Wild Goose Chase Day
Friday was a real silly day.
Thursday 5:30pm my boss’s boss asks me to joing him in Frederick for a client meeting. No problem, I say. The meeting is at 10am and I leave at 8:15 and get there at 9:30. It is a typical manufacturing building - cinderblock, giant logo painted on the side, peeling. There is a greenhouse frankensteined onto the front entrance for some reason. Anyway, to make a long story short, it was a waste of time. Two and a half hours of driving for a 1 hour meeting that was laughable with a client whose CEO reminded me of someone out of Deliverance. Ah, Fredneck, how I love thee.
Laughed all the way home.
Then, I took the afternoon to go to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Anne Arundel County with the goal of buying cabinets for our kitchen renovation. Jen had called and tried to set up and appointment. The lady on the phone refused to tell her what they had in stock and said just drop by and order what you want. When we got there, a real bitchy woman informs us that we need to make an appointment to “design our kitchen”
Ahem. We don’t need to design anything. We have a plan, the number and sizes of what we need.
Jennifer says, “But that’s not what the woman on the phone told me when I called to make an appointment, she said just drop by. We drove a long ways to get here…”
Well, that helped a little bit. The lady pulls out a list of everything they currently have in stock, which is a fair amount of overstocks from Home Depot, brand new, in boxes. But, they have no 42″ cabinets, no corner cabinets, no skinny cabinets.
Why didn’t she offer to fax us the list in the first place? They do have a fax there.
We gave up. So much for trying to help out Habitat. Frankly, folks, I would recommend not going there. The people are anti-helpful and constantly fighting amongst themselves (we’ve been there twice.)
Anyway. We are going to Oregon Ridge today for a little nature and green week activities.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:38 am
You should tell the folks at Habitat that this store sucks and that you’ll be purchasing somewhere else. Point them to your blog and tell them that litterally thousands of readers come to your site a day (okay, mabye not). But telling them that you won’t purchase from them because the staff at the store are complete turdholes will get thier attention.