Basic Trope: A character is mistaken for some kind of hired help.
- Straight: Betty sees Alan at a store and thinks he's an employee, even though he's actually a customer. She tries to ask him to help her find something she's looking for.
- Exaggerated:
- Betty insists that Alan is an employee, even after he repeatedly tells her that he's just a customer. She keeps asking him questions such as whether she can return an item, and where she can find certain things.
- Betty keeps confusing customers for employees, even if they're very clearly shopping.
- Downplayed: Betty asks Alan "Do you work here?", but quickly realizes her mistake.
- Justified:
- Alan was wearing an outfit that looked similar to the employees' uniforms.
- Alan appeared to be stocking the shelves or something similar.
- Inverted: Alan is an employee, but Betty thinks he's a customer.
- Subverted: At first, it appears that Betty has mistaken Alan for a customer, but it turns out that he really is an employee.
- Double Subverted: But he doesn't work at the store that he and Betty are currently in.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Betty doesn't mistake anyone for an employee.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "I should probably stop wearing blue and yellow outfits at Trope Co. - people keep thinking I work there!"
- Conversed: ???
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