I have had guests who think I am a cast member :)

[blackthidot]

^^Yeah, that. I'm big, I'm white, I'm NOT hard to miss....

...also, don't walk right in front of me and then suddenly stop! :fork:

This got so bad last trip I just walked right over people, and said excuse you. I was sick of it by the third day. I had to have body checked at least 7 people.

 

[RiversideBunny]

Just so no one mistakes you for Goofy.

:animwink:

 

[disney9752]

I have had this happen, it's just been a few trips. I tend to be clean shaven & short hair, generally fitting the "Disney Look" I guess strolling around the park, maybe with a shopping bag & my MAIN STREET ELECTRICAL PARADE pins on my lanyard I appear to know what's going on. I have been approached many times, guests looking for the closest restroom, good place to eat, & what monorail takes me to animal kingdom while waiting to go to the contemporary. The worst i remember I was on the platform of the Main street train station talking to a cm, this poor lady came up to me yelling something, in spanish i think. We finally figured out she was trying to figure out where lost & found was, since her child had lost her.

 

[westie]

I've been mistaken for an employee at Wal-Mart before.

For this reason and this reason alone I never wear a red shirt when going into Target.:ROFLOL:

 

[wedway71]

I was once mistaken by a group of Mexicans to be a Cop. They all ran when I got out of my car.:shrug:

 

[blackthidot]

I was once mistaken by a group of Mexicans to be a Cop. They all ran when I got out of my car.:shrug:

I bet the all had mustaches.

 

[Monty]

I bet the all had mustaches.

But they deedent need no steekin' bodges! :lol:

 

[sweetpee_1993]

Maybe folks get mistaken for CMs because the mistaker is lost or clueless and the mistake-ee looks like they are totally at ease and know exactly what's what. Never happened to me because I'm always in my own little bubble doing my Disney thing...or following one of my family members around fussing at them to smile for the effin' camera. :shrug:

 

[Vernonpush]

I get mistaken for a CM at The Studios all the time. Maybe it's the shirts we wear:

I try to help other guests find where they are looking to go. But I can not ring up their purchases in stores!:lol:

 

[Mecha Figment]

if you look like you know what your doing and your ina smaller group. people will peg you. I happen to be a castmember. But i can be in a park enjoying myself with no lables to say i work for the company. And i'll be flagged down everytime. I never tell them i work there because i'm off the clock, but i help if i can.

 

[blackthidot]

I get mistaken for a CM at The Studios all the time. Maybe it's the shirts we wear:

I try to help other guests find where they are looking to go. But I can not ring up their purchases in stores!:lol:

Wow....



What do you guys WANT people to think you work there? lol...

I would just tell people all kinds of crazy stuff, in fact im gonna dress like that and tell people the most random things.

Excuse me sir, where is the Haunted Mansion?

Its right over to your left, but they changed the name of it to Scary House that takes you into another house...Oh and take lots of flash pictures!


Can you imagine someone complaining and saying a CM told them all that? People working would be like yeah okay buddy.

 

[Flower'sChild]

Well most of the time I go to the parks solo so that might be one reason why some guest think I work there :wave: Also I am a very wise person who knows what he is doing so maybe that is another reason why guest think I work there :king:

 

[joanna71985]

if you look like you know what your doing and your ina smaller group. people will peg you. I happen to be a castmember. But i can be in a park enjoying myself with no lables to say i work for the company. And i'll be flagged down everytime. I never tell them i work there because i'm off the clock, but i help if i can.

I'm the same way. I was in Frontierland watching Spectro once, and a group of people asked me a question. I was just sitting there, not in costume or anything. But I still got a question. I don't mind helping people though.

 

[LoriMistress]

I've had a person (or a guest) asked me for directions, but they probably thought I was this huge super WDW nerd that knew everything...LOL

 

[agent86]

I had to fight a speeding ticket once and I happened to be the only one in the waiting area (outside the courtroom) wearing a suit and tie. People kept coming up to me asking me for legal advice and I couldn't figure out why...then it dawned on me that the suit and tie must have made them think I was a lawyer.

 

[1selfsacrifice]

I was a CM, CP to be exact, and I miss it.

I want to cut my hair and get all clean shaven, wear a nice shirt, I still have my name tag & pin lanyard and I want to walk around a random gift shop or something. The CM's might think I was a manager or supervisor or something. I'd get a kick out of it, that's me though.

 

[Courtney1188]

This has never happened to me at Disney, but happens alllll the time when I stop at my work on my day off, even if it's a different store in the same chain. I'll be looking at DVDs in jeans and a hoodie, talking on my cell phone, and a customer walks up all agitated because they need help picking out a TV.

I just want to be like one... HOW do you know?! And two... I'm on my phone obviously having a conversation, so please go away.

 

[1disneydood]

Never go to work on your day off. I've made that mistake before, and not only did customers think I was working, the boss thought I was too. :lol:

 

[Montyboy]

I had to fight a speeding ticket once and I happened to be the only one in the waiting area (outside the courtroom) wearing a suit and tie. People kept coming up to me asking me for legal advice and I couldn't figure out why...then it dawned on me that the suit and tie must have made them think I was a lawyer.

But did you beat the ticket?

 

[Monty]

I was a CM, CP to be exact, and I miss it.

I want to cut my hair and get all clean shaven, wear a nice shirt, I still have my name tag & pin lanyard and I want to walk around a random gift shop or something. The CM's might think I was a manager or supervisor or something. I'd get a kick out of it, that's me though.

Wearing an actual Cast Member name tag in the parks when you're no longer in their employ is a good way to get yourself escorted from the park and charged with trespassing. A lifetime ban might be thrown in for good measure.

I would recommend against it.