The Offie staff at the Waddell and Litchfield location In Surprise Az, was completely unprofessional, unhelpful, and lacked the number one customer service rule on Thursday Dec. 14th at 5:30pm. After 12 months of going to this location and being treated like me and my time matters by letting me know the approx. wait time before I can be seen. On this night I went in, swiped my card and asked how long the wait was, the girls just looked away and said nothing, I asked again, "how long is the wait?" Again, they just blinked and looked away, I couldn't believe it, these same girls were always completely polite and full of information, so I asked if they were ok......maybe the place was being held up, maybe they were having a mental problem, like an emergency. They said they were fine, I asked again what the wait time was, they replied that they are not allowed to give anyone a wait time because there had been some customers that came back after the wait time that was given and they were told they had wait longer, and because it was taking time away from duties they are supposed to be doing. I replied that this sounds like a training problem, not a customer problem. They said no the training is fine and continued to look away as if I did not exist. I asked if they would still call me, they said NO, they weren't allowed to do that either, I asked what I was expected to do? Was I expected to sit in the front office? They bluntly said Yes. As I observed, these girls kept looking in the back and leaving the podium, something I had not observed before. So my take away is that they just removed customer service and replaced it with continuously leaving the front desk and ignoring customers. So, they expect people to sit in uncomfortable chairs in the overcrowded lobby and stare at all the advertising that says come here to relieve stress that causes sickness, release worries, be the best You that you can be by coming to The Joint. Yet they don't take reservations, they aren't allowed to use obvious resolve called communication by giving out approx. wait times and explaining or displaying that they are "APPROX. TIMES." They take hours sometimes and want to crowd everyone up or there's a threat you may lose your spot. Who is running the customer service training here? This is simple as pie to fix. How about get a scrolling board showing each person's place in the line up? This couldn't cost but pennies, shoot I'll donate the monitors to hang and I'll donate the one time fee for the software. Or, how about use one of your printers and print out some signs explaining the APPROX. WAIT TIME and give out the approx. wait time again? Better yet, if the training department wants to turn their front desk staff into robots, how about have an app that people can see when their turn is coming up and have the option to get themselves over there or lose their turn. Shame on this company, whomever is in charge of training, they need some training themselves in customer service.......like what they had less than a week ago.......customer service that set them apart from the new robot rudeness. Let me know and I"ll kick the money and time to train some customer service, it'll only take 8 hours and The Joint will be back the way it was and better. read more