Talking about flipping my classroom... I wanted to get 6 whiteboard panels. The people who came up with this concept recommend having them cut. Okay. Go to the lumber store, have them cut a whole sheet down. Cheap! Fifteen dollars as opposed to ten dollars per each precut sheet. You do the math: $15 or $60?
So I went to Home Depot. Against my better judgement, because I thought "Nah, forget it, yo homes to Bel-air!" Uh, Lowe's. I considered going to Lowe's first. That's my point. I walked through Home Depot and found no one working in the lumber section. Surprise. I grabbed a cart and picked out my own white board. I looked for someone who may have shown up to their station... nope. So then I found the nearest person who then walked to find someone. Dude disappeared. Five minutes later, I hear a "ma'am!" from the front of the store/aisle... that guy I asked for help just decided to yell "someone's coming, it'll be just a minute!" at me from across the store.
I was standing there for a good 10 or 15 minutes waiting. So I facebooked, checked my email, checked twitter... then I decided to place a call. To Lowe's. And not quite so quietly either.
Customer service: How can I help you?
Me: Uh, yeah, so I'm over across the street at Home Depot and need some whiteboard cut. If I come over there now, will someone do that for me real quick?
CS: Of course. We've got like three guys back there.
Me: Mkay, be there in 5.
All the while this obvious call is being placed, no less than TEN workers walk past me and don't even stop to help me or anything. And I am giving them gigantic WTF looks too. Tools. So I went over to Lowe's and I was in and out of there in 10 minutes. It only took the guy about 5 minutes to get my board cut.
I really want to say so much more. Mostly profane stuff. But I just need to get back to work.
No comments:
Post a Comment
I would love to hear from you!