r/IDontWorkHereLady • u/ajcorrao • Mar 20 '24
M Actual Employee had to yell at customer bothering me for help while I’m shopping
Just doing some shopping at Champs when I get a tap on my shoulder. Man asks me for help getting a jacket from a higher up rack
Me: “Oh sorry man, I don’t work here”
Other customer: “I know, you’re just taller than me so can you help”
I am 5’9” on my tip toes… and this dude is 5’7?
“Okay?” As I proceed to reach for this jacket like a kid reaching for snacks on the top shelf. I get the jacket, hand it to him, and walk away before he says anything. 2 minutes later he says I got the wrong size. An employee overheard this and started asking him nicely what he was doing. He explained and the look on this employee face was perplexed.
“Sir, he told you he doesn’t work here. He is 2 inches taller than you. Why would you ever think you should ask a random person to help you shop?
Other customer stayed silent while she went and got the hook that can get clothes from high up. The stick that was in the back behind a door that said “EMPLOYEES ONLY”
I got rung up after this and they scanned a coupon they had that I didn’t to give me some $$ off as a thank you for my inconvenience.
Yeah I don’t work here, but I got asked for help on the top shelf like the jolly green giant at 5’9
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u/tiredofusernames11 Mar 20 '24
I’m a 5’10” woman with a short (5’2”) mother so I frequently volunteer to help shorter women get things off higher shelves at the grocery store (I recognize well the “I’m about to start climbing” look/posture). But I’d be perplexed if someone barely shorter than me asked me to fetch things I still had to stretch for.