Worse yet,
ME: Jeans, random graphic T-shirt, ballcap, in a good mood, pushing a shopping cart.
CUSTOMER: Do you work here?
Yup! I intentionally go shopping looking like absolute trash, because almost every time I go shopping, someone assumes I work there, and I’m way too nice and often end up helping them anyway.
I’ll wear sweats, an oversized hoodie, a backwards baseball cap, and earbuds, someone will still stop me and ask me a question obviously meant for a store employee.
Half of the time these people weren’t able to help me because “first day”, “from another department”, “don’t know”, etc despite having uniform, tag, cart and whatnot.
Lots of representatives stock the shelves too. Coke, Pepsi, frito-lays to name a few. They send their own vehicles and a stocker to fill the shelves the way they want in grocery and convenience stores. All part of the contract.
The worst is when they wear basically the same thing as the actual staff.
Then you get in the habit of looking for a logo, so any women think you are being weird, at best… no I just wanna know if you work here without asking a stupid question!!! I don’t even care about your boobs rn, it’s just where your company stores the logo!
Yeah. I had a friend who did this for pepsi and she was asked all the time where other products were. Luckily she was paid hourly and local, so she just told them where it was 🤷♀️
I just say, “Can I ask you a question?” Doesn’t matter if they work there or not…
“Do I look like I work here?”
I’ve asked for help from someone in full grocery worker kit only to be told they were inspecting from corporate or there for a promotion. Neither had any idea where stuff was (or said that to get rid of me)
This is why you shouldn’t wear a red polo to Target. You also shouldn’t shop at Target, if possible, until they stop being dicks.
Don’t wear an orange t-shirt whilst hoping to casually browse a Home Depot.
We should normalize asking other customers where something is. Like if I’m looking for something and I see it in someone’s cart, I’ll politely ask them, “Oh I’m looking for that! Where did you find it?”
Likewise, if someone looks lost, I’ll ask them, “I don’t work here but can I help you find something?”
Anyone and everyone in the grocery store I always ask…
