Seriously, Ladies....

[DizBelle]

Really, how hard is it to put the clothes you take into the fitting room back on the hangers and put them on the rack outside the fitting rooms?

I went to my local Kohl's yesterday and the fitting rooms were a disaster. Every room had dozens of items of clothing all over the place. Piled on the floor.... piled on the seat..... the wall hooks so full there was nowhere for my to hang what I wanted to try on.

Why do people behave like this?

Do the men behave like this too?

 

[MM27]

Isn't is rude? I hate walking into fitting rooms and seeing clothing all over the floor. Just because you don't want it doesn't mean someone else won't eventually buy it. I'd prefer the things I'm going to potentially buy not be thrown on the floor.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

I don't shop at Kohl's (or similar), but the places I tend to shop at don't often have racks outside the fitting rooms and you're almost encouraged to just leave the clothes you don't want in the room after you leave. Now I don't usually leave them on the floor, I'll usually put the item back on the hanger, but if there's not hanger for an item I'm trying on and no seat, then, no issues with folding it and leaving it on the floor.

 

[MushyMushy]

What? I don't want to put anybody out of a job.



Kidding! I don't do that. In fact, I don't use fitting rooms at all.

 

[pixiewings71]

Ummm excuse me, I'm a lady with 3 DD's, all of us put the clothes back on the hangers and put them on the racks outside the fitting rooms when we are done. Please don't lump us all together and assume that we are all slobs who just don't care.

FTR, DBF also hangs his clothes up and put them on the rack to be put away when he's done trying stuff on.

That's really rude behavior, I do wish people had more respect for others.

 

[wdwmom2]

I hate that too!!!

Can you image what their bedroom floors look like at home???? Probably have to dig through a layer of clothes just to find the floor!

 

[handinpocket]

While the ladies are definitely pigs that left that mess, why are the changing rooms allowed to stay in that shape?! One or two like that, I can understand, but Kohl's should have employees checking in on the rooms so that does not happen.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

It makes me so angry. I don't expect the employees in any store to pick up after me and that's including the stores that don't have the racks outside the rooms. No reason to treat them like that.

 

[Darsa]

Yes, exactly! I can't believe the messes I see when I go into the fitting rooms. Seriously, I can't believe that people are so insensitive and uncaring and L A Z Y.

 

[MonkeyDishwasher]

When I use fitting rooms, and I don't want things that I've tried on, I hang the items up, but leave them in the room. This is because every time I've ever gone to the same few stores, I've always been told "Oh ,just leave what you don't want in there. We'll get it." The few times I've taken the things out of hte room, I get confused because there seems to be a secret system to how the things are hung up outside.

So, force of habit for me. But at least I'm not chucking them on the floor

 

[AKL_Megs]

A few years ago, I used to work for Target. For a few months, I manned the fitting rooms.


We had a rack available for those who *gasp* actually brought out their clothes ON the hangers, and a shopping cart for them to simply toss clothes and hangers into, for us to hang.

80% of women came out empty handed. 10% brought out wads of clothes, and threw them into the bin. 5% brought out everything, hung and ready for the racks.

Surprisingly, I would say something like 95% of men would come out with ALL of the clothes they took in, ALL on the hangers.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

That drives me nuts, too. I always make it a point to hang everything back up, just as I found it on the rack. As for my own clothes on my own floor... I've been guilty of that, haha. But I'm the one stuck cleaning them up!

 

[Handbag Lady]

I'll be honest. I shopped at Kohl's once and never went back. It seemed like a good idea and a nice place, but the shoes were just all over the floor in the shoe department, the clothes in the dressing rooms were as described in the OP, and the jewelry department made me so stinking mad I couldn't see straight.

(I found a nice pair of earrings I liked and noticed they were on sale. I asked for them from the case and the lady rang them up at 60% more than the tag. When I balked at the price and showed the lady the sign, she said that was from yesterday's sale as if I were to just KNOW that. I left when she refused to honor the price.)

But, having worked at The Broadway years ago in Young Miss, I can tell you that a lot of members of the general public are slobs. I doubt they do it at home, since no one picks up after them at home. I found dirty diapers, trash, left over food (as in eaten in the dressing room) and we checked the rooms quite frequently.

 

[StephyDee]

Oh, this is one HUGE subject for me. I work at Sears, in the Lands' End department, and I'll tell you right now, it's INSANE!

Everything I'm telling you here now is from personal experience, just so you know.

The fact is, even though I can't spring for Kohl's employees when it comes to checking fitting rooms, I can sympathize with them A WHOLE lot. You see, you can have 100 people try on things in the fitting rooms, and they all put clothes back on hangers and place them on the racks. Heck, you may even get people that put it back where it originally came from! (a real treat in retail ) However, even though those 100 people are great and considerate for being neat in the fitting room, all it takes it ONE person, who doesn't care what happens to the reject clothes, to mess up the fitting room. Unfortunately, more than the ratio I mentioned do this, and it can get VERY annoying, especially when we have enough to do at work.

The worst part is when, after we clean the fitting room, no sooner than about 10 minutes, we'll check in on it, and BOOM.....it's like a tornado came through and trashed it. It'll look like we had never checked it in the first place, and if the wrong higher-up sees it at the wrong time, it'll make us look bad. This is partly why it's so annoying for us. People will take in CARTFULLS of clothing at a time, try it on, leave it inside out, off the hangers, and with the tags torn off, and just leave them there, as if it's a chore to put them back. The funny thing is, I will bet you that most of the people that are messy in fitting rooms, are in fact nice and neat at home. Their mindset usually is "Hey, it's not my house, it's not my stuff! I don't have to clean it up, that's what the associates are here for. I'll just leave this here and let them get it."

I'm not complaining that we are cleaning the fitting rooms, because that IS part of our job. I get that, I really do. The problem is that people are getting TOO carried away with the fact that we can put stuff away. It gets to the point that we sometimes have to turn customers away because we have to clean the fitting rooms before other customers start to complain. Half the time we're practically doing the job of janitors, cleaning up after people's mess! (including half-eaten food, drink cups, and and used tissues)

The weekends are the worst, because that's when all the messiest of the 'messies' come out and unleash their wrath.

One horror story I have will let you know how bad some employees have it: Last year, same time as now actually, I was checking the fitting rooms as per usual. A lady walks out of the last fitting room at the end and has one bathing suit in her hand, and she smiles and goes "Well, it took me a while, but I got the bathing suit I needed for my trip!" and I congratulate her for finding one. (as we all know can be a difficult task! lol) I get to the last fitting room, open the door, and I actually stood there motionless for a minute or so. This lady had tried on literally EVERY SINGLE BATHING SUIT we had in stock (remember this is Lands' End), each one in 3 different sizes, all inside out, off the hangers, tags torn off and flung everywhere, and they all had deodorant stains on them. Overall, I think there were over $2,000 in bathing suits there, in a huge mound of clothing-rejects, staring at me with beady little eyes and going "help me!" I almost didn't want to touch it. It took 2 carts to get them all out of the fitting room, and a full hour to put them all back. All this for one bathing suit she ended up buying.

Nowadays, there are 'incidents' every so often, but never as bad as that day.

Men don't do it nearly as bad as women do, to be honest. Although, that might be because they don't try on nearly as many things, and they tend to be satisfied if something fits, period. They aren't as paranoid as us girls as to if it looks perfect or if it flows nicely. In fact, in the course of a day, we may only need to check the men's fitting room 3-4 times, and only find 1-2 things overall each time.

I just wanna ask all the women that leave clothes on the floor (by 'on the floor' as in just thrown everywhere, not folded nicely like jlewisinsyr does. ) "Is it THAT horrible to just put the clothes on the rack provided? I mean c'mon, that's what it's there for!"

 

[mykidsand_i]

Yes, the ladies who leave piles of clothing are being rude...but like a pp said..."HOW ARE THEY ALLOWED TO GET THAT BAD????" It doesn't only have to do with the people leaving the stuff there! Last time I wa in Kohls (I like Kohls!!!) there were a few workers standing outside of the dressing rooms talking to eachother...not about work. With all the crap in the dressing rooms, there was DEFINATELY work that could have been done!

ALSO, there are stores that request that it's left in the rooms...I don't know WHY, but yeah! There are other stores that people get confused with, because there's no rack around to leave anything at or because they are asked to put the stuff away themselves (which is not the way to go either...if people can't get it onto a rack in the entry of the rooms, WHY ON EARTH would they put anything away in a huge store like kohls????)

I am a clean person and pick up EVERYTHING I TRY ON...like another pp stated, it only takes 1 slob out of 100! That 1 person can really trash a place!

 

[Jex]

I'm a guy and have always took the items back that I didn't want and put them back where I found them. I always assumed this was normal, but it appears that I am just not lazy.

 

[StephyDee]

I'm a guy and have always took the items back that I didn't want and put them back where I found them. I always assumed this was normal, but it appears that I am just not lazy.

If only there were more people like you!

haha but seriously, you're very clean and neat compared to what happens out there in the wild world of retail.

 

[Kteacher]

I also work at a large national retailer. We got slammed over the weekend! I was pulled out of the jewelry dept. to help clean up in misses. I was folding tables full of clothes, and women were coming by and pushing the folded clothes onto the floor so they could sit down on the tablesThe fitting rooms were literally disgusting. Besides the clothes on the floor, inside out, rolled uo into balls, people left their trash-food remnants, empty coffee cups, and worse.I tried to get into the fitting rooms to empty then out, but I risked bodily harm from women who thought I was "cutting the line",so I gave up

 

[NHdisneylover]

I think the primary responsibility for this IS with the consumer. There is no reason to leave items laying around on the floor. I generally put things back where they came from--or at the very least hang or fold (as best I can--much to my mother's chagrin I seem to be lacking the meticulous folding gene) and place on the provided rack or shelf. If there is no provided rack or shelf that is my cue that the items should be returned to their places for sure.
That said, some stores do a better job cleaning up after the slobs than other. I tend to think that Kohl's has lower prices partly because they do not spend money to have one 9or more) people looking after the dressing rooms at all times. I know when I go in there that it is likely to be messier than somewhere that always has someone on duty at the changing rooms.

I don't shop at Kohl's (or similar), but the places I tend to shop at don't often have racks outside the fitting rooms and you're almost encouraged to just leave the clothes you don't want in the room after you leave. Now I don't usually leave them on the floor, I'll usually put the item back on the hanger, but if there's not hanger for an item I'm trying on and no seat, then, no issues with folding it and leaving it on the floor.

How are you "almost encouraged" to leave the clothes in the rooms? Have you been asked to? I have never felt enoucarged by staff to leave clothes on the floor. On rare occasions, when I have had to make a quick exit (toddler meltdown or suddenly ill child) I have still managed to at least hang a shirt on a hook in the dressing room, or draped on another hanger or over the door even--but to leave it on the floor if you cannot take it back to the table you got it from does not seem like what a store would encourage at all. I relaly am curious and not trying to be snarky--maybe we shop at very different places and the staff want you to leave things in the room and on the floor if not hung. I am just wondering what indicated this to you

 

[monarchsfan16]

While the ladies are definitely pigs that left that mess, why are the changing rooms allowed to stay in that shape?! One or two like that, I can understand, but Kohl's should have employees checking in on the rooms so that does not happen.

I don't work for Kohls, I work for a different department store and there are a few factors. The major one is the consumer. If people didn't leave a mess, it wouldn't be an issue Likewise, there are days when the fitting rooms are particularly busy. It may be that EVERY time the associate goes into the fitting room, every stall is occupied, so cleaning it out is not an option. And no, there is not time in our day for us to just stand in the fitting room waiting for people to come out of a stall so we can clean it out. There's also this tendency that people seem to have. If a fitting room is messy, they'll take it as an invitation to add to the mess.

And of course, there's one other major factor: understaffing. I've had days where I did not leave the register for 2 hours due to the timing of customers. Unfortunately, those are the same days that I was alone in the department. The first priority is accepting people's money. Plus it's a customer service thing; customers would rather not wait in line at the register while the associate is MIA. And on some of those really busy days, no it is not possible to pull people from other departments to pick up the slack.