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By MissIsabel - 03/11/2010 10:43 - France

Today, I went to Ikea with my family. I was wearing a yellow polo that vaguely looked like the ones the Ikea employees were wearing. Two dozen people came up to me, complaining that I was staring at furniture instead of helping customers. FML

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SquaresviL7e 0

Wednesday 3 November 2010 16:09

Tell them to go complain to your manager! See how far that gets them.

muhaidib 2

Wednesday 3 November 2010 16:51

it would be so funny if you told them to f* off and see the reaction on their faces lol

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Schalmer 0

Thursday 4 November 2010 7:00

that would be fun, you could **** around with the customers and get them to complain. Its not a bad thong at all.

a_figment 0

Thursday 4 November 2010 14:58

Haha, I work at Ikea and they still ask us if we work there. Shirts and IDs on

Nefertiti78 0

Sunday 7 November 2010 17:00

I've so been there...gone into Forman Mills with a red polo shirt on...smdh, I feel your pain

ItsTheKanninbal 0

Monday 8 November 2010 5:32

lol this happen to me in the apple store i was wearing a blue polo and ppl were asking me random stuff lol

HeinzD 0

Monday 8 November 2010 17:58

haha, happened to me at Hottopic..

hockeyhouse 5

Tuesday 9 November 2010 20:04

I used to run errands for my old job. including supply runs to Office Depot. I had to stop wearing my name tag because people weren't observant enough to realize I didn't work there. I didn't mind helping them, but I got sick of them getting pissed if I didn't know where something was.