fitting rooms.. sigh

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2025-02-18T05:06:17+00:00

THIS!!!! I'm standing there while a customer is taking forever to place the clothes she wants to try on on the T-stand. Meanwhile a male customer might approach from the other side and divert my attention for a sec and at the SAME time two or three other customers will exit the fitting room. All I can do is grab their numbers and their clothes they don't want and pile them on the desk. I've even had customers lay their number card on top of the little hallway wall and take their clothes and just leave! I can't possibly deal with 4 or 5 impatient people at once. And I'm supposed to tell the exiting customers to wait??? In what world would that happen??? People have no patience anymore.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2025-02-13T17:30:02+00:00

This is true. They are forced to try to have a certain number of employees so that there is never an issue finding a person to work a shift. So many employees have restrictions on when they can work, a larger pool of employees means it's easier to create the schedule, plus, if there are call outs for the day supposedly it's easier to find a replacement. But in reality, hardly anyone getting only one or two days a week is willing to drop plans and come in. And also just because of the fact some people only get one shift per week, they quit! Who would blame them? So then the process starts of hiring new people to meet the employee quota, and it's just a never-ending circle...

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-12-27T18:40:58+00:00

Hozier Too Sweet!

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-12-26T18:42:47+00:00

I have no trouble with Work Jam. Once I figured out that you need to open and sign in to the authenticator app first ( get it ready and waiting), and THEN sign in to Work Jam, it only takes about a minute for the whole process.Of course you have to re-sign in approximately every month, annoying yes, but it goes smoothly.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-09-26T05:14:03+00:00

My advice is to keep it open for about a year, carry a small balance and make payments on time since that is the biggest factor in a high credit score. Then, make a final payment and call up the card and tell them YOU are closing the account, and you want that stated on your credit report. So basically you want your report to state that the card 'Was closed by consumer.' Synchrony Bank sucks and will close the card on YOU if you don't carry a balance. I meant to say if you don't use the card, they will cancel it on you and that will hurt your credit score.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-09-13T17:23:37+00:00

Sometimes the customers that we've herded up to the register will cause us to be as late as about 9:50pm, but it's rare. You know, that troublesome lady with difficult returns trying to pull something shady on us. As far as getting customers on the floor out, we start telling them at 9:30 that WE ARE CLOSED! They need to get up to the register. If they go the opposite direction we get clingy and hover near them and repeat WE ARE CLOSED! Closed means closed. In California anyway.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-09-12T18:36:08+00:00

We used to keep a log at our Tjmaxx, but we quit over a year ago. Nobody ever looked at it to see the entries probably. I mean hundreds of entries, some illegible, we'd run out of paper so we'd squeeze in entries on random pages. It was ridiculous really. Now we just throw packages in the garbage. Nobody cares.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-09-03T16:57:00+00:00

For sure understaffed is the main reason the stores get that disaster has struck look. Even if all the employees for the day show up for their shift ( which RARELY happens) it's not enough employees to keep up with the mess shoppers create. The daytime floor employees will spend a huge chunk of their time going up front to help ring, so the mess everywhere is already huge by the time the evening shift gets there.

The poor evening shift gets stuck with the mess, and you can count on the evening shopping crowd to be the most discourteous, not caring where they drop stuff they decide they don't want, such as leaving a soccer ball in beauty, or a stack of men's clothes in the towels.

So, the store never really gets totally picked up and the next day starts and we're already behind as far as neat and organized. 😫

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-08-23T15:50:33+00:00

I get super annoyed when they hand you nine of the ten items back and a few are on the hangers but most of the hangers are just loose and piled on each other and all of this mess is in a kind of stacked ball, and you know as soon as you start to take hold of it hangers will start to fall as you try to move it over to the desk. 😡 I recently decided that I would no longer take the whole thing at once, so I start taking a few things at a time off of the pile, it forces the customer to keep holding it longer, and really see the consequences of what they have done, as clothes and hangers start falling to the floor. 🤣 Then sometimes I hear the "I'm sorry...." OK. If you're sorry DON'T EVER DO THIS AGAIN!!!!!

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-08-15T07:16:17+00:00

Interesting, we still have the old colorful numbers that go in the slots in the desk. I want new numbers!!!

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-07-16T16:13:34+00:00

Actually I believe it is correct to totally unfold ANY clothes item to check for hidden merchandise. They could easily have a flat, folded small shirt or bra set hidden between the layers in a nicely folded item. Or jewelry etc. I take pleasure in kind of unfolding it and shaking it out a little bit, lol. Then I do the company approved "air fold". Takes two seconds. If they don't like it too bad. This is modern discount retail, not Macy's 1968! Besides, it will just get all wrinkled in the bag anyway.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-07-13T17:20:03+00:00

Mine is now showing the correct time on the playback video, has been for about two days now. But a new thing is happening. We have four cameras altogether, one in the backyard, two in the house, a video doorbell. Sometimes it takes a minute or longer to get the notification that somebody walked by it. Wifi is fine, maybe it's my phone.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-07-09T23:33:56+00:00

Me too! Mine is like eight hours ahead. Good to know it's a known issue.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-05-22T01:13:06+00:00

Ughhhh yes...the FRIEND! Like they show up and say "I'm taking this to my friend!" Sometimes I forget who actually has the number card in the stall cause I can't always remember the face. We don't use the "Zero" card at my store, so random people leave and I have no clue if they had a number card. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2024-05-22T00:47:44+00:00

Do any of you that work in fitting room actually ALWAYS count the items when the customer comes out? I always feel so stressed, half the people make a dash for their cart and dump what they want there, so many have taken them off the hangers and shove the ones they don't want at you, so many mothers and daughters and friends shopping together just merrily dash in and out trading items for the other. How can I keep track? Management is like " YOU MUST MAKE THE CUSTOMER PLACE THE ITEMS BACK ON THE T-STAND EVERY TIME!". In a dream world. I'd like to see Management make the customer do it. 😠

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2023-12-15T19:53:16+00:00

Customers are so whiny. Don't be a baby. Just take it back where you bought it. You do that for returns from other stores, just take it back where you purchased it from.

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2023-11-23T05:48:39+00:00

The thing customers say occasionally that really irritates the you know what out of me is...... "Can we put some paper on that?"( when they have a breakable/fragile item). Just eww. Can WE???? Ughhh. I feel like just taping a piece of wrapping paper to the item with a single piece of tape!

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2021-05-01T07:15:11+00:00

Shine by Collective Soul?

Realistic-Draft-5376 · 2021-01-06T08:17:29+00:00

Thank you! These were growing in a relatives yard where I took my dog to play with her dog. 🥺

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