A woman at a retail store decided my black pants and plain polo were enough proof that I worked there.
She walked straight up to me and asked where some item was.
I said, “Sorry, I don’t work here.”
She stared at me like I had personally ruined her day and said,
“Well you are standing here aren’t you?”
I laughed a little because I thought she was joking.
She was not.
She started complaining that “people don’t want to work anymore” and that I was being rude.
I told her again,
“Ma’am, I literally don’t work here. I’m shopping.”
She said,
“Then why are you dressed like that?”
I replied,
“Because my job also requires clothes.”
She stormed off to find my manager.
Five minutes later, I watched her arguing with an actual employee while pointing at me from across the aisle.
The employee looked at me, looked back at her, and said,
“Yeah… he really doesn’t work here.”
No apology.
She just walked away like I had somehow tricked her by existing in a polo shirt. 😂