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    Door Signs for the Holiday

    This isn't really a big deal. I'm a little confused, though, and I want to vent about it real quick.

    When we're closed for a holiday, I make signs for the doors to warn customers. Pretty simple signs - 1/3 of a page, taped to the door. The latest one says "WE WILL CLOSE AT NOON ON FRIDAY, APRIL 7 FOR GOOD FRIDAY".

    Normally, I post the signs just under a week before the holiday, so if we're closed (or closing early, in this case) on a Friday, I'll post the signs the Monday before. But this morning, the BM left me a post-it note on my desk asking me to put up the signs. Like he thought I might have forgotten or something.

    I put up the signs about 9:30. By 11:00, someone had changed one of them. Let me set this up. We have "airlock" doors, like many office buildings. There's an inner door and an outer door. I always post the "we're going to be closed" signs on the outer door. On the front of the building, our ATM is in between those two doors. Even when we're closed, customers can get into the area with the ATM using their debit card (or any card with a magnetic strip). We might as well leave that outer door open all the time, but I guess management feels it's more secure this way.

    Around 11:00, I noticed that there was a different sign on the front door. It was a full page, with big, highlighted letters "NOTICE" We will be closing at noon, etc. We are sorry for any inconvenience. And then they'd moved the sign I made to the inner door.

    I don't know who changed it. If they didn't like how I did the signs, why didn't they say something? Do they want to do them from now on? Because I don't really care. It's just weird and annoying.

    There. Now I've vented. I can forget about it and go on with my day.
    "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
    -Mira Furlan
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  • #2
    Your sign didn't capture enough attention from people who would never read a sign of any type anyway . . .
    Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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    • #3
      You could tape a sign to some people's faces and they wouldn't notice it was there. I gave up trying to work out how people who couldn't actually see MY face because of the sign between us (stating my window was closed) always managed not to notice it was there...
      This was one of those times where my mouth says "have a nice day" but my brain says "go step on a Lego". - RegisterAce
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      • #4
        I noticed another thing about these replacement signs as I was coming in this morning. They added all this extra language, but at the bottom it says something like, "We appreciation you being a customer of [bank initials]." They didn't even bother to spell out the bank name.

        Also, they didn't print this sign out in color. They printed it in black and white, then went over the "NOTICE" part with a highlighter. Poorly. It was very uneven. The whole effect is very unprofessional.
        "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
        -Mira Furlan

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        • #5
          Simple: You didn't do the signs in the way THAT PERSON wanted them done; thus, they were done "wrong."
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          • #6
            I had a conversation on Tuesday that convinces me that Branch Manager was the one who changed the signs for Good Friday.

            The Head Teller came up to me and asked if I was going to put up signs that we're closed on Juneteenth. I said that last time I put up signs, someone changed them. So I assumed they didn't want me to do the door signs any more. (A valid assumption, i think.) She looked confused and said she didn't know who would have changed them. She acted like she didn't notice that they'd been changed. Good job paying attention to your surroundings. Anyway, I told her that if she wanted me to put up signs, I would. So I did. So far, no one has changed them, so I guess they don't care enough to change them again or say anything about it. Or it was BM, who got a wild hair up his ass and thought his signs were better that time, but doesn't care enough to do it again.

            It's such a minor thing, but it's also very annoying.
            "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
            -Mira Furlan

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