"People are just in such bad moods this week..."

[OfficeSlug]

I stopped off at Walmart tonight.

I know, I know, I deserved what I got, but my mom joked about wanting a Cadillac for Christmas and dammit, I knew Walmart would have the Matchbox car (yay - they did). Good joke gift for $1.


I just walked into Lawn and Garden - to get to Toys quickly. I had my (business casual) work clothes from my office job, keys on lanyard around neck, and wallet in hand. I wanted to be In- and-out.


Lady's on her cell phone, walking towards me, I hear her say, "Oh, there she is!" and without putting the phone down, she says, "You're in toys?"

I didn't realize she was talking to me at first, then I frowned, confused, and said, "No" and walked by her to find the toy I came in for.

I hear her on the phone, "People are in such bad moods this week!" as if everyone (not even employees) who walked by her was just aching to help her.


Lady, get your ass off the phone and stand in one spot for the f'n employee actually unlucky enough to be dispatched to your location and fckn find you!


P.S. I suppose those of us who know where we're going and have a purposeful step DO tend to be mistaken for employees more often than not. I still want to know what it is that we PROJECT that makes people ask if we work (there)!!!

[Sableonblonde]

Maybe it was the keys around your neck? People just do not pay attention. I truly hate that though, in any situation when you give a response to someone, and just because your response wasn't the equivalent of blowing sunshine up their ass, they bitch about you not being in a good mood.

[Frantic Freddie]

Last time I got asked if I worked some place (don't remember where) I was wearing jeans & a T-shirt with cowboy hat & cowboy boots.

What the.....?

[Squeaksmyalias]

Last time I got asked if I worked some place (don't remember where) I was wearing jeans & a T-shirt with cowboy hat & cowboy boots.

What the.....?

I have you beat.
The last time I got asked if I worked some place I was wearing my favorite photography T-shirt that said "I shoot people for a living" Actually I tend to get asked the most while wearing that shirt.

[Darkforge]

Reminds me of the time I was in a big toy shop wearing a punisher hoody (giant skull on the front) and all black with my spiked New Rock boots on and was approached no less than 6 times by people assuming I worked there.

The scary thing was I knew exactly where each thing they asked for was.

I think I go in there too often...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

If I recall correctly, I was moved to join this site when I witnessed a large, hairly, leather-clad biker who was scary and rough even as bikers go get asked this question in a K mart.

He even had a large button on his vest that did not say "how may I help you" on it. No, it said, and I quote, "FUCK." I know that sounds like an embellishment but I swear it's not.

[chainedbarista]

I know, I know, I deserved what I got, but my mom joked about wanting a Cadillac for Christmas and dammit, I knew Walmart would have the Matchbox car (yay - they did). Good joke gift for $1.

i've done that for my uncle. imagine him being told he has a new car, being lead outside to the driveway and told to open his eyes, only to find, what appears to be an empty driveway, until he looked down. it was the tiniest nissan you'd ever seen.

[firecat88]

I'm surprised I haven't been asked, when I go to the Borders in town, if I work there. I've been in that store so many dang times that I have the layout of the place memorized...and I do have a tendency to put back-into-place books that I know are in the wrong spot. 'course, now that I've said that, I've probably jinxed myself and it'll happen next time I'm there.

[Android Kaeli]

I've been asked that question before, but it's weird when I'm in a lime green shirt, white shorts, and have just come from the gym.

[MadMike]

That's why I don't like to go into any store right after work or on my lunch break -- people think I work there.

Although not once, but twice, I got asked that when I was walking around in jeans and a T-shirt.

[drunkenwildmage]

i've done that for my uncle. imagine him being told he has a new car, being lead outside to the driveway and told to open his eyes, only to find, what appears to be an empty driveway, until he looked down. it was the tiniest nissan you'd ever seen.

I did that to my mom in I was in High School.. She wanted a Trans Am, and I got a Matchbox one. It's been almost 20 years since I did it, and she still has it sitting on her Entrainment center.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I was in a local thrift shop last month, wearing sneakers, jeans, and a red shirt with Sheldon Cooper's face on it that said "BAZINGA" in huge yellow letters, and people kept asking me if I worked there. The employees all wear green polos. WTF?

[LadyAndreca]

I did that to my mom in I was in High School.. She wanted a Trans Am, and I got a Matchbox one. It's been almost 20 years since I did it, and she still has it sitting on her Entrainment center.

My parents did that to my sister and I the year I was 18, she was 16. We got Matchbox versions of our dream cars in our stockings.