Slightly illegal transactions

Yesterday I got to the hotel too early to check in, so I took the field vehicle to get an oil change as it desperately needed one.  I had to fill out the slip of paper about the vehicle where I wrote my name right across the top.  The mechanics then proceeded to call me Miss. Flanagan every time they spoke to me -- as you do.  Then came time to pay.  Now, I don't have a company credit card yet because I haven't actually been promoted to the position I'm filling, so I've been using someone else's credit card.  So this man who called me by the last name Flanagan, took the credit card, typed it's information into the computer - including the last name Sanders, and said not a word about it.  Good for me, as I didn't have to pay with my own card (or you know go to jail) but not so good as a company philosophy on the part of the garage. 

In a related note, vehicles now seem to come with two features which I find very annoying.  First, they tell you on the dash every 3,000 miles to go get and oil change.  That in itself is not annoying.  However, the prompt doesn't go off automatically after the oil has been changed, and every car has a different method for turning it off.  In the Jeep we currently had you had to turn the key with out engaging the ignition, then depress the accelerator pedal three times slowly within 10 seconds, then turn the key back to the off position.  I'm still wondering if all three pedal depressions have to occur with in the ten seconds or only first to engage the sequence.  Second, they have the anti-slip control where the car cuts engine power if the wheels begin to slip.  I guess this feature helps when people don't know how to drive in ice.  Where it doesn't help is in any kind of soft road surface like mud or sand.  Then the last thing you want is for the engine to cut out.  Your only hope is really to power through to the other side as quickly as possible.  Really digging out stuck vehicles = not a fun time.

Slightly illegal transactions

Yesterday I got to the hotel too early to check in, so I took the field vehicle to get an oil change as it desperately needed one.  I had to fill out the slip of paper about the vehicle where I wrote my name right across the top.  The mechanics then proceeded to call me Miss. Flanagan every time they spoke to me -- as you do.  Then came time to pay.  Now, I don't have a company credit card yet because I haven't actually been promoted to the position I'm filling, so I've been using someone else's credit card.  So this man who called me by the last name Flanagan, took the credit card, typed it's information into the computer - including the last name Sanders, and said not a word about it.  Good for me, as I didn't have to pay with my own card (or you know go to jail) but not so good as a company philosophy on the part of the garage. 

In a related note, vehicles now seem to come with two features which I find very annoying.  First, they tell you on the dash every 3,000 miles to go get and oil change.  That in itself is not annoying.  However, the prompt doesn't go off automatically after the oil has been changed, and every car has a different method for turning it off.  In the Jeep we currently had you had to turn the key with out engaging the ignition, then depress the accelerator pedal three times slowly within 10 seconds, then turn the key back to the off position.  I'm still wondering if all three pedal depressions have to occur with in the ten seconds or only first to engage the sequence.  Second, they have the anti-slip control where the car cuts engine power if the wheels begin to slip.  I guess this feature helps when people don't know how to drive in ice.  Where it doesn't help is in any kind of soft road surface like mud or sand.  Then the last thing you want is for the engine to cut out.  Your only hope is really to power through to the other side as quickly as possible.  Really digging out stuck vehicles = not a fun time.