..... About a little over a week ago we upgraded to a new server to run our store computer system. We had to take our #2 POS station PC and get a new motherboard put in it and scrubbed and Windows reloaded. That was done and we were waiting for the field rep to come in and load it with our POS programs and network.
Came in this morning, POS #1 would not boot up or would freeze up. No Point of sale system all day, had to write all SKU numbers and retails down and do everything on a calculator, then tomorrow, if the system is up we'll load today's sales. Field Tech is here now getting POS up. He tells me we need to take POS #1 PC to get it scrubbed and windows reloaded.
After discovering the PC problems I noticed water on the floor of three aisles from a leaking roof drain from our flat roof building.
Then I discovered a citation on my desk from Cape Coral Code Compliance gigging me for something we've been doing since 1994 ..... we share a trash pick up dumpster with another business and they share our re-cycle dumpster. We pay for the re-cycles they pay for the trash. Our new city contract for refuse collection went from Waste Management to Waste Pro.
Waste Pro ran a billing address comparison and sent code compliance out to get us. In the past a City councilman got the waste collection company to leave us and other businesses doing the same thing alone.
Waste Pro is now insisting each business pay for their own recycling and trash regardless of if we fill the containers or not. They say it's spelled out in the ordinance.
It is, all businesses are required to have and pay for trash pick up. It does not say we cannot share as we are in effect paying for trash pick up by allowing the other business to use the recycle dumpster we pay for and they pay for the trash pick up.
The real kicker is by going to trash pick up my bill will be $21 instead of the re-cycle monthly fee of $29 and the city no longer receives income from our re-cycle stuff since we'll just throw it away rather than recycling it ..... and the city subsidises the cost of trash pick up. Waste Pro and the City lose money they are now making if they force the issue!
City government is just as messed up as county / state and federal. I am going to go home and
Came in this morning, POS #1 would not boot up or would freeze up. No Point of sale system all day, had to write all SKU numbers and retails down and do everything on a calculator, then tomorrow, if the system is up we'll load today's sales. Field Tech is here now getting POS up. He tells me we need to take POS #1 PC to get it scrubbed and windows reloaded.
After discovering the PC problems I noticed water on the floor of three aisles from a leaking roof drain from our flat roof building.
Then I discovered a citation on my desk from Cape Coral Code Compliance gigging me for something we've been doing since 1994 ..... we share a trash pick up dumpster with another business and they share our re-cycle dumpster. We pay for the re-cycles they pay for the trash. Our new city contract for refuse collection went from Waste Management to Waste Pro.
Waste Pro ran a billing address comparison and sent code compliance out to get us. In the past a City councilman got the waste collection company to leave us and other businesses doing the same thing alone.
Waste Pro is now insisting each business pay for their own recycling and trash regardless of if we fill the containers or not. They say it's spelled out in the ordinance.
It is, all businesses are required to have and pay for trash pick up. It does not say we cannot share as we are in effect paying for trash pick up by allowing the other business to use the recycle dumpster we pay for and they pay for the trash pick up.
The real kicker is by going to trash pick up my bill will be $21 instead of the re-cycle monthly fee of $29 and the city no longer receives income from our re-cycle stuff since we'll just throw it away rather than recycling it ..... and the city subsidises the cost of trash pick up. Waste Pro and the City lose money they are now making if they force the issue!
City government is just as messed up as county / state and federal. I am going to go home and