YOU KNOW YOU WORK(ED) AT THE GAP WHEN…
YOU KNOW YOU WORK(ED) AT THE GAP WHEN…
Note: Be sure to read until the end and check on the six items I have added…
1) after your third shift, you already thought of quitting.
2) you know that a “One Minute Meeting” doesn’t really last for one minute.
3) the only 2 things preventing you from quitting are a) your friends and b) the 50% discount.
4) you’ve mastered the art of plastering the fakest (yet surprisingly seemingly genuine) smile to your clients
5) “Hi!” becomes the most over-used word in YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.
6) you can recall rejoicing and jumping up and down with glee upon hearing that the company has decided to supersede the old ibm cashes.
7) you can recall kind of missing the old ibm cashes whenever the seemingly amazing terminal is being retarded 
you don’t see the point of having to change your cash password every 3 months
9) you first hated 7-4 shifts and thought that it was an ungodly hour to be working at, but later, have come to love it and wondered how you could have possibly hated it/lived without it in the first place
10) having a 7-hour shaft sucks. that and a 3 hour and 45 mins shaft as well.
(Jullyane Del Rosario/Ivana Khadoury)
11) all of your co-workers are on facebook (Claudia Carvajal)
12) you know that “rep” is not “rap” mispelled
13) you get the sudden urge to insert/tuck tags in their respective shirts when you enter another store.
(Wesley Derequito)
14) you find yourself singing to the songs on the cd/soundtrack despite your deep DEEP hatred for the latter
15) after hearing one song, you start to sing/hum the next track before it even starts to play
16) you want to smack people when they go in and out of the store, because it ruins your conversion
17) you hate being the one to place things during shipment/opening of the boxes, because placing = vomiting… literally.
18) you’ve lost your badge/nametag at least twice
19) you’ve managed to prick/hurt yourself with the old blue square badges (THEY’RE POINTY AND DANGEROUS I TELL YOU)
20) you know that the application of the new return policy of sending clients mail certificates will never work/happen.
21) you’ve seen people return things that are older than your 5-year-old cousin
22) you’ve seen the biggest boxes that only had a pair of socks in them during shipment
23) down to this day, you still have no idea how to insert the roll in the markdown gun.
24) you realize how blind clients are when they’re having the hardest time using the terminal (cuz they use their fingers).
all the while the PEN is right there, at their disposal and literally an inch away from the terminal
25) you realize how blind AND stupid clients are when they have the pen in their hands and YET, STILL use their fingers on the terminal
26) you’ve developed a “gaydar” due to the fact that 75% of the guys you work with are gay (and the 25% who are straight are metrosexual and/or most likely taken)
27) you develop OCD due to perfect/board folding
28) you get angsty when you’re looking for a manager to do your bagcheck during your very short 15/30
29) you’ve quit at least once.
30) …and yet, still came back for another go.
31) you don’t really care about today’s goal (unless the store doesn’t make it and they start cutting YOUR hours, only then will you start caring)
32) deny it as much as you’d like, you secretly love working at the gap.
33) you get retarded/cheap clients who ask you to find a 1.97 hat in the country and want it to be shipped to their house (in which the shipping costs twice the amount of the price of the hat — nice going, moron!).
(Vanisha Gokhool)
34) EATON CENTER EXCLUSIVE: the only reason you like the switch of floors is because you get to see/direct/talk to the guys looking for the mens floor (Vanisha Gokhool)
35) you list the songs off the soundtrack on a blank receipt and once you get home, you download them (Francesca Benedetti)
36) FOR GAP KIDS EMPLOYEES: you know two words for “fat”: plus and husky.
(Erika Tucker)
37) the magnets on the nametags are wayyyy too strong (you’ve managed to pinch your fingers with it more than once)
38) “YOU BE YOU” really means “you be you but with gap clothes”.
TYRANTS!
39) the lockers are way too small
40) note to the company: YOU CAN’T FIT 4 PEOPLE IN ONE LOCKER. YOU JUST CAN’T.
41) the titles “co-workers” and “good friends” are interchangeable
42) apparently, $4.99 costs too much for anything.
(Francesca Benedetti)
43) you’ll know your social security number for years to come.
(Jessie Dorélien)
44) FOR STOCK PPL: When you have 5 minutes left ’til your shift’s over and then someone asks you for a check and you answer “we don’t have any/sorry, i don’t have your check” without actually looking for it. (Webster S.
)
45) you start dreaming about postvoids.
(Christina Little)
46) your new favorite sentence becomes “sur articles sélectionées/on select items only” (Francesca Benedetti)
47) when the christmas soundtrack only arrives in january. awesomeness. THAT or the christmas CD comes in october…and they still put it on through to new-year (Jullyane Del Rosario/Samantha Watson)
48) you’ve answered a cell phone call in the fits/stock room and got away with it (Benny Augello)
49) when you start shopping for clothes during your shift (Benny Augello)
50) when you answer all of your phone calls with the line: “merci d’avoir appelé Gap(Kids/Baby) (enter store name here)… (insert your name here) à l’appareil. Comment puisse-je vous aider?” / “thank you for calling Gap(Kids/Baby) (insert store name here)… (insert your name here) speaking.
How may I help you?” (Francesca Benedetti)
51) you purely ask customers what size they’re looking for so they do NOT eff up your pile (Ivana Khadoury)
52) when you’ve invited every one of your past or present coworkers to join this group because you know they’ll all appreciate it as much as you do (Michelle Maher)
53) A LADDER IS NOT A CHAIR, PEOPLE. AND LEARN TO READ. IT SAYS “EMPLOYEES ONLY” ON THEM.
54) When you leave the Gap, you get really sad at the idea you won’t see your co-workers regularly anymore. I miss EVERYONE!!! (Francesca Benedetti) — We miss you too. xo.
(9541 staff)
55) You stand around and talk to friends until you hear the clicking of keys. You also dread managers that don’t wear the keys because you never know they’re coming.
(Julie Krupa/Sean Casey)
56) you use the “I can” statements in completely ridiculous ways (Meagan Mooney)
57) you want to staple things to clients’ foreheads and tell them to go to Zellers when they complain about prices because for SOME reason they think that you can actually do something about it (Stephanie Roy/Jullyane Del Rosario)
58) you need to get your manager’s permission for taking 15 min break and by the time you find a manager to get his permission you break is over.
(Farzad YY)
59) when you still have your name tag on after your shift.
(Stephanie Magyar)
60) you have a love-hate relationship with stylists. You love them when they buy 572948574305 items. The “hate” part comes when they return all 572948574305 things a week later.
(Alena Maingot/Jullyane Del Rosario)
61) you’re like 10 employees waiting at 11:59 next to the punch clock! (Anais Blanc-Pham)
62) you’re out with your friends and point out who’s wearing gap on the street: “That shirt’s from the Gap…. and she totally got it for $6.
99″ (Stephanie Magyar/Jullyane Del Rosario)
63) …and it’s actually come to the point where your friends (and your significant other) probably know the entire collection (Stephanie Magyar)
64) When you’re a Kids/Baby only store and customers come in looking for the REAL/REGULAR Gap–Like hello kids & babies aren’t real or regular?? It’s called ADULT people-learn the word! (Kris Kliche)
65) when you make an exception more than once for every single costumer.
(Clarisse Hh)
66) When u expect rewards points from your manager because he/she told you that it will be given to you at the end of your shift but then you finish your day with nothing and instead get rewarded some other day when you least expect it.
(Clarisse Hh)
67) when the term “Flow” is easier to spell than to accomplish (Clarisse Hh)
68) when you find over 5 GAP badges lying around in your room, your car, and in your bag… even after having not worked there in years! (Josef Serfaty)
69) When you are switched from Kids/Baby GAP to GAP and you ask a customer “How old are you?”… instead of what size they need.
(Julie Sandberg Witbeck)
70) When you fold your denim/jeans/bottom pants (even your pajamas) and “tuck” the CROTCH in! (KPVillacorta).
71) When you have songs from the Gap CDs in your iPOD and even make a playlist entitled GAP…or this could only be true if you are a hardcore nerdy like myself. =) (KPVillacorta).
72) When you have clothes which size is hardest to find because it is a popular size or your size is only available online but a customer returned “your size” so you are definitely buying it. This is most true for Petite/Tall size wearing Gap employee.
(KPVillacorta)
73) When you one of the first ones to find the best deals because you are part of the Markdown Team.
(KPVillacorta)
74) When you have mastered the art of “Shop Talk” because you can totally and confidently talk about anything to your customers under the sun. (KPVillacorta)
75) When you see strange people outside your store and think that you might have seen him/her somewhere already but you actually only have seen them come in your store…like a deja vu! (KPVillacorta)
76) When a song you like from the Gap CD comes up, you find yourself getting a “Hold” sticker, checking on the title on the music system, and then downloads it on your computer when you get home (Hello C.Chang!) (KPVillacorta)
