I think a certain hardlines team member needs to have a shift in softlines.. It's not that easy on the carpet!
This! Unless you've worked a night (god forbid it happen to be Fri, Sat, or Sunday, or worse, a holiday) you will never know what all goes into keeping it brand. When you get your reshop from Guest Service, you just put it out right? Well, guess what? Softlines has to process nearly everything! Almost everything has to be either folded, hung, have it's buttons re-done, zipper zipped up, etc, etc. That is a lot different than scanning your item, seeing the location, and placing it back on the shelf. Heck, softlines hanging isn't even located! You just have to know where it goes.
Flow team constantly overstuffs our tables and I would like to see you zone a table where they stacked it to the roof and a guest came, pulled a shirt out of the bottom, and now 20 shirts are all over the floor + table. How about trying to wiggle a hanger with a dress into it's spot since flow team overstuffed that too to the point where it's even unshoppable? Or the clearance racks, where it's a savage free for all, with clothes ALL over the floor. I'd like to see you over in shoes where guests simply drop the shoe on the floor, wiggle their foot into it, decide they don't like it, and simply walk off. From what I have seen, hardlines doesn't end up with many things on the floor in comparison to softlines. You think it doesn't take time to pick it up and either put it back, or take it to the fitting room for it to be processed again?
Honestly, OP should feel lucky and thankful he doesn't work in softlines, because almost everything that occurs there is enough to drive a person bat**** crazy.
This happens at my store too! And people wonder why we always have to do softlines re-shop for smart huddle!
Your store is lucky. At my store, no one helps soft lines. They leave us on our own even after Christmas when we had 20+ baskets and 2 team members there to push it. But they did celebrate after getting hardlines out chiming that "reshop is all done guys, good job! thanks for helping!"