Me employee, you not

[Skandranon]

I work for a chain of veterinary hospitals, and make the round to supervise and collect paperwork twice a week. Since I'm not hospital staff, I wear plain clothes. I can understand how someone might think I'm a customer rather than an employee, but I assume the fact that I go straight through the lobby towards the back would be a clue. Apparently not.

Today I stopped into one hospital, and they were packed with customers. I wove my way through the crowd towards the "Employees Only" sign, greeting the dogs rather than the owners (a bad habit of mine, but owners are less likely to bite), then ducking for the safety of the back. I go about buisiness as usual for a moment, until the hairs on the back of my neck prickle.

I look behind me, and there's a man I don't recognize standing in the middle of the lab, in plain clothes, gazing around like a tourist. As I stare, he absently picks up a bottle of antiseptic and inspects it curiously.

Me : Are you with an employee?
Him : Uhm?
Me : Are you a guest of an employee?
Him : No, I'm here to pick up my dog.
Me : You're a customer?
Him : Yeah.
Me : You can't be back here. Go back to the lobby.
Him : You're back here.
Me : I'm an employee.
Him : No you're not.
Me : *blink* Um, yeah, I am.
Him : No you're not, you don't have a uniform.
Me : I'm with the corporate office. Go back to the lobby.
Him : If you can be back here, I can be back here.
Me : Roooooosie!
Rosie : Yeeeah?!
Me : Customer followed me back here and he won't leave!
Rosie : *darts around corner towards us* Sir, this is an employees only area, please could you return to the lobby?
Him : I can be back here if she's back here!

Just then, a handler comes through straining against a pair of huge dogs. The kind that live up in the mountains and have more fur than a yak, and must have a bear back in their lineage somewhere. Idiot customer must be thinking "oh, cute doggies" or some such nonsence, because like the idiot he is, he decides to pet the overexcited mutts on the muzzle, without introducing himself or gauging their mood. The black one snaps at him and lunges, and now both are freaking out, howling and snapping and threatening to bowl over their handler.

Rosie : *points at customer, shifts to Dog Commanding Voice* You! Out!
Him : But-
Rosie : OUT!

The customer huffs and stalks off towards the front. We get the dogs back under control. Rosie reprints the Employees Only sign in a larger font.

[TrainedChimp]

Rosie reprints the Employees Only sign in a larger font.

What's the point in that? SC's will not read signs, unless its for a sale.

[AFpheonix]

Time to install a pinpad lock or something, sheesh.

[MoonChild2007]

I would have threatened to call the police. Sometimes that will get people to back off.

[dizzy_starshine]

what's the odds on him coming back and trying to sue you for endangerment?

[BookstoreEscapee]

Dumbass.

I love your description of the dogs

[myswtghst]

I never could stand that at the vet office or the zoo. I often came in wearing street clothes and changed into my scrubs, or would come in for this or that on my day off, and have people think I was just wandering around, not knowing I was an employee. Trust me, I wouldn't be back here if I wasn't supposed to be--I at least have enough common sense to know its not safe.

[bigjimaz]

What's the point in that? SC's will not read signs, unless its for a sale.

And even then they'll grab the item next to the sale item and swear it was the one on sale.

[HALFHUMANHALFZOMBIE]

What's the point in that? SC's will not read signs, unless its for a sale.

You know the Caution, Wet floor signs that people put up on the floors to prevent an SC filing a Lawsuit? Same thinks applies here. You read how the Customer was treated after going to a restricted area. They must have the right to get feirceful with them.

[Jack7957]

What's the point in that? SC's will not read signs, unless its for a sale.

"Special Sale! Employee Only Access! Only $400! Inquire about it at the front desk!"

[lordlundar]

I wove my way through the crowd towards the "Employees Only" sign, greeting the dogs rather than the owners (a bad habit of mine, but owners are less likely to bite),

That depends on the owner and the dog.

[powerboy]

If I had seen that someone walked back to an employee only section, then I would assume that they were working there. I had a customer to that to me yesterday. I walked into the office, to sign back in after lunch. And ofcourse a customer walked right in there also. He had the same argument of, if I am ablet o come back there, then he can also.

[slick]

My friend owns a car stereo store. He has a sign on the door to the shop area reading "Employees Only". He works with tools, cars, etc. back there and doesn't need a nosey person poking around.

For the most part, people stay out, but every once and a while, you get that person that feels they have a right to be back there. Why? Because there car is being worked on.

They came back there, try to chat with the installer who is just trying to do there job (sales persons job is to talk to you, installers job is to install the stuff sold to you, simple). Its really bad when these people try to help install, or worse, when they mess with other peoples cars. It usually happens quick, they walk in the back, fool around, and then are told to go up front. But its hard to keep track of them.

Happens at the hotel all the time to. Someone will come to the front desk to ask for a pillow or something. I'll go to the laundry room to get it, and they will follow me in. Annoys the hell out of me. Please people, READ AND RESPECT!!!!

[Jack7957]

I had a customer to that to me yesterday. I walked into the office, to sign back in after lunch. And ofcourse a customer walked right in there also. He had the same argument of, if I am able to come back there, then he can also.

Tell him fine, here's your time card, here's your smock, get to work.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Tell him fine, here's your time card, here's your smock, get to work.

And right after "You're fired. Now GET OUT!"