I had an interesting experience this past weekend. I am the part-time volunteer Rowing coach for the University of Scranton women's Crew. We had our last races of the Fall this past weekend in New Jersey and Philadelphia. The weather was awful on Saturday for the Frostbite Regatta, and wonderful on Sunday for the races on the Schuylkill River. But that is not the content of this story....
On Saturday night, after we finished our races on the Cooper River, the team loaded up the boats back on the trailer, and I pulled the trailer back over the Delaware River to Philadelphia for the races the next morning. While attempting to back our trailer into place in the parking lot on the Schuylkill River (there were already trailers with boats on them in the parking lot,) I unfortunately hit the bow of a boat belonging to Stony Brook U. There was no one around to talk to, so I decided to see someone the next morning.
The next morning, I went first to talk with the police stationed there. When I told them what happened, their response was, "well, were your boats damaged?" To which I replied, no. Their answer was, "well, you don't have to tell them (the other crew." Not liking this answer one bit, I went to a race official, who told me the same thing! Hmmm....that kind of consistency is not what I was looking for.
Anyway, the Stony Brook Crew did arrive a little later, and I went over to talk to the coach, told him what happened, gave him my card, and told him that I would also make sure that the folks at U of Scranton knew about it on Monday. Good news was, they were not using that boat that day, they called it an old "piece of crap," and we will move forward from there.
Interesting. Are your employees honest? If so, great! If not, might that be hurting your business at all? There are ways to find this out.....
.JPG)
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