A Day Riddled with SC *longish*

[McGoddess09]

Your avatar threw me for a second...McGoddess(?) used to have the same one. I missed it

Yep. I did. I decided I liked my Senior picture better and no-one else would have it.

[Red_Dazes]

I'm wondering why one piece swimsuits are not also considered underwear. The one piece comes into just as much contact with the naughty bits as the bottom of the two-piece...? Has the store policy just not caught up with that yet?

I asked my manager about that one... and she just shrugged it off saying "Thats what they tell us...." SO I guess thats what I have to do...
But it gets really annoying trying to explain to the customers...
"Yes of course you can take the one piece in.... but the two piece bottoms have to stay here.....No I dont know why.... it's just what they told me...... sure you can talk to my manager....she'll say the same thing...."

The only thing I wonder is if bathing suits are returnable because how else are you supposed to know your size?

And yes.... they are completely returnable.....>< I DONT GET IT EITHER!!!

[dwasifar]

Swimsuit bottoms: No bottoms of 2 piece swimsuits allowed. This is two fold. First because we have been having way to many disappear, and second because they are now considered "underwear" and thus for hygiene reasons cannot be allowed back. Once piece swimsuits are fine.... 2 piece... no. ><

I'm wondering why one piece swimsuits are not also considered underwear. The one piece comes into just as much contact with the naughty bits as the bottom of the two-piece...? Has the store policy just not caught up with that yet?

[ArcticChicken]

What I hated the most about this customer...was that after he left I started feeling like an ass.... because the only thing I could think of after he told me he had to be at a funeral was..... shouldn't you have done your shopping earlier? .... don't they usually have like at least 3 days notice before the funeral.... Why the hell are you here ONE HOUR before hand..... Yeah.... I felt like an ass.... but I still want to know.

I was thinking the same thing. I don't know of any culture where you have to bury/cremate/whatever the deceased right away, and while I don't have extensive knowledge of many cultures, I do know it's pretty difficult to book a last minute funeral.

[Ironclad Alibi]

and he of course started yelling at me Saying he had to be to a funeral in one hour....

Was it his funeral?

The times I've tried on a packaged shirt the salesman always opened the package for me, and removed all the pins the shirt.

[Red_Dazes]

Hehe Death Metal and Sugar

Death Metal Tootsie Pops?

I am intrigued...

...googly googly google...

is it this?

Hehe Indeed it is! ^_^ Spiffy isnt it!

[PepperElf]

he took a look through our Woven shirt section we usually had shirts with the same size measurements as our packaged ones.

For this i see both sides... Your side because of the trouble of re-packaging, and his side because sometimes even identical items of the same brand will fit differently.

I wish it wasn't true... I got in the habit of buying jeans without trying them on because I simply grabbed the exact same brand and size and color I normally wore... Then one day I ended up with a pair that was made small.


Swim bottoms:
This one too I'm like "eh"? Granted I understand health code laws... When I was growing up, we usually tried them on over our underwear so it wouldn't violate health code.

But I also understand no means no.


And if there's special circumstances, there's better ways to handle it like asking very nicely, listing the circumstances first...

Like with the man for the funeral... after being told "no"... maybe if he'd acted differently ... like... "I understand the policy, however I'm on my way to a funeral and I'm very worried that the woven shirt's fit might not match the dress shirt. The funeral is for <whomever> and the event is very important to me. Is there anyone I can talk to?"

If he'd said that perhaps instead of <ANGER YELL ETC>... there's no guarantee he'd have gotten a different answer... but it's more likely.

[Enjis]

I used to work in the Men's Dress Shirt and Accessories dept at my old store. The guys were certainly allowed to try on packaged dress shirts....
I cannot tell you how many thousands of shirts I had to rewrap perfectly (hardly anyone else did it as well as me)
I hated it when guys would bring back the shirt, unfolded and unbuttoned, to my area, but not the packaging. I had to go back to the fitting room to get all the crap.
SOME asshats wanted to get the shirt they had tried on...but wanted it fresh in the package. They didn't actually want the one they tried on, but one still untouched by human hands...just the same size and style. I burned when they wanted that. (it was the same with undies. They'd rip open a pack to see the size, then buy the unopened pack next to it!!!)
One of my coworkers refused to let this happen, and told her customer straight up 'No. You tried this one on, you're gonna buy this one. There's nothing wrong with it, and there's no reason for you to buy a wrapped one.' And the customer bought the opened one!

[froglet]

What I hated the most about this customer...was that after he left I started feeling like an ass.... because the only thing I could think of after he told me he had to be at a funeral was..... shouldn't you have done your shopping earlier? .... don't they usually have like at least 3 days notice before the funeral.... Why the hell are you here ONE HOUR before hand..... Yeah.... I felt like an ass.... but I still want to know.

It might have had more to do with replacing a shirt that he didn't know needed replacing until that moment. Like he went to wear it for the funeral and hadn't noticed a hole or stain the last time he wore it (or got there in the closet), or spilt something on it at breakfast and didn't have a spare.
Course, this is giving the frustrated man the benefit of the doubt, and they don't always deserve it.

[PhotoChick]

The only thing I wonder is if bathing suits are returnable because how else are you supposed to know your size?

[BookstoreEscapee]

I've had it lying around on my computer for long time..... Thought it was cute.... it was either that or the Death Metal Tootsie pops.... Hard choice....

Death Metal Tootsie Pops?

I am intrigued...

...googly googly google...

is it this?

[Red_Dazes]

Dont remember where I found it...but

Your avatar threw me for a second...McGoddess(?) used to have the same one. I missed it

I've had it lying around on my computer for long time..... Thought it was cute.... it was either that or the Death Metal Tootsie pops.... Hard choice....

[taurinejunkie]

I'm starting to see how my job is awesome. On the custom keyboards at work I have this lovely 'end session' key. I can press it even with a customer on the line, in which case as soon as they hang up I'm not getting any more calls. And then I can go clock out.

[Broomjockey]

Your avatar threw me for a second...McGoddess(?) used to have the same one. I missed it

iradney, in a departure from her standard one.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Your avatar threw me for a second...McGoddess(?) used to have the same one. I missed it

Customers can always tell if you work there. Doesn't matter if you are out of uniform; no name tag; wearing a coat and carrying your bag, lunch, and umbrella; carrying a cup of coffee in each hand...in a bookstore that doesn't have a coffee shop...(seriously, I have been accosted by customers in all those circumstances; well, except the uniform part cuz we don't have uniforms, but while wearing jeans and sneakers and otherwise non-dress-code items).