The World is full of poor management

The moral of the story today: Poor management. It all hit me today. Three reminders in a row of poor management. This really gives me hope.

It all started with a lunch meeting with Mitch. He used to be a big wig at Ford. Now he's working for a smaller firm. My group from my Marketing Strategy class is working with Mitch to work on a marketing plan for a new product. Long story short, we had a lunch meeting scheduled for 12:30. We stayed there until a little after 1 and left. I only had his work number and left him a message. A little after 2 o' clock he called me from his cell phone saying that they were running late from the office and showed up and couldn't find us. The end.

So I wasn't too frustrated with that, it's understandable. Then right after the careless "luncheon," I had an interview scheduled at 1:45 p.m. with Cisco Systems for a Sales Associate position. They notified me the night before by e-mail saying that I had an interview. In the late-notifying e-mail, they included instructions to arrive 15 minutes early. I show up a little before 1:45 to find out my interviewer is going to be late. Mark, the interviewer, showed up at 2:05. What kind of company is that? The interview went well in the end. And up until now, I still wasn't too frustrated.

It was when I called up Lori, the land lady from hell. I've been working with her for the past two months trying to receive my deposit of $120. She never returns phone calls, she doesn't write anything down, and she doesn't cater what so ever to the customer. After the first couple weeks of requesting my deposit, I waited for it in the mail. Nothing came. I called Lori to inquire of the deposit. "Oh, you actually didn't pay your deposit...." OK, well thanks for calling me to inform me.... oh wait, you didn't. The management for my apartment had switched from one company to hers. There has been a lot of confusion, because both companies are unorganized. So, she finally looked into it and found out that I actually did pay a $200 deposit. So let's continue on, "Oh, you actaully didn't pay a month of rent." It turns out I did, my roommate paid it for me because I was out of town. The old management company had the same problem, but I fixed it with them. So after calling Lori, leaving messages, Lori not calling back, calling again, talking to Lori, and refreshing her of my situation it turns out that the onwners are out of town until the end of october, so I have wait until then.

Thanks for reading, that felt good to let out.