Regarding Lawrence Laundromat which is located at 711 W. 23rd St. in Lawrence, KS -- I, a previous customer (but not anymore) was treated very disrespectfully by a young man who cleans at nights -- when he found a baggie on the floor and said it was mine and told me that this happens "often" and he said if it doesn't stop, then I can't come back. I don't know if this baggie was mine but I wasn't coming in "often" (as I told him) and I had even been out of town for 10 months. He denied this and lied when he insisted I come in "often", because I had not. He also lied when he claimed he checked the camera and he said it showed it was my baggie (I'm sure it did not) -- and he had the gall to say this baggie disrespected customers. If this wasn't the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of (and untrue), I don't know what is. I never put a baggie on the floor and I'm sure the camera didn't show I did, and even if there is a baggie on the floor, it's barely noticeable and I know other customers don't care! When you look around this laundromat (on the floor), you see lots of "trash" like dryer sheets, bits of trash left by other customers, which this sorry and pathetic cleaning man doesn't reprimand anyone for leaving these things things -- but just cleans them up -- and yet he gave me grief over a baggie on the floor and threatened to not allow me to come back in if it doesn't stop.
This cleaning man is a pathetic and is a liar and he totally disrespected me, a clean customer who never leaves messes. When I told him that I'm going to report this to the owner and asked how I can talk to them, he told me I can't -- that all I can do is leave a google review. As it turns out, I found at that one of the owners comes in almost every morning at 9 am (as I'm sure this cleaning man knew) and that I could talk to them if I wanted to. I chose to write a letter about this disturbing and disrespectful experience instead so I could include the details and they could refer back to my letter if they wanted to, so I wrote a letter to the owner describing this incident and left it at the laundromat office, in an envelope. I put my email in the letter so they could respond back to me, but they did not.
I did go back into the laundromat one more time after this experience and lo and behold I saw a baggie (someone else's) on top of one of the large washers. I know this low life cleaning man who disrespected me saw it also -- but since it wasn't mine, he did nothing about it I'm sure. But, if he thought it was mine, I'm sure he would have given me "grief" and disrespected me again.
I decided to not return to this laundromat anymore after this harassing experience and after the owner's refusal to respond to me -- but I did make a review of this at the Better Business Bureau, wherein I described this young man as being a punk, being dishonest (a liar) and a low life. He deserved these adjectives from how he treated me and from the many untruths he told me. The laundromat owner (whose first name may be "Ross") finally responded to this BBB review thru email and he verbally attacked me for calling his employee these names. He never apologized to me for the disrespectful way his employee treated me, but only verbally attacked me for calling him names, which I didn't do to his face but only in my review -- but which he most definitely deserved. This shows who the owner is and that he lets his employees disrespect customers, as I was. It's obvious to me that Lawrence Laundromat's owner values and respects his employees more than he does customers -- and that he doesn't care if one of his employees disrespects a customer. I'll never return to this laundromat again, but I think the owner is as much of a low life as his employee who disrespected me/harassed me, without cause. I believe the employee who treated me in a very disrespectful did so because he knew the owner wouldn't care. All of this very much reflects on the owner and shows his low standards and lack of respect towards customers. If the owner had any decency and respect, he would have responded to the letter that I left in the laundromat office but he did not, and this shows his indifference to how his employees treat customers. I'll never return there again, but he doesn't deserves the business he gets. He wants customers but he doesn't respect them, but rather he respects his employees more and doesn't care how they treat customers. All this reflects on the owner and how he feels about customers. read more