Don't Forget

Well if you have been following this blog you know how much I Lovvvvvvveeeeeee  looking for employees.   So when I got finished with the interviews I was a very happy Bob. Too much of my chagrin  it is not but a short month latter I am not so happy, and here is why…

  

Hey Michael! Do you know what you forgot?  To come to work!  Yes, that’s right Michael just stopped coming to work. Well that is true but there is more to the story.  Michael interns at a local sports radio station and has been given the opportunity to do bigger and more exciting things. I wish him the best and hope he gets his own show soon. Till then we will just have to see how Michael 2.0 works out. Andrew  will be filling out paperwork tomorrow.

 Now for the other news that’s not fit to print.

So for the third time this year I am trying to set up an auction.  As of yesterday we were heading for a nice auction then today happened.  

Linda has been doing a great job keeping the paperwork straight,  so today she was going through the Yukon Reviews Saturday’s paper to cut out the legal posting when she noticed there was no legal posting.  That is right; they only ran the notice for one week not two.  That just scrapped the auction for another 16 days.  When you pay $78 to the paper you hope that they know what they are doing.  Well that didn’t stop them from putting a big monkey wrench into our auction.   So on to plan “B”. 

The Yukon Review has offered to pay us back the$78 and run the notice for the next two weeks.  Linda is reprinting the notices with the new date.  We will be mailing them tomorrow.  The new auction date will be next month on the 4^th.  

 If we can get the legales posted on time.

The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

I have told you the story of the Three Stooges, now is the time to hear about Bonnie and Clyde.   It all started with a phone call from my team at Access.  It sort of went like this.  “Hey Bob, we got the half-sister of one of our tenants wanting to rent a parking place for a tractor, for 30 days.  This tenant is also on the auction list and has been unable to locate.”   So I think out loud. “Let’s see I am going to let a three or four ton Tractor onto the property for a short term lease.  What are the chances that the locked out space will mysteriously become a cleared out space”.  My final answer is “Not just no, but hell no.”

So an hour later I get a call “We have a problem there is a tractor stuck on the property”.  Now I truly thought we had already dealt with tractors today So I ask is this the same tractor or a new on?”  Unfortunately it is the same one.

This is what I see when I got to the office at Access.

The story of what happened goes like this.  Bonnie and Clyde are driving down Cemetery Rd illegally towing a tractor with this wonderfully purple van, when they spot a cop.  So they duck into the car wash. They find out once they get to the back that they are too tall to fit. When they try to back up they get the tractor messed up on the trailer and they are stuck.  So while I am laughing at this sight I notice they are using a Budget car-carrier.  Now I know a little about rental equipment and as I am catching my breath I explain to my team that Budget does not rent their dollies to anyone except with a truck rental.  U-Haul is the only company the rents trailers by themselves.  So we call the nearest Budget dealer  and ask if they would like to come and check this out.  15 to 20 minutes later when area manager for Budget is in our office.  As far as he can tell this trailer is supposed to be in New Mexico sitting on a lot.

He goes out and talks to Bonnie and she tells him that this trailer belongs to her and he needs to leave them alone they are already in “civil litigation” with Budget and he does not want to get messed up with that. He simply says that he will have a tow truck here to retrieve the dolly and he will call the police to witness the collection. With this news Clyde goes into overdrive to get this tractor out of there, he starts pushing the limits of this incredibly white trash van. By the time he is done the drive tire is shredded, the tractor has fallen off the trailer smashing the crap out of it, and basically turning a bad situation worse.  

So what does a good and trustworthy Clyde do when the chips are down and the police are on the way?

You drop the trailer and run …. And leave Bonnie sitting in the dust.  That’s right he leaves his girlfriend and takes off.  She sticks her head in the office to tell us that they are going to get the paperwork for the car carrier and when she turns around he is gone. If these two idiots had not just made a wreak of four other peoples day, not counting the family, friends and coworkers that were affected buy our tardiness on the day, I might have had some sympathy.  No I just took more pictures.

The police did show up but found that the tractor was actually not stolen….crap….  I really thought it was going to be stolen, but Bonnie did not have any outstanding warrants out on her….crap… I really thought she was going to have outstanding warrants on her.   I still believe with the quick departure of Clyde that he does have a warrant or to on him.

Well the end of the story is this: Budget got back a trailer that was rightfully theirs, Bonnie and Clyde lived to fight another day, I got a bunch of photos to make a blog post with, John and Michel got first hand proof that my stories about storage are not made up and take no embellishing and sometime later the next day, Clyde came back and with a chain pulled the tractor off our property.

The morel of this story is this; when towing a tractor twice the size of your white trash van, make sure to pack a parachute.  You never know when you’re going to need to bail. The real Bonnie and Clyde were real scary and dangerous criminals, these two were just scary and sad. 

P.S.  The last I saw of Bonnie she was walking down the street.  I was over 100 degrees and her man had thrown her under the bus. My harden heart did feel some sadness and pitty.  I hope she finds some truth in this situation and start making better choices.

Findding employees is not that easy

Sometimes you have to take the bull by the horns.  We have been trying to hire a few part time- employees and have not had very good luck. We put ads in the paper twice and have received very few responses and most of those did not come close to qualifying.  So now I am going to use the direct approach.  I started at my son’s Karate class. I figured who would be better to work with but people who can protect me. Actually it was my wife’s idea.  I will be hitting up the Boy Scouts next; I hope to find some good summer help.

I just don’t get it, I thought with the economy being the way it is, people would want a job.  When I was trying to be an actor in Southern California, I worked for six months on the grave yard shift at a seven-eleven.  To me a job is a job and without one it makes it hard to pay the rent.  Not to mention, acting is a hard way to make a living.  Seven-eleven gives you all the free Slurpee’s you can drink.