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.
Was a cab driver. A relatively famous singer stepped in. Said where he needed to go, didn’t say a word otherwise. It was a 5 minute drive. I stopped, said… that’ll be 15 euros. Or something like that. And got hit with the ‘dont you know who i am?’ I answered, “Well ‘his name’ , Im ‘my name’ and you need to pay”.
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 love when people think I’m going to get in trouble for following the SOPs and maintaining compliance.
Like go right ahead tell my boss that I’m doing my job correctly.
There should be a policy hidden from higher ups
If a higher up complains to your boss that youre following policy and its fucking up their day, you get a $0.25/h raise each time.
I was a bouncer. A lot of people claimed to be someone important. They mostly weren’t. I pulled Jess Gower (a local celeb) and her friends out of the queue years ago because I knew she was a bit famous. She seemed a really nice normal person.
The important people don’t enter through the front door.
My clubs weren’t that impressive.
Yes. It was a cousin on my mom’s side who I definitely should’ve recognized. Oops.
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.”
Holy shit that clip was epic.
Exactly, but the guy couldn’t even see him.
Well I’ve got to drop Ronnie Pickering
Who?
Worked as the night manager at McDonalds for a while. Some drunk guy comes in and when we asked him to leave he ‘my sister is the manager’ (she was the assistant store manager) we were like so? Next day we told her and she said ‘yeah, my brother is alcoholic, I’d have kicked him out sooner’
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.
Having toured waste facilities before, they are pretty cool
Maybe he was hoping to find people who didn’t know who he was so he could feel normal again
thats why robbie williams loved america, nobody knew him. he even showed a date his performance at some big show in england and she still didnt believe him lol
Nope, but I did go to school with a kid whos dad worked at Nintendo.
Did the kid in your school have access to experimental kit?
The kid in my school had a special prototype that displayed the Nintendo on the windshield for the passenger of a car. I’ve been waiting 35 years for that product to hit the shelves.
That would have been so cool, but one guess why it didn’t go to market.
Cause the projector would need to be brighter than the sun?
Could be, I guess, depending on how bright a light you could make in whatever year. Also liability for the driver being distracted by it.
If they could do a rear sidewindow version, I guess that would be fine. No guarantee the projector didn’t take up the full glove box, though.
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At my school the kids dad worked for Seinfeld
Did we go to the same school?!
I went to school with the dudes who founded Dice (parallel class).
Not that I can remember, but once, I was working as a server in a restaurant, and I guess one of the guests that got sat in my section had stared in a TV series that I was only vaguely aware of, but my coworkers loved. My coworkers we’re all excited and whispering the entire time, but otherwise they were just another average, unmemorable guest.
My friend was working front of house at a posh hotel in Edinburgh and Irvine Welsh (the author of Trainspotting) tried to pull the “Do you know who I am?” as he was being thrown out for being rowdy. My mate responded, “Yes I know who you are that’s why I’m chucking you out!”
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!”.
“Sure! You’re Jim Pingston, delivery truck driver from Tahoma! What’s up man!”
…but no I haven’t. Except when I talk to my boss sometimes he has to remind me.
Yeah, but not how you think.
I worked at a grocery store that was a bit pricey and we did get some locally famous people from time to time. When someone came in, all the employees would run around whispering about it unless they were a regular.
One day Luis Gonzales (all star baseball player) was in the store. I saw him staring at bread and asked if he needed help. He asked me, “What the hell are pita chips?” I told him my wife loves those and he said he was sent by his own to find some.
We talked a bit about wives while I took him over, and afterward as he was leaving he asked, “do you know who I am?”
I told him yes and he said something like “well thanks for being chill.”
The real famous people just want normal interactions most days. Like sure, lose your mind at the media event or something, but nobody wants to be swarmed at the grocery
Yep. A buddy of mine lives in the same apt. building as a recognizable celebrity. One time he was in an elevator with her but didn’t look at her or say anything. She gave him an appreciative nod as she got off the elevator.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
Really mate? You aren’t a university, you are a mum and pop shop that got shafted by our competitor and we came in and rescued you.
Working on the helldesk
I like that maybe-typo :)
Coming from someone over a decade past helldesk work, it wasn’t a typo.
My favorite were university parents who were so sure they were legally allowed to look into their (under 18) kid’s grades and shit, and really did not appreciate that we did not give a fuck who they were if we didn’t have sign off from the student (and even then, we told them to fuck off and go to the admin building cuz we ain’t authorized to give you access to a fucking thing).
I don’t get it, why can’t parents know what their under 18 kids grades are?
Because (generic) you have no right to your child’s information when attending higher learning institutions, no matter your child’s age per FERPA. As it was explained to me, when attending higher learning institutions, it’s understood that the child is basically an adult and should be treated as such, which affords them the right to privacy, even from their parents. They can authorize you if they so choose, but it’s their choice.
Having heard the arguments I got from helicopter parents, it’s much needed. The amount of grief I got from assholes who couldn’t be bothered to talk to their kids was insane (especially the kids who had a note on their account to not let anyone do phone resets because parents were willing to impersonate their kid to IT to break into their account)
Thanks. Can’t wrap my head around the concept, seems like a major cultural disconnect to me.
It’s intentional.
Much like calling management manglement. Because let’s be fair they are there to mangle up your job to make them look better for the next quarterly bonus.
My phone has given up on trying to correct it.
It’s a somewhat-common slang term. Wiktionary has an entry, but it’s poorly attested there; you’ll see actual examples if you use a search engine.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Former helldesk employee from the mid 1990’s here. Thank you for serving.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
I had one that did this. Dude bought 10 years worth of dial-up access in 1995.
