[Seahawk]

This will probably not last long here, but the business idea is too good not to post. Amazing idea, frankly.

https://www.karensforhire.com/

Article:

https://jewishworldreview.com/1222/rent_a_karen.php3

Her plea arrived at a 19th-century brick house on one of Pittsburgh's once-grand boulevards. Here, in a drafty bottom-floor apartment, Chris Grimm, 44, and Fallon Zecca, 35, are trying to launch a small business and also revolutionize the way we complain.

On a December morning, Zecca is where she often is: On hold. "Your estimated wait time is four minutes," said a voice from the speakerphone on her dining room table. Her personal record is three hours on hold (with Air Canada), but this time she is on the phone quickly with a travel broker dragging its feet on refunding a frustrated flier.

"Hello, this is Fallon of Karens for Hire and this is my third call … " Zecca said, launching into a recap of her client's complaint: a last-minute canceled flight that forced her to rent a car and drive hours from Toronto to Pittsburgh to avoid missing work.

On the other side of the table, Grimm - her business and romantic partner - was reviewing the fine print on a solar panel contract. A family in California has tried for months to understand why their roof array was producing less than a third of the expected voltage, leaving them with light bills of $200 month. The company that sold and installed the system had stopped replying.

"They've got a good case," said Grimm, highlighting the provision that promised monthly bills of just $19. He had the owner's direct line in hand and now he was typing up his arguments on a laptop with "You've got to believe" written on a sticky note next to the keyboard.

Karens for Hire, which includes two other part-time advocates and a lawyer on retainer, has received more than 2,300 requests for help since it launched last spring. The table is littered with scrawled notes and numbers, the detritus of hundreds of transactions gone bad, conflicts large and small, corporate and local, petty and profound.