Ditto.
25/f
Age: 35
I hang them back up, and if there is not a rack for unwanted clothes outside the fitting rooms I will put them back (or close to) where I got them originally. It’s just civil. I do admit, though that I have found treasure* left in the fitting room by lazier women, so I guess I won’t bitch too much about people who don’t re-hang.
*Treasure being defined here as the last (or only) of a particularly awesome article of clothing in the right size for me. It has happened on more than one occasion where I have actually purchased not the item I took into the fitting room, but the one left there by a prior tenant.
I would put them back on the hangers or refold them. I try to match the clothes size w/ the hanger size, but otherwise I don’t pay much attention to getting everything back to its original state, I just make sure its has all its parts and isn’t wrinkled and on the floor. If there’s already a few things on the floor I may hang those up too. If there’s no attendent and no rack, sometimes I leave the clothes neatly in the dressing room, or sometimes I take it back to the floor where I got it from. Unless its a small shop I don’t think returning to the floor is mandatory, I assume better department stores would rather you let them take care of it.
30, got this from my mom, although she tends to ‘re-floor’ more than I do.
I put the clothes back on hangers and either put it on the rack, or give it to the sales clerk (especially stuff that was folded in the display instead of hung up.) In a small store I might return it to the rack on the sales floor. One exception: I can never get bras back on their complicated little hangers, so I usually hand them back to the clerk and explain that I can never do it neatly and attractively, and would they mind???
I don’t remember learning this so it must have been from my mom’s example when I was little.
Caveat: I currently work a PT 2nd job in retail 
I personally make note of how things are folded/hung & refold/hang them that way again. If an attendant is available, I will give them to the attendant. If not, I look for a “staging” area to put them, or I put them back where I found them.
When I am working at the store, I prefer the clients just give me back the clothes; most people don’t hang them properly or put them back in the wrong place and it just makes double work for me.
I’m 46.
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Same here. But I think I do this because I wait on people all day long and the whole “cleaning up after these damn people” can wear you down. I try not to do that to other folks.
Boy doper: I put it back where I got it, unless I can’t figure out how to fold it back up the way it was. In that case, there’s usually a rack for the clothes you don’t want so I hang it up there. I don’t leave things in the changeroom.
I can’t remember what my girlfriend does. But I do know that it involves everything hanging up, not left on the ground.
My grandmother worked at various clothing stores for years, and the one thing she dreaded was folding and hanging all the clothes back up at the end of the day. People would try on an outfit, drop it on the floor, get another one, lather, rinse, repeat. This has probably changed somewhat with the increase in security I see at most stores.
I always fold the clothes back (I can never get them as good as they were, though) and rehang them.
I’m a 50 year old male.
I rehang them, or refold them if they were folded, and either return them to their rack/shelf or to the returns rack in the dressing room. I do not leave them in the stall, since this makes more work for staff and may make people think the stall is still in use. I was raised generally not to make more work for people and to contribute to my society in small ways like being responsible and courteous, picking up after myself, offering assistance, etc.
ETA: Female, mid-40s, Jewish (i.e., good acts matter now, not in an afterlife)
Ok, I guess I have enough responses to post my own.
I always rehang/refold. I don’t necessarily remove the clothing from the room as many small shops don’t have a staging area. However, I would never dream of leaving them in a heap.
That being said, there are, apparently, lots of women (I don’t know about men) who just can’t be arsed to hang anything up. I just started a part time job at Benetton (50% discount - YEEESSSS!!!) and I’m amazed at how many women leave stuff in a heap. I thought perhaps because Benetton is high end-ish the women that shop there are used to someone picking up for them. But then I thought “Wait a minute I shop there!*” and I wouldn’t dream of leaving my stuff in a big mess.
Further, I used to work in a ladies consignment shop and sometimes women would leave stuff in a heap there. One time I wasn’t working but just stopped by to check on my account or something (I sell clothes there too) and watched one of the owners give a woman shit and watch her until she had hung up every piece of clothing because Crystal had busted her leaving with a huge mess in the change room. This was hilarious - Crystal in her best matron voice “How dare you leave this mess?!?! Do you think your mother works here?!?! Those belong to other people!?!?! Shame on you!?!?!” - I’m guessing that the woman never returned to the store and I’m guessing that none of the owners cared much - someone who disrespects another person’s belongings like that is not a good customer.
So, I guess I was wondering if anyone would own up to being a “dumper” and if so, what reason they would give for dumping.
*This is how I got the job, actually. The manager has become a good friend since I shop there so much and she said “Ya know G, you’re here so much, we could pay you. You’d get your clothes at half price.” So now one or two nights a week I’m hawking funky Italian duds!
I put things back the way I got them and give the ones I’m not taking to the attendant. If there isn’t an attendant, I put the clothes in what seems like the “put the clothes you’re not taking here” area. I’ve never been to a store that didn’t have such an area by their changing rooms.
26 years old, female, and I guess I picked it up from my mom.
Ditto, except age 52.
This is me, except I’m 41.
Some people do, though I doubt any would admit it.
I worked at Sears one spring/summer/fall, in the ladies section. I can remember some days where there was piles of clothing scattered helter skelter absolutely everywhere. One evening I remember we had all the people sheduled to work with me in that section call in, so I was alone dealing with the dressing room and floor as well as the cash. Of course it was a very busy night (and ladieswear is a BIG section).
We were two days after that cleaning up. This was compounded by people coming in over that period of time, but that wasn’t quite as bad as that initial pile, which took up the whole bench (for seating) in the main area of the dressing room, followed by 4 dressing rooms full of clothing (enough clothing that I’m not sure how people got in to try things on). VERY few were hung back up, and at least half of it was on the floor. We’re talking enough clothes for a respactable wardrobe 3 times over.
It was generally required that you stay until the dressing rooms were cleared. Thankfully one of the managers came by, took one look in and said ‘No, just go home.’ I wasn’t going to stay anyway, but I was glad I didn’t have to face a reprimand the following day.
So, any speculation as to who the dumpers are? I have a former friend and she and I were out shopping and she left her stuff in a heap. I went in her change room and started picking stuff up and hanging it (because I would be embarassed to be associated with a dumper). She said, rather sneeringly “Why are you doing their job?” while looking at the sales staff. I said “Jesus! Because I wasn’t born in a barn?!?!” I guess you can see why we’re not friends anymore. (Well, not because of that one incident, but it was indicitave of her whole mentality.)
Anyone else know a dumper?
This is what I do exactly.
Age: 38
Why: I don’t really know. My Mother and Grandmother both do this, so I assume it was a “monkey see, monkey do” thing.
I hang them up & leave them on the rack outside the rooms, if there is one. If not, I’ll put them away if I can remember where I got them, or give them to a salesperson if I can’t.
I’m 26.
ARGH!
I always rehang mine on the hanger, and either put it back where I got it or hang it on the racks meant for that just outside the changing rooms. But those drop and run folks are out there; working in a consignment shop taught me that. Hell, there were folks who would pull clothes off the racks, off the hangers, not try them on or anything, and simply drop the item on the floor!
The changing rooms are situated right next to the sales counter, however, and I have caught some people red-handed - just exiting the changing rooms as I’m heading in with my Windex to clean the mirrors, and I slide open the curtains to find a disaster. Some of them had the decency to* look* embarrassed, however, not one of them, though looking sheepish enough, ever offered to help pick up the mess they made. Some people would simply act as if they didn’t see me standing there in disbelief at the mess. Most seemed to believe we were “paid to do that stuff”. Yeah, to an extent, but holy cow, people.
Sometimes the manager would ask me to put up a polite and “cheerful sounding” sign instructing people on how to pick up after themselves. It didn’t come across that sarcastic, of course, but when you took away all the niceties, that’s what it came down to. Not surprisingly, that always seemed to make things worse. :smack:
I fold or hang them, but I don’t put them back on the racks - I mean, I know I can’t fold a sweater as nice as they do, or with the paper in it, or whatever. If there’s a rack by the changing room I put it there, but if not I leave it in the room rather than put it back (probably wrong.) Just like somebody else upthread, I’m also a librarian. 
If only
Granted, I work in a small “boutique” style store, but we have more than our fair share of what I call “locusts” - women who take mounds (our fault - we don’t limit the number of items you can take in) of clothes, try them on, and then walk out on their way to the bridge luncheon they were due to attend now that they’ve killed enough time decimating our store
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