More bowlin' bitchin'
Well, as the 'Sergeant at Arms' in the bowling league, it's my job to make sure that nobody gets out of control. Keep in mind that this is a Wednesday afternoon league, and it's all women, and the average age is over 60. So, my only real task is making sure the smokers don't smoke near the other bowlers but in the designated smoking areas. (It's a non-smoking league.)
However, when I was on vacation, our two smokers, who like to freely share their carcinogens with others, decided they could smoke at the desk, right next to other bowlers. One of the subs went to the desk and asked Fred, the bowling center employee to ask them to move to the designated area.
First he told her that the league was not non-smoking, but she reminded him that it was. (I think that he probably mean that the bowling center is not a smoke-free facility, which it isn't.) Then he said that if he had some walk-ins who smoked, he could put them right next to our league, and that there was nothing that she could do about it.
HUH? What's the point of being snotty and disrespectful to your own customers? This is a small league and certainly isn't financially carrying the bowling center, but we are there for 30 weeks and when the center wants us to change our time to accommodate tournaments that they bid to get, we just do; no complaints, we just change our time to help them out.
So, as I was talking it over with he league president she said that she had asked the employee not to put a family right next to our league. (There were 8 lanes open.) He told her that since we don't rent the lane next to us he can put anybody there he chooses.
So, I wrote a litter to the owner about the incidents that I heard of, and the one that happened to me with this same guy last season. Hopefully he'll have a talk with the a*hole. In these tough economic times I can't believe that employees are so disrespectful to their customers.
However, when I was on vacation, our two smokers, who like to freely share their carcinogens with others, decided they could smoke at the desk, right next to other bowlers. One of the subs went to the desk and asked Fred, the bowling center employee to ask them to move to the designated area.
First he told her that the league was not non-smoking, but she reminded him that it was. (I think that he probably mean that the bowling center is not a smoke-free facility, which it isn't.) Then he said that if he had some walk-ins who smoked, he could put them right next to our league, and that there was nothing that she could do about it.
HUH? What's the point of being snotty and disrespectful to your own customers? This is a small league and certainly isn't financially carrying the bowling center, but we are there for 30 weeks and when the center wants us to change our time to accommodate tournaments that they bid to get, we just do; no complaints, we just change our time to help them out.
So, as I was talking it over with he league president she said that she had asked the employee not to put a family right next to our league. (There were 8 lanes open.) He told her that since we don't rent the lane next to us he can put anybody there he chooses.
So, I wrote a litter to the owner about the incidents that I heard of, and the one that happened to me with this same guy last season. Hopefully he'll have a talk with the a*hole. In these tough economic times I can't believe that employees are so disrespectful to their customers.
