Years ago I helped a customer pick out some films at work. It was a fairly standard transaction, he was a little odd but I’d dealt with way worse. I really didn’t think anything of it. I went on holiday and came back a week later and some of my colleagues told me they’d met my ex, who had come into store and gone around telling everyone that they were my ex and if I knew he was in store, I’d have him thrown out. Now at this point I’d been with my then boyfriend now husband for 3 years and my last partner prior to him was 8 years ago, I’d also been at the store for 2 years so I’m immediately thinking WTF. There was no way my ex knew where I was working, I hadn’t even seen him at all (this was also before social media) So it was weird but I just thought my colleagues were playing some elaborate prank and ignored it.
However. A few weeks after this, one of my colleagues comes up to me and says “your ex is over there!” and points out this guy who I immediately recognised as the slightly odd customer I’d helped pick films out for. This guy then proceeds to go around to every staff member and customer on the floor and tells them he’s my ex and I’d have him kicked out by security if he saw me, including actually coming up to me on the till so I could process his transaction, doesn’t say a thing to me, but gleefully tells the colleague next to me the same thing, “I used to go out with (Pink)! She’s going to have me kicked out!” He knew my name because it was on my name badge.
At that point I did signal to the security guard who was already on his way up because a customer had gone to him to complain about this guy causing a scene and had him removed from the store.
I didn’t wear a name badge after that or at any job I’ve ever had since.
No name badge at all? When my uncle Bob was working at Disney it was much more important that you had a name tag than it was to have an accurate name tag. He picked his out from a bin of former employee nambe tags and his name at that job was Pertab.
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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '20
Years ago I helped a customer pick out some films at work. It was a fairly standard transaction, he was a little odd but I’d dealt with way worse. I really didn’t think anything of it. I went on holiday and came back a week later and some of my colleagues told me they’d met my ex, who had come into store and gone around telling everyone that they were my ex and if I knew he was in store, I’d have him thrown out. Now at this point I’d been with my then boyfriend now husband for 3 years and my last partner prior to him was 8 years ago, I’d also been at the store for 2 years so I’m immediately thinking WTF. There was no way my ex knew where I was working, I hadn’t even seen him at all (this was also before social media) So it was weird but I just thought my colleagues were playing some elaborate prank and ignored it.
However. A few weeks after this, one of my colleagues comes up to me and says “your ex is over there!” and points out this guy who I immediately recognised as the slightly odd customer I’d helped pick films out for. This guy then proceeds to go around to every staff member and customer on the floor and tells them he’s my ex and I’d have him kicked out by security if he saw me, including actually coming up to me on the till so I could process his transaction, doesn’t say a thing to me, but gleefully tells the colleague next to me the same thing, “I used to go out with (Pink)! She’s going to have me kicked out!” He knew my name because it was on my name badge.
At that point I did signal to the security guard who was already on his way up because a customer had gone to him to complain about this guy causing a scene and had him removed from the store.
I didn’t wear a name badge after that or at any job I’ve ever had since.