But apparently I look like I do.
It used to happen infrequently, but these days, pretty much every time I'm in a book, CD or video related store, at least one person will mistake me for a salesperson and start asking me to help them. I'm not really sure why.
I don't dress in a way that screams "salesperson". In fact what I wear when I go to a store is far more casual than I'd wear to work. It used to be mainly older people mistaking me for an employee, so for a while I thought that to them young person = employee, but today I was in Borders and someone only one or two years older than me asked for help opening the DVD Boxed Sets display case. So, um, I'm at a loss to explain how frequently this happens.
But I do know my way around the stores in my area, so I help people out when they ask me questions I can answer. People are usually pretty thankful for this, but it has backfired on me once or twice. After I told one lady where to find the classical CDs, she came back five minutes later and wanted me to ring her up. When I explained that I didn't actually work here, I just knew where to find where she was working for, she got kinda pissed at me and walked away, as if I should apologize for not being a Borders employee. Oh well.
Does this happen to anyone else or just me? It was really just today that I realized how frequently this happens to me, and I've been thinking about it since. Maybe destiny is trying to tell me that this is my true calling.
But I'm kinda hoping not, actually. That would suck.
It used to happen infrequently, but these days, pretty much every time I'm in a book, CD or video related store, at least one person will mistake me for a salesperson and start asking me to help them. I'm not really sure why.
I don't dress in a way that screams "salesperson". In fact what I wear when I go to a store is far more casual than I'd wear to work. It used to be mainly older people mistaking me for an employee, so for a while I thought that to them young person = employee, but today I was in Borders and someone only one or two years older than me asked for help opening the DVD Boxed Sets display case. So, um, I'm at a loss to explain how frequently this happens.
But I do know my way around the stores in my area, so I help people out when they ask me questions I can answer. People are usually pretty thankful for this, but it has backfired on me once or twice. After I told one lady where to find the classical CDs, she came back five minutes later and wanted me to ring her up. When I explained that I didn't actually work here, I just knew where to find where she was working for, she got kinda pissed at me and walked away, as if I should apologize for not being a Borders employee. Oh well.
Does this happen to anyone else or just me? It was really just today that I realized how frequently this happens to me, and I've been thinking about it since. Maybe destiny is trying to tell me that this is my true calling.
But I'm kinda hoping not, actually. That would suck.