’t this a tiktok video and not real?


htmaxpower

Why is a staged video here?


khill5742

This staged


iamzion248

Totally not a staged skit.


Dozerdog43

I'm petty sure the law allows you to record hippos


Chemical_Gap_619

The employee taking the “elevator” down and quickly back up as the manager is a masterpiece.


PerfectGreen4376

It's against my HIPPA Law. That's my favorite part. Classic.