Wearing any uniform in public apparently grants automatic employment at every nearby business.

This fast food worker regularly visits the neighboring grocery store dressed in black and red, nowhere near its green-and-white uniform.

Customers still request directions so often that correcting them has become more exhausting than simply pointing toward the right aisle.

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I’ve just started answering like I do

I work at a Panda Express in the same complex as a Sprouts.

Sometimes, for lunch or after my shift, I’ll head to Sprouts and get some of their sushi or a protein bar or something.

But their work outfit always manages to trip customers up.

I’m always in uniform, of course, and that always confuses people 😭.

I get it—I’m wearing a hat and sometimes my apron will be on.

Even though the colors don’t match at all, customers don’t seem to care.

But I CONSTANTLY get mistaken for a Sprouts employee even though my uniform is black and red and theirs is green and white…? 😭😭

So lately this exasperated employee has taken a different approach to dealing with the confusion.

It happens to me so often that when they ask where something is, I just answer and move on with my day, lol.

I’ve been there enough that I do know where things are—it’s a small store—so I just point them in the direction and go, because I can’t keep saying, “I don’t work here,” anymore 😭.

It gets tiring repeating yourself all the time.

What did Reddit make of this story?

Maybe these customers were just in too big of a hurry to find a real employee.

Why not just ask upfront first?

Maybe uniform colors aren’t common knowledge for some.

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Many people just aren’t observant.

This restaurant worker gets mistaken for grocery staff so frequently that answering questions has become the fastest path back to lunch.

Fortunately, enough visits have taught them the store layout, making the completely unofficial assistance surprisingly accurate.

Sprouts accidentally hired a Panda without completing any paperwork.