#edit: coverstitch machine! thank you for telling me the name!

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I've been asked at least twice if I can do knitwear, and no! no we do NOT have the equipment to redo that industrial edge finishing that's done by some sort of fancy knitwear specific machine! If I can't do it on this industrial straight stitch machine, or the blind hemmer, then take it away please.

And yeah, a few times I've been asked to do something that I CAN do, but isn't really worth the time, and costs the customer quite a lot.

"Can you shorten this shirt by 5" and use the extra fabric to add a patch pocket?" I did do that one, and matched up the plaid perfectly, but why couldn't he look somewhere else for plaid shirts with pre-existing pockets?

I also did take the shoulders in on a blazer once for a rather oddly shaped old guy, which was pretty miserable but turned out alright.

And I've shortened blazers multiple times too, which isn't so hard, but it's a bit slow and fiddly to get the bottom edge to look the same as before.

I work at a suit store too (Jos A Bank to be exact and before that Men's Wearhouse) and boy howdy. Our alterations are always a mess so I feel you bro

It's so annoying! So many people don't know how to mark things correctly, or don't fill out the card properly, and sometimes they completely forget to mark a hem (so I have to go track them down and ask if they remember how much it needed to be shortened by), or they don't circle something on the card (so I might miss it completely).

OR they say "yeah we can do that!" about something unusual without first asking me if it's possible to actually do such an alteration, which hasn't happened very many times, but even once is too many >:(

A lot of the time it's new employees, but there's a guy who's worked there for years who also messes up fairly often. Fortunately when that happens it's not my fault, and I don't have to interact with the customers, so I don't stress about it.

Overall my co-workers are nice and I like them, but they are still capable of being very foolish and annoying.