Working the Floor

I’m just going rant for a little bit so just bear with me...

I found out this past week that I was going to have to work a shift this weekend in order to keep my job for the summer. Okay, sounds reasonable. The shift was set up by my boss and all I needed to do was to go the store here in Erie and work my 8hr shift. All fine and dandy, but during those excruciating 8 hours that I worked today I realized a little something.

Now before I begin, let me just let you know that I typically work receiving and not the floor. I like receiving because its calm and I can get everything done that I need to do without being bothered. Now for this shift that I had to work today, it most certainly was not receiving. Instead it was on the sportswear floor and in the ladies fitting rooms.

Let me start by saying I have never seen a bigger mess then what I saw today. The day started fine, it was easy cleaning up after the few people here and there but when lunch came, you would think that the end of the world was happening because the customers sure did clean out the store; hangers included.

I have never seen so many hangers go missing in my entire life. No matter what aisle I went down to put clothes away, I found myself picking up two to three other pieces of garments that were just lying on the floor. Doing my job, I pick up the garments to find that their hangers were nowhere to be seen. They aren’t on the shirt, they aren’t on the rack, and they aren’t on the floor. I’m telling you that some of these people have got to be stealing hangers. I mean I see no other possibility to why hangers disappear every five minutes. You know LP really stresses on making sure no one is stealing the merchandise from the store, but they should really be making sure that the customers aren’t stealing the hangers because I’m telling you they have got to be going somewhere.

Now I could go on and on about working the floor and how it sucks but the reason it sucks so much basically just comes down to the hangers. With that being said, I can’t stress this enough, don’t take the hangers, or if you drop a shirt please put it back on the hanger. If you are one of these people please stop, I beg of you. You make the employees crazy. Have a little mercy on them please, they’re just trying to get by in life like the rest of us. The floor is already crazy and you are not making it any easier on them. I never really realized the craziness of working the sales floor until today and I hope I can go back to receiving because the sales floor is horrible. God bless anyone who works the sales floor.