'I'm not the agent': Customer at apartment viewing gets confused by another interested renter as the agent, he clarifies he isn't, but they don't believe him and keep asking him questions about the apartment

Entering an apartment viewing, assuming the person there is an agent, get told he isn't, don't believe him, and then the agent actually entering the apartment seems like a problem of entitlement, or maybe you can't understand what other people say… It baffles me that all the stories about people getting mistaken for employees, them telling the customers that they are, in fact, not employees, and getting ignored and asked about something in the store. You cannot tell me that the attitude is not expected in a mean way. You can, of course, confuse someone for an employee, but if you're told that they aren't staff, you say sorry and move on. Don't you? That's what I have done every time something like that happens. I wouldn't even dare to question someone's word in general. But especially not when they're telling me they don't work there. If they did, they wouldn't lie about it. Is far more common for someone to lie saying they work there than the opposite, so why not believe them when they say they are just a customer like you and me? Let's picture for one moment that I go inside a store. I see a person with a red shirt, like the one that the staff uses, so I assume that they are an …

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