Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Be Careful of the Dress Hags


Ok this post might be a bit negative but I will do my best to keep it light.  My dignity went out the went out the window long ago.  I have a job where I literally make 13 cents and hour - seriously 6 year old kids in turn of the century sweat shop textile mills made more than I do.  But you know what - I am doing what I need to do, I am surviving and I am taking care of myself.  It is the slow season for retail so I pick up hours in any department that I can, again dignity is a long lost concept for me.  Today I was schilling women's dresses.  I have no problem with this but I do have a problem with the bitches in that area, or more to the point they have a problem with me!  I get that we all have numbers which adds to the pressure but what these so called "ladies" have not figured out is that regardless if we individually get 150% or 350% of our sales goal, we at the end of the day we are still just making 13 fucking cents an hour.  In men's we work together so we can all make a good individual goal instead of one person having 350% and the other having 25%.  It is called teamwork.  Long story short if I even looked at the register today then I was pounced by the lionesses. Seriously, again we are not on commission.  If I help 5 women pick out flouncy overpriced dresses in an hour or 50, well I am still only getting paid 13 cents for that hour.  End of the day I was glad it was only a 4 hour shift.  I smiled at all the my bitchey coworkers, said yes and ok to every insane piece of BS they said to me and privately did my eye rolls as I picked up the 15,0000 articles of clothing off the floor (what is the deal with women's clothing that it is not made to be on a hanger???)  I did help one lady by veering her away from this atrocious peach cotillion dress into a sharp and sleek black and white number that  was so much more flattered her age and figure.  With that one dress I made my sales goal and so had no problem staying clear from the hags at the register (serious why would a customer buy a $500 dress from a female sales clerk that has no make up on or could not even run a comb through her hair that morning?).  It is very often that woman say they do not like to work with other women -- I kinda get that now.  Its all good - I made the pennies I needed today and damn that lady looked good in the black and white dress.  She even gave me a hug!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You know I know all about bitchy co-workers. I love this story - and i'm sure the lady who bought the black and white dress would love it too!