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”.
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.
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.
Well I’ve got to drop Ronnie Pickering
Who?
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.
“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.
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.
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
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!”
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’
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!”.
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).
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.
Close enough, B+
Do you know who I think I am?
