The Car Wash Life

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Monday, June 25, 2018

Call in the Morning

I got a call this morning from Cousin Vince. Location B's RFID system was down. When that happens, the Car Wash Club customers' RFID stickers do not scan and the automatic touch-free credit card system goes down. The computer had gone off, probably due to a thunderstorm overnight. The computer was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 24, 2018

The New D

I am going to write about how things are going with Location D nowadays. D's convenience store was closed about six weeks ago due to stiff competition from nearby Royal Farms. The car wash has been kept open. One of the biggest questions in my mind was how D would handle being mostly unattended,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Rainy Day Policy

Dad's unofficial rainy day policy has different effects on employees. For full-timers. like myself, if we are sent home early, we still get paid. Part-timers who are sent home are not paid to when they were originally scheduled to work. Sometimes, Dad will have employees stay if there is mechanical... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Smooth, Where's the Part?, RFID No-Show

o far, things have been going smoothly on Dad's vacation. The only mishap occurred in Myrtle Beach, when Dad went into the ocean with his phone in tow. Before I went away on vacation on June 2, I ordered a part for Henry Barrett's car wash compressor and paid for it. The part was not shipped nor was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

History Repeats Itself

History has a way of repeating itself: Summer 2002. Dad took Ann to the pool my family and me belonged to at the time. "Remind me to take off my pager," Dad instructed Ann. Dad mainly used his pager at that point to receive error codes from Location B's automatic touch-frees. You know where this is... Sign in to see full entry.

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