Coat check suckiness

[Ree]

They're technically customers...

I did a coat check tonight with volunteers from the youth organization that I chaperon and advise. It's about the 5th one we have done so far this season., and I couldn't care if we ever do another one.

Yet again, people managed to act with pure suck.

We give them a damn ticket when we take their coat, yet, without fail by the end of the evening, we get at least 10 people, maybe more, who come up to the counter and point and say, "I can't find my ticket, but my coat is somewhere over there," or they will just point to a coat and say, "That's my coat right there."

FFS people, how bloody hard is it to just put the claim ticket in a safe place and hand it over to get your stuff?

How the hell do we know it's their coat. They're drunk. Just because they say it's their coat doesn't mean anything. Drunk people take home the wrong coat all the time. That's why we have a coat check.

Then, they get all pissy if we take a few seconds longer to find their coat.
Excuse me, but we work in shifts. The early shift went home, and we weren't here when you came in, so we don't know exactly where every coat is. We have to read the numbers on the hangers.

Also, did you notice that the people working behind the counter are all between the ages of 11 and 17?

Did you notice the sign on the counter by the tip bucket that says, "Thank you for supporting (name of youth group)"
That's a clue that you're dealing with teen volunteers.

Some days, I just hate people.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I was once one of those idiots who lost his coat check ticket.

It was at the Holiday Folk Fair in Milwaukee. My junior high did a bus trip there every year.

I left my coat at the coat check, put my ticket in my pocket--and couldn't find it again when I went to pick up my coat later that afternoon.

Fortunately, I was able to get it back when I described the baseball cap I had in the pocket. I was really worried for a moment there that I'd either have to return home without my expensive coat my parents had just bought for me, or I'd miss the bus and have to call my parents to come to downtown Milwaukee to pick me up.

Now, if I ever use a coat check, I stick the ticket in a pocket of my wallet I don't need to get into. That way I know it won't fall out.

[EvilEmpryss]

Guys are lucky -- no matter what they get dressed for, chances are that their outfit will have pockets. Coat checkers at fancy parties I've been to tend to get shocked when I pull my tag out of the bustline of my dress.

Sorry, but women's dress just don't come with pockets, and I never carry a purse to anyplace I'll have to leave it unattended (like at a dance). I only have two places I can stash the ticket, and it's hard for me to balance long enough to hike up my dress to get the ticket out of the top of my stockings.

[Chromatix]

I only have two places I can stash the ticket, and it's hard for me to balance long enough to hike up my dress to get the ticket out of the top of my stockings.

[EvilEmpryss]

Okay, it took me a while to get dressed up and get my hubby to take the picture, but here you go:

[Peppergirl]

How the hell do we know it's their coat. They're drunk. Just because they say it's their coat doesn't mean anything. Drunk people take home the wrong coat all the time. That's why we have a coat check.

This.



Just one to add to the list of things drunk people can't do properly.

But yeah, assholes. How did you guys do on tips other than the drunken idiots?

[Ree]

We got about $60 in tips on an event with over 120 people.

Some tipped, some didn't.
Some tipped well, others threw in a few coins.

There were about 4 pennies and some loose nickels and dimes in the bottom of the tip jar, so somebody must have just grabbed a handful of change and tossed it in.

[Peppergirl]

There were about 4 pennies and some loose nickels and dimes in the bottom of the tip jar, so somebody must have just grabbed a handful of change and tossed it in.

Classy....

[AdminAssistant]

There were about 4 pennies and some loose nickels and dimes in the bottom of the tip jar, so somebody must have just grabbed a handful of change and tossed it in.

Well, speaking for myself, whenever I see the Salvation Army bucket or other similar type thing, I tend to just grab whatever change I have and put it in there. But I wouldn't do that at a coat check, although I've never been to a thing fancy enough to have a coat check.

[Ree]

A tip is a tip, I guess.

Even the pennies add up.

What bugs me are the ones who keep coming about 5 or 6 times in a night, and having us pull their coat so they can go out and smoke, and then we have to hang it up again, yet they don't drop a cent in the tip jar.

[blas]

Drunk people can and do grab the wrong coats at times. Some drunk people are theives as well (not sure if they are when they are sober or if it's just a drunken daze thing).

Last winter at the bar, some drunk chick went behind the bar and grabbed as many coats as she could and tried to wander off with them.

My boyfriend and I noticed her taking off with them....he chased her down and actually ripped his right out of her hands and screamed at her "What the fuck are you doing you stupid bitch?!" and she was so drunk and so out of it that she didn't even blink or respond....she just dropped all the jackets and walked away!

[Magpie]

I must confess to having not tipped the coat check guy at the holiday party on the weekend. We discovered that we didn't have any change with us after we arrived, I think that I've got a new rule, for that party (only place I go with a coat check) we need to carry change now.

[Green_Fairy]

and here i quote a customer, "you get paid to do you job...why should i tip you?"

now, i understand that coat checking was a volunteer thing...but maybe the people didn't?

[Dips]

I don't get it either, Ree. It's a shame that people would attend a charity event and not have an ounce of charity in their souls.

[Kristev]

A shame, yes, but hardly unexpected.