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Personal Narrative: My Experience At The Jcpenney Store

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While working at JCPenney, a young woman and her grandmother came into the store to have the granddaughter fitted for her first bra. The grandmother took me aside and explained how embarrassed the girl was about developing. Instead of fitting her right off, I walked around the department with her, showing her all the cute styles available for young girls. I didn’t mention her own nervousness, but instead explained to her my own trepidations when purchasing my first bra. This process made her feel more at ease, and she ended up enjoying the process of selecting bras. The grandmother wrote into the manager of the store thanking me for making the experience easy for both of them. At JCPenney the lingerie department had the highest rate of shoplifting, due to the abundance of easy to grab items. Consequently, we became very good at spotting theft. One afternoon, there was a group of young girls who were continually going into the fitting rooms with panties. However, none of the undergarments were making their way back out. As soon as the girls began walking away from the department, I went into the fitting room, found price tags stuffed into the molding, and called security. As a result, it was discovered one of the young ladies was attempting to leave the store wearing 16 pairs of panties. …show more content…

We cut the deli meat in store. One day while I was working on register, the employee working on deli side let out a bloodcurdling scream. She had severely cut her hand while running the slicer. I ran over, turned the machine off, put on rubber gloves, and began to try stopping the blood with one hand, as I called 9-1-1 with the other. She still shows me the scar with a smile, whenever I see her out and

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