Update: the owner KEEPS RAGE TEXTING ME even days later. He will not stop as many times as I have told him. He continues to insist that I should have called and asked if my appointment got put in the system. No, it is not my job to call and ask if this man did his job or not. The business keeps reporting my review, but I will keep reposting it since this was my authentic customer experience and I want it to be seen by other customers. I will repost as many times as is necessary. Because what the f. How are you as a business owner somehow the least competent employee in the building.
I don't even know where to start. I guess for one, don't bother booking an appointment online. They have it all set up for you on the website as if you can, however they leave it up to whoever is in charge of replying to emails to input the appointment into their computer, which did not happen in my case. A human error like this is excusable and not a big deal in itself, as annoying as it is to have to drive all the way across town for no reason. But the way they handled the situation was not professional at all and I will honestly never be back after the way two of the employees treated me over it.
So, I arrived at my scheduled appointment time, and the man can't find it in his computer. I showed him the email exchange where I set up my appointment for a wheel alignment and two missing lug nuts. This first employee said that my appointment must actually be for replacing the two missing lug nuts. When I told him that no, the appointment was for a wheel alignment and the missing lug nuts were just something to also take care of while I'm here because it would only take a few seconds, he looked at me like I was crazy and stupid. Im not even kidding when I say this man pulled his head back, frowned, and raised his eyebrows in an exaggerated manner as if he was SO taken aback by what I said. As if I couldn't possibly know how long it might take to fasten two nuts, and as if I would have scheduled an appointment specifically for such a menial task that I could do at home with a wrench. The face he made was unprofessional, rude, and unbefitting of someone working a customer service desk. If looks could speak, his said "she doesn't know how long it takes to put on a lug nut." Spoiler alert: I was right and it was done in just a few minutes.
The second employee wasn't rude at all, and although it took a few minutes for everyone to figure out why I wasn't in their appointment system, he didn't act doubtful or dismissive of my story like the first employee. He looked at my emails, acknowledged that the person I had emailed forgot to put my appointment in their system, and they overbooked. He took a look at my two missing lug nuts, and really did try his best to find a solution to the scheduling problem. They were simply too busy. In the end, I didn't get my wheel alignment done but they did get my missing lug nuts replaced (very quickly, as I said) and they didn't charge me for it. I still drove all the way across town for no reason and wasted an hour of my time, but it was honestly fine. I was annoyed but not mad. I wasn't going to leave a review, and I was actually going to schedule a new appointment because this particular employee was so nice and trying so hard to find a solution. This guy was the ONLY ONE out of the three employees described here that actually attempted to solve the problem, rather than focusing on trying to blame me for it like the other two did.
THEN the email guy (who actually turns out to be the owner) decided to call me. Twice. Our conversation was brief, but he called me twice just to tell me that the reason my appointment never got put in was actually all my fault because I never emailed him back. Which was factually incorrect. I told him he was wrong, that I showed the email exchange to his coworkers at the front desk, and hung up. He then proceeded to TEXT ME a screenshot of the email that he claims I never responded to. I replied back with a screenshot of my reply to his email dated four days prior. He then sent me a BS apology and claimed he "must have deleted it" as if I needed to hear more sad excuses at that point. Nobody accidentally deletes an email like that, he's just trying to minimize his mistakes. It's one thing to mess up, just own it and move on. It's not like I was mad at him. To be calling and texting the customer AFTER I LEAVE just to try and convince them that your mistake was their fault, that's unbelievably bad customer service. The calling and texting was extreme and unnecessary, even if it HAD been my mistake it would still be unprofessional and unnecessary given that I was literally not even mad and going to simply reschedule because what he lacked in competence was made up for by one of his own employees who was far more professional and solution-oriented than he was. I cant believe this guy turned out to be the actual business owner- and he's throwing a tantrum in my DMs. Ha read more