Blacklisting

I have a problem. If I order something and it does not come as I expected, I get very very angry. The whole point of paying for something is so you can enjoy it. Why would I pay for something I don't enjoy???

Today, I was at DQ on university and weber with Tina to get Adam a strawberry shortcake. After I paid nearly $6 for it (yes I am poor, therefore six bucks is a lot of money), I was told by the girl making the dessert that there were no shortcake left. The guy who took my money and seemed to have seniority over her told her to just make me a "strawberry cheesequake" with extra ice cream (Without asking me whether it was okay). Although i have no idea what that is, she ended up bringing me a strawberry sundae. I stared at the ice cream incredulously and told her i don't want that. The guy heard me and told her to just add some cheesecake on it. After a mishmash of strawberry jam, ice cream and some "cheesecake", she attempted to shove the lid on it while making a great mess of the container. My jaw just kinda dropped. But being the pushover that I am, I didn't say anything and told her I want a bag for that (there was no way i was going to hold that nasty sticky container in my hand).

Usually I give places two chances before they get mentally blacklisted . I understand that usually it's only the dumb employee's fault but I feel that the bad management is the source so they deserve to be banned. Same goes for food, if the food tastes bad the first time, I'll let it go; but if i go back and it's just as bad, then it gets on the lynn blacklist.

I don't remember most of the places I've blacklisted unless someone suggest that I go there or use the service, but here are some that I remember:

• Second Cup @ STC: I wanted iced coffee, which they didn't have, so i asked if they can pour the coffee into a cup of ice for me. She charged me for the cup of ice then added the entire cup with ice and adding like half a cup of coffee. Needless to say, the coffee tasted like water. I asked if they had liquefied sugar and she said no. i asked her for honey, she gave a bottle of crusted honey and nothing came out. GROSS.


• A Taste of Taiwan: the place closed down, for good reason (someone got shot and died there). I went there three times and their bbtea tasted like water and when i told them, they said that's the recipe. Yeah right.


• Starbucks @ Front and Frederick: I asked for a grande americano, they gave me a latte. I told the barista that i asked for an americano and she looked at me blankly and said "yes, an americano". this went on for two minutes before she realized it was a latte. The second time, I asked for the same thing and while she was making a tall she realized her error and poured it in the grande cup and added hot water. The drink tasted like water. I think that that barista got fired now though, so the place is unbanned.


• Tim Horton's all over campus (except for SLC): every time i ask for a DD, they give me quadruple cream and the coffee is literally white. So I usually get an XL from SLC and share it with Adam because it's not that bad when it's XL. But once i went to SCH and ask for a XL DD, they still gave me a QQ. I was so mad I took it to the TH at ML and they poured out a quarter of it and added coffee. Interestingly, after all that, the coffee still looked like it was a triple triple. I have boycotted Timmie's in Waterloo now.


• Bomber: Every time I go there, we wait like two hours for service. Once I watched our waitress chat with her friends for 30 min before she went to get our food that's been sitting on the counter for 20 min. Another time I ordered a takeout pizza for Adam and I waited 30 min for a slice of bread with tomato sauce and cheese. Saturday night, every person we grabbed told us he/she is not the server and the bar refused to serve us. The food isn't even good there. CUT.


• Bubble Tease: The food there is disgustingly expensive and the quantity is small. Every time I order a dish there that costs $10 (and would only cost $5 in toronto), there would be three bowls of rice and a tiny bit of the dish on the top. Every time i pass by, it's pretty empty now. I miss the days when it used to be Timeless.


• China Garden: that taiwanese place in the uw plaza. Same problem as bb tease, but less rice.
  
  Who am I kidding, I have boycotted half of the restaurants in Waterloo.



• Fairweather: i tried to return a dress after 7 days because i found another dress i liked and they told me i couldn't. I pleaded very nicely with them (not really expecting they would let me, but it was worth a try) and the woman told me that she will call tip top (i was wearing my nametag) to get me fired. ERRRR...i told my manager when i went back and she pursued the issue with FW's headoffice cuz they threatened me. I didn't think it would get so complicated but it did. their head office was awful to my manager but in the end i got a credit note as an apology. but after the way they treated me and my manager, i boycotted them too.


• LCBO across from Conestoga: See Story


• Rogers: I have a ton of horrifying customer service stories from Rogers. I will never use their "wireless" service. Sometimes I don't have a choice when it comes to internet cable (damn that monopoly) but i usually try to get someone else to deal with it.

Ok, fine, the list goes on. That's not to say i don't have places i really love, a lot more than the places i boycotted. but this has been a long enough rant. maybe i'll be listing my blacklist somewhere one day.