October 2014 Moms
SusieBW
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NBR: random venting for a minute
SusieBW
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I have two things to bitch about. Feel free to disregard, I just want to get it out.
1) Today, I made an appointment for 12:15 for a pedicure during my lunch hour. I got there at 12:12, picked a color and sat around waiting. Around 20 past, I get a chair and sit soaking my feet reading my book, waiting. Some walk-ins show up, and get manicures started while I'm still waiting. 12:30. 12:40. Finally at 12:45 I get up to leave, and they dude says "oh, he'll be with you in just a few minutes." I'm sorry, I made an appointment for 1/2 an hour ago because I have to get back to work! And they took walk-in manicures before they got to me? Nope. What a waste of my lunch. Would you have left?
2) Yesterday, DD and I went to get my car washed and vacuumed at the big carwash. I do this rarely, but my car was really bad. The place I like was closed (at 5:00 on a Thursday?), so we went to a new place. DD was playing with a $5 bill in her seat that my MIL had just given her when I picked her up, and when I took her out of her seat so they could vacuum, she dropped it on the seat, and I know I probably should've grabbed it, but I honestly didn't think it was such a big deal. We got back in the car and she went to get the $5 - gone. There were about 4 dudes standing around who had just finished vacuuming and washing my windows, and I asked them if they had seen the $5 that she left on the seat. One said he saw her playing with it before she got out, but then hadn't seen it and another one half ass looked around for it before saying to me "I'm not blaming her (DD), but I mean, it's money. If you saw her drop it on the seat, why wouldn't up pick it up?" Excuse me? I said "I'm sorry, why wouldn't it be here when I came back?" He just shrugged and said he was sorry, like that was the end of it. Unfortunately, that was the end of it, because there were two cars behind me just waiting to get out, so I just left, but holy crap, I was apeshit. There is every chance that it got vacuumed up by accident, but the one kid was just so shitty about it. And, to make it worse, the sign outside says $20 for inside/outside wash, and they charged me $25. DH is going to send the owner a letter on his work stationary (he's an attorney).
It's not my week. Hopefully the weekend is better.
1) Today, I made an appointment for 12:15 for a pedicure during my lunch hour. I got there at 12:12, picked a color and sat around waiting. Around 20 past, I get a chair and sit soaking my feet reading my book, waiting. Some walk-ins show up, and get manicures started while I'm still waiting. 12:30. 12:40. Finally at 12:45 I get up to leave, and they dude says "oh, he'll be with you in just a few minutes." I'm sorry, I made an appointment for 1/2 an hour ago because I have to get back to work! And they took walk-in manicures before they got to me? Nope. What a waste of my lunch. Would you have left?
2) Yesterday, DD and I went to get my car washed and vacuumed at the big carwash. I do this rarely, but my car was really bad. The place I like was closed (at 5:00 on a Thursday?), so we went to a new place. DD was playing with a $5 bill in her seat that my MIL had just given her when I picked her up, and when I took her out of her seat so they could vacuum, she dropped it on the seat, and I know I probably should've grabbed it, but I honestly didn't think it was such a big deal. We got back in the car and she went to get the $5 - gone. There were about 4 dudes standing around who had just finished vacuuming and washing my windows, and I asked them if they had seen the $5 that she left on the seat. One said he saw her playing with it before she got out, but then hadn't seen it and another one half ass looked around for it before saying to me "I'm not blaming her (DD), but I mean, it's money. If you saw her drop it on the seat, why wouldn't up pick it up?" Excuse me? I said "I'm sorry, why wouldn't it be here when I came back?" He just shrugged and said he was sorry, like that was the end of it. Unfortunately, that was the end of it, because there were two cars behind me just waiting to get out, so I just left, but holy crap, I was apeshit. There is every chance that it got vacuumed up by accident, but the one kid was just so shitty about it. And, to make it worse, the sign outside says $20 for inside/outside wash, and they charged me $25. DH is going to send the owner a letter on his work stationary (he's an attorney).
It's not my week. Hopefully the weekend is better.
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Re: NBR: random venting for a minute
The car wash place...well I don't trust anyone so I would have grabbed the money but I think the "it's money why would you leave it" line is pretty much "yeah, I took it but you can't prove it" in disguise. How flipping shady. And I'm a wuss so I wouldn't have called them on the $25 charge but you should have!
Sorry this hasn't been your week...the good news is that it is almost over right?
1. I would have left. And been really annoyed...that's just terrible service!
2. It would upset me, but I would just try to let it go. Hope that one of the workers snatched it instead of it getting vacuumed up, and that he really needs it and will use it to provide for his family. Consider it a funny way of paying it forward and hope that wherever the $5 ends up, it'll buy something good/useful/helpful.
2) I would be passed. And would be venting to DH and see if he would do anything about it.
It seems like since becoming pregnant people are pissing me off even more.
1) yeah I would have left. I hate when businesses aren't organized
2)It's so sad people can't be trusted. They couldn't even come up with $5 in tips to give her smh
I can't imagine how hard it has to be, in the current job market with the current crappy economy, for an ex-con to get a job and try to turn their life around. I get that hiring these guys is a valuable and admirable thing to do, and I completely support that. But after what I experienced there yesterday, I'm certainly not going back. Not even because of the money so much as the way they handled it.
Bottom line, I hope @Emerald27 is right, and one of the dudes maybe took it because he seriously needs the money. It just sucked a little more because it was DD's money and I had to explain to her that it disappeared at the car wash.
2. I never leave anything in my car when I (rarely) take it to be washed and vacuumed, but it was extra sucky that they knowingly took money from a kid.
I absolutely would have left! Especially if they took walk ins before you. I'd be pissed.
I probably would have been pissed about the $5 too, especially if it was my kid's money. I probably would have just left though, since I am passive agressive most of the time.
Sorry you are not having a great week! TGIF & I hope your weekend is a better one
1. The nail place I go to always tries to squeeze in walk ins, and I wait longer if I have an appointment. I quit making appointments because it was so annoying.
2. That's ridiculous he stole from a kid and worse he was so shitty to you about it.
:-/If I made an appointment and was sitting there waiting for a pedicure while others came in and got manicures, I'd be really pissed. I definitely would have walked out, and I'd never go there again.
I don't leave much in my car, but whenever I know a stranger will be in there, I empty it out. If that happened to me, I'd be fuming, but I'm a wuss so I probably wouldn't do anything about it except write a review.