Our departments are different after the first two letters.

[TonyF]

I work in a photo lab. My lab is located at the front of aisle nine. What's at the back of aisle nine? The pharmacy. You can see it clear as day. I can see the poor techs slaving away on those keyboards and phones all day.

I see a lady in the middle of the aisle holding a huge jar of pills that she had just picked up from our OTC aisle. She reads the back momentarily before heading my way. She then approaches me at my counter and asks me if the pills were a good substitute for a vitamin/chemical/or drug that I honestly cannot pronounce. I politely tell her that I don't know and that the friendly white-coated pharmacist back there would answer this question.

She grabs the bottle out of my hands and walks that way grumbling, "You don't know anything do you?"

[Peppergirl]

You're so unreasonable!

Everyone knows that the PHarmacist and the PHoto lab should be able to answer the same questions, interchangeably!

[BrenDAnn]

Perfect comeback for that would've been "I know what department I work in, and it is NOT the pharmacy."

[draco664]

Perfect comeback for that would've been "I know what department I work in, and it is NOT the pharmacy."

"Now, now, it's easy to mistake a photolab for a pharmacy, so there's no need to say that you don't know anything Ma'am.

[ravevolution]

I want to slap a customer whenever I get the "You don't know anything do you?" comment, especially when it is not something related to my department. Course that doesn't happen often.

It happens to me sometimes when I walk into the main store to do the end of the night money drop (our auto center is a separate building from the main store) since we close earlier than the full line store. I always have my name badge lanyard in my back pocket, but it doesn't stop some people. Nowadays I untuck my shirt, unbutton my collar and have my car keys dangling in my hands when walking into the fullline for a drop that way no SC comes to bother me

[Midorikawa]

I work in a photo lab.

She grabs the bottle out of my hands and walks that way grumbling, "You don't know anything do you?"

You work with developing chemicals, right? Therefore, you're also a chemist and should by default know pharma chem. :-P

Shame on you for not answering her!

[Shalom]

I always wanted to get cross-trained in Photo when I worked at the Chain of Verylarge Stores. I do know something about photographic developing from college (although I've only ever done B&W) so I should have been able to pick it up pretty quickly, but apparently they needed me more behind that other counter.

[MrsEclipse]

"You don't know anything, do you?"

"No, I do know anything. I don't know everything. There's a difference, you know."

[EvilEmpryss]

"You don't know anything, do you?"

"I know enough not to rely on the opinions of random strangers for medical advice."

[Jay 2K Winger]

Heh. Just remembered an exchange that happened the other day at the wholesale club.

One of our home improvement salesmen (I'll dub him 'HISM') comes up with a customer. Customer's looking for some item that I'm not sure we have, or something like that. In any event, I didn't have the answer HISM and the customer were looking for, and I direct the customer to the service desk.

HISM: "Come on, man, I thought you were supposed to be a genius or something."
J2K: "I am very smart, this is true, but there are still things I do not know."
HISM and Cust.:
HISM: "Good answer, man."

[Ironclad Alibi]

J2K: "I am very smart, this is true, but there are still things I do not know."

That reminded me of this quote by Mark Twain:

He (Rudyard Kipling) is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man--and I am the other one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known, and I know the rest.

[Marmalady]

I hope that woman soon learns to read beyond the first two letters.

Otherwise, next time she needs to see a gynaecologist, some gym instructor is really going to get a surprise.

[mharbourgirl]

I hope that woman soon learns to read beyond the first two letters.

Otherwise, next time she needs to see a gynaecologist, some gym instructor is really going to get a surprise.

You owe me a coffee. Because mine is currently dripping off my monitor, and it's a VERY rare post that hits me that hard.

[Marmalady]

Sorry!

Have a cappucino and a chocolate fudge muffin to make up for it (also a handful of screen wipes....)