The good stuff

So far every entry has been what I hate about Abercrombie. So much so that someone may wonder why I even work there. Here's why:



I love being apart of the design. For some reason opening was my favorite shift. I love cleaning the store before everyone gets there, and arranging the clothes on the shelves so that they look so perfect that customers are scared to touch them, because they might mess up the display.


Here's my favorite part: I know this sounds like another annoying thing about Abercrombie, but every time the floor changes, and we have to change the clothes on the forms; the store was sent pages detailing the exact outfit that each form should wear right down to the undershirt that cant even be seen and the pair of jeans. These pages also show how the clothes should be worn on the form and because I am on impact I usually got scheduled to work for those shifts. I love it.

The first time I was scheduled to do this I had also been scheduled the night before to "prep all of the clothes." The night before I was scheduled to help change all of the forms and put new clothes out on the floor I left Abercrombie at 11 p.m. after spending the nine hours prior in classes. I barely made it home and at the time didn't realize what I was going to be doing the next morning.

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The next morning I woke up at 7 a.m. when I was supposed to be at work. I sped to the store where ( as I mentioned in my last article) my manager was completely unphased by the fact that I was almost half an hour late.
she handed me sheets of paper and showed me the racks of clothes that I spent hours the night before organizing and steaming. "take the other clothes off the ones in Womens one, and put those on them," I looked around at the empty store at the forms I was going to be redoing. The ones that customers would look at for months, and admire and think about buying the same outfit because of the way the sweaters and T-shirts hung on each form.
Those 6 hours that morning makes all of the weird and negative things about Abercrombie worth it.