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If you’re wearing the store’s colors, standing behind a counter, or looking like you’re restocking shelves, it’s understandable if someone thinks you’re an employee. But what if you’re wearing goth clothes? That happened to a woman several times while she was in her late teens and early 20s.

She did NOT look like an employee, and yet people kept mistaking her for one.

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Shouldn’t wearing goth clothes make it obvious I don’t work there?!

So, I’ve been to a few different types of stores where I was somehow mistaken for an employee.

Most retail places, that I know of, don’t have people wearing goth clothes (unless it’s a place like Hot Topic or something).

Or if they do wear goth stuff they’re usually wearing a vest with a name tag or something that signals they’re an employee there.

Both of these times happened when I was in my late teens/early 20’s.

Back then I wore almost exclusively black clothes. Like a band t-shirt and tripp pants, and black platform boots.

What I wore looked nothing like what employees at the stores wore.

But that didn’t stop people.

The one time it was at Michael’s and some lady asked me where the shirts were.

I just told her where they were cause I just happened to pass by them a moment prior but I really wish I had told her I don’t work there, just because.

The second time, I was at Menards. Some lady almost stopped me to ask about something but as she looked at me, she realized I wasn’t an employee.

She was like, “Excuse me, do… Oh, you’re not… No.”

Not sure what made her think that I was an employee when she first saw me. She was with a friend or whoever the other lady was.

But that wasn’t the only time.

Later, I was slightly somewhere else and they walked past me again and the other lady shouted a question, “Do you have (I couldn’t hear it)?”

I was far down the aisle from where they were.

I tried shouting to them, “*I don’t work here*” but they kept looking at me like they were waiting for an answer.

I’m guessing they couldn’t hear me.

It doesn’t make sense.

And I’m also guessing the lady that first tried asking me a question didn’t see that I was the same person, or the other lady if she was even paying any attention the first time.

So I just shook my head and they walked away.

I just can’t understand why people would mistake me for an employee at places like Michael’s and Menards, cause as I mentioned my goth clothing looks nothing like what the employees at those places wear.

It’s like people don’t pay attention at all. You could be nude, and they’d think you’re an employee. What did Reddit have to say?

A reader shares their thoughts.

Yup.

Isle or Aisle?

Another reader chimes in.

That’s a possibility.

It seems to be a pattern.

Sometimes, people just decide you work there despite having no reason to think so.

Apparently, not even dressing like a goth can save you from being asked where the milk is.