Jenny was rude, not solutions-oriented and unpleasant to deal with…read more
Picture this: a customer shows up as instructed to by Extra Space for a move-out, with a cross-country moving company and is told that the Extra Space "policies" somehow forbid that *longtime paying customer* to move out of their own storage unit.
What you would expect from customer service:
1) Customer is told they are forbid from moving out due to certain policies despite being there with ID and movers
2) Customer is apologized to for the inconvenience
3) Employee works to find them a solution immediately to get the move on the road
How customer service is here:
1) Customer shows up to move out but told they can't move out due to policy
2) Jenny (employee) acts annoyed, is disrespectful and mean, and tells customer there's no solution but to do the move another day
3) Customer tells her to call her GM
4) When told to call her GM she says "but they might not even pick up", like its a hassle to even call (girl! you have movers and a customer expecting to move out right in front of you - what!!!)
5) All parties involved wait for an hour when they are finally allowed to do the move
Jenny: If you don't know the solution for a problem, then you need to call your GM immediately and find one, given legitimized circumstances - you have your customer at a physical location showing ID, you have the movers and an authorized user at the unit showing ID and the customer has ordered the move. It's clear there is no sketchy situation going on and customer wants the move. This poor customer service would be understandable in the case Jenny was protecting the unit from theft, but when ID's were given that wasn't a possible circumstance, and the poor customer service became inexcusable. For every problem, there is a solution - and that is a foundation to customer service.
We had called Extra Space (exact location) 4-5 times to confirm this would go seamlessly. The customer service was great, everyone we spoke to was kind. We were told what we needed to do for our move to work out and we executed. Unfortunately despite receiving clarity and triple checking, day-of we were met by Jenny who kept telling us we couldn't do the move and there was no solution. Finally, after an hour we were able to do the move - but when we asked which floor our unit was on, we were told they couldn't tell us - even after ID's were shown, we knew our unit # etc.
So, 1) Amazing customer service outside of Jenny, we spoke to multiple people there. 2) Amazing GM, thank you so so much for helping us out. But 3) Please place an emphasis on customer service training because this was not it and inconvenienced MANY MANY people, while putting a move on the line.
Customer service does not mean being combative with the customer, unprovoked, when *YOU* have inconvenienced them. Customer service means working on finding a solution because you inconvenienced your customer and taking accountability. Customer service does not mean gaslighting your customer saying "no one could have told you those moveout instructions" when we were careful to take notes of our phone calls to ensure a seamless move.
And before you say "we don't have you as ever being a customer" - This move was for my boyfriend. And before you say "he only called us twice" - I called you more than that.
Leaving this review at 2 stars, .5 star for Jenny for finally calling her GM after *asked to* and a 1.5 star boost for the GM who carried the whole Extra Space team. I won't go as far as to say not to use this facility, because I know the other workers were polite to us, and the GM found us a solution and cares about this facility - but I would be hesitant to use this facility if you expect all around kindness, true customer service, and ease with move-out. Then again, Jenny could learn from this situation and maybe we prevented you the hassle we were met with by going through this.
For storage-only purposes, we recommend Extra Space - our things and unit was super safe.
Again, thank you so much to those who made our move happen and those who were kind during this experience.