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Something I get every week...not sucky, as much as it is mind boggling. I have people come up to me and ask me how to find [location]. It's perfectly understandable when they're looking for the place across the street because they got crossroads only as directions, but sometimes...
I actually looked up one of these locations once, and they were looking for a building that was clear in another city. How did they end up down here? No idea.
Here is how the conversations usually go...
Them: Hey! Hey security!
Me: Yes?
Them: Where is [Building that I've never heard of before]?
Me: Do you have an address?
Them: No.
Me: ...Then I can't help you. I've no idea where that place is. (Also, how did you expect to find it if you don't even know where it is?)
Them: [Response ranges from a polite thanks anyways to rude annoyance]
Who doesn't look up the directions on google maps or whatever before venturing off to find the place they need to get to? Do they expect to just wander around until they can find people to point them in the right direction?
An Extra:
People come to the building all the time looking for this place that's right across the street. Unfortunately, said place happens to be surrounded by trees, so the building is not easily seen. Nonetheless, if you crossed the street, you couldn't fail to see it. (Well, I say that, but in fact someone has come in claiming that they were over there and couldn't find it. Lies, I say. But who knows?) Here is another sample of the countless conversations I've had over the years:
Them: Hi I'm looking to get [X].
Me: Ah ok, well that is actually right across the street at [X Building].
Them: (Glances over their shoulder and/or turns around and then turns back) That building? (points to a massive 20+ story building a block away)
Me: No, no. (I said across the street not a block down
) RIGHT across the street. You can't really see it through the trees, but it's right over there in the middle of that plaza area. (points)
Them: Oh ok that building? (points at another equally wrong place, apparently not quite listening that I said it would be impossible to see.)
Me: No. Just cross the street and follow the sidewalk, and you'll run right into it.
Them: (Not really believing me) ...oh, ok... Thanks. (walks out the doors)
Another Extra: Dyslexia for everyone!
Another place that people look for is also across the street, albeit in a different direction. Their address numbers use the same numbers mine does, but in a different order. We have countless people wandering in here looking for that place all the time, despite the sign that says what our building is out front. And the numbers above the door.
I actually looked up one of these locations once, and they were looking for a building that was clear in another city. How did they end up down here? No idea.
Here is how the conversations usually go...
Them: Hey! Hey security!
Me: Yes?
Them: Where is [Building that I've never heard of before]?
Me: Do you have an address?
Them: No.
Me: ...Then I can't help you. I've no idea where that place is. (Also, how did you expect to find it if you don't even know where it is?)
Them: [Response ranges from a polite thanks anyways to rude annoyance]
Who doesn't look up the directions on google maps or whatever before venturing off to find the place they need to get to? Do they expect to just wander around until they can find people to point them in the right direction?
An Extra:
People come to the building all the time looking for this place that's right across the street. Unfortunately, said place happens to be surrounded by trees, so the building is not easily seen. Nonetheless, if you crossed the street, you couldn't fail to see it. (Well, I say that, but in fact someone has come in claiming that they were over there and couldn't find it. Lies, I say. But who knows?) Here is another sample of the countless conversations I've had over the years:
Them: Hi I'm looking to get [X].
Me: Ah ok, well that is actually right across the street at [X Building].
Them: (Glances over their shoulder and/or turns around and then turns back) That building? (points to a massive 20+ story building a block away)
Me: No, no. (I said across the street not a block down
) RIGHT across the street. You can't really see it through the trees, but it's right over there in the middle of that plaza area. (points)Them: Oh ok that building? (points at another equally wrong place, apparently not quite listening that I said it would be impossible to see.)
Me: No. Just cross the street and follow the sidewalk, and you'll run right into it.
Them: (Not really believing me) ...oh, ok... Thanks. (walks out the doors)
Another Extra: Dyslexia for everyone!
Another place that people look for is also across the street, albeit in a different direction. Their address numbers use the same numbers mine does, but in a different order. We have countless people wandering in here looking for that place all the time, despite the sign that says what our building is out front. And the numbers above the door.