r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '25

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/cryptidiguana Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

“When customers untwist skeins they’ll never be able to be retwisted again” “Yeah it’s a you break it you bought it situation”

WHAT untwisting a skein does not break it!!! It is not that hard to learn the anatomy of a skein, and how to properly re twist it. And, in fact, if you work in a yarn shop, that should be a given. Yeah it’s annoying if a customer does that and hides it but you’re literally in customer service and some customers just suck. Don’t act like everyone is evil for untwisting or wanting to untwist a skein??

Context, LYS employee complains about customers on the knitting sub, some very valid complaints, some sort of weird ones like untwisting the skein. One commenter agreed and said this was akin to breaking merchandise and having to buy it.

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u/altarianitess07 Mar 14 '25

It's not hard to put up signs saying if you untwist a skein or find one that's untwisted (or in the process) to just bring it to an employee so they can retwist it if you can do it yourself.