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Abusive Use of Women As "Von's" Mouthpiece

Last I heard was...ZERO...NADA...NOTHING...0...not even, "NO COMMENT" re: Read This Story...

My trail is transparent & available as evidence... for a Pav-like Patch of customers, employees & managers, 2 VONS Reps were told to say 0.

Anyone who's been in a rush at the Pavillions in West Hollywood, knows that crass sounding "devil may care, but I don't" voice of the self-checkout cashiers, as if anyone would speak to themselves as if to say-

'What's taking you so long, you old fogey of a long enduring loyal customer willing to suffer such abuse on a regular basis? Did you think I missed that unidentified item you slipped into your purse or basket? ...Stop thief of self-diminishing wrong impressions, you better re-enter that item you slipped by me, I missed!!!"

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Never "please" nor enough time to get out of the firing line of,

"What's taking you so long? We've already deposited your money and earning interest, we're done with you- scram!"

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Prompt-like commands...always in euphemism are always the voice of someone's idea of a woman.

All I had attempted to do was to find out if the newest version of this robotic self-helper, that has received universally lesser reviews than its predecessor more competently curt...by customers, employees and technicians called in to fix-this "THING"of bewitching upgrade status, because we all are human when it comes to what awaits us down the road...when computers are steering our cars and our lives...all we want is some human feedback...that took me weeks of searching and finding and contacting two women who actually admit to representing Von's as Pavillions...and after a thorough list of my questions had been submitted by e-mail, with a follow-up gesture to streamline, by me, based on "The Man's" initial response:

"We will see if we are interested in replying."

My e-mails and vm's have gone unanswered, Von's has gone poop in the night, as in M.I.A AWOL...but no S.O.S. I feel like a hole in an A PATCH of WEHO- not even a Whole Foods...just every day readers and customers and those who keep us strong...not even a "go fish"- with the courtesy of having deleted an implied "SUCKERS!!!???"

There is, of course, a computerized message for every customer being rushed out or re-routed as "FAUX THIEF!": "Please" take your items (I swear I thought it had said "time," not "items." Woe & Foe is me...I almost deleted but didn't want to be accused of bias...then rushed off my byline by a bossy, broad-like manmade voice.)

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