Reporting...describing employees

When asked to describe a employee espically w/o name tags , and you aren't supposed to use words like.....white, black, mexican, female, male...sometimes I just draw a creative block...any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Alive human non-male was something I said once.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain
It depends on the MSP. Some indicate which traits to use, and if they don't, take pot luck. I have one bank that asks weight, and I have no idea what people larger than me (5'0"winking smiley weigh. But they've never questioned my answers. Another says to NEVER mention weight. The donut shop always wants to know if hair color is brown, blond, red, etc or DYED. Duh!

Has anyone ever described some women as having a mustache?
I have always been amused because one place I shop it is not company policy to have employees wear name tags. I am to get the name off the receipt and the cashiers at this place evidently do not close down the register when they go on break, so anybody handy will take my order.

A recent description was male, 5'6", short black hair, mustache, 28 yrs, no glasses, name was Desiree.

Unfortunately there rarely is an opportunity to adequately describe the bizarre hairdos that would definitively identify the employee. A recent shop had mid-back length hair (probably falls rather than her own), pulled up and back and then loose in ringlets, approximately 1/3 of which were hot pink. Or the one with shoulder length black hair pulled up and painted in alternating horizontal bands around her head a metallic blue.
Flash, sounds like a coffee joint!

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The shop that amuses me is the one asking if the associates are "attractive". Ridiculous or what?
I once did a job where the drop down hair colors were the norm. There were five to choose from. It did not include the green color of the employee I interview. I did add this into the narative but was later told that that was not necessary.DUH.
I have described earrings or glasses before. Presumably an employee wears the same earrings pretty often and can be identified from that. Once, I said her blouse size was two sizes too small. Around here, a description of the cowboy boots might describe the employee.
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> Flash, sounds like a coffee joint!

Nope. I avoid the coffee joints like the plague smiling smiley The male named Desiree was a burger joint, the female with hot pink tresses was at a roast beef sandwich place.
No one that fits those descriptions works at the FF places here. Here they are mainly new immigrants, clean cut. But the coffee places here have a lot of employees who look like that. Funny how the demos vary so much from place to place! :-)

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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Here I sense that the Patels have taken over all the healthy sandwich shops and gas stations. The Juans have taken over all the cell phones. The 5'4" Marias have taken over at least one banking chain as tellers. And at the BBQ restaurants all waitresses stand about 5'6" with a brown or blonde medium length ponytail worn straight, age 28 and no glasses.
I have had a female named William at a FF and a male with the name tag of Casandra. The one that I ran into when I had to describe an employee, was a young lady with five different colors in her hair. She also had a nose ring, cheek stud, 5 earrings on each ear, a stud in her lip and one on her tongue. I think she also had a ring on an eyebrow. This is a leading drug store. I see her quite often. Since I could not be specific, in order to pinpoint her, I put a male, I encountered, in her place. There was no way I was going to get in the middle of that one.
Space alien, Deech.

Oh, I forgot. I have mentioned whether a female was wearing makeup. If she doesn't, then she never does, and the employer would have that as an additional point of identity.

Once on Halloween I shopped a clerk who was wearing one contact. It was black-and-white swirls. The rest of him wasn't very normal, either, but Deech has me beat.
I think it's Staples that has added "green" and "purple" and "shaved" to its hair color list. I still don't know how to describe people with 2-color hair, but no MSP has complained.
I had a deli employee at the grocery named Rome. When I commented on his unusual name and asked if it had something to do with his parents travel schedule, he blushed, and said, "Something like that." Got it! I was right!

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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
There was a male at the convenience store named "Random", he said his parents were the high priest and priestess of a local pagan coven and named the kids funky stuff.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain
I finally did it yesterday!! I described a female bank rep as having a slight mustache. I'm waiting to hear from the MSP.
Be prepared to catch heck for that one Sneakers--almost all of the companies have notes that you are to say nothing unflattering. Early on I described one as having "Significant dermatological issues" and really got my hand smacked. This was a poor kid who had a face full of ear-to-ear zits, most of which had formed white heads he was scratching at or had recently popped. I was so taken aback by the extent of his acne that I hardly registered a word he said. I did, however, mostly keep from staring at the disaster area called his face. Hair color? No idea. Glasses? Yes, they magnified the zits. Height? Taller than me so probably 5'9" or 5'10". Race? Caucasian, though if "Red Skin" had been an option . . .
They asked for distinguishing characteristics beside the usual features, but I expect to catch heck for the mustache.
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