How do you all manage to keep the off-stage fitting room area clean? Areas like the closet, on the desk and under the desk?
I work about 30 hours a week, likely operator for most of that, and everyone else has over 100 hours a week to stash stuff there. Anonymously too, no one with the authority sees them put it there so no one with authority tells them to not put it there again. I am not physically there at all times to tell them nope. I don't have time to keep the fitting rooms and clearance clean, sort and put reshop, zone RTW or men's or sleepwear, and clean up everyone's crap by taking a cart or two full of fixtures and signs to the fixture room and backstocking all the stuff that doesn't have a set date yet (which at times has been 3 repack boxes full). Plus people just forget stuff exists. I was told that some merchandise had to stay on the desk because there was no location, and it stayed. Last night I scanned it and it's had a location for weeks. But no one who was setting the planogram came to collect them, and there's no actual physical setup for them in that area.
I've actually had a bit of a bickering match a couple times over keeping the area clean. Once I was told to clean the closet, given time to make it sparkling clean, and I was told that no fixtures were to go back into it. Got the closet done an hour before the end of my shift, and 5 minutes before the end of my shift another TM arrives with a cart full of fixures and starts unloading them. The closet hasn't even been clean for an hour, and had it been 10 minutes later all my work that day undone. I said nope and she said "Fine, you take it to the fixture room then." Another TM put some opened, partial underwear packages on the desk and I said nope, take it to GS for salvage and she said that it had to be on the desk.
It's like everyone understands the expectation that the desk and closet should be clean, but in their minds it's no one else should put stuff there, but they need their stuff easily accessible and therefore it has to be on the desk or in the closet. Every time I do have time to ditch the fixtures people act like the world is ending next time they need a fixture.
So yeah, for those who have limited hours in the store, how do you keep the area looking good?