To have been annoyed at bloke in sports shop for telling off my son?

[NoJokeBoak]

Our sports shop has a gaming section now (makes no sense to me either!) separate to Sports shop apparently but no real separation physically.

I was stood looking at games and a worker approached and said to DS (who is 10) "Don't do that, you can't just leave things here, this is a separate part of the shop. You can't dump things here. That's not nice!"

It was a really condescending tone, really 'super nannyish'

I asked what was happening and he said DS had put a Nike bag on a hook with gaming items on and it didn't belong there.

I asked him to direct any issues to me and I will be the one to tell my son off, not him, he had no right to.

He huffed and walked off. I asked DS what happened and why did he have a Nike bag and why did he hang it up in the games section.

He said he didn't bring the bag over, it was hung up there already and it got knocked off by a lady going passed with a buggy, so he was just putting it back rather than leaving it on the floor.

On hearing that he was just trying to be helpful I went back to the worker who was laughing with his mate and calling me a Karen!! I explained to him that DS hadn't brought the bag into his section, he was simply picking it up off the floor after it had gotten knocked off from there.

He just kept saying its a different section and the bag didn't belong there.

I just left as he wasn't listening to me at all and I was annoyed at being called a Karen for standing up for my son.

WIBU to email HO, I got his name but does that actually make me a Karen if I complain 😐

Thanks for the post Marvellousmadness.

Now go away and try to be less mad (and insulting).

I’d be annoyed but not enough to go to the effort to complain. He’s properly just fed up at kids moving stuff around and their parents just watching.

Maybe he thought he was attempting to shoplift

Happens

Happens a lot

In which case he should have escalated any suspicions he had in the appropriate manner. .

What happened to just saying "oh sorry about that". Why do you need to argue everything? If your son did something wrong, or they thought he did something wrong they should tell him without the parents getting all angry and defensive at theor precious boy being told off

But the OP's son hadn't done anything wrong! Another adult had knocked the bag off with her pram, and he picked it up. I would have defended my son or daughter in those circumstances as well and would expect an apology in return, not some sexist and ageist drivel.

But she didn't know he'd done nothing wrong or give him the chance to defend himself.

Her child just picked something off the ground that fell down, sounds like a good kid to me....

The staff calling you a Karen within ear shot was much worse than him telling off your son though OP

Email them he's been a idiot

Sports Direct has 'Game' inside it's stores now. Yea complain he was rude.

To be honest, I read this whole thing, and my first thought was "who the hell cares?!" This isn't a problem. This is a slight mis-understanding between a shop worker and you/your son. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter one single iota.

Way overreacting. People are sometimes dicks and if you get fixated and angry about it you’ll make your son like you. Be more resilient.

Hardly fixated and angry - a quick email to HQ is all it takes, it’ll take the OP the same amount of time as it took you to type that. Don’t confuse resilience with sitting back and accepting crap customer service and misogynistic insults.

This 👏🏼