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People in dressing rooms

MarthaMyDear

I work in a busy department store where I work in the fitting rooms most of the time. I'm pretty used to people trying stuff on then firing it back at me inside out, unzipped etc. It's part of my job to tidy up the clothes that come out, run around looking for sizes and have to see naked old ladies wandering around

but today I couldn't help but just get so annoyed at people in general.

Nearly every second person was literally throwing piles of clothes rolled up in a ball at me and leaving the hangers back down in their dressing room. Then a lady shouts at me because of the long queue even though the dressing rooms are full. Then a guy tries to go down into his girlfriend in the dressing room when men aren't allowed in (I have to tell him to get out or I get in s**t off the management) and he goes mental at me and throws more clothes at me and says I've lost a sale. To top it all off a lady hands me back a pair of trousers then runs out only for me to then realise that she had puked in the pocket of them. No joke.

This is only the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in work and I know, I get paid to do all this with a smile..but come on...manners cost nothing and who THROWS UP in a pair of trousers??

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mauzo

marshbaboon wrote: »

Did she use to shove tampons in peoples lunch box's as another hilarious "prank".

I have no idea. Artistic expression due to a troubled childhood perhaps?

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Rachineire

What is WRONG with people?!?

place where i used to work someone took a poo on the floor in front of a video game display...someone else didnt see it and rolled thier shopping cart through it...and up and down 3 more aisles before they copped what the smell was. ugh.

and NO the customer is not always right- I as a consumer and retailer understand that from both points of view. What the hell would be right about throwing up in a pair of trousers and handing them in like there is nothing wrong with that...who wants to purchase those?

dirtyden

Starla_o0 wrote: »

You sound like the world's most ideal customer :rolleyes: Sometimes the customer is a d**k and not right.

Anyway people can be scummy in changing rooms....stories I heard from La Senza were shocking. Maybe a good things it's closed!

Surely people dont try on underwear? I would have thought shops like la senza would not have changing rooms (although if they do id love the CCTV footage).

Intensive Care Bear

I was in Topman a few months ago trying on jeans, one of the pairs i was trying on had cuts on the front, as i pulled them up my big toe got caught it the cut and i almost ripped the leg off. I didn't know what to do so i put them back on the shelf and swapped them for a new pair.

Splendour

Onesimus wrote: »

I've always hated that stupid saying. Customers can be wrong, and should be shown the door when neccesary. The loss of 50 euro against somebody with an attitude is certainly no loss for me.

Of course they can be wrong! I speak from experience of having worked in sales for a long time. Simply put; be it that the customer is wrong or not, you have to be diplomatic,bite your tongue in some cases, and keep smiling. Therefore you've done your job right, the customer is happy and will come back and possibly recommend the shop to others.

I certainly don't condone downright rudeness though or sleaziness-I remember working in the menswear section of a department store when a male customer asked me to measure his inside leg. No way was I doing that-'twas up to the my male colleagues and the customer knew that!

Intensive Care Bear

Oh and i once found a used tampon on the floor of my local xtravision shop, i thought it was funny because my mate was working there and he had to poke it out the door with a stick.

mauzo

1210m5g wrote: »

Oh and i once found a used tampon on the floor of my local xtravision shop, i thought it was funny because my mate was working there and he had to poke it out the door with a stick.

I read that as 'poke it around the floor with a stick' I was like why did he HAVE to do that??

nbar12

Rachineire wrote: »

What is WRONG with people?!?

place where i used to work someone took a poo on the floor in front of a video game display...someone else didnt see it and rolled thier shopping cart through it...and up and down 3 more aisles before they copped what the smell was. ugh.

haha I feel bad for laughing but that is gas!

1210m5g wrote: »

I was in Topman a few months ago trying on jeans, one of the pairs i was trying on had cuts on the front, as i pulled them up my big toe got caught it the cut and i almost ripped the leg off. I didn't know what to do so i put them back on the shelf and swapped them for a new pair.

you badass!

marshbaboon

This thread is making me very sad, and is severely shaking my faith in humanity

Where To

I don't mind dealing with poo or piss or vomit at all, it's no worse than cleaning up anything else, you're cleaning it up not taking a bath in it after all.

Pottler

People, ye are weird. Not AH people, obviously, because just posting here means you are fairly human and sentient, but everyone else, ye are weird. That's you there, ya lurkey pocket puker. And you, you poo smearer, yes, YOU. Ye are weird. And possibly a bit sick. Also, who the feck would want to work in retail?? The shite you have to put up with is unreal.:(

mauzo

Where To wrote: »

I don't mind dealing with poo or piss or vomit at all, it's no worse than cleaning up anything else, you're cleaning it up not taking a bath in it after all.

Im training to be a midwife, its all part and parcel with the job....but someone working for a clothes shop, should not have to clean up grown adults excrement.

That is nasty.

LoYL

These dirty people are rebels. They are socking it to the MAN. they won't be told how to behave. They won't be told what's wrong. They could be boardsies.

MarthaMyDear

Pottler wrote: »

People, ye are weird. Not AH people, obviously, because just posting here means you are fairly human and sentient, but everyone else, ye are weird. That's you there, ya lurkey pocket puker. And you, you poo smearer, yes, YOU. Ye are weird. And possibly a bit sick. Also, who the feck would want to work in retail?? The shite you have to put up with is unreal.:(

I definitely don't want to work in retail. Just need monies while I'm in college!!

Pottler

LoYL wrote: »

These dirty people are rebels. They are socking it to the MAN. they won't be told how to behave. They won't be told what's wrong. They could be boardsies.

Loyl, I suspect you may well smear your crap on walls. You smear a fair bit of it on computer screens anyway.

mauzo

Pottler wrote: »

Loyl, I suspect you may well smear your crap on walls. You smear a fair bit of it on computer screens anyway.

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Splendour

MarthaMyDear wrote: »

I definitely don't want to work in retail. Just need monies while I'm in college!!

Good for you Martha- I worked for years in shops and detested it. Took me a while to figure it out-I HATE shopping so I don't know why I ever took on retail work!!

Chalk it all down to experience-people are a strange lot but learn what you can while you're there and good luck with the studies...

starbelgrade

I'm terrible at hanging clothes back onto hangers - especially shirts. I find it really fiddly trying to do the buttons back up when it's on a hanger that's hanging from a hook.

But I make an effort & normally hope that the shop assistant doesn't mind that it wasn't put back on the hanger the way it was taken off.

But after reading this thread, I will now go into clothes shops safe in the knowledge that when I hand back a badly hung shirt on a hanger, the only thing the sales assistant will be thinking is, "well at least he didn't shit in the pocket".

MarthaMyDear

Splendour wrote: »

Good for you Martha- I worked for years in shops and detested it. Took me a while to figure it out-I HATE shopping so I don't know why I ever took on retail work!!

Chalk it all down to experience-people are a strange lot but learn what you can while you're there and good luck with the studies...

Thank you

Appreciate it!

MarthaMyDear

starbelgrade wrote: »

I'm terrible at hanging clothes back onto hangers - especially shirts. I find it really fiddly trying to do the buttons back up when it's on a hanger that's hanging from a hook.

But I make an effort & normally hope that the shop assistant doesn't mind that it wasn't put back on the hanger the way it was taken off.

But after reading this thread, I will now go into clothes shops safe in the knowledge that when I hand back a badly hung shirt on a hanger, the only thing the sales assistant will be thinking is, "well at least he didn't shit in the pocket".

Haha, anything not covered in piss or puke is a bonus!!

Where To

syndeyfife wrote: »

Im training to be a midwife, its all part and parcel with the job....but someone working for a clothes shop, should not have to clean up grown adults excrement.

That is nasty.

Maybe so, but any job involving dealing with biological waste containers is going to have it's difficulties.

LoYL

Pottler wrote: »

Loyl, I suspect you may well smear your crap on walls. You smear a fair bit of it on computer screens anyway.

Don't blame me for the state of your place. Get Mrs Bottler and the little bottles to use their fire extinguishers on it.

scholar007

MarthaMyDear wrote: »

Then a guy tries to go down into his girlfriend in the dressing room

Ah shure why not?

swimming in a sea

Shocking!!

The worst I've ever seen is work colleagues leaving the bathroom with out washing their hands(which is still disgusting), but I'm living a sheltered life compared to OP.

Lollipops23

I worked in fashion retail for 6 years, and jesus we had some doozies. Like a shítty nappy left in one changing room. Dirty underwear in another. People were CONSTANTLY handing us back garments that were knotted around the hanger (literally; stuff like t-shirts, vest tops etc, not even fancy tops with strings or anything). I actually had to cut a top out once due to its knotted state.

We also had that rule of "no more than 4 items at one time" per changing room- like most places. We would happily hold excess items at the door for them and swap them over when needed. I remember one BINT shouting that that rule was illegal, how she'd never come across it in her life before etc. I told her I'd been in Tophop that week and had to abide by it then. Silly rude cow.

barry711

MarthaMyDear wrote: »

I work in a busy department store where I work in the fitting rooms most of the time. I'm pretty used to people trying stuff on then firing it back at me inside out, unzipped etc. It's part of my job to tidy up the clothes that come out, run around looking for sizes and have to see naked old ladies wandering around but today I couldn't help but just get so annoyed at people in general.

Nearly every second person was literally throwing piles of clothes rolled up in a ball at me and leaving the hangers back down in their dressing room. Then a lady shouts at me because of the long queue even though the dressing rooms are full. Then a guy tries to go down into his girlfriend in the dressing room when men aren't allowed in (I have to tell him to get out or I get in s**t off the management) and he goes mental at me and throws more clothes at me and says I've lost a sale. To top it all off a lady hands me back a pair of trousers then runs out only for me to then realise that she had puked in the pocket of them. No joke.

This is only the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in work and I know, I get paid to do all this with a smile..but come on...manners cost nothing and who THROWS UP in a pair of trousers??

Jaysus, god love ya. And they say nurses have it hard.

Grayson

I used to have to work with the public and it was the best and worst part of the job. You got to meet and talk to some lovely seriously cool people. And then there's the rest.

cloud493

I get more verbal abuse in my job that having stuff thrown at me, but I get what you mean :mad: retail jobs suck.

ScumLord

Chris.Buckley wrote: »

guess who had to fish it out..

I hope it was this guy, adding poo to the equation would surely end in death from laughing.

marshbaboon wrote: »

This thread is making me very sad, and is severely shaking my faith in humanity

See this thread.

Knex*

I always take note of the way the clothes are hung/folded before I try them on and then try to replicate it if I'm not buying them.

I dunno what it is, but I'd say I probably take more care of the clothes I don't buy in the shops than the clothes in my wardrobe

I don't defecate in either though, thankfully.