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Please reload the page and try again. Skip to content. Access is totally free. This mission was life changing. My fiance works for circuit city. They uploaded this at work and laughed their asses off for days. I suppose the jig is up now that the story of this mission has got everywhere Fark, Digg, etc , but you should really think about targeting!

I am also in and out of public safety buildings for work, with people asking me for directions or help locating certain departments. I just point them to an officer or employee for help. Had I been there, I would have been asking the non-employees for help, even after I knew they were not employees.

Stupid bitch! I was laughing so hard whenever she said that. If somebody could explain to me how the hell dressing in a blue polo shirt endaring people I would love to know. I walked out of there because I was pretty much sick and tired of the job. About 3 to 4 weeks later I go there for a drink. One of the managers sees me and asks me to leave. I ask him why. He says becaused I walked out and that was disrispectful to the company.

I then asked him once again if I did something illegal. He said I needed to leave or he would call the cops. But I left because I did not want to "cause" any problems, even though I was only there for a drink. You guys need to leave! You are endegaring the lives of our customers by wearing blue polo shirts!! I work in security at a Best Buy, so I can see this from two angles. All you whiners need to get your head out of your butt orifices and smell the roses. This mission rocked.

God knows some of our managers most are pricks and need to lighten up. Many of them report to me so I am not just a store employee who is resenting my manager. I agree, I think agent Bo and Co do have a rockin dad! THis is my first time seeing the Improv crew at work, and you guys are hilarious! Plus agent Reeves is HOT!! I only wish you guys could come out to L. I would definetly join your crew. Keep up the good work. As a Best Buy employee I find it very funny what you guys did.

If you came into our store they would probably laugh. Most of our management is cool. This is hiliarious. You realized what gave you away right? The fact that your agents were helpful. You may have been able to give some of your agents more time by having people come prepared to actually BUY something! Its hard enough to control theft in the store without having to worry about a bunch of retarded assholes dessed up like employees, get a life u losers. What an absolutely fabulous way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

I think you should have gone together as a group to McDonalds afterwards, too! I was talking with my sister this past weekend. She told me about this Best Buy in NY and how it was overrun with imposters. Well the mission shook cages all the way to Best Buy HQ.

I guess they are working on a new policy that you cannot be in the store with similar clothing anymore if you are not employeed by Best Buy. The LP loss Prevention employee will be lookinf for situations like this in the future. Outstanding work. I work in a store with a pretty strict dress code and would definitely get a kick out of something like this, and im sure the management would as well. Most of our customers are rich snobs anyway. Well done, way to know the legality of everything you were doing.

People just dont have a good sense of humor anymore. I manage a store in another state and found this to be quite funny.

I am a huge fan of invisible theater. I enjoyed reading about the careful preparation put into orchestrating this mission.

However I became less interested and very disappointed when I finished reading about the mission to find that there was no real purpose behind this performance. It seemed like the ones most entertained were the ones taking part and as any good actor will tell you, you should never be more entertained by your performance than your audience. I think that your energy and enthusiasm are commendable.

I think you all have great ideas and a fantastic willingness to put yourselves out there. I think that it can be put to great use instead of just something to do with a free Saturday. Thanks for listening. Not only is this impressive and figgin hilarious, but very influencial. I think I might do something like this around a local store. Great job guys! I work at a Best Buy and make no qualms about it being a great organization with high morals and ethics.

The way the company works is that the more revenue we generate the more hours we get the next week, and you really could have hurt someone who needed a few extra bucks to buy groceries or pay bills. Alot of people make a living and are getting paid and feeding there family by bestbuy. I really feel strongly that you should applogize to the managent and employees who took affence to this prank and have fun with the employees who said that the prank was great.

Again i really love the prank but just like every other prank applogize after the prank has been done. Just a follow up to my comment above: I told my manager about this and he said he would have thought it was funny. He also thought that the managers of that store were overreacting. Then again he was not having to deal with it. Rick is true in saying that the more we sell the more hours we get.

So while it was funny, you guys should not have been really selling things. Interesting; a project that manages to be both original and infantile. This rocks. I loved it—would love to see that happen where I live. I see alot of "hilarious prank, dudes! I am wondering how many IE agents and leadership are wincing right now. I disagree. I think the jump to retail outlets raises some questions.

And is the police being called ever a good thing? Love how you handled the cops. Imagine how much fun you could have if… All the Blue shirt agents were male. And just about the time when things started to get hairy with management and the police 80 women dressed in identical skirts and sweaters walked into the store and up to a Blue Shirted agent and exclaimed very loudly "There you Are Sweetie!

Wanna go for a Starbucks? It would make for some interesting photos. Another IE mission, another stomach cramp from lmfao! Agent whom goes to two stores before the mission simply ices the cake. I, like many others, just learned of you guys a few days ago when it made its way to fark. I have no clue why this one got so much internet coverage over, say, the Megastore one. This one seemed more plain… one-dimensional is probably more what I mean.

What a great idea! I found the whole thing hilarious, not least because of the crazy reactions of some of the Best Buy staff and customers. This is theatre at its best!

Pretty funny! If you do the uniform thing again, everyone should go in wearing jackets or sweaters,then casually take them off once everyone is in the store. The effect would be more like "where did all these people show up from? You guys really need a job or need to find something more constructive to do with your time. What a neat experience this could have been for their employees had the so-called managers not been so sickeningly freaked out about "hours.

I certainly plan to take my "hours" somewhere else in the future. Hi, just want to say as an employee of Best Buy that this is absolute brilliance. You guys have made my day with this. I just wish I could have been part of it yes, I would have joined in or that I could have seen you guys in action!!! As someone who indirectly works for Best Buy, I just wanted to say that I thought this is probably the funniest thing I have seen in forever.

If any chaos was caused, the employees caused it themselves and therefore deserved any repercussions from it. The person who said that BB is trying to make a rule about not being dressed similarly in their store…I want to buy a royal blue shirt and wear it into my local store, just to see if I get harassed. Maybe I could sue. Can they legally do something like that? To all the people bitching about lost revenue and hours…oh, get over it. The fact that there were employees who saw the amusement in this proves my point.

Great job, guys. I fail to see the utility in staging such an event. If you are trying to prove some sort of point or highlight some sort of social problem, you completely missed your mark. Something like other "identical" people coming in looking for their "friends", everyone buying or looking for the same CD, or pretending to be part of a tour group. Anything that would have taken the edge off of the managers attitudes at the end, and gotten them or most of them to laugh.

I work in Best Buy and i am pretty sure that you would get the same response in any Best Buy in america. That was an awesome mission and i hopw you do it again, most of the managers that work for Best Buy are high strung freaks. Rock ON!!!! OMG I seriously wish that you guys came into my store! I would love to see all of the blue shirts and watch the managers squirm. Keep up the good work and good lucj in the future!

For instance, I smiled for a whole day after reading the subway missions. I only just learned of your existemce and read the report from this mission. My first and main reaction was to laugh out loud at the idea: considering the aim of the prank was NOT to mess with people, but to be helpful to customers, it was harmless enough.

Of course, I can also understand the point of view of employees and management — up to a point. Remaining vigilant is one thing, freaking out so badly was another. Personally, I love the idea. Random acts of harmless sillyness are needed.

You know, take the time to smell the flowers. Work to live, not live to work. On the same vein: why is it that most of the people commenting here on their perceived uselesness of such event say something like: "You guys should get a job…"? That surely someone who works could not possibly be so silly? Is it so hard to believe that you can work AND be capable of random acts of sillyness? Imagine same number of people walking into a Home Depot with plain orange aprons with their first name written in magic marker as HD does?

Good clean fun! Very funny. I also kept thinkng how funny if would have been if you all would have worn black shirts. One idea that comes to mind would be for some of the agents to really have friends waiting for them in the shop. Despite others wrath, I was totally amused by the event at Best Buy.

On a side note, I am in love with Agent Barnes…. Read closely. The only ones doing that are commenters… usually ones claiming to be employees of Best Buy. The cops in your city are much better trained than here Ottawa. The purpose definitely did NOT seem to be "to make the employees think we were going to steal stuff. Awesome job! I am in love with Agent Reeves. Is she on TV? I think I saw her on some shows or commercials or something.

I laughed my ass off. No one can take a Joke or laugh anymore. I stroll around the store for awhile…". I said sure, and was on my way out, when I was stopped by a guest […. Since you were all part of an organized group, they placed you all in danger of being arrested. In many jurisdictions, all agents acting for an agency can be charged en-total for the crimes committed by individuals amoung them.

Taking pride and boasting about this is showing very poor form and this behavior placed others at risk of being arrested. Personally, I think there probably should have been two special rules set at the beginning. Stop in mid-word and walk out like an automaton and mill about outside. That would have freaked them out even more. All these zombified psuedo-workers walking out the door. If the manager walked out onto the street they are in voilation and should have been fired.

It gives a laugh and a funny anecdote for the worker bees stuck on the floor, and freaks out management and security. Or a point for that matter. Or any intelligence. Good luck. But you fight the power if it amuses you. As someone who works at a Best Buy I have to say this was quite entertaining. It would make my month if that had happened in my store.

Best Buy makes so much money that I would doubt any business lost over this would even be considered a drop in the bucket! That being said, all you Best Buy haters out there remember one thing, there are two kinds of Best Buy employees. There are those who work there as a second job or a college job which I am one of and there are those who bleed Blue and Yellow and want to make a career of it. You are not how much you have in the bank.

You are not your khakis. Back when I used to work retail we had a "band of gypsies" come into the store once. While this Best Buy thing was fun and funny I guess I can also see where the store people were coming from!

This mission was amazing; I had a great time reading about the experiences. Reading about the mission was nothing short of phenomenal… Thank You!

This totally made my day. I for one thought it was funny. I was impressed with the organization, one might expect something like this to get a little chaotic but everyone seemed to stick to the same story.

Thanks for the laugh. Reminds me of the time I unintentionally wore a bright orange shirt to Home Depot. It took me about twice as long as normal to get out of there.

I hope next time some of you find yourselves having to pay for bail from your irresponsible activities. What a great thing to do. It makes ppl think, act and asking questions to their selfs.

U did it the social way. Keep on the good work :D. I worked for best buy once as part of the group that deployed their nationwide wireless network.

The funny thing was that they had codenames for all kinds of thing — customer demographics mostly. Thomas Crown affair must be one of their codenames. It sounds like a great mission that was executed well and provided laffs all around, but you can imagine what it was like for the security dudes. As one of the BB employees who posted here pointed out, every lost sale is less money to pay employees.

Reminds me of the times that my boss accidentally wore a red polo and khaki slacks first to Staples, then to Target. Everyone assumed he was the assistant manager. I hope the cops were not late to other important calls because of your dumb prank. Did you at least offer to pay the community for the police coverage your prank required? This is way more fun than Saturday A. I wonder what the response would be in Manchester, NH. They would probably call in "The Guard".

Where is the nearest Blockbuster? Make your staffers more approachable and willing to help in a sincere way. View your customers as an asset and not a potential shop lifter. Think about it! How many of you honest consumers have felt the learing stares of the store security dicks and opted to leave rather than linger.

The longer one feels welcome and not badgered in the store the more likely he is to spend. We are all sooo paranoid! On the whole it was amusing. The description of events was outright funny and the comments by us posters was even more so. Great work. I stopped shopping at Best Buy years ago because of the cult-like authoritarian creepiness and those damn commercials which always protray the consumer as a puppet, moron or some other sucker.

They also followed me around and asked me to leave so i bought the camera i was shopping for at circuit city instead. That mission was really funny! No one got hurt, no one broke any laws and everyone was pleasant to the BB cystomers. Pranks like this are great! Keep up the humor, live a little and have some good, clean fun! Agent Wimpy said that there were a couple of real employees out on the curb smoking.

I think that would be a cool mission, to have everyone show up in front of a store dressed similar to the employees and just sit there, talk, smoke, drink, as if on a break. Why is no-one else pointing out…. I mean if you were causing actual carnage in this store, making some sort of point about its service policy, it might be a joke.

Albeit a wank one. At least you got the Online-Video-Sloths out of the house this year. But, I do appreciate the effort that went into the whole thing.. I think it was great!!!! I love the whole surreal "Thomas Crown Affair" type situation you created.

I would have thoroughly enjoyed being at work that day had I been a BB employee. Amazing to see so many aimless young people and remarkably a father with nothing better to do with their time.

So cool! I really would have loved to participate. An excellent, professional operation,followed by a great After-Action Report. Way to go! Now, if you could just get a group dressed like Immigration agents together and attend an Illegal Alien rally…….

This is a problem with our society — too many people react by calling the police over trivial things. I work at a Best Buy in the metro Detroit area…. I would die laughing if you guys had done that in my store! Wow, thats really creative. I am a fan. It was the managers panicing and overreacting wasting police time. I love this sort of idea, personally. Thousands of people like me have now read about this and really enjoyed it.

I for one applaud you for a successful mission. Only an idiot would think the only people who deserve to be entertained are those on the scene. Plenty of us have been very entertained by reading about this and watching the videos. Guess these morons have never heard of films, documentaries, etc. Obviously we all have different standards of humour. I find livening up the day of someone working in retail to be worthy and enjoyable.

But I find it silly saying we should or should not enjoy something just because someone else does or does not. I, for one, find My Name is Earl extremely boring and offensive, so right there I disagree with an earlier comment, but I understand some find it funny. Anyway, good job here, though I do agree something more could have been done to really show everyone this was a joke they could laugh at.

Something about being in authority seemingly means losing your humor, being stiff, inflexible, unimmaginative. And so it seems these same people believe high stress, anger, strictness and conformity is the answer to their management dilemna. This mission shows the failure of management to make correct decisions, again.

Accolades to the kids who pulled this off, especially to the older gentleman and his two daughters. Well planned! Keep up the good work!! You all obviously have way too much time on your hands and really need to "get a life". They could be "offended" when their partners clothing choice was questioned or that they were told not to talk to the blue shirt. If you were so inclined, you could file a lawsuit against the store for that.

Really enjoyed reading about the mission! Your stunt proves that people do not think before acting. In Indiana there is a old car show and fair with a James Dean festival. You soon learn to never, ever wear a red jacket when going to this event. If you wear anything of the sort you will be asked over and over if you plan to enter the look alike contest.

Even at 40 years old and pounds I was asked. Keep poking the masses with a stick, maybe they will wake up. How exactly was commerce disturbed? About 5 years ago, I was running errands with my mom and i got in the car wearing a red polo shirt and khaki skirt. I asked my mother where we were heading. She said "Staples and Target".

Needless to say, I know how the agents feel in this mission! It was fun pretending to work in those stores, and it would have been even better had there been 50 more of me! They would draw less heat from the authorities and allow you to better document the events. I would have loved to see awhat was happening in the security room where they watch everything on the monitors.

They must have been going crazy. This is great. Although admittedly I think I would have personally gotten rather alarmed on knowing the cops had been summoned. Food for thought. That said, I almost had my own personal experience like this. One day I happened to throw on a red t-shirt, a pair of khakis and a black leather belt.

Shortly after that, my wife, son and I went to Target. We did a bit of shopping there, but shortly before I left, I realized I was looking rather similar to the rest of the employees. Once I pointed it out to my wife, she had a good laugh. We got out of there before I embarassed myself. As a former Best buy employee, I found this hilarious.

Nobody was hurt, nothing illegal was done and a bunch of stiff shirts freaked out for a short while. I just want to say that you guys are so funny!!!! I work at a Best Buy in Washington and this is funny as hell. And this is their hobby. I wore a green polo and khakis in a Dicks Sporting Goods store once and had a blast.

Im glad someone is here to take it to the next level. Great job. I have a blue cotton vest with "Mobius" written on the back, and no matter where I go, people always ask if I work there. I still get asked. If they wear red, a different blue, or even shirts not vests at all , I still get asked. This is great….. There is nothing like 80 blue shirted lined up at the cashier.

I used to work there a while back, and I had saved up like 7 of my work shirts and thought it would be funny to send a bunch of my friends in there with my shirts. It would have been even better if you had done this on the day after Thanksgiving. I would love to see Best Buy go out of business. I would have asked for a dozen lawyers or so to join you so that you can sue them when they ask you to leave simply because you had a blue shirt on. The best thing they could get you with was loitering since you were just standing there.

I would have been really rude to the customers that were rude to you. That helps to build the negative experience for them at Best Buy and hopefully prevents them from shopping there. The repeated "Can I help you? They hope it scares you into putting the item back. Best Buy has no undercover employees. Their motto is "Theft prevention, not apprehension.

BTW, for some future fun, if someone is talking on the phones in there on the loud speaker, you can turn it off by picking up a phone and dialing To make an announcement, dial I had a good chuckle on reading this mission. Seems like back-up read: cops are called pretty quick in NYC. Your missions are an inspiration to us all.

One peice of advice, make sure that you are not armed when performing, things tend to get hairy when armed. Best Buy brainwashes its employees! In the end you guys pulled it off. That was just rolls-on-floor-laughing material.

I loved the video clips of all the agents describing how they went about on this mission. I especially enjoyed the encounter that Agent Natty had with that guy whom asked him to leave. I want to be a part of this when you get onto the west coast.

If I ever ran into Agent Reeves hottie! I would ask her to marry me! I hope she is single! What other pranks has she done? Good job everyone! Your group goes into a private business to execute your silly prank, tee-hee, and confuse and potentially scare store employees, confuse customers, and make police waste their time.

Please come to Pittsburgh and do the same thing at Home Depot in East Liberty, because hardly anybody works there. Its so silly that its perfection! My mood has been brightened to see people doing this. We need a mission in Houston! Another first timer here and I just wanted to say that this was an awesome improv! I used to work for BB, I go to the that BB all the time, and my old manager got transferred to that store. Organizing an event like this is like a victory in itself.

But if they did then go ahead and do your thing. There is no difference between this and a customer helping out a customer.