"And the worst is when they hover outside of a fitting room and ask you if the clothes fit right and how they feel"

what!?!?! This has happened to you??

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refrain from asking customers questions unless they ask for help first.

And then some customers complain that the employee didn't ask the questions. Whatever the employee does is going to annoy somebody.

I agree with you though - sometimes I just want to browse to kill time and the employee asking me questions makes me feel like I am wasting his time since I do not intend to buy anything.

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And the worst is when they hover outside of a fitting room and ask you if the clothes fit right and how they feel.

I do not see a problem here - I can say "this is a bit too small, please bring me one size up" or something so I don't have to leave the dressing room. This is especially true for smaller shops where I would need to ask the employee to get a different size anyway and is probably even more applicable in my country where it seems that clothing sizes are not consistent so it's very likely that the first attempt will not fit, unless the employee has a good eye and can select the right size. Some times maybe I'll even ask the employee how it looks on me.

On 10/22/2019 at 8:28 AM, PirateGhostPony said:

"And the worst is when they hover outside of a fitting room and ask you if the clothes fit right and how they feel"

 

what!?!?! This has happened to you??

Oh yeah.  Lol.

On 10/22/2019 at 2:39 PM, Pentium100 said:

I do not see a problem here - I can say "this is a bit too small, please bring me one size up" or something so I don't have to leave the dressing room. This is especially true for smaller shops where I would need to ask the employee to get a different size anyway and is probably even more applicable in my country where it seems that clothing sizes are not consistent so it's very likely that the first attempt will not fit, unless the employee has a good eye and can select the right size. Some times maybe I'll even ask the employee how it looks on me.

Wellll.... see... I'm a really private person, so it just makes me feel extremely embarrassed.  With my social anxiety, it makes me really uncomfortable to try to explain to a stranger on the spot how clothes fit.  I just want to think about it by myself.  What grinds my gears the most is when I politely tell them I'm fine and don't need help, but they don't take a hint.  I would never be rude irl, but sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I was eccentric enough to say something like, "Look, I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful, but the first time that I said I was fine was code for F*CK OFF." 

12 hours ago, Justin_Case001 said:

What grinds my gears the most is when I politely tell them I'm fine and don't need help, but they don't take a hint.

In that case I agree with you. Though the employee is in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation - they may continue to hover around you after you told them to go away because somebody explicitly told them to go away and then complained that they did just that.

And who is more likely to complain to a manager - someone who wanted to interact with the employee (or changed their mind, or just stupid and don't know what they want) or someone like you who (from your posts) does not enjoy interacting with people and tries to avoid them?

Well don't worry about me. I don't like to talk to customers. They tell us to greet everybody all the time and ask if we can help but I know I hate that as a customer. If I want something I'll ask, other than that leave me alone.