What a BIZZARE and rude experience I've just had!
There are three or four service stations in town.
I can't say enough good things about the other three.
Recently, I inherited a whole bunch of automotive tools, and so I took a walk to the closest service station, across the street from my church to see if anyone there could use them.
I initially thought that perhaps there might be a young mechanic that could. I'm not a car guy. I'm a technology guy. I initially hoped that I could sell some of it, but my main intention was to find it all a better home. I had recently hired a local organization expert who helped me put it together along with lots of bags of clothes too. I had just donated pet supplies.
So I thought about going to Bob's because it's the place I always drove by that had the nice dog in front. Initially, the woman that was there, Bob's wife was nice. She explained they didn't need anything and that her husband had just gotten rid of a lot of stuff himself. One of their mechanics said he would stop by.
He was REALLY NICE.
He wound up coming by AFTER work, and saw how much stuff I had.
He bought a few tools for $20 and then was nice enough to call his friends to see if anyone wanted to buy anything.
When we determined that no one really needed anything, I asked him about where or who I could DONATE all these automotive tools.
We struck up a conversation and my fiancé came home. Hurricanes had just pounded PR and I mentioned to him that I had 6 bags of clothes that I was looking to donate. So he called his wife to see if she knew anyone - because I was looking to have someone picked it up. He asked why. I mentioned that my car wasn't running and I was looking to sell it.
So, NATURALLY, him being a mechanic - he asked me about it.
THIS GUY WAS SO FORTHRIGHT - that he said he couldn't work on it because it was frowned upon for him to service anyone in town outside of their business, but he could give me advice. Ok - Terrific. I told him that my BMW battery was dead - but I hoped it wasn't the starter. He was KIND enough to offer me a jump start as a GOOD HUMAN BEING.
It didn't seem to work. He said it might be better for me to take the battery out of the car and charge it. So, I, not him, removed my battery from the car (after watching a video on YouTube) and gave it to him. I insisted, because he was so paranoid about getting in trouble for helping anyone after hours. I joked that he must be kidding. He said he would come back later to pick up the clothes for donation to Puerto Rico.
I guess he was so tired from working all day, not on my car, that he forgot to take the tools he gave me $20 for. So I called his office a few days later to let them know he forgot something.
When he came back he told me he GOT IN TROUBLE at work.
I FELT HORRIBLE, and I was PERPLEXED. What was he in trouble for??? He said they assumed he had been working on my car, and I guess he brought my battery there to charge.
A few days later I, not him, had time and I put the battery back in the car. Lo and behold it wasn't even charged!!! (or I did it wrong)
I wasn't sureso I called the shop with the intention of first, CLEARING HIS NAME, and letting them know this guy was not only a GOOD HUMAN BEING, but a LOYAL WORKER, and also to simply ask if the battery he gave me which I installed myself was even charged at all. This guy was SO LOYAL he hadn't even given me his phone number.
What I then received on the other end of my phone call has me totally flabbergasted - and I guess it explains the other reviews on here about NASTY experiences when working with this shop.
As soon as I called, and asked what the name of the worker was, I was responded to angrily and told that this was his "place of business". I couldn't even get out words to assure them that he didn't WORK on my car. They wouldn't give me a breath to say how good, nice and loyal he was.
When asked why I was calling, I explained that I wanted to ask him ONE QUESTION.
Again, that was responded to RUDELY. The woman, who I thought was nice in person, said I could leave my number, and I said sure, and a second after I said that - she hung up!!!!
So.. I called back.. this time the man, Tom, the owner of the establishment answered and announced himself as such.
I said, NICELY, I am trying to understand what happened. He let me get a breath in, and so I started out that I lived in town, that I was looking for a place to fix my car, I had come by the other day because I had inherited out parts, and was now looking to donate them .. AND he CUT ME OFF and YELLED at me that I was a liar and looking to sell them!
I can't begin to imagine what sorts of problems they have had in the past that they would just ASSUME the WORST of their worker, or me for that matter. Again, I was hung up on without getting another word in.
I called again to ask when I could come in person about this misunderstanding. I'm writing this in advance of that. read more