Someone had a bowlful of Sucky Charms!

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I may just have to make a graphic for this new Sucky Charms product...

[strawbabies]

I get back to my station, and the next customer in line is her again, with a bolt of interfacing. Lovely. I call her up.

SC: I want two half-yard cuts of this.
ME: We're not supposed to do multiple cuts from the same bolt, ma'am.
SC: (snottily) I don't care, that's what

Out of curiosity, why are you not allowed to do multiple cuts from one bolt?

[Jay 2K Winger]

Out of curiosity, why are you not allowed to do multiple cuts from one bolt?

IIRC, it's kind of like doing the work for the customer. The customer is going to need X pieces of fabric for whatever project they're doing. So they ask the employee to cut them X pieces (or possibly X+n pieces) for them, roughly to the size they'll need.

This is extra work for the employee, possibly when the store is quite busy, and the whole point of going to a fabric store is you're doing the project yourself. If you want someone else to do the work for you, you commission someone (e.g., spark) to do it for you.

[EricKei]

That's kinda what I figured. If a particularly bad EW sees you doing 2 cuts from one piece fo fabric, they'll just assume that it's perfectly fine to do the same for them...and then present you with a list of ten different cuts, with quantities of each, all from the same fabric.