Thursday, October 06, 2005
BREITBART.COM - Just The News
At least one hotel chain has asked some Hurricane Katrina evacuees to check out so it can honor the reservations of incoming guests. Hilton Hotels, the parent company of Hampton Inn and other brands, is trying to find other rooms for the evacuees but said they were warned when they checked in that their stays would be limited by room availability, said Hilton spokeswoman Kathy Shepard. "We're doing our very best to accommodate these people," she said.
Oh, you are doing your best to accommodate "these people" are you? Well, does your best include kicking them out? This, like so many things that big business does just ticks me off. It's not as if the Hilton brand is about to go bankrupt or something. It looks like in the future if I'm booking a hotel, I'll try to avoid on of the Hilton owned hotels.
Speaking of the hurricane, what is up with the housing boom in the places hit hard by the hurricane? Houses are selling for 30-40% more than what they are worth. I've heard murmurs that it is actually large corporations buying up these properties that are now destroyed so that they can build casinos, hotels, shopping centers, and condos. It's kind of disturbing, but then again it is capitalism at work. I wonder what happens to the people that had insurance? Do they get paid by the insurance company for the destruction of their house, and then get paid again by the home/property buyer? If so it might make a terrible situation bright for some. Yeah, it is bad that these old neighborhoods will be razed, but most of them are destroyed right now anyway's.
One bad thing relating to all this house buying is that many of the poor renters are going to be really in trouble. They are going to lose where they are living and not see any monetary gain out of the situation. That is really the sad part about the whole situation, because many of these victims also did not have renters insurance, so they will not have any monetary compensation for their damaged goods.
Oh, just want to reiterate my bitterness towards Jimmy Johns. To make a long story short, I'll attach my e-mail(s). Basically in a nutshell their subs are too small, too expensive, and they are unable to follow through with promises.
What a good company! And to think that after all of this went down I recanted my negative thoughts about Jimmy Johns. Boy, I guess that I was wrong! Hopefully ol' Scott won't call me and offer me some half-assed excuse like he didn't have my address (which I gave him) or he sent them out and they got lost. Well...I'll keep you updated about what happens.
Today I also opened up another blog over on http://jhartsell.blogspot.com . Back in '00 or '01 it was my first blog site, before I started using Xanga. Well, I've now discovered a little 'ol thing called AdSense from Google. It's a decent way to make a little change, and I can't get it to work on Xanga. So, until Xanga is able to work with Adsense, I'll be posting on both places, so you won't be missing anything. Personally, Xanga has the advantage of the blogrings and a pretty tight community, but blogger has a lot more options and customizations. Hopefully Xanga adds some more features soon, because I'm pretty bummed out about them adding all the "premium" features to regular users. I paid to have extra features that they now give everyone for free. The only thing that they offer me right now over the regular user is 2gb of photo storage...which is no big deal. The photo upload interface isn't all that hot, and if I wanted to put that many pictures online, I would just Flikr or something.
Well, not sure what tonight holds, but Survivor is on and I have to watch LOST, which is where I'm going to be going right now!
At least one hotel chain has asked some Hurricane Katrina evacuees to check out so it can honor the reservations of incoming guests. Hilton Hotels, the parent company of Hampton Inn and other brands, is trying to find other rooms for the evacuees but said they were warned when they checked in that their stays would be limited by room availability, said Hilton spokeswoman Kathy Shepard. "We're doing our very best to accommodate these people," she said.
Oh, you are doing your best to accommodate "these people" are you? Well, does your best include kicking them out? This, like so many things that big business does just ticks me off. It's not as if the Hilton brand is about to go bankrupt or something. It looks like in the future if I'm booking a hotel, I'll try to avoid on of the Hilton owned hotels.
Speaking of the hurricane, what is up with the housing boom in the places hit hard by the hurricane? Houses are selling for 30-40% more than what they are worth. I've heard murmurs that it is actually large corporations buying up these properties that are now destroyed so that they can build casinos, hotels, shopping centers, and condos. It's kind of disturbing, but then again it is capitalism at work. I wonder what happens to the people that had insurance? Do they get paid by the insurance company for the destruction of their house, and then get paid again by the home/property buyer? If so it might make a terrible situation bright for some. Yeah, it is bad that these old neighborhoods will be razed, but most of them are destroyed right now anyway's.
One bad thing relating to all this house buying is that many of the poor renters are going to be really in trouble. They are going to lose where they are living and not see any monetary gain out of the situation. That is really the sad part about the whole situation, because many of these victims also did not have renters insurance, so they will not have any monetary compensation for their damaged goods.
Oh, just want to reiterate my bitterness towards Jimmy Johns. To make a long story short, I'll attach my e-mail(s). Basically in a nutshell their subs are too small, too expensive, and they are unable to follow through with promises.
Hello, back in August I had the last of many terrible experience at a Jimmy Johns franchise location in Indianapolis, IN. I sent an e-mail to you and was promptly contacted by the store owner Scott XXXXX. After talking to him on the phone I was able to understand his growing pains of purchasing a store that was already on shaky ground and short staffed. Well, we spent some time talking about what he is doing to fix the problem and improve this store. I told him that if I was in the store and noticed a problem I would kindly let him now, and he said that he would make my problems right by sending me complimentary sub certificates (or something like that). Well, I have not heard anything from him, and that was back around the end of August. So, I just thought that I would pass on this update to you, as well as remind you (the corporate office) about the problem. Below this message is my original e-mail sent on August 21st.
Jason
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I have been a fan of Jimmy John's since my freshman year at Purdue University in 1998. I have since moved to Indianapolis. We lived close to the store in Broad Ripple and frequented there. Last summer we moved to Fishers (on the north side of Indy) and were without a Jimmy John's, but we still frequented the Broad Ripple location when we were in the area.
This past winter we were pleased to see a store opening up near us. This store on East 96th St, is only about 4 1/2 miles from us. Unfortunately this store does not deliver to us, but we nonetheless would still go there. The problem is this store is the worst Jimmy John's (among the 6 I've been to). I'll recount some of the problems: Three times I have been there and subsequently turned away because there was no bread. Twice I have been there when the lights were on, neon was on in the window and have been turned away because they were not open. Note that this location does not have posted hours nor an open sign. And finally the nail in the coffin happened today.
I went into the store and ordered a Turkey Tom and a Beach along with chips and a couple cookies. I took my food home for lunch for my fiancee and myself. Well, we sit down to eat only to find out that the subs that we have were not what I ordered. I call the store and inform them what happened. The girl that answered the phone knew that I had the wrong subs and said that I could come in and get mine. I asked if that is all they could do and she said yes. I asked if they could deliver me the correct subs and she checked and they said yes. I then gave my address to the delivery guy so that he could mapquest it. Well, I waited for over an hour for my delivery and never received the correct subs and am now going to buy a second lunch, this one will not be at Jimmy Johns and I'll be throwing away the wrong subs that were given to me (no bag, no number on them, no confirmation of what I ordered, etc).
Sorry Jimmy John's but a poorly managed franchise has ruined your reputation for me and lost the entire chain a couple of customers. On the bright side, I have a good rant for my blog.
Jason
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I have been a fan of Jimmy John's since my freshman year at Purdue University in 1998. I have since moved to Indianapolis. We lived close to the store in Broad Ripple and frequented there. Last summer we moved to Fishers (on the north side of Indy) and were without a Jimmy John's, but we still frequented the Broad Ripple location when we were in the area.
This past winter we were pleased to see a store opening up near us. This store on East 96th St, is only about 4 1/2 miles from us. Unfortunately this store does not deliver to us, but we nonetheless would still go there. The problem is this store is the worst Jimmy John's (among the 6 I've been to). I'll recount some of the problems: Three times I have been there and subsequently turned away because there was no bread. Twice I have been there when the lights were on, neon was on in the window and have been turned away because they were not open. Note that this location does not have posted hours nor an open sign. And finally the nail in the coffin happened today.
I went into the store and ordered a Turkey Tom and a Beach along with chips and a couple cookies. I took my food home for lunch for my fiancee and myself. Well, we sit down to eat only to find out that the subs that we have were not what I ordered. I call the store and inform them what happened. The girl that answered the phone knew that I had the wrong subs and said that I could come in and get mine. I asked if that is all they could do and she said yes. I asked if they could deliver me the correct subs and she checked and they said yes. I then gave my address to the delivery guy so that he could mapquest it. Well, I waited for over an hour for my delivery and never received the correct subs and am now going to buy a second lunch, this one will not be at Jimmy Johns and I'll be throwing away the wrong subs that were given to me (no bag, no number on them, no confirmation of what I ordered, etc).
Sorry Jimmy John's but a poorly managed franchise has ruined your reputation for me and lost the entire chain a couple of customers. On the bright side, I have a good rant for my blog.
What a good company! And to think that after all of this went down I recanted my negative thoughts about Jimmy Johns. Boy, I guess that I was wrong! Hopefully ol' Scott won't call me and offer me some half-assed excuse like he didn't have my address (which I gave him) or he sent them out and they got lost. Well...I'll keep you updated about what happens.
Today I also opened up another blog over on http://jhartsell.blogspot.com . Back in '00 or '01 it was my first blog site, before I started using Xanga. Well, I've now discovered a little 'ol thing called AdSense from Google. It's a decent way to make a little change, and I can't get it to work on Xanga. So, until Xanga is able to work with Adsense, I'll be posting on both places, so you won't be missing anything. Personally, Xanga has the advantage of the blogrings and a pretty tight community, but blogger has a lot more options and customizations. Hopefully Xanga adds some more features soon, because I'm pretty bummed out about them adding all the "premium" features to regular users. I paid to have extra features that they now give everyone for free. The only thing that they offer me right now over the regular user is 2gb of photo storage...which is no big deal. The photo upload interface isn't all that hot, and if I wanted to put that many pictures online, I would just Flikr or something.
Well, not sure what tonight holds, but Survivor is on and I have to watch LOST, which is where I'm going to be going right now!
