Saturday, June 26, 2010

retail stores

So I work at a retail store: New York and Company and I was at work today and noticed how rude some customers really are. I was working in the fittings room, where the customers arent allowed to take more than 6 items to try on, but some sneak in clothes regardless. After an elderly woman walked out, I went to her dressing room and saw clothes, hangers everywhere, all over the dressing room. Even though there is a cart outside to hang everything you dont want on. The lady came back to try on more clothes, and as I was taking out the clothes she said can you please rush it, im in a hurry. I was so taken back by how rudely she she condescended me.

Gauranteed I work in a service job, but that doesnt give customers the right to look down upon us and treat us like servants basically. When I politely asked the lady if she could just put out whatever she didnt want instead of leaving it in the dressing room, she looked at me as if I asked her a lot. And when she was leaving she dumped everything she didnt want right on the other clothes i was folding.

I know for a fact, even before I worked in retail that I always had a lot of respect for people working in retail and all these stores. Its not easy to neatly button, fold and hang all the clothes. Just cleaning up my clothes after laundry was a big chore. So I knew how hard it was. However, some people even in 2010 when so many people work for retail at least once in their life, treat the associates as servants and dont have any respect for them whatsoever

1 comment:

  1. did you ever work on the register? Don't you get annoyed when people don't give you money in your hand?

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