BANG.
That’ll be the door opening, after yet another violent swing.
“Where is the train station?”
Ten minutes later:
BANG.
“What time does the Suncentre close?”
And so it goes on.
As you readers well know, the Visitor is a newspaper and has been for over a century.
Yet the sight of the word VISITOR on Rhyl High Street brings in dozens of people every day, many of them thinking that this is a tourist information centre.
Some are polite and we do our best to answer them, but most are rude, ignorant, and often drunk.
One guy this week actually lives in Rhyl and hadn’t heard of us.
How? How do you not notice your local newspaper?
If the requests for times and directions were once or twice a day it wouldn’t be an issue, we’d merrily go about our business, writing stories and selling adverts.
But it’s not, it’s two or three times an hour, every hour.
And nobody says please.
We even have people coming in here demanding to use our fax machine and photocopier.
We are a newspaper! We are not an office suppliers.
None of us have a problem with helping out if you’re in a pickle, but lately it’s becoming a joke.
Our receptionists must have the patience of Job.
They stand and take so much rubbish every day, I have to keep swivelling around in my chair and giving the culprits both barrels when they stride in, speak to our staff like dirt and stagger out, usually leaving the door open.
It’s not just here, I have friends working in shops, sandwich bars and pubs across the area who experience this every day.
There is an old phrase: Manners maketh the man.
If that’s the case at least half of the people who come in here are in deep trouble.
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Bridget wrote...
This superior attitude to the local residents and businesses who pay your wages is highly offensive.
Martin says: If Bridget would like to come and sit here and experience it for herself she is most welcome to join us for a day.
And it was not aimed at our readers or businesses, it is aimed at those people who barge in here drunk and abuse the staff. I make no apologies for sticking up for my colleagues.
Posted by: Bridget | June 5, 2008 3:37 PM