Happened to me once. I did not know who he was in told him so. It’s possible the guy was bluffing. He claimed to be some state senator.
IT here so “customer service” but internally for a company, and yes I get this one from time to time. More often than its because someone failed their ID check and or forgot their security questions and they blow a gasket when we tell them to open a ticket by email or the portal.
Blah blah blah, do you know how busy I am, blah blah blah do you know who I am, blah blah blah…
Look, I dont care if your some security guard or the CEOs personal ass wiper. Resetting credentials is a critical function that the admins pawn off on us techs because users are insufferable and they dont want to deal with them most of the time. If you cant be bothered to do a little managment of your creds and keys, how the fuck do you still have a job. Get a password manager if its allowed but if we fail an audit because you wrote it down under your keyboard again… Well that problem is above my paygrade.
I had that once, they weren’t be rude or anything they were just genuinely surprised I didn’t know who they were.
Turns out there were some famous basketball player from Florida. Still not sure why he was touring a recycling plant in England.
Maybe he was hoping to find people who didn’t know who he was so he could feel normal again
I think it’s happened about twice for me and not once did I recognize them… but I have issues recognizing faces as is
My brother had a funny story about this. His friend worked in IT and was doing one of those system things that take all day and take the system down. He wasn’t supposed to let anyone in the building during this. So an executive comes to the door, his key card doesn’t work, he buzzes the bell. The guy inside answers, and says he can’t let anyone in. Exec says “Do you know who I am?” and the employee responds with a tentative “well, do you know who I am?”
“No”
“Ok, I can’t let you in.”
I once had a guy claim he was one of the guys that invented the internet. I googled his name afterwards and it didn’t turn up anything and he was incapable of performing the basic tasks required to reset his password to our website so I’m pretty confident he was full of shit.
The internet was invented in 1972 by Tim HTML in order to watch his coffee pot in another room. He was going to be rich, but then the plans leaked online.
I have done customer service, and I have heard the phrase used by a customer; though not at the same time. The only time I actually heard someone say “do you know who I am?” in a customer service capacity was a random dude ahead of me crashing out at 7-11 over $0.05 because the asshole couldn’t do some simple arithmetic. He claimed to know the owner and threatened a bunch of shit to the teen behind the counter, holding up the line for like 20 minutes. And in a very “that happened” moment, when he finally fucking left, half the people in line literally clapped.
I was working security at a port where cruise ships were loaded, and a bunch of dudes carrying guitar cases and music gear came through. They didn’t listen to any of my instructions and tried to go through the metal detectors without putting their shit on the conveyor belt thing. I had to send them through several times, and one of them was like, “Are you sure we have to do this?” and I was confused and told him yes. I found out later that they were the Beach Boys.
Especially the Beach Boys /jk
I have met some celebrities. Didn’t know a single one of them. Have been absolutely uneventful in these conversations. I did get the ‘Hey I used to work here you know!’ a couple times at my current job at a supermarket. Which is always funny because our turnover is insane so like, yea, you and a thousand other people who tf cares, I’m not looking in the back for your apple juice sir.
I used to always look in the back. They never had anything otherwise it would have been on the shelves ready to buy, but it was a good opportunity to have a break.
I do the same thing sometimes when customers are persistent lol
Not quite but I got, “<company owner> eats dinner at my house!” I don’t know why they didn’t just talk to the owner over dinner
Heh. Not exactly. But I worked retail in college and this really popular chef opened up a new restaurant near us. He came in one day and was being helped and every time his phone rang he stopped the person helping him to go walk off and take the call. This happened A LOT. So, I went out there and said clearly you’re not in a position to be helped today so we’re going to take care of these other people first. Then I paused and looked him right in the eyes. He got it, left then came back in a few days later when he was actually ready. I looked out there and he threw me a nod. After that he’d come in every now and then and we’d talk a bit. We never talked about that day but I think he respected what I did and understood he would do it for his staff also.
My manager at my last job (grocery store in Missouri) loved telling about the time Chuck Berry’s sister came in and said this. Apparently she was a massive bitch who thought everyone should worship the ground she walked on cause of her brother who was a creep with how he handled his restaurant down the street. Like she was demanding stuff be free for her.
Famous old story. There is a fire alarm in a fancy hotel. Guests are told to go to the front of the lobby (near the exit, in case they have to evacuate) and wait for an all-clear. They do that except for this one guy, who lingers around the service desk or something. Hotel worker goes up to him and says “excuse me sir, guests have to wait over there (pointing)”. Guy puffs up and says “you know you are talking to the vice president?”. Hotel worker goes apologetic and says “oh I’m sorry sir, I didn’t know! Do whatver you have to” and leaves the guy alone.
A minute later the hotel worker returns with a suspicious look, and asks the guy “Wait a minute sir, what are you the vice president of?”. Guy puffs even more and with a chill in his voice says “the United States of America!”. Worker says “Oh! Get over there then (points to guest area). I thought you were the vice president of the hotel!”.
worked at Walmart. someone pulled that on me. my response, “If I knew who you were, would you have to ask me that?”
they stood there, kind of stunned and asked to see a manager.
evidently they were some distantly related person to the regional manager.
🤷 like that fuckin matters. I still didn’t know, nor care, who they were.
Imagine feeling the need to name-drop in order to somehow improve your Walmart experience.
dude, the clientele for that shithole is so far from average there’s research studies on them.
I’m happy to not have set foot inside of one for over 15 years.
Former ISP helpdesk monkey. Had it several times. Didn’t recognise any of them.
My theory was that no-one important enough to take that tone needs to make their own helpdesk calls.
yup, I knew exactly who she was, problem was, she didn’t know who I was. Crazy bitch was my next door neighbor. I exited the situation just before she began throwing wine bottles, knowing that things would devolve quickly. Sorry Alan, I left you with a real shit sandwich but you didn’t pay me enough to deal with that kind of mental health crisis and it was time for my break.
