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People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were? (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 day ago

In that case as an employee you also risk annoying your boss who is now pulled into this altercation that you could have handled. Then the fact that they were fired over this shows they weren't a good boss anyway, so I can understand the hesitancy to bring them in.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago

I mean they could just say "Do I let XYZ in immediately" and the boss just has to say yes no.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 points 1 day ago

Right, what about the other 5 people that day who also claimed they were important though? Do you bug your boss every time? Working service it was near daily where someone would claim to know the owner or don't you know who I am or something

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