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BG: Fabric store. If you want to make a costume/outfit/quilt/other fabric craft, you pick the bolts of fabric you want from the shelves, bring it to the cutting counter and hand one bolt at a time to the employee. Tell her how much you want of the first bolt, she enters it into her handheld computer, measures the fabric and cuts it to length. Do the same with the next bolt, and the next, until you have all your fabric cut, then she prints off a slip with the list of fabrics and a bar code that you then take to the register. [/BG]
Two college-age women come up to the cutting counter where I am working with a variety of fabrics. One talks about the Marie Antoinette costume she is making, describing it to the other as she is telling me how much of each fabric she wants. She says she's had sewing experience and sounds like she knows what she is talking about. She's got about seven different cuts, I finish cutting her fabrics, print off her slip and they go on their merry way.
Ten minutes later, five minutes before the end of my shift, they come back with more fabric to cut. I cut the new fabric, print a new slip, then the first girl pulls out the previous one, which she hadn't paid for, and tells me she needs the items on both tickets re-seperated into two groups; she was buying one set and her friend was buying the other.
So why didn't she tell me this before I started in the first place? "I didn't know you were putting them on the same ticket!"
Um, honey, you were the one handing me the fabrics and watching me put them into the handheld! If you want things in two seperate batches, you have to tell me beforehand, as I do not have ESP!
It took me a while, but I was able to take four items off the first slip and combine them with three on the second to form one new slip, then combine the three remaining items on both tickets into a second new slip. It's not as easy as cutting and pasting on Word; you have to scan both slips, manually void certain items, print out one ticket, them manually enter the other items into the handheld for the second ticket.
So much hassle and misunderstanding could've been avoided if she'd told me she wanted two seperate orders and divided up the bolts in the first place.
Two college-age women come up to the cutting counter where I am working with a variety of fabrics. One talks about the Marie Antoinette costume she is making, describing it to the other as she is telling me how much of each fabric she wants. She says she's had sewing experience and sounds like she knows what she is talking about. She's got about seven different cuts, I finish cutting her fabrics, print off her slip and they go on their merry way.
Ten minutes later, five minutes before the end of my shift, they come back with more fabric to cut. I cut the new fabric, print a new slip, then the first girl pulls out the previous one, which she hadn't paid for, and tells me she needs the items on both tickets re-seperated into two groups; she was buying one set and her friend was buying the other.
So why didn't she tell me this before I started in the first place? "I didn't know you were putting them on the same ticket!"
Um, honey, you were the one handing me the fabrics and watching me put them into the handheld! If you want things in two seperate batches, you have to tell me beforehand, as I do not have ESP!It took me a while, but I was able to take four items off the first slip and combine them with three on the second to form one new slip, then combine the three remaining items on both tickets into a second new slip. It's not as easy as cutting and pasting on Word; you have to scan both slips, manually void certain items, print out one ticket, them manually enter the other items into the handheld for the second ticket.
So much hassle and misunderstanding could've been avoided if she'd told me she wanted two seperate orders and divided up the bolts in the first place.
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And it was almost the end of an eight hour shift and I just wanted to get this over with.
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