the trivial complaints thread
- Thread starter Grouper
- Start date
I bought a $200 mccollough steamer and it was the best investment I ever made for detailing or cleaning in general. Really works wonders.
OCD Solutions
Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
- Location
- Rentz, GA
Can that be used on leather?
You really should not steam leather.Most marks on leather will come off with wd40.Stains may come out with a good leather specific cleaner and then condition afterwards.lf it doesn’t come out with those methods,then it may be permanent.
OCD Solutions
Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
- Location
- Rentz, GA
Sounds like the next owners problem then, lol.
DylanS
Gorilla Smasher
- Location
- Lebanon Pa
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
So I quit my job working in a marina a couple of days ago. They freaked on me saying I complain about everything but totally avoiding acknowledgment of why. My pay regularly gets screwed around with and is never the same pay. I have been lower on my bank account and barely getting by with them and yet with an identically paying job previously I was building up a really good bank account. Something's wrong there. If they need to paint a boat and start before 1 I lose half a day's pay because nobody is allowed to be in the shop while painting is going on. If there's too much snow on the roads for one person's liking I lose a day's pay because nobody will come in and legally I'm not allowed to work in a shop environment alone. I worked over 50 hours a week in the beginning, they told me it would be banked and used to cover the shut down time during the holidays. Well, after the spring rush season I asked how many banked hours I had, they said none. They paid me out for all those hours...at the tune of an 80% loss to taxes after the first half day of over time pay. I was livid! My pay was only up by a few hundred dollars after a month of 50+ hours a week. This has happened multiple times now.
As the winterizing season rolled in I spent more time on a lot of different boats realizing just how totally poor grade their clientele really is. So many times many of these sailboat owners would load their boats with every sort of crap they could dump into the boats, they were basically a hoarders mess. We had to move loads of piled from floor to ceiling junk just to access one part of one system only to move it again to access another just to move it back to access the first portion. I twisted my ankle trying to walk around this crap on Tuesday as I was handed yet another crappy job. One boat came in in such horrible shape inside that we needed respirators to do the most basic winterizing functions. Once the seal would break from sweating the smell got through and would make you want to gag puke. One boat had about a 1/4 of an inch of dog hair all over the floor and it just so happened that I had to work at the floor level to do some of the work...keeping in mind I'm allergic to most pet hair...great. They refuse to tell customers that they need to clean their boats and remove all lose items out if they request us to work on them. Instead they tell us that this is how sailors are and they pay us to move this stuff around. I said who pays me when I trash my back from falling over their dumpsite?! No acknowledgement just the same bs...but I complain about everything.
They look the other way when their primary mechanic would drink on the job. He will start ripping apart a boat, not show anyone what he is doing or how, then let it sit for a few weeks before telling someone there's a job you can do so we always go in blind with no knowledge of what to do or how to do it. Last Friday he was totally wasted by 10am from what I was told and stayed all day drinking, THEN DROVE HOME!! Their response was when he starts drinking though he doesn't write down the time he invests into a customer's boat so it's like he's off the clock. OK...what about the constant complaining from the admin about needing as many billable hours as possible....but he's allowed to screw the company out of those hours because he's allowed to get bombed on the job as long as he doesn't record his time on the job after he starts pounding the booze?? Am I wrong here or is there a serious problem with this place??
The parts manager would very frequently order the wrong parts even after being given the proper part numbers to order. If some parts were on back-order, instead of searching as many sources as possible he would just stay with that one supplier and leave it on back order. Instead of trying to source out parts he will waste his time arguing with the half brother boss over nonsense like who did what the night before which is totally unrelated to the company. If not that, he will watch the yard cameras and mess around with other owner's son by denying him access at the storage yard gate then claiming "oh it must be a software problem". He spends way too much time making phone calls to the guys instead of letting them do their job and getting the final report back to him.
The company allowed the one owner's son to make a dilapidated shanty town shed in the new storage yard to work out of on the marina grounds for the purposes of auto wrecking. He also sent grinding sparks all over a freshly painted boat, let one of his cronies threaten to physically assault one of the home owners on the property and is constantly stealing tools from the shop but they never stop him so the shops never have the tools we need when we need them. There are two shops, one is the water accessible marina and the other is the storage/repair facility. Neither shop is equally equipped so we are constantly running back and forth between shops trying to find the right tools and supplies but the lost time for this hunting for things, they expect us to put onto the customer's bill. It's not the customer's fault the company is so incompetent that they can't be properly equipped or make a full stop to the tool thief and evict him out of there for good.
It's a lot of a rant I know but I can't be alone in saying this company is a pure sh*t show and not worth staying with. I'm actually very surprised they've been able to stay in business the last 2 years since the new management took over. What do you guys think of this? Would you stick around and continue to subject yourselves to really trashy working conditions like this?
They frequently fail to replenish the stock on the drinking water fountain bottles because the tap water is not potable. So far we have gone for 4 days without drinking water and the last time was about 5 weeks. We have all been complaining about these things but he singled me out and threw a fit. So, after putting up with all of this constant nonsense I finally hit my limit and just walked out.
As the winterizing season rolled in I spent more time on a lot of different boats realizing just how totally poor grade their clientele really is. So many times many of these sailboat owners would load their boats with every sort of crap they could dump into the boats, they were basically a hoarders mess. We had to move loads of piled from floor to ceiling junk just to access one part of one system only to move it again to access another just to move it back to access the first portion. I twisted my ankle trying to walk around this crap on Tuesday as I was handed yet another crappy job. One boat came in in such horrible shape inside that we needed respirators to do the most basic winterizing functions. Once the seal would break from sweating the smell got through and would make you want to gag puke. One boat had about a 1/4 of an inch of dog hair all over the floor and it just so happened that I had to work at the floor level to do some of the work...keeping in mind I'm allergic to most pet hair...great. They refuse to tell customers that they need to clean their boats and remove all lose items out if they request us to work on them. Instead they tell us that this is how sailors are and they pay us to move this stuff around. I said who pays me when I trash my back from falling over their dumpsite?! No acknowledgement just the same bs...but I complain about everything.
They look the other way when their primary mechanic would drink on the job. He will start ripping apart a boat, not show anyone what he is doing or how, then let it sit for a few weeks before telling someone there's a job you can do so we always go in blind with no knowledge of what to do or how to do it. Last Friday he was totally wasted by 10am from what I was told and stayed all day drinking, THEN DROVE HOME!! Their response was when he starts drinking though he doesn't write down the time he invests into a customer's boat so it's like he's off the clock. OK...what about the constant complaining from the admin about needing as many billable hours as possible....but he's allowed to screw the company out of those hours because he's allowed to get bombed on the job as long as he doesn't record his time on the job after he starts pounding the booze?? Am I wrong here or is there a serious problem with this place??
The parts manager would very frequently order the wrong parts even after being given the proper part numbers to order. If some parts were on back-order, instead of searching as many sources as possible he would just stay with that one supplier and leave it on back order. Instead of trying to source out parts he will waste his time arguing with the half brother boss over nonsense like who did what the night before which is totally unrelated to the company. If not that, he will watch the yard cameras and mess around with other owner's son by denying him access at the storage yard gate then claiming "oh it must be a software problem". He spends way too much time making phone calls to the guys instead of letting them do their job and getting the final report back to him.
The company allowed the one owner's son to make a dilapidated shanty town shed in the new storage yard to work out of on the marina grounds for the purposes of auto wrecking. He also sent grinding sparks all over a freshly painted boat, let one of his cronies threaten to physically assault one of the home owners on the property and is constantly stealing tools from the shop but they never stop him so the shops never have the tools we need when we need them. There are two shops, one is the water accessible marina and the other is the storage/repair facility. Neither shop is equally equipped so we are constantly running back and forth between shops trying to find the right tools and supplies but the lost time for this hunting for things, they expect us to put onto the customer's bill. It's not the customer's fault the company is so incompetent that they can't be properly equipped or make a full stop to the tool thief and evict him out of there for good.
It's a lot of a rant I know but I can't be alone in saying this company is a pure sh*t show and not worth staying with. I'm actually very surprised they've been able to stay in business the last 2 years since the new management took over. What do you guys think of this? Would you stick around and continue to subject yourselves to really trashy working conditions like this?
They frequently fail to replenish the stock on the drinking water fountain bottles because the tap water is not potable. So far we have gone for 4 days without drinking water and the last time was about 5 weeks. We have all been complaining about these things but he singled me out and threw a fit. So, after putting up with all of this constant nonsense I finally hit my limit and just walked out.
Last edited:
SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
There's always the adult film industry.........
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I wouldn't qualify
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I don't understand it myself how they have kept it going this long. They also have a habit of drinking at the end of every day which is also illegal up here. They don't have a liquor license to sell or serve so they're not supposed to be permitting drinking on the business premises. All I can do is hope they do fail lol...that'll be a good wake up call for other businesses that you don't allow such things to happen unless you want to fail.
Sure would be a shame to call the EPA on them. Im sures theres some kind of oil or fuel spill into the marina you could find ......especially if it was leaking out from a shop into the water.
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I think just a "random" surprise visit from the labour board would clean their clocks a good bit considering there's almost always a couple hundred empty beer cans onsite inside the workspace
Quinc
Buy a Superjet
- Location
- California
Damn that sucks! Thought you where living the dream working at a marina too. Maybe they will fail and you can work for the new owners.
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Nuh, I won't be going back to the marina life. I might go back to the ski and atv repair life though
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Update to the no drinking water situation, one of my buddies there just let me know they still don't have any drinking water. It has been dry now since Monday.
SXIPro
JM781 Big Bore
- Location
- Here on the 'X' mostly
Hopefully they are all smart enough to be bringing their own water to work by now.
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
That's what I did when they went for about 6 weeks straight "forgetting" to get the restock of jugs. I bought cases of water and brought in a few bottles a day until they finally got a few jugs for the fountain again.