Esso service station, Dunshaughlin

CUCINA

Up to recently, I used to stop off here on the way home from work, to buy a newspaper, milk or whatever. It was handy because it saved having to drive into the bottleneck access to Supervalue in the village.
They seem to have a rota of four or five staff, but there is one in particular who seems to be on duty more often than the others. I've long since noticed that she always, and I mean ALWAYS, has a face on her as long as a wet Tuesday.
Anyway, she was on duty when I was in the queue there one day last week. The customer at the head of the queue was having difficulty with her credit card or whatever, holding up everyone else but she eventually got sorted.
When it came to my turn, she charged me 4.79 euros for the Meath Chronicle and a two-litre carton of milk. I was going to query it but between her agonised expression and the fact that those behind me were already delayed, I just bit my lip and vowed to myself never to darken that door-step again!
The rest of the staff there are fine, not afraid to smile or to say hello but Miss Moody, well, I think she regards customers as an irritating interruption.
From now on, I'll be stopping at the other garage in the village, or the Topaz station in Clonee, where I've noticed the staff at least make more of an effort when dealing with customers.

newmug

You should have left a going away pressie in the jacks, just to give yerwan a situation to match her face.

bladespin

newmug wrote: »

You should have left a going away pressie in the jacks, just to give yerwan a situation to match her face.

Is there a toilet there, was in and out over the years and never noticed one.

OP, it's the right choice but letting someone rip you off for the sake of a scowl or a queue behind you is a mistake.

Rafa1977

CUCINA wrote: »

Up to recently, I used to stop off here on the way home from work, to buy a newspaper, milk or whatever. It was handy because it saved having to drive into the bottleneck access to Supervalue in the village.
They seem to have a rota of four or five staff, but there is one in particular who seems to be on duty more often than the others. I've long since noticed that she always, and I mean ALWAYS, has a face on her as long as a wet Tuesday.
Anyway, she was on duty when I was in the queue there one day last week. The customer at the head of the queue was having difficulty with her credit card or whatever, holding up everyone else but she eventually got sorted.
When it came to my turn, she charged me 4.79 euros for the Meath Chronicle and a two-litre carton of milk. I was going to query it but between her agonised expression and the fact that those behind me were already delayed, I just bit my lip and vowed to myself never to darken that door-step again!
The rest of the staff there are fine, not afraid to smile or to say hello but Miss Moody, well, I think she regards customers as an irritating interruption.
From now on, I'll be stopping at the other garage in the village, or the Topaz station in Clonee, where I've noticed the staff at least make more of an effort when dealing with customers.

Yeah I know exactly who you are talking about!! I have only experienced this staff member, so I don't know what the other staff are like, I rarely go there because of her, really bad attitude(Maybe she isn't getting it at home ), I mainly go to Campus station, all of the staff there are always friendly and petrol is usually cheaper.

skywalker_208

I dont believe it - I thought this was just me.
I encountered said ignorant b1tch a few years ago and have made a point of not setting foot in the place since.
No excuse for that kind of attitude when dealing with your customers.
There are plenty of alternatives!

John110

I stopped going in shortly after she started working there (as did a lot of people I know) considering I was fueling up a truck and jeep there is their loss. She's just an ignorant so and so
Regards
John

ibarelycare

I've always found most of the staff in there absolutely awful. Very rarely do you get a friendly face or a hello. I don't live in Dunshaughlin any more so haven't been there in ages, but when I do I just go to Campus (I used to work there, and yes, the staff are lovely ). If I encountered someone that unfriendly on a regular basis I'd definitely be making a complaint about her.

endasmail

yea i think it s Tope
ye are talking about
an absolute battle axe ,never stops me going in though
i actually have a laugh to myself when i see the scowl on her and always do my best to annoy the **** out of her
give her large notes for small stuff ,that kind of thing

newmug

Whats her name? Does it rhyme with certain parts from female frontage?

endasmail

Tope

CUCINA

endasmail wrote: »

Tope

That's the one!

Dubh Geannain

newmug wrote: »

Whats her name? Does it rhyme with certain parts from female frontage?

That's the other one. Who's also grumpy as sin.

I work just round the corner and it's the nearest station to me but I haven't been in there in about 6 months.

Great thread by the way.

Rafa1977

I wonder is the manager of the station signed up to Boards!!

stomprockin

:pac: I tought i was the only one. Yeah i always avoid that garage.
I always wondered why they never upgraded this Garage during the boom times?

CUCINA

So we have Miss Moody (Tope) and Miss Grumpy...without getting too personal about it, I think Miss Grumpy is the older of the two, with black and grey hair.

There is one staff member, though, who is, well, the least unfriendly, with occasional gusts of actual friendliness..an Asian man, maybe in his early forties.

Whenever I approached the shop and I saw that he was on the till, I'd almost breathe a sigh of relief that I didn't have to endure the negative vibes of our other "friends".

Also, at least up to recently, there was a young Eastern European girl on the till, who wasn't as bad as some of the others although she came across as being a bit serious, but maybe she was just plain shy.

As regards the people who hire and fire staff there, you'd wonder what boxes they wanted to be able to tick before deciding to take them on.