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Well, its been a few weeks since I started at the Dry Cleaners', I figure I should give some updates.
So far, nearly 0 contact with Customers. I greet them and stuff and help them with their stuff to their car, but most of the time I'm in the back pressing pants. I can even listen to my Ipod in one ear while I work!
I wish I had my camera though, to show off my new 'scars' on my hand. I touched a pipe (our hot water is MUCH hotter than house water. My boss said our steam is 1000 degrees. And I touched a pipe
)
So I discovered a few things about having my hands down (mostly men's) other's trousers:
Pleated pants are of the devil. They should be outlawed. You have to line up the leg-seam with the pleated part at the top. If they're lined, they may as well have 666 stamped on them.
Seamless pants are frustrating as they're the kind that like to 'ripple' and bunch up just before going under the iron, and most are made of fabrics that will ALWAYS show that little wrinkle!
Our waistband-steamer thing (You stick the pants on it, and it holds them open and fills them with steam) can take up to 4 foot circumference in pants.
Liners are evil.
Today the boss had to remove blood stains from a blouse. There was enough blood on that blouse I wondered if we were tampering with Police Evidence.
The pant-pressing machine (Think a waffle iron) does not like me, and keeps trying to eat me.
We have this little hose like a tire-inflater hose that puts out hot steam or just hot air. It has enough pressure to cause some cloths to disintegrate (I have not fortunately caused this, but the boss DID warn me)
I also decided to name this thread Pants Origami, because creasing various styles of pants is a lot like trying to do advanced origami I think. Thus... Pants Origami.
I also kept losing my temper at pants the past week. The boss noticed when I nearly started to cry cause one set just WOULD NOT Crease right.
I'm much better today. Only swore at one pair.
Btw, note to everyone: When we take over the world, let's pass the following laws:
Pleated pants are forbidden. So are creaseless pants.
If you consistently wet yourself, you are not allowed to wear DRy Clean ONly pants. Dry clean only chemicals do not take out the pee smell.
So there you have it. My first few weeks behind the scenes at a dry cleaners'
So far, nearly 0 contact with Customers. I greet them and stuff and help them with their stuff to their car, but most of the time I'm in the back pressing pants. I can even listen to my Ipod in one ear while I work!
I wish I had my camera though, to show off my new 'scars' on my hand. I touched a pipe (our hot water is MUCH hotter than house water. My boss said our steam is 1000 degrees. And I touched a pipe
)So I discovered a few things about having my hands down (mostly men's) other's trousers:
Pleated pants are of the devil. They should be outlawed. You have to line up the leg-seam with the pleated part at the top. If they're lined, they may as well have 666 stamped on them.
Seamless pants are frustrating as they're the kind that like to 'ripple' and bunch up just before going under the iron, and most are made of fabrics that will ALWAYS show that little wrinkle!
Our waistband-steamer thing (You stick the pants on it, and it holds them open and fills them with steam) can take up to 4 foot circumference in pants.
Liners are evil.
Today the boss had to remove blood stains from a blouse. There was enough blood on that blouse I wondered if we were tampering with Police Evidence.
The pant-pressing machine (Think a waffle iron) does not like me, and keeps trying to eat me.
We have this little hose like a tire-inflater hose that puts out hot steam or just hot air. It has enough pressure to cause some cloths to disintegrate (I have not fortunately caused this, but the boss DID warn me)
I also decided to name this thread Pants Origami, because creasing various styles of pants is a lot like trying to do advanced origami I think. Thus... Pants Origami.
I also kept losing my temper at pants the past week. The boss noticed when I nearly started to cry cause one set just WOULD NOT Crease right.
I'm much better today. Only swore at one pair.
Btw, note to everyone: When we take over the world, let's pass the following laws:
Pleated pants are forbidden. So are creaseless pants.
If you consistently wet yourself, you are not allowed to wear DRy Clean ONly pants. Dry clean only chemicals do not take out the pee smell.
So there you have it. My first few weeks behind the scenes at a dry cleaners'
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