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I think I've hit the goldmine of entitled catbutters.
My new employment is at a Salvation Army and the appreciated folks are outnumbered by the scheming, lying, cheap buggers 3000 to 1. Easily.
Now, as you may or may not know, Salvation Army deals in donated clothing. Whatever we get, however we get it, that's how it is and that's all we have. Since I'm currently a sorter, I do my best to keep smelly, overly stained, and overly damaged clothes from reaching the floor, but they slip through sometimes. Extremely nice clothes I tend to put "on display". Also, each item has a VERY BRIGHT, nearly neon, colored price tag. The rule is missing tag = no sale. The colors vary (pink, blue, yellow, white, green), and each week another color goes on 'sale', half off.
My changing rooms are not your bathroom!
I had some time between the next truck of clothes to come up, so I went to clean up the floor a bit. People treat our floor horridly. I understand we don't have much of a size order in many sections, but it's not hard to return a yellow teeshirt to the yellow teeshirt section, is it? (I guess so) Instead of returning items after trying them on, most people simply leave them in the changing room. I scuttled into one to retrieve the stacks of clothes hiding in there and clean them up a bit. I open the door to the first one and recognize that smell from my daycare years. Someone had decided to pee all over the floor and 10-15 articles of clothing!
We even have a very clean public bathroom... Sigh.
Spontaneous Language Disorder
Kid's clothes are mainly .99. Exceptions are jackets, suits, dresses, and communion gowns, which they are priced as ticketed. This is clearly posted in English and Spanish in the children's section. A woman comes up with a good 30-40 articles of children's clothing. She's laughing with the cashier about how her kids grow too fast for her to keep up, in perfect English. The cashier lifts a very nice communion gown up from the pile and informs her that most are .99, but the dress is an exception, and will be about $20. She instantly swaps into Spanish, and the cashier instantly points to the huge sign that states communion dresses are priced as ticketed, English and Spanish. The woman quickly changes her tune to, what sounded like Polish to me but I could have been mistaken, and broken English, demanding the dress for .99. Cashier keeps firm, no, the dress is $20 (may I add, brand new, with a $300 retail price tag still attached?). Eventually, the woman leaves, leaving all her clothes behind as well.
Scamming Reseller
A woman comes up to check out with a pile of nicer clothes, generally more pricy for Salvation Army ($15-$30, depending), but she also has picked out things that would generally retail for $50+. She claims she tried on these clothes, but the tags kept falling off. She put the tags in the pockets.
Now, the cashier knew this was a lie because for the last hour, the changing rooms were closed because some idiot (me) was busy cleaning the piss off the floor, and she came in well after I had started.
The tags were also all very low priced, and in the half off color for that day. Cashier denies her sale of everything, explaining that without an attached tag, an article of clothing cannot be sold.
The woman launches into a fury. She screams at the cashier about how lazy she is and how she'll never be as successful as her because she buys up all the cheap clothes from Salvation Army and resells them all. She has a house and an expensive car and knows powerful people and will get her fired if she doesn't sell her these clothes at the price on the tag, half off, of course. Coworker stands her ground through all this, and I'm just leaving the changing rooms with a mop and bucket. The woman's friend? dashes past me and joins in verbally abusing my coworker, when I hear her say "Don't make me slap you and learn you some manners."
Thankfully some of the more... burly... coworkers appeared, and helped these woman outside.
WHYWOULDYOUDOTHAT
While sorting, I pull a gorgeous wedding dress up. It's absolutely stunning and in beautiful condition, so I go out and make a spot for it to be put on display, which is a wall in my sight of the sorting room. It's at a pretty high price, but it's a damn-near-perfect wedding dress for $150!!!!
I see a woman later on that day playing with the fabric and checking out things like the zippers and whatnot. She then looks around, I guess doesn't see me, and throws her coffee on it, creating a large stain down the front. I rip the dress off it's hanger as soon as she walks away and dump my entire water bottle on the stain, trying to find my bag and my daycare-holdover tide pen.
Coworker comes into the back watching me frantically try to scrub the stain out, saying a customer wanted to buy the dress, but saw it had a huge stain and wanted it discounted.
Maybe it was the look in my eyes that said FUCKNO, but she walked away quickly after I said there wasn't a stain on the dress three minutes ago.
My new employment is at a Salvation Army and the appreciated folks are outnumbered by the scheming, lying, cheap buggers 3000 to 1. Easily.
Now, as you may or may not know, Salvation Army deals in donated clothing. Whatever we get, however we get it, that's how it is and that's all we have. Since I'm currently a sorter, I do my best to keep smelly, overly stained, and overly damaged clothes from reaching the floor, but they slip through sometimes. Extremely nice clothes I tend to put "on display". Also, each item has a VERY BRIGHT, nearly neon, colored price tag. The rule is missing tag = no sale. The colors vary (pink, blue, yellow, white, green), and each week another color goes on 'sale', half off.
My changing rooms are not your bathroom!
I had some time between the next truck of clothes to come up, so I went to clean up the floor a bit. People treat our floor horridly. I understand we don't have much of a size order in many sections, but it's not hard to return a yellow teeshirt to the yellow teeshirt section, is it? (I guess so) Instead of returning items after trying them on, most people simply leave them in the changing room. I scuttled into one to retrieve the stacks of clothes hiding in there and clean them up a bit. I open the door to the first one and recognize that smell from my daycare years. Someone had decided to pee all over the floor and 10-15 articles of clothing!
We even have a very clean public bathroom... Sigh.
Spontaneous Language Disorder
Kid's clothes are mainly .99. Exceptions are jackets, suits, dresses, and communion gowns, which they are priced as ticketed. This is clearly posted in English and Spanish in the children's section. A woman comes up with a good 30-40 articles of children's clothing. She's laughing with the cashier about how her kids grow too fast for her to keep up, in perfect English. The cashier lifts a very nice communion gown up from the pile and informs her that most are .99, but the dress is an exception, and will be about $20. She instantly swaps into Spanish, and the cashier instantly points to the huge sign that states communion dresses are priced as ticketed, English and Spanish. The woman quickly changes her tune to, what sounded like Polish to me but I could have been mistaken, and broken English, demanding the dress for .99. Cashier keeps firm, no, the dress is $20 (may I add, brand new, with a $300 retail price tag still attached?). Eventually, the woman leaves, leaving all her clothes behind as well.
Scamming Reseller
A woman comes up to check out with a pile of nicer clothes, generally more pricy for Salvation Army ($15-$30, depending), but she also has picked out things that would generally retail for $50+. She claims she tried on these clothes, but the tags kept falling off. She put the tags in the pockets.
Now, the cashier knew this was a lie because for the last hour, the changing rooms were closed because some idiot (me) was busy cleaning the piss off the floor, and she came in well after I had started.
The tags were also all very low priced, and in the half off color for that day. Cashier denies her sale of everything, explaining that without an attached tag, an article of clothing cannot be sold.
The woman launches into a fury. She screams at the cashier about how lazy she is and how she'll never be as successful as her because she buys up all the cheap clothes from Salvation Army and resells them all. She has a house and an expensive car and knows powerful people and will get her fired if she doesn't sell her these clothes at the price on the tag, half off, of course. Coworker stands her ground through all this, and I'm just leaving the changing rooms with a mop and bucket. The woman's friend? dashes past me and joins in verbally abusing my coworker, when I hear her say "Don't make me slap you and learn you some manners."
Thankfully some of the more... burly... coworkers appeared, and helped these woman outside.
WHYWOULDYOUDOTHAT
While sorting, I pull a gorgeous wedding dress up. It's absolutely stunning and in beautiful condition, so I go out and make a spot for it to be put on display, which is a wall in my sight of the sorting room. It's at a pretty high price, but it's a damn-near-perfect wedding dress for $150!!!!
I see a woman later on that day playing with the fabric and checking out things like the zippers and whatnot. She then looks around, I guess doesn't see me, and throws her coffee on it, creating a large stain down the front. I rip the dress off it's hanger as soon as she walks away and dump my entire water bottle on the stain, trying to find my bag and my daycare-holdover tide pen.
Coworker comes into the back watching me frantically try to scrub the stain out, saying a customer wanted to buy the dress, but saw it had a huge stain and wanted it discounted.
Maybe it was the look in my eyes that said FUCKNO, but she walked away quickly after I said there wasn't a stain on the dress three minutes ago.
(and it was also at a clothing store, not a formal dress store. My dress could be worn again. Whereas most of their formal dresses would've been sold. My sister's formal dress is also one she can wear again)
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