There are some crazy people out there! Customer mistook a shopper for an employee and mistreated her for not doing her job, then the manager screamed at her, also thinking she was an employee – FAIL Blog

Try not to wear the same shirt color as the employee that work on the store if you want to avoid being mistaken for one.

The encounter when you are shopping at a store and confuse a normal shopper with an employee of the store because they are wearing the same color as the staff can be a little weird and uncomfortable. But I can’t imagine how it could be for the person being mistaken. They are probably second-guessing their outfit thanks to that. Not because the uniform the employee wears is ugly, just because the whole situation is really bizarre. I always assumed that kind of mistake only happened to other customers, never to the actual employees. But I guess that wasn’t exactly true according to the story in u/IDontWorkHereLady. 

It’s funny how some people are so fixated on themselves that they do not pay attention to what’s happening right next to them. And I don’t mean this directly to the people who confuse customers as employees. That can be just a silly mistake. I mean this about the people who don’t even hesitate to hear what other people have to say and just assume. Which, of course, just leads to them mistreating a person who didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t deserve it. In the story, a woman confused another customer with an employee. Nothing wrong with that, until she didn’t let them speak, so this customer couldn’t explain that they did, in fact, not work there. This woman just started to demand that she bring her supervisor for the supposed mistreatment.

The story ended with a quite funny ending, but I want to focus on another thing. The attitude the woman had. The entitlement that you have to have to assume something and then get mad at that assumption that didn’t even have reason to be true in the first place is insane. This person wasn’t a customer, but they didn’t even have the space to explain it. This woman talked over them and wanted to scare them by calling for a manager who wasn’t even their boss. So, yes, the story is funny, but the fact that some people are so self-absorbed that they wouldn’t even notice something like this is crazy.