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I'm afraid of needles but try to give blood every time there's a drive at my work. Now, my mall donates an empty space for them to hold the blood drive in. I know it's for a good cause, but the workers are unbearable. They'll come waaaay before the mall opens, usually at the door furthest from where the space is, without calling and ream me out for not being able to see into the future and know what time they were coming. Then they'll completely mishear what I said and ream me out for that. Example: Their trucks were unloading at door C and had been here for an hour. The workers arrived at door A and were upset they couldn't get in. I started explaining that the Mall was actually closed for the next hour, but I could let them in here or they could all go park at door C and go in there. All they heard was "I won't let you in." And spent 10-minutes bitching before I got them to listen. Also, I didn't know that they weren't volunteers; they get paid at these drives, but they sure don't earn it. If there's 10 workers in the space, maybe 2 are drawing blood, 1 might be processing people, and the rest are standing around chit-chatting. Due to this, there's often an hour+ wait just to get your information taken; I once waited 1hr45min before it was my turn. And most of them act like it's the BIGGEST inconvenience to have to ask you questions, get you in the chair, get the needle in, etc. They are terribly rude to everyone, and the last time I told the lady taking my blood that I was really afraid of needles, she just Guffawed, rolled her eyes and said "Oh, it's not THAT bad!" As she proceeded to ignore me for the whole time my blood was draining.
I also mentioned that they don't have to pay for the space they use? But that doesn't keep them from complaining more than any of our paying tenants. It's either the store's too bright, too dark, too hot, too cold, they need more fans, etc. BUT when they pack-up and leave they'll always leave an ass-ton of trash, drinks, coffee cups, leftover food, etc. for us to clean-up.
And finally, they call me to donate 1-3 times weekly! Even if I just donated a week previous. And I've told them, I donate at work, please take me off the call list; I've told them this the last 4-calls. But, every call since they say there's no record of my having being taken off the list and they'll make another note in my account. Oh, and the last time they called, and I told them I wasn't able to give blood because I'd donated on X date, they told me that according to their computers I didn't donated on X date, I donated on Y which was 2-months previous! Yes, I did donated on Y, then on X. But somehow, my record of donating on X wasn't in there. They didn't seem to believe me when I told them no I was not deferred and yes I marked that my blood could be used. So where the FRACK DID MY BLOOD GO!???
Aaaaand I got called AGAIN this past week, and was AGAIN told that there was no note of my asking to be taken off the damn list!
I also mentioned that they don't have to pay for the space they use? But that doesn't keep them from complaining more than any of our paying tenants. It's either the store's too bright, too dark, too hot, too cold, they need more fans, etc. BUT when they pack-up and leave they'll always leave an ass-ton of trash, drinks, coffee cups, leftover food, etc. for us to clean-up.
And finally, they call me to donate 1-3 times weekly! Even if I just donated a week previous. And I've told them, I donate at work, please take me off the call list; I've told them this the last 4-calls. But, every call since they say there's no record of my having being taken off the list and they'll make another note in my account. Oh, and the last time they called, and I told them I wasn't able to give blood because I'd donated on X date, they told me that according to their computers I didn't donated on X date, I donated on Y which was 2-months previous! Yes, I did donated on Y, then on X. But somehow, my record of donating on X wasn't in there. They didn't seem to believe me when I told them no I was not deferred and yes I marked that my blood could be used. So where the FRACK DID MY BLOOD GO!???
Aaaaand I got called AGAIN this past week, and was AGAIN told that there was no note of my asking to be taken off the damn list!
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