AIBU to feel a bit 'picked on' for being 'posh'?

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I'm aware it's a ridiculous thread title and I've actually namechanged, due to being a bit embarrassed but also due to quite specific info.

I own a business and the manager and workers are excellent so I only need to go in a couple of times a week to check everything is running smoothly. As well as the business I have various sources of income and one of these is working in a minimum wage capacity in home care.

The area I am from has a strong, noticeable local accent, which I don't have. Because of this I'm often treated with some hostility and also and more annoyingly with some amusement by clients and colleagues alike. I get a LOT of 'say ' and accused of being foreign or from some part of the UK they don't like, usually Liverpool or London (!)

I mean, it's something and nothing really but AIBU to be a bit pissed off with it?

My workplace employs people from all around the UK, Europe and further afield. No-one takes the piss out of accents.

None of this rings true, OP it seems to me that you WANT people to think you are posh

This below quoted paragraph, has NOTHING to do with your accent, but more to do with how you want to be perceived on this thread :-

I own a business and the manager and workers are excellent so I only need to go in a couple of times a week to check everything is running smoothly. As well as the business I have various sources of income and one of these is working in a minimum wage capacity in home care

Yeah and I know loads of business owners that pay managers and staff, yet chose to not work in that business but work for a min wage care home

Yawn.

You don't come across as posh, its common to brag about what you want people to think you have

Pink, I recently bought it. What a weird post!

Oh - and I don't think I'm posh at all. To be fair, most of you wouldn't say so, I imagine. But, I don't have a local accent which is unusual here.

I'm from abroad soy accent is rubbish and my husband's family (British) treat me like shit even though they are poor and my family is very wealthy.
This all accent thing in Britain is so ridiculous.

I've got a generic southern accent as a result of spending some early years in the south. When people ask me where I'm from, they tend to be referring to the accent which is not the same answer as where I live or where I was born/ spent most of my childhood.

I've had a lot of "are you posh?" "No, I just have a southern accent!"

I was recently in a playground with DS when a bunch of teenagers came in for the evening. I think they were struggling to suss me out due to a slightly unorthodox combination of clothing (lots of questions about my funky compression socks, I'm not sure if it was admiration or sarcasm!) As I was leaving, the girl doing most of the questions asked "Have you got an accent?" I replied "Everyone's got an accent!" "No I haven't!" "Yes you have, it's just the same as everyone elses' so you don't notice it!"