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I popped into Tesco yesterday on the way home from work. I was wearing a blue shirt that apparently is very similar to the staff ones.

As I was stood chatting to a lad who works there, when this woman walks up.

Her “where’s the Couscous?”

Me “do you mean, where is the Couscous please?” :shrug:

Her “don’t be so cheeky to me or I’ll report you to the store manager”

Me “crack on you silly cow, I don’t work here” :naughty:

She stormed off with a red face & looked for her own chuffin Couscous :lol:

The store worker was trying his best not to laugh out loud & said “I wish we could get away with that!” :rules:

Anyone else been mistaken for staff in a store or other workplace?

Mick
 
lol.
I always do when I pop into most shops on me lunch hour during the summer months.
 
Mickwreay said:
I popped into Tesco yesterday on the way home from work. I was wearing a blue shirt that apparently is very similar to the staff ones.

As I was stood chatting to a lad who works there, when this woman walks up.

Her “where’s the Couscous?”

Me “do you mean, where is the Couscous please?” :shrug:

Her “don’t be so cheeky to me or I’ll report you to the store manager”

Me “crack on you silly cow, I don’t work here” :naughty:

She stormed off with a red face & looked for her own chuffin Couscous :lol:

The store worker was trying his best not to laugh out loud & said “I wish we could get away with that!” :rules:

Anyone else been mistaken for staff in a store or other workplace?

Mick
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Like this a lot!:clap::clap:
 
I once went into a hospital wearing suit and tie, black overcoat etc ... walked into the Ward Reception and asked a nurse if I could see a patient ... "yes Sir", came the reply, "Would you like his notes?".

I'm just so glad that I wasn't on my way to the Operating Theatre! :D
 
Mickwreay said:
I popped into Tesco yesterday on the way home from work. I was wearing a blue shirt that apparently is very similar to the staff ones.

As I was stood chatting to a lad who works there, when this woman walks up.

Her “where’s the Couscous?”

Me “do you mean, where is the Couscous please?” :shrug:

Her “don’t be so cheeky to me or I’ll report you to the store manager”

Me “crack on you silly cow, I don’t work here” :naughty:

She stormed off with a red face & looked for her own chuffin Couscous :lol:

The store worker was trying his best not to laugh out loud & said “I wish we could get away with that!” :rules:

Anyone else been mistaken for staff in a store or other workplace?

Mick
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Now you know what I have to put up with daily!

I often gte asked whether I do work there, despite taking stuff from a box and placing it on a shelf whilst wearing a Spar Abersoch branded T - shirt, evidently it's not enough of a give away :shrug:
 
No, and calling someone a "silly cow" is just as rude.
 
Not me either. But it rteminds me of the time I was at the ten items or less checkout, bearing in mind three of my items were buy one get one free. My goodies were on the conveyor belt when a rather loud voice from behind me said you have 12 items there you are not supposed to be using this checkout. I replied who`s counting, she said I am. She had in her hand a packet of chewing gum, I said if you are in that much of a hurry you can pay for it at the kiosk on the way out. She then said in a loud enough voice to be heard by all. I think you are extremely rude!! To which I replied " And I think you are extremely fat but I aint shouting it across the supermarket " :D
 
i this week had a rather nice young man ask me for some cigarettes when i asked him for some ID i was asked if i was joking when i told him i wasn't he got rather up set and called me a stupid c***, i reply was see the door please have a nice day on the other side of it. Following day he came back i just told him before he got into the shop to leave. he is now banned from the shop. i am not there to take that sort of thing and worse. i am only doing my job.
As for the OP a polite i don't work here to start with would have been better rather than being rude yourself.
 
Am I the only one who thinks the OP is the one who was the rudest?
 
That's why I enjoyed being a bus driver, the ability to really annoy the rude people.

By sailing past them the next day :D

Or when they stand there expecting you to take your eyes off the road to notice them stood behind you not ringing the bell to tell you they want to get off.

"Excuse me, I wanted that stop!."
"Oh sorry love, the eyes in the back of my head arent working today, you'll have to wait until the next stop now"
 
I would guess much of the OP's situation has been very much lost in translation to text on screen.

I know the sort of person he is referring to and the tone of voice combined with an over inflated sense of self importance is often very rude.
 
gumbo-67 said:
i this week had a rather nice young man ask me for some cigarettes when i asked him for some ID i was asked if i was joking when i told him i wasn't he got rather up set and called me a stupid c***, i reply was see the door please have a nice day on the other side of it. Following day he came back i just told him before he got into the shop to leave. he is now banned from the shop. i am not there to take that sort of thing and worse. i am only doing my job.
As for the OP a polite i don't work here to start with would have been better rather than being rude yourself.
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We get these all the time, acting immature like that is further evidence they ain't old enough IMO.
 
Not in the slightest bit rude?
How about saying something like "i'm sorry i don't work here but i hope you talk to a real worker with more manners than you did me..." instead of sinking even lower than her by using name calling? It'd actually show her up more too than just calling her a silly cow.

HuntingMartians said:
Not in the slightest bit rude. He asked for her to say please and she refused. Nothing rude in what he did next.
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reminds me of the time me and the missus were in the cotswolds, i asked a bloke in garage/shop wearing co/op coloured jumper if they had a certain magazine, didnt say he didn't work there, just said i dont know, i found magazine went up to que to pay and he was in line, i said i found it mate, he then told me he didn't work there ipmsl
 
MartynK said:
No, and calling someone a "silly cow" is just as rude.
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That’s your opinion mate, her tone was quite threatening when she said she would report me to the manager. She obviously thought she had the right to speak to a member of staff in that manner.

If I had have been working there, I would have still started the same way. Please & thank you costs nothing :shrug:

No doubt she would have still reported me & probably stretched the truth a bit to get the employee into trouble!
 
this also reminds me of when i went on the pickering to goathland steam train,
and i went to where they were shooting heartbeat, went in the aidensfield arms, went outside with pint of guiness, to watch them shooting heartbeat, because i was wearing my bike gear, a member of public mistook me for an extra in the filming
 
As a bus driver I'm allowed use the facilities at Morden Underground station. Trouble is as soon as I walk through the ticket barriers I often get asked for travel information on the underground!
 
gumbo-67 said:
i this week had a rather nice young man ask me for some cigarettes when i asked him for some ID i was asked if i was joking when i told him i wasn't he got rather up set and called me a stupid c***, i reply was see the door please have a nice day on the other side of it. Following day he came back i just told him before he got into the shop to leave. he is now banned from the shop. i am not there to take that sort of thing and worse. i am only doing my job.
As for the OP a polite i don't work here to start with would have been better rather than being rude yourself.
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What a 'orrible oik he was... you could have been really nasty and sold him the cancer sticks.

I agree about the op. I do know how annoying rudeness can be but I think it's best to take the moral high ground and answer rudeness with politeness.
 
woof woof said:
I agree about the op. I do know how annoying rudeness can be but I think it's best to take the moral high ground and answer rudeness with politeness.
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Alan,

I answered her in a polite manner, questioning HER rude approach :shrug:

She then threatened me with telling my manager (she thought) that I had effectively questioned HER manners!

Maybe I’m not ordained yet, but if someone is rude & does not apologise for THEIR rude behavior then why should I/YOU tug your forelock & be even more polite?

Mick
 
Calling someone a silly cow is hardly polite IMVHO.

I'm a pretty secure guy, at ease and secure in myself. I'm not easily (if ever) intimidated or annoyed by the actions or words of others because I'm secure in myself and because of that I very rarely if ever feel the need to resort to insults or arrogance or to even raise my voice because I don't have to.

I'm not saying that your story isn't funny, it is, it's just that I personally would have laughed a little inside at the slightly rude woman but replied politely.
 
Mickwreay said:
....Anyone else been mistaken for staff in a store or other workplace?....
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I did some tutoring in a cat A prison (where my mum was high up in the art dept) between semesters at Uni and nearly got carted off with the crims when they rounded them up at the end of the session. Crapped myself. Mum came to the rescue, which I didn't mind, even if I was 19 at the time :lol:
 
OK Alan,

We are all different mate, I’m not sure why you are talking about being secure?

I’ve had a pretty varied life & career working all round the world.
Pussy footing around rude people is a trait I’ve not mastered. Some people simply need telling? :shrug:
If they are always treated, as you rightly say in a polite manner then they will probably continue to believe their rude approach is acceptable.:thinking:

I did not start the thread to prove “how big am I” it was just to see how others have been approached & treated by the general public.

Regards,

Mick
 
Mickwreay said:
OK Alan,

We are all different mate, I’m not sure why you are talking about being secure?
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I personally have found many people behaving badly to be a little insecure.

If I'm happy and secure and all warm and fuzzy why should I care if some random woman is a little rude? That might sound a little arrogant or dismissive but hopefully I manage to stay on the right side of such things.
 
Jeez this is a photography forum not a moral practitioners surgery. Lighten up.
 
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I hope the silly old dumb cow learnt a good lesson today - treat others with respect if you want to be treated with respect yourself. She didn't even have the manners to say "Excuse me". Shame you didn't know where the couscous was - you could have directed her to the opposite corner of the shop LOL!!
 
Good manners cost nothing but the op was being confrontational in his (imo smart alec) first reply so fault on both sides there. Of course the lad you were talking to could have piped up if he'sd wanted to.

We should try to lead by example and in that instance a simple "I don't know, sorry, I don't work here" would have sent her on her way without any bad feeling. Maybe the next person she met would have had a nice word from her then.
 
vtecsilver said:
I hope the silly old dumb cow learnt a good lesson today - treat others with respect if you want to be treated with respect yourself. She didn't even have the manners to say "Excuse me". Shame you didn't know where the couscous was - you could have directed her to the opposite corner of the shop LOL!!
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My thoughts exactly. :naughty:

But apparently I’m the rude one :razz:

Mick
 
Steep said:
Good manners cost nothing but the op was being confrontational in his (imo smart alec)
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Utter tosh mate,

Steep said:
We should try to lead by example and in that instance a simple "I don't know, sorry, I don't work here" would have sent her on her way without any bad feeling. Maybe the next person she met would have had a nice word from her then.
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And by pointing out the fact that she should have said please, I was simply pointing out the fact that she could ask nicely! (leading by example)

So, if someone comes up to you in an abrupt manner & simply says “where is ##” would you politely tell them?

My children have been brought up, knowing how to treat people with respect & ask a question politely. So, I expect others to offer the same initial respect to me and anyone else they encounter.

If your standards are lower, then either your parents or education have let you down!

Mick
 
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Let's hope she remembers her manners next time she speaks to someone.
 
I used to work for British Caledonian Flight Training and as such was required to wear dark blue trousers and a light blue shirt. We had a board on the wall where we recorded all the occupations we had been mistakenly as having. One day a colleague and I were in the local DIY store when someone asked him where he kept his paint stripper. He replied "in the shed". The person took a second look and realised.

I always try to be polite in the first case, but if this is not reciprocated, I tend to be a little rude. I was in tesco's last week looking at something and a woman pushing a floor cleaning machine came up to me. I stepped out of her way. Not even a grunt of acknowledgement. In the next isle - guess what. This time I did not move. She got to within two inches of me then stopped and TOLD me to get out of her way. I explained why I would not and carried on looking at the goods.

Solution - shop at Waitrose where the staff and most of the customers are much mote polite.
 
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