'I'm not lying, I don't work here': Store manager confuses flight attendant with employee, insists that she stop playing 'tricks' and start working

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 17, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

This manager was clearly not in his right mind because the flight attendant he thought was his employee was wearing a completely different color than the store uniform. Of course, entitled people do not like to be proven wrong, so when the flight attendant tried to explain that she didn't work there and was a customer, the manager dug his heels into the ground and doubled down. 

Finally, when he realized that she was not, in fact, lying, the manager reprimanded the customer for trying to play tricks at Target. Who does this dude think he is? Most people would just apologize and move on, but this dude had to reframe the whole interaction as the flight attendant's fault. This was not exactly the kind of tense interaction this Redditor needed after an eight-hour flight.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about a sick employee who was forced to come into work anyway.

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    "Does this look like a Target uniform? I'm a flight attendant"
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    Accused of trying to trick people at Target Σ I'm a flight attendant. I stopped by Target after getting in from a redeye flight in full uniform. It
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    was navy. I had on my ID badge, my scarf, tights, sweater. I'd left LA the previous night at 11 pm. and landed in NYC
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    around 8 the next morning. All I wanted to so was sleep, but I needed something to eat for dinner because I knew that my fridge was empty
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    and I'd be going to sleep as soon as I made it home. A customer stopped me while I was speed walking through the store and the interaction went like this.
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    C: Hey, I need help in electronics. M: I don't work here. C: Do not to lie to me. M: I'm not lying, I don't work here. C:
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    yelling You're wearing a uniform. Of course you work here. M: I look down at my outfit and then up at him Does this look like a Target uniform? I'm a flight attendant. C: You should
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    know better than to come shopping in a uniform. What, are you trying to trick people? M: I'm
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    wearing blue, they wear red. No one with any sense would be confused. Then I walked away irritated and confused.
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    space_l... • 7h ago. Well, if it makes you feel any better, that stranger is always irritated and confused.
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    • Captain... 8h ago • No one with any sense would be confused. This one line sums up 90% of the stories in this entire subreddit
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    Pandor... • 8h ago. Maybe they thought you were trying to trick people into thinking they were in a flying Target???
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    Jenniyelf 8h ago • I worked at Long John Silver's when I was 16, after work I stopped at a Hardee's for a burger, got grabbed
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    by a customer demanding I go get them napkins. I told them I didn't work there, they called me a liar, I pointed to my
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    ljs shirt, told them I smelled like fish, not burgers, then stood in line to order my food. I hate people.
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    Dranask 8h ago • I do think it's time be be extremely to theses self righteous idiots.
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    sael_ne... • 7h ago. As a flight attendant you probably don't want to have to deal with annoying people off the
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    clock... what always baffles me in these stories is why would anyone assume someone working
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    there would LIE about working there? To get away from people like that? So you admit that YOU'RE the problem and not everyone else? (That idiot, not OP)
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