Top Wholesome 'I Don't Worry Here Lady' Stories (June 3, 2023)

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jun 3, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

We've all likely been on both ends of an "I Don't Work Here Lady" story. Look, everyone makes mistakes but not everyone has to make these assumptions. Some of these stories range from assumptions made as a result of a customer being a good samaritan, a customer's attire being strangely similar to that of a store's employees, and an entitled Karen's main character syndrome. 

 

Keep scrolling below for this fresh collection of "I Don't Work Here Lady" stories. For more, here are some top petty stories from this week.

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    Shelf - "I DON'T WORK HERE, LADY!"
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    #1: Being a good samaritan with knowledge does not necessary mean you're an employee at the store!

    Font - I don't work here, but I know a lot! M I own a company that, when simplified as much as possible, can be said to cut and polish rocks. Every year in January I go to a huge rock show in Arizona to purchase inventory for the rest of the year.
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    Font - I'm at one of my vendor's booths, and have already picked out a ton or so of rocks, and I'm waiting for them to bag them up, weigh them, and give me the bill. As I'm waiting, I see a group of people strolling by and looking at one of my favorite types of stone, called purpurite. This is a tricky stone that has to be cut a certain way, or it ends up as just a blackish blob. When cut correctly, it has a gorgeous purple flash that people love.
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    Font - It's clear that the others think it's neat, but that they aren't familiar with it. I walk up to them and start a conversation, asking if they know how to cut it. They say no, so I start giving them tips on how to cut it and showing them pictures and video of what it looks like when cut the correct way. They say thanks, and I go back to waiting. Shortly afterwards, I see them walking up to me with their hands full of rocks, and I have to laugh and tell them that I don't actually work there
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    #2: This diplomat was just helping a lady out at the grocery store...

    Font - Diplomatic problem XL Hey there, I will start with the usual... long time lurker first time poster... I'm a diplomat from a third world country recently sent on mission to the consulate in L.A. I don't want to toot my horn so much but I speak Spanish English Japanese and mandarin.
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    Font - This clear sky day I was in a store to get some groceries for dinner and this Asian lady looked worried and kind of in need of help so obviously I approached her. She was Japanese and a tourist and was looking for some ingredients to make gyoza. As I make gyoza myself I knew where the minced meat and the gyoza sheets where and kindly showed her the way while talking in Japanese. She thanked me and went on her way when enters Ken...
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    Font - I was dressed in my work attire without the jacket and Ken thought I worked there as a manager. He came yelling at me and this is the conversation: Ken: hey you!!! Your employee was extremely rude to me and refused to serve me. Do something about it!!! Me: I'm sorry sir, but I don't work here. Ken: yes you do... you are the manager I saw you help that woman over there!!!! Do your effing job now and fire that lazy right now. Me: I don't work here, and please calm down Ken: don't tell me to
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    Font - At his raised voice an actual employee came in with some police officers because the guy whom ken harassed before was not an employee either and reported it to the cashier and police was called.
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    Font - Police 1: excuse me sir whats happening here? Ken: nothing officer, these lazy people are just not doing their job and I'm complaining Police 2: are you a manager? Me: no sir, I'm a diplomat working at the consulate of my country. Here is my diplomatic ID Ken: you? A diplomat? You told me you were a manager here!!!! Me: i repeatedly told you that I don't work here.
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    Font - Employee: officers we just want him(ken) out of the store Ken: what?why? Is this to me and made me angry. Me: officer I just want to finish my shopping and get going, (now I walked a few meters away from ken and police 1 because his ranting wasn't allowing me to talk with the officer) as you may have understand I think that man mistook two persons as employees because of I don't want to that lied have anything to do with him may I go? Police 2: sure you may go
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    Font - I went to buy my dinner ingredients and I think ken got banned from the store. a few days later there was a phonecall to the consulate from the police to follow up and that was that. I was surprised how someone could be this dense that after repeating that I did not work there continued on the same course... at least I will keep on helping if I can and next time (if there is a next time) I will just talk in Japanese or mandarin and pretend not to understand.
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    #3: A short but sweet tale in which a Karen treated a fellow shopper like a mannequin

    Font - Woman uses me to measure shorts S I was in Eddie Bauer today and an older woman came up to me, said excuse me, then held shorts up to my waist. She pursed her lips, nodded, and said - "that'll work". Then she said "thanks" and walked away. Edit: by older, I mean 80+. She had the air of a woman who simply gave no anymore lol
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    #4: Who knew that a cheap bottle of olive oil could cause so much controversy?

    Font - But I wanted that big bottle of Olive Oil XXL This happened a few years ago, but I am reminded of it every time I buy Olive Oil. I live a few blocks from a grocery store so I will text my family before I leave from work and ask if anyone needs me to pick something up. Wife, Son, and Daughter send me their answers, which included that we were out of Olive Oil. The list is small so I just grab a basket as I enter the store.
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    Font - After getting everything else on my short list, I go looking for the Olive Oil. This is where things got weird. On the very top shelf, the store is offering a large bottle at a ridiculously low price, so I reach up and grab one. I am a little over 6 feet tall with long arms, and it was a bit of a stretch for me. After placing the bottle in my basket, I hear from behind me in a very soft and polite voice, "Excuse me young man." Now I was just shy of 50 at the time and it had been a LONG ti
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    Font - said, "I saw that you were able to reach that bottle, and I was wondering if you could see if there are any more left." I told her that there was one more left, and asked if she'd like me to get it down for her. She said "Yes, please." So I grabbed the last bottle and handed it to her. She said that she had seen what a wonderful deal it was, but there was no way she could have reached it and then proceeded to thank me profusely. I said it was my pleasure and thought what a nice little int
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    Font - Then things got weird. As polite grandma lady walks away, from behind me I hear someone say tersely, "Get me one of those bottles." I spin around and a woman is staring at me so I say, "Excuse me?" She continued, "One of those large bottles of Olive Oil, get one down for me." I told her there weren't any more and then she tried to take the bottle from my basket. I jerked the basket away and said, "WTH do you think you're doing?!"
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    Font - She told me that I should give her mine since I could just go in the back and look for more. Now, I am dressed in khakis and a button down dress shirt (typical middle aged man business casual), nothing like the employees at the store, so I am confused. Just as I am about to say something she really won't like, one of the managers comes out of the back and heads towards the front of the store through this aisle. He and I know each other in passing since I am in the store a lot, usually exc
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    Font - just shook my head and shrugged my shoulders. He politely told her I wasn't an employee. She said, "But he got a bottle down for someone else." He looked at me, I nodded, and he said, "Well, that was awfully nice of him." She immediately came back with, "Well make him give me his bottle." He looked at me just as confused as I felt and at this point I was just happy to not be alone in this Twilight Zone moment. He told me that he'd take care of this and that I was free to go, which did not
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    Font - A couple of things came out of this. I always smile when I think of polite grandma lady, and if the manager ever sees me in the store with Olive Oil in my basket/cart, he throws his hands up in an exaggerated manner and 'nopes' out very quickly.
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    #5: And finally, we leave you with a friendly reminder not to assume someone works somewhere based on their shirt!

    Font - Do You Have Any More Black Soil? L This happened a few hours ago. No Karen's or Kevin's in this one. I knew something like this might happen eventually. I was always curious to see what would happen.
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    Font - I work as a delivery driver for a building supply store. For my job, I have to wear hi-vis t-shirts. So I had that on, beige shorts, and a visor with my company name on it. Though unless you are standing a few meters away looking directly at the visor, you wouldn't see the logo.
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    Font - So today, I had to do a delivery to a near by town. And while there, I was told to go too one of the two supermarkets that are next door to one another to get hydration drinks and cold snack for the rest of my coworkers who work outside because of the heat wave we are experiencing.
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    Font - I go to the one store, and they are sold out of everything we need. So I begin walking next door to the wall of marts. I have the list in my hand, walking in front of their soils and mulch. And just a head of me, there is a car pulling up, stopping a head of me. Since he was blocking my way, I walked behind a skid of product, and suddenly hear the drivers voice call out "Do you have any more black soil?"
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    Handwriting - I just replied "I don't work here. I am a customer like you." "Oh, you're a customer?" "Yup." I didn't stop walking, and never saw the customers face.
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    Font - A few minutes later, I'm walking out of the store with a cart full of what I need, and the customer is still there loading his vehicle up. For fun, I walk by his vehicle, where he saw me pushing the cart. Something simple and entertaining for everyone.
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