The Car Wash Life

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

July Fourth

This past Fourth of July was a slow day at Location A. Some years the automatic tunnel has done over 200 cars. This year we were no where near doing three figures. The reason for the slow day I believe stems from the Fourth falling on Saturday, a day that is the middle of a party weekend. People are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 3, 2009

Ripped Off

Our self-service car wash bays have an alarm that sounds when the customer's wash cycles have one minute remaining. Having this courtesy signals to the customer that they better hurry up or to insert more quarters with each quarter bringing an additional thirty seconds. Should time expire a customer... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Issues Regarding Jennifer's MySpace

After having read the comments regarding last entry, "Jennifer's MySpace," I felt the urge to address the issues people raised. At first I opted merely to respond in the comments section. Later I felt that because of multiple issues being raised it would just be better to create an extra entry this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Jennifer's MySpace

Once in awhile I like to check out the MySpace accounts of employees. What I look mainly for is to see if anyone mentions anything related to the car washes or anyone that I know. Jennifer, an employee at Location D had a very interesting blog post made a month ago that I saw for the first time a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Rattled

I felt pretty rattled after working at Location D on Tuesday. Location D is different from our other locations in that it has a convenience store. The store proved to be a source of stress. I accidently ran a product twice on a customer. After he paid me he realized he was double charged and was... Sign in to see full entry.

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