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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Vesperthekitty on 2025-02-02 00:24:33+00:00.
This happened well over a year ago now, and I'll be changing some of the details to remain anonymous.
I work food service, and at my job we have secret sauces. The secret sauces are basically our bread and butter. It makes our food stand out in a saturated market and they are damn good. The sauces are top secret, I had to sign papers when I was hired even. This has never been an issue, if a customer asks I will let them know its secret buy it can be bought in bulk. If they have allergy concerns we can simply let them know if their allergen is included.
Well, anyone who works in food service or deals with the general public at work knows that sometimes you get someone crazy. I had one of those moments relating to the sauces. We got a phone call on the manager line, no big deal, I can handle answering questions and dealing with the occasional Karen. As soon as I answer the phone, this woman is screaming. She is going on about how her daughter had one of our sauces and is dying of an allergic reaction, not letting me get a single word in for a solid minute. Before long she starts to demand to know the ingredients of the sauce her daughter consumed. I let her know its secret and she screams more, "I don't give a damn if its secret, whats in the sauce my daughter is dying!" In my head I'm wondering why she isn't going to the hospital but I didn't want to make things worse by doubting her.
Admittedly I was a bit shaken up by the situation and let her know some of the common allergens in our sauce, she said it was none of them and continued to scream at me that she needs to know what is in it. In my panic I don't think to simply ask her what her daughter is allergic to... so I did.
I listed off the ingredients, and after a certain one she starts screaming again, saying how irresponsible it was for us to have that kind of ingredient in our sauces. She demanded I give her my regional managers phone number, which I did since I had been in contact with him and he gave me the go ahead. He's very capable, and moved to the area in the last few years, so he has a different area code. She made a comment about how much of a sham company we are for him not even being local and hung up.
Later my regional manager spoke to me about it to get my side of the story and I thought that would be it. But, to my dismay, we get a review where she lists off every ingredient in our sauce and goes over the situation from her perspective, completely misrepresenting our company and the precautions we take to cater to those with dietary restrictions. The review is still up to this day since apparently we can't get it taken down. I feel like they know it was me, I mean, they have to! But I've never seen comeuppance for it, I think it is because the owners like me.
TL;DR: I gave a Karen the secret recipe and she shared it online.