Fitting rooms are not...

[Rine]

bathrooms. Bathrooms are upstairs.

Fitting rooms are not make out booths. Make out somewhere not in public.

Fitting rooms are not where you talk about what you did with your boyfriend last night. Keep your dirty details to yourself.

Fitting rooms are not jungle gyms. Don't let your kids climb over the walls.

Fitting rooms are not daycares. Don't drop your kids off and shop.

Fitting rooms are not where you carry out your family drama. Don't scream and fight with your kids/sisters/whatever.

Fitting rooms are not your personal fashion booths. Don't hog up a room for hours playing dress up and snapping pictures.

Fitting rooms are single gender. Sorry ladies, you can't have your boyfriend/hubby in there with you.


People seem to think that since they are behind a closed door, they can do whatever they want and talk about whatever they want and no one will hear them. I hear everything that goes on in the fitting room if I'm in there. Don't you people realize how loud you are? I hear every groan, curse, every shuffle, every time a tag is pulled off a shirt, everytime it's stuffed in a bag...I can hear you on your cell phone, too. Most of the time, I can hear the people on the other end of the phone. Go in the fitting room, try on your clothes, HANG THEM BACK UP, and be on your way.

If I go in there and find a two hundred dollar dress, rumpled, wrinkled and on the floor, I'll go out there and find you and ask you if you need this two hundred dollar dress you left on the floor. Loudly.

I'm tired of having to return to vendor merchandise that's been ruined by careless, lazy customers.

And for the LOVE of GOD: STOP PEEING IN THE FITTING ROOM.

It's up to once a week now that I find a surprise. I want to catch someone in the act and ask them what the hell their problem is. They always wait until I leave the fitting room to do something like that...

[fireheart]

Maybe they think it's like The Sims 2 where they can "woohoo" in the fitting rooms? (I kid you not, you can WooHoo in the following locations: the hot tub, a car (I think?), the bed, the elevator and the changing room)

[Red_Dazes]

...it's very sad to say...but after two years of working Fitting rooms.... nothing in your post even surprised me.... it was just "Yep... sounds like a normal day"

....and people wonder why I quit...

[LillFilly]

I don't know why people are so damn lazy. At least hang the clothes back up, at least. Oh, and I hate finding clothing I want to buy stained or ripped or dirty.

Once I was trying on some bathing suits. I went to put on a pair of bottoms (wearing my underwear as per requirements of course!) and noticed that the strip of tissue paper on the bottoms was gone and...there was...CRUST on the bottoms in THAT AREA!!!

Needless to say I brought the item to the desk and washed my hands...Thoroughly. The salesgirl was kind of unbelieving until she looked, then a bunch of other customers heard us and looked, and we all talked about how disgusting some people are.

[mikoyan29]

What the hell is wrong with people?

[Geek King]

What the hell is wrong with people?

It's the me-me-me mentality. It's not their stuff, so they don't care.

[mikoyan29]

It's the me-me-me mentality. It's not their stuff, so they don't care.

It may not be their stuff, but do they think that a company is going to let that go untouched? In the end it ends up costing us all more because companies will eventually make up for that.

[orcprincess]

As a "lady" told me yesterday as I was cleaning out her dressing room...(she was in the store for 5 hours, then never hung anything up, just left it on the floor, after stepping on it all) "Well, since this is your job, let me get out of your way and let you get to work" Then had the nerve to say, "it's nice that people without degrees can get work too"

First off you twunt, I have a degree in broadcasting, and I used it very well for about 4 years...secondly a degree does not a person make. I still deserve to be treated like a person...oh wait, no i don't. silly me.

[Broomjockey]

It may not be their stuff, but do they think that a company is going to let that go untouched?

I think you're missing the "they don't care" aspect of the situation.

[SourRobot]

Maybe they think it's like The Sims 2 where they can "woohoo" in the fitting rooms? (I kid you not, you can WooHoo in the following locations: the hot tub, a car (I think?), the bed, the elevator and the changing room)

Sims 2 reference! Yes, you can woohoo in the car, but it's very frustrating to get both to stay in the car when you want them to woohoo.


It sure sounds like the fitting rooms I had to look over when I was working in that department. I became a fitting room nazi. Customers hated it when I was on fitting room duty because I didn't let them get away with anything. Sometimes when my coworkers were so irritated with customers constantly making a mess (I'm talking large piles of clothing in the corner of some of the rooms) we would lock up five of the ten rooms and use one of the open ones to gather up the piles and to put the clothing back on the hangers.

[Green_Fairy]

*twitch*

..i'm gonna making my own clothes, i swear. that way...i don't have to worry about dirty fitting rooms. ugh. i hate people...
and it's not just fitting rooms people randomly pee in...when i was working in a dollar store, we found a puddle in the middle of one of the aisles.
*le sigh*

[RootedPhoenix]

and it's not just fitting rooms people randomly pee in...when i was working in a dollar store, we found a puddle in the middle of one of the aisles.
*le sigh*

Ewwww.

I'm glad I don't work with fitting rooms anymore. blegggh.

[jackfaire]

God I am so glad my customers are all on the other end of a phone line.

[Rine]

I've taken this habit to locking half of the fitting rooms and blocking the hall to them with a rack. This way, I can corral the customers to use the front ones and not go all the way to the back, where the bad things happen. (Note: I only do this on slow evenings.)

I have noticed since I've done this...that the amount of people hanging their things back up has increased and I've had less problems...strange.

Now, this might be a bit stereotypical, but I find the worst of my customers have been people my age and younger. During the homecoming season, it was the worst! These girls would come in and tear the dress department apart and try on every single dress, then leave them on the ground. That's when I started following people out and asking them about the dresses they left on the ground.

I hate dresses so much now because you just can't try on one dress...no, you have to take an entire rack's worth of dresses, take over the handicapped dressing stall, and play dress up for hours on end. Bugs me to bits and pieces, I swear.

[Retail Associate]

I hate dresses so much now because you just can't try on one dress...no, you have to take an entire rack's worth of dresses, take over the handicapped dressing stall, and play dress up for hours on end. Bugs me to bits and pieces, I swear.

This makes me so glad that we don't sell many dresses. Our store is mainly casual and we seldom have any type of dresses at all...which pisses the SCs off to no end.

I guess I should count myself lucky because I have yet to find evidence of people using the fitting rooms as a bathroom. Although one time I found a pair of little boy's undies wadded up in a ball that had a nasty, poopy surprise inside. Along with that was an opened 3-pair package of the exact same underwear with one pair missing. Obviously some little darlin' had an accident and mommy stole a pair of undies to replace his dirty ones, then left the disgusting evidence behind for me to deal with.

Our fitting rooms have benches that are attached to the back wall of each room. The fact that SCs don't hang the clothes back up doesn't really surprise me but what boggles my mind is, they wad the clothes up and toss them under the benches.

I. Just. Don't. Get. It!