For the past twenty five years, I’ve owned and operated a gymnastic studio. My students are generally both teenagers and teenagers and range in age from 13-years-old to twenty. I hold beginner and advanced classes 6-7 days per week! Every year, I offer a selection of studio T-shirts, sweat pants, fleecy hoodies, shorts and blazers for my students. The garments all feature our studio logo for advertisement. The only thing that changes is the color of the T-shirts. The people I was with and I regularly choose a current color each year, and the students love to collect them as often as possible. Those students who have been with me the longest, have lots of shirts in all bizarre colors. Placing the order for all the bizarre items of studio clothing is regularly a bit of a nightmare in my world. When the teenagers sign up for the season in late November, they will each receive an order sheet. The order is always due with payment by November 30th. I make sure to remind the students and their strict parents about this due date multiple times. I know that there will regularly be those who manage to forget, lose the order sheet and miss the due date, then compiling a highly accurate list of how several blazers, hoodies or shorts in the several sizes is always severely time-consuming. I need to be easily careful and avoid sizing errors so that each student receives the respected item. I then hand over the list to the custom printers. Most of the time, the print corporation I work with is easily good about having the order fulfilled on time. However, I’ve experienced some delays with the fleece blazers, and all of the other fragile items are silk screened. Once the printer has completed my order, I need to make sure I pass them out to the right item to the student. The whole process is a substantial hassle.
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