Tales from The Fitting Room...

[MiddleofNowhere]

We've recently had new LP procedures put in place at the company I work for, and as a result, I now have set times I have to mandatorily spend 'shackled' to a bank of fitting rooms. I understand the need, but the absolute suckage that happens there drains a little more of my soul, every day.

Swimwear sucks

Ladies, we all know shopping for a swimsuit is not the most fun thing in the world, but sweet monkey fritters - do you really need to try on 30 suits, turning them all inside out and leaving them off the hangers in a pile in a corner of the fitting room and not buy a single one? Really, I love picking those all up off the floor and trying to match all the two piece suits together.

And biting my head off about how we need a 'better' selection of swimsuits? Seriously, we have at least 24 styles of competition suits in multiple colors, we have beach suits, tankinis, bikinis, rash guards, board shorts, coverups, women's plus sizes, etc, etc. We're talking HUNDEREDS OF SUITS. You won't find another retailer in town with the variety of sizes. Period.

Nobody really looks like anyone on Bayw@tch in real life. This is the midwest. The low cut bottoms will give you more muffin top than a local bakery. Either own it or buy a one piece.

TMI!!! Read if you dare

And an extra special pox on the female customer who decided after leaving giant blood stains on not one or two but 7 bikini bottom crotches after ripping out the 'sanitary liner' provided in said swimsuit bottoms (and obviously panties of her own were missing) as evidenced by pubic hair also contained in swim suit bottoms. You suck.

[JoitheArtist]

You have all my sympathies! I used to work the women's/teen girl section at Penney's, and the fitting rooms were hell. I MUCH preferred working over in the men's department--guys generally know what size they wear, know what they want, and don't trash the fitting room. But I've seen fitting rooms in Juniors departments literally left knee-deep in clothing. Jerks.

[BlaqueKatt]

personally I just want to find a two piece that the bottom isn't below my belly button and hipbones. When did two piece become "barely covering privates"?

[tollbaby]

Oh my LORD, that last woman is AWFUL! Was there no way to figure out who she was? I imagine that when it's busy, you don't get to see who leaves the change room. I'd have banned her from the store for life for that, and forced her to pay for the merchandise she destroyed.

[StarsAreFixed]

I feel your pain. I work the fitting rooms of a really big department store, it sucks! Especially since the sale is now on. I think the worst customers are those when the conversation goes like follows

Me: How many items do you have?
SC: Umm...*counts* 12
Me: Yes, it's 4 at a time. You can keep the extra ones here and swap them over
SC: Only 4? Jesus!

You were obviously going to hit a limit at some stage, no shop lets in more than 6..

Though there's so many different types of sucky customers when on the fitting rooms..

[SweetMimura]

We have the whole shackled-to-the-fitting-room thing where I am. It's not too bad most of the time, but then on Saturdays you tend to get the braindead customers who'll hand you about ten items of clothing and the hangers for them, despite the fact that you've already got three rails of clothes to sort out and a queue of customers to hand tags to. The way they smile sweetly and just say "sorry" before wandering off to ruin the rest of the shop. If you have time to try it on, you have time to put it back on the hanger!

Also, when customers leave the changing room without opening the curtain, so you have to do the whole "peer through the gap like a pervert to see if there's anybody in there" routine.

(Hello, I'm new.)

[AdminAssistant]

You were obviously going to hit a limit at some stage, no shop lets in more than 6..

TJ Maxx went up to 8 at a time while I was there. I counted everything going in and coming out of the fitting rooms. Did it create lines? sometimes Did people complain? Nearly always. But it was our LP procedure and it kept our fitting rooms cleaned out. If a customer didn't bring out all of their clothes or their tag, they had to go back and get it. Them's the rules. If you don't like it, go next door to Dillard's and pay twice as much.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And an extra special pox on the female customer who decided after leaving giant blood stains on not one or two but 7 bikini bottom crotches after ripping out the 'sanitary liner' provided in said swimsuit bottoms (and obviously panties of her own were missing) as evidenced by pubic hair also contained in swim suit bottoms. You suck.

In Wisconsin, it would be a violation to try on swimwear without wearing underwear. We have signs posted in the fitting rooms and by the swimwear to remind customers of this.

I think I'll go have some nice and Coke Zero now.

[Retail Associate]

I absolutely loathe working the fitting rooms. I understand completely when you said it drains a little more of your soul everyday. I hate them, hate them, hate them. I don't care too much for the slobs using them either.

Swim suit season is without a doubt the worst. It's nearly impossible to keep up with the slobs and when I'm standing there trying to get things back on hangers so I can put them away, it really frosts my cookies when another slob hands me their unwanted items and asks, "What do you want me to do with these?"

I so deperately want to say, "Bend over!"

Those protective liners are a joke. Women take them out and stick them all over the walls, mirrors, floor and under the bench. Why on earth don't these horrid creatures go back where they came from and stay the hell outta of my store?

Did I mention I loathe working the fitting rooms?

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[BookstoreEscapee]

If it makes you feel better, I usually try to put my unwanted items back where they came from. At the very least they are always put back on the hanger and properly buttoned or zipped, if applicable.

[TequilaSunrise]

*sigh* I work at the fitting rooms usually as well. God, people suck. I feel your pain. And I live in South Florida, so it's Swimsuit Season ALL THE TIME.

But the very worst of humanity are the scumbags who use the rooms as restrooms. Die, all of you!

[tropicsgoddess]

Gah...working the fitting room. You have my sympathies. I can't believe the last woman had the nerve to do that! You guys must've had to burn those swimsuits or something.

[RetailActress]

Thank doG our store doesn't sell swimsuits. But we do sell close-fitting stretchy camisoles with a built-in shelf bra, and if I had a dollar for every one of those flung into the corners of our fitting rooms, streaked with deodorant smears, I'd be wealthy. <sigh>

R.A.

[Becks]

My personal fitting room hell was at Goodwill.

[SweetMimura]

We close our fitting rooms 15 minutes before the shop closes and put the clothing rails across the entrance to stop people from coming in, but you still get people ducking through and then acting surprised when you tell them it's closed. What do they think, we put rails in their way to give them a bit of a challenge?