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- UncleCrapper, on 01/12/2009, -3/+52514. I speak perfect English when customers are not around.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -13/+266Jerry Seinfeld: I think the only reason we go to the dry cleaner is so I can say to the dry cleaner, "Well, it's ruined." And of course, the dry cleaner can respond, "It's not our fault. We're not responsible. We just ruin the clothes. That ends our legal obligation." You see, the whole problem with dry cleaning is that we all believe that this is actually possible. Right? They're cleaning our clothes - but they're not getting anything wet. It's all dry. I know there's gotta be some liquids back there, some fluids that they're using. There's no such thing as dry cleaning. When you get something on your shirt, ever get something on your shirt and try to get it off like that (brushes shirt) - that's dry cleaning. I don't think that's what they're doing back there. They don't have eighty guys going (with imaginary brush) "Come on, hurry up! There's a lot of shirts today."
- roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -1/+211How else am I supposed to climb the corporate ladder?
- mlbwebdesign, on 01/13/2009, -2/+197You give blowjobs in a suit?
- pacman122, on 01/13/2009, -0/+182"This jacket is dry clean only, so it's dirty"- Mitch Hedburg
- roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -5/+164When I first bought my suit, I could've sworn half the money went on the coat hanger that came with it. Damn, I loved that coat hanger. I took it in to be dry cleaned only to have it back hung on -- what looked like -- a bent piece of pipe cleaner. *****.
Cum stains came out really nice though. - Gr00ver, on 01/13/2009, -13/+103Nice list, one page.. dugg.
The list, just in case:
1. Lots of "dry" cleaning isn't. "We do about 24 percent of garments in water," says Chuck Horst, president of Margaret's Cleaners in La Jolla, California. Perspiration doesn't come out otherwise.
2. It's not your gender, it's your clothes. Women's clothes—silk, special trims, buttons, slacks without a crease—can take more work and cost more too.
3. Yes, we use perchloroethylene (perc), and it's a probable carcinogen. But it's the best thing we have right now. If you can smell it on your clothes, they weren't cleaned correctly.
4. Most green cleaning is more green than clean. "Green Earth, a silicone-based cleaner, is safer and friendlier," says Steve Boorstein of clothingdoctor.com, "but it doesn't remove the multitude of stains that hydrocarbon and perc do."
5. People never remember to pick up their comforters. That's why this place sometimes looks like a Bed Bath & Beyond.
6. You blame us for damage, we blame your clothes. Instead of court or the Better Business Bureau, we'll suggest the International Textile Analysis Laboratory, run by our trade association. It's independent (honest!), and both sides get a report.
7. We've got our own definition of replace. We follow the Drycleaning and Laundry Institute's Fair Claims Guide. For a dress shirt that's a year old, that means 40 percent of the actual replacement cost.
8. Your lost clothes are probably in someone else's closet. We'd really prefer not to write you a check. (And if we say we have to get in touch with our insurance company, we could be stalling, hoping the clothes will turn up.)
9. Many of us will reuse your intact hangers and clean shirt cardboards. (Thanks.)
10. If we're charging you premium rates, please … let us sew that button on.
11. We're not raking it in. The machinery is expensive. The people who press your silk shirt get up to $20 an hour. It's a skill.
12. We've heard stories about dry cleaners who borrow a customer's dress for a weekend. But we're sure they return it clean.
13. The best clothing store in town can recommend the best dry cleaner in town. - Luciapalooza, on 01/13/2009, -0/+89I used to work for a dry cleaner's, and I'll tell everyone on here, I learned a LOT about clothes and how to take care of them.
Here's some more things that a dry cleaner won't tell you...
They clean everything according to what the ITAL guidelines are, so if something gets ruined by the way it was cleaned according to the guidelines- it IS the manufacturer's fault not posting the right care instructions to ITAL. But a good dry cleaner spot cleans each garment that has a stain on it (note: if all you want is one little stain out and it's organic-food/drink, then just go to your local cleaners and request a spot clean- they'll usually do it for free!). The dry cleaning process looks a lot like a washing machine, they wash it in a chemical called perc and it gets dried in the same machine, hence "dry cleaning". If you bring in simple cotton clothes, you're better off washing it at home, because they're just going to machine wash it anyway (we had a washer and dryer in the store as well); so don't waste your money; if you're just wanting a nice press job, machine wash/dry at home and bring the garments in for "press only" service.
Hope this helped those who are tired of getting ripped off. I worked for was an honest business woman (she's not Chinese- such a stupid stereotype) who told her customers all of these things that I'm telling you guys. A lot of customers would come in after being ripped of by such companies like Pride Cleaners and appreciate the honesty and services that we provided. Hopefully everyone finds a good honest place to take their clothes to. - roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -2/+84No, he doesn't. You just ruined the ***** joke. I just died a little inside. My god, there had better be another good one further down this thread which you haven't ruined. God damn it!
Hugs & kisses. - AYork, on 01/13/2009, -1/+63"You blame us for damage, we blame your clothes. Instead of court or the Better Business Bureau, we'll suggest the International Textile Analysis Laboratory, run by our trade association. It's independent (honest!), and both sides get a report."
You run it and it's independent? That's some trick. - ihate2regist, on 01/13/2009, -9/+62
- more24, on 01/13/2009, -0/+51I also worked at a dry cleaning location (drop-off/pick-up) we had our own plant elsewhere... so I didn't do any of the actual cleaning... though the way the customers screamed at me sometimes you would think I had... A lot of these are true (though the borrowing clothes I NEVER saw anyone do...that's just creepy in my opinion).
My favorite was when customers would come in with an insanely stained garmet (probably wouldn't come out) which i would mark with spot stickers and write a LARGE note on the receipt that goes with the garmet and the customer that the garmet was covered in stains - when the garmets come back and they couldn't get the old crazy stain out, the customer would flip out demand the garmet be paid for in full and that the stains were not there to begin with and then I would calmly show them the receipt... say, yes they were there, offer to do a free redo but warn them the stains probably wont come out and seeing their face caught in the act is priceless... crooks.
Otherwise that list is pretty accurate... people would leave there comforters there forever...
probably the worst job I ever had....
oh not to mention the most disgusting... I can't even tell you how many tails of shirts I spotted with unmentionable stains on them... - nsanidy, on 01/13/2009, -2/+50
- roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -1/+43I don't live in the US.
- wyntyr, on 01/13/2009, -5/+44If you are wearing clothes that need to be dry cleaned, you are a member of the bourgeoisie and an enemy of the revolution.
- FuzzNugget, on 01/13/2009, -0/+34That reminds me... I've gotta pick up my comforter.
- terribly1, on 01/13/2009, -0/+33I've been into one. Don't kid yourself...
It's hotter than hell with humidity approaching 100%. The clothes are hot, the washers are hot, the irons and the pressers are hot. Then, for fun, add to it you're working with (likely) carcinogenic liquids to round it all out.
Now you have to press bitchy-woman's silk blouse to her exacting, and somehow unobtainable standards. - KILLSTRUCTO, on 01/13/2009, -1/+31Well he obviously doesn't swallow that how he got the jizz on the suit.
- miriv365, on 01/13/2009, -0/+29All I know is that every time I would ask my cleaner how they got the clothes so clean, they would say.. "It's an ancient Chinese secret." Turns out it wasn't some secret formula, but Calgon!
- patrickchee, on 01/13/2009, -1/+25i knew someone who always forgot their stuff at the cleaner and the would call her ever few weeks and remind her- she lost half of it cause they donate it to charity after a certain time. they should double as a salvation army/dry cleaner.
- acmaurer, on 01/13/2009, -1/+24Man, owning a dry cleaners must suck :-( Unless you regularly wear your customers' clothes. Then that's just gross
- andrewlotta, on 01/13/2009, -0/+219. Many of us will reuse your intact hangers and clean shirt cardboards. (Thanks.)
Yeah, and the dry cleaner my family owns openly tells customers this. It's called recycling, which is something that all businesses should be doing, in whatever way they can.
11. We're not raking it in. The machinery is expensive. The people who press your silk shirt get up to $20 an hour. It's a skill.
Also, a presser could damn well be getting close to $20 an hour depending on their skill level. Good pressers are paid per piece, and good pressers are FAST.
3. Yes, we use perchloroethylene (perc), and it's a probable carcinogen. But it's the best thing we have right now. If you can smell it on your clothes, they weren't cleaned correctly.
Perc is becoming illegal across the country. New machines (like the one in my family's store) does not contain perc.
And to wrap it up, if a piece of clothing is damaged, we ask for a receipt, and if they don't have one, we ask them to be honest. If we agree (and we usually do), we pay for the clothes damaged. - hazello, on 01/13/2009, -2/+22Don't buy clothes that you have to wash in deadly death wax.
- graemee, on 01/13/2009, -3/+21Should have sued them for, say $54 million for losing your favourite hanger.
- Pelapp, on 01/13/2009, -2/+20WTF ?!?
"Undiggable"... ? - graemee, on 01/13/2009, -0/+17dugg for reality
- PGPirate, on 01/13/2009, -2/+18"we'll suggest the International Textile Analysis Laboratory, run by our trade association."
Yeh I bet you do suggest that. - smartcause, on 01/13/2009, -4/+20Those are super-useful things to know that I *never* would have thought to ask. Good article.
- madrid, on 01/13/2009, -0/+16I send on average about 60 shirts a month to the cleaners. I know that every one of them goes into the machine. Sure, I could do it at home, but for around $50 bucks for the whole order, they press them too, and for me, that's worth every bit of the money. Frankly, I could care less how they get it clean, just as long as it's pressed when I get it back. I realize not everything gets clean, and with that stuff, I just say ***** it and buy a new one. I try to treat my cleaners like gold. I give them my hangers back and everything. It's kind of a thankless profession, but I couldn't do without it.
- thetanman, on 01/13/2009, -1/+16Oh I can hear it in my head. I've seen him twice, fairly recently, and he still works hard at his routine.
- yanksn6, on 01/13/2009, -0/+14My friend owns his own dry cleaning business and they get paid to have the clothing drop boxes placed on his property needless to say currently there are two boxes there and they get emptied once a day. Moral of my rant pick up your clothes before 30 days.
- pclstyle, on 01/13/2009, -4/+18YOU OBVIOUSLY MISSED IT, FOOL.
- bpm2000, on 01/13/2009, -1/+15If they did on-site cleaning your opinion would have been DRASTICALLY different.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+14orly
- bpm2000, on 01/13/2009, -0/+13What was unmentionable?
Stuff I've come across:
-piss
-*****
-blood
-pretty sure jizz (course they wouldnt tell me)
-animal piss/*****
-vomit
-breastmilk
short of nuclear waste and such I'm pretty sure a drycleaners sees most of the fluids that people working in the medical industry come across (although not nearly as frequently of course). Yes i am speaking from experience on both sides although my drycleaners experience is much more developed thus far lol. - JakeBC, on 01/13/2009, -0/+1214. You left some money in the pocket.
- SangekiRein, on 01/13/2009, -1/+13I worked in a dry cleaners when I was younger, and this stuff hits the nail on the head. The whole green clean thing isn't really worth the money when you pay to have that shirt cleaned... seriously...And yeah... if you smell that stuff, it IS a bad thing... my boss use to say it wasn't... don't listen to that *****... make them re-clean it quick!
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+11You can make your own dry clean only clothing go farther by spraying cheap vodka (place in spray bottle) in pit and groin areas to kill bacteria. We used it all the time in theatre costumes that can't be washed. Always test non visible area first before applying a liberal dousing to the pit or groin area of a shirt, jacket or pants. Cheaper than febreeze and no scent.
- sdub74, on 01/13/2009, -0/+11That's your bad for giving them your hanger. What do you think they do? Hang your stuff up while it waits to get cleaned? No, they threw your suit in a bag just like they do with everyone's clothes.
- CDoug03, on 01/13/2009, -0/+10The unwritten rule for dry-cleaning: get an item, lose an item, it's karma.
- LoveAndSeagulls, on 01/14/2009, -0/+10you have to click a little above the thumbs up.
weird glitch - captainXscalora, on 01/13/2009, -1/+11He's just being professional, don't hate.
- kinseyincanada, on 01/14/2009, -0/+10how do you go through 60 shirts in a month? thats like 2 a day.
- mustafya, on 01/13/2009, -0/+920 dollars to press? I know lots of folks that work at the dry cleaners around the bank I worked at. They all made less than 10 bucks an hour except the manager. I think he made 10.50.
- h3xZ, on 01/14/2009, -0/+9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCMWgYxCOg
- ahughes, on 01/13/2009, -1/+10I haven't dry cleaned my "dry clean only" clothes in years. I find washing and drying them on a cold cycle with similar coloured and similar materialed clothes does the trick. I find this far more cost effective and my clothes actually come out cleaner than they do from the dry cleaner.
- fsweep, on 01/13/2009, -0/+9Everyone knows that shirts are laundered at the cleaners-- not dry cleaned.
But I agree--- I swear they last longer when professionally laundered. - tuxidomasx, on 01/13/2009, -2/+10i worked at a dry cleaners in high school. we totally machine washed a LOT of stuff. especially pants.
- SuperJimmyJimbo, on 01/14/2009, -0/+8Come ON! like the guy in the $5000 suit is gonna care about the coat hanger!
- bpm2000, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8so true.
Drycleaners protip: DONT act like you are special (want your hanger back, need your garment at a specific time, etc) and your experience will be MUCH smoother. -
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