Does one ever lose the "look"?

[flybye023]

As in, the "I worked customer service" look?

(background)My last job where I worked directly with John Q. Public ended in 2007. The last job where I had to deal with anyone not working for my company ended in 2009.(end background)

I was on vacation this past week and we stopped at a restaurant for breakfast. I was coming out of the restroom and getting ready to leave when I am stopped by a customer asking if "we" had a phone book or Yellow Pages she could use.

Dress code of the restaurant: black pants, burgundy button-up top, black or burgundy apron (can't remember which), dress shoes

What I was wearing: Blue jeans, denim casual shoes, sky-blue Mount Saint Helens souvenir T-shirt.

When I told my mom, she just responded "I guess you just have that look." When does it go away???

[BookstoreEscapee]

I once had the same guy ask me twice in less than 10 minutes for help at Target.

No, I was not wearing red shirt or khaki pants.

[Amina516]

My husband has the look and gets asked questions all the time. He hasnt worked customer service in 2 years. IDK if it ever goes away.

[Misanthropical]

I can be wearing my big floppy hat with my "Bert the farting hippo" or "Got ghosts?" t-shirt and capri pants and people will still think I work at what ever business I am in at the time. I have even had a few try to get me fired from businesses I have never in my life worked at.

Mr. Mis has never worked with the general public, but is usually dressed in business casual (now picture him holding my hand while I am dressed like I mentioned above) I have had people push me out of the way to ask him for help, where something is or to complain about an employee and get upset when I jump in with "He does not work here" before he can answer. The look some give me when I say something is the look a person gives to someone lying to them.

From my experience a person never loses their "I worked customer service" look or vibe.

[Kara]

Never.

My first job was a grocery store. Started in high school, I worked there for nearly 5 years, bouncing through nearly all the departments until I finally quit when we moved to a different city for my ex's job (by that time I was assistant manager of the video dept - yes, this was LONG before Red Box and Netflix). And to this day when I go in one of the local stores of that chain, I get asked where things are or do "we" have any of this or that, and so on. They can just tell that I am someone who worked in that store, even though it was a different city, at some point in my life. I am forever marked.

Now if people ever start calling me to bitch about things that are totally their fault, I'll have a serious problem with that.