tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post4785816319130873847..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: The Mystery of the Returned Ficusmr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-27564632632182361072008-01-15T11:52:00.000-08:002008-01-15T11:52:00.000-08:00The original tree, I think, probably will be sella...The original tree, I think, probably will be sellable fairly soon. It's already (less than a week later) budding. There'll still be that big empty space in the middle of the plant, but way worse-looking stuff has sold before, so I'm pretty optimistic about that. Whether or not we lose money on it, well, who knows: there's potentially a lot of payroll time spent watering it and stuff until it getsmr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-32646508723316301302008-01-15T11:34:00.000-08:002008-01-15T11:34:00.000-08:00Hmmm...I got frustrated just reading about that wo...Hmmm...I got frustrated just reading about that woman... I used to deal with <I>those</I> types of customers, years ago, in a hotel I worked at. Any time I think about <I>those</I> customers, I get anxiety-ridden...even after so many years.<BR/><BR/>I can't imagine that woman will be returning her new Ficus for yet another one. Do people have THAT much nerve? Would she really NOT get that it's waterrootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10288033893019659782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-54181559234474318172008-01-15T10:36:00.000-08:002008-01-15T10:36:00.000-08:00I know exactly how you feel - the vagaries of cust...I know exactly how you feel - the vagaries of customer service were some of the most frustrating aspects of some of my most notorious EX jobs. <BR/><BR/>One of the most frustrating things about this story for me is that your employer really took a bath on this deal. That ficus is probably never going to be salable - for a profit, anyway. And something tells me that this demanding customer is not Sarah Sedwick Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12187490026684646976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-2965425988924243932008-01-15T04:16:00.000-08:002008-01-15T04:16:00.000-08:00The customer had pretty obviously stuck the plant ...The customer had pretty obviously stuck the plant in adark corner, or next to a dark wall: the plant held on to the leaves on its light side (to the left, in the picture), and on top, because those areas were barely bright enough, but everything else dropped because it was in shadow.<BR/><BR/>So, the customer clearly didn't have the perfect spot after all, didn't know what to expect from a <I>mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.com