*snickers*
Jul. 9th, 2008 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgRetail? Well, yeah - it might ruin you for life....
The ranks of obsessive folders have swelled in recent years as a generation of Americans has done stints as clothing-store clerks. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, annual nonsupervisory employment in clothing and clothing-accessory stores grew to nearly 1.3 million workers in 2007, up nearly 20% from 1990. Gap Inc. says it has trained "hundreds of thousands" of Gap store employees in the art of folding since the late 1980s.
[Joanne Ross-MacLeod]
Along the way, legions of retail grads have spent countless hours neatly folding T-shirts and jeans and stacking them on tables and shelves. Now, their peculiar idea of perfection is straining marriages and leading to bizarre behavior ranging from buying clothes based on an item's foldability to straightening up sloppy displays while shopping.
Boy, they've never watched morning television in Japan. I'm just saying.
The ranks of obsessive folders have swelled in recent years as a generation of Americans has done stints as clothing-store clerks. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, annual nonsupervisory employment in clothing and clothing-accessory stores grew to nearly 1.3 million workers in 2007, up nearly 20% from 1990. Gap Inc. says it has trained "hundreds of thousands" of Gap store employees in the art of folding since the late 1980s.
[Joanne Ross-MacLeod]
Along the way, legions of retail grads have spent countless hours neatly folding T-shirts and jeans and stacking them on tables and shelves. Now, their peculiar idea of perfection is straining marriages and leading to bizarre behavior ranging from buying clothes based on an item's foldability to straightening up sloppy displays while shopping.
Boy, they've never watched morning television in Japan. I'm just saying.
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Date: 2008-07-09 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-07-09 09:23 pm (UTC)I sent it to a friend who worked at JCPenney and Sears during high school in college.
She was in stitches because she only recently kicked her folding obsession.
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Date: 2008-07-10 02:18 am (UTC)Now I can be obsessive over electronics... oh, wait, I was there already. :D
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:08 am (UTC)Bu then, I have a walk-in closet and not really much in the way of clothes...
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Date: 2008-07-10 01:04 pm (UTC)