Happened to me once. I did not know who he was in told him so. It’s possible the guy was bluffing. He claimed to be some state senator.
My brother had a funny story about this. His friend worked in IT and was doing one of those system things that take all day and take the system down. He wasn’t supposed to let anyone in the building during this. So an executive comes to the door, his key card doesn’t work, he buzzes the bell. The guy inside answers, and says he can’t let anyone in. Exec says “Do you know who I am?” and the employee responds with a tentative “well, do you know who I am?”
“No”
“Ok, I can’t let you in.”
Exactly, but the guy couldn’t even see him.
Holy shit that clip was epic.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
Really mate? You aren’t a university, you are a mum and pop shop that got shafted by our competitor and we came in and rescued you.
Working on the helldesk
I like that maybe-typo :)
Coming from someone over a decade past helldesk work, it wasn’t a typo.
My favorite were university parents who were so sure they were legally allowed to look into their (under 18) kid’s grades and shit, and really did not appreciate that we did not give a fuck who they were if we didn’t have sign off from the student (and even then, we told them to fuck off and go to the admin building cuz we ain’t authorized to give you access to a fucking thing).
I don’t get it, why can’t parents know what their under 18 kids grades are?
Because (generic) you have no right to your child’s information when attending higher learning institutions, no matter your child’s age per FERPA. As it was explained to me, when attending higher learning institutions, it’s understood that the child is basically an adult and should be treated as such, which affords them the right to privacy, even from their parents. They can authorize you if they so choose, but it’s their choice.
Having heard the arguments I got from helicopter parents, it’s much needed. The amount of grief I got from assholes who couldn’t be bothered to talk to their kids was insane (especially the kids who had a note on their account to not let anyone do phone resets because parents were willing to impersonate their kid to IT to break into their account)
Thanks. Can’t wrap my head around the concept, seems like a major cultural disconnect to me.
It’s intentional.
Much like calling management manglement. Because let’s be fair they are there to mangle up your job to make them look better for the next quarterly bonus.
My phone has given up on trying to correct it.
It’s a somewhat-common slang term. Wiktionary has an entry, but it’s poorly attested there; you’ll see actual examples if you use a search engine.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Former helldesk employee from the mid 1990’s here. Thank you for serving.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
I had one that did this. Dude bought 10 years worth of dial-up access in 1995.
Yup. Supervisor in a call center. Guy didn’t like what I was saying and tried to pull the "My dad owns <local budget oil delivery service>!” Okay, good. You still aren’t getting what you want AND I won’t be buying my oil from your dad anymore.
This was years ago and I found out recently that the company has been folded into one of the larger full service providers who I do use. I can only hope that they were bought out and I haven’t given their family a penny since.
No, but I did get asked if I knew who someone was after by a coworker. Some actor who has played a side character in a film I saw a decade ago. Along with a lot of other films I haven’t seen. I don’t watch many films.
Nope, but I did go to school with a kid whos dad worked at Nintendo.
At my school the kids dad worked for Seinfeld
Did the kid in your school have access to experimental kit?
The kid in my school had a special prototype that displayed the Nintendo on the windshield for the passenger of a car. I’ve been waiting 35 years for that product to hit the shelves.
That would have been so cool, but one guess why it didn’t go to market.
Cause the projector would need to be brighter than the sun?
Could be, I guess, depending on how bright a light you could make in whatever year. Also liability for the driver being distracted by it.
If they could do a rear sidewindow version, I guess that would be fine. No guarantee the projector didn’t take up the full glove box, though.
Did we go to the same school?!
I went to school with the dudes who founded Dice (parallel class).
I’ve avoided that that by knowing, in advance, who they were. But I worked a desk where I called them.
When they start getting shitty, pre-empt the problem by hitting them with a “don’t you know who I am”.
Worked as the night manager at McDonalds for a while. Some drunk guy comes in and when we asked him to leave he ‘my sister is the manager’ (she was the assistant store manager) we were like so? Next day we told her and she said ‘yeah, my brother is alcoholic, I’d have kicked him out sooner’
I had a colleague say something like “we are bit short staffed so thanks for being patient” which just pissed up this entitled woman who then started spouting about how she worked in HR and she wanted to know who the manager’s name was. Just going on and on and eventually I just yelled out who the name of the manager was, which somehow short circuited the diatribe. Somehow she was one of those people who could become offended by a genuine “thanks for the patience”.
Im a bit conflicted on this. When service is usually good and its not going as well as it should a thanks for patience is a nicety. If it keeps dragging on and become severe it becomes sort of a. Hey worry about getting work done and pairing down the que and don’t worry about apologizing for it as its gone beyond a minor inconvenience. Its time for magement to think about vouchers or something. Then also you get all the businesses now, especially with phone support, who under staff and so thanks for your patience is just business as usually as they intentionally provide poor service (not the individual people its the company that has a policy of doing it poorly)
It wasn’t even bad service. We sold watches. It was the sort of “I will help you as soon as I am done with this customer” thing.
yeah I mean if the wait is to long in that scenario then leave. When I go places I just see a line and am like. nope.
Do you know who I think I am?
I worked at a now closed greasy spoon directly across from University of Kentucky in Lexington about 25 years ago. We would put your name on your ticket, so that we could call your name when your order was ready. Apparently I thoroughly insulted several of the basketball team because I had no freaking clue who they were. I went to Transy. I don’t know your sports all teams.
Lexington is fucking weird about that basketball team… The whole city was bizarre when I lived there.
Admittedly the place in question was Tolly Ho’s so I understand some of the confusion on the player’s part. They do LOVE basketball in that town. Friendly people though, at least when I went to college.
That’s the name of the place I assumed it was lol! It was bugging me that I couldn’t remember. I only lived there for like a year though. And yeah the city was far nicer to me as a visibly queer person with an Ohio accent than I expected it to be.
The best little Ho-house in Kentucky!
I had a “I can’t believe you’re who you are.”
When a very wealthy businessman who’s well-known in the city as a traditionally married, conservative senior and founder of a charity gave me his laptop to “update and fix any issues”. He had a Chrome shortcut on the desktop, but I noticed it also had Firefox installed.
I routinely check all installed browsers for any issues like add-ons that may have been installed unintentionally or malicious websites with the permission to show desktop notifications.When I opened up Firefox, links with images to gay bondage, leather and shit-eating fetish sites showed up directly on the start page. And this guy was watching me while I was working on it. The tension in the room was palpable.
I quickly opened the settings, did my checks and closed the browser without skipping a beat.
“OK, found nothing malicious installed, now let’s check your update status.”
And pivoted to some small talk about his charity.Got the biggest tip of my life that day.
Old conservative gentleman -> definitely is a freak on the internet. The hard data I know about is limited to which US states visit porn sites the most, but there’s a lot of anecdotal data.
The repression has to come out somewhere, I guess.
I really don’t understand how folks like that don’t delete their history before bringing their computer in.
He wouldn’t know how, that’s why he paid my boss 120€ per hour to have someone do basic software maintenance on it.
I was a bouncer. A lot of people claimed to be someone important. They mostly weren’t. I pulled Jess Gower (a local celeb) and her friends out of the queue years ago because I knew she was a bit famous. She seemed a really nice normal person.
The important people don’t enter through the front door.
My clubs weren’t that impressive.
Not that I can remember, but once, I was working as a server in a restaurant, and I guess one of the guests that got sat in my section had stared in a TV series that I was only vaguely aware of, but my coworkers loved. My coworkers we’re all excited and whispering the entire time, but otherwise they were just another average, unmemorable guest.
Was a cab driver. A relatively famous singer stepped in. Said where he needed to go, didn’t say a word otherwise. It was a 5 minute drive. I stopped, said… that’ll be 15 euros. Or something like that. And got hit with the ‘dont you know who i am?’ I answered, “Well ‘his name’ , Im ‘my name’ and you need to pay”.
“Sure! You’re Jim Pingston, delivery truck driver from Tahoma! What’s up man!”
…but no I haven’t. Except when I talk to my boss sometimes he has to remind me.
