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Saw handsome Nordstrom employee (How much $$)

Dude was maybe 40 or late 30s, looked like George Clooney an...
Domesticated coral university half-breed
  10/02/13
70k
exhilarant cuckold famous landscape painting
  10/02/13
WTF how?
Domesticated coral university half-breed
  10/02/13
Commissions This assuming his looks sell shoes and he's ...
exhilarant cuckold famous landscape painting
  10/02/13
I doubt you could rack up 70k in commission selling fucking ...
Domesticated coral university half-breed
  10/02/13
yeah not 70k, but commission is 10% in ladies dept at macy's...
turquoise kink-friendly gaping nowag
  10/02/13
So during the busiest time of the year, he made like $200 in...
hairraiser flushed therapy
  10/02/13
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greedy house
  10/03/13
i mean yeah, not bad for a mall job. plus salary was like $7...
turquoise kink-friendly gaping nowag
  10/03/13
women have trouble making up their mind and like to browse a...
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  10/02/13
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Green space
  12/28/17
Him: george clooney of shoe sales U: Al Bundy of shoe sal...
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Pale Mind-boggling Locus
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I know someone in NYC who sells suits at Sak's and makes $15...
Dark theater
  10/03/13
Knew a girl in women's bags who legit made 10K a month. I've...
Galvanic jap
  05/01/15
This is probably about right. I used to work for Nordstrom, ...
High-end sanctuary
  10/03/13
the top guys in the top depts (mens suits and mens shoes) in...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/02/13
This was at one of those that you mentioned.
Domesticated coral university half-breed
  10/02/13
ITE the top guys are certainly making much less. also, you d...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/02/13
How can I become friends with this dude he seems chill and f...
Domesticated coral university half-breed
  10/02/13
offer to blow him, "no homo," in the dressing room
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  10/02/13
Shoe guy: Can I help you? OP: No, bro let me help you. ...
fragrant station boistinker
  10/02/13
You have to make sure you tell him it's "no homo" ...
Green space
  12/28/17
Just invite him out to drinks with you and a buddy.
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  01/05/23
Applied for a shoe dept job there in major downtown location...
Costumed multi-colored point
  10/02/13
tbf they were probably in some sort of exec training program...
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lol gtfo
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Green space
  12/28/17
Mens shoes or womens shoes? If the former, 75-90k is a de...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
so are you all sartorial and shit
mustard den friendly grandma
  10/03/13
no mafoofan
Unholy set
  10/03/13
Is it hard to get a seasonal job @ Nordstroms for the Holida...
comical pisswyrm
  10/03/13
The holidays are when this shit really kicks into high gear....
Unholy set
  10/03/13
whats the part. a handsome alpha bro?
mustard den friendly grandma
  10/03/13
depends on the department. couture or any high-end womens...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
180 summary. this shit is fascinating.
mustard den friendly grandma
  10/03/13
"Top Nordstrom sellers pull in six figure yearly salari...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/03/13
yeah, the top sales guys make the most of anybody. some dep...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
why the fuck would anyone wanna be an assistant manager? do ...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/03/13
Because they have decided to go career retail and want to be...
Hilarious garnet partner depressive
  10/03/13
There aren't assistant managers at Nordstrom. The hierarchy...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
what's your worst backstabbing story w coworkers? i've seen ...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
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That kind of thing was constant. This dumb skank in my depa...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
jfc, is there any policing mechanism or anyone you can compl...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/03/13
It's a shark pit. Eat or die.
Unholy set
  10/03/13
180
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Pale Mind-boggling Locus
  12/09/18
and what's the worst return you've done for someone?
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see above re: dumb skank. This older but well-dressed gen...
Unholy set
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18000000000 Bro any time you want to post more hilarious ...
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  10/03/13
you're my twin.
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  10/03/13
I have to dredge up the memories. It's been several years.
Unholy set
  10/03/13
No pressure man, you already posted so much awesome shit in ...
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  10/03/13
180. poast more stories, esp about security.
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any gay sex stories? no homo ofs.
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Not that I saw directly. About 60-80% of the male employee ...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
this is really interesting bro, tahnsk for posting what ...
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TONS of hot pussy. A few were "page X/hometown hotties...
Unholy set
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how woudl security stalk shoplifters? how long do peopel ...
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anywhere from a few weeks to decades. the lifers know their...
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  10/03/13
any idea how much the chicks working the womens handbag sect...
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  10/03/13
sort of related: longform story about neiman marcus private ...
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Pic of the Personal Shopper: http://fdluxe.dallasnews.com/fi...
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  10/03/13
LOL
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  10/03/13
Sorry to bust your bubble, but if the Nordstrom man you have...
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Absolute truth. Mens shoes is 33-50% gay. Womens is a lite...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
It was mens shoes, I asked to see the Allen Edmonds......I c...
Domesticated coral university half-breed
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This one suit guy at the Nordstrom's I grew up going to had ...
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  10/03/13
Prostitution occasionally occurred between the hotter sales ...
Unholy set
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1 fuckin' 80 Are you a rich lawyer/banker now or what
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You can probably guess my profession with some degree of acc...
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"There was also a transsexual in the department next to...
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  09/03/14
unnngggghhhhh. ever clutch?
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fuck no. why would i want some woman with a penis when i ca...
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Security. A store intercom page to "Remington Steele...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
Brother, I just want to thank you for taking the time to wri...
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  10/03/13
you're a 180 writer. are u an eng major or something?
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  10/03/13
I'm a lawyer. In other words, a professional writer. My ...
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do you know crossdressers when you see one? i tend to sho...
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No. The tranny in fragrance was an exception, because he wa...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
which store was this at again ? (xo poster)
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The Floor Bathroom (And Why Never To Use It) Part One ...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
180, but jfc, what shithole store were you in? i've mostly b...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/03/13
I've heard stories similar to this from other Nordstroms, ev...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
180
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  10/03/13
180^180 This entire thread was great, but this is fucking...
180 Pit Cuck
  10/04/13
Holy shit
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  12/09/18
If people return shit how do they get the commission back if...
Gay Temple
  10/03/13
Then: it was taken out of the next paycheck. There was noth...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
moar on uii scams pls. this is amazing stuff.
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  10/03/13
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  10/04/13
Any tips on how to succeed in BIGSHOE?
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  10/03/13
Know your product. Those shoe guys really had to understand...
Unholy set
  10/03/13
(Al Bundy)
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180
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180 thread thanks to nordy poaster
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Will resume poasting ITT probably Tuesday. Upcoming feature...
Unholy set
  10/04/13
Thank You Brother, you are both a gentleman and a scholar.
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  10/04/13
will keep on bumping, this is the best threads on XO in YEAR...
mustard den friendly grandma
  10/04/13
wow you are great.
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Vigorous Twinkling Office
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bump for nordy
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  10/04/13
The Floor Bathroom, Part Two The phone call came ten minu...
Unholy set
  10/10/13
wow holy shit.i dunno whether to give this a 180 or a 120. t...
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  10/10/13
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MOAR PLZ Share us your wisdom about return scams and Prol...
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The Evolution of Return Scams, Part One: My First Time SE...
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180
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180^180. moar. what'd the mrg say to you, if anything...
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  10/11/13
"You're not in trouble, because we tell you to take any...
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  10/11/13
Will I get away with returning shirts I bought last year (No...
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  10/11/13
Most likely. Your situation will be very close to the subje...
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  10/11/13
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180 Pit Cuck
  10/12/13
Thank you brother
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Return Scams, Part Two: Frank Talk She was six foot six a...
Unholy set
  10/14/13
Am I the first person to 180 this post? What is wrong with x...
180 Pit Cuck
  10/14/13
1 fucking 80. keep this coming.
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  10/14/13
180 can you please write a post about the cute chicks that w...
Domesticated coral university half-breed
  10/14/13
Why would it have been a pain to just tell her to go away?
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Have you ever had a 6'6" black tranny who knows the sto...
Unholy set
  10/16/13
rofl
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  10/23/13
If the Nordstrom return policy is so generous would it be po...
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  10/15/13
You've almost figured out the UII scam.
Unholy set
  10/16/13
Return Scams, Part Three: Why UIIs Came To Be If you’ve b...
Unholy set
  10/16/13
great thread. can you opine on adjustments? some employees s...
aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate
  10/16/13
I can't opine on markdown adjustments. I don't remember eve...
Unholy set
  10/16/13
Best one yet. This is now UNEXO World Heritage Thread.
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  10/16/13
"The smartest (and most time-blessed) scammer of all ge...
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  10/16/13
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  10/24/13
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MOAR PLZ. I have been waiting for weeks to hear about Prole ...
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  10/23/13
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Unholy set
  02/08/18
incredible epic thread
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  09/02/14
6 figures possible for top sales people
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holy fuck, it's been 13 months. sorry brethren. as soon as...
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  11/20/14
180 Knowing that this thread is still alive deserves a 18...
180 Pit Cuck
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  02/29/16
where are we on this project
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once again, it completely dropped off my radar and I barely ...
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  07/27/17
I hope the inspiration has not totally evaporated ... dig de...
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bump for the suit-forgetter
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180est thread I've seen on XO.
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  07/27/17
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Fantastic thread
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LOL thank god i no longer work at a nordstrom
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Date: October 2nd, 2013 8:24 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

Dude was maybe 40 or late 30s, looked like George Clooney and was charming as fuck, how much do you think he banks? Was hanging out by the shoe section.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24158340)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 8:26 PM
Author: exhilarant cuckold famous landscape painting

70k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24158346)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 8:26 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

WTF how?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24158352)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 8:27 PM
Author: exhilarant cuckold famous landscape painting

Commissions

This assuming his looks sell shoes and he's a non manager

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24158359)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 8:28 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

I doubt you could rack up 70k in commission selling fucking shoes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24158365)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:06 PM
Author: turquoise kink-friendly gaping nowag

yeah not 70k, but commission is 10% in ladies dept at macy's so i'm assuming about the same in nstrom men's. I knew a bro who did ladies section in macy's, said it was easy as fuck, just bring it out to the women, sells it itself. In december, he sold over 1k before noon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159462)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:07 PM
Author: hairraiser flushed therapy

So during the busiest time of the year, he made like $200 in 1 day? lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159468)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:27 AM
Author: greedy house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160245)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 4:33 AM
Author: turquoise kink-friendly gaping nowag

i mean yeah, not bad for a mall job. plus salary was like $7/hr. much better than working at subway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160854)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:14 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

women have trouble making up their mind and like to browse and go into the store and try things on as an activity, and they also return tons of shit. men are simple and don't fuck around, especially in suits and shoes. they come in and get what they need and get out, and don't return shit. it's way the fuck better to sell in men's than women's.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159505)



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Date: December 28th, 2017 1:45 PM
Author: Green space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35026546)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:45 PM
Author: fragrant station boistinker

Him: george clooney of shoe sales

U: Al Bundy of shoe sales

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159672)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 9:19 AM
Author: passionate area pocket flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161053)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 2:34 AM
Author: useless poppy headpube cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24211072)



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Date: December 28th, 2017 1:45 PM
Author: Green space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35026548)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 1:32 PM
Author: Pale Mind-boggling Locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37377238)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 7:00 PM
Author: Dark theater

I know someone in NYC who sells suits at Sak's and makes $150k/year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24163744)



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Date: May 1st, 2015 3:06 PM
Author: Galvanic jap

Knew a girl in women's bags who legit made 10K a month. I've seen her check.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#27802110)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:22 PM
Author: High-end sanctuary

This is probably about right. I used to work for Nordstrom, but not on the sakes floor. A couple of the guys in men's suits at my store made six figs. Women's shoes was usually full of younger guys.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161604)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:11 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

the top guys in the top depts (mens suits and mens shoes) in the top nordys locations (seattle, south coast plaza, etc.) were banking 100k+ pre-ITE. if they have a loyal client base and they're good, they can make a shitload.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159488)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:35 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

This was at one of those that you mentioned.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159631)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:39 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

ITE the top guys are certainly making much less. also, you don't know if he's a top guy who has been around and kicking ass for years, or if he's a newbie who sucks. there's much more turnover in shoes than suits, for whatever reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159647)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:46 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

How can I become friends with this dude he seems chill and fratty as fuck and would be an awesome dude to hit the Bar scene with

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159677)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:47 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

offer to blow him, "no homo," in the dressing room

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159683)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:48 PM
Author: fragrant station boistinker

Shoe guy: Can I help you?

OP: No, bro let me help you.

*gets on knees*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159689)



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Date: December 28th, 2017 1:48 PM
Author: Green space

You have to make sure you tell him it's "no homo"

otherwise, he might get freaked out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35026570)



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Date: January 5th, 2023 12:52 AM
Author: dun spectacular french chef market

Just invite him out to drinks with you and a buddy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#45743991)



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Date: October 2nd, 2013 11:44 PM
Author: Costumed multi-colored point

Applied for a shoe dept job there in major downtown location. Competition is tough as fuck. I glanced around the waiting room and saw Anderson on people's messenger bags.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159666)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:07 AM
Author: Translucent up-to-no-good brunch toilet seat

tbf they were probably in some sort of exec training program

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159834)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 7:11 PM
Author: Blue contagious shitlib box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24163783)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 8:58 PM
Author: turquoise kink-friendly gaping nowag

lol gtfo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24164512)



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Date: December 28th, 2017 1:48 PM
Author: Green space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35026574)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:01 AM
Author: Unholy set

Mens shoes or womens shoes?

If the former, 75-90k is a decent estimate at one of those stores. If the latter, probably 55-70k.

I used to work at Nordstrom way back when. I was the top salesman in a different department at a smaller major city store and would have taken home around 60k had I been willing to slog through that bullshit for a full year.

Here's the breakdown. Mens shoes has a smaller commission than womens shoes - mens is 6.75%, while womens is somewhere around 8% - but Nordstrom tends to overstaff womens shoes while keeping the mens section fairly tight. If he's a top salesman who hits certain quotas (back when, around 425k in total sales for the year) he's a "Platinum Seller" or some similar title and gets an additional percent or half percent commission bonus. Top Nordstrom sellers pull in six figure yearly salaries, as do many department and store managers. At least pre-ITE.

It is easy. It is also worse than law. Every single one of you thinking about quitting the aspie shitheads you work with to cop dat chill as fuck 11-7 Saturday shift are missing the portion of the fantasy where those exact same aspie shitheads come in to form 95% of your dickhead customer base. Worse yet, their wives might. Your coworkers will largely be backstabbing proles.

Will take Qs for a few minutes, on the off chance that anyone is interested in the odd shit that goes on behind the scenes at a Nordstrom.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159782)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:05 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

so are you all sartorial and shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159811)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:06 AM
Author: Unholy set

no mafoofan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159825)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:05 AM
Author: comical pisswyrm

Is it hard to get a seasonal job @ Nordstroms for the Holidays? If so, how much could one expect to make?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159815)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:13 AM
Author: Unholy set

The holidays are when this shit really kicks into high gear. If you can speak well and look the part, you can get a gig for a two or three week period and pull in $5-8k depending on store, hours, and department.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159865)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:40 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

whats the part. a handsome alpha bro?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160014)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:46 AM
Author: Unholy set

depends on the department.

couture or any high-end womens shit: look like a pharma rep. you're not getting that job.

mens sportswear: here's where you want to be. this is selling dumb tommy bahama shit to fat boomers. look like a chill alpha bro.

mens shoes, suits, or furnishings: less money than sportswear, although suits will be boom or bust and you may make a killing. chill alpha bro.

the rail: minor muscletwink/GQ-slurping metrosexual.

womens shoes: full on twink

fragrance, womens or mens: extra from the birdcage

any other department: either you aren't getting hired (lingerie, purses, makeup, brass plum, etc) or you don't want to (at home, jewelry, kids anything)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160060)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:48 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

180 summary. this shit is fascinating.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160068)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:06 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

"Top Nordstrom sellers pull in six figure yearly salaries, as do many department and store managers. At least pre-ITE. "

yep, cr. posted similarly above. pre-ITE is the key. in obama's america, no way.

dept managers in the top stores/depts make way less than the top sales guys, i've heard. i don't think they made above 6 figs ITE, but they made close to it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159820)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:07 AM
Author: Unholy set

yeah, the top sales guys make the most of anybody. some dept managers also sell a bunch. the better ones leave it to their salesmen to spread the wealth, since managers make commissions off their total department sales.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159837)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:10 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

why the fuck would anyone wanna be an assistant manager? do you get any benefit? seems like you're doing other crap and have less time selling.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159851)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:56 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

Because they have decided to go career retail and want to be on the conveyor belt for department manager.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160110)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:08 AM
Author: Unholy set

There aren't assistant managers at Nordstrom. The hierarchy goes like this:

Store manager

Acting store manager (sort of an assistant; always a larger department dept manager)

Department managers (manager of mens shoes, manager of sportswear, etc)

Salesmen

Back end employees

Separate world: security

My department, for instance, had one manager and three or four salesmen depending on season. Manager was chill as fuck, full sleeves tatted underneath his suit, married at 22 or 23 to a hot wife, and had a life goal of moving with her to Texas. He accomplished this. I later heard he was badly injured in a car wreck.

He laid out the full compensation realities for me. Store managers pull 100-150k yearly. Department managers take anywhere from 50-60 on up. Nordstrom only promotes from within.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160165)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:09 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

what's your worst backstabbing story w coworkers? i've seen this platinum dude in the rail just walk all over other employees left and right, yet he sucks up to customers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159844)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:23 AM
Author: Unholy set

That kind of thing was constant. This dumb skank in my department stole 5k in sales from me one day while I was at lunch, only to have it horribly backfire (more on that later).

Another troll-faced bitch from the department next to mine screamed at me on the floor for "stealing" her customer, who walked up and asked me for help with something. I laughed at her.

The old dickhead from the suit department used to poach customers from the shirt department when the shirt salesmen were far enough away. It ended when the shirt department manager threatened to punch him in the face if he crossed the line in the tile again. The entire affair became moot when the suits manager came out of the closet (at 55), stole a bunch of money and merchandise, and disappeared, causing a shakeup in the department and the retirement of the old dickhead.

The womens fragrance manager would routinely yell at me for selling perfumes out of her department to my customers. I let her know quite clearly that I didn't give a shit. The drag queen in mens fragrance was on my side.

I poached every chance I could get from these assholes, except from the other salesmen who played fairly. The best salesman in the entire store was one - he called me out of the blue a few times to give me credit for sales he saw me help with on customers of his.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159933)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:26 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

jfc, is there any policing mechanism or anyone you can complain to, or is it totally a free for all?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159953)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:35 AM
Author: Unholy set

It's a shark pit. Eat or die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159992)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:40 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160012)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: Pale Mind-boggling Locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37377255)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:10 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

and what's the worst return you've done for someone?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159853)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:34 AM
Author: Unholy set

see above re: dumb skank.

This older but well-dressed gentleman shows up one day. He buys something simple with a top-tier Nordstrom CC. I help him. Nordstrom CCs are usually gold: people with them return their items less frequently than ordinary folk, and never get a bunch of help and then disappear without buying it.

The next day he returns, wanting an odd assortment of higher-end items from all around the store: Tumi luggage, soft robes, Ferragamo shoes and belts, Faconnable shirts, etc. It takes forever, and he continuously tells me stories I don't want to hear about how his wife of 25 years left him and how much he loves Nordstrom. Something is off about this man. I help him amass a small pile, make clear to the other employees in my department that it was my sale, then go to lunch while the gentleman also eats. Fat Bitch takes my sale on the grounds that he "wanted to switch one of the Tumi bags." Bullshit.

The next day he comes back again. And again the day after. And so on. Each time, I ignore him to help other customers. By the end of the week, he's simply calling out to Fat Bitch by name and expecting to be waited on while he sits in the comfortable chairs. She runs ragged dealing with his requests while I take all the other customers. Serves that bitch right.

Finally, we get paid a visit by Remington Steele.* He explains that the man is a total mental case who has been caught multiple times sleeping in the show beds in the At Home department by day and wandering the streets of the city by night. The merchandise he bought over the week simply sat in a pile in the back of some department.

With mild schadenfreude, I returned several thousand dollars worth of crap. Fat Bitch left to go back to car sales shortly thereafter.

*Nordstrom security personnel pick porn star fake names for intercom use. Department telephone paging codes are identical across all stores; if you hear "Remington Steele, 50" security is being paged. Security is its own bit of hilarity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159990)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:52 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

18000000000

Bro any time you want to post more hilarious Nordy's insider stuff, you have at least an audience of one. I have been shopping at that fucking store my entire life. I feel like I'm home when I walk in one and I fully realize how unbelievably fucking queer that is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160087)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:06 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

you're my twin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160152)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:12 AM
Author: Unholy set

I have to dredge up the memories. It's been several years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160180)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:18 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

No pressure man, you already posted so much awesome shit in here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160207)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:07 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

180. poast more stories, esp about security.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160155)



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Date: February 4th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: Slimy dragon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35325537)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:25 AM
Author: stirring chapel old irish cottage

any gay sex stories?

no homo ofs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159951)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:36 AM
Author: Unholy set

Not that I saw directly. About 60-80% of the male employee base at Nordstrom is gay, and I heard a lot of stories about them fucking each other, but nobody got caught in the bathroom or anything.

Not that most employees would get caught dead in a floor bathroom. The customers ruined those...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160002)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:52 AM
Author: Yellow insane ticket booth telephone

this is really interesting bro, tahnsk for posting

what was the best part of the job? worst part?

did you run into any hot chicks? pick up any? or are you fked since it's the men's section? any hot female coworkers?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160090)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:06 AM
Author: Unholy set

TONS of hot pussy. A few were "page X/hometown hotties/etc girls" in Maxim, FHM, etc. Many working in the mens section as well. They were largely chill, but gossipy. I chose not to shit where I ate, but, of course, wonder what the fuck I was thinking now.

best part of the job was spending the day talking to cool people. You'd get some interesting folk coming through every now and then. I once did $7k in sales to a maverick offshore drilling and salvage tycoon with an MD. Took 4 hours, mostly of us shooting the shit. He had his sweet Southern secretary call me a month later to buy another $1500 worth of shirts sight unseen. "Just ship him one of everything in an 18 neck."

Watching undercover security stalk shoplifters was always fun.

Worst part of the job was dealing with everyone else, on your feet for 50 hours a week. Or the Nordy bullshit. I got HR and IT to officially exempt me from sitting through IT training sessions, since anybody with a room temperature IQ could figure out the POS systems. Everyone else had to sit through a painful morning seminar in how to push touchscreen buttons.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160148)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:17 AM
Author: Yellow insane ticket booth telephone

how woudl security stalk shoplifters?

how long do peopel actually stick arond in those jobs - i always thought of the salespeople as fungible, never thought about the personal shopper aspect

what are a random shopping alpha bro's chances of picking up a hawt salesgirl?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160196)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:22 AM
Author: Unholy set

anywhere from a few weeks to decades. the lifers know their shit and settle in.

Most salesmen last a few months.

Your chances of picking up a hot salesgirl are decent. Nordstrom screens for attractive and friendly girls, and most of the people who work there have college degrees. They're average folk, but not true dumbs. Most of the hottest girls from my era are now either elementary school teachers or nurses, and were in school to do so at the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160221)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 4:35 AM
Author: turquoise kink-friendly gaping nowag

any idea how much the chicks working the womens handbag section make?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160860)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:20 AM
Author: Vibrant giraffe native

sort of related: longform story about neiman marcus private shopper who fucked her client's husband and the fun that resulted

http://fdluxe.dallasnews.com/2012/09/the-love-triangle-that-led-to-a-million-dollar-return-battle-at-neiman-marcus.html/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159912)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:35 AM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

Pic of the Personal Shopper: http://fdluxe.dallasnews.com/files/2012/09/Nini_Feature-450x350.gif

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24159993)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:43 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160038)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:45 AM
Author: Appetizing community account

Sorry to bust your bubble, but if the Nordstrom man you have a crush on is selling women's shoes, there is a 99% chance he is gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160052)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:47 AM
Author: Unholy set

Absolute truth. Mens shoes is 33-50% gay. Womens is a literal fairy tale.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160064)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:59 AM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

It was mens shoes, I asked to see the Allen Edmonds......I could not afford them =(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160125)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:54 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

This one suit guy at the Nordstrom's I grew up going to had to be doing very well. He has been there for 20+ years, is good looking and cool, and even when I was a kid I knew dozens and dozens of friends of the family and friends' dads and shit who went to him. You can mention him to just about anyone I grew up with and they all light up at his name. Would be shocked if he wasn't six figures, even post 2008.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160098)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:21 AM
Author: Unholy set

Prostitution occasionally occurred between the hotter sales girls and rich lawyers or bankers. Most of it was "soft" prostitution of the kind we're all familiar with: good-looking rich guy in his early 40s takes out the chick from BP to a few high-end dates, she blows him after date 3 while complaining that she doesn't really like him, etc. Other times it's more straight up. I knew at least two womens shoes girls that admitted to fucking guys for sales and another couple hookers from around town that would come in with different men to get outfitted for the night.

There was also a transsexual in the department next to mine. He was a great guy and passed reasonably well for female. I went out drinking with him a couple times - in his female form, he was a notorious promoter/hostess for several high-end area bars. He would get all sorts of sweet hookups from them when we'd go out- VIP sections, free drinks, etc. He hosted drag shows a lot. I saw him around town with various men in another role frequently. I wonder what happened to that guy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160215)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:26 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

1 fuckin' 80

Are you a rich lawyer/banker now or what

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160242)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:40 AM
Author: Unholy set

You can probably guess my profession with some degree of accuracy based on participation in this here bort.

I am not rich. Well, I guess I'm rich by some idiots' definition. I make less than I owe in student loans, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160310)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:42 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160318)



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Date: September 3rd, 2014 1:14 AM
Author: Green space

"There was also a transsexual in the department next to mine. He was a great guy and passed reasonably well for female. I went out drinking with him a couple times - in his female form,"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#26257857)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 2:33 PM
Author: Iridescent thriller property antidepressant drug

unnngggghhhhh. ever clutch?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33867634)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 10:55 PM
Author: Unholy set

fuck no. why would i want some woman with a penis when i can get all the COCK i want attached to MUSCLED HE-MEN at my local Pounders?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33870968)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:39 AM
Author: Unholy set

Security.

A store intercom page to "Remington Steele, 50" could mean interesting occurrences. A store intercom page to "Remington Steele," followed by the name of a department next to a door, was almost guaranteed to be entertaining. So was seeing a security guy pop up randomly in your area.

Nordstrom hires security to blend in with shoppers. You'll see them wandering the store constantly, although you might not be able to pick them out at first. That indistinctly cute girl thumbing through True Religion jeans for five minutes without being helped? The one looking up most of the time? Security. A good rule of thumb: Nordstrom floor salesmen are supposed to approach any customer in the department within 30 seconds. If an ostensible buyer floats around for longer without getting greeted, they're on a stakeout.

Our store had three full-time security. Remington Steele's real name was Tim. He was one of those ageless fit guys with what appeared to be prematurely grey hair and a goatee. It would not surprise me to learn that he was anywhere between twenty-five and twice that. He was head of security.

The other two were a short Filipino guy who liked checked short-sleeve dress shirts and some hapa-looking cute girl. I forget their names. They stalked through the store pretending to look at merchandise while Tim handled arrest paperwork and did physical takedowns when necessary.

The most entertaining part of watching security was the spiderweb trap game. Nordstrom does not care about pursuing inchoate shoplifting, presumably for liability purposes if they got such a determination wrong. Security would watch like a hungry cat, but only move on thieves once they physically exited the door. The more savvy shoplifters, upon being caught, would run back in rather than out - if they reached the safety of the store, they could claim no intent to deprive Nordstrom of the goods. Thus, many physical battles between shoplifters and security featured Tim wrestling the perps to hold them outside the store until the other security employees could corroborate the stop happened outside. I once saw him actually fucking suplex and drag back a much larger Mexican with several stolen shirts right outside my department. Dude must have been a HS/college wrestler. It was 180 as hell. We laughed about it later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160306)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:45 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

Brother, I just want to thank you for taking the time to write this out, and making it entertaining.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160338)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:57 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

you're a 180 writer. are u an eng major or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160409)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 2:22 AM
Author: Unholy set

I'm a lawyer. In other words, a professional writer.

My major featured neither creative input nor heavy writing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160522)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 10:46 PM
Author: claret mad cow disease twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33870903)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 12:21 AM
Author: marvelous copper parlour corn cake

like

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166189)



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Date: February 4th, 2018 10:58 PM
Author: Sepia crawly center gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35325455)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 1:57 AM
Author: Dead purple piazza haunted graveyard

do you know crossdressers when you see one?

i tend to shop a lot of these stores... but in the women's sections. wonder if they ever wonder...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160411)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 2:24 AM
Author: Unholy set

No. The tranny in fragrance was an exception, because he was obviously female-identified even as a man in his "day job" sense. He must have been on hormone therapy, because he had a big Latina-style ass and hourglass figure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160533)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 2:08 PM
Author: Translucent up-to-no-good brunch toilet seat

which store was this at again ?

(xo poster)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24162014)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 2:21 AM
Author: Unholy set

The Floor Bathroom (And Why Never To Use It)

Part One

Nordstroms tend to have two sets of restrooms: floor bathrooms out in the sales area, and employee bathrooms hidden deep in the back.

At first, the floor bathroom seems like a good idea. It's closer - merely across the sales floor between the Rail and Mens Shoes instead of down a flight of stairs and into the bowels of the building. Eventually, all Nordstrom employees learn to ignore it entirely in favor of the longer walk.

Walking into the floor bathroom was like playing roulette. Sometimes it would be clean and empty, and one could urinate peacefully and get back to the customers. Other times some new odd horror would be lurking within: junkies locking themselves into stalls to shoot up or nod off, crazies losing arguments with the mirrors, screaming children climbing on the sinks. The layout of the floor bathroom intensified the mystery; the door was sunk into a diagonal wall around the corner from my department and opened in the other direction from my path, making it impossible to see within until too late. Once inside the shit hut, another unknown beckoned. The stalls were the closest toilets to the door, with the urinals hidden around another corner artificially formed by the smaller stall. The room was small enough that turning the corner to piss often brought me into sudden and immediate physical confrontation to whatever fresh torment the bathroom held.

The initial hint I got to skip the floor bathroom came early in my tenure when I rounded the stalls, unzipping my pants on the fly, to come crashing directly into a filthy and mostly naked homeless man who had jury-rigged both urinals into a makeshift shower. He was repeatedly flushing both commodes and redirecting the waterfall stream to bathe himself with the aid of a rag, or possibly a used T-shirt. He actually stepped aside and offered to let me pee before continuing. I declined, as he had managed to flood that portion of the floor with an inch plus of standing water more accurately pegged as a piss/filth/soap homeless soup. The stall was almost as gross.

The next clue came not long after in the guise of a six foot eight, 300 pound drunk Indian. Feather, not dot. Think a shithoused Shep from Fargo. When I say drunk, I mean he was laying on the bathroom floor half in a stall and half-coherent, singing those syllabic tribal dance songs to himself. The alcohol smell emanating from his pores was so strong it was as if he had intentionally dumped several handles of vodka over the bathroom and mixed them with ball sweat. It was choking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160516)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 3:15 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

180, but jfc, what shithole store were you in? i've mostly been to nordstroms in ritzy areas, and this would never happen there. i've been to a few ghetto nordstroms, so i can certainly see it happening in those ones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160622)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 11:19 AM
Author: Unholy set

I've heard stories similar to this from other Nordstroms, even the top-end flagships like South Coast Plaza. No store is immune, even in ritzy areas.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161354)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 6:49 PM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24163684)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 12:46 AM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

180^180

This entire thread was great, but this is fucking epic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166292)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 11:39 AM
Author: Supple parlor quadroon

Holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37376662)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 7:39 AM
Author: Gay Temple

If people return shit how do they get the commission back if it has already been paid out?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160974)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:05 PM
Author: Unholy set

Then: it was taken out of the next paycheck. There was nothing worse than logging in for what promised to be a shitty day of work and seeing that you had sold -800 for the day thus far. The lifers were the ones who were able, much like poker pros on a cold streak, to ignore both the good and bad days altogether in the even-keeled search of long-run commissions. The drive-by shooters, like me, were in an almost manic mood trying to maximize the daily score and get the fuck out.

Each Nordstrom employee has an employee number. Analogous to ICQ, those with a six or even five digit number were true Nordy OGs; seven digit numbers were the norm. To make a sale, you would enter your number into the POS terminal, scan the item, and press the sale button on the touchscreen. Upon completion, two things printed out of separate devices. One was an ordinary receipt containing both the employee number and a list of items purchased. (If you have a Nordy receipt, it's near the top, right under the barcode.) The other was a small, rectangular return tag, just a barcode sticker, that had the employee number information in it.

When a customer showed up with a return, the first thing you checked was whether they had a receipt with them. Often times the answer was no; Nordstrom was OK with that, except from specifically identified scammers. If they had no receipt, you could look for the return tag to scan the return. If that was also missing, or the employee forgot or "forgot" to look, the return would be zeroed out - you would manually input 000 as the selling employee's number in the POS return menu - and the transaction completed.

Clearly, the incentive as a selling employee was to minimize the chances a return would get charged to your account. Failing to give somebody a receipt was not an option, so the tactics most often used would be to put the return tag on something likely to get thrown out, like the price tag; on something where it was likely to get removed and forgotten, like the clothes surface; on the receipt itself, to hedge your potential return exposure; or, in the cases of particularly problematic customers thought likely to return things, just to throw the return tag out instead of affixing it to the item.

The greatest Nordstrom arbitrage of all is an exchange. Salesmen love exchanges, especially when the customer wants the same item in a different size, or the same size item in a different color. The latter happens frequently with middle-aged men whose wives purchased them a set of new 16.5-33 dress shirts in "totally fucking gay colors" (surprisingly common quote) like peach, magenta, purple, pink, and occasionally too-light blue. The salesman handling the exchange gets credit for the new sale, while the old salesman gets dinged. On an exchange, I could thus get hundreds of dollars in sales simply for walking into the back, grabbing a handful of shirts off a shelf, and handing them to the customer.

Exchanges are even better when the item is correct but size is wrong; then, the customer has usually ripped off all the tags and lost the receipt at home prior to the return. Thus the arbitrage: selling mens dress clothes in a conservative style to his wife shopping alone gave you an essentially risk-free play at doubling your money on the sale if he came back in a couple days later for a quick exchange.

There was one minor change while I was there when Nordstrom eliminated the return tags in favor of UIIs: Universal Item Indicators. I think these are still used: they're rectangular but much more square than the previous return tags, about the size of a postage stamp in a landscape ratio, and consist of a barcode. That barcode contains all the information from the sale, like a mini-receipt. The advent of UIIs made it more difficult to "forget" to put the sticker on the purchase, as UIIs had to be individually scanned in front of the customer before scanning the item. However, UIIs opened up the possibility for another breed of return scam. That's a subject for another poast.

Now: I have no idea how returns are calculated. Ordinarily, I would assume the same principles applied; however, Nordstrom was the defendant in a class-action suit about their return deduction policy. They settled the claim for $12 million. The lawyers got half. I got a $39 gift card.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161554)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 2:26 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

moar on uii scams pls. this is amazing stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24162133)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 12:11 AM
Author: cerebral coiffed sex offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166143)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 7:45 AM
Author: swashbuckling red senate blood rage

Any tips on how to succeed in BIGSHOE?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24160978)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 12:06 PM
Author: Unholy set

Know your product. Those shoe guys really had to understand how they fit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161559)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 6:54 PM
Author: blathering business firm

(Al Bundy)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24163717)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 9:43 AM
Author: Cream lay

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161092)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 2:04 PM
Author: violet indecent spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24161996)



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Date: October 3rd, 2013 7:49 PM
Author: Snowy meetinghouse cuckoldry

180 thread thanks to nordy poaster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24163981)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 12:20 AM
Author: Unholy set

Will resume poasting ITT probably Tuesday. Upcoming features include The Floor Bathroom (Number Two): Part Two

The Evolution of Return Scams

The Break Room: ProleChick Heaven

Guess Race: A Demographic Primer On Customers

Please continue to bump thread so I don't have to go hunting for it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166179)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 1:36 AM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

Thank You Brother, you are both a gentleman and a scholar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166540)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 1:44 AM
Author: mustard den friendly grandma

will keep on bumping, this is the best threads on XO in YEARS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166600)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 1:58 AM
Author: soul-stirring very tactful school cafeteria

wow

you are great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166675)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 2:03 AM
Author: Vigorous Twinkling Office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24166705)



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Date: October 4th, 2013 10:25 AM
Author: cerebral coiffed sex offender

bump for nordy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24167894)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 3:03 AM
Author: Unholy set

The Floor Bathroom, Part Two

The phone call came ten minutes too late to warn me. I had already entered the floor bathroom and been assaulted by the issue our receptionist/dispatcher was nervously attempting not to giggle through.

Fresh shit - that is, shit outside the toilet - has a distinct and alive bouquet above the usual shit smell, somewhat akin to rotting flowers. I know exactly what fresh shit smells like, because this particular gentleman was not the first to cack his pants on the Nordstrom sales floor. The first guy, however, did it right, or at least as right as defecating all overself above the age of three can be done. He took an embarrassed pose as close to the elevator door as possible, the angry streaked puddle down the back of his pleated Boomer khakis displayed to the store just long enough for him to get straight the fuck out of there without being identified.

Our toiletdweller did not do it right. His chosen course of action upon fouling himself was to pull out his cell phone and call the main Nordstrom line, asking to be put in touch with the mens department to buy a set of new clothes.

I had to clear it with Remington Steele first, as taking merchandise into the bathroom was a Constanzaesque no-no. Tim took the Solomonic approach, deciding that I could enter the bathroom to get the guy's drivers license and credit card, sell him the merchandise, and then bring it into the shitter once paid for.

His drivers license told me exactly who he was - a well-off partier in his mid-30s who lived within easy walking distance of the store. Why he chose not to simply rush home like the earlier literal Shitboomer remains a mystery to me, but I figured he'd had a bad enough day and opted not to gouge him on the clothes he was buying sight and price unseen. He ended up spending around $160 by shakily signing the credit card merchant slip under the stall door and receiving his bundle without return tags or receipt, as explicitly authorized by security.

Had I known what he decided to do next, I would have run him for at least $400. Wearing his new duds but absolutely reeking of feces, this bloodshot-eyed idiot continued to shop for the next hour, spending a good chunk of that time shamelessly hitting on the morbidly obese Hispanic single mother who shared the fragrance counter with the transsexual mentioned earlier.

After striking out, he made his way over to my department, extending his hand in thanks. I'm not sure what possessed me to actually accept the greeting - perhaps a brief flash of loyal customer service, perhaps some misplaced solidarity with a guy in an awkward situation. As our palms met, I felt the unmistakeable crumple of a $20.

Nordstrom employees are not allowed to take tips. I made an exception. The bill still smelled like shit two hours later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24204680)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 4:31 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

wow holy shit.i dunno whether to give this a 180 or a 120. this post either made my night or ruined my night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24204839)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 4:56 AM
Author: demanding glassy abode

180180180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24204848)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 4:38 PM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24207379)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 11:21 AM
Author: sooty crusty genital piercing

180000000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24290485)



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Date: August 25th, 2015 7:42 PM
Author: brass boyish lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#28624152)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 2:45 PM
Author: Iridescent thriller property antidepressant drug

This post needs to be taught in freshman composition classes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33867698)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 4:56 AM
Author: demanding glassy abode

amazing thread. thought this would be some evan39 homoporn but it has paid off way better than expected

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24204849)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 4:57 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24204850)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 5:02 AM
Author: pungent gold trailer park turdskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24204853)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 3:56 PM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

MOAR PLZ

Share us your wisdom about return scams and ProleChick Heaven.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24207164)



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Date: October 10th, 2013 4:22 PM
Author: cerebral coiffed sex offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24207303)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 2:31 AM
Author: Unholy set

The Evolution of Return Scams, Part One: My First Time

SEVEN PERCENT of Nordstrom returns are fraudulent. This barely deters the company from pursuing its explicit philosophy that an unsatisfied customer can bring anything back to the store, anytime, with or without documentation. As trainees, we were repeatedly informed that we could never get in trouble for processing a return, and were told the admittedly apocryphal but accepted story of the woman who demanded - and received - a return of her four worn tires. Nordstrom has never sold tires. As the tale goes, she had purchased the offending items from a tire store previously located at the site of a Nordstrom. Her logic that she had literally bought them "right here" was enough to convince the department manager to give her credit.

I got scammed at least three times. More fairly, I got scammed once; the other times I knew immediately what was going on but processed the return anyway in accordance with the company ethos.

The man who actually fooled me into taking a fraudulent return was an expensively sportsweared - think Polo khaki shorts and a Tommy Bahama shirt - white male in his early 40s pushing one of those obnoxiously oversized strollers with what I can only assume was his child inside. He wanted to exchange a pair of Oakley sunglasses for another model. Note the con: he asked to exchange an item, not return it.

Successful grifters will often claim the key to pulling off a ploy is to engage the mark's greed. An exchange triggered mine: I got to throw the other pair in the back and make a commission on the new pair for almost no work. A return, on the other hand, promised to be a pain in my ass for no money. I was more likely to scrutinize a returned item.

He took his new sunglasses and wheeled off with his progeny. My department manager arrived ten seconds later with a look on his face like I had just taken a fresh shit on the floor. Evidently the guy was notorious throughout the region for ripping us off and had simply waited until the new guy - me - was around to do it again.

My manager took the returned sunglasses, showed them to me, and promptly wiped the Oakley logo off the front with his thumb. Oops.

The moral of the story, if there is one, is that I made twelve dollars and fourteen cents.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24211068)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 2:37 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24211083)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 2:39 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

180^180.

moar.

what'd the mrg say to you, if anything, after wiping off the logo?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24211091)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 10:58 AM
Author: Unholy set

"You're not in trouble, because we tell you to take any return, but don't return anything from that guy again."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24212057)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 4:40 PM
Author: Filthy onyx love of her life

Will I get away with returning shirts I bought last year (Nordstrom house brand) because I got too fat to wear them?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24214253)



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Date: October 11th, 2013 11:08 PM
Author: Unholy set

Most likely. Your situation will be very close to the subject of Return Scams, Part 2.

If you've been paying attention, you've probably figured out a better way to get your money back. I'll cover that in Return Scams, Part 3.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24216843)



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Date: October 12th, 2013 11:21 AM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

This is the best xoxo thread in a long time. Very fine work, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24218864)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 11:23 AM
Author: sooty crusty genital piercing

Thank you brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24290492)



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Date: October 14th, 2013 1:32 AM
Author: Unholy set

Return Scams, Part Two: Frank Talk

She was six foot six and looked like LeBron James. It was unquestionably a fraudulent return, but the products heaped on my counter were Nordstrom-branded maroon tag shirts, lending it at least minimal credibility. They had once been white. I flipped the insides of the front panel over to gauge the age of the cloth.

I wasn’t attempting some sort of count-the-rings guesswork with the pinpoint Oxford fabric. All Nordstrom house brand shirts – the eponymous bottom-end maroon label, the “John W. Nordstrom” ivory label, and the Faconnable faux-European flagship line – have date codes on a sewn-in tag. The tag is located on the bottom of the inside front of the shirt, directly opposite either the button strip or the buttonhole strip. I forget which. It lists the season and year of manufacture. Nordstrom replaces most of their stock seasonally, with out-of-date merchandise going to the Rack. Durable goods with less turnover like shoes are spared this treatment, remaining at main stores for far longer.

Her particular post-white shirts were from Fall 1999, were in several different sizes, and looked as if she had pit-sweated through every single square inch of fabric. Despite every indication that they had been sourced from the garbage, however, the situation promised to be a larger pain in my ass if I rejected the return than just took it and disposed of the evidence through an NQC before management could tell me otherwise.

Returned Nordstrom merchandise, regardless of condition, gets “NQCed.” NQC stands for Nordstrom Quality Control. All returned goods get an NQC tag and are dropped off in the bowels of the store next to the garbage compactors to disappear New Jersey-like to God knows where. Maybe New Jersey. At the NQC, it gets sorted by condition. The palatable shit goes to the Rack. Most of the remainder goes to Nordstrom Last Chance, a self-explanatory shithole in the middle of nowhere where people undeterred by mystery stains can pick up epic bargains. The truly egregious shit probably goes directly to starving African children to replace the worn Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champions clothing they’ve been passing down for a generation.

Most of the time, we just threw all NQC merchandise in a pile in the back of the department until someone could be bothered to take it down. Unfortunately, that increased the risk my manager would see it and get irritated. Returns counted against his department just as retuned items counted against our sales. While I couldn’t get in trouble for a return - even a steaming pile of bullshit return like this - he would be less than thrilled with me for taking it and would probably make me do some sort of bitch work like cleaning mirrors or helping move holiday sale items in revenge. Taking it down to NQC immediately eliminated that risk.

Procedurally speaking, the easiest way to return crap to Nordstrom is to ask the salesman to refund the credit card it was purchased on. Your receipt and UII tag contain this information, and it can be accomplished with zero hassle. Assuming you no longer have the receipt or UII, the next easiest way is to accept store credit in the form of a gift card. Salesmen will do this cheerfully, as it requires almost no work and is encouraged by all levels of management.

She did not want a gift card for her garbage shirts. She wanted cash. Cash was a pain in the ass: we had to take a drivers license and manually type in all the information in the system. Asking for cash during a fraudulent return is generally a bad idea; salesmen and department managers will scrutinize the return, and the system tracks repeat offenders.

She only had one form of ID in her purse. It was a Blockbuster card. Her name was Frank.

Frank had to settle for a gift card.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24229595)



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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:14 PM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

Am I the first person to 180 this post? What is wrong with xoxo today? Excellent work, brother. Please keep poasting. I just about died when I read the "The truly egregious shit probably goes directly to starving African children to replace the worn Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champions clothing they’ve been passing down for a generation" bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24233542)



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Date: October 14th, 2013 6:25 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

1 fucking 80. keep this coming.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24233596)



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Date: October 14th, 2013 7:33 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

180 can you please write a post about the cute chicks that work at Nordstroms, I met one and she has a Masters in Fashion merchandising or some shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24234090)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 11:58 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Shrine Round Eye

Why would it have been a pain to just tell her to go away?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24237643)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 1:47 AM
Author: Unholy set

Have you ever had a 6'6" black tranny who knows the store is "supposed to" take his shitty return mad at you? That's at least 20-30 minutes of unpaid work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24243398)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 11:25 AM
Author: sooty crusty genital piercing

rofl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24290500)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 12:34 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Shrine Round Eye

If the Nordstrom return policy is so generous would it be possible to just buy from Nordstrom Rack or Ebay and then go to the store to return it/exchange it?

You could probably do $5000 worth of business before being shut down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24237791)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 1:47 AM
Author: Unholy set

You've almost figured out the UII scam.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24243401)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 2:45 AM
Author: Unholy set

Return Scams, Part Three: Why UIIs Came To Be

If you’ve been paying attention so far, you’ll remember that Nordstrom switched from return tags to UIIs (Universal Item Indicators) sometime in late 2005. They did this to “improve inventory tracking,” which is code for “eliminating return tag scams.”

Nordstrom’s POS system has a rudimentary warning built into it for unreturnable items. Anything that’s already been returned makes the screen flash red, signaling the salesman not to return it. The same is true for items sent to the Rack, with a few caveats. More on that in a minute.

While the Nordstrom receipt always carried the entirety of the sale information in the barcode, telling the system the details of the purchase and alerting it to multiple returns, the old return tags only carried the selling employee’s number. The original return scam thus functioned like this: the scammer would purchase the goods at the Rack or steal them outright from the store, fish around in the garbage for a return tag, and affix it to the item. Because the scanned return tag came up as being sold at a mainline store, the return gained credibility. Diligent salesmen would often Sharpie over a used return tag to avoid being the victim of the scam, or tear them into pieces before throwing them out. Extra-diligent salesmen would compare the tags to the returned item to ensure it matched the correct price. Salesmen usually only bothered to be extra-diligent when the return tag came up with their number.

The UII changed that by functioning as a mini-receipt. The UII contains all the information in the sale, meaning the tags themselves are tied in the system to the individual item. A scammer with a carefully torn return tag from a $49.50 shirt could return a pair of $300 jeans. With the UIIs, that was no longer possible.

The UIIs, however, lent immediate credibility to any return. The system was now tasked with catching all errors and fraud, absolving the sales force from spending any mental energy on checking veracity. In short, the system built in its own fail point.

The UII scam operates in one of two ways.

The outside version requires a decent understanding of Nordstrom products; I won’t encourage anybody by providing a list, but most of you are smart enough to figure out at least a few that will work. The scammer goes to the Rack, finds fairly common mid-to-high end goods that aren’t date coded and are likely to have all the tags removed shortly after purchase, and takes them back to the mainline store without receipt or UII tags. The scammer then politely informs the salesman he purchased the goods at that store, or at another mainline Nordstrom, and prepares to argue for a few minutes if the system tells the salesman that the items were sent to the Rack. As all Rack items were once Nordstrom mainline items, a split exists in acceptable return procedure: an item bought after being Racked can only be returned to the Rack, while an item bought from a mainline store before the rest of the stock was Racked can theoretically be returned for full price to the mainline store.

The dumb scammer immediately asks for cash or to put the return on his credit card. The smarter scammer asks for the balance on a Nordstrom gift card, which salesmen are explicitly told to push. The gift card is then used to purchase expensive items later, which can be easily returned for money or sold externally. The smartest (and most time-blessed) scammer of all gets the salesman to exchange the scam item, then returns that item for a gift card to a different store. Note that either the second purchase in the gift card method or the exchange completely legitimizes the subsequent return, as the items therein will bear real Nordstrom mainline store UIIs. The gift card method also sanitizes the later purchase from being associated with the initial return.

The inside scam is more daring and requires concurrent employment as a salesman. Essentially, the salesman goes to the Rack on an off day and buys several nondescript, popular, and suitably indistinguishable items concurrently sold at both mainline and Rack stores featuring no or common sizing, no date codes, and a decent margin between the mainline store and Rack prices. Once again, you figure it out. He then keeps an eye out for purchases of those same items during the course of his shift. Upon ringing those purchases up, he keeps the UII tags for himself, affixes them to his cache of items, and returns them before the purchaser can. His outlay is the Rack price plus any commission he would have made on the items. One kid got fired from my department for pulling this scam. He didn’t care all that much, as he traded in the retail world a month later to matriculate at HYS.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24243576)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 2:57 AM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

great thread. can you opine on adjustments? some employees seem to be happy to do markdown adjustments even at the rack price, just so they can steal a commission.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24243595)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 11:44 AM
Author: Unholy set

I can't opine on markdown adjustments. I don't remember ever doing one and I think I wasn't allowed to. It might be a department manager and above prerogative.

People do try to haggle every now and then for volume discounts or other markdowns. It doesn't work. Nordstrom employees are not allowed to discount items.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24244577)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 5:12 AM
Author: Hilarious garnet partner depressive

Best one yet.

This is now UNEXO World Heritage Thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24243793)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 6:01 AM
Author: Beady-eyed Shrine Round Eye

"The smartest (and most time-blessed) scammer of all gets the original salesman to exchange the scam item, then returns that item for a gift card to a different store."

How is it possible to go to the original salesman if you buy the scam item from Rack? There's a lot of emphasis in your post on laundering by finding UIIs or purchasing through gift cards.

I guess there's a high rate of refusal if you look like a scammer. And if you take a cash return, your info will be recorded and it will be very likely you will get refused service the second time you try a return?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24243814)



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Date: October 16th, 2013 11:37 AM
Author: Unholy set

EDIT: I took the word "original" out for clarity.

"Original salesman" in this context refers to the salesman who takes the return or exchange of the scam item, not the low-end hourly wage prole manning the register at the Rack.

To be honest, I never got to see firsthand the consequences of known repeat scamming. I do know everything is tracked and several cash returns of the same item to Blake W. Scammer, DL#TTTSEF-180 would spur some investigation. Possibly criminal charges.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24244549)



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Date: October 24th, 2013 9:49 PM
Author: cerebral coiffed sex offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24301373)



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Date: October 18th, 2013 9:57 PM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

Bump. Moar plz.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24260761)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 11:18 AM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

MOAR PLZ. I have been waiting for weeks to hear about Prole Chick Heaven. Don't leave me in suspense, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24290472)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 11:29 AM
Author: sooty crusty genital piercing

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#24290513)



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Date: February 8th, 2018 1:51 PM
Author: Unholy set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35356054)



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Date: September 2nd, 2014 5:02 PM
Author: magenta whorehouse

incredible epic thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#26254710)



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Date: September 2nd, 2014 5:58 PM
Author: Floppy harsh kitty field

6 figures possible for top sales people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#26254980)



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Date: November 20th, 2014 2:57 AM
Author: Unholy set

holy fuck, it's been 13 months. sorry brethren. as soon as I remember what I wanted to write about ProleChick Heaven (hint: Oprah is heavily involved) and racial taxonomies of the Nordy variety I will draft up some scholarship for you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#26756045)



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Date: November 20th, 2014 10:48 PM
Author: 180 Pit Cuck

180

Knowing that this thread is still alive deserves a 180 by itself. I will eagerly await your scholarship.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#26761958)



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Date: February 29th, 2016 11:17 PM
Author: Unholy set

Fuck, brehs. It's me again. Sorry I've lagged on these. Lawyer work kills the desire to write otherwise. Soon, I promise.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#29948831)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 2:36 PM
Author: Iridescent thriller property antidepressant drug

where are we on this project

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33867651)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 11:05 PM
Author: Unholy set

once again, it completely dropped off my radar and I barely even remember what it was I wanted to write at this point. I can still conjure up the mental image of the break room and the emotions within, but not enough to transcribe it to narrative at the moment.

I'm pretty sure I can do a short piece on racial taxonomy still.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33871031)



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Date: July 28th, 2017 12:12 AM
Author: Iridescent thriller property antidepressant drug

I hope the inspiration has not totally evaporated ... dig deep, u can maek it. 180 thread btw, you're on my radar now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33871580)



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Date: May 1st, 2015 2:27 PM
Author: cerebral coiffed sex offender

bump for the suit-forgetter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#27801833)



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Date: May 1st, 2015 3:20 PM
Author: Lascivious plaza

(AZNgirl)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#27802204)



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Date: May 2nd, 2015 1:33 AM
Author: Zippy Carnelian Idea He Suggested

180est thread I've seen on XO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#27805797)



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Date: July 27th, 2017 3:57 PM
Author: Domesticated coral university half-breed

Forgot about this post, Sotomayor McCheese needs to regale us with another tale.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33868256)



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Date: February 8th, 2018 6:42 PM
Author: Unholy set

you've been regaled

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35358178)



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Date: July 28th, 2017 12:17 AM
Author: At-the-ready diverse roommate menage

Xo 2007: "How to cop job at Norton Rose in London?"

Xo2017: "How to cop jerb at Nordstrom's in mall?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#33871621)



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Date: December 28th, 2017 12:33 PM
Author: Iridescent thriller property antidepressant drug



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35025964)



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Date: February 5th, 2018 12:10 AM
Author: bull headed cobalt foreskin orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35326159)



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Date: February 8th, 2018 11:58 AM
Author: Unholy set

The Break Room: Prole Chick Heaven

The break room was an altar to the emotional comforts routinely relied upon by lower middle class women: dimmed lighting, carbohydrates, and Oprah. The latter was playing on a large television at the front of the space every time I set foot within, with one exception where Steve Harvey was consoling a different fat black woman about God knows what. The remainder of the room was set up with the kind of melamine and steel chairs and tables favored by many high schools. Each of these, regardless of the time of day, was occupied by a rapt woman in a cheap suit and too much makeup. These women absently-mindedly grazed on their pita and hummus, or chips, or bread and cheese and grapes, as they paid unerring attention to Oprah.

God help you if you disturbed the atmosphere. Any interruption to the two-dimensional crystalline deity was met with a slow but silent glare from every participant, a telepathically choreographed ritual informing the interloper of his excommunication from the herd. Just walking in there as a male was enough to receive a minor taste. Men did not frequent the break room. They ate lunch outside, or simply disappeared while off shift.

The younger and cuter women also tended to avoid the break room. The Brass Plum/Rail girls wandered to the mall food court or off on quick dates with whichever mid-30s to mid-40s lawyer was sexlessly spending money on them that week. These girls, generally 21-25 and not yet drained of the effervescence that seems to disappear by 29 and 30 extra, found the break room unsuitably morose.

No, the break room was the sole domain of Prole Chicks resigned to their fate. They amassed each day for break to consume psychological garbage before sighing, steeling themselves with a visible and occasionally audible transformation, and heading back to the sales floor to sling other psychological garbage in merchandise form.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35355147)



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Date: February 8th, 2018 6:43 PM
Author: aphrodisiac jet-lagged doctorate

180, keep this up.

uunnngh BP girls

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#35358185)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 9:45 AM
Author: Honey-headed Provocative Ceo Messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37376266)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 12:10 PM
Author: Supple parlor quadroon

Fantastic thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37376828)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 12:38 PM
Author: bull headed cobalt foreskin orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37376988)



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Date: December 9th, 2018 1:30 PM
Author: Judgmental Selfie

1800000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#37377231)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 10:07 PM
Author: Unholy set

LOL thank god i no longer work at a nordstrom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#45743292)



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Date: January 5th, 2023 12:33 AM
Author: hideous athletic conference

what happened to the hakan rotmwrt hbd analysis of nordstrom shoppers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#45743952)



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Date: January 5th, 2023 2:31 AM
Author: Unholy set

i'll eventually type it up i guess

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#45744128)



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Date: January 5th, 2023 12:35 AM
Author: pontificating school



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#45743956)



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Date: November 23rd, 2023 4:06 AM
Author: hideous athletic conference



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#47089145)



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Date: November 23rd, 2023 6:09 AM
Author: glittery pea-brained jew



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#47089181)



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Date: November 23rd, 2023 6:56 AM
Author: Swollen duck-like church striped hyena



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2377005&forum_id=2#47089202)