I joined Yelp and wrote a review 3 weeks after the incident, to express my frustration regarding your team being too busy to followup with me after all that time. You immediately took the time to write an untruthful, condescending reply. Yet, it has been 4 weeks and no one from your franchise has reached out to me regarding the serious and egregious conduct of your employee. How irresponsible it is, that you choose such a public forum in which to make your very first contact with me.
How can you say you looked into the matter when no one has spoken with me or taken an incident report? Your store did not even ask for my name and number. That is why Corporate is involved. You obviously did not review the footage and the employee is still employed in the same capacity. My purchase came in early and I have not picked it up because I know Thea is still working in the same posirion and there are no locks on the doors to keep her out while I try-on my order. It was not all about the fitting. I did not want to see her or be near her after leaving the dressing room. I pulled my mother to the side and asked her to ring me out while I talked to Jen, the Manager. Yet, Thea called me to her and insisted she needed me to stand in front of her... We asked why and did not get an answer. After I finished speaking with Jen, Thea turned away from her customer and practically followed me out the store. It was absurd.
I have had countless fittings. Some dressing rooms don't even have doors. When Thea did finally... eventually... join us in the fitting area, her being in the fitting area was not at all the problem. If I asked her to assist me in some adjustment, closure, etc, obviously I would not complain about her doing her job. There were a lot of inappropriate things said and done by Thea.
When I told her that she was making me uncomfortable, her behavior became more aggresive. It escalated to inappropriate, then to harassment. I had entered a dressing room with no door, that would be one thing. But to have someone repeatedly opening the dresssinng room door on you, with a fitting area full of guests (strangers to me) right on the other side, while I'm bent over at one point, while my breast are exposed at another, after I have asked her not to, after I have made clear my various stages of undress, is not her being a professional stylist.
Your reply does not explain why, with other customers waiting for her:
Thea came back into my dressing room , after the fitting, when I was putting on my own dress. Before she opened my door, I specifically told her not to open it because I was only in my panties (and my open bra, which she had reached down my back and undone without being asked). I made myself that perfectly clear. She acknowledged what I said and then she came in anyway. Then she would not leave; I had to pry the door out of her hands while covering myself.
The dressing room door is a boundary. If a customer on the other side of the door tells you she is not dressed and asks you not to open the door, and you acknowledge that you've heard her right before opening the door anyway, with a room full of people, on your side, including someone of the oposite sex, and you do this repeatedly, then you have violated that boundary. Thea's comments, the fact that she reached down my dress AFTER I told her she had made me uncomfortable, her behavior when we arrived and when we left, HER COMING INTO THE FITTING ROOM WHEN I WAS PUTTING ON MY OWN DRESS, AFTER THE FITTING ... She literally left the fitting area, turned around and came back into the fitting area, then into my dressing room.
At that time, she crossed the line, clearly into harassment and I said as much, then. The gentleman sales associate was there when I opened the door, dressed. I asked him if a manager was working, he told me her name, then I asked him to point her out for me.
An appropriate response would have been to: take my information, at the time, when I spoke with the manager; ask if I would like to make an incident report; and commit to following up on the matter. Or to contact me as soon as you became aware. Instead, I received a call from Loss Prevention and a condescending reply on Yelp.
I am in my thirties. My 'mother' was there because weddings are happy, family occasions. In fact, there were 3 of us. Do not patronize me. I am not the only customer who has experienced Thea's strange behavior. Thank goodness I am not the teenager that perhaps you thought you were replying to. If I were a teenaged young lady picking out a prom dress, afraid to speak up, who knows what would have happened . Who knows what may have already happened, that went ignored and dismissed, as you have done with me for 4 weeks read more