I think yesterday was our last time visiting local IHOP located at

1286 Oakdale Ave
El Cajon, CA 92021
Manager pictured to the right

Our last two experiences at this location have not been satisfying at all. We firmly believe that the this location either needs a new manager or the manager needs to be schooled on how to properly manage a place.

Our first bad experience…Lela and I went here for Breakfast (really, is there any other time to go there?) We were enjoying our drinks and chatting waiting for breakfast to make it’s way to the table. I picked up the coffee to fill up my cup and lela starts jumping trying to get what appears to be a bug to me. And sure enough it was. It ran off and so did we to another table. The waitress came over, noticed we moved and we told her what we had saw. She went to look for the intruder when the Manager walked by and asked her what was going on. She told him and he replied with “I’ll look for it later”. Does he really think the bug is just going to hang out waiting for him to come looking for him and be captured? I THINK NOT… It’s not so much that that upset us because it is a establishment with food and we believe that every restaurant has some form of critter. But it’s how the manager handles the situation that says alot about a place. The manager never once come over to us to talk with us to see what happened and never apologized. As much as we would of loved to have a free meal or free drinks. We would of loved an apology alot more. Lela later on called the corporate IHOP and complained.

Yesterday after wondering if we should return to the same IHOP we decided to give it a go.

This second experience upset not only us but the customers at the table next to us. We were sitting enjoying our breakfast (Lela, “K” and “S”). All the sudden I smelled something that really bothered me. I turned around and one of the crew members was mopping the floors with pine-sol or similar product only 2 feet away from me. What a horrible way to destroy the smell of my buttermilk pancakes (with butter pecan syrup), eggs, sausage, hash browns and coffee. Soon as I turned around I heard the ladies next to us complaining about it as well. They tried to deal with it but decided to move since they were still awaiting their food (we were already about 80% done. Now I was taught when I worked at Arby’s back in the day. That while customers are in the store (area) you use a mop that just rinsed in water if you wanted to clean up that specific area. Later on you could go back with the cleaning agent.

The IHOP from outside..

It’s been a while since I’ve bitched about how cheap people are. Im wondering if this is some kind of joke he is playing…. The place where he is posting this is not generally considered a cheap place to hire someone. And once again I will say where do people get off telling us how much we will get paid? $10.00 barely even covers 10 minutes of my time.

Here is the post:

Subject: Theme request
Hello!
I will paid around 10$ (or similar) to a person that do a theme like this: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/
or this: http://www.vbstyles.com/demo/showthr…=90&styleid=47
If it can be, rapid
Thanks

I often go on craigslist looking for clients. And anyone who goes on craigslist, knows you have your honest people and you have your scammers. Here are some examples as quoted from post on craigslist.

This was a post from someone who apparently contacted someone looking for a designer/programmer

Rich wants $6000 of web site development and then for the developer to finance his fee so he can make $500 payments per month for 12 months. However if Rich’s website fails, he will more than likely flake out on paying the website developer. This guy Rich appears to be shady, all you web dev guys beware of this characters scheme to exploit your time and labor.

Below is an email provided another web developer who asked Rich to submit to a credit check since he expects the web developer to finance his $6000 fee. Rich replied his website is very complicated and he is not willing to submit to a credit check.

The following are highlights from emails

designer/programmer wrote:

What are the specification for the site you want?
Are you willing to submit for a credit check?

Rich replied:

The site is complicated. And No, I am not willing to submit for a credit check.

Now onto another one

Looking Says:

I am looking for a very GOOD WebSite Creator/Editor – to be a 50/50 partner ( we can draw up a contract or however – I provide the Domain and hosting and you do the coding, updates & maintenance, Until we can afford to hire on more Just for that)in a site I have had for some time but I just do not know enough about coding and PHP to get it working properly. This site has the potential of being a mini eBay – and with just that – we can Both be pretty well set Financially – even at a 50/50 split!

designer/programmer wrote:

Be careful of Victoria LOOKING for a WEBSITE CREATOR to B a 50/50 Partner…

She is very rude, unprofessional. She wants someone to work for free on her website when the going rate for good website dev is $90 an hour. $14,000 per month. You want 50% of something, then invest something other than rudeness.

She may have some really cheezy or useless domain name, that offers no competitive advantage at all except in her brain.

Most of these idiots wanting to start online businesses are completely clueless. They have no business sense or frame of reference to how the internet works.

Then these cheeky crooks want YOU to brainstorm with them, and give them all your ideas based on your years of experience so they can get 50% of a business by risking nothing.

Heck, why would a web dev guy invest in some other idiots business for free, when he could risk that same time in his own business and keep 100%.

Just another crook trying to take advantage of webdevelopers, to use and abuse our time and labor.

If her chicken brained scheme of a stupid idea doesn’t work, of course the web developer will have lost all their time and labor for nothing.

Just pisses me off about people who want something for nothing or next to nothing.