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.
I always liked telling those people that I did not know who they were and directed them to social services if they required assistance recovering their identity, and that if this was an emergency they should call 911.
Was a cab driver. A relatively famous singer stepped in. Said where he needed to go, didn’t say a word otherwise. It was a 5 minute drive. I stopped, said… that’ll be 15 euros. Or something like that. And got hit with the ‘dont you know who i am?’ I answered, “Well ‘his name’ , Im ‘my name’ and you need to pay”.
IT here so “customer service” but internally for a company, and yes I get this one from time to time. More often than its because someone failed their ID check and or forgot their security questions and they blow a gasket when we tell them to open a ticket by email or the portal.
Blah blah blah, do you know how busy I am, blah blah blah do you know who I am, blah blah blah…
Look, I dont care if your some security guard or the CEOs personal ass wiper. Resetting credentials is a critical function that the admins pawn off on us techs because users are insufferable and they dont want to deal with them most of the time. If you cant be bothered to do a little managment of your creds and keys, how the fuck do you still have a job. Get a password manager if its allowed but if we fail an audit because you wrote it down under your keyboard again… Well that problem is above my paygrade.
I love when people think I’m going to get in trouble for following the SOPs and maintaining compliance.
Like go right ahead tell my boss that I’m doing my job correctly.
There should be a policy hidden from higher ups
If a higher up complains to your boss that youre following policy and its fucking up their day, you get a $0.25/h raise each time.
My brother had a funny story about this. His friend worked in IT and was doing one of those system things that take all day and take the system down. He wasn’t supposed to let anyone in the building during this. So an executive comes to the door, his key card doesn’t work, he buzzes the bell. The guy inside answers, and says he can’t let anyone in. Exec says “Do you know who I am?” and the employee responds with a tentative “well, do you know who I am?”
“No”
“Ok, I can’t let you in.”
Holy shit that clip was epic.
Exactly, but the guy couldn’t even see him.
Worked as the night manager at McDonalds for a while. Some drunk guy comes in and when we asked him to leave he ‘my sister is the manager’ (she was the assistant store manager) we were like so? Next day we told her and she said ‘yeah, my brother is alcoholic, I’d have kicked him out sooner’
Nope, but I did go to school with a kid whos dad worked at Nintendo.
Did the kid in your school have access to experimental kit?
The kid in my school had a special prototype that displayed the Nintendo on the windshield for the passenger of a car. I’ve been waiting 35 years for that product to hit the shelves.
That would have been so cool, but one guess why it didn’t go to market.
Cause the projector would need to be brighter than the sun?
Could be, I guess, depending on how bright a light you could make in whatever year. Also liability for the driver being distracted by it.
If they could do a rear sidewindow version, I guess that would be fine. No guarantee the projector didn’t take up the full glove box, though.
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At my school the kids dad worked for Seinfeld
Did we go to the same school?!
I went to school with the dudes who founded Dice (parallel class).
Yes. It was a cousin on my mom’s side who I definitely should’ve recognized. Oops.
I had that once, they weren’t be rude or anything they were just genuinely surprised I didn’t know who they were.
Turns out there were some famous basketball player from Florida. Still not sure why he was touring a recycling plant in England.
Maybe he was hoping to find people who didn’t know who he was so he could feel normal again
thats why robbie williams loved america, nobody knew him. he even showed a date his performance at some big show in england and she still didnt believe him lol
Having toured waste facilities before, they are pretty cool
Yeah, but not how you think.
I worked at a grocery store that was a bit pricey and we did get some locally famous people from time to time. When someone came in, all the employees would run around whispering about it unless they were a regular.
One day Luis Gonzales (all star baseball player) was in the store. I saw him staring at bread and asked if he needed help. He asked me, “What the hell are pita chips?” I told him my wife loves those and he said he was sent by his own to find some.
We talked a bit about wives while I took him over, and afterward as he was leaving he asked, “do you know who I am?”
I told him yes and he said something like “well thanks for being chill.”
The real famous people just want normal interactions most days. Like sure, lose your mind at the media event or something, but nobody wants to be swarmed at the grocery
Yep. A buddy of mine lives in the same apt. building as a recognizable celebrity. One time he was in an elevator with her but didn’t look at her or say anything. She gave him an appreciative nod as she got off the elevator.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
Really mate? You aren’t a university, you are a mum and pop shop that got shafted by our competitor and we came in and rescued you.
Working on the helldesk
I like that maybe-typo :)
Coming from someone over a decade past helldesk work, it wasn’t a typo.
My favorite were university parents who were so sure they were legally allowed to look into their (under 18) kid’s grades and shit, and really did not appreciate that we did not give a fuck who they were if we didn’t have sign off from the student (and even then, we told them to fuck off and go to the admin building cuz we ain’t authorized to give you access to a fucking thing).
I don’t get it, why can’t parents know what their under 18 kids grades are?
Because (generic) you have no right to your child’s information when attending higher learning institutions, no matter your child’s age per FERPA. As it was explained to me, when attending higher learning institutions, it’s understood that the child is basically an adult and should be treated as such, which affords them the right to privacy, even from their parents. They can authorize you if they so choose, but it’s their choice.
Having heard the arguments I got from helicopter parents, it’s much needed. The amount of grief I got from assholes who couldn’t be bothered to talk to their kids was insane (especially the kids who had a note on their account to not let anyone do phone resets because parents were willing to impersonate their kid to IT to break into their account)
Thanks. Can’t wrap my head around the concept, seems like a major cultural disconnect to me.
It’s intentional.
Much like calling management manglement. Because let’s be fair they are there to mangle up your job to make them look better for the next quarterly bonus.
My phone has given up on trying to correct it.
It’s a somewhat-common slang term. Wiktionary has an entry, but it’s poorly attested there; you’ll see actual examples if you use a search engine.
Working on the helldesk of an internet provider in the early 2010s.
Former helldesk employee from the mid 1990’s here. Thank you for serving.
Dude had our bog standard account and tried to claim he was our biggest customer.
I had one that did this. Dude bought 10 years worth of dial-up access in 1995.
Famous old story. There is a fire alarm in a fancy hotel. Guests are told to go to the front of the lobby (near the exit, in case they have to evacuate) and wait for an all-clear. They do that except for this one guy, who lingers around the service desk or something. Hotel worker goes up to him and says “excuse me sir, guests have to wait over there (pointing)”. Guy puffs up and says “you know you are talking to the vice president?”. Hotel worker goes apologetic and says “oh I’m sorry sir, I didn’t know! Do whatver you have to” and leaves the guy alone.
A minute later the hotel worker returns with a suspicious look, and asks the guy “Wait a minute sir, what are you the vice president of?”. Guy puffs even more and with a chill in his voice says “the United States of America!”. Worker says “Oh! Get over there then (points to guest area). I thought you were the vice president of the hotel!”.
I was the sysadmin for a local company that mainly did custom ecommerce & CMS site building for local companies. Way before I started they also provided email addresses to local residents, and the first like ~100 people to sign up got a free account for life. We offered like 250MB storage, which was pretty awesome in the pre-gmail days.
Anyway, one of the lucky residents to sign up was a very interesting guy. In and out of homeless shelters, he ran for mayor every election, and at one point built his own three-wheeled Segway-like thing that he decorated to look like a Roman chariot that he would ride around during the weekly farmer’s market.
So yea. One day we get a call and the usual tech support bump it up to me because they don’t understand it. I answer the phone and am met with a barrage of rants about how my company is in league with the satanic monsters at AOL trying to stop him from becoming mayor and how once he’s elected he’ll blow our cover and expose us all.
Dear reader, he was trying to send an email to an @aol.com account that didn’t exist, and was getting a “no such address” reply from their “mailer daemon” - their mail server software.
I didn’t know who he was before then, but that’s how I learned.
I was a bouncer. A lot of people claimed to be someone important. They mostly weren’t. I pulled Jess Gower (a local celeb) and her friends out of the queue years ago because I knew she was a bit famous. She seemed a really nice normal person.
The important people don’t enter through the front door.
My clubs weren’t that impressive.
Well I’ve got to drop Ronnie Pickering
Who?
I had a “I can’t believe you’re who you are.”
When a very wealthy businessman who’s well-known in the city as a traditionally married, conservative senior and founder of a charity gave me his laptop to “update and fix any issues”. He had a Chrome shortcut on the desktop, but I noticed it also had Firefox installed.
I routinely check all installed browsers for any issues like add-ons that may have been installed unintentionally or malicious websites with the permission to show desktop notifications.When I opened up Firefox, links with images to gay bondage, leather and shit-eating fetish sites showed up directly on the start page. And this guy was watching me while I was working on it. The tension in the room was palpable.
I quickly opened the settings, did my checks and closed the browser without skipping a beat.
“OK, found nothing malicious installed, now let’s check your update status.”
And pivoted to some small talk about his charity.Got the biggest tip of my life that day.
Old conservative gentleman -> definitely is a freak on the internet. The hard data I know about is limited to which US states visit porn sites the most, but there’s a lot of anecdotal data.
The repression has to come out somewhere, I guess.
I really don’t understand how folks like that don’t delete their history before bringing their computer in.
He wouldn’t know how, that’s why he paid my boss 120€ per hour to have someone do basic software maintenance on it.
