Size Up, Size Down. Intro-ish As promised, more stories.Warning: rants in between. Today we had a lot of fats in denial. We either have the small fat to death fat. We have a list of people from a certain dept to come in for uniform fittings. Most were human sized. Some men have pot pellies. The women are small fats. Anyway- today I had a dude confidently tell me he was a size 32 in waist. Quite honestly, the more i'm learning about sizing, the more clueless I am about it. I don't fucking understand anything above a 32 for women's and men? I don't even fucking know, you guys have a lot more parts to think about lol. I just wrote it down, it's easier for me to get the sizing down and he stupidly brought his kid with him. Second dude doing this. I get it, cute kid, but you're coming in to get your uniform fittings. It's not a "here's my sizes. K. Bye." Every style fits differently and this group had a range of options. Rant over, lets get to the point- once my boss got off the phone he came to help. He's ADD and wants me to go over everything outloud, so I do. I tell him the sizes we've got so far, he looked at the dude and said no. "Go try these on." and he grabs him 2 sized pants, bigger than what he claimed to be. --- side note: I've been having to tell people the sizes run smaller than what they're used to. I have no fucking clue if that's true or not. I'm starting to think it's not. They're just all in denial. The protocol is to grab them their said size and a size bigger. I've had multiple people both men and women accuse me of calling them fat. Of course, fats. One lady almost cried and told me under her breath why was i calling her fat. I told her "[fake innocence]ohhh noooo! They all run differently, I'm new to this myself and you're not the only one... (fatty)" Needless to say, I usually end up having to grab the bigger size.--- So the dude goes to try the pants and the 36 end up fitting him. While the guy was changing my boss came over to whisper that that guy couldn't even breath in 32 and barely in 34 pants ahahahah. Also, his belt-- usually size up in this uniform belts. He goes with the 38 even though he can barely get on the last loop. When gathering the stuff we have available in store for the guy (once he's gone,) I tell my boss about the belt. He goes "he needs a 42. Get him that one." And so I did. Fucking hell was he in denial.  The belt incident was not the first one. Earlier today I had a dude in 36 pants struggling with the 42 sized belt. But nooooo, he wanted the 38. Thinking it was a 36. I corrected him and let him have it. Mother fucker. Your choice fat shit.  Now, I have to add in that we have a lot of county and city depts we work with.  This one is for city dispatch dept. It will be the only one I'll be open about because this is also the list where I had to order the crazy sized pants i mentioned in the last post. We had a new hire come in and they apparently started getting uniforms because even though no one sees them, the uppers are tired of seeing them dress "slutty" and "skanky." So they have the choice of pants and/or long skirt (lol). She asks to try both on to see which fits "best." This thing has a fupa that went all around. I don't understand fupas, I don't get where they start or end. We don't have the skirts in the store so she opts out of it, wants the pants. I ask for her size. She tells me 12. Hell, if i know wtf a 12 is in men's. I'm a 26/0. My math is bad as fuck, I need paper and/or calc. Again, where is this fupa even starting?? The only thing going through my mind is "wtf. where is her waist? Where is her stomach ending or starting? Would it be mean to ask if she wants to tuck it in? Does she usually have it hanging out like right now?? I don't want to be obvious and give her our biggest size..." aaaaand I go for a 42 and 44. She claims to be a 2XL and I have her try one "just in case b/c they're in men's sizes." I fucking knew it wasn't going to fit well. She ended up leaving with a 52 pant. 3xl shirt.  Also, it was tucked into her pants. fucking miracle. Belt guy had his stomach hanging out.   32 waist band guy on the other hand.... he wanted it low and that's when my boss said no no no. "gotta be professional."