Please just listen and think people!

I know I complain a lot on here and it's probably annoying to read but I am going to again anyways :) I'm not sure anyone reads my blog anyway except for maybe my sister, but that's ok.

I know I have complained about the radom people who come into our office asking dumb questions like "What floor is suite 250 on?" or those people who don't take their time to figure out what the address is of the building they are in but decide to take my time and ask me. Well, today one person asked me if any keys had been turned in to me. First off, if you take one second to look at our front office door you will know that we are not the property management but just your typical business. Second, I know the people don't know me but do they really think that I would take some random keys that were left laying around? If there are keys laying around they would probably be turned into the propery management, or I would tell someone to turn them into the property management but they still decide to ask me anyway.

For some reason information is giving our phone number out as the phone number for Lowe's so I will occationally get the phone call asking me if we sell refrigerators or if we have received a certain package. Well, this week a chick called to see if we had received a package. Having had this question asked to me before I knew right away that she was trying to reach Lowe's. If she would've just listened to me when I picked up the phone she would know right away that it isn't Lowe's because I answer the phone with our company name and my name right off the bat but of course they never listen. Well, I went on to explain that we are not Lowe's and that they put our number down as Lowe's but I don't know the actual number for Lowe's. Again she did not listen to me and said, "Oh, well I have the right number" and hung up. I knew that she did not actually listen to me or understand what I was trying to say so I knew she would probably call back. Sure enough, about 5 min. later she called back again and I had to explain the whole thing over to her again.

One last one I promise :) A few months ago we had a guy come in wanting to use our phone to call long distance. Well, we don't have long distance on our phone, we just use our cell phones so I told him that we don't have long distance. He persisted to try to get me to let him use the phone and he would pay for it. I don't know how much it would cost and I don't have the time to sit there and figure it out and then let him use the phone. Eventually he got the idea that we weren't going to let him to he left. Well he came back in this last week and wanted to fax something to China. Again he said he would pay and again I said, well I don't know how much it would cost and it would take more than just a few min. to figure out how much it would cost and I don't know if our fax machine would even be able to. This time at least he didn't stick around and try to convince me. What business is going to let some random person off the street fax something to China? Go to Kinkos or something.

All these things wouldn't be so bad but when it happens at least 2-3 times a week and at times twice a day they really start to wear on you. Maybe I should look meaner as I sit at my desk. Maybe then people won't want to come in and ask me questions. I've been tempted to put a sign up with all the answers to the questions I get asked all the time but you know they wouldn't read it and would come in and ask me anyway.