Google Maps 4+

I have been sitting on this review for a week partially because I was so overwhelmed by the experience and partially because capturing my experience with Cody Calhoun goes beyond words. My home is fourteen years old and everything that can fall apart has been, getting a new garage door was not in the plans. When Cody Calhoun came to look at my garage door last Saturday he was professional kind and informative but once he gave me an estimate it was more than I could do and feeling defeated I let him know that I couldn’t make it happen. Cody could have said goodbye, could have walked away leaving me with an open and broken garage door, but he didn’t. He stood in my garage after I said goodbye and allowed compassion to lead the way. He didn’t look for the sale as much as he did the solution and a desire to make a difference and because of his heart choice I have a beautiful new garage coming and one less worry to carry. Cody also called another technician to help him close my garage door so our home would be safe until a new garage door could be put in. Everyone with A1 Garage was professional and kind and communicated in a timely basis and I have shared my experience verbally a few times since last Saturday.

I can’t thank Cody enough for showing up not only to do his job which he is extremely good at, but to make a difference.

Doing instacart in my hometown, there is a neighborhood which is only partly built. Apple Maps does not understand this for whatever reason and takes me to incorrect addresses. A customer recommended google maps, and while google maps does in fact find the correct addresses and navigate me there, the sound of the person sounds somewhat muffled. The music volume goes down so that I can get directions from the voice person from google maps, but it’s hard to hear. My music is at a comfortable loudness and I’d rather not turn that up just to hear the GPS, whose level of muffled mumbling wouldn’t be affected as this isn’t a volume issue. There was one street where the gps didn’t tell me the turn was upcoming until I was so close to it that I would miss it, and I wish the app would tell me the next street I would turn at immediately after the current turn, rather than “in _____feet, turn ___ on ___.” Google maps also doesn’t seem to have speed limits posted on my screen, which I know is a me problem and not a gps problem, but I like to see the speed limit on my screen when I look. Otherwise I mean I got where I needed to go

I was given a job offer after attending a company job fair. Mark in HR purposefully and maliciously scheduled processes in my onboarding (i.e., drug screening and physical examination) to take place over 28 hours away which is outside of routine practice. I was kind and polite in raising my concerns about this. I was given false excuses as to why he could not reschedule it for over a month and mocked for my higher education credentials for no reason. I wanted to work here to save for my bar exam and cover living expenses. Before coming to the plant in-person to speak with him about this matter, I called Penny at the company’s headquarters to see if she could help. She neither helped nor investigated the matter. Upon arrival, Mark left me in the lobby while I saw him sitting in his office not doing anything so that he could abuse his authority after the plant closed behind closed doors with no witnesses except for John (i.e., an ally to his discrimination). By merely asking about the rescheduling and having a desire to work, he fabricated a story about me being rude and immediately drafted a letter rescinding the offer instead of merely scheduling me at a location in town like everyone else. Systematic racism (regardless of color)c discrimination, and barriers to entry like this still exist and companies are either unaware or silently consenting to allowing people to do things like this and its sad.