YO GEORGIANS! :)

[katsdar]

Yes, they're going to have their booths there.

We take a weekend away and I come back to 138 posts? don't you people have LIVES?? bahahaha

Yep, which consists of only on here

 

[PapaChaz]

I go to Elrods for as much as I can , but as a big box retail manager for 28 yrs they tick me off looking at what they could be doing if they had the people trained . Customer service should be the number one priority most people will wait for answers if you just care about them and what hey are affer.

this is purely a TSC thing though when it comes to chicks. They don't know, they don't care. The only thing they DO know for sure, is that they don't care..........and they don't care if you and I know they know they don't care.

I think it's time for bed, that actually made sense as I was typing it AND when I read it back again.....

 

[CliffB]

Only you Robo

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/whiting_true_blue.html
Silver Hill is getting these and they seem really awesome,

hopefully it will clear up soon, glad they found you

Yeah, I will have to look for the new product, but they haven't even started setting up for chick days, and they are supposed to get them in tomorrow!!!

I set our entire thing yesterday and it only took 2 hours at most. Not bad.

 

[CliffB]

this is purely a TSC thing though when it comes to chicks. They don't know, they don't care. The only thing they DO know for sure, is that they don't care..........and they don't care if you and I know they know they don't care.

I think it's time for bed, that actually made sense as I was typing it AND when I read it back again.....

You have better bag boys at your grocery store. Mine don't care how i put the groceries on the conveyor, if the bag can stand up on it's own, or if the cans are double bagged. Tell yourself what you will but part time employees are part time employees.

 

[katsdar]

I set our entire thing yesterday and it only took 2 hours at most. Not bad.

oh good then we may still be on track

 

[CliffB]

Last year our birds arrived 3-4 days after the expected date. The first order was a third of what it should have been. It took almost 3 weeks before the orders began catching up with what we were slated to receive and even then we were getting leftovers. Good quality orders of 100-200 of each breed didn't begin showing up till the middle of March. I would almost bet we will be able to put our whole order in two tanks tomorrow.

 

[PapaChaz]

You have better bag boys at your grocery store. Mine don't care how i put the groceries on the conveyor, if the bag can stand up on it's own, or if the cans are double bagged. Tell yourself what you will but part time employees are part time employees.

ok Cliff, we all know you're a TSC manager, and if we ruffled your feathers, sorry. But it is what it is. If they all had managers like you who care, it would be different. but they don't. Pet days a few years ago, I had a run in with some of the employees about setting up booths out in and blocking off the handicap parking spaces, which according to the Americans with Disabilities Act is illegal. But one of them said her husband was a police officer and she'd call him if she needed to. I told her go ahead, I then I could add him and the county to the lawsuit......

yes, having been in management at Pepsi, Georgia Pacific, Gulf Coast Paper Company and a restaurant manager for several years, I DO KNOW part time help is part time help. But even at that, the manager makes it or breaks it. If He/She lets the part timers get away with poor customer service, that's on him/her.....and my experience with the TSC's in this area, there's more "not good" than there are "good", reading through this thread, I'm not the only person who thinks so.

anyway, To whomever said asked about the Rome TSC, if you go in, there was (is?) a lady named Renee at that store who is very knowledgable and helpful with all things chickens. On the other hand, if you see April coming to help you, RUN.....

 

[CliffB]

ok Cliff, we all know you're a TSC manager, and if we ruffled your feathers, sorry. But it is what it is. If they all had managers like you who care, it would be different. but they don't. Pet days a few years ago, I had a run in with some of the employees about setting up booths out in and blocking off the handicap parking spaces, which according to the Americans with Disabilities Act is illegal. But one of them said her husband was a police officer and she'd call him if she needed to. I told her go ahead, I then I could add him and the county to the lawsuit......

yes, having been in management at Pepsi, Georgia Pacific, Gulf Coast Paper Company and a restaurant manager for several years, I DO KNOW part time help is part time help. But even at that, the manager makes it or breaks it. If He/She lets the part timers get away with poor customer service, that's on him/her.....and my experience with the TSC's in this area, there's more "not good" than there are "good", reading through this thread, I'm not the only person who thinks so.

anyway, To whomever said asked about the Rome TSC, if you go in, there was (is?) a lady named Renee at that store who is very knowledgable and helpful with all things chickens. On the other hand, if you see April coming to help you, RUN.....

The point is this is your hobby and your passion. Not a 16 year old kids who just went on a first date with a girl. Quit coming onto forums preaching about how a kid was not knoweledgeable about the new bag of chicken feed and how he seemed disinterested in helping you read the tag. These are not standards you hold the bagger at the grocery store to because they are just kids bagging your groceries and they are not involved in something you are passionate about. I hate hearing people bash kids who are working for $8.00 an hour 14 hours a week while going to school.

 

[GAMarans]

anyway, To whomever said asked about the Rome TSC, if you go in, there was (is?) a lady named Renee at that store who is very knowledgable and helpful with all things chickens. On the other hand, if you see April coming to help you, RUN.....

I think Renee went there from Dallas. If so, she really is fantastic.

 

[GAMarans]

The point is this is your hobby and your passion. Not a 16 year old kids who just went on a first date with a girl. Quit coming onto forums preaching about how a kid was not knoweledgeable about the new bag of chicken feed and how he seemed disinterested in helping you read the tag. These are not standards you hold the bagger at the grocery store to because they are just kids bagging your groceries and they are not involved in something you are passionate about. I hate hearing people bash kids who are working for $8.00 an hour 14 hours a week while going to school.

I think a good number of folks have pointed to management, not just the kids. Those of us complaining about the Dallas store ... I'm sure you know well the history there. Bad management had been a big problem there for quite some time. Good employees won't stay and neither will customers. Then if you do get a good manager in they are stuck with the employees that were "left over" after so many left and you have to fight to get customers back. Ugly situation.


As for the chick days ... I do think it is a bit unfair to expect definitive answers before the first ones have even started to arrive. So much is up in the air. Knowing when they might show up is different than knowing for sure. And as Cliff has pointed out, they don't always know what will be coming in to begin with. Heck, if TSC is willing to take whatever, the hatchery may not know what they are sending until the day they send them.

And for familiarity with other products ... take the Dallas store ... how large do folks think the available employee pool is that has solid knowledge of all of the products? Even just 2-3 categories of product?