Fitting rooms are not...

[Rine]

You know, I really don't mind it if people leave their clothing in the fitting room stall...as long as it's on the hanger. It at least told me you applied the effort and you care about things that aren't yours. It's the...let's throw everything on the ground, leave everything piled on the bench that just ticks me off.

What I don't get is when people yank the tags off things to steal them. If we catch you with a bunch of clothing that doesn't have tags, we can *still* tell that it's ours. Pulling the tags off doesn't magically make it not our merchandise.

Then again, I suppose I should be grateful because it let's me keep inventory correct so I can take out stolen items from the count.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Can you not post a sign on the fitting room doors that says:

"DON'T DO ANYTHING
THAT YOU WOULDN'T WANT
OUR SECURITY CAMERAS
TO SEE"?

[depechemodefan]

*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*

not only we find puddles in middle of aisles at the library, but men have been really interested in the medical atlases and leave their semen on them.

And medical atlases are expensive books.

And don't talk about the sex books...

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.

Shame on that mommy. Then again, this is bound to bite her on the ass. Imagine how many times jr. will leave surprises in his bed room for her to clean up months latter.
I've found a dirty diaper in an alcove, behind a pillar. On the other side of the pillar was a trashcan.

When I shopped at this one store (think of Betsy the flag maker), in "Gunspoint", I always find clothes on the floor. They fell of the hangers, but I imagine the shoppers who put the clothes back just don't give a shit that they didn't put the clothes back on the hangers right. And walking through the kids section, it was a carpet of clothes, ankle deep from one end of an aisle to another.

[Seshat]

..i'm gonna making my own clothes, i swear. that way...i don't have to worry about dirty fitting rooms.

Do wash the fabric before you start cutting.

Okay, there's two reasons. The first is people with filthy hands touching it (or whatever else they do, I don't like to think about it). Also removing chemicals left-over from the manufacturing process.

The second is that if you wash it the way you intend to wash the finished garment, you're cutting it after the first-wash shrinking.

take over the handicapped dressing stall

I have one thing to say about this.

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!!!!!!!!

[Rine]

Yeah, it irks me too Seshat...I mean, yeah, those are the biggest rooms for a REASON. I don't mind it so much when people want to go in with their SUV strollers and whatnot, but I dislike it very veeeery much when people spend an obnoxious amount of time in them. I've taken to locking the fitting room and I keep an eye on my customers. If I see someone I know will need the big fitting room (it has a secure bench to sit down on, plenty of low hangers to put clothes on, etc.) then I go and open the fitting room.

I've gone and asked people not to use it if I know someone who NEEDS it will be coming soon and you wouldn't believe some of the responses from people. It's such a shame, really. Most people are understanding, though.

[StarsAreFixed]

"I left the tag and the clothes in the fitting room". Oh well that's fine isn't it, because I'm soooo bored and I've nothing to do, right? Instead I'm buried up to my eyeballs in customer service refunds and other clothes people weren't bothered to hang, I've a queue of people waiting to get into the fitting rooms, and another queue waiting to hand me their items and tags back LIKE YOU SHOULD, and the phone is ringing and I should be on lunch right about now. Do I LOOK like I have time to fetch and carry after you more than I already am! bring them out to me!DIE DIE DIE.

I could go on for hours, but that's the single most annoying phrase guaranteed to get me angry every time. That and possibly 'What do I need a tag for? Do I look like I'd rob?' usually said by fuckwits who look like yes they would rob.

One time I forgot to check the fitting rooms after they closed as I was hurried out to close my till and help on the floor. Of course, there was an alco asleep in there..who eventually wandered out hours after the shop had closed (grocery nightpack was still open downstairs)in the dark....security only detected her from the glint off the vodka bottle.

Don't notice where I'm standing..hanging items..taking things back from people and my shiny array of tags and...walk on by! What are you, special? Get back here! Ah I could go on for sooooooooooo long.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Is it legal to use security cameras to monitor fitting rooms? I was under the impression that wasn't allowed.

[Retail Associate]

Is it legal to use security cameras to monitor fitting rooms? I was under the impression that wasn't allowed.

I believe it's illegal or, at the very least, isn't allowed at retail establishments. But I've been tempted to hang a sign that reads, "Smille! You're on candid camera!"

Some stores have clerks who consistantly ask the customer if she needs help and some clerks will open the curtain or walk right in on people. It's probably to discourage them from shoplifting.

We don't do that at my store. We don't fetch another size or grab another color for them, either. Some women just don't get that we're a big box retailer not a boutique. We have too much to do and we're not their personal shopper.

[fireheart]

We don't do that at my store. We don't fetch another size or grab another color for them, either. Some women just don't get that we're a big box retailer not a boutique. We have too much to do and we're not their personal shopper.

My sister's store does the same (also a big box retailer). In fact, just like how the checkouts have the service desk as their first port of call, the apparael department at her store (primarily women for some strange reason as far as I know) uses the fitting room as THEIR first port of call.

In fact, the only time I've seen a situation where items have been grabbed was me getting a bra fitted at a department store. The assistant kept running in and out, grabbing about twenty million bras for me to try on.

[MadMike]

Is it legal to use security cameras to monitor fitting rooms? I was under the impression that wasn't allowed.

I believe that can use them at the outside of the door to record people entering and exiting, but not what's going on inside.

[SG15Z]

I may never use a fitting room again.........

[Pagan]

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.

These are the same fools that wonder why clothing costs keep going up. Gee, I wonder why?

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.

Oh, if that had been me, I could not have let that comment go.

Can you not post a sign on the fitting room doors that says:

Is it legal to use security cameras to monitor fitting rooms? I was under the impression that wasn't allowed.

As far as I know, it's very illegal.

Some stores have clerks who consistantly ask the customer if she needs help and some clerks will open the curtain or walk right in on people.

Ok, if I was trying on something at a store and the clerk just opens up the curtain/door with no warning, after I'm done yelling, I'll be leaving and never coming back!

[MiddleofNowhere]

I am permanently scarred by the time I went to clean up a fitting room that a customer had just left, no lie, 30plus swim suits in a pile on the floor and as I was sorting them, found no less than a half dozen 'bottoms' that had major amounts of *ahem* female monthly evidence in them. Not a spot. This woman HAD to know she was 'flowing' and just kept on trying on suits.

And that doesn't include the TWO times I've found poo in the room. Once in underwear. Once in a pile in the corner...

You can imagine how much I love working the fitting room now...

[Rine]

Yeah, I freak out if I go into the fitting room and see a pile of clothes in the corner. It usually means something BAD has happened. So, I go and get one of those poles that you use to fetch clothing off the wall and carefully pick through the pile to make sure there aren't any surprises.

I've only had one "female incident" happen when we found a pair of underwear (store stock) that someone had apparently tried on.

Now, if I ever see underwear in the fitting room and it looks like it's been tried on, I throw it in a garbage bag and return to vendor. See, most people leave their undergarments on when they try on a bathing suit, but if you are trying on underwear, you are going to probably have to take off that other pair...I mean...who tries on underwear? I thought it was like socks--you always know what your size is..

[StarsAreFixed]

Oh but the moment of people who will attempt to! And freak out completely and give you dog's abuse because it isn't happening. We only allow the 'waist killer' types with hygiene stickers. Everyone else can get the boat- 'but how am I supposed to know my size???????' How do you NOT. And they're only €150 ($1!) per pair or they could even take a chance and buy a pack of 5 for €3 (..er $2.20?) I mean it doesn't get any cheaper, just take a chance, you scumbag.