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    Marina Chronicles: No, two hours is not enough time...edition!

    I'm baack in storefront!

    I have an eclectic variety of rants today. A MIM, COC, three SCs, and Brain Burp.

    MIM:


    So apparently, the lady at [Lake] Storage, where some of our customers store their boats, is very touchy. WE are not allowed to call her. SHE is allowed to schedule for us, WITHOUT notifying us.

    NOBODY is happy.

    COC:


    So I work 3 hours, from 7-10 every morning, except on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when my coworker doesn't feel like it, so I stay later. And if he doesn't feel like coming in? I have to work more. And if he feels like coming in earlier? I have to go.

    SC: Boat Scheduling

    Guy: I want to get my boat in. I was thinking later this week. How far are you out?
    Me: Well, we're a week out, maybe two.
    Guy: TWO WEEKS?
    Me: We have Thursday open.
    Guy: This Thursday? (two days from now)
    Me: Next Thursday.
    Guy: I was really hoping this Thursday.
    Me: So what time were you thinking?

    We had a guy call and ask if we could put his boat in today. Two hours after his call.

    Um, no.

    As we get to the holiday, it will only get worse.

    Luxuries vs Necessities

    Finally, my boss made a woman cry by quoting '150' for a trailer, to buy. She wanted to know how she could pay her bills.

    Not buying the trailer might be a good start.


    Brain Burp: Gender Swapping: Phone Edition

    Guy: Who am I talking to?
    Me: (clearly female name)
    Guy: I thought you were your father.
    Me: ...
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    MiM -- Methinks it's time to start looking for a new storage place >_> Her employees work based on the schedule she sets...Anyone else, not so much.
    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
    Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
    "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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      Well, we have our own storage lot. It's about a mile long (though I don't know how wide it is.) It has three buildings, one of which is used for repair, not storage.

      They are looking into buying another storage lot with a storage building on it, that has gone into foreclosure.

      Then there are two major storage lots that aren't us, that we sometimes get winterization and summerization customers from. This lady is one of them. We can't really tell the customers they aren't allowed to store with her, because there's no more room.

      Right now, I guess the procedure is that the customer has to schedule with both of us separately.

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        Ew. I wonder if there is a diplomatic way to inform customers of this la-....we, excuse me, woman's attitude? If she regards ALL custy's that way...
        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
        Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
        "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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        • #5
          Quoth Cooper View Post
          Brain Burp: Gender Swapping: Phone Edition
          Guy: Who am I talking to?
          Me: (clearly female name)
          Guy: I thought you were your father.
          Me: ...
          Hah hah. I got some like that whilst working in same company as my brother.
          First three months I answered our teamphone as my familyname (same as my brother has, but he answered by his first name) and all was fine. Then I started to use my first name like others in our team did. So I answer "team this-an-that + my female name" and people began to talk me like I'm my brother.

          Then they said "oh, I thought you were *my brother*."

          And our names are not even closely similar!

          Well thank you very much!!

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