i am a woman who works in the automotive department at sears, its not the first time i have worked in automotive, the first time i worked there i was a tech that installed tires and batteries, that was 13 years ago, so i return due to having problems finding another job as an admin assistant.
i regularly answer the phone
"thank you for calling sears auto center how may i help you"
i regularly get this reply
"i need to speak to someone in the auto center"
or
"automotive please"
its not once or twice, but about 95% of the people who call in male or female.
i have had a few people blatantly ask to speak to a male sales person because i obviously do not know what im talking about because im female. (and this is before they let me know what they are calling about)
it was worse when i was a tech though, people would see me walk out to their cars, and have a fit about me working on it,
"what do you mean shes going to work on my car, i want some one else shes gonna mess my car up"
my fave from back then was this guy who had complained about the possibility of me working on his car, demanded that some one else do it, when he was told i was the only one he demanded that he borrow some tools so he could do it him self and then when he finnaly let me work on his car i go to drive it in and the seat was welded so you couldnt move it.
so i had a regular customer who, always requested me to work on his car he brought in a different car every week (all toyotas for some reason and i dont think that he was a dealer) the guy is standing next to the jerk as he is trying to watch everything im doing from the observation area, i over hear the toyota guy rave about my work and how i am the only one who works on his cars at this shop. the guy just sat there and fumed about the whole issue and all because he was too cheap to buy 2 wrenches to prevent me a feamale from working on his car (oh the horror)
i regularly answer the phone
"thank you for calling sears auto center how may i help you"
i regularly get this reply
"i need to speak to someone in the auto center"
or
"automotive please"
its not once or twice, but about 95% of the people who call in male or female.
i have had a few people blatantly ask to speak to a male sales person because i obviously do not know what im talking about because im female. (and this is before they let me know what they are calling about)
it was worse when i was a tech though, people would see me walk out to their cars, and have a fit about me working on it,
"what do you mean shes going to work on my car, i want some one else shes gonna mess my car up"
my fave from back then was this guy who had complained about the possibility of me working on his car, demanded that some one else do it, when he was told i was the only one he demanded that he borrow some tools so he could do it him self and then when he finnaly let me work on his car i go to drive it in and the seat was welded so you couldnt move it.
so i had a regular customer who, always requested me to work on his car he brought in a different car every week (all toyotas for some reason and i dont think that he was a dealer) the guy is standing next to the jerk as he is trying to watch everything im doing from the observation area, i over hear the toyota guy rave about my work and how i am the only one who works on his cars at this shop. the guy just sat there and fumed about the whole issue and all because he was too cheap to buy 2 wrenches to prevent me a feamale from working on his car (oh the horror)
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