Just_Steve
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Definitely. You can operate physical controls without taking your eyes off the road. Not so with touch screens, plus they take more brain resources.
Isn't that what steering wheel controls are for?
Definitely. You can operate physical controls without taking your eyes off the road. Not so with touch screens, plus they take more brain resources.
People who make reservations but don’t honor them.
I have a sometimes gig as a bike guide. There is a summer camp for girls about 30 miles away that brings about thirty of their campers out periodically. They rent bikes and ride out/back for about two hours. Dozens of people every day (hundreds on a Sat or Sun) ride this trail without assistance, but this group requests a guide to help supervise the girls and take care of any potential equipment issues. For religious reasons the guide (and preferably the shop staff) must be female.
My peeve is that this group does not show up when their reservation says they will. A couple of weeks ago, they had a 2 pm Wednesday reservation. It was raining hard and steady, so I checked with the office at 1 pm before leaving for the trailhead sho to make sure the group hadn’t cancelled. No word from the group so I made the drive. Our office called the shop at 2 pm to say that the group hadn’t left camp yet, but were coming (it’s a forty minute drive from the camp to the bike shop). The group showed up at 4 pm, and after twenty minutes of dithering decided to postpone the ride to Friday at noon.
I go up to the shop Friday for a noon ride, they show up at 2:00 pm. No phone call, just showing up two hours late.
Another instance: The camp has reservations for thirty girls at 2 pm July 5th. They show up with sixteen girls at 4 pm on July 4th, expecting a guided ride. They were fortunate that there was an extra person working because of the holiday, otherwise no one would’ve been available to guide them.
Yesterday the camp had reservations for 2 pm. I showed up at 1:30 to set up the bikes. At 2:05 we got a call from the office, the group would be there at 3:30. At 4:00 we got a call from the whitewater rafting center (our sister company) that the campers were there (20 miles away from the bike shop). The same camp has been here at least three times— you think they might know where we are? The bus finally showed up at 4:45. I finished at 7 pm, on a day that should’ve ended at 4:30.
I don’t know if it’s a case of rudeness, entitlement, or cluelessness, but the adults running the outings for this camp really get on my nerves!
the adults running the outings for this camp really get on my nerves!
I don’t know if it’s a case of rudeness, entitlement, or cluelessness, but the adults running the outings for this camp really get on my nerves!
What happens if you just leave after giving them 20 or 30 minutes to show up? Showing up two hours late and then expecting the reservation to be honored is just rude at the least and I'd call it arrogant.
And danged if I'd guide them anywhere if they did that to me.
Attention grabbing sound effects on commercials. The two that drive me absolutely nuts is 1) the Trip Advisor owls "HOO!!!!!!!" at the beginning and end of the commercial. It's not a owl, it's some female singer that YELLS "HOOOOO!!!!' and 2) Honda's "ding dong" doorbell that they also do at the beginning of the commercial. Just STOP with this...I beg of you!!!
I’m not the boss. My guess is, if I left when they didn’t show up on time, I’d no longer be asked to guide the trips. But that would put me in a bad light for the other trips I like to work (longer bike trips and whitewater trips). I wouldn’t leave the owners hanging, but I may decline to take these “camp” trips next year.
It may be that the owners don’t even know how “high maintenance” this group has become. Customer service is drilled into all of the employees, so all of us in the loop (reservationists, shop keeper, guides) just do what it takes to keep them happy. I’m friends with the owners; next time we are hanging out around a campfire I’ll ask if they realize what’s been happening.
It’s also possible that the reservationists have not communicated to the group that we are going out of our way to accommodate them. Maybe they think that we keep a guide at the shop to go out with anyone who asks at any time?
I’m not the boss. My guess is, if I left when they didn’t show up on time, I’d no longer be asked to guide the trips. But that would put me in a bad light for the other trips I like to work (longer bike trips and whitewater trips). I wouldn’t leave the owners hanging, but I may decline to take these “camp” trips next year.
It may be that the owners don’t even know how “high maintenance” this group has become. Customer service is drilled into all of the employees, so all of us in the loop (reservationists, shop keeper, guides) just do what it takes to keep them happy. I’m friends with the owners; next time we are hanging out around a campfire I’ll ask if they realize what’s been happening.
It’s also possible that the reservationists have not communicated to the group that we are going out of our way to accommodate them. Maybe they think that we keep a guide at the shop to go out with anyone who asks at any time?
I’m not the boss. My guess is, if I left when they didn’t show up on time, I’d no longer be asked to guide the trips. But that would put me in a bad light for the other trips I like to work (longer bike trips and whitewater trips). I wouldn’t leave the owners hanging, but I may decline to take these “camp” trips next year.
It may be that the owners don’t even know how “high maintenance” this group has become. Customer service is drilled into all of the employees, so all of us in the loop (reservationists, shop keeper, guides) just do what it takes to keep them happy. I’m friends with the owners; next time we are hanging out around a campfire I’ll ask if they realize what’s been happening.
It’s also possible that the reservationists have not communicated to the group that we are going out of our way to accommodate them. Maybe they think that we keep a guide at the shop to go out with anyone who asks at any time?
I'm happy to be able to report a nice outcome to my frustrating experience with Best Buy.... going to wait till tomorrow to be sure I've cooled off before talking to anyone there.
So glad to hear about the nice outcome!I'm happy to be able to report a nice outcome to my frustrating experience with Best Buy.
Thank you!So glad to hear about the nice outcome!
Wow. I would be boiling if they had tried this stunt.Similar thing happened to me, Bought a open box tv online. Got it delivered.
TV worked great. Box was missing the feet for the TV. Called support and asked
them to send me the feet. No can't do that. I needed to take it to closest Best Buy store.
Took it to the store and tried to get them to just give the missing pieces. No can't do that.
My only option was a refund and then I bought new one at full price. They put the other one
back in the "open box" system for the next sucker.
Doctors who write a new prescription for you for 90 days. And then when you have a severe reaction, you obviously can't return them. Why not write for 10 days to give it a test drive, then you can call the office and have the rest sent via mail order?
Had this happen recently. Doc gave me a medicine for a cough and I asked specifically if it had heart burn as a side effect. "Nope, never heard of that". After I got the prescription filled and had the worst heartburn, I Googled it and heartburn was one of the main side effects.Because when it comes to bad reactions most doctors will claim they've never even heard of such a thing.
Doctors who write a new prescription for you for 90 days. And then when you have a severe reaction, you obviously can't return them. Why not write for 10 days to give it a test drive, then you can call the office and have the rest sent via mail order?