it finally happened....

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Hehe, back when I worked near the mall, I was the guy who used to be able to tell you where dang near everything was in most of the stores in town. Of course, that was because I was the guy at the copy shop that did the copying for the other stores, as well as the store maps for most of them.

[Sarlon]

............ok I had a bad moment today...
Was in dollar general looking for a cheap plastic bowl for some fruit for a party...and was glancing up and down aisles (rather then walking up and down each one), and saw a person wearing almost all black, and a name tag.

I almost opened my mouth then looked harder and she was wearing a name tag for a local trailer home office (where they sell them).

We chatted and I told her of this site....I hope I didn't creep her out, and even mentioned that I first thought she worked here....I made myself sound like an idiot.

[MoonCat]

OK, I think I figured this out. Here's how it works:

Your average customer exists in their own little world. They are the most important person in that world, and naturally also the most important person anywhere else they happen to be. Other people only exist for the purpose of serving them, so when they need something, they pop their heads out of their little "me bubble" and make contact with the first person they see, who obviously is only there to serve their needs. Anyone who denies being there for the sole purpose of helping them must be lying and/or lazy, because why else would they be there? And why would anyone NOT want to serve the King or Queen of Everything?

That's my theory and I'm stickin' to it.

[Skarredmind]

That makes ZERO sense. Wal-Mart employees have a very distinctive uniform with their blue vests/smocks.

They don't wear that any more... and haven't for several years. Now its a blue shirt and tan pants (unless you're a truck unloader, who can get away with wearing jeans).

[Skarredmind]

I once had somebody insist I worked at Walmart and was just being lazy when I refused to show a customer where a particular item was. This in itself is not so unusual, as the stories here attest to. What made it bad was the fact that I was wearing shorts, flip flops, a nursing shirt, with a 17 month old in the seat of the cart, a 3 year old hanging onto my leg, and a 6 month old (who was closer in size to a newborn, due to having been born weighing only 504g) in a sling, actively nursing at the time.

You know, I do work here and am being lazy... you should probably go get a manager to fire me.

LOL people are morons.

[Jester]

I've occasionally been confused for an employee of a place I didn't work, but I've never had anyone get snippy or angry about it when I told them I didn't actually work there. Though if that ever happened, I'd not only enjoy the situation, but probably exacerbate it with witty rejoinders such as "Go fuck yourself." See how they like being told that by an "employee." And of course, I'd wait around for the manager to "fire" me.

[hinakiba777]

They don't wear that any more... and haven't for several years. Now its a blue shirt and tan pants (unless you're a truck unloader, who can get away with wearing jeans).

Oh well in Canada they still wear the vests. I wasn't aware that they changed it in the states. sorry.

It seems silly for them to change that in other places. Tan pants are horrible.

[AccountingDrone]

I've occasionally been confused for an employee of a place I didn't work, but I've never had anyone get snippy or angry about it when I told them I didn't actually work there. Though if that ever happened, I'd not only enjoy the situation, but probably exacerbate it with witty rejoinders such as "Go fuck yourself." See how they like being told that by an "employee." And of course, I'd wait around for the manager to "fire" me.

ROFL If I was the manager of the bar you were drinking in when that happened, I would probably tell the jackass that you weren't an employee and turn around and buy you a drink as a consolation for being abused by some random customer.

[Sarlon]

AGAIN!!!!!

This time while on vacation, my hair is messy since I've been on the beach most of the day, I'm in a mumu style dress, wearing crocs....listening to an ipod.

I'm standing infront of the cashier's space, a single menu in hand, my ipod laying on the counter by my hand ignoring the world while waiting for someone to take my food order. (when I came in I asked for a menu and said I needed a moment to order, so they scampered off since they were gearing up for the dinner rush, I was NOT going to order while listening to my ipod.)

while still waiting, a group of like 6 come in behind me and tell ME they have a party of 16. I sit and chat a little since its just polite till they realize I'm not going to seat them....

"Oh I'm sorry I thought you worked here....can you go get someone for us?"

[sms001]

thought you worked here....can you go get someone for us?"

It's fifty-fifty depending on my mood, but sometimes when people are this dense I just do it. I figure karmicly, helping the stupid is like escorting old ladies across the street, or giving change to the homeless....

[hinakiba777]

I once had a group of people ask me to get the hostess for them when I was waiting to be seated, when I told them that I did not work there, one of the people in the group said; We didn't ask if you worked here, we told you to get us the hostess. So I just smiled sweetly at them, and turned away just as the hostess came back. She informed myself and the group that they only had one table open, which was mine because I arrived there first. Another person turned to me and told me It would be the Christian thing for you to let us have the table. I really wish I had come up with a better comeback than just giving them the same smile as before and following the hostess to my table.

I had almost finished my dessert before another table cleared up. Honestly, I might have given up the table if it hadn't been for that first guy.

[sms001]

It would be the Christian thing for you to let us have the table.[/B] .

h: "Or I could be REALLY Christian, invite you to my table, then tell you that the wine is blood, and the bread is flesh..."

I hear ya hina. Sad thing is, these people don't realize they're shooting themselves in the foot even in hindsight. To them, you are, and will remain, that nasty person who didn't do as they said. Oh well, can't please everybody.