Oh boy! My first "Do you work here?"!

[Gawdzillers]

So my dad had to go to Macy's for an outfit for a funeral today, and I was in my school uniform. White Oxford, gold/blue striped tie, khakis, etc. All messy, untucked, loosened, unbuttoned, exactly like I got out of school.

I also have my pocket radio on me, earbuds in, following my dad around, leaning on everything as lazily as I can, because I just finished my mid-term exams and I'm worn out.

In short, I look absolutely unprofessional.

So a group of women see me hanging on to a shirt rack for dear life, mouthing the words to "Flagpole Sitta", and they ask me some question I don't understand. Then they go wide-eyed, and start giggling and run away. I realize what happened, go back to my Harvey Danger.

It happened again. An elderly gentleman caught me tapping the guitar rhythm to "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, and asked me if I worked there. Wrong again. He left.

Not sucky, but really, even if I did work there, I was being a real slob, do you really want me to help you?

[Shabo]

Still love your avatar.

I got asked once if I worked at a JC Penney. I had just come from church with my family, and once I turned around and the lady saw that I was like 12, she apologized and stammered that since I was all dressed up she thought I worked there.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I got asked once if I worked at a JC Penney. I had just come from church with my family, and once I turned around and the lady saw that I was like 12, she apologized and stammered that since I was all dressed up she thought I worked there.

Before this contest starts...

I was asked if I worked at the library when I was SIX. In pink pants and Smurfs and pigtails and all that fun. I was standing on a stool, putting videos away for my mom (though I was reading the back of one at the time this dingleberry came over, so all he could see was a tiny little blonde girl standing on a stool and looking at the back of a Reading Rainbow video).

Even at that age, I was smart enough to realize that HE was the crazy one.

[XCashier]

I was asked if I worked at the library when I was SIX. In pink pants and Smurfs and pigtails and all that fun.

"Why yes, I do work here. Don't you know that child labor laws don't apply to libraries?"

[d962831]

haha, this is funny. Reminds me of when I WAS working and someone asked me if I woked there. I said yes, but the reply I wanted to give the bonehead was.
NOOOoooo, I just decided I'd put on a uniform, make my own name-tag and come in here and stock these shelves for absolutely no reason at all.

[powerboy]

Once, when I was shopping with my parents at Walmart, I got asked If I worked there. To be honest, I was wearing a blue shirt. But it was a muscle T. I told that woman no, and she told me to not get an attitude with her

[CreepyCarrie]

To which I would have said "Whaddya gonna do, tell my manager? Oooh I'm scared"

Anyhoo, once when I was about 10 or so, I was shopping in the dollar store with my mom. My mom went into a different aisle for a second and I stayed to look at the books. Lady comes up to me and goes "Where are the pretzels?" I told her I didn't know, and she snorted and walked away saying something about "Too lazy to work here." So yeah, I guess a lot of us just were born SC magnets.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I was once in a Co-op, wearing scruffy jeans, an even scruffier Slipknot hoodie and scuffed trainers; and this woman asked me to get her some milk. I replied, "Get it yourself"; she went to get the manager who burst out laughing and told the woman I didn't work there. Wow, I'd love to work there if all employees of that place get to wear their slobbing out clothes at work!

[Misanthropical]

My husband does not work with the public at all (lucky him) He is usually dressed in business casual.

People will come up to him in the grocery store to ask him where something is, even though he is holding my hand and trying to be funny by saying he is holding my hand so I don't wander off.

If we go into a dept. store, I have had people nearly push me away from him to ask him for help in a certain dept. The fact that there is a nine year old holding his hand and calling him "daddy" should tip people off that he doesn't work there.

Yes, I realize he is standing over me while I try on shoes and giving me opinions on how they look may seem like he works there, but to come up and rudely TELL him to help you is never a good idea. He is too polite to tell you off, but his wife isn't.

[Bella_Vixen]

::trying to picture Mysty in pigtails::

[edible_hat]

I once had one in reverse... there I was at work, in uniform (but not behind the counter), when all of a sudden I get asked "You don't look like you work here, but can you find me somebody who does?"

(The uniform was the same colour as the exterior of the store, and had the logo on it. I also had a nametag with the logo and my name. I was stacking shelves at the time)

[Gawdzillers]

I once had one in reverse... there I was at work, in uniform (but not behind the counter), when all of a sudden I get asked "You don't look like you work here, but can you find me somebody who does?"

(The uniform was the same colour as the exterior of the store, and had the logo on it. I also had a nametag with the logo and my name. I was stacking shelves at the time)

Okay, okay, you win.

[Shabo]

Yeah, I've never had that one before.

[Secret Shopper]

Well, I was at the Goodwill Store the other day and was asked if I worked there! I told the woman that I must really be looking unsuccessful today.

[ArcticChicken]

Every bookstore I've ever walked into, and IGoldberg. At the bookstore I'm usually sitting on the floor reading, and at the IGoldberg I was looking at the shoes. That man actually didn't ask if I worked there, he just walked up to me and asked me a question. He then asked every single person I was with.