Customer service...by manager or underling at times can be a disappointing and ingrained experience. I love hardware stores in general for the inspiration and fun brainstorming provided with staff for non traditional challenges. Which I then buy the products suggested after brainstorming...I am happy, the employee knows that I know he's smart because he endevored for a solution so he's happy , and menards corporation is happy because they made another sale $$. I am also o.k. understanding
This scenario is great if... managers, department heads, employees who are not managers,
-Did not talk about how they punished another employee for something frivolous and petty deed by assigning him with a undesirable task multiple times near other customers.
-Employees whom you have never met before turn there back on you, and when you quicken your step and say "Excuse me, could I ask a question" for just being pointed the right direction, not ten feet in front of you turn down an isle and out of sight.
Yes they did hear you but you are just another bothersome customer.
-Approach with a smile inquiring about the pricing of a plant, have the employee who is apart of the department hear the the exchange of inquiry 14 feet away glancing at you while organizing a shelf, not aproach, making the non gardening recipient search for ten minutes for him. He is found...And you ask you self this question...why did this person not come over? She found him. To surprise whch was to be the same guy 14 feet away...I did not aproach him after she went to go find someone because he made no motion, or inclination to talk, and he stepped out of site as soon as she announced let me find someone. And because before talking to the young lady, I approached him first with an "Excuse Me". Of which he did not respond so I assumed maybe he was someone sent to to this department over inventory discrepancies.
(Exept standing there straitening items on the shelves like an office clerk would at a desk if there had not had any calls or clerical duties recieved to be done for awhile.)
I will not go into detail but I found out why this employee was still employed...this manager who he returned with or maybe even managers are fostering an environment very much not conductive to employee teamwork,...favouritism, privilege removing, snubbing, false appearances in helping others among employees are hallmarks of a work place many sincere and hardworking individuals leave to work somewhere else. Leaving the creepy employees behind.
Yes,..it's not just the customer...the employees who work with these or under these "duds" do have to put up with the same stupid crap that the customers do.
"managers overlooking sour laden behaviour because they do it them selfs." Yes even the managers above the mangers and so on.
They give the well behaved underlings a hard time in subtle and stealthy ways because any employee who is at all showing that they value doing things the right way, threatens their position. "Insecure people need to not have there inner sense of authority threatened thus are the cause of a miserable work place. Therefore do soul sucking things to keep this invisible balance."
And the poor attitude gets directed at you the customer also. Yes these not so great workers at menards do to you, what they would do to thier coworkers becuase there are not really consequences and the social environment this menards location promotes and feeds , keeps this type of thinking and way of being alive. Thriving in the support brought be misscommunication and acknowledgment among select employees inadvertently or overtly that this is o.k.!!
I love menards....and the inspiration it brings. I have grown up beings menards fan.
But from what I know of the Menona Wisconsin (Sadly the closest menards store.)
Give the few good employees who actually do a good job lots of praise because you the "Awsome happy relaxed undemanding customer" who made their day. (Which true costomer service oriented employees are motivated by genuine thank yous thus strives for them). So keep this in mind... When you leave the store location...these few exceptional employees cannot until their shift is over and so are in crapster job becuase of what I have mentioned above.
I have witnessed or encountered at least two other top customer service or job responsibility inventory tracking fails...besides what is mentioned above.
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