The manager of this place, Glen, is extremely rude, condescending and unable to own his own mistakes.
I arrived at 9:10am for a 9am pick up, and saw no staff in the store but 4 people waiting. I asked them if there are no staff, or what was up and was told that they have been waiting like that for a while.
10 mins goes by and 2 staff members finally appear at the same time. I wait my turn, and while waiting I decide to do the online check-in to make it all faster when getting to the counter.
When it was my turn, I was served by Glen. He made a comment that I don't remember but I returned it with a complaint about the wait time with no staff. He didn't like that and proceeded to make me do everything to do with a standard check-in that I just did online, all over again with a condescending tone every time he spoke. I admittedly gave him back a frustrated, annoyed attitude in return. Not yelling, not swearing, not even speaking loud. Just a noticeable enough stank on my tone to let you know I was not happy.
He gave me the keys finally and I leave, after saying he was giving me a vehicle with 3/8s of a tank of gas and saying I will have to fill up before my trip so I don't have to stop on the way. I have always rented from U-Haul in Oshawa and it comes with over a half tank minimum every time, so already late, and now I have to stop for gas. Yeah me!
I go to find my rental van, it is boxed in. I have to go back in the office and ask for it vans it be moved so I can get mine. I get in the Van, see the tank is full. Call the manager over and show him. I am honest that way. He says he will update the account. Still all rude, but Ok great. I can leave finally. 40 mins after my arrival time.
I drive away and go to my first stop and actually I look at my contract. It is for an entirely different van and one with only 400km. The one I was actually given has 27,000 km!!!!!! That is a huge difference at $.69/km. So I drive all the way back to the store to clear it up. Another 30 minute drive back to the store.
I arrive, Glen sees me and asks "what's wrong?" But the attitude was more like "What now?" I said "You gave me the wrong paper work." He said, "I know I fixed it in the computer" I said, "it is not just the gas, but for the wrong van completely." He said again "I know! I just told you I changed in the computer." I said "so what about the KM difference? I have a contract that says outgoing KM of 400, not 27,000 like I got." He says "What do you want then?" I said "I want a proper contract that doesn't have me on the hook for almost $20,000 in fees." He says "You want me to actually print you a new contract?" Like he was shocked I would want to protect my butt with that much money on the line. So I said yes and he printed it off.
I then asked about the mileage I spent coming back to the store. It is about 25km. Or just under $20.00. I'm not paying a store extra money for their mistake.
He starts saying at this point that my naturally frustrated attitude is "full of hate" to which I said "Hate is a strong word. It is not hate. It is frustration, anger, annoyance, but not hate" He kept going on and on about my attitude. In such a condescending tone he would say things like "So sorry that you are having such a bad day and that I am apparently the cause of it." And starts asking me what I want at this point. I said "how about taking off the km I spend to get here. Take the number off the van now while parked in the lot and use those as the KM out reading." After some back and forth, he agrees.
While walking to get the new reading, he goes on about my attitude again & I finally say "Your attitude is pretty condescending too" to which he says "I give what I get" and I then said "But you were the one who screwed up, not me" Which he really didn't like. From there is was rushing me to get me out of there, which was fine because I was already so late by this time.
Staff when I returned the van were much easier to deal with. Place is so busy, manager doesn't care about customer service because there will always be a customer. read more