Black tank top+green pants=works at Wal-Mart? (LANGUAGE!!)

[Polenicus]

This woman walks up to me, looks at me for a few moments before asking the infamous line, "Do you work here?"

Now... I'm curious at this point, so I just blink and reply, "Well... No, ma'am. What would make you think I work here?"

I think I know what happened. The customer heard this line, and thought MB was being sarcastic, as in saying 'Well, obviously I work here stupid!'

Which leads to her blowing up at the 'sarcastic, smart-ass employee'.

Now, the missing piece is how on earth she decided MB was an employee there, and with enough certainty to decide the above reply was meant sarcastically.

[MelodiousBubbles]

A question I have yet to answer :/

I dunno. I kinda wanna chalk it up to just having a bad day, but at the same time, I couldn't let her just walk off after berating ANYONE like that, let alone me.

[LillFilly]

Aaaah! Evil death fish from the deep! Kill it! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Somehow, my boyfriend and I got asked about paint while at the craft store. We gave the lady a few pointers, but then she seemed to expect us to pick-out a complete color scheme for her and tell her how to do textures. We made excuses to get out of there fast!

[Becks]

You'd think people would look for the name tags . . . .

Sometimes name tags fall off.

[Calvin St.Hobbes]

The person who was threatened with a write up should have challenged the manager to do it and marched right with him to do it and let them continue to put his asshat on even tighter.
Imagine the fun that could be had....

[TonyDonuts]

The person who was threatened with a write up should have challenged the manager to do it and marched right with him to do it and let them continue to put his asshat on even tighter.
Imagine the fun that could be had....

I looked him in the eye and said something like, "Okay, tough guy, let's go, but first, what's my name?"

He looked startled and said, "Excuse me?"

I said, "What. Is. My. Name? What department do I work in? Who is my immediate supervisor? If you're going to write me up or give me a talking to or whatever don't you think you should know that? Hmmm?"

Still startled. He fumfuhed for a bit.

I said, "You don't know my name. And do you know why you don't know my name? Hmmm? Because. I. Don't. Work. Here. You. Idiot."

He recovered a bit, "Well, I don't think that kind of talk is helping things."

I upped the volume a bit, "Yeah, you 'don't think' all right. This stupid, stupid woman harasses one of your customers." And I held up my shopping basket, full of stuff. "See, customer? Shopping? Don't work here!"

He stepped back a bit, "Well, if we could all just calm down. . . "

I stepped forward, right in his face. "I was shopping, and this woman starts yelling at me for not helping her. I DON'T WORK HERE! And then she drags YOU (I poked him in the chest at that) out here and when I tell you I DON'T WORK HERE you threaten me? And you want ME to calm down? I want your NAME, sonny, I want your supervisor's NAME and I want their supervisor's NAME, sonny! I'm going to take a giant SHIT in your life for harassing me, sonny!"

Not my finest hour, maybe, but I was very, very angry at how stupid people can be, and how stubborn they can be in clinging to their stupidity.

[Calvin St.Hobbes]

Sounded like it would have been really fun to say to someone....

[Mytical]

Who could blame you Tony? I don't care how spineless the manager is, they don't try to throw another customer under the bus to appease a SC. Probably nicer then I would have been under those circumstances, though for a moment I would have probably had a look on my face at the audacity.

[Racket_Man]

Tony's post once again just shows the new low in standards for mangement spinelesness, stupidity, lowest common denominator, promoting people way above their level of incomptetence, and corp. parroting.

[RavenStarr]

I stepped forward, right in his face. "I was shopping, and this woman starts yelling at me for not helping her. I DON'T WORK HERE! And then she drags YOU (I poked him in the chest at that) out here and when I tell you I DON'T WORK HERE you threaten me? And you want ME to calm down? I want your NAME, sonny, I want your supervisor's NAME and I want their supervisor's NAME, sonny! I'm going to take a giant SHIT in your life for harassing me, sonny!"

Not my finest hour, maybe, but I was very, very angry at how stupid people can be, and how stubborn they can be in clinging to their stupidity.

Well now don't keep us in suspense. How did it end. Did he apologize? Run away like a scalded dog with his tail between his legs? Please do tell me this idiot got some sort punishment.

[MadMike]

The morons like in the OP however who just start annoying random people... I am going to invent a carp cannon to shoot those people with... or maybe a carp-apult. Either way, fish-to-the-head WILL be done.

Why not just use Adam West's cat launcher?

[TonyDonuts]

He spent a few minutes groveling for forgiveness from me, while also trying to placate Crazy Woman, who was hypering herself into a frenzy DEMANDING that he punish me for not helping her. Every manager's dream--two customers yelling at him in direct opposition to each other. He ended up calling an assistant manager up to deal with Crazy Woman.

Crazy Woman kept insisting that I was, in fact, an employee of Target, and my denials were just a thinly veiled attempt at avoiding my richly deserved punishment. But she was merely crazy. I, clearly, wanted to damage somebody, or break something really big.

I find the whole thing funny. Now. Then, I was just so pissed. Not mad, not upset, pissed. To the point that I ended up not paying for the stuff in my basket. The guy didn't get canned or anything, but when I started going back (after avoiding the place for a couple-three months) he'd spot me and walk briskly away from me.

Presumably after learning a valuable lesson in the importance of finding out just what's going on before trying to fix things.

[Misanthropical]

Oh geez! Why people think we work in places we don't work is beyond me!

I had a big floppy hat on with an over sized t-shirt and shorts and had a woman lodge a complaint with a manager because I would not help her and having a bad attitude. Me, with a bad attitude? Who would have thought? The manager told her I didn't work there and that I have never worked there. She wasn't buying it.

I have had people think I work in a store when I was in there and my little guy was holding my hand. How many employees bring their small children to work?

I also seem to work in all the places in my town according to the idiots in my town. I haven't worked face to face with the public since I worked Security and it wasn't in any places people think I work.

The more crazy the person is the more they will want to talk to me. I hate pretty much everyone but I haven't mastered giving off that vibe, but I'm working on it.

[MadMike]

Every manager's dream--two customers yelling at him in direct opposition to each other.

What, and the universe didn't implode? After all, the customer is always right, but there were two customers opposing each other.

[dalesys]

What, and the universe didn't implode? After all, the customer is always right, but there were two costumers opposing each other.

One was left. (on the)