How do I keep attracting these people? HOW?

[emax4]

It's been done before, and on a large scale too:

http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/

Dude, that's awesome!

On the other hand, I can see why Best Buy would be pissed about it. Essentially the mob is disrupting business. It's one thing for the members to actually help any customer that requests help in simply finding something. But if all they do is say "I don't work here", then that leaves the customer confused because not only does the customer have to hunt and peck for a legit BB employee, but having to do is can be frustrating to the point where the customer says, "I'm never shopping here anymore". Now multiply that by the amount of customers in the store... My opinion is that it can be funny with one fake employee doing it in a large store, but when you have a whole store full, it's not so nice. The customers that a salesman sees as dollars end up simply walking out the door.

..and Agent Hamilton!

[Difdi]

Reading all of this almost makes me want to go dressed up as a store employee somewhere and start messing with people.

It's been done before, and on a large scale too:

http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/

[NateTheChops]

Darn, I just checked your profile, and your Salem is on the other coast from my Salem

Let me know when you feel like using up some vacation days and I'll take you right to the place. Hopefully I'll still be here for another year.

[RayvenQ]

It's possible to outdo Lupo?

Not even Lupo outdoes lupo.

[Ree]

Encounter the Fifth: Supermarket Again, Christmas Day

Emergency milk run.

Me: *grabs milk*
Picky Customer Again: You're humming again! Customers don't like that!
Me: Oh piss off! *storms off in a huff*

Wow!
What unbelievably sucky encounters.
What are the odds of encountering the same annoying customer twice in less than 3 days, and on Christmas Day, too, no less!
Just your luck they coincidentally had to make a run to the store at the same time you had to do an emergency milk run.

I would suggest staying away from that place with a track record like that.

[ThirdGenRetail]

Is it bad that I thought this read like a Lupo post? I had to go back and double-check who the OP was

After about the third one, I'd start demanding the twits tell me if I LOOK like my clothing REMOTELY matches employee clothing... Especially since I favor thermal pants and t-shirts right now, with a side of what I refer to as my 'Sweedish sweater*' and 'giant puffy gray marshmallow coat' either on me or in hand.



* - This sweater, I love it, found it at the Good Will distribution center shop(They sell things by the POUND, and it's awesome :shock: ). But the name I gave it comes from the fact that every time I look at it... I think of Minnesota/Wisconsin/Michigan, as well as Scandanavia

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

FDC: FINE! I'll get the owner! *bodily drags me over to the counter* GET THE OWNER!

Next time some assclown does that to you? You need to show them that having undamaged balls is a privilege and not a right.

Kick. them. HARD.

That was @#$%ing assault regardless of whether or not you worked there.

[fireheart]

Damn!!!!!! someone has finally outdone Lupo in the "I am shopping" stupidity/weirdness/asshattery encounters

It's possible to outdo Lupo?

[Racket_Man]

Damn!!!!!! someone has finally outdone Lupo in the "I am shopping" stupidity/weirdness/asshattery encounters

[Ironclad Alibi]

I'm not a Dr. Who fan but have seen the sonic screwdriver on NewEgg's daily deals here and there, for those that are interested. Nothing like that $4000 one though.

When dealing with SCs, I think a sonic disrupter would be more useful.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Tolly...were you a major SC in another life or something? That's the only thing I can think of that would be attracting all these "you MUST work here" types to you...holy cats!!

I've had people ask me before if I work at (whatever place we're in) but when I say no they almost always just laugh self-consciously and apologize. And if I can help them (easily), I do, since they're being nice. But these asshats you're encountering are beyond the pale...just wow.

[emax4]

Reading all of this almost makes me want to go dressed up as a store employee somewhere and start messing with people. That won't happen though. Red shirt and khaki's.. Look out Target.. I like to help others though, so I would probably guide them in the right direction. Sometimes I'd overhear a conversation somewhere where people were looking for an item, and I would politely introduce myself by saying that I hope I wasn't interrupting, but then give them advice. I remember being at a Target a few years back and heard an older couple looking for an optical mouse. I was nearby and told them that "optical" and "laser" are almost the same thing, and such. Made me feel good.

I'm not a Dr. Who fan but have seen the sonic screwdriver on NewEgg's daily deals here and there, for those that are interested. Nothing like that $4000 one though.

[fireheart]

Encounter the Final: Local Cinema, Boxing Day

My friend and I are waiting in line to see Tintin, I'm dressed as Tintin and he's dressed like Captain Haddock. I've literally JUST finished telling him about the whole debacle.

Captain Haddock: ...Thundering Typhoons!
Me: Pretty much.
CH: How have you not started shooting at people?
Me: Because carrying a bow is too unwieldy.
CH: HAH!
Customer Doomed To Fail: *tugs my sleeve* Hey, which way to Gold Class?
Me: ...*blink* (No, no, not again.) I have no idea.
CH: ...*spock eyebrow*
CDF: What kind of customer service is this?
Me: The kind where I. Don't. Work. Here!
CDF: Then why are you dressed like Tintin?
Me: Because I want to marry Captain Haddock, obviously.
CDF: Wait, what?
Me: Please go ask someone else now.
CDF: But I'm asking you!
Me: *whimper*
CH: *shouting* Billions and billions of blistering blue barnacles!
CDF: *backs away* Riiiiiiiight...
CH: If you can't beat them, confuse them into submission.
Me: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...

Thank god the movie was good or I may well have wept.

You mention Gold Class: are you from Australia by any chance?

[MoonCat]

My favorite part is the idiot saying she didn't know what tune you were humming. That should make a difference??

There's gotta be a lot of stupid around these days.

[dragon_wings]

Thirdly - Note to self, mace here is the one in spray form. I instantly think of a flailing ball of painful doom (Morning Star) when someone says Mace, so your comment about "room in the jacket for mace" was soo much funnier XD

I actually carry mace. Or more precisely pepper spray. But anytime I play a period appropriate game I ogle the maces (I'm more an archer or Mage). And I always think of the mace the Witch King fight Eowyn with in Return of the King. *is totally a geek*