'Stop laughing at me': Man mistaken for employee by furious customer tries to satisfy her demands he be ‘fired’ by calling his manager

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Eleonora Bader
Jun 10, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

You'd think when you tell someone you 'don't work here' at a store, they'd understand that you aren't employed by the company, therefore you arent obligated to help them out.

One dude was in the store getting wipers for his car because his weren't properly cleaning the rain off his window anymore, making it hard to drive. He was wearing a red polo shirt and jeans, which resembled the uniform of the store employees there. He was minding his own business, looking at the different sizes and makes of wipers, reading reviews on each one, when suddenly a woman approached him. At first, he wasn't sure he heard correctly, but soon it became apparent that she was talking to him. Not one to help an entitled lady in need, he told her he didn't work at the shop, and that she should probably speak with someone else.

She didn't like that, not one bit. Next up, a new boss wrote up an employee for being one minute late to lunch after they refused to do tasks that weren't directly related to their job.

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    "I don't work here!”
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    She wanted to speak to my manager, so I called the person who manages my life.
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    This happened yesterday, I was in Canadian Tire, for all of you non-Canadians It's like a mix between a Wal-Mart, a home depot, a bass pro shops, and an auto shop. I was wearing jeans and an old red polo shirt. The employees there wear black pants and a red polo with a triangle and maple leaf logo on the chest.
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    I was getting wipers for my car because mine aren't clearing the rain off my window anymore... It's a riveting story. They have this touch screen thing there where you select the vehicle and it tells you the specific sizes you need for each wiper and brand. I was fiddling with the screen and going through the different sizes and makes of wipers and reading reviews on
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    each one (I research everything before I buy it, drives my wife crazy) I hear someone behind me say excuse me. I think she wants to use the screen to figure out what wiper to buy, so I move to the section that has the wiper brand I'm interested in and start looking for the size I need. My assumption was wrong.
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    She followed me to where I was now poking through the very badly stocked wipers. From now on I'll be ME, and she'll be dc canoe, which I'll shorten to DC. DC: "Why did you walk away from me, that's very rude." I didn't even know she was talking to me at this point. So I kept looking at wipers.
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    DC: "This is unbelievable! I'm talking to you." I finally click in that I'm the one she's talking to. So I stupidly turn to face her while gripping a 28 inch wiper like a toddler holds a crayon. ME: "You talking to me?" DC: "Yeah you. I need to know what size wiper to get for my Mercedes."
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    ME: "That's what the screen is for." I said as I gesture towards it with the wiper in my hand and go back to searching for the second elusive 28 incher. DC: "You are terrible at your job, this isn't proper customer service." She said all huffy. ME: "Umm, I don't work here. I'm gonna go back to this now."
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    DC: "I want to speak to your manager right now. This isn't how you treat customers. Ignoring me and refusing to help me, its disgraceful." At this point she kind of stomps off, but only a few aisles away, and the aisles in the automotive department aren't full height ones, they are like chest height so you can see right across the whole department. She just does a few laps of the aisles around where I am, she's looking all over the place for a manager but not going far, I think so she doesn't lo
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    ME: "Still don't work here. So going to be hard to find that manager... and you're not listening to me... ok... " I say to her and trail off as she's obviously not caring at all. I go back to my wipers. While she's on her walk I find my wiper and start to head towards the check outs. She chases me down and gets in front of me, trying to stop my escape before a manager gets there.
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    DC: "No! You're not allowed to leave until I speak to your manager about you!" I've had enough of this buffoon. I pull out my phone and call my manager. I'm self employed, so I call the one person in my life who could reasonably be called my manager. The wife, henceforth referred to as BOSS. ME: "I'll call her for you, you aren't going to be able to find her here."
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    I put it on speaker phone so the crazy lady can hear. As the phone rings she's giving me this superior smirk like I'm about to get my as chewed out. ME: "Hey, how's the trip going? (She's on a business trip) BOSS: "Great, been having a some excellent meetings with the L3's (VP level people). What's up?"
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    ME: "Picking up some wipers." BOSS: "And you're so jazzed about them that you needed to call me in the middle of the day?" DC is getting really frustrated at this point, I'm obviously not getting to the me getting fired fast enough for her.
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    ME: "Nope, got a lady here at Canadian Tire who wants to talk to my manager. I kind of thought you're the closest thing to that. Want to talk to her?" BOSS: "What the hell Labtc?! Am I on speaker phone?" ME: "Oh yeah, the crazy lady can hear you, how else is she supposed to talk to my manager? Say hi to the crazy lady."
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    DC is finally starting to realize that I don't have a store logo on my shirt, and that maybe I'm not an employee. BOSS: "You're such a jā`ss. I'm sorry ma'am, my husband is an idiot. But he doesn't work there." I start to laugh at this point.
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    ME: "It's cool hun, she seems kind of slow or something. She probably doesn't realize I'm laughing at her." I say through my laughter while DC makes some kind of appalled noise from the back of her throat and stalks off. I managed to get my wipers and leave the store after that without any further incident. My wife thinks I was mean to her. I say I was fighting stupidity with dumk ery.
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    deardot . mine aren't clearing the rain off my window anymore... It's a riveting story. I kept reading because of this line... lol I hate running into old ladies in the auto department at Canadian Tire because they assume anyone there knows everything to do with cars. I have had people stop me while I am wearing a black tank top and beige shorts
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    because they wanted help and anyone would do. I will admit my knowledge is limited but that's where common sense and google come in. :) I try to avoid areas with other people unless I know exactly where the thing I am looking for is. 2.4k Share
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    zebry13 Man, I've read so many posts on this sub and still can't comprehend how after the words, "I don't work here," come out of OPs mouth the person talking to them doesn't immediately fk off. 1.3k Share
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    LadyJane17. That is a perfect description of what a Canadian Tire is. 232 Share farmfairy I dunno, I might have swapped Walmart for a dollar store, what with all those wire bins right when you walk in the door 53 Share
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    drleeisinsurgery. I'm am anesthesiologist and I run my own business. Once, someone asked for my manager because the surgeries were running late. I spun around in a circle and said, "Here's my manager!" 650 Share
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    vbguy77. Perfect! My wife might have played along a bit, as she has a low tolerance for stupidity. 158 Share
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    skittlemethis. Whenever I go to ANY store in my scrubs, people ask for my help. Why would a Walmart/hobby lobby/Jo Ann fabrics employee wear scrubs??? 140 Share
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    Topcad I love this. My wife would have definitely played along and fired me on the spot. 89 Share giveen Then you can say "Sorry, lady, I can't help you, I've been fired" 98 Share
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    InvestigatorJosephus 7 yr. ago fighting stupidity with dum `ry I'm gonna do this from now on 113 Share
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