Talking Shit From Other Customers Out Of Work

[greensinestro]

Happens to me all the time, too. Seems to happen at Bed Bath & Beyond most frequently, though I have no idea why. I wear jeans and a t-shirt most of the time. Sometimes a black leather jacket if it's cold out. And even when wearing the jacket, I still get asked, "Do you work here?"

I've had it happen a couple of times at Target. I have this one golf shirt, bright red. Does that tell you anything?

[Javarod]

Heh, actually Wal*Mart either doesn't do the blue vest thing any more, or we're the test area for a new look, just regular blue shirts ala Target. I used to get a laugh when I worked for Washington Inventory Service watching the poor Wal*Mart customers try to figure out who worked at the store and who didn't as WIS's uniform was a blue vest, but without the smiley face or name badge.

[Forensic Waitress]

Although I detest uniforms it does make it easier for nice customers to locate someone to help them. I always tried to make sure that I didn't wear at least part of my uniform outside otherwise you would get people asking for help.

Even when I was in that horrid McD's uniform of about 7 years ago which was the maroon striped top with grey pants, if I wore that in K-Mart on my way home people would ask me for price checks, I would just look at them funny and walk away. People need to get their eyes check sometimes.

[Misanthropical]

I was wearing an oversized t-shirt with a dancing Hershey Kiss on it, with a big floppy black hat and had a woman get mad that I wouldn't help her in a Rite-Aid.

She went and got the manager and told him I was rude and refusing to do my job and should be fired on the spot. He looked at me and told her that he couldn't fire me, since I didn't and never have worked there.

[Tria]

I wish something like that would happen to me or my wife. I would tell the retard to do "something very disgusting and inappropriate" to their mother. Think something along the lines of "Full Metal Jacket".

I prefer to stick with "Go kill yourself". What? It's not a threat, just a suggestion!

[Tex]

Woman: Well it doesn't matter, I expect you to treat any customer the way you treat your own. Which Post Office do you work at because I'll be speaking to your manager over this.

Me: *I told her to get a life and walked off, pushing my shopping trolley*

Nice! I would've launched a full-blown tirade on her arse. "Number 1, I'm not @ my job right now, and Number 2, I'm on my own time, so fark off b/c I do not get paid enough money to be nice to low-life bass-turds like you when I am not @ work.

I have worked in retail since I was 16, and I have gotten to the point where I will cuss out anyone that pisses me off, management be damned.

Tex

[Ttam]

I get that happening every so often too. The thing is, I don't wear any sort of uniform and haven't had to at any place I've worked.

One main thing that tends to lead up to it is when someone asks me for help because, being 6'4", it's usually very easy for me to reach the top shelf at most stores. People ask me to get something off the shelf, I do so, then one of those ever-lurking SCs sees it and swoops in for the kill.

This one time I was at Walgreens to get some stuff to settle an upset stomach I'd been having. I was dressed very casually, not wearing anything remotely blue (like the Walgreens vest is), hadn't shaved in a couple days (on account of being ill), and yet still it happened. Got asked to help, picked up something off the top shelf, then in swoops Ms. Entitlement.

At first it wasn't too bad. She just asked me where the pain medicine was and, since I was standing right in front of it, I pointed it out. Then she noticed the Walgreens brand right next to it and asked me what the difference was. I honestly told her I didn't have the faintest idea and she set to swearing me up and down like I'd slapped her mother. It took me a while into the course of the rant (something about minimum wage employees not caring about customers and not learning their jobs or something) to actually realize she erroneously thought I worked there. Being that she was still ranting about then, I waited for her to take a breath (which took a surprisingly long time... Are all SCs born with an extra set of lungs, or something?) and told her the mistake she'd made.

Get this. She got pissed off at me for "posing as a store employee" and "wasting her time", when all I'd done was pointed out where the pain killers were.... It was around then that I decided to just leave, since I was starting to get that familiar pain behind the eyes as my brain tried desperately to escape through the socket. I'm sure you all know the one I mean.

[powerboy]

A few years back, I was with my family shopping at Walmart. This one lady, that I worked there. I had on a blue muscle tee shirt. Once I was dating one of my ex's and we were shopping at Walmart. And we were pushing the cart with her purse in it. I got asked to go in back and get something for that customer. I just told him, I didn't work there and continued on with my shopping.

[NightAngel]

I'm asked almost everywhere I go for help. I think I need to scowl evilly more often.

Anyhoo~ back when I worked at BBV it was right next door to a grocery store. BBV uniform is dark navy blue polo with the BBV logo in gold. The grocery store's uniform is white buttondown shirts with a pastel/minty green vest.

So, I stop in after work on evening and this woman stops me and asks me where something is and I tell her I don't know. She rudely demands that I go get her someone who does know or to go find out. I tell her I don't work for the grocery- I work at BBV.
She gets huffy and demands to speak to my manager because I'm rude and unhelpful.

Me: "Okay, you can talk to my manager. Just go out the front door there, cross that little street and go into Blockbuster and ask for *SM's Name*."
Her: "WHAT?! What're you trying to pull?!"

That's when I grabbed my name tag, held it out and ran my finger under the word BLOCKBUSTER and said, "I work at BLOCKBUSTER."
Her eyeballs zeroed in on the nametag and this look of realization came across her face then she looked at me and said, "Oh! Well! HUMPH!" and stomped off without so much as an apology.

[Boozy]

Its amazing how many SCs need to be told "I don't work here" more than once.

I think they must interpret "I don't work here" for "This isn't my department".

[Shengirl]

If someone called my boss and told him I'd been rude to some random customer at the mall or something, he'd probably buy me a drink.

[Misanthropical]

Shengirl, my boss would laugh his ass off at them and tell them he couldn't possibly care less about what I do outside of work.

[Raieth]

once in a walmart I was asked where the soap was. (Note: I was wearing a black shirt and blue jeans) Deciding to be evil I said:

Me: In the soap isle.
sc: where is that?
me: in the store.
sc: But where in the store is it?
me: in the soap isle.

Unfortunitly I ddin't get to see how far I could continue this because an employee walked up and asked if we needed help.

[Bluenomi]

It was around then that I decided to just leave, since I was starting to get that familiar pain behind the eyes as my brain tried desperately to escape through the socket. I'm sure you all know the one I mean.

Unfortunatly I do know the one you mean. The one that comes with the bonus urge to kill people

[GolfCart34]

Sometimes when I go out I wear my old CS shirt with "NO I DON'T WORK HERE" emblazoned on the back in large letters. Actually, store employees will usually get a kick out of the shirt.

I've noticed that I usually get asked questions about crap most often when I'm in Wal-Mart. I've never had anybody be rude to me, surprisingly. I just tell them that I don't work there and go about my business. If a old lady or somebody asks me to get something up high I'm usually more than happy to oblige since I'm tall and I can usually reach high up items.

I'm also glad that I don't have to wear a uniform to work. Just business-y clothes and my name tag does it. I just make sure to take the name tag off and leave it in my drawer at work if I go to the store on break.