I see that Rona at Southland well deserves the rumour that it is going broke.
Yesterday they had just inside the contractor doors and across from customer service a display of 32 x 80 steel pre-hung doors. There was only one RH door left and it was on the upper shelf. The store was nearly empty and the customer service guy with the tattooed arm was standing there doing nothing.
"I'd like that RH door from up there please." says I, "It's the last one."
He says "You'll have to go back to windows and doors and they'll get you one." I stifle my reply that I thought the sign said customer service, and trudge to windows and doors where there are neither personnel nor any 32 x 80 RH doors. There is a large young man 3 aisles over at the construction materials desk. I ask him for help. He offers me every form of assistance possible except actual help. He calls someone else to do the work and assures me someone will be right there at the racked doors to get one down for me.
Gathering a cart I await the actual Rona employee willing and able to help. Mr customer nonservice is still idling about. He watches me for about 5 minutes while nobody comes. I know he is live to the issue because he then pages a window and door employee to come help.
There is no motion for 10 minutes until I silently leave for Home Depot.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Friday, 6 January 2012
LRT Offensiveness, again.
I see that LRT trains still have priority at street crossings.
Why can't the tax eating freeloaders who ride the LRT stop at traffic lights and wait their turn?
Why can't the tax eating freeloaders who ride the LRT stop at traffic lights and wait their turn?
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
LRT Offensiveness
I see that our local lawgivers still give light rail transit traffic priority.
We poor fools sit here in our vehicles behind the barrier in rush hour fuming as the train does not come. Where is it? In the station, a hundred yards down the track, taking its own sweet time. It's past, why does the barrier not rise? Because another train cometh from the other direction.
Meanwhile traffic is now backed up for 3 blocks to the west and maybe 4 or 5 blocks to the east and the major north south road 1 block east.
Did the drivers attempt to coordinate to minimize disruption? Har.
We poor fools sit here in our vehicles behind the barrier in rush hour fuming as the train does not come. Where is it? In the station, a hundred yards down the track, taking its own sweet time. It's past, why does the barrier not rise? Because another train cometh from the other direction.
Meanwhile traffic is now backed up for 3 blocks to the west and maybe 4 or 5 blocks to the east and the major north south road 1 block east.
Did the drivers attempt to coordinate to minimize disruption? Har.
Retail follies part 1 of many
I see that Future Shop still thinks they can compete in appliance sales by making customers wait for a delivery from out of town.
That's even worse than my recent experience with Home Depot, where they took my order, made me wait 2 weeks for the stove and pay $50.00 for the delivery. Mabe, Home Depot's supplier, then called 3 or 4 days later to tell me they were out of stock and it would be at least 3 weeks. Order cancelled.
Meanwhile I had an unhappy tenant with no stove, so back I went crawling to my usual wholesaler.
That's even worse than my recent experience with Home Depot, where they took my order, made me wait 2 weeks for the stove and pay $50.00 for the delivery. Mabe, Home Depot's supplier, then called 3 or 4 days later to tell me they were out of stock and it would be at least 3 weeks. Order cancelled.
Meanwhile I had an unhappy tenant with no stove, so back I went crawling to my usual wholesaler.
Monday, 2 January 2012
Home Depot follies, part 1 of many
I see that Home Depot Canada still has one of the worst web sites ever.
I need 6 new windows for a renovation project. When I enter 'windows' in the search field I get 1473 hits. I narrow them down by category and find that none of them, not one, is an actual 'window'.
My very dear Home Depot fools, if I wanted skylights, I would enter that into the search field. Likewise, caulk, awnings, rugs (?), and so on.
I need 6 new windows for a renovation project. When I enter 'windows' in the search field I get 1473 hits. I narrow them down by category and find that none of them, not one, is an actual 'window'.
My very dear Home Depot fools, if I wanted skylights, I would enter that into the search field. Likewise, caulk, awnings, rugs (?), and so on.
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Secondary Suites
I notice that the local lefty paper and politicians are on again about secondary suites.
They, and all planners, seem to have missed the point, which is the usage load on a property.
Who cares if a house with basement suite has an elderly retired couple upstairs and a single student down? I would care a great deal if my neighbor sold his house to a large family, say mother, father, brother in law, 3 teenagers and 2 little kids. They will of course be replete with 2 cars per adult and a motorcycle or two for the teens, plenty of friends, parties and all the usual accoutrements, such as a large smoky fire pit and multiple high speed comings and goings. They could be the nicest people in the world and they would still be overloading my neighbors house, which is a 2 bedroom bungalow.
And yet situation one is illegal and situation 2 is perfectly legal.
How about a bylaw that each occupant must have 500 square feet if an adult and 250 square feet if a child and that there be off street parking for all but 2 vehicles for any single residential building? Or something. Maybe create a point system with a by-law enforcement visit if there are egregious breaches by many points.
They, and all planners, seem to have missed the point, which is the usage load on a property.
Who cares if a house with basement suite has an elderly retired couple upstairs and a single student down? I would care a great deal if my neighbor sold his house to a large family, say mother, father, brother in law, 3 teenagers and 2 little kids. They will of course be replete with 2 cars per adult and a motorcycle or two for the teens, plenty of friends, parties and all the usual accoutrements, such as a large smoky fire pit and multiple high speed comings and goings. They could be the nicest people in the world and they would still be overloading my neighbors house, which is a 2 bedroom bungalow.
And yet situation one is illegal and situation 2 is perfectly legal.
How about a bylaw that each occupant must have 500 square feet if an adult and 250 square feet if a child and that there be off street parking for all but 2 vehicles for any single residential building? Or something. Maybe create a point system with a by-law enforcement visit if there are egregious breaches by many points.
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