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02-22-2004, 07:00 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Post your interesting story...
I was once in a Fry's near Palo Alto, and a guy mistook me for a store employee. Started asking me all sorts of questions about a cable for his PC, and as I was helping out, I noticed that a couple of other people were waiting behind him to ask questions. I thought it was amusing, so I went on helping out. In any case, the guys in the store completely ignored me, even though they passed by a couple of times. I never did mention that I didn't work at the store, but hey, why not?
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02-22-2004, 07:06 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: North Hollywood, CA
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Yes. I hate it but I feel bad about being rude so either I point them in the right direction or politely say I don't work here.
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02-22-2004, 07:06 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2003
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
many hundreds of thousands of times, primarily because I meander up and down the aisles with a look of disgust on my face when I'm at a computer-related store. Little do they know that it's not a disgust for working retail, it's a disgust for the goddamned prices.
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02-22-2004, 07:07 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Nov 1999
Posts: 1,469
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Yes and when it does happen, I try to help, especially if it is an older person
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02-22-2004, 07:08 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 4,197
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I just ignore them. Fvcking assh0les!
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02-22-2004, 07:10 PM
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Administrator Emeritus
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
All the time, an all sorts of stores. It can get annoying at times. I was offered jobs when it happened at 2 different stores. No joke.
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02-22-2004, 07:11 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2001
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
no. Probably because I dress like I steal my clothes from a blind hobo, who despite being blind, put up a good fight.
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02-22-2004, 07:17 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
occasionally.
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02-22-2004, 07:21 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 6,801
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Yes.
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02-22-2004, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Holden MO
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
did they tip you?
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02-22-2004, 07:24 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 18,437
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Quote:
Originally posted by: XZeroII
no. Probably because I dress like I steal my clothes from a blind hobo, who despite being blind, put up a good fight.
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02-22-2004, 07:27 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 15,503
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I've never been mistaken as an employee, but I'll help someone that looks confused or if a salesman is telling them a load of crap, I'll step in and correct them. I had a manager of a store tell me to stop it so i told him that if it is what he wanted i would, but I would call a local TV station and tell them that his store policy was to lie to customers.
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02-22-2004, 07:58 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 13,990
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Do you dress like an employee?
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02-22-2004, 08:05 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 5,079
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
i once got asked to leave Computer City which is now CompUSA
cause someone asked me what PC they should get and i convinced them to buy one from me instead 
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02-22-2004, 08:06 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: New York, NY
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
No... but I've mistaken a shopper for a store employee once...
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02-22-2004, 08:25 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Apr 2002
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I was never confused for an employee, but once a few years ago at CompUSSR, someone was asking about a CD-Burner to the employee, and because it was a B&M store, prices were disgusting, so I butted in, in the most polite way possible, and gave told her about newegg. She then proceeded to leave the store after I told her at the time how much cheaper newegg was than CompUSSR.
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02-22-2004, 08:27 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Houston
Posts: 4,132
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I tell them we don't serve their kind here. It's funny to watch their reactions.
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02-22-2004, 08:27 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 9,434
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Yes.
I look like Peter North so girls always ask me if they can be in my movies.
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02-22-2004, 08:39 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 13,472
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I don't browse very much, so no. When I go in a store I have a purpose: find what I'm looking for and get out.
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02-22-2004, 08:42 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 12,130
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Somebody thought I worked at Banana Republic when I was just browsing through there.
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02-22-2004, 08:42 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 18,366
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
yeah, I often stop off after work so I'm in a nice shirt and khakis....happens about once a month.
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02-22-2004, 09:02 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 1,034
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I've had the opposite happen to me....sorta. I was at work one day(Blockbuster) and was standing behind the counter at one of the computers. I had a Blockbuster shirt on and someone walked up to the other side of the counter and asked "Do you work here?" I would've thought it would be obvious....but....apparently I was wrong.
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02-22-2004, 09:09 PM
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Administrator Emeritus
Elite Member
AT FAQ MAN
Join Date: Oct 1999
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RE:Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I get that quite a lot.
Computer stores I can understand because I take my friends there and help them buy stuff, but it also happens in clothing shops....especially when the GF is trying on stuff. I have that "stand and watch the entire shop" type of look when I am waiting, so people tend to think that I am an employee there.
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02-22-2004, 09:20 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 7,664
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
I think next time I have that happen I'm going to say "No, but for $50 you can have a half hour of my time to help you find what you're looking for." 
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02-22-2004, 10:00 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,675
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RE: Have you ever been mistaken for a store employee while shopping?
Don't wear a red shirt to Target. 
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