Steven Bobb
Beloved of All
I'm self-employed so I don't have a "screening process" for my customers, and so sometimes a troublesome one or 2 slip in, who causes me "problems." For now, I have THREE troublesome ones.One, an old lady, who, at 97 years old,is apparently afraid because of her advanced age, and so "clings to me" above and beyond the regular amount of time a customer should have and wants me to help her in non job related ways, which in itself is a humane thing, but she has a daughter who promises her she'll come over and help out but doesn't,so it falls on me, and I'm already busy,and she calls almost every day,about things that aren't really so urgent.{Like I say, the daughter doesn't really chip in}So I've added nursing home aide to my title as car service driver.What 's happened with these situations in the past,eventually because of age and failing health, they can't live alone, and move in with their children or go to assisted living. But so far that hasn't happened,so Lucky Me gets stuck with it.Second one, a lady who lies to me and selfishly takes advantage of me, knows I have other appointments, wants to make a stop or 2 after I pick her up at work, when I tell her I have about x amount of time, then the next appt. she always does the same thing --promises me "this time" she'll only be {mentions a short time} but then ALWAYS takes much longer. I know it's a lie, because I've had her tell me when I call that she's on the way out, then 15 minutes later she's not out yet. Also, she "adds stops" when she knows I'm tight for time,again with the lie that she'll be out in---but isn't.{which makes me late for the next customer}.and the 3rd one, a user who again , always asks me for non job related personal favors, and has an arrogant attitude that "everything is coming to her" we all exist to serve her,somehow she picked up that thought. I do have some new bills lately, so if I lose 3 customers is not to my benefit with money, BUT the request is maybe they can be replaced with less troublesome customers, without these "quirks". P.S, The other thing, rubbing salt in my wounds, is I had plans, which would have gotten me out of this, but because circumstances took turns I didn't expect, ,for now, I'm still "In the soup".
