Yes, don't trust me....

[Hon'ya-chan]

5 times in the past week, I had customers not trust my response to their questions and refer the question to a male counterpart, some right in front of my face!! And guess what!!! They got the same answer that I gave!!

Sexist sonsofbitches....and bitches.

[Big Blue]

Happens to me all the time, and I'm male, so it's not the customer being sexist, just an idiot.

"Excuse me, do you carry [totally random product that my store doesn't sell]?"
"No we do not, sorry. You may want to try looking at [store that has a prayer of carrying the product]."

2 minutes later, over the walkies...

"Can anyone tell me if we carry [random product]?"
"No we do not, I just told that same guy that 2 minutes ago."

[Interior Desecrator]

I know exactly what you mean, because it happens to me all the time. It doesn't help that I'm the ONLY female at my job. Plus, I look pretty young. It really sucks, though.

[anotherroundplease]

I got that all the time when I worked in Audio at the big box electronics store. One phone call specifically asked if there was a man around. I told him I'd transfer him to Bernie, and he was happy with that. Of course Bernie was short for Bernadette.

[blas]

That's one of the many final straws that broke the camel's back for me. I was used to moron trainees who just wanted a "better" answer and going over my head and asking shift leads instead of me, but the old sexist sack of shit was where I eventually lost my patience and my mind. Being constantly asked by him "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" "Are you sure this is how we do this?" whenever I'd try to help him made my blood boil so much that it led to my mental breakdown in front of all the shift leads.

I was not being paid enough to be treated like a dumb little girl.

[GingerBiscuit]

At the health food shop of doom, when they asked me a question and disbelieved me they'd ask our manager. Who didn't know the product as well as I did, so who would say 'I don't know, let's ask our expert...' and lead them over to me.

Their facial expressions were priceless.

[crazylegs]

I used to get this all the time while woring for <The Chemists> as I was the only male who worked (as sales) within the Beauty Hall. I eventually learned to shrug it off as it happened daily.

[Snowbird]

At the health food shop of doom, when they asked me a question and disbelieved me they'd ask our manager. Who didn't know the product as well as I did, so who would say 'I don't know, let's ask our expert...' and lead them over to me.

Their facial expressions were priceless.

The same would happen to me at the bookstore. Problem was, after the awkward silence of being caught in asking a manager because I was just a peon (a peon, mind you, that touched every item that came into the store because I worked receiving, on top of maintaining the computers stock listings), they would still stare at me until I looked it up again in the computer for them. I don't know if they were trying to save face or trying to prove to the manager that I was hording stock in the back or what.

My precious, can't lets them have my precious! er, yeah.

[Rappunzill]

I used to get that a lot at the thrift store I volunteered at one semester. People buying furniture would ask, "Isn't there a boy that could get this for us?"

Me: "Nope!" *cheerfullypicks up armchair by herself* "Where are you parked?"

[XCashier]

A man with a really heavy Texan drawl (apologies to any Texans in the viewing audience!) specifically asked me to put a man on the phone. My brain-to-mouth filter failed and I responded:

"I will as soon as you do, sir."

Oooh, BRILLIANT! Made him rethink his approach!

[blackmars0]

That happened a lot at my first job, in a chocolate/ice cream store. People would ask the female I was working with, and then they'd turn and ask me as if they had never spoken to my co-worker before.

I'd just tell them "my co-worker just said we don't have it, why would I say anything different?".

[Brightglaive]

This type of thing used to burn me up. I was the escalation point for a a large team of techs that when they didn't know the answer they would call me. Sometimes if their caller was too hot under the collar or if there was a legitimate customer service reason they would send callers up to me. My favorites were the male chauvinistic callers (which included some women). They would ask the female tech,"Are you sure? Is there a guy there you can check with?" Then the female tech would contact me either bemused or annoyed/upset. At which point I would tell the female agent to introduce the call and then then stay on the line while I straightened the customer's chauvinism out and it would go something like this:

FT: Female Tech
BG: yours truly
SCC: sucky chavinistic customer

FT: Thanks for holding I have my Supervisor/Senior tech Brightglaive on the line and he will help you from here.

BG: This is brightglaive. I understand you had some questions regarding [x]

SCC: yes I wasn't sure if FT was correct regarding this information. can [x] do what I want/will it fit my needs? FT told me this wouldn't work.

BG: Actually the answer that FT gave you was and still is correct. [x] will not do what you want it to. Was there some reason you may have had to doubt FT's information? {note: this was after FT had given supporting documentation to the customer}

SCC: I just didn't know if she was correct or not.

BG: FT is a fully-capable and experienced technician and has provided supporting documentation to you. I'm sorry that [x] doesn't fit your needs. Perhaps you should go with [y] that she also has suggested in her case notes as it will certainly meet your needs.

SCC: ok

BG: Thank you for calling and have a nice day.

I don't tolerate that kind of male chavinistic crap attitude in anyone, male or female. And let me tell you, the male chauvinistic women were the worst!!!

[MiddleofNowhere]

I get that a lot too...

I am the only female in our exercise and bike shops. I've had customers ask me a question, I give them the correct and ONLY answer, and a few minutes later I find them speaking to a male counterpart, asking the same bloody question. To their credit, most of my co-workers say, "Didn't I just see you with MiddleofNowhere? She's one of our experts, if she doesn't know, then I don't."

And I LOVE it when some big burly guy comes up, buys a heavy bag from me and then asks for some help carrying it. My favorite part? Picking up a 70lb heavy bag box by myself. (I'm 5'6" and 135 lbs)

[ShootMePlease]

I get it all the time where I work.

I mainly work in the gaming department - and I'm a girl.

So that means that I can't possibly know anything about video games.

I love it when the other person they go to comes back to me.

Because I know the most about gaming

[AriRashkae]

I had a sup that would always try to get me to wait for a guy before doing any heavy lifting. Granted, she was 4 foot something, and I'm only 5'3", and around 130 depending on how I dressed that day : lol:, but I couldn't stand waiting around when I was perfectly capable of doing it myself. Eventually she realized I actually knew how to work, as opposed to most of the part timers we hired, and only pestered me after a long day. But she did start taking me to stock with her, instead of waiting for one of the guys to be free.