My WTF moment

[Boggles]

Me = Hello
W = Woman
SM = Sucky man

So, last night i went to a large shopping centre not too far away from here for an appointment with the Apple Genius Bar (trades descriptions failing on that one but i digress.)

I had gone straight from work so i was in black trousers, black shoes and a white shirt. No jacket because i was inside and didn;t fancy wearing a suit jacket to go shopping.

Whilst killing time i went into WHSmiths to peruse the books and see what might be worth ordering from the library. The staff were all mown under with customers so I was bimbling along checking out some of my favourite authors when i felt a sensation. You know the one, when someone is staring at you.

I turned round and this woman (middle aged) was stood about 3 foot away glaring at me.

W: If you've done ignoring me, i need some help finding the Dan Brown books.
Me: Who me?
W: Yes.
Me: I don't actually work here.
W: What? Sh*t. Sorry! I thought you looked like you did.
(Several managers were working on the shop floor in shirts rather than usual t-shirts so that is understandable)
W: I'm sorry
Me: It's alright. As it happens I've just been looking at the Dan Browns. They're in the next aisle about half way down on the left.
W: Ok, thanks and sorry.

I am about to return to my browsing.

SM: How do i collect a pre-order?
SM: EXCUSE ME. HOW DO I COLLECT A PRE-ORDER?
Me: Sorry, are you talking to me?
SM: Yes.
Me: Well i can;t help I'm afraid. i dont work here.
SM: You just helped that woman.
Me: Only becasue she asked where a book was. I don;t work here.
SM: Fine.
He continued glaring at me as i picked up my books and headed to the till.

As I got to the front of the queue I could see him at the service desk berating someone then turning to point at me before he flounced out. I got to the till and this manager came over.

Manager: Sorry about him sir.
Me: It's alright. He must have got out of bed the wrong side or something.
Manager: Something like that.
Me: Did he complain about me not helping him?
Manager: Yup.
Me: Oh Dear.
Manager: Oh dear indeed. i'm afraid i'm going to have to let you go. you won't be getting a pay cheque from us this month.
Me: Oh Shucks!

[AtDIelement]

That happened to me once.

When I use to work at another branch, I used to run over to circuit city on my break.

A teller's uniform is a white shirt with tie and a company issued vest.

Some guy at circuit city swore up and down that I worked there... Despite the logo on my vest from the bank I work at.

He started screaming at me in the middle of the store. The manager took notice of this and called the police on him and had him escorted out. The whole time he was still screaming that I refused to help him find a DVD he was looking for.

That was the highlight of my week, my apparent working for Circuit City for 20 minutes.

[Broomjockey]

Moved to sightings.

[EricKei]

Manager: Oh dear indeed. i'm afraid i'm going to have to let you go. you won't be getting a pay cheque from us this month.

I like him. He's silly

[bainsidhe]

I still think the woman in the first story was SW for sucky woman. Even if she later apologized, the fact she pulled the passive-aggressive crap made her damn rude. What if you were an employee stocking books? It's her fault she failed to get your attention. Grrr.

[Green_Fairy]

the manager totally deserves a cookie for that.

[jjllbb]

I finally realize why all these mistaken employee sightings happen. Because some stores like costco and christmas tree shop don't have their employees in a dress code. I was just shopping today and their cashiers were wearing whatever they wanted.

[mikoyan29]

YOu're answer to the guy should have been:
"The woman was nice to me....(sort of), you however are an asshole"

[LillFilly]

Well, didn't anyone know that simply looking in the general direction of an employee is supposed to automatically trigger the microchip a company implants into their frontal 'caring lobe' into alerting the employee that someone requires their assistance. And after they've completed the task, they're rewarded with a cookie!

[lordlundar]

Manager: Oh dear indeed. i'm afraid i'm going to have to let you go. you won't be getting a pay cheque from us this month.

I would have been "You mean I could have been paid? Damn!"

[RecoveringKinkoid]

It's NOT alright, though. She apologized only when she realized that you were someone who could fight back.

She'd have had no apology for treating a defenseless clerk poorly.

I mean, why is she apologizing? Are you somehow magically a different person all of a sudden, now that she knows you are not an employee?

I shit from great height on her kind.

[Polenicus]

I finally realize why all these mistaken employee sightings happen. Because some stores like costco and christmas tree shop don't have their employees in a dress code. I was just shopping today and their cashiers were wearing whatever they wanted.

Actually, it's been pretty definitively proven that even in places with strict dress codes, name tags and logos up the wazoo that sucky customers will still home in on random people and accuse them of being employees.

It's like they home in on whoever DOESN'T suck, and simply assume that because they don't have the suck-aura that they MUST be employees.

[Andara Bledin]

It's like they home in on whoever DOESN'T suck, and simply assume that because they don't have the suck-aura that they MUST be employees.

It's a suck-vacuum. Can't have a vacuum, so they and their surplus of suck come to fix it.

^-.-^