"Do you know who I am?"

[LaraK]

What would you say if someone asked you that?

We have a big controversy going on locally about a crossing guard who got fired because she told a woman to move her car from the illegal spot she was putting it in (fire lane) right before the school pick up craziness began. The woman in the car said "do you know who I am?"....the crossing guard didn't. Apparently it was an assistant superintendent for the school system and the crossing guard got fired for telling her to move her car. Here's the story: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/ne...otest-dismissal-of-school-crossing-guard.html

Now, this crossing guard was not the winner of the Miss Congeniality award based on my interactions with her, but I don't cotton to someone throwing their weight around and getting someone fired for doing the right thing. What do you do when someone says "Do you know who I am?"

 

[monkeyboy]

see it every day
and on occasion people say HEY its Monkeyboy...he is a good egg let him go

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

So the superintendent of the school doesn't feel that she needs to follow the rules? That is a SPECTACULAR example to be setting for the kids.

I don't think I've ever been faced with the "do you know who I am" line.

 

[Goofyluver]

Depends, I guess. I'm glad I read the article though.

It appears as though the crossing guard was performing duties outside of her actual job scope. If that's the case and she overstepped her bounds, I can understand her being fired.

Now, if I were performing my job duties and someone said to me, "Do you know who I am?"...my response would be:

"No. And it doesn't matter who you are. I'm still responsible for doing THIS job no matter who you may be."

She may have been fired because she rubbed the Assistant Sup. the wrong way...but it appears they had a leg to stand on because she was doing things outside of the scope of her job description.

 

[hereyago]

As for when someone has said that to me. I tell them I don't care who they are and I really don't.

I worked at a resort and it was amazing how people just fall over themselves when a famous person,etc comes in.OMG, this person is such and such and they DESERVE the royal treatment ,yea so does every other guests paying to stay there. I am not going to treat anyone differently then I treat anyone else. No one impresses me that much.

 

[luvsJack]

We don't get "do you know who I am" but we do get "do you know who I know" a lot. Every time someone wants to throw some weight around they throw out our college President's name. Its really funny when they call him by his first name rather than Dr. XXXXX.

Anyone that really knows the man knows that he hates for someone to throw his name around like that. I just pick up the phone, dial his number and ask "would you like to speak to him". 9 out of 10 times they back down.


I did see a woman do that in Le Cellier on our last visit to Epcot. We had a ADR for like 11:30 or whatever the first sitting is. The place was supposed to be completely booked and a woman and her two young daughters came in. She was told that there were no tables available. She started with the "do you know who I am" and went on about how she had NEVER had to make ADR's and always just walked up and got a table, blah, blah, blah. The CM's never spoke loud enough for us to hear them and we actually thought she had given up and left. But when we went in to our table, she and her dds were sitting at the next table. I have no clue who she was but she seemed to expect people to know and to react to it.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

"Move your car!"
"Don't you know who I am?"
"No?"
"I'm the assistant superintendent!"
"In that case, give me a raise and move your car."



Also, had to look to what "to cotton to" meant

 

[LaraK]

Now, you're not THAT far north! Don't you cotton to things in PA?

We have a horrible traffic issue at the school. We don't have sidewalks and the community is very hilly so there are lots of blind corners. Walking around isn't very safe for the kids until their a bit older so there are a ton of drop offs/pick ups at the school (it's also right in the community so there are a lot of kids designated as walkers). It's a nightmare and we have a whole protocol for how you drop off your kids. I call the parents who volunteer every day (for which I THANK THEM PROFUSELY...THEY'RE WONDERFUL!) the "drop off nazi's....with love of course...because you had better NOT deviate from the routine. If the crossing guard hadn't told her to move the car, a parent would have been there within a couple of minutes calling for a tow truck, because they drop a dime on you in a heart beat.

As I said, I don't think the guard was blameless, but it's hard to believe this was anything but spiteful on the administrator's part.

 

[StitchBuddy]

I haven't ever had anyone say that to me. But, I have had a forth grader, who was in trouble look me square in the eye and saylocal , "Do you know who my father is?" His father father was a newscaster down in Houston. My reply was, "Yes, I do. Do you want me to call him down at Channel Blah Blah?' He was quite surprised and replied, "No." It was very funny. I shared the story with his mom later and she was motified.

 

[hereyago]

I haven't ever had anyone say that to me. But, I have had a forth grader, who was in trouble look me square in the eye and saylocal , "Do you know who my father is?" His father father was a newscaster down in Houston. My reply was, "Yes, I do. Do you want me to call him down at Channel Blah Blah?' He was quite surprised and replied, "No." It was very funny. I shared the story with his mom later and she was motified.

You should have said yes I do , do you want me to call him at the station and see if he will come down and do a story starring you in a news segment about kids disrespecting their teachers.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I haven't ever had anyone say that to me. But, I have had a forth grader, who was in trouble look me square in the eye and saylocal , "Do you know who my father is?" His father father was a newscaster down in Houston. My reply was, "Yes, I do. Do you want me to call him down at Channel Blah Blah?' He was quite surprised and replied, "No." It was very funny. I shared the story with his mom later and she was motified.

Awesome

 

[VAfamily1998]

When I was in college, I worked as a cashier in a grocery store in a beach town in California. I lived in the next town over and really didn't know much about the town except the store I worked in and which other stores were in close proximity (like where I could go to get something to eat on my breaks, etc.)

A customer came through my line and wrote a check and when I asked her for her ID she looked shocked and said "Don't you know who I am?"

The guy in line behind her (whom she had been talking to while checking out) told me that she was the city's mayor.

I told her I still needed ID because my register's system required that I input the numbers or it wouldn't accept the check (which was true). She told me she didn't have it on her so I ended up calling my manager over to approve the check and he had some way of over-riding the register's requirement.

 

[FredinFL]

Weeeellll...the first thing I do when someone says "do you know who I am?" is put my hand on my hips and make sure they heard me say it. My friends and I always laugh because I'm kind of a tough cookie and am on a lot of committees and such, so if someone gives me a hard time they'll say "Don't they know who you are?" Apparently not, lol, and that's fine with me. I like a little tussle now and then.

Seriously, it doesn't intimidate me and I think that the crossing guard should obtain a lawyer and sue Sam-I-Am and the PTB for misuse of power or firing without cause or whatever. That's just wrong. I'd love to see her get smacked around.

 

[MinnieMe87]

At work one day I was on the phone with a customer who was calling about a bill. He said something about needing a discount, and I told him what our discount rates were. I guess they weren't good enough for him because he shouted into the phone "That's IT?? Don't you know who I am? I deserve much more than that little girl, so get it approved!" Turns out he was a lawyer in a couple towns over from ours that I had never heard of. I just told him that I had no idea who he was, but those were our discount rates so he could take that or pay his bill in full. He hung up on me, but sent a check a week later paying the balance in full.

 

[lizanne]

My mother was a crossing guard and she took her job very seriously. I'm sure if she saw someone parking in an illegal spot around the school, on the way to her corner, (the crossing guard in the story said she wasn't on duty yet) she would have asked the person to move or at least pointed out that it was an illegal parking area.

It may not be part of the job description, but if the job is to take care of the children and make sure they cross safely do we really want the guard to stick strickly to the letter of the law and simply make sure the children cross the street safely or do we want someone who is conscious of all possible traffic problems in the immediate area?

 

[ALittleDisneyFan]

A friend of mine owns an online company. Amongst her niche she is pretty popular- Well... she bought a new mac computer that she was having lots of issues with & mac support wasn't helping her. One of her FB followers responded with "don't they know who you are?" .. I laughed. I still laugh about it. As if mac could care who this small business owner is.. LOL!

 

[Abbie]

My DD got that question from the president of her university, although he wasn't throwing it around because he was expecting something. She was at a gathering at his house and that was just the way he started off to introduce himself. Which is kind of a strange way to do that. It amused us because she had already met him several times due to various activities she was involved with but I guess she wasn't terribly memorable....we told her she should have answered yes, do you know who *I* am?? Or else, "oh dear, don't YOU know??"

 

[erincon23]

Several years ago, DS and a couple of friends got in trouble with the Park District police for doing something stupid (yes, they deserved the trouble they got). The cop caught up with them at our house a little later that evening. As he was talking to the boys, one of the kids (I think they had all just graduated from 8th grade), started to try to throw his father's weight into this -- "my dad is the assistant DA" -- well, yeah, who cares, first, there are probably 16 assistant DAs, it was a different county, and they weren't being arrested. The cop seemed pretty amused. When the parents all got into this, the dad wasn't very happy with the kid for trying out this line (the parents are very good people and good friends of ours, and the dad wouldn't even do this on his OWN behalf, much less his kid's).

 

[dreamin_disney]

some people in power dont feel they need to follow rules like the rest of us.
I dont think it really matter if it was the crossing guard or any other classified employee the super att. would have fired them too. Hopefully the crossing guard can prove she wasnt on the clock and gets some type of apology and some thing for having to go through this nonsense

 

[stm61]

Before I retired, my office at the base was very close to the fuel pumps. The base commanders policy was "you drove it, you pump to refuel it". The officers on base weren't a problem, but visiting pilots apparently were allergic to gasoline. I was so tired of hearing "Do you know who I am?" and "(insert commander's nickname) said you'd take care of it." My solution: the next time the 2-star General (who had started enlisted, came up through the ranks, and never forgot what it was like to be enlisted) came to visit, I handed him a sign and took a picture of him holding it. The next "entitled" person who walked in the door got handed an 8x10 color print of the General holding a sign that said "Pump it yourselves boys!" When an unhappy pilot visited the base commander to complain, the commander simply pointed to the framed copy he had on his wall! I had very few complaints after that lol.