Bad experience at Chesapeake Bagels

[Sharon (Premo)]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
Let me be the first to throw the flag -

I'd like to hear from the employee about how some irate beeech came in ranting because her order wasn't exactly the way she wanted it.

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Originally posted by Sharon
I'd like to hear from the employee about how some irate beeech came in ranting because her order wasn't exactly the way she wanted it.

Thanks Sharon. That's what I was thinking or perhaps she came in with a superior attitude against the (bad word - SMIB) and maybe that's what started all this.

[Ken King (Premo)]

We get bagels from them every Monday and Thursday for the folks out at ATR. Never have we had a problem like mentioned.

It is probably just more BS from someone who doesn't want to be in this area that is too chickens**t to move.

[Doc]

Originally posted by Nodnarb
This would not be admissable in a court of law, but someone can convict a business with cr@p like this posted on a message board. And, there is nothing that the managers at the bagel shop can do about it. If I were a businessperson, I would simply ignore junk like this, and hope that most reasonable people would do the same.

Presumably folks are smart enough to decide for themselves how much faith to put into a statement like this. If the business in question is a well-run one that generates lots of customer good will, then they have nothing to worry about. I figured I'd pass it along and see if it sparked any similar stories. It didn't, so maybe it's just an anomaly--one incompetent worker. Or maybe the writer of the anecdote was, despite her assurances that she was polite, overly #####y.

My customer service experience in Southern Maryland hasn't been universally awful, but I must say that overall I've seen a higher fraction of rude and incompetent people here than anywhere else I've lived. And that includes a short stint in France, so that's really saying something.

[Oz (Premo)]

Originally posted by Doc


Presumably folks are smart enough to decide for themselves how much faith to put into a statement like this. If the business in question is a well-run one that generates lots of customer good will, then they have nothing to worry about. I figured I'd pass it along and see if it sparked any similar stories. It didn't, so maybe it's just an anomaly--one incompetent worker. Or maybe the writer of the anecdote was, despite her assurances that she was polite, overly #####y.

Who would say "you lost our happy bagel day wednesday business?" People are cussing at eachother, but it ends with that? People don't talk like that! This is silly...

-ANYTHING- like this immediately has no credibility because there is no name, and nothing can be verified. If you left the name of the person sending you this email, then there is some merit to the information. Or, that person would be more careful about the things they write after facing the consequences of such a story.

I find it totally irresponsible to forward this around kind of junk around the web, anonymously.

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Originally posted by Nodnarb


Who would say "you lost our happy bagel day wednesday business?" People are cussing at eachother, but it ends with that? People don't talk like that! This is silly...

-ANYTHING- like this immediately has no credibility because there is no name, and nothing can be verified. If you left the name of the person sending you this email, then there is some merit to the information. Or, that person would be more careful about the things they write after facing the consequences of such a story.

I find it totally irresponsible to forward this around kind of junk around the web, anonymously.

One ringy-dingy, Two ringy-dingy.... Anyone want to start a rousing game of telephone line? We can start a story and pass it on and see how it changes? Remember that back in grade school?

[Doc]

Originally posted by Nodnarb


Who would say "you lost our happy bagel day wednesday business?" People are cussing at eachother, but it ends with that? People don't talk like that!

Don't know many people, do you? I've worked with several women who not only would talk like that, but would react pretty much that way in a similar circumstance. (And, of course, I've worked with plenty whose response would have led to a headline in the newspaper: "Bagel store clerk found with entire bag of bagels shoved into her ###".)

It was precisely those odd details that make me tend to believe the story. If someone's pissed because their bagel wasn't toasted just so and they wanted to make up something to get back at the bakery, I figure they'd make up a way better story than that.

[Doc]

What the hell? I can't say "###" in a post? What about ####, ####, ####, piss, or ####?

[vraiblonde]

@ Doc! You can't say ####, ####, ####, or ####, either. Apparently you can still say piss, though.

[SmallTown]

Originally posted by Ken King

It is probably just more BS from someone who doesn't want to be in this area that is too chickens**t to move.

I'm not quite sure how that relates to the story, but oh well..


I have heard others stories about the bagel bakery (none as severe as the one posted here). But after experiencing some of this "St. Marys customer service", It would not surpise me that something like this could happen.. I doubt it was as severe as mentioned, and I doubt she was as nice as she claimed, but I can see something along these lines happening (and not just in st. marys)

I also got forwarded the original e-mail from the person in question.. There was contact information including a phone number, so I assume if you want to verify it you could.

But this is the joy of living in a small town.. If something bad (or good) happens, the word spreads very fast.